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1923PW1046Camden NJ:: Wilson G. Bailey 1923. 1923. 8vo. xi 1 254 pp. Frontis. portrait index. Red gilt-stamped cloth; small nick at head of spine. Very good. Rare. LENGTHY INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR; VERY RARE. Inscribed by W. G. Bailey M.D. "Oct. 7th 1929. To My Friend Dr. William Cashman With the hope that he will to the extent of reading this book – interest himself in what an impartial investigator Hereward Carrington called 'The coming science knowledge & of life after death.'" "Bailey graduated from Paulsboro High School and Pierce Business College then went on to Jefferson Medical College from which he received his doctorate in 1891. He interned at Cooper Hospital and remained in Camden practicing general surgery into the 1930s." Bailey's nephew had the same name but was born in 1893. Hereward Carrington 1880-1958 was a well-known British-born American investigator of psychic phenomena and author. A wonderfully odd book! Wilson G. Bailey, 1923. hardcover books
1878317555London: John Murray 1878. With a Map. liv 285pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters modern brown polished calf and marbled boards red leather title label. Fine. With a Map. liv 285pp. 8vo. Life on Ascension Island with her husband Scottish Astronomer David Gill to measure the solar parallax-the distance between the Earth and the Sun-by observing Mars which was then the closest to Earth than it had been for a century. John Murray unknown books
1932135143Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation 1932. Post-production Screen Continuity script for the 1932 film. Based on the 1931 novel "The Gay Bandit."<br/><br/>A football and wrestling star Ted Radcliffe heads West to claim his inheritance a cattle ranch smack in the middle of a Mexican-American border territory that wealthy land-grabber Paco Morales has been attempting to steal from its poorer residents. Luckily a masked hero has been fighting in favor of the peasants and Ted happens to fall for Morales' niece Adela while they battle Morales as well. <br/><br/>Pale blue titled wrappers dated January 26th 1932 noting footage of 5400 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Very Good plus condition. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1984014112LaSalle: Open Court. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine but for sticker remains on pastedown in fine dust jacket. 17 essays. . Open Court hardcover books
1994128183Ridgefield Connecticut: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art 1994. Softcover. VG. Blue pictorial wraps unpaginated 35 plates. Shows 35 large plates of contemporary art part of an exhibition -- "documented proof of the success of Larry Aldrich's experiment begun in 1964 aimed at establishing a museum in this country dedicated exclusively to the timely presentation of outstanding new art and emerging talent." Barry Rosenberg's essay. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art paperback books
198984807London: Unwin-Hyman 1989. Octavo boards. First edition. The author's first novel. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #84807 Unwin-Hyman unknown books
20011001078New York: Viking 2001. First American edition of My Brother's Ghost a meditation on grief by Allan Ahlberg best known for modern children's classics like Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Postman. Frances tells the story of her older brother Tom's death at the age of ten and his return to watch over his bereaved siblings: "I came to believe that Tom was like some kind of mobile light bulb moving himself here and there switching himself on and off. Except he couldn't always find the switch and had no map. Tom was bewildered too." A Puffin postcard for the English first edition featuring the same cover design by Yorkshire artist Gill Tyler laid in. A fine copy of a moving book. Single volume measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: 8 88. Original green pictorial cloth boards stamped in gilt red endpapers original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. With: Puffin postcard for the English first edition. Viking unknown books
1964147691Charlotte NC: the Church 1964. 24p 6.5x9.5 inches photographs in text staples rusted else very good in printed white stapled wraps. On internal church affairs. the Church unknown books
