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1932WRCLIT31897New York: McBride 1932. Pictorial cloth with a somewhat striking but primitive design of a row of smokestacks. Head of spine a bit frayed cloth lightly rubbed light wear to a couple of corners else a very good copy. First edition. Rather immodestly inscribed: "To David Kirschenbaum this journalistic pioneering book in a still unexplored field is inscribed Isaac Don Levine Jan. 19 1935." The author has also signed the title page. An attempt to prove how backward the Soviets were in their implementation of technology and industrial developments. McBride hardcover books
1801D13028Haage: J. C. Leeuwestijn 1801. Hardcover. Very Good. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco and marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering in spine compartments 5 raised bands; 3 volumes 8vo 223x135mmwith folding engraved plates and maps; pp. xxxii 391 plus 5 plates and 1 map Washington D.C. see below; xv 1 425 plus 5 plates and 3 maps; xii 340 with 1 plate and 1 map this one larger than the others and hand-colored. Bindings a bit scuffed but tight and square. Library inkstamps on verso of title-pages and verso of plates sometimes multiple stamps per plate ink does not leak through; some browning and off-setting but generally text blocks are nice and clean. The map of Washington D.C. is early and rare unrecorded in Baynton-Williams Phillips and Verner. <br/><br/> J. C. Leeuwestijn hardcover books
196865044Gainesville:: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints. Very Good. 1968. Hardcover. Introduction by Samuel J. Rogal. A facsimile reprint edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings else very good in light blue cloth. No dust jacket. ; 350 pages . Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, hardcover books
1827WRCAM12379Boston: Lincoln & Edmands 1827. 47pp. Modern leatherette. Titlepage quite tanned text moderately tanned and soiled. Good overall. The first publication of this western Indian missionary. "One of the earliest suggestions for a reservation on which to colonize and educate western Indians" - Howes. McCoy suggests that all the area west of Missouri southwest of the Missouri River and north of the then boundary with Mexico at the Arkansas become an Indian territory. HOWES M70 "aa." GRAFF 2591. FIELD 985. SABIN 43113. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 29566. Lincoln & Edmands hardcover books
1829WRCAM45846New York: Printed by Gray and Bunce 1829. 72pp. Dbd. Light foxing. Closed tear in fore-edge of one leaf not affecting text. Very good. Second edition following the first of 1827 and adding an appendix. This work was the first publication of the tireless western Indian missionary Isaac McCoy. McCoy suggests that all the area west of Missouri southwest of the Missouri River and north of the then boundary with Mexico at the Arkansas become an Indian territory. In the appendix McCoy gives his vision of the character and qualities of the proposed missions. "One of the earliest suggestions for a reservation on which to colonize and educate western Indians" - Howes. Neither Graff nor Field note this second edition and either edition of this work is scarce. HOWES M70 "aa." SABIN 43113. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 39355. Printed by Gray and Bunce unknown books
1829100354Pamphlet removed 8vo disbound 23 pp. Browning to first leaf add some foxing and aging throughout but generally pretty clean. Ink signature to first leaf. Overall very good. Isaac McCoy 1784-1846 was born near Uniontown Pennsylvania. In 1804 he moved with his family to Clark County Indiana and became a minister. He spent much of his life doing missionary work among the Indians and was dedicated to improving the civil and religious condition of these people. The present pamphlet is extremely important since it represents the first step in a shift in U.S. policy from respecting the rights of Native Americans to forcing them to live where the government wanted them to. This pamphlet was published just before the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and includes information about the Arkansas Territory. McCoy provides details of his tour of this country with a delegation of Indians who were to be moved across the Mississippi. unknown books
197420092San Francisco: Isaac Cronin 1974. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Small slim 4to. Kraft-paper self-wraps. About fine. Bright and clean throughout. 8 pp including covers. <br/><br/>A charmingly produced slim pamphlet of brief texts by Cronin who was an active participant in the Bay Area pro-situationist scene. Section titles: "Critique of Counterfeitism" "A Brief List of Persuasive Techniques Employed by Commodity Publicity" and "Practice." Not in Ford. OCLC finds two copies. (Isaac Cronin) paperback books
