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178957019Rhineback N.Y.: May 25 1789. Folio approx. 12" x 8" 42 lines approx. 300 words; a few minor breaks at the edges but overall very good and legible. This indenture binds David Runnels son of Stephen Runnels in the town of "Rynbeck" i.e. Rhinebeck Dutchess County New York to a farmer and weaver named Adam Zufeld 1760-1849 as a servant and apprentice "to work farmers work and to learn the art of trade to weave." Although a wax seal is affixed the document is unsigned. David Runnels b. ca. 1774 signed up for six years and three months until age 21 and vows to "faith fully serve his secrets keep his lawful commands every where gladly obey . not commet fornication nor contract matremony with any lawful games he shall not play nor absent himself from his master's service day or night." In return for this service Zufeld agrees to "teach and instruct the said apprentice in the trade of Weaven and shall send Runnels to school to lern English read and write" and to provide "sufficient meat drink apperal washing and lodging fitting for an apprentice." After the apprenticeship is over Zufelf agrees to "give the said apprentice a new cloth or garment and a mare colt." <br/><br/> May 25 hardcover books
20022294353Yale University Press 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Jacket spine head and spine base very lightly bumped. 2002 Hard Cover. xii 404 pp. "In this thought-provoking book neurologist Adam Zeman offers an enlightening view of consciousness seen through the lenses of science and philosophy enhancing his discussion with case studies of neurological patients and observations of young children Yale University Press hardcover books
200217123New Haven: Yale University Press 2002. Hardcover. Very Good. xii 395pp index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> Yale University Press hardcover books
1790549Philadelphia 1790. Autograph Letter Signed. Folio sheet folded. 1 page of text with address on the verso. Folded with small tears at the folds blank piece missing at the wax seal. Highly legible hand. Watermark paper "I R". Letter from Adam Zantzinger concern the receipt of money and shipment of "Liquers and Molasses and Sugar . . all of the best quality. The gin I imported from Holland in large Pipes & it is the best Quality & will cost you much less than the gin in cases; the cases are at 30/ only hold about 3 1/2 gallons so that the gin in cases will cost you 8/6 the gallon & this only 5/6. I have sent you like wise one keg of the best French Brandy & one of the best Red Sweet Wines and a Roal of Tobacco which I hope will please you. The casks are all filled full and hope they will all com safe to hand. I give the waggoner a bottle of Spirrits out of my casks & expect he will see carefully of your liquor." Adam Zantzinger was a member of the Pennsylvania Militia 1775-1783 and is listed in the Revolutionary War Batallion Index. In 1775 he purchased a 9-acre parcel of land north of the City of Philadelphia called the Norther Liberites on Ridge Avenue across the street from what is now Girard College. He was listed in the membership rolls of the Carpenters Company for 1786 and became a shareholder in the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1790. 319 549. unknown books
1790319Philadelphia 1790. Autograph Letter Signed. Folio sheet folded. 1 page of text with address on the verso. Folded with small tears at the folds blank piece missing at the wax seal. Highly legible hand. Watermark paper " I R ".Letter from Adam Zantzinger concern the receipt of money and shipment of "Liquers and Molasses and Sugar . . all of the best quality. The gin I imported from Holland in large Pipes & it is the best Quality & will cost you much less then the gin in cases; the cases are at 30/ only hold about 3 1/2 gallons so that the gin in cases will cost you 8/6 the gallon & this only 5/6. I have sent you like wise on keg of the best French Brandy & one of the best Red Sweet Wines and a Roal of Tobacco which I hope will please you. The casks are all filled full and hope thy will all com safe to hand. I give the waggoner a bottle of Spirrits out of my casks & expect he will see carefully of your liquor."Adam Zantzinger was a member of the Pennsylvania Militia 1775-1783 and is listed in the Revolutionar War Batallion Index. In 1775 he purchased a 9 acre parcel of land north of the City of Philadelphia called the Norther Liberites on Ridge Avenue across the street from what is now Girard College. He was listed in the membership rolls of the Carpenters Company for 1786 and became a shareholder in the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1790. unknown books
1999Embry 173702Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. First edition, first printing. unknown books
2004Embry 159810HarperCollins 2004. Book Club edition. Offsetting from removed bookplate else fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. HarperCollins, 2004. Book Club edition. unknown books
2007Embry 188775HarperCollins 2007. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. HarperCollins, 2007. First edition, first printing. unknown books
