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31507London: John Murray No Date. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Slender hardbound octavo in photo-illustrated dustwrapper. A 39 pp essay which originally appeared in 1949 as a review of the first volume of Sir Winston Churchill's War Memoirs. A handsome near fine copy in plain green boards in lightly used photo-illustrated dustwrapper. Photograph by Karsh. John Murray hardcover books
36283London: John Murray n. d. 1st book edition stated. Cf. Woods p. 343. Hardback. Dust jacket. VG/VG some edgewear with 1 cm chip to base of spine panel. 38 2 pp. Photographic frontis of Churchill. 8" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
197624791Los Alamitos CA: Hwong Publishing Company 1976. Paperback. vi 186p. 8.5x11 inches numerous tables very good paperback report in yellow wraps. This study of a Los Angeles-area community was originally submitted as a doctoral dissertation at UCLA. Hwong Publishing Company paperback books
1836WRCAM52182Bilbao; Castro Urdiales; Santander 1836. 36pp. Loose gatherings. Previously folded with some separations and paper loss along old folds slightly affecting text. Written in a small but legible hand. Very good. An engaging account of travels along the north coast of Spain in the Basque country during the First Carlist War the civil war fought between the conservative followers of Carlos V and the liberal defenders of the succession of the infant Isabel II between 1833 and 1840. The Basque region was a Carlist stronghold and Townsend's account includes descriptions of encounters with the forces supporting Carlos as well as being a narrative of the journey around the region from Bayonne to Santander. The diary was composed in three separate parts from different locations in the Basque region in January and February of 1836 and is addressed to his sister. <br> <br> Isaiah Townsend Jr. descended from a prestigious New York family that included Solomon Townsend industrialist and state politician after the Revolution and his father Isaiah Sr. a prominent Albany merchant. On a prior Grand Tour of Europe in 1831 and 1832 he met David Baillie Warden author of BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA with whom he would become great friends and whose library Townsend would broker to the New York State Library in 1844. <br> <br> A well-written travel diary by a notable New Yorker and close acquaintance to an important American bibliophile filled with fascinating detail about the Basque area and the events of the day. unknown books
196876917Chicago:: University of Chicago Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Translated from the Hebrew by M. Roston. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. ; 288 pages . University of Chicago Press, hardcover books
199352218London:: John Murray. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0719553121 . Edited by Henry Hardy. First British edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . John Murray, hardcover books
1968UBERKAR01vgOxford University Press 1968. Good. Berlin Isaiah. Karl Marx: His Life & Environment 3rd edition. London UK: Oxford University Press 1968. 295pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good. Lightly rubbed covers underlining to first several pages and tight binding. Oxford University Press paperback books
19721826New York: The Macmillan Company 1972. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Fine/very good. First edition of Judenrat by Isaiah Trunk. Thick octavo xxxv 664pp. Brown cloth title in gilt on spine. Stated "first printing" on copyright page. In publishers first edition dust jacket $14.95 on front flap with no mention of the national book award light shelf wear and wear from handling along top edge. Clean text appears unread. Isaiah Trunk won the National Book Award for this work on the Jewish Ghetto Councils. His other notable works included Jewish Responses To Nazi Persecution and Religious Educational and Cultural Problems in the Eastern European Ghettos under German Occupation. The Macmillan Company unknown books
180234027Worcester: Isaiah Thomas Jun 1802. 48 pages including self-wrappers. vignette on title head-pieces on page 2 is illustration of "Anatomy of Man's Body as governed by the 12 constellations." At the foot of this same page are notations of Medical Lectures at Harvard and Dartmouth. 1 vols. 12mo. Self wrappers stitched. Spotting some light offsetting and browning else near fine. 48 pages including self-wrappers. vignette on title head-pieces on page 2 is illustration of "Anatomy of Man's Body as governed by the 12 constellations." At the foot of this same page are notations of Medical Lectures at Harvard and Dartmouth. 1 vols. 12mo. With Roads to the Principal Towns and Inns with innkeeper's names on the last three pages. On the back page is a short advertisement from Isaiah Thomas for books. S & S 2457 Isaiah Thomas Jun unknown books
