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198514765NY: Norton 1985. First edition. 570 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dated 7/19/94 and INSCRIBED by Batchelor 'Rider / Haggard! / Bulwer-Lytton! / Tom Clancy! / JCB! / The Chain / is / secure!' NY: Norton unknown books
19856584NY: Norton 1985. First edition. 570 pp. One bump to top edge of one board else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dated 1993 and INSCRIBED by Batchelor My Dear ____ / Vietnam is / next. And you / are the audience. / If I can please / you I have / made it through / again.' NY: Norton unknown books
19747311New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1974. Octavo 21.5 x 14.5 cm. 215 pages. FIRST EDITION. The first work in Trillin's classic "Tummy Trilogy" and the first volume of his food writing in book form. Fine in publisher's red over blue cloth; in a near fine dust jacket. Surprisingly scarce. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
19741677New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1974. Octavo 21.5 x 14.5 cm. 215 pages. FIRST EDITION. The first work in Trillin's classic "Tummy Trilogy" and the first volume of his food writing in book form. Very good in publisher's red over blue cloth in a near very good dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title. Surprisingly scarce and doubly so signed. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
19741046New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. First edition of American Fried: Adventures of a Happy Eater by Calvin Trillin. Octavo 215pp. Cloth half red/blue title on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Publishers dust jacket $6.95 on front flap near fine light shelf wear bright illustrations and vibrant colors. An excellent copy. Calvin Trillin was born in Kansas City in 1935. He is known as an American journalist food critic poet and novelist. Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
197675828Bennington:: Americana Classics. Very Good. 1976. Hardcover. A facsimile reprint edition. Minimally marked ex-library copy with a few typical markings else very good in red cloth with silver lettering and design. No dust jacket. ; 35 pages . Americana Classics, hardcover books
200585369NY:: PowerHouse Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 1576872491 . Black and white photographs throughout. First printing. Gift inscription on title page else fine in a fine dust jacket. . PowerHouse Books, hardcover books
1926WRCLIT63205San Francisco: John Henry Nash 1926. Small folio. Parchment and boards. Bookplate endsheets browned edges of boards darkened half-dollar size splash spot and a few stray marks to lower board; textually very good or better. First printing in this format. One of 270 copies on paper in addition to three copies on vellum printed for the Pacific Coast Chapter of the Association. John Henry Nash hardcover books
19641291793New York: The Viking Press 1964. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG; grayish-tan spine with blue and black text; jacket has protective mylar cover age toning rubbing chipping around edges small open tear on front head edge small closed tear on back head and tail edges; boards are strong rubbing along tail edges; textblock has age toning underlining in pen on a few pages otherwise clean; pp 180; has gift inscription from author on title page. 1291793. Full-priced Rockville. The Viking Press hardcover books
1964140938647New York: The Viking Press Inc 1964. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. First edition first issue with no errata slip at p. 176. Likely review copy with date stamp on rear flap. x 180 pp. Fine in Very Good dust jacket price-clipped with crease along spine panel light wear closed tear to top of back panel. The author's first book. The Viking Press, Inc unknown books
198053220White Bear Lake MN: National Speleological Society 1980. 4to pp. v 1 190; illustrations and maps throughout 5 large folding charts in back of Mystery Cave Carlin Caverns Farmers and Mechanics Bank Cave Cold Water Cave and Boscobel Bear Paradise Pit and Horseshoe Bay Caves. Yellow printed paper wrappers offsetting on title page else fine. Printed for the Speleological Society Convention held in Minnesota in 1980 and covers some 35 caves in the region. <br/><br/> National Speleological Society unknown books
1970175735Greenwich CT: New York Graphic Society 1970. First edition. Softcover. 160 pages. Published in conjunction with a traveling retrospective exhibition. Text by John Coplans with contributions by Jonas Mekas and Calvin Tomkins. Includes 18 color plates and 100 black and white illustrations. A very good copy in photo-illustrated wrappers with a crease to the bottom front corner and some other minor wear. Includes a laid in 6 page checklist for the exhibition and press releases for the members' preview. New York Graphic Society unknown books
1989URAMASI00sjrUniversity of Utah Press 1989. Fine. Rampton Calvin L. As I Recall. O'Neil Floyd A; Thompson Gregory Coyne. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press 1989. 1st edition. ix 304pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Inscribed to Sam Weller. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges thin tear in back cover. University of Utah Press hardcover books
