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1966060253New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Photographs. 480 Pp. Blue Cloth With Silver Stamping Orange Endpapers. Near Fine No Marks. Dust Jacket Priced $10.00 Light Wear 1/2" Tear At Top Of Front Spine Edge Slight Fading. A Marvel Of Scientific Biography By Helen Wright At The Request Of The National Academy Of Sciences After Years Studying Hale's Papers And Extensive Interviews With Relatives Friends And Colleagues; Mary Helen Wright Greuter 1914 - 1997 Was An American Astronomer And Historian Who Wrote And Edited On The History And Methodology Of Sciences Including Anthropology Archeology Mathematics And Physics. Through Her Father Who Led The Carnegie Institution For Science Moon Project At The Mount Wilson Observatory Wright Became Acquainted With People At Mt. Wilson And Got A Job As An Assistant 1937 Doing Research On The History Of Telescopes; And In The Same Year Worked As An Assistant At The Vassar College Observatory. She Also Worked As A Junior Assistant At The U.S. Naval Observatory In Washington D.C. 1942-43; And Was Associated With Palomar Observatory. In 1943 She Became A Freelance Author And Editor.Her Best Known Works Include Explorer Of The Universe: A Biography Of George Ellery Hale 1966 And Sweeper Of The Sky: The Life Of Maria Mitchell 1949. Wright Was A Member Of The American Astronomical Society The History Of Science Society And The International Astronomical Union. She Was Also Co-Editor Of The New Treasury Of Science And Readings In The Physical Sciences. <br/> <br/> E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover
1986035408Trenton NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission Dept. of State 1986. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Booklet stiff pictorial wraps. Slightly sunned toward binding fold otherwise basically as issued. 79 pp. illus. Very scarce. New Jersey Historical Commission, Dept. of State Paperback
18220007721Paris: Chez Bechet 1822. First French Language edition. Original Boards. Good. 8vo xiv 351; vi 359 pages untrimmed in contemporary boards. Very scarce. <br/><br/>Attracted by the ideals of the "Declaration of Independence" Fanny Wright traveled extensively through the U.S.A. tracking how those ideals were being realized. In France who became almost like a daughter to Gen. Lafayette. She and her sister returned to America and with Lafayette were guests of Jefferson at Monticello. Later as a U.S. citizen she founded the Nashoba commune in Tennessee in anticipation of emancipation. She visited New York and Philadelphia West Point Niagara Falls Lake Errie and on to Lower Canada Montreal Lake Champlain Burlington Vermont Washington D.C. to Virginia with many observations along the way. This edition has a dedication to Lafayette by the translator who also supplied a new translation. Vol. 1 ends with remarks upon Morris Birkbeck's letters about the Illinois country. All in all Fanny Wright became one of the most remarkable women of the first half of the 19th century: among other accomplishments being the first woman to write this work the first travelogue by a woman. Howes D74; Sabin 18642; Clark Old South 16; Buck 137. Chez Bechet hardcover
2002023452Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press 2002. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. NF/2nd ed. A tight square unmarked copy. Title in bright gilt on front cover and spine no wear to cloth corners sharp. Bright white pages with no markings or foxing. 544pp. with many black and white plates maps charts bibliography references index. Includes the life cycle of many frogs and toads. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage mailed boxed and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BRBC <br/> <br/> Cornell University Press hardcover
196520456New York: Wise & Co. Inc. . 1965. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Light rubbing to boards ; Profusely illustrated with color photographs. This is the later edition of a book that was originally published in 1940 by the City of New York under Mayor LaGuardia. The first edition states: Compiled by the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the City of New York. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 749 pages . Wise & Co. Inc. hardcover
194120148New York: Doubleday Doran & Co Inc. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ torn and chipped and with DJ spine missing now nicely protected under mylar . Slight browning and to boards and endpapers. Spine ends a bit bumped. ; Introduction by Mayor LaGuardia. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 341 pages . Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc. hardcover
194117186New York: Doubleday Doran & Co Inc. . 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. DJ price clipped tape repaired and with open tears. Usual browning to endpapers. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; Introduction by Mayor LaGuardia. Stated first edition; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 341 pages . Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc. hardcover
193820627New York: Random House. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. An unusually bright tight and handsome copy. Former owner's name on half-title page ; "The New York Panorama is a collection of 26 essays on various subjects relating to the city - history nationalities architecture transportation." Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Decorative pictorial endpapers. Schoyer 392; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 526 pages . Random House hardcover
193820669New York: Random House. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A handsome copy; "The New York Panorama is a collection of 26 essays on various subjects relating to the city - history nationalities architecture transportation." Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Decorative pictorial endpapers. Schoyer 392; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii 526 pages . Random House hardcover
193819198New York: Random House. 1938. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Small paper sticker on front endpaper. Former owner's name on page opposite half title page. Slight browning to endpapers. Else a handsome and tight copy; A history and account of every phase of present-day life in the world's greatest metropolis; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 526 pages . Random House hardcover
