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1925151451N.p.: N.p. 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the 1925 film showing actors George K. Arthur Bruce Guerin Otto Matiesen and Georgia Hale. <br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>An impoverished group of dockside dwellers decide to move to the city to make their fortunes. Josef von Sternberg's directorial debut. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned with light foxing to the verso. N.p. unknown books
1843WRCAM54035Augusta Ga 1843. 4208pp. Contemporary black morocco and marbled boards rebacked in 20th-century buckram. Boards quite rubbed edges worn. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown one-fourth of titlepage lacking filled with blank paper with seven letters supplied in manuscript facsimile some toning and foxing ink stain to bottom margin of some leaves top corner of last leaf torn costing about twelve lines of text in the third column. Good. The entire first year run of this rare bi- weekly southern periodical published in Georgia from 1843 until the 1880s when it acquired other periodicals and changed its name. THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR was an important southern agricultural manual that unlike many of its contemporaries was published throughout the Civil War though it moved from Augusta then to Athens after the Civil War and then finally to Atlanta. The subtitle describes the work and its goal: "a Semi-monthly Journal devoted to Southern agriculture designed to improve the mind and elevate the character of the tillers of the soil and to introduce a more enlightened system of culture." Present here are the first twenty-six issues of the periodical each 8pp. each preceded by the titlepage and an Index. Individual issues of the magazine are scarce but the entire first year is positively rare. SABIN 88334. hardcover books
1849WRCAM54037Augusta Ga 1849. iv96113-192pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards spine gilt. Extremities worn spine chipped front board detached rear joint tender and partially split. Two 20th-century bookplates on front endpapers small ink library deaccession stamp on rear blank some toning. Good. An almost-complete run of the seventh year of this rare southern agrarian periodical. THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR was an important southern agricultural manual published in Georgia from 1843 until the 1880s when it acquired other periodicals and changed its name. Unlike many of its contemporaries the periodical was published throughout the Civil War though it moved from Augusta then to Athens after the war and then finally to Atlanta. The subtitle describes the work and its goal: "a Semi-monthly Journal devoted to Southern agriculture designed to improve the mind and elevate the character of the tillers of the soil and to introduce a more enlightened system of culture." Present here are eleven of the twelve issues for 1849 each 16pp. lacking only issue seven. A rare run of an important southern agricultural publication. hardcover books
1909298099New York: Witter and Kinter 1909. hardcover. near fine. Frontispiece and illustrations with photographs maps and facsimile documents. 161 pages deckled edges tall 8vo gilt-lettered brown cloth. New York: Witter and Kintner 1909. First Edition. Near Fine.<br/><br/> The history of an old Dutch stone house located at Gowanus Park Slope Brooklyn New York.<br/><br/> Witter and Kinter unknown books
1941179263Athens 1941. Paperback. xiv 136p. foreword preface general information points of interest chronology consultants bibliography index illustrations folding map at rear very good second issue in blue printed paper wraps. American Guide Series. Dykes 67 Powell 276. Almost identical to the original and not noted in bibliographies. One obvious difference is that the photo of the Square and Courthouse facing page 65 has autos parked that are late 1950s models! paperback books
189849824London: James Bowden N.d. circa 1898 . Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. London: James Bowden N.d. circa 1898 . Illustrated with wonderful Kate Greenaway-like children by the author and engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. 64 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Green color pictorial cloth. Very light soiling to covers; lightly rubbed at head and heel; penciled inscription on front free endpaper. A very handsome copy of a fragile book. Very good/No jacket issued. James Bowden hardcover 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
1999161908Ashcroft British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press 1999. Octavo cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Collects twenty-five supernatural stories first published between 1903 and the early 1920s with introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #161908 Ash-Tree Press unknown books
1999127245Ashcroft British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press 1999. Octavo cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Collects twenty-five supernatural stories first published between 1903 and the early 1920s with introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #127245 Ash-Tree Press unknown books
199966459Ashcroft British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press 1999. Octavo cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Collects twenty-five supernatural stories first published between 1903 and the early 1920s with introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #66459 Ash-Tree Press unknown books