7328Washington 1891-95: Government Printing Office. First Edition. Original Wraps. Folio 18 3/4" x 14 3/4". In 35 parts part 36 is the index and is not present here but is available online; original light green printed wrappers numbered 1 through 35; 175 plates all are present. Most wrappers are separated at the fold; front wrap of part 1 is mounted on Japan paper with a peripheral loss of 20%; rear wrap is lacking on parts X XXIX and XXXIV. Some wraps browned at edges and some with closed tears and chips. All 175 plates are present and are very good to fine; 35 parts lacking index. Housed in 2 quarter leather clamshell boxes one blue and one gray with leather lettering pieces on spine. ALL Maps are very good to fine. Howes C 816. <br/><br/> Government Printing Office paperback books
1922247805Washington D.C. 1922. 2 pp. pen and ink on folded sheet with autograph envelope stamped "Washington D.C. Dec. 7 1922". 8vo. Fine. In brown cloth chemise. 2 pp. pen and ink on folded sheet with autograph envelope stamped "Washington D.C. Dec. 7 1922". 8vo. Advice to a Young Man: "All you need to do is work and save your money". Coolidge as Vice President writes a letter of advice to eighteen-year old D.M. Stoner. Reading in full:<br/><br/>"Here is what I think is the right change. It is a satisfaction to know that you are doing well. I shall take for granted that you are glad of my help so there is no need for you to come to thank me. Now be careful of your money. It does little good to earn money if none is saved. You need some life insurance. If you will take what is enclosed not present and get an 'ordinary life' policy with twenty years settlement period you will never regret it. This would buy $1000 and have some change left over. All you need to do is WORK and SAVE YOUR MONEY. Just two things."<br/><br/>A fine letter; Coolidge in typical to-the-point fashion expounds the virtues of frugality and hard work. unknown books
30811<p>quarto 3 pages plus stamp-less address leaf in very good clean and legible condition.</p><p> Butler writes on behalf of Rev. Toelke an evangelical Reformed minister who was taking over a congregation of Germans in Dubois County 50 miles from Evansville. "I think he is a devoted and good man and is in a sphere of great usefulness. We learn that the German population of this state is nearly 200000 – a class not to be reached except through the German ministration of the Word. For the supply he tells me there are about 20 ministers in this state. He said also that in the bounds of our Pres. There are about 40 congregations of Germans some small and some quite large. Emigration from Germany is constantly pouring in upon us. At one time during the summer he received 100 at Evansville from his own neighborhood in Germany evangelical; they had singing and prayer as they embraced each other. He attended our Synod at Crawfordsville and there conversed with several of the Brethren who urged him to apply to the A. H. M.S. for the renewal of its commission for $ 200.00 for one year in order that he might spend his whole time in missionating in this region intending to receive from the different congregations where he labors the rest of his support. If you can thus sustain him I think it probable that no appropriation will be better expended. One of his converts from the interior is now an efficient Colporteur. Mr. Toelke is holding correspondence with several evangelical ministers in Germany in reference to emigrating to this country is expecting they will come and wishes to know whether he might encourage such with a prospect of a part of a support for the time being from your Society…"</p><p> Butler himself had "applied to your Society for aid for one half the time the ensuing year that I might spend it very much the same way in English congregations in this region as Dr. Toelke contemplates and is doing among the Germans; but with this difference – I shall go – am going to towns and villages where we have no congregations organized such as Cannelton Troy Rockport Newbury etc. The application was made for $ 200 as my circumstances would require it but with the promise to credit to you whatever I could receive from the people… Presuming that a Commission would be granted I commenced my labors … at Petersburg; yesterday I returned from Troy having been absent almost a week. I also left appointments for Rockport and Troy again designing to spend fully one half my time probably more in such destitute regions. While at Troy I found 3 persons who were Presbyterians; one a very intelligent warm-hearted man was urgent that the A. H. M. S. should sustain a missionary in such places specially where there is no church nor people to sustain him … in visiting such places the question has been forced upon my mind with an energy not to be told 'What can be done What shall be done Shall such flourishing towns continue to grow up on the beautiful banks of the Ohio with no moral and religious influence except a floating one – no Presbyterian influence Though I have long been a pioneer I sometimes feel the answering 'No' – it shall not be." But still I am crippled am poor and almost alone. But I must hush. If you cannot send such a commission please let me know immediately …"</p><p> The influx of German immigrants into the Midwest followed the revolutions that broke out throughout Europe beginning in France in February 1848 and spreading to Germany in March. The middle class in that country sought liberal reforms while the working class demanded radical improvement to their working and living conditions. This social division allowed the conservative aristocracy to defeat the uprisings. Liberals forced into exile to escape political persecution became known as "Forty Eighters" many emigrating to the United States settling through the Midwest and south as far as Texas. The emigrants were both Protestant and Catholic though adherents of those faiths lived in entirely separate communities despite their common ethic heritage.