193720555Rochester: Scrantom's. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. A couple of tiny chips and one small open tear to DJ front; Three folding maps tipped in to text. A very handsome and tight copy. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 460 pages . Scrantom's hardcover
193720420New York: Modern Age Books. 1937. Softcover. Very Good. DJ missing. ; An almanac with historical facts for the year 1938. A very handsome and tight copy; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 120 pages . Modern Age Books paperback
1939066587Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1939. Second Printing. Prior owner's name and some numerals inked on front endpapers. A clean square copy in full cloth binding. xv 421pp. Jacket is rubbed with toned spine small chips and clear tape over corners. Offered now in a new mylar cover. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. University of North Carolina Press Hardcover
1937069685Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1937. Clean and unmarked hardcover. Lacking jacket. Green boards shelf rubbed along edges. Map front endpapers. xxi 392pp. Photos. Folded state highway map in rear pocket not the original WPA map. Lacking original map. American Guide Series. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Houghton Mifflin Company Hardcover
1941TB33999New York: Devin-Adair Company 1941. First Edition. Very good in light blue-gray cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and a gilt anchor on a black background on the front board. A small octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches with the cloth rubbed through at both ends of the spine. Without its issued dust jacket. The contents are extremely clean and neat with no prior ownership markings of any kind. Compiled by the WPA's Writers' Program for the State of Maryland and is one of the volumes in the American Guide Series. 158 pages including an index bibliography a listing of Naval Academy Slang text and illustrated with images from black and white photographs and sketches. Dykes 129; Scharf/Schoyer 251; Powell 577 Devin-Adair Company hardcover
1938TB33789n.p.: Sponsored by The State of South Dakota 1938. First Edition. Fine in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/8 by 5 1/4 inches. This may be a more recently bound copy. There is no indication of who bound it or when Missing its original dust jacket. The first edition of this guide is one of the most scarce in the collection. Only 2500 copies of the first edition were printed. 441 pages with index sectional maps to the state bibliography and text. Illustrated with eight sections of black and white photographs. There is no pocket at the rear of the book and the map therein is missing. Jeff Dykes in his American Guide Series Catalog and Check list states: "One of the rarest of the entire series." And Howes rates this title as "quite scarce". Previous experience with this title by this dealer reveals that another copy had a laid-in letter from the Superintendent of Public Instruction dated April 4 1942 stating that the state legislature of 1939 abolished the South Dakota Guide Commission and "distributed all unsold copies of the South Dakota Guide to the schools and public libraries of this state." The letter went on to state that the only copies of the book available for "commercial distribution since the enactment of this law were those in the hands of private distributing firms. We know of no place where a copy of this book can be secured at this time." Clearly a strong indicator of why this title remains so elusive in its first edition. Dykes 307; Scharf 566; Powell 1444; Finlay & Bing 230; Howes R-141 Sponsored by The State of South Dakota hardcover
1940TB30886New York: Hastings House 1940. First Edition. Very good in tan buckram with brown text stampings on the spine and front board and map end papers with a neatly written gift inscription written at the upper edge of the second free end page. A small octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches with foxing to the front gutter and foxing to the hinge areas front and back due to a reaction with the glue used in binding. In only a good price clipped dust jacket with heavy chipping to the upper 1/3rd of the spine area and a three inch chip from the upper rear corner of the front panel. The tan buckram binding assures the first state binding for this title. 530 pages including an index appedices and photographs in eight sections. The 27th volume in the American state Guide Series. Hastings House hardcover
1940TB33849Kennebec: Augusta-Hallowell Chamber of Commerce 1940. First Edition. Very good in heavy textured paper wraps with blue text on the front panel and with the edges of the panels tanned as is the spine area over an adhesive binding. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with a prior owner's name written at the upper edge of the front cover and the front and rear covers are beginning to separate from the text block. This problem has been mitigated with the application of clear acrylic tape to the spine and covers. 123 pages with an index a bibliography a chronology and brown and white photographs with the three fold- out maps of the city streets of Augusta Hallowell and the general area at the rear. Part of the American Guide Series and quite scarce as it is not cited in Scharf/Schoyers but is listed in Jeff Dykes' American Guide Series catalog/bibliography 124 as being "very scarce". Augusta-Hallowell Chamber of Commerce paperback
1939TB33226New York: Hastings House 1945 c1939. First Edition. Very good in light-green cloth covered boards with the spine slightly tanned and with foxing to the end papers due to a reaction with the glue employed in binding. A small octavo measuring 8 by 5 1/4 inches. The book is missing its issued dust jacket. 713 pages with index text black and white photographs in eight sections and a pocket on the rear end paper with the multi-colored fold-out map of the state which is in excellent condition. Hastings House hardcover
1938TB32856Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1938. First Edition. First Printing Near fine in red simulated leather