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1782266568State of Connecticut 1782. unbound. 1 page State of Connecticut Pay-Table Office March 9th 1782 -- a payment of "Two Pounds ten shillings.granted in May last exclusive of that Part payable in State Bills and charge the State." Signed by Committee men and Revolutionary War patriots William Mosley and Finn Wadsworth of which the document is completely in his hand. Signed "Noah Phelps Colonel" on the back. Partial tearing along the folds but still in very good condition.<br/><br/> Revolutionary War captain spy and later Major General of the Militia. He is best remembered for casually sneaking into Fort Ticonderoga disguised as a peddler needing a shave and viewing first-hand the weaknesses the British would have in defending the fort. He reported his findings to General Ethan Allen and later participated in the dawn raid that resulted in the bloodless taking of the fort.<br/><br/> unknown books
185767716Farmington: Samuel S. Cowles. Very Good. 1857. Pamphlet. Porter Noah. HALF-CENTURY DISCOURSE; ON OCCASION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ORDINATION AS PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN FARMINGTON CONN. DELIVERED NOVEMBER 12TH 1856. Farmington: Samuel S. Cowles 1857. 54 pages removed from a bound volume but solid and tight. The contents are just slightly foxed and toned but bright and complete. About Very Good. . Samuel S. Cowles unknown books
18692309128New York: Charles Scribner & Company 1869. Fourth Edition. Fourth Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Fourth edition. Some loss to spine head label on front paste-down endpaper pencil name on second blank ink name on title page. 1869 Hard Cover. xxvii 673 pp. Five pages of ads follow text. CONTENTS: Introduction: Psychology and the Soul; Psychology Defined and Vindicated; The Relations of the Soul to Matter; The Faculties of the Soul; Is Psychology a Science--Can there be a Science of the Human Soul and what are its Principles and Methods; The Human Intellect: It's Function Development and Faculties; Part First. Presentation and Presentative Knowledge: Consciousness - Natural Consciousness; Reflective or Philosophical Consciousness; Sense-Perception--The Conditions and the Process; Classes of Sense-Perceptions; The Acquired Sense-Perceptions; Development and Growth of Sense-Perception; The Products of Sense-Perception or the Perception of Material Things; Activity of the Soul in Sense-Perception; Theories of Sense-Perception; Part Second: Representation and Representative Knowledge: The Representative Power Defined and Explained; The Representative Object--Its Nature and Importance; The Condition and Laws of Representation--The Association of Ideas; Representation--1 The Memory or Recognizing Faculty - 2 The Phantasy or Imaging Power - 3 The Imagination or Creative Power; Part Third. Thinking and Thought-Knowledge: Thought-Knowledge Defined and Explained; Thought--The Formation of the Concept or Notion; The Nature of the Concept--Sketch of Theories; The Nature of the Concept--Conclusions from the History of Theories; Judgment and the Proposition; Reasoning--Deductive or Mediate Judgment; Reasoning--Varieties of Deduction; Inductive Reasoning or Induction; Scientific Arrangement--The System; Part Fourth. Intuition and Intuitive Knowledge: The Intuitions Defined and Enumerated; Theories of Intuitive Knowledge; Formal Relations of Categories; Mathematical Relations: Time and Space; Causation and the Relation of Causation; Design or Final Cause; Substance and Attribute: Mind and Matter; The Finite and Conditioned--The Infinite and Absolute. Charles Scribner & Company unknown books
186865592New York NY: Charles Scribner & Company 1868. First edition. 8vo. 4 v- xxvii 5-673pp. errata 6pp. publishers ads. Original brown cloth spine stamped in gilt. Crisp copy very good. "The best work on Psychology in English before William James." Encyclopedia of Philosophy. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner & Company hardcover books
18752306353Boston: William F. Gill and Company 1875. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition second state with Rockwell & Churchill device on copyright page BAL 3363. Front and end matter and a couple plates foxed front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1875 Hard Cover. xv 411 pp. Original green cloth gilt and black titles and decorations all edges gilt 19 engravings 31 illustrations. Includes first appearance of Mark Twain's 'An Encounter with an Interviewer' as well as contributions by: Whitelaw Reid Wilkie Collins Mark Twain John Hay John Brougham Noah Brooks P.V. Nasby I.H. Bromley John Elderkin Thomas W. Knox W.J. Florence Chandos Fulton J. Henry Hagar Champion Bissell J.B. Bouton W.S. Andrews Gilbert Burling Chas. I. Pardee M.D. C. McK. Leoser Hon. R.B. Roosevelt William F. Gill C. Florio C.E.L. Holmes Charles Gayler James Pech Mus. Doc. H.S. Olcott Edward Greey J. Brander Matthews and Alfred Tennyson. William F. Gill and Company unknown books
2004S9204Cave Junction OR:: Althouse Press 2004. 2004. 8vo. xxv 419 pp. Numerous figs. refs. Color-printed covers. Fine. ISBN: 1590872500 Althouse Press, (2004). unknown books