179739386Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1797. Second edition. 48 pages including self-wrappers woodcut decorations. 1 vols. 12mo. Self wrappers stitched. Spotting some stitching lacking stitch marks short marginal tears or chipping a few repairs to first page else very good. Second edition. 48 pages including self-wrappers woodcut decorations. 1 vols. 12mo. With Roads to the Principal Towns and Inns with innkeeper's names on the last three pages. On the back page is a short advertisement from Isaiah Thomas for a "Very large Collection of Books in the various Branches of Polite Literature" Evans 32920; Drake. "Almanacs" 3586 Isaiah Thomas unknown books
179832532Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1798. 12mo stitched. 48 pp. Untrimmed scattered spotting. Good. <br/><br/> This Almanac lists vacation schedules at Dartmouth Harvard Rhode Island and Williams Colleges; currency and interest tables stagecoaches from Boston to various points tables of distances with inns and innkeepers; an abstract of the Act laying a tax on slaves and houses; an advertisement for Thomas's Worcester bookstore; cures for cancer and other health nostrums. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 34652. Drake 3599. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
180021479Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1800. 12mo side-stitched 48 pp. Uniformly tanned moderately worn. Last leaf with a few marginal tears into text but not costing any lettering. Title page woodcut text cuts. Near Good. This Almanac contains a three-page biographical sketch of the just-deceased George Washington some poetry interest tables a French Calendar postal rates a list of stagecoaches from Boston to various points stamp duties tables of distances. FIRST EDITION. Evans 38628. Drake 3625. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
179917835Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1799. 12mo side-stitched 48 pp. Uniformly tanned lightly worn with a bit of light text fading. title page woodcut text cuts. Good. <br/><br/> This Almanac contains some poetry interest tables a French Calendar tariffs for carriages cures for the putrid fever postal rates a list of stagecoaches from Boston to various points stamp duties how to turn salt water into fresh water a list of Masonic Lodges tables of distances with inns and innkeepers. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 36413. Drake 3615. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
18012272655Isaiah Thomas 1801. Soft Cover. Fair. Large chip from corner of rear wrapper lightly foxed and toned minimal loss and minor tears and creases along edges. 1801 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 48 pp. Sewn binding self An almanac by an important early American printer. Evans 38628. Isaiah Thomas paperback books
1806162750Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1806. pp. 1-48 not paginated several woodcut illustrations self wrappers untrimmed sewn. First edition. Shaw and Shoemaker 10621. Mild foxing and dust soiling to first leaf small damp stain on last leaf a very good copy. #162750 Isaiah Thomas unknown books
1948WRCLIT45424Rochester NY: The Printing House of Leo Hart 1948. Gilt red cloth. Portrait and illustrations. First edition. Facsimiles and illustrations. A few small marks at extreme edges of boards bookplate obscured by jacket flap and some offset on endsheets else near very good in moderately used dust jacket with a few tape mends on the verso. The Printing House of Leo Hart hardcover books
1875273943Philadelphia: Published by the Author for the Subscribers 1875. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. Signed by General Guss. Civil War historian James I. "Bud" Robertson in the Nevins bibiliography considers this "a useful reservoir of personal narratives for the campaigns along the Atlantic coast" Nevins I 149. The Regiment was commanded by Gen. Henry R. Guss and this copy is Signed by Gen. Guss "with his compliments". In publisher's brown gilt decorated cloth with portrait frontispiece of Henry R. Guss illustrated with portraits plates and maps. Quite an attractive bright copy from the personal library of Bud Robertson with his bookplate on the front endpaper. Nevins I 149. Very Good binding. Published by the Author for the Subscribers unknown books
1875WN5594Philadelphia: Privately Printed 1875. Original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Spine ends worn with some loss of cloth corners bumped and joints and edges worn. Spine is a little loose. Some foxing throughout. A weighty regimental history including nearly 200 pgs. of biographical and roster information at rear. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Privately Printed Hardcover books
