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194560783West Hartford VT: Countryman Press 1945. First edition 1/350 copies signed by the author and illustrator. 4to. xvi 2134 pp. Illustrated from paintings and line drawings color plates. Hunting adventures for ducks geese snipe etc. Boscotti p. 209. Gift inscription on endpaper small circle stain at head of spine bookplate on each pastedown else an attractive copy. Rebound in royal blue crushed morocco spine sunned to a uniform green gilt and marbled boards gilt spine title. #7984. <br/><br/> Countryman Press hardcover books
19459012630West Hartford: Countryman Press 1945. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition in a damaged slipcase. Foreword by John Taintor Foote. Illustrations by Lynn Bogue Hunt. Author's and Artists' Edition limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Holland and Hunt. <br/><br/> Countryman Press hardcover books
1938M5248London etc.:: Oxford University Press 1938. 1938. Series: Oxford Medical Publications. 23 cm. 8vo. xviii 442 pp. 30 illus. and figs. 5 diagrams index. Maroon cloth. Ex-library copy with stamps and call number inked after title-page paper library spine label bookplate removed else a very good copy. Oxford University Press, (1938). hardcover books
1946303090London George G. Harrap and Company 1946. 1946. First edition second printing with several corrections. 4to. 158 b/w illustrations; endpaper map. Dust jacket price clipped. Very good. 316 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by the Pitman Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, George G. Harrap and Company [1946]. hardcover books
19611322733New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1961. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine gold with black print; DJ in mylar stray pencil mark and slight tear to rear top edge; Boards in green cloth with black print clean and strong; Text block has bookplate on front pastedown light tanning of endpapers else clean and tight; viii 152 pages illustrated b&w drawings. 1322733. FP New Rockville Stock. Thomas Nelson & Sons hardcover books
1971006518Nashville: Abington Press 1971. 542p. original blue cloth. Abington Press unknown books
1966947041966. Sculptural bust of the wild-haired American author by Thomas Holland. Faux antique bronze mounted on a walnut base. Signed by the artist "T. Holland" on the rear of the bust. Best remembered as a sculptor and avid polo player California native Thomas Holland created a variety of bronze pieces primarily depicting equestrian themes and major literary figures. The entire piece measures 17 inches tall. In near fine condition. "To understand America read Mark Twain. No matter what new craziness pops up in America I find it described beforehand by him He was never innocent at home or abroad" Garry Wills. "High and fine literature is wine" Twain once wrote "and mine is only water; but everybody likes water." Raised in Hannibal Missouri which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn Samuel Clemens of Mark Twain was lauded in his obituary as the "greatest humorist this country has produced." His 1885 novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often referred to as "The Great American Novel." unknown books
1880287861New York. : Scribner & Co. 1880. . Half brown leather over stippled cloth boards raised bands gilt spine title speckled edges. Covers worn at extremities front hinge starting leather peeled in some areas otherwise a very good copy. . 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Scribner & Co. hardcover books
1879181524New York: Scribner & Co 1879. Hardcover. G covers show rubbing and wear spine is worn. Front cover has slight staining at corners back more so. Ex-library stamp inside front cover. Pages are mostly clean and bind is tight. Leather binding gilt lettering on spine. 952 pp engravings and illustrations. Illustrated articles include: "Piercing the American Isthmus" about the planning of what would eventually become the Panama Canal; "The American on the Stage" covering the American theater scene; "Ups and Downs in Leadville" a description of a mining town in Colorado; and "Rio de Janeiro Scribner & Co hardcover books
42526Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. New York: Scribner & Co. 1880. 952 plus 320 pages. Interior is clean and sound. Binding is half leather with wear to board edges and gutters. Overall a good copy. . Other hardcover books
18731320285New York: Scribner & Co 1873. Hardcover. Octavo; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine black with gold print; Boards half bound with black leather to spine and corners and marbled paper to boards wear to corners hinges edges and spine caps light scuffing to leather shelfwear; Text block has cracked hinges tanning to edges of endpapers slight amount of foxing within stain at bottom edge of final pages leaf for pages 551-554 separated from binding; iv 784 pages illustrated b&w. 1320285. FP New Rockville Stock. Scribner & Co hardcover books