195037159Claremore: The Noel Kaho Company 1950. Second edition. Yellow paper wrappers with brown printed title lettering to front wrapper stapled. Ex-Libris bookplate to wrapper slight sunning throughout. Withall a VG copy. 32 pp. Profusely illustrated. Oblong 5" x 7-1/4" <br/><br/> The Noel Kaho Company unknown books
1976024858Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America 1976. 1st Edition. xviii 480p. b/w front. dj. Jewish Publication Society of America unknown books
1952166248New York: Lion Books 1952. 128p. lightly-worn first edition PBO in noirish pictorial wraps. Lion 106. A selection of magazine pieces from Stag Male & Men magazines about sex and crime in various US cities. Lion Books unknown books
186416481Baltimore: Entz & Bash. Very Good. 1864. Hardcover. Disbound; light soil to title page; 15 clean pages; Good . Entz & Bash hardcover books
1987USEMHEW00LRILR Press 1987. Fine. Semyonov Moshe. Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water: Noncitizen Arabs in the Israeli Labor Market. and Noah Lewin-Epstein. NY: ILR Press 1987. 152pp. Indexed. 8vo. Gray Cloth. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with a few small closed tears to edges. ILR Press hardcover books
1987USEMHEW00CTILR Press 1987. Very Good. Semyonov Moshe. Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water: Noncitizen Arabs in the Israeli Labor Market. and Noah Lewin-Epstein. NY: ILR Press 1987. 152pp. Indexed. 8vo. Gray Cloth. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. ILR Press hardcover books
1970151307N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless black and white photograph from the 1970 film showing actors Robert Redford and Erin O'Reilly.<br/><br/>Two motorbike riders-one a callous womanizer one a shy and unsuspecting young man-find their friendship tested by the arrival of beautiful young runaway at their racetrack. <br/><br/>Shot on location throughout Arizona and California including at the Ascot Park Speedway and the Sonoma Raceway. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
199543743Austin Texas: W. Thomas Taylor 1995. 1st edition thus 1/50 cc. Cf. Basic Texas Books 189; Bradford 5116; Final Howes S733; Graff 3872; Rader 2948; Sabin 85099 for the 1st editiion of 1900. Specially bound in tan quarter leather over decorative paper boards. A Fine copy. Accompanied by the original Taylor 6/14/94 sale invoice for this book. xvi 293 3 pp. Original piece of Texas currency "One Hundred Dollars" housed in pocket at back. Frontispiece. Royal 8vo. 10-1/4" x 7-1/8" <br/><br/>Smithwick a blacksmith moved to Texas in 1827 served in the war for Texas independence and later as a Ranger though leaving the state in 1861 as he had Union sympathies. The volume includes anecdotes on James Bowie Sam Houston Stephen Austen David G. Burnet Gail Borden Padre Michael Muldoon R.M. Williamson and others. Dobie calls this work "The best of all books dealing with life in early Texas." Jenkins says it's "the most fun to read." This edition adds scholarly commentary by its editor with this specially bound version of the edition with the real Texas currency being relatively uncommon on the market. W. Thomas Taylor hardcover books
1900021885Austin Texas: Gammel Book Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth with black lettering; includes frontis. Boards have moderate wear and soiling; front and rear gutters are cracked; previous owner's inscription on front pastedown; first few leaves are starting to detach from text block; text block has light toning. Memoirs of early Texas written by long-time resident Noah Smithwick. Smithwick "drifted to Texas with the tide of immigration in 1927and spent the next thirty-four years of his life in the new territory. First as a Texas Ranger and later as a merchant and mill operator Smithwick was a keen observer of the panorama of passing events and personalities in Texas" from the publisher's prospectus. He gives anecdotes on men he knew such as James Bowie San Houston Stephen F. Austin and others. Smithwick's opposition to secession took him to California in 1861. Jenkins states that "of all Texas memoirs this is the most fun to read." Jenkins 189. ; Book; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 354 pp . Gammel Book Company hardcover books
193912900New York: Combo Press 1939. First Edition. First edition limited to 1000 copies this copy out-of-series. Octavo 22.5 cm; pebbled cloth boards; dustjacket; 256pp; illus. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover else a clean tight copy in the scarce illustrated dustwrapper generally worn and soiled with brief losses at extremities Good to Very Good. Novel of Depression-era Jewish ghetto life in Chicago by the Yiddish poet Noah Steinberg b. 1889. A member in the teens and twenties of the "Die Junge" school of Yiddish poets and playwrights who consciously avoided the social themes of their "Sweatshop Poet" forebears Steinberg appears by the late thirties to have embraced a more proletarian world view; the current work deals frankly with poverty crime anti-Semitism and "the degeneration of the governing class by power largely misused" from the jacket copy. <br/><br/>The book was composed in English though nearly all Steinberg's earlier published work was written in Yiddish. Text Illustrations rather crudely reproduced by S. Witkewitz Louis Lodowick Rinaldo Cuneo Hilda Katz George Grosz others. Uncommon in dustjacket this is a fairly well-preserved copy. Jacket includes a lengthy cover blurb by Tom Cannon composed as a letter to Upton Sinclair and Jim Tully; also brief comments by Sherwood Anderson and Llewellyln Jones. Combo Press unknown books