181036656Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1810. library brown buckrum. small 8vo. library brown buckrum. 487; 576 pages. Two volumes. First edition. Bigmore & Wyman III 9; S-K 3602 for binding references. All five plates are present. An invaluable book to the student of American printing and certainly the cornerstone in any collection of books on U.S. printing and publishing history. Also has information on newspapers and publishing. Thomas was the right person to write this title as he was one of the most important American publishers - booksellers of this early American period. His comments on his friends in the field and the beginnings of printing in different locations in the country based on personal knowledge make this a primary source. <BR><br /> <BR><br /> Bound in a later library buckrum binding with gilt on spine. The plate facing page 70 is present but has separated from the binding and torn into three pieces along the creases. Some tears with one effecting the page numbers 495-500 of volume II. Some marks obscuring the text on pages 152-153. A torn sheet on page 221-222 page 491-492 and 493-494. Ex-library stamp from the De Mill Library. Else a lovely copy. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
1960265014Brooklyn: 'Zagar Press' 1960. One of 4 copies signed and dated "I. Zagar 1960" on last leaf. Artist book in folding concertina format: double-page manuscript coloured title; 5 double-page manuscript coloured text openings each with a colored etching accompanying text. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Original decorated cloth over boards endpapers with decorated crayon images of fish trees etc. Fine. One of 4 copies signed and dated "I. Zagar 1960" on last leaf. Artist book in folding concertina format: double-page manuscript coloured title; 5 double-page manuscript coloured text openings each with a colored etching accompanying text. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Early Work by Zagar. Exceedingly rare early work by Isaiah Zagar b. 1939 visionary vernacular artist who is most widely known for his mosaic installation the Magic Gardens site on South Street in Philadelphia.<br/><br/>One of four copies of illustrations to the familiar nursery rhyme a work produced while the artist studied under Fritz Eichenberg at Pratt. Visual elements expressed during his later career can be discerned here at the outset.<br/><br/>From the artist's mission statement : "It is true to a certain extent; I have been copying Clarence Schmidt my whole career trying to make a total encyclopedic vision that has no parameters and no end. My work is marked by events and is a mirror of the mind that is building and falling apart having a logic but close to chaos refusing to stay still for the camera and giving one a sense of heaven and hell simultaneously."<br/><br/>RARE. Not in OCLC 'Zagar Press' unknown books
194466096New York: American Geographical Society. Very Good. 1944. Hardcover. "Reprinted in 1944 with minor corrections." 228 pages gray cloth with black and gilt stamping. This is a clean nice copy. Very Good in a slightly toned but nice and whole dust jacket. . American Geographical Society hardcover books
1417D7017Harwich MA 14 April 1763. Paperback. Near Fine. Original wraps; 12mo; completely full with 34 manuscript pages numerous emendataions with one revised page pinned into the volume. Later sticker at top corner of front cover not infringing upon text. <br/><br/>The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War on 10 February 1763. By April news was just reaching the English colonies. This sermon was delivered from Daniel 2:20-21 and reads in part "we no longer hear ye alarm of war but hope for ye establishment of peace on very advantageous terms to us who dwell in this land. Let us consider yt it is God who hath given us this quietness." It is not signed but Dunster's name is penciled on the wrapper and the handwriting matches Dunster manuscripts held at Harvard University. A notation on the front cover shows that he delivered this sermon again in 1773 and 1786. Isaiah Dunster 1720-1791 was a Congregational minister at Harwich on Cape Cod from 1748 until his death in 1791. His headstone in Brewster Cemetery says of him that he was "The most beloved Pastor of the First Church in Harwich. He graduated at the University in Cambridge. In native Town was ordained Nov'r 18 1748. After a judicious pertinent and faithful discharge of related ministerial duties satisfied with Life and confident of Immortality He died Jan 18 1791 in the 71 year of his age and 43 of his Ministry." This remarkable manuscript is an extremely scarce pre-Revolutionary survival. paperback books
