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1896rbr2-states441st ed. published 1876. Spine chipped 1 1/4" from top edge ow vg. Pocket-size edition. 148 pages including 3-page index and 7 pages of advertisements at back of book. Portsmouth Journal Job Print hardcover
187916678Paris, Plon et Cie, 1879 ; in-4, demi chagrin à coin rouge, dos à nerfs très décoré et dorés, tête dorée, double filet doré sur les plats, non rogné (reliure de l'époque) ; (8), XIV, (2), 398, (2) pp. et 25 planches hors texte, dont le frontispice.
1894911P43New York; London: G. P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press 1894. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". A. W. van Deusen. The first edition of this curious sci-fi novel revolving around robots an illustrated and scarce work. The first edition of this scarce work.A science fiction novel in which a robot is invented with the ability to take over some of the chores of parenthood.Illustrated with a frontispiece and five plates.By George Haven Putnam who inherited the publishing house from his father in 1872.Illustrated by A. W. Van Deusen.Collated front endpaper has been removed otherwise complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally generally smart with light rubbing and marks. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities heavier to the head of the front board. Spine is a little discoloured. Front endpaper has been removed. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good G. P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press hardcover
18910831182New York: G. P. Putnam 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In red cloth with gilt spine titling 8vo 412ppads. minor light shelfwear to extremities slight toning to page edges. G. P. Putnam hardcover
1896004407New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1896. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG- Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author to early page of vol 1 with inscription to his cousin George Palmer Putnam dated 1897. Dark burgundy cloth with dull gilt titles and decoration; light edgewear and soil; lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Bindings sound text clean. Interiors lightly toned and foxed. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 459538 pp. <br/> <br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
18897423Pictorial limp boards with text. Full color illustrations throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Discoloration to boards with small loss to front cover paper on right edge; light thumbing and spotting throughout see image. 10.25 x 7.5 inches. Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. Fleming H. Revell paperback
1896547First Edition thus previous edition in 1886 not credited in this volume. Very Good clean tight condition with only a hint of rubbing to spine head/tail/edges. Fine prize-binding by Bickers & Son of Leicester Square with their ink pallet on the verso of the front endpaper in full maroon polished calf the spine divided into six panels with tooled raised bands lettered in the second the others with gilt compartments. The covers with gilt borders and an armorial crest for the Grammar School Loughborough with marbled endpapers and gilt edges. Associated bookplate "The Grammar School Loughborough" to front pastedown unnamed 'First in Form Prize for VI Lower'. <br /><br /><i>Essays accompanied </i><i>"with twelve portraits in permanent photography" including </i><i>Washington Irving Charles Lamb Thomas de Quincey Ralph Waldo Emerson Matthew Arnold John Morley James Russell Lowell Thomas Carlyle Thomas Babington Macaulay James Anthony Froude Edward A. Freeman William Ewart Gladstone.</i> Bickers & Son hardcover
1899E69826Louvain / Bruxelles / Paris, Polleunis & Ceuterick / Lagaert / Guillaumin 1899 2 parties en 1 tome: 162 + 392pp., 25cm., édition originale de 1899, signé avec dédicace par l'auteur, qqs. petits défauts à la couverture brochée, qqs.cachets, texte et intérieur en bel état, E69826
1875015964New York: Harper & Brothers 1875. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The book is in very good condition without jacket. First Edition. <br/> <br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover
1875B2542New York: Harper & Brothers 1875. An excellent copy. Binding: contemporary full cloth with gilt senic image on upper board. Flat spine with title in gilt and gilt image of Mexican Eagle emblem Size: 8vo Illustration: 5 full page plates and a profusion of wood cut text illustrations. Pages: P. frontis title printer’s imprint 1 blank 7-13 blank 15-16 half-title blank 17-467 blank advertisement 2. Category: Book Americas Central Harper & Brothers hardcover
1875019406New York: Harper and Brothers 1875. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Gilt lettering & front cover illustration on beveled edge green covers in hand-made brown paper wrappers - which have kept this volume in very good condition! 8vo 467 pages plus ads. Ex- library copy - This is Volume No. 60 of the West Bath Maine Library Association with their label on the inside of the front cover. The unusual library label says: "N. B. This book must not be lent out of the subscribers family and if injured all damage must be paid to the librarian. No volume can be kept over four weeks ; two weeks additional time will be allowed by having it renewed. A fine of two cents per day will be charged for a book kept over this time. A violation of these rules will result in a loss of membership.". Other than the brown paper wrapper pasted on the inside of the covers and the library bookplate this is a near fine first edition copy. <br/> <br/> Harper and Brothers hardcover