1975166870Homewood IL: ETC Publications 1975. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Geyer's third book. She was an accomplished Chicago based foreign correspondent who went on to work for the Universal Press Syndicate. A clean and tight near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Signed and very warmly inscribed by Simon on the front free endpaper to Lois and Wayne Wille. A nice association copy as the recipient Lois Wille was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago journalist. Uncommon signed. ETC Publications unknown books
188718663Savannah 1887. 4pp. Caption-title. Folded with blank inner margins repaired and quite worn. Good only. "Section 1081 of the Code of Georgia of 1861 organized the Volunteer Corps of the City of Savannah into a Regiment entitled 'The First Volunteer Regiment of the State of Georgia' embracing as many corps as might choose to conform to the regimental organization." Not in OCLC Sabin Eberstadt or Decker. unknown books
1909133318St. Louis: Published by B. Herder . Freiburg 1909. Octavo original pictorial gray cloth stamped in black. First edition. A collection of stories many of which are set in Texas. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 C-1015. Damp stains to cover along fore-edges and to fore-edge margins of endpapers and first and last few leaves a sound good copy. Uncommon. #133318 Published by B. Herder ... Freiburg unknown books
2003166874London: Stacey International 2003. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A later book from Geyer who was an accomplished foreign correspondent who was originally based in Chicago and went on to work for the Universal Press Syndicate. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and very warmly inscribed by Simon on the front free endpaper to Lois and Wayne Wille. A nice association copy as the recipient Lois Wille was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago journalist. Uncommon signed. Stacey International unknown books
199259233NY:: HarperCollins. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0060168951 . Edited by Alexandra Arrowsmith and Thomas West. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First edition. Fine in a near fine one short closed edge tear dust jacket. . HarperCollins, hardcover books
1992Embry 195260HarperCollins 1992. First edition first printing. Inked phone number to front free endpaper else fine in very good dust jacket with some light wear to spine tips in mylar cover. Full page color and black & white reproductions. HarperCollins, 1992. First edition, first printing. unknown books
19929011963New York: Harper Collins 1992. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. <br/><br/> Harper Collins hardcover books
187656290Macon GA: Macon & Brunswick Railroad Press of Francis Hart & Co. New York 1876. First edition. 8vo. 74 pp. Illustrated engraved views some in text one plate two large folding maps; engraved view on rear wrapper. De Renne catalogue II p. 762 but lacks maps and wrappers. OCLC locates two copies New York Public Virginia. Original printed salmon wrappers eroded at base of spine. Attractive copy of this elaborate promotional. 3796. <br/><br/> Macon & Brunswick Railroad (Press of Francis Hart & Co., New York) unknown books
1994166872Washington: Brassey's 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A later book from Geyer who was an accomplished foreign correspondent who was originally based in Chicago and went on to work for the Universal Press Syndicate. A fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some sunning to and along the spine. Signed and very warmly inscribed by Simon on the half title page to Lois and Wayne Wille. A nice association copy as the recipient Lois Wille was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago journalist. Uncommon signed. Brassey's unknown 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
194088507Augusta: Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine. numerous photos and illustrations 124p. Original woven burlap boards. Small illustration mounted on upper right portion of front cover. 24cm. Laid in is an undated 1944 or later 1-page Addendum on company letterheard. A mostly pictorial history of Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co. <br/><br/> Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co hardcover books
2004166871Kansas City: ETC Publications 2004. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A later book from Geyer who was an accomplished foreign correspondent who was originally based in Chicago and went on to work for the Universal Press Syndicate. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and very warmly inscribed by Simon on the half title page to Lois and Wayne Wille. A nice association copy as the recipient Lois Wille was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago journalist. Uncommon signed. ETC Publications unknown books
2004Embry 148701Andrews McMeel 2004. 3rd printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Color photos. Inscribed by the author. Andrews McMeel, 2004. 3rd printing. unknown books
199559582Boston MA: Adirondack Museum & David R. Godine 1995. First edition. Oblong 4to. xix 99 pp. Profusely illustrated plates some in color. Very good. Cloth and boards color illustrated dust jacket. #6743. <br/><br/> Adirondack Museum & David R. Godine hardcover books
199526038Boston: Godine. As New in As New dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 1567920411 . Prints in the collection of the Adirondack Museum. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First edition. As new in like dust jacket. . Godine hardcover books