1987222098Oxford 1987. unbound. 3 pages front and back on "Headington House" stationery 8.25 x 5.75 inches Oxford April 28 1987. Written to noted Civil Rights attorney Howard N. Meyer responding to an article that Meyer had written about Wilson and "Patriotic Gore" in small part: ".There was an element of permanent as it were un-critical radicalism in Wilson - hatred of establishments suspicion of the motives of all public men natural reaction to slogans and clarion calls and eloquence in political or national causes within the framework of the establishments of what he regarded as hopelessly bourgeois countries - he thought that all wars certainly since Napoleon were monstrous bloodshed of a horrible kind in the interests of groups disguised as ideals - all that he got from Marx and similar writers - this applied to both World Wars and obviously to the Civil War and rather more plausibly to Vietnam. He obviously did not mind sheer killing as such because that does not emerge in for example 'To the Finland Station' - it was only towards the end of his life partly under the influence of Solzhenitsyn and other irrefutable evidence that he turned against the Soviet Union and became nauseated by Stalin and everything to do with him - and his distaste even turned to the once-hallowed Lenin. I had a conversation with him in which he reminded me that I had said that he was too nice about Lenin - he agreed and the Introduction to the second or a later edition of 'To the Finland Station' altered this approach.I realize and from my knowledge of Edmund whose memory I still revere and of whom I am deeply fond. His loss of faith in Russia which began after his visit in the thirties but still persisted when I first met him was I suppose true of an entire generation of American leftists and British ones too; It was a marvelous mass delusion which I think perhaps has no parallel in history. Of course he must have been right in part about the crushing of the Southern states the exploitation and the bullying.but this should not have extended to respect for his violent and irrational political prejudices ferocious suspicion and desire to discredit honorable human motives just wars general idealism above all Lincoln's reputation. He simply wanted to attack icons and fetishes as such - and in the course of this said a great many untrue unjust and silly things." This letter contains much more fine content and is effectively an unpublished essay and critique of one of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century. Horizontal folds tiny stains and a paperclip impression in the top margins. Still very good condition.<br/><br/> Russian-British philosopher and historian of ideas regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and as the dominant liberal scholar of his generation.<br/><br/> unknown books
19364873New York: William Bradford Press 1936. decorated boards paper cover label. Thomas Isaiah. 12mo. decorated boards paper cover label. 7 pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies and signed by the designer Eugene M. Ettenberg. Most of spine covering chipped away. William Bradford Press unknown books
1814797Worcester Mass.: Printed by William Manning 1814. 8vo. 210 x 125 mm. 8 ¼ x 5 inches. 12 8 pp. Removed from pamphlet volume. Remnants of leather spine final leaf partially loose to text block; title-page discolored some foxing and light staining throughout. Established October 24 1812 by Isaiah Thomas this is the second annual report which includes  revised by-laws that governed the Society. The first twelve pages written by Thomas outline in five sections the mission and goals of AAS. He begins by discussion what should be collected. He views the product of the printing press to include books pamphlets newspapers broadsides and discuss how different an American library will be when compared to the great institutions of England and Europe. He suggests that membership should be from all the principal towns and cities in the United States. These representatives should collect local history with the goals of presenting collections from all over the country to the Society. Be more organized as an institution and have regular meetings so new collections and ideas can be reported to all the members. Finally to include into membership "gentlemen who reside in various parts of Europe the Eastindies and China." He concludes with reiteration of the goals of the society: "Our principal objects are to COLLECT and PRESERVE - that which commands our attention . . ." The final eight pages record changes to the governing body and the by-laws. Printed by William Manning unknown books