187261239Washington DC: GPO 1872. First edition. 8vo. 318 pp. The report deals with immigration to western public lands expansion of railroads Native American issues the Geological survey etc. Judge Isaac Parker's copy with his signature on the title page; Parker 1838-1896 remembered as the "hanging judge" oversaw 13940 cases on his docket as the presiding U.S. District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas in Fort Smith Arkansas between 1875 and 1895 overseeing much of the Indian Territory in addition to portions of Arkansas. Of this number 9454 persons about 70 per cent of those tried by him were either convicted by a jury or entered pleas of guilty. 344 were tried to capital offenses and 151 convicted; of those 76 were executed one was killed while attempting to escape four died in jail two were pardoned and the remaining 68 all given sentenced to death by Parker had their sentences commuted by the President to long terms in prison. "Cruel they have said I am but they forget the utterly hardened character of the men I dealt with. They forget that in my court jurisdiction alone sixty-five deputy marshals were murdered in the discharge of their duty. Wilson who was connected with the Starr gang was one of the men whom I sentenced to death. It did not appear to me to be an act of cruelty to sentence that fellow to hand by the neck until he was dead . the trouble is with the bench and behind it the maudlin sentimentality that forgets and condones a crime upon which the blood stains have dried. The bench is indifferent and careless. The avarice which is the curse of this age has so poisoned the people that civil law for the protection of property concerns it more than the criminal law which protects life. 'Which is of greater value your house or your life!" asks the bench and the people by their attitude in specific instances answers: 'My house.' Small wonder that the bench comes to take the same view and adjudges accordingly" from an 1896 interview with Ada Patterson at the Fort Smith National Historic Site webpage. Marbled paper on the upper board eroded but a very good copy with a nice association. Contemporary brown three-quarter leather joints rubbed and marbled boards endpapers and edges. #8369. <br/><br/> GPO hardcover books
180023633Philadelphia 1800. 4pp. Disbound. Else Near Fine. <br/><br/> Isaac Zane was a member of the Zane family of Wheeling after whom Zanesville Ohio is named. He was "made a prisoner by the Wyandot Indians when an infant of nine years of age with which nation he has ever since remained having married an Indian woman by whom he has many children." <br/> The Wyandots assigned him a tract of land. That land was later ceded to the United States by the Treaty of 1795. Zane asks that his title be confirmed. The Committee agrees recommending that the United States convey to him 2560 acres of land at Big Bottom on Mad River. The Committee observes that Zane during "the Indian war rendered great and repeated services to the frontier settlements." <br/>Evans 38864. NAIP w021902 12. unknown books
185221535Columbia S.C.: R.W. Gibbes State Printer 1852. 24pp stitched in original printed wrappers closed tear to front wrapper repaired on blank verso. Untrimmed and uncut generously margined. Short closed tear to title page repaired on blank verso. Very Good. <br/><br/> A rare early informative Report on prisons and South Carolina's criminal law. The Report recommends changes in the penal law; not Hayne assures from "sympathy with the spirit of indiscriminate and sweeping innovation which to some extent is the characteristic of the age and which absolutely runs riot in many of the States of this Confederacy." South Carolina has a low crime rate: "more than half of our population and the portion amongst whom from their position crime would naturally most abound are slaves who are kept in order without a resort to the Courts." But he fears an "alarming" rise in crime in Charleston. Urging greater efficiency "in detecting crime" he recommends employing prosecutors in each district and "physicians for post mortem examinations in murder cases." <br/> Hayne wants to streamline outmoded judicial procedures allow appeals "in cases not capital only on cause shown" to curtail the power of pardon with standards to guide issuance of pardons to curb the most wretched prison conditions particularly housing "the arrested debtor and the innocent witness" with "the convicted felon"; and to provide separate cells at night and employ prisoners in shoemaking and other useful tasks. An Appendix prints valuable data on the prison population of South Carolina. <br/>III Turnbull 143. Cohen 4567. Not in Harv. Law Cat. or Marke. OCLC 8348549 3- Harvard U Chi. U SC as of August 2020. R.W. Gibbes, State Printer unknown books
2001245091New York: Simon & Schuster 2001. First. hardcover. fine/very good. Illus. 8vo two-toned boards d.w. New York: Simon & Schuster 2001. Very good<br/><br/> Simon & Schuster unknown books
1861011563Washington D. C.: A. O. P. Nicholson. Very Good. 1861. Map. Map No. 2 Riviere Des Lacs to the Rocky Mountains disbound from the map volume XI of the Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean from 1853-1854 surveys. Light browning small fold corner tears. Showing the survey routes from the Missouri River to the Dividing Ridge of the Rocky Mountains. Wagner-Camp 266c. ; 25" x 37 1/2" . A. O. P. Nicholson unknown books
