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1855552355New York: D. Appleton and Company 1855. Hardcover. Good. Home Book series. 12mo. 168pp. illustrated with a pictorial chromolithographic title page and three wood engraved plates. Publisher’s purple decorative cloth stamped in blind on both covers and in gold on the spine. Covers lightly faded at the fore-edge small nick on front cover endpapers slightly soiled back hinge is split else a very good bright copy. Alice Haven was a prolific author of juvenile fiction. A scarce well-preserved copy with an attractive color lithographic title page plate. Not in Wright. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1980000799NY: Harper & Row 1980. in NF dustwrapper. This is a REVIEW COPY of the first edition of the author's second book. De Haven has received "good press" lately and his early books are a bit hard to find. Hard Cover. NF. Harper & Row Hardcover
198889085New York: Walker and Company This is a Millennium Book and a Bryon Press Book 1988. Presumed First Edition First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Ralph Reese. 8 196 4 pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. The dust jacket has slight wear and soiling. Sticker residue inside the front cover. Publisher's Review Copy related ephemera laid in. Joe's life takes a humorous turn when he encounters a scientist with a machine that can make supermen out of ordinary "joes." Tom De Haven born 1949 is an American author editor journalist and writing teacher. His recurring subjects include literary and film noir the Hollywood studio system and the American comics industry. De Haven is noted for his comics-themed novels including Joe Gosh the Derby Dugan trilogy and It's Superman!. De Haven considers himself a narrative writer and considers the storytelling style of comics to have been a major influence on his writing. As a freelance journalist he has written criticism for publications such as The New York Times Book Review and Entertainment Weekly. De Haven's novels include the Funny Paper trilogy consisting of Funny Papers 1985 Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies 1996 and Dugan Under Ground 2001. The trilogy's storyline stretches from the beginnings of the newspaper comic strips in the 1890s to the 1970s. De Haven's awards include a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and he has twice won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.6 His novel Depression Funnies received an American Book Award in 1997. Dugan Under Ground received the Library of Virginia Fiction Award also called the Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Ralph Reese born May 19 1949 is an American artist who has illustrated for books magazines trading cards comic books and comic strips including a year drawing the Flash Gordon strip for King Features. Prolific from the 1960s to the 1990s he is best known for his collaboration with Byron Preiss on the continuing feature "One Year Affair" serialized in the satiric magazine National Lampoon from 1973 to 1975 and then collected into a 1976 book. Reese early in his career worked in the studio of Wally Wood assisting on both mainstream and alternative-press comics and on trading cards. He went on to do mainly fantasy and horror illustrations for science-fiction magazines and black-and-white horror-comics magazines. He drew many fantasy horror and science-fiction stories for Marvel Comics DC Comics and Valiant Comics. It was a typical day in Wonder City. Joe Gosh was stuck. No job no money no girl not much of a place to live and no real prospects. Vicky Zomba the love of his life wouldn't look twice at him. Her mother wanted to make him a zombie. When his credit ran out he'd be sent to Mars to be a miner. He didn't want to go to Mars. What he needed was a sense of direction an idea of what to do with his life. What he got was a bundle of junk mail that appeared out of thin air. And that gave him the idea. It was a terrific idea. He's become famous. He's make a lot of money. He'd have job security. Vicky Zomba would go out with him. It would solve all his problems. Joe Gosh was going to be a superhero. In JOE GOSH Tom De Haven author of the acclaimed novel FUNNY PAPERS which The New York Times Book Review called "evocative and fun" looks at the reality of superpowers in a truly crazy way. Walker and Company [This is a Millennium Book and a Bryon Press Book] hardcover