1967Embry 172399Macmillan 1967. First printing thus. Fine in near fine slightly toned price-clipped dust jacket in mylar cover. Macmillan, 1967. First printing thus. unknown books
198312665West Orange: Warthog Press 1983. First edition. 251 pp. Very good plus in printed wrappers with a wrinkle to rear cover West Orange: Warthog Press unknown books
20052305486New York: Anchor Books 2005. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Spine base very lightly rubbed. 2005 Trade Paperback. xi 408 pp. "A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C. the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland Anchor Books paperback books
2014285389Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 2014. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. The Easton Press Collector's Edition of Tom Holland's Rubicon The Last Years of the Roman Republic. Photographic plates. With no marks of any kind. Easton Press introductory leaf and blank bookplate laid in. Brown leather with lettering and decoration in gilt. Silk ribbon marker bound in. All edges gilt. Near Fine binding. The Easton Press unknown books
199125564Hastings-on-Hudson NY and MA: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano 1991. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. Pgs 1-32. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS:<br/><br/>Spiders in the Crosshairs: Cobweb and the Search for the Perfect Line by STEVEN TURNER. <br/>Notes on the Blink-Comparator by LOUIS F. DRUMMETER JR. <br/>John Roach's Instruments in Sydney by JULLIAN HOLLAND. <br/>British Instrument Makers in the U.S. by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. <br/> Obituary: Saul Moskowitz by DAVID AND YOLA COFFEEN.<br/><br/>The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication and a total of 70 issues the journal covered areas including mathematical optical and philosophical instruments chemical physical and electrical apparatus sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions collectors and dealers in the field of scientific instruments. David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano unknown books
19949006635Cambridge Massachusetts: University Harvard Press 1994. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Published by the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies Harvard University. 667 pages. Bound in the publisher's original tan cloth with the spine stamped in grey. Text is written in Sanskrit with notes in English. Diskette not present. <br/><br/> University Harvard Press hardcover books
19949006634Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Published by the Department of Snaskrit and Indian Studies Harvard University. 667 pages. Bound in the publisher's original teal cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Text in Sanskrit with notes in English. Diskette not present. <br/><br/> Harvard University Press hardcover books
199271889London:: J. A. Allen. Fine. 1992. Hardcover. 0851315542 . First edition. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued.; 110 pages . J. A. Allen, hardcover books
196524068NY: The Eventorium Press 1965. First edition. 27 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Nancy Ellison. NY: The Eventorium Press, unknown books
13284pamphlet. very good-. Tall thin 8vo printed wrappers; worn. Manchester 1922.<br/><br/> Reprinted from "The Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology of the B ritish Empire".<br/><br/> unknown books
7014hardcover. 351pp. 8vo cloth; light wear ex-lib. N.Y. 1872. First American Edition.<br/><br/> The recollections of the fashionable British practitioner ordinary physician to the unhappy Queen Caroline include his version of the charges of adultery against her as well as many other colorful and interesting sidelights. Includes material on Sir Humphrey Davy.<br/><br/> unknown books
187217384London: Longmans Green and CO 1872. Hardcover. Very good. First edition after the privately printed edition of 1868. 8vo. viii 346pp plus 2 page publisher's catalogue. Publsher's green cloth blocked in black and gilt on the spine and upper board; brown coated endpapers. Nearly imperceptibly rebacked; a very good copy. With an autograph letter form the author to Lady Pakington bound in. ".I feel grateful in learing that my little volume of Recollections has given you pleasure. Sir John knew well many of the public characters mentioned in it. ." Longmans, Green, and CO hardcover books
195865670Austin: U. of Texas Press 1958. First edition review copy with publisher's slip and unsigned one-page typed review laid in. 8vo. xxvi 307 pp. Illustrated from photographs and old artwork plates frontispiece portrait of the author. Primarily Bastrop County Texas during the Texas Revolution and Republic; edited by bookseller John Jenkins when still in his teens from a series of newspaper articles written in the 1880s. Burgundy cloth gilt spine title decorated dust jacket rubbed. Very good. <br/><br/> U. of Texas Press hardcover books
1972112642London: Andre Deutsch 1972. stiff paper wrappers. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 60 2 pages. First edition uncorrected proof copy. Fine. Andre Deutsch unknown books
