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201175620NY:: Da Capo Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2011. Hardcover. 9780738214666 . First printing. SIGNED by the author on the title page. About fine in like dust jacket. . Da Capo Press, hardcover books
192245177Cincinatti: The John Church Co. Very Good. 1922. Hardcover. Cincinatti: The John Church Co. 1922. 92 pages hardbound. Contents are clean with illustrations and music by the author. The red cloth binding is tight with light soil and warping to the boards. Overall VG. . The John Church Co hardcover books
200187730New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers 2001. Oversized Paperback. v 298p. review sheets laid in wraps. A retrospective symposium on Matthew Holden's 'The Politics of the Black "Nation"' The National Political Science Review v. 8. Transaction Publishers paperback books
1988UPOLWOM00fpTouchstone 1988. Very Good. Pollitzer Anita. A Woman on Paper: Georgia O'Keefe. O'Keefe Georgia. New York: Touchstone 1988. 290pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Touchstone paperback books
192713373Boston: Little Brown & Co 1927. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8.75x6in; xxvi 185 pp. frontispiece of George Read 20 illustrations from various sources bibliography index fold out map of route of Jefferson-California Company; Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine and publisher's blind stamp on lower front cover top edge trimmed others untrimmed; Minimal shelf wear to edges; Pale blue dust jacket with dark blue lettering on front and spine; Some age toning of edges and darkening of spine chipping of corners and top and bottom of spine larger chip on back lower fore edge price clipped. Kurutz 523 Graff 3431 Cowan64 p.523. George Willis Read 1819-1880 was a Pennsylvania physician that joined an overland company in May 1850 for California. The journal was noted by Wright Howes as "most elaborate of overland journals." from Kurutz. The letters sent home also added detail to the journal and edited by his daughter Georgia Willis Read. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
19275474Boston: Little Brown and Company 1927 First edition. xxvi 185pp. Frontis portrait 20 plates from various sources folding map. Blue cloth gilt-lettered spine. Spine a bit faded. A fine copy. Scarce. One bibliographer proclaims this work as a "most elaborate of overland journals." Read was a physician who kept a detailed diary of his overland journey in 1850 published in this book for the first time along with some of his letters from that trip and a second trip to California via Panama in 1863. The folding map shows the overland route of the Jefferson-California company to California. "Read's journal begins in Independence Missouri on May 1 1850. They crossed the Sierra Nevada by way of Carson Pass and arrived in Placerville on August 18. On October 18 the gold seeker followed the journal with a detailed letter back home summarizing the trip and giving a stiff warning to all about California's moral depravity" Kurutz. Cowan: p.523; Graff: 3431; Kurutz: 523; Mattes: 937; Mintz: 386; Wheat Books of the California Gold Rush: 163. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1984193069Chicago: Metis Press 1984. Paperback. 114p. very good first edition trade paperback in silver wraps cover is die-cut decoratively to simulate a letter in an envelope. Novel in the form of a string of letters. Metis Press paperback books
1997WRCLIT55974New York: The Typophiles 1997. Gilt cloth. Frontis. First edition ordinary issue. One of five hundred copies printed at the Stinehour Press as the Typophiles Chapbook New Series No. 1. Near fine. The Typophiles hardcover books
1981407734Boston: David R. Godine 1981. A near-fine copy with one short tear at bottom of front jacket panel. 10.25 x 6.75 inches. 42 pages. Cloth with design printed on front; dust jacket. "Her sister's love saves Laura from the poison of the fruit she bought from the goblins in the haunted glen." <br/><br/> David R. Godine hardcover books
1977228641San Luis Obispo CA Padre Productions 1977. 1977. 8vo. 1 page introduction by Lachlan P. MacDonald editor & publisher. 2 page map; illustrations from b/w drawings. Original stiff pictorial wrappers printed in green and orange. Fine. 160 pages original stiff pictorial wrappers. No signatures or bookplates. Other authors are Vicki Leon Lachlan MacDonald and the staff of Padre Productions. Provenance: from the collection of Rosario Curletti. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. San Luis Obispo, CA, Padre Productions [1977]. paperback books
1991USAVHOU00DAPenguin Books 1991. Very Good. Savage Georgia. House Tibet. NY: Penguin Books 1991. 435pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Penguin Books paperback books
1969217139Athens: University of Georgia Press 1969. First. hardcover. very good/very good-. Many Illus. 96pp. Oblong 4to blue cloth d.w. chipped and light browned on edges. Athens: University of Georgia Press 1969.<br/><br/> University of Georgia Press unknown books