19850105635Harmony Books 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION of Isaac Asimov's Robots. Published in New York by Harmony Books in 1985. First Edition stated on copyright page and number sequence 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. This copy is INSCRIBED by the author "For Charlie Happy Birthday Isaac Asimov and Karen D. Frenkel xxx! 30 January 1987." Book fine. DJ fine price-clipped small tape at top of inside dj see photo. We will provide a certificate of authenticity. Harmony Books hardcover books
1985174741Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1985. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 383 pages. The sequel to "Robots of Dawn." An about very good copy with a slight lean to the binding and some soiling to the top edge of the pages in a close to near fine dust jacket that has some small edge tears and minor wear. Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
1985269308New York: Doubleday 1985. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo cloth backed boards d.w. New York: Doubleday 1985. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Review copy.<br/><br/> Doubleday unknown books
1985126388Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1985. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First trade edition. Signed by Asimov on the title page. Robots re-negotiate the laws of robotics and set humankind on the road to galactic empire. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-52. Lower front corners gently bumped remainder spray along bottom edge a near fine copy in fine dust jacket. #126388 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1985128347Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1985. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First trade edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Asimov to a mystery book publisher and bookshop owner on the title page. Robots re-negotiate the laws of robotics and set humankind on the road to galactic empire. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-52. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #128347 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1985118865Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1985. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First trade edition. Robots re-negotiate the laws of robotics and set humankind on the road to galactic empire. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-52. Slight spine lean a nearly fine copy in near fine dust wrapper with light rubbing at spine ends and corner tips. #118865 Doubleday & Company unknown books
198358680Garden City:: Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 038518400X . First edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear dust jacket. . Doubleday, hardcover books
1861011560Washington D. C.: A. O. P. Nicholson. Very Good. 1861. Map. Map No. 3 Rocky Mountains to Puget Sound disbound from the map volume XI of the Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Light browning and very small tears at corner folds. From the surveys of 1853-54 with the routes of the surveys and Washington area shown in great detail with wonderful regional descriptions like "mountains and table lands destitute of timber." Inset of Yak-e-mah River and Snoqualmie Pass. Wagner-Camp 266c. ; 25" x 37" . A. O. P. Nicholson unknown books
1801976London: Murray and Highley 1801. Second edition. Second edition. Bound in full calf gilt spine with morocco label. Binding a bit worn on edges spine split and partially repaired. Internally clean and bright. <br/><br/> Murray and Highley unknown books
192332219New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1923. First American Edition. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's blue decorative buckram stamped in orange; 43945adspp. Spine a bit sunned bottom edge of rear leaves publisher's advertisements a bit ragged from having been clumsily opened else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series The European Library. Italian journalist poet's first novel. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
195741807NY: Coward-McCann 1957. First American edn. 8vo pp. viii 245. A little childish scribblin on title the margins of two pages and the little chipped dj o/w a VG tight copy. Coward-McCann unknown books
1842005259London: James Burns 1842. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. x 286 pages of text. Green leather spine and corners with bright gilt spine lettering and decoration; marbled paper-covered boards. Minor rubbing to extremities. Engraved title page in black and red with several in-text black & white illustrations. James Burns Hardcover books
198193816New York: Sweetwater 1981. Limited. hardcover. fine. Moskowitz ira. 10 signed etchings by Ira Moskowitz. 4to 1/2 dark red morocco; cloth slipcase. N.Y. 1981. Limited Edition. Of an edition of 475 copies this is one of only 75 bound thus. Accompanied by an additional suite of the 10 etchings each signed. The book is autographed by the author and the illustrator.<br/><br/> Sweetwater unknown books