1865100127University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1865. Pamphlet. Used - Very Good. Printed by Order of Congress 1865. 20 pages. 8 x 5.25" stitched. Progress of rebellion 'it becomes us to be magnanimous towards enemies doubly so towards deluded brethren of rebellious states taught they were fighting for liberty and self-government when seeking to overthrow Constitution and Government which afford equal privileges to all' Emancipation Proclamation martial law reconstruction Indian relations frontier national debt Morrill Act power and worth of institutions. VG. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor unknown
200724851Glen Haven Historical Society 2007. Paperback. Very Good. Second edition. Softcover light shelfwear to covers. Contents clean and tight. Unpaginated around 200 pages ib&w photos and illus. New York state local history. Glen Haven Historical Society paperback
1963360962Charles C. Thomas 1963. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition First Printing. Published by Charles C. Thomas 1963. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with endpapers professionally replaced. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear and left flap replaced. A nice copy of this vintage science title. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor New York. Charles C. Thomas hardcover
a101613Manuscript notebook of Charles E. Haven. No date. 19thc. latest text date is 1848 Sixty-two neatly handwritten pages of geneological and biographical information copied from other books and epitaphs mostly of Haven family but other surnames appear as well. In a notebook 7-1/2 x 5-1/2 inchees has marbled stiff wraps and black cloth spine. VG excellent condition. Easily legible. . hardcover
1940605033New York: Bonanza Books 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Foreword by Stephen V. Grancsay. Small quarto. 711pp. Heavily illustrated. Near fine in a spine-sunned very good dust jacket with modest soil and wear including tiny nicks and tears. Bonanza Books hardcover
1940732231940. HAVEN Charles T. and BELDEN Frank A. A History of the Cold Revolver and the Other Arms Made by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company from 1836 to 1940. New York: William Morrow & Company 1940. 1st ed. 4to. xxiii 711pp. double-columned. Portrait frontis. illus. portraits plates. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth. Small private ownership stamp on 1/2-title else very good or better. HOWES H-308 "aa. unknown
2001025043Haunted Cipher / Eric Haven 2001. Book. Illus. by Haven Eric. New. Comic. Back issue mini comic. Like New. Haunted Cipher / Eric Haven Paperback
1931GD012848WRBC1S4Cambridge Mass. Technical Composition Co. 1931. Technical Composition Co. 1931 First Edition 8vo. 249 pages. Book bound in a dark green cloth no dust jacket lettering in gilt on front board and spine. Numerous charts and tables & photos. States 1st edition Thirteen Thousand price $1.50. Book very good scarce 1st edition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Cambridge , Mass. Technical Composition Co. Hardcover
186914736New York: Carlton and Lanahan. Very Good. 1869. Hardcover. Clean maroon pebble cloth has gilt title on spine. Top edge gilt. Text tight clean & Intact. Ornamental headpiece decorations. Spine ends and front corners lightly rubbed. Civil War; Ornamental headpieces; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 656 pages . Carlton and Lanahan hardcover
18-6971New Haven CT: Yale University 1960. . 8vo. 16 pp. Soft stapled gray wove wraps with black lettering. Good with toning along wrap edges and spine and marginal creasing along bottom right corner of wraps and interior pages. Some black and white illustrations. Created to accompany a portfolio. Limited edition: 1 of 500 copies.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 1960. paperback
1929176939Madison WI: The Haresfoot Club of the University of Wisconsin 1929. First edition. Softcover. Features music by Jack Mason lyrics by Mason Bob De Haven and W.H. Purnell. A close to near fine copy in wrappers with an attractive design with some toning to the rear panel. Scarce with only 3 copies listed in OCLC. The Haresfoot Club of the University of Wisconsin unknown
186496045Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Rail Road Company 1864. Pamphlet. Used - Very Good. 13-31 pages each. Large folding map. 9 x 6" printed wrappers. Lacking 1 lower wrap 1 creased few edge chips soiling tear else VG. Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Rail Road Company unknown
B48214-3New Haven 1988. xv 1 485pp. 423 illus. 25 color 13 figs. Sq. 4to. Cloth. D.j. New Haven, 1988. hardcover
0332986861.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
196248854New York: Hillary House Publishers Ltd 1962. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxvii 459pp; x 538pp. Near fine. Spines ever-so-faintly sunned else tight and fine throughout. Handsome facsimile set of the 1896-97 classic a useful survey by the author and long time 52 years president of G.P. Putnam's sons. Volume I covers 476-1600 and Volume II 1500-1709. Hillary House Publishers Ltd hardcover