1937136075New York: Henry Harrison 1937. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of poems. A tight very good copy in an about good dust jacket that has a number of small chips and edge tears. Henry Harrison unknown books
198334014New York: Avalon Books 1983. 1st Edition. Gray hard back with black title lettering stamped to spine. Dust jacket which retains the original 'Plasti-Kleer Jacket Cover' as issued by the publisher. Slight lean flaps with vertical crease off set to eps. Withal a VG copy in a VG jacket. 6 181 5 blank pp. 8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Avalon Books hardcover books
198534026New York: Avalon Books 1985. 1st Edition. Orange hard back with black title lettering stamped to spine. Dust jacket which retains the original 'Plasti-Kleer Jacket Cover' as issued by the publisher. Slight lean with light off set to eps. A VG copy in a VG jacket. 6 186 pp. 8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Avalon Books hardcover books
1985291802Fallon NV.: Published by the author. 1985. White plastic comb binding pictorial cover. Very good. 28x22 cm. Signed by the author on the title page. A nice collection of cowboy poetry by a Nevada cowgirl. weight: 0.6 lb. Illustrated by Ed Fulstone. Published by the author. unknown books
19041321445New York: Scott-Thaw Company 1904. Hardcover. 12mo; pp 343; Good-; dark yellow spine with white text; no jacket; cloth has modest soiling to exterior; slight fraying wear to edges; text block shows slight toning to exterior edges; top edge gilt; previous owner's name to ffep; slightly cocked spine; frontispiece; interior clean;. 1321445. FP New Rockville Stock. Scott-Thaw Company hardcover books
19812034Westport Connecticut: Greenwood Press 1981. xiii 249p. a few pencil notes in one section. Contributions in economics and economic history no. 39. Greenwood Press unknown books
49870Traces of mounting on verso right edge a little browned. Very good. <br/><br/> unknown books
1960228654First edition. Octavo. 4 full page b/w illustrations from photographs. 1 page foreword by Georgia Stockton. Dust jacket unclipped; short tear. Very good. 154 pages 6 page index. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Georgia Stockton on the front free endpaper in blue ink to Rosario Curletti: "To Rosario Curletti - Sincerely - Georgia Stockton." Provenance: from the collection of Rosario Curletti. The Carpinteria Valley Historical Society hardcover books
186137603Sumter County GA 1861. Manuscript document 7-1/2" x 25." Neat ink manuscript listing after the prefatory sentence quoted in our title 57 names in the first column and names 58-64 in the second column. Similar flourishes in the names suggest that at least many were written in an identical hand. The two columns are separated by a rule in manuscript. Old folds Very Good.<br/><br/> Allen Sherrod Cutts listed as Captain heads this list of 64 volunteers. Cutts raised this Battery of Artillery at the outbreak of the War. The Battery arrived in Virginia after the First Battle of Bull Run and saw action at the Battle of Dranesville. In 1862 Cutts expanded the Battery to a Battalion the 11th Georgia Artillery Battalion as its commander. <br/> Cutts was promoted to Major Lieutenant Colonel both in 1862 and colonel April 1864. The Battalion served in the Artillery Reserve of the Army of Northern Virginia under General Pendleton in the Seven Days Battles; and it fought at Antietam Fredericksburg Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. After the War Cutts entered politics as a Democrat was mayor of Americus-- the County Seat of Sumter County-- and a member of the Georgia General Assembly.<br/>Speicher THE SUMTER FLYING ARTILLERY 2009. Wikipedia article on Cutts. unknown books
1953249172no city US: Walter W. Ross & Company Inc 1953. Pamphlet. 47p. softbound stapled pamphlet in 7x5 inch wraps cover has some creasing paperstock is toned and a previous owner has checkmarked numerous "to-do" entries in ink. A good-only copy. Expect 1950s wisdom re what pictures to hang on walls painted certain color garden lore &c. "How many electrical outlets should there be in a room Walter W. Ross & Company, Inc unknown books
1930012079NY: E. P. Dutton 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good -. Uncommon international fairy tale title in original Art-Deco styled dustjacket in blue/ white/ silver worn at folds and with some loss at spine ends and corners. Still presentable. E. P. Dutton hardcover books
192618622ELos Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1926. An original herald pamphlet for the silent film ‘The Rainmaker’ starring Ernest Torrence William Collier Jr. and Georgia Hale. Paperbound 3 5/8†x 5 1/8â€. Illustrated with color drawings and with scenes from the film. Very good copy with a hint of dust soiling and use. The film tells the story of life and times and romance at the race track. Paramount Pictures unknown books
19469019781New York: Coward-McCann 1946. 1st . Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Illustrated by Flavia Gag. Withdrawn from a non-circulating library with library bookplate and library identification. No exterior library marks. The dust jacket is chipped at the edges. <br/><br/> Coward-McCann hardcover books