185528020Hartford: Case Tiffany and Company 1855. Original yellow printed wrappers lightly dusted stitched. 9 1 blank 2 pp. Very Good. <br/><br/> President Charles F. Pond runs the numbers explains the diminution of revenue and reports that original rails between Hartford and Springfield have been replaced because they were of "inferior quality." Reports of the Secretary and Auditor are also included. Case, Tiffany and Company unknown books
186329531New York: D. Appleton 1863. 12mo pp. 214 2 ads; extra pictorial chromolithographic title-p. 4 wood-engraved plates; some wear else a very good copy in original blindstamped brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. A moralizing tale about the allure of California gold on New Englanders. <br/><br/> D. Appleton hardcover books
1858101551New York: Appleton 1858. hardcover. very good. 336pp. 12mo blind stamped brown cloth; ex-lib with library label on some ink markings gilt-lettering and decoration on spine faded lightly rubbed. New York: Appleton 1858. First Edition. A very good copy.<br/><br/> "A young married couple in upstate New York." Wright II 1129. "Her work.refected the pleasant side of life." Kunitz & Haycraft p. 347.<br/><br/> Appleton unknown books
185837816New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1858. 12mo 19.1 cm; 7.5". 336 pp. <br><br>A young married couple in upstate New York." Alice B. Haven one of the many pseudonyms used by Alice B. Neal spent her childhood in Hudson New York where many of her stories take place. The story of the Coopers first appeared as a twelve-part series in Godey's Lady's Book the famous women's magazine.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: On front flyleaf the signature of Julia A. Caldwell. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Wright II 1129. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped decoration to boards. Front board reattach to spine with bottom inch of cloth also reattached. Front joint outside cracked but holding. Edges and extremities rubbed; bottom corner of rear board lacking a bit of the actual board the cloth remains. Bottom corner of pages waterstained. Foxing and light staining throughout interior. => A fair copy. D. Appleton & Co. hardcover books
1867WRCAM30574Trenton 1867. 72pp. Original sheep ruled and stamped in gilt. Spine and edges rubbed. Very good. One of four works by Charles Chauncey Haven on the Revolutionary War's Trenton-Princeton campaign of December 1776 to January 1777. Sabin calls for a plate and map but in error; New Jersey bibliographical maven Joseph Felcone tells us that no copies have them including Haven's personal copy. SABIN 30874. GEPHART 6100. unknown books
187511951New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1875. Hardcover. Hinges slightly cracked; some foxing; covers stained; else Good 1st Edition; 1st Edition . Harper & Brothers hardcover books
186322253Chicago: Sterling P. Rounds Premium Steam Book and Job Printer 1863. 28pp. Disbound without wraps else Very Good. Haven sketches Emerson's life from his birth in New Hampshire in 1787 to his education at Yale and the Andover Theological Seminary his ministry in Connecticut and his teaching career at Andover. His final years were spent in Rockford Illinois to be near his children. He ardently supported the Union cause in the War. FIRST EDITION. Ante-Fire Imprints 716 9. Sterling P. Rounds, Premium Steam Book and Job Printer unknown books
185638593Washinton City: The Smithsonian Institution 1856. 1st edition. Light brown cloth binding gilt stamped lettering to spine. Original tan printed paper wrappers bound-in. Light wear and rubbing to boards remnants of old library sticker to bottom of spine. American Numismatic and Archaological sic Society Library bookplate to inside front wrapper previous owner's name stamp to grey endpapers. Smithsonian blue stamps to rear of title page. A VG copy. 4 168 2 blank pp. 12-5/8" x 9-1/4" <br/><br/> The Smithsonian Institution hardcover books
1856LD7823City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution 1856. Hardcover. Good. Publisher's green cloth gilt-stamped lettering on spine; folio; collates complete with an introduction advertisement list of officers TOC 4 articles see above 2 appendices see above bound-in errata slip; pp. xiv; 6 168; 52; 16 plus 9 plates; ix 3 137 with woodcut illustrations; iv 118; 34. Boards water-damaged with wrinkles in the cloth and chipping along the edges; binding broken with a few signatures loose. Contents are complete and -- aside from some light foxing here and there -- clean. An excellent working copy breaker copy or candidate for repair. <br/><br/> Smithsonian Institution hardcover books