189643185New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1896. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and device. xxvii 459pp 4pp ads. Top edge gilt. Very good. Mild edgewear else tight nice and internally fine. First edition of the first volume only of this notable pair -- with lovely autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is an irregular 5 3/4" X 1" slip bearing the typed salutation "I am with cordial regards / yours faithfully" followed by Putnam's bold signature in black ink. Tipped above this is the 8" X 2½" printed letterhead portion "G.P. Putnam's Sons / Publishers and Booksellers" of Putnam's stationery. Putnam 1844-1930 was the son of publishing house founder George Palmer Putnam G.P. Putnam's Sons and himself a Civil War veteran author and businessman and became head of that firm after his father's death; in addition to this book he authored "Some Memories of the Civil War" 1924 "Memories of My Youth" 1914 and "Memories of a Publisher" 1915. First volume only but nice and bearing interesting author signature. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1912278575New York: Putnam 1912. hardcover. very good. Frontis. vi 476pp. 8vo burgundy cloth; light rubbed and corners and spine ends. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1912. Internally fine a very good copy.<br/> <br/> Enclosed with the book is one-page typed letter signed by Putnam<br/> <br/> Putnam unknown
191214762New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good. 1912. Second Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown 3/4 leather over brown cloth. Spine has raised bands with gilt decorated panels including title. Text tight clean & intact. Marbled endpaper. Portrait frontispiece. Only endpaper lightly foxed. 1st edition was printed for private circulation in 1903. Publishing business; Early years of the war; Draft Riots. Books on Books ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 476 pages . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
194541337Henry Holt and Co 1945. EICHENBERG Fritz. SCHAUFFLER Robert Haven. FIDDLER'S FOLLY AND ENCORES. Illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg. NY: Henry Holt and Co. 1945. 8vo. cloth in dust jacket. Third Printing. Signed presentation from Schauffler on front endpaper to American violinist Arthur M. Abell: "Arthur M. Abell. With warm greetings from his old friend and fellow fiddler. Robert Haven Schauffler." Two short novels and briefer "enores" by the musician author. Very Good; price-clipped d/j. $75.00. Henry Holt and Co unknown
189432303New York: Hunt & Eaton 1894. First Edition. 24mo 15.5cm.; original grey cloth lettered in blue; 70pp. Some general soil to cloth more heavily so to rear cover very faint dampstain along bottom edge of textblock else a Near Very Good sound copy. Forms part of the League At Work Series. Collection of games designed for members of the Epsworth League the Methodist young adult association formed in Cleveland in 1889. These include a "Nutting Party" which "will give an evening of rare run and will effectually break up any feeling of constraint or timidity among the young people." OCLC locates four copies of this edition as of December 2016. Hunt & Eaton unknown
1927111397New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1927 Book. Good. Half-Leather. First Edition. Volume VII of this 8 volume work - "prepared under the direction of an international advisory board by the world's leading medical authorities"; illustrated. Discusses the development of preventive medicine and its outlook sanitary science epidemiology biometry and vital statistics in medicine the health officer's role public health laboratories in the United States personal factors in disease the relation of diet to disease the prevention of infectious disease tuberculosis prevention and control the prevention of venereal diseases malaria the prevention of tropical disease the relation of animal to human diseases hospital social work public health nursing antenatal and neonatal mortality prevention child welfare school hygiene industrial medicine occupation and health military medicine the conservation of vision medical reconstruction and the economic and sociologic aspects of public health. Illustrated. Several contributing authors. Binding has moderate wear. Thomas Nelson & Sons hardcover
1997mon0000096880THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION 1997T. hardcover. New. 2.3622 in x 10.9449 in x 8.4252 in. Because of weight/size this cannot ship internationally THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION hardcover