199550480bdNew York: Hippocrene Books 1995. Octavo red cloth & black boards hardcover gilt letters xii 239 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: .Some 17000 men and women passed through the ranks of the Polish Air Force while it was stationed on British soil in World War II. They not only played a crucial role in the Battle of Britain in 1940 they also contributed significantly to the Allied war effort in the air. All in all the Polish Air Force shot down 745 enemy aircraft with another 175 unconfirmed destroyed a further 25 on the ground and damaged 259. They dropped thousands of bombs laid hundreds of mines flew a total of 102 486 sorties notching up 290 895 operational flying hours and took part in virtually every type of RAF operation. They achieved this at a cost of 1973 killed and 1388 wounded. They won 342 British gallantry awards as well as 15 American ones. Hippocrene Books, (1995). hardcover books
1982011775New York: Atheneum 1982. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xvi 289 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Hardcover binding with minimal fading to spine extremities. Unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page "name Adam Zamoyski Chicago 3/x 82." Illustrated by historic photographs. A biography of the great Polish pianist and statesman. Atheneum Hardcover books
1988298396New York: Franklin Watts 1988. hardcover. very good/very good. Heavily illustrated in black and white and color. 422 pages. 8vo red cloth d.w. N.Y.: Franklin Watts 1988. A very good copy with a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Franklin Watts unknown books
19914801New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1991. 1st edition full white cloth with illustrated dust jacket. "Adam Zagajewski's second volume of poems to appear in English in a translation by Renata Gorczynski Benjamin Ivry and C. K. Williams represents one of the new Europe's most commanding lyric voices in full power" from the jacket notes. A bright fine copy in like price clipped jacket. Farrar Straus Giroux unknown books
199928862New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1999. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good. Trade paperbound book. 81 pp. Stated second printing. A very good copy. With a friendly INSCRIPTION by the poet on the half-title page. Farrar Straus Giroux paperback books
198553335NY:: Farrar Straus Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0374278733 . With a preface by Czeslaw Milosz. Translated from the Polish by Renata Gorczynski. First American edition. INSCRIBED by the author. Near fine in a near fine light age toning to flaps dust jacket. . Farrar Straus Giroux, hardcover books
20024688New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2002. First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen "To Peter Matthiessen- most amicably- Adam Zagajewski Houseton February 2005." Also laid into this book is a note to Matthiessen stating that "Adam was pleased to inscribed this copy." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral. Translated by Clare Cavanagh and Renata Gorczynski Benjamin Ivry and C.K. Williams. "Zagajewski's poems transport us into a realm that is majestic boundless and unknown" Edward Hirsch The Washington Post Book World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
199423044Honesdale PA: Boyds Mills Press 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hoffman Rosekrans. Hoffman Rosekrans. First Edition. 95 1 pages. Glossy printed boards. Oblong 10.25 x 9.25 inches. A crisp clean copy. SIGNED by Yolen in 2008 opposite the title page. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Boyds Mills Press unknown books
2005103195New York: Starscape A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2005. Octavo boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #103195 Starscape A Tom Doherty Associates Book unknown books
198924942San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989. 1st edition. Color pictorial hardback. Dust jacket replicates binding design. F/VG short closed tear at fore-edge. 32 pp. Illustrated by Margot Tomes. Oblong 4to. <br/><br/> Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
63944hardcover. 434pp. 8vo cloth d.w. New York 1971.<br/><br/> unknown books
1971006836New York Etc.: Harper & Row 1971. 1st Edition. xiv 434p. dj A Twentieth Century Fund study. Harper & Row unknown books
20161329114Mineola NY: Dover Publications Inc 2016. Softcover. Octavo; pp 254; VG-/paperback; blue spine with white and yellow text; covers have very light wear to exterior; previous bookshop's sticker to rear; text block edges show slight wear to exterior edges; interior clean; illustrated;. 1329114. FP New Rockville Stock. Dover Publications, Inc unknown books
010555Limburg a.d. Lahn: C. A. Starke Verlag. 1969-1972. 4 vols. original cloth. Major history of this family from the 13th century onwards. Includes the 1972 Urkundenband over 600 pages and the Bildband of 183 b/w illustrations. C. A. Starke Verlag unknown books
195938026Wroclaw: Polska Akademia Nauk 1959. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good unopened uncut copy spine ends with large tears edgewear back wrapper sunned. 468 pp. Sm. 4to. Polska Akademia Nauk Zaklad Antropologii. Materialy I Prace Antropologiczne Nr. 41. In Polish. 4854 entries. Polska Akademia Nauk unknown books
198880832San Francisco: Socialist Action 1988. Pamphlet. 28p. pamphlet intended to be stapled but stapling did not happen printed folded leaves are nested neatly in glossy photo-decorated wraps very good handleable text. Socialist Action unknown books
197879104London: Folrose Books 1978. Paperback. iii 166p. wraps slightly worn previous owners name on title page. Folrose Books paperback books