1883170121103D. Appleton and Company 1883. Hardcover. Good. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1858101551New York: Appleton 1858. hardcover. very good. 336pp. 12mo blind stamped brown cloth; ex-lib with library label on some ink markings gilt-lettering and decoration on spine faded lightly rubbed. New York: Appleton 1858. First Edition. A very good copy.<br/> <br/> "A young married couple in upstate New York." Wright II 1129. "Her work.refected the pleasant side of life." Kunitz & Haycraft p. 347.<br/> <br/> Appleton unknown
1871541233Trenton N.J.: Wm. T. Nicholson Printer 1871. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 132pp. Two lithographic plates and two albumen photographic tipped-in images of Washington one of a portrait the other of the famous painting of him crossing the Delaware. Original purple cloth gilt. Chip at the bottom of the spine and some light foxing in text else very good. Wm. T. Nicholson, Printer hardcover
1873LL-b1064-06Boston: American Unitarian Association 1873 Fifth edition. 8vo. Cloth. 171 p. Author not listed on title page -- "By the Author of "The Beginning and Growth of the Christian Life or the Sunday-School Teacher"" Rare in an original edition. Some shelfwear rubbing chipping and spotting to brown boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Very good. American Unitarian Association hardcover
189688318Philadelphia: Published By The Author 1896. Presumed First Edition First printing. Hardcover. Fair. 88 2 pages. Illustrations. RARE surviving copy. Ex-library from the New York World newspaper's library with some of the usual library markings. Author inscription inside the front cover reads "With the compliments of the author Curtis Haven Phila. Pa. Mar. 12 1900". The book has a significant amount of wear and tear and some moisture stains. Curtis Haven was a journalist author and teacher with over twenty years' experience. He authored an impressive number of 'how-to' books and yet is largely forgotten and unknown today. The contents include Duties of the Writers on a Great Newspaper; City Editor's or Local Department; Night Editor's Department; Telegraph Editor; Editorial Department; Exchange Editor; Literary Editor; Proof Reading; and Writing Advertisements. This is a fascinating snapshot of the "Great City" newspaper business at the turn of the Twentieth Century. Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events facts ideas and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word a noun applies to the occupation professional or not the methods of gathering information and the organizing literary styles. The appropriate role for journalism varies from country to country as do perceptions of the profession and the resulting status. In some nations the news media are controlled by government and are not independent. In others news media are independent of the government and operate as private industry. In addition countries may have differing implementations of laws handling the freedom of speech freedom of the press as well as slander and libel cases. The late 19th and early 20th century in the United States saw the advent of media empires controlled by the likes of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. Realizing that they could expand their audience by abandoning politically polarized content thus making more money off of advertising American newspapers began to abandon their partisan politics in favor of less political reporting starting around 1900. Newspapers of this era embraced sensationalized reporting and larger headline typefaces and layouts a style that would become dubbed "yellow journalism". Newspaper publishing became much more heavily professionalized in this era and issues of writing quality and workroom discipline saw vast improvement. This era saw the establishment of freedom of the press as a legal norm as President Theodore Roosevelt tried and failed to sue newspapers for reporting corruption in his handling of the purchase of the Panama Canal. Still critics note that although government's ability to suppress journalistic speech is heavily limited the concentration of newspaper and general media ownership in the hands of a small number of private business owners leads to other biases in reporting and media self-censorship that benefits the interests of corporations and the government. In the 1920s in the United States as newspapers dropped their blatant partisanship in search of new subscribers political analyst Walter Lippmann and philosopher John Dewey debated the role of journalism in a democracy. Their differing philosophies still characterize an ongoing debate about the role of journalism in society. Lippmann's views prevailed for decades helping to bolster the Progressives' confidence in decision-making by experts with the general public standing by. Lippmann argued that high-powered journalism was wasted on ordinary citizens but was of genuine value to an elite class of administrators and experts. Dewey on the other hand believed not only that the public was capable of understanding the issues created or responded to by the elite but also that it was in the public forum that decisions should be made after discussion and debate. When issues were thoroughly vetted then the best ideas would bubble to the surface. The danger of demagoguery and false news did not trouble Dewey. His faith in popular democracy has been implemented in various degrees and is now known as "community journalism". The 1920s debate has been endlessly repeated across the globe as journalists wrestle with their roles. Published By The Author hardcover