198652201Herzlia: Palphot Ltd 1986. Edition not stated. Oblong quarto ca 25cm x 33cm; glazed boards; unpaginated; illus. Signed by illustrator Jossi Stern on title page with a full-page original drawing by him on final preliminary leaf a self-portrait in which a seated Stern is being patted on the head by a beneficent angel mal'ach; captioned and signed at lower right "M. Katz and Jossi Stern." Fine copy but lacking the publisher's slipcase. <br/><br/>An attractively-produced Haggadah published as a gift book for attendees of a fundraising dinner for Ezrath Nashim Hospital in Jerusalem April 3 1986. Includes 27 full-page four-color illustrations after watercolors by Stern. Bilingual text Hebrew and English. Stern 1923-1992 a prolific and highly-regarded Hungarian-born Israeli painter and illustrator his works still widely published and exhibited in Israel. Palphot Ltd unknown books
181243722New Haven with Hartford: Printed by Walter and Steele with Hudson & Goodwin 1812. First edition. Contemporary stitched plain paper wrappers. Good to very good both signed browned some foxing second item untrimmed and creased. 31 1 pp. & 7 1 pp. 8vo. Two early Connecticut imprints most likely signed by husband and wife. 1. War of 1812. Sullivan George. "An Address of Members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States to Their Constituents on the Subject of the War with Great Britain." New Haven: Printed by Walter and Steele 1812. 8vo. 31 1 pp. Sabin 393. Amer. Imprints 24547. Contemporary owner's name and one line summary on first page browned else very good. An antiwar address arguing that war with Britain was not "necessary or required by any moral duty or any political expediency. "Signed on p. 25 by George Sullivan and 33 other Federalist members. Provenance: Timothy Seward signed writing: "Serious truths attempted by the honest party in Congress." Most likely Timothy Seward of Guilford 1756-1849 a Revolutionary War musician. Various editions were published. With 2. Webster Noah Ingersoll Jonathan. "An Address to the Freemen in Connecticut" Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1803. 8vo. 7 1 pp. Sabin 102334. Amer. Imprints 3636. Contemporary owner's name and date on title page lower edges torn roughly with loss at lower margin otherwise a good untrimmed copy foxed. A speech to a Federalist meeting deploring the changes by the Jefferson administration. A list of names chosen for nomination in the next election is appended. Skeel argues that it was written by Noah Webster. Cf. Skeel E.E.F. A Bibliography of the writings of Noah Webster 1958 Appendix A p. 523-524 no. 6. Provenance: "Rebecca Seward Book 1810" signed Rebecca Seward born Lee d. 1859 was the wife of Timothy Seward. Uncommon. Sabin 393. Amer. Imprints 24547. with Sabin 102334. Amer. Imprints 3636. Printed by Walter and Steele [with] Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
1990UTRUBLO00fpFawcett Columbine 1990. Very Good. Trudeau Noah Andre. Bloody Roads South: the Wilderness to Cold Harbor May-June 1864. New York: Fawcett Columbine 1990. 354pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed and pages toned. Fawcett Columbine paperback books
19899009465Boston: Little Brown & Co. 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped. <br/><br/> Little, Brown & Co. hardcover books
1989251907Boston: Little Brown 1989. First. hardcover. very good/very good-. Illus. 8vo red cloth d.w. lightly soiled. Boston: Little Brown 1989.<br/><br/> Little Brown unknown books
2002UTRUGET01fpHarperCollins 2002. Very Good. Trudeau Noah Andre. Gettysburg: a Testing of Courage. New York: HarperCollins 2002. Book club edition. 694pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Both ends of spine lightly bumped. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed and spine slightly faded. HarperCollins hardcover books
2002268049New York: HarperCollins 2002. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Maps. 694pp. 8vo two-toned boards d.w. New York: HarperCollins 2002. Very good<br/><br/> HarperCollins unknown books
199850158Boston: Little Brown and Company 1998. First edition. Signed by the author. Numerous b/w maps. xxii 548 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark orange paper backed paper covered boards. Head and heel bumped. Else a very nice copy in like dustjacket. Very good/Very good. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
200222795Edison NJ: Castle Books. 2002. Reprint. Hardcover. orig 1998 Fine in fine dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 548 pp . Castle Books hardcover books