</p><p> Rev. Heinrich Toelke then 30 years old was born in Germany and educated at a missionary school came to America in 1843 long before the mass emigration from his country began. In the 1840s he rode by horseback from his home to Evansville to minister to the spiritual needs of the German community. In October 1847 he organized 21 families as an Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed Church. He divided the congregations into four districts and held prayer meetings in each district one each week at the homes of members. The year this letter was written a log church was built on 10 acres of land where he began to baptize children. The following year Toelke settled at Freelandville in Know County Indiana northeast of Vincennes and organized a Presbyterian congregation.</p><p> He was more fortunate than Rev. Butler who founded Presbyterian churches at Evansville and other pioneer towns but died in 1854 leaving behind a two year-old son to be raised by his second wife.</p> books
1916394071916. COOLIDGE Calvin. AUTOGRAPHED LETTER TO E.G. ELDRIGE. Written on letterhead of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. Dated August 29 1916. "Your kind invitation for August 31st is received for which I thank you. I had a very pleasant visit to Oak Bluffs last year and should very much like to come again. I understand however from the Governor's office that I am probably to be sent to Oxford on August 31st and so cannot be with you this year. Thank you for the invitation I am yours very truly Calvin Coolidge." Faded type but signature is clear. Very good. unknown books
196932195NY: Viking Press 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. 98pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> Viking Press hardcover books
1969283114New York: Viking 1969. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 98pp. small 8vo cloth backed boards d.w. spine sunned. New York: Viking 1969. First Edition.<br/><br/> Viking unknown books
1969134239New York: The Viking Press 1969. Octavo 98 pp. cloth-backed boards. First edition. Ten stories by this noted critic some first published in the NEW YORKER. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #134239 The Viking Press unknown books
196921744New York: Viking Press 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition of the humorist's second book a collection of ten related short works featuring Barnett Frummer and friends. 98 pp. A very good hardbound copy in very good clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page. <br/><br/> Viking Press hardcover books
1991142518Beverly Hills California: Louis Newman Galleries 1991. Softcover. VG- Ex-gallery lib. may have small label at front cover / BENTON in ink along spine ink stamping and pencil markings at title page may have light wear to covers / crease to back cover. White illus. stapled wraps; Unpaginated 8 pp.; 7 bw plates. Accompanied a 1991 exhibition. Includes short pieces of text by Calvin J. Goodman and Douglas Dreishpoon. Louis Newman Galleries unknown books
1970036558Stanford: Stanford University Press 1970. 4th Edition. Revised by Joel W. Hedgpeth. xiv 614p. colored and b/w illus. original cloth. Stanford University Press unknown books
1897151835St. Louis: The Anna C. Reifsnider Book Company 1897. Octavo pp. i-iv v-ix x 11-292 293-296: ads note: title page is a cancel five inserted plates including a frontispiece with photographic portrait of the author plus other illustrations in the text original pictorial blue-gray cloth front cover stamped in black and silver spine panel stamped in silver white endpapers with floral pattern printed in green. First edition. Metaphysical reform fiction with religious orientation in which the influence of the dead upon the living will result in a Christian utopia on Earth. This appears to be a sequel to RUBY GLADSTONE; OR A RETURN TO EARTH 1893. Reginald 12132. Not in Bleiler 1948; 1978. Wright III 4504. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips some mild soiling to cloth a very good good copy of an attractive book. #151835 The Anna C. Reifsnider Book Company unknown books
197425985Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.75cm; light gray cloth with titles stamped in black and blue on spine; dustjacket; 63pp 1. Fine unread copy in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped with a touch of foxing along the rear flap fold and light wear to extremities. The Newark NJ author's first book-length collection of poems some of which first appeared in the pages of Omega The Emerson Review Plowshares and the Monmouth Review et al. Wesleyan University Press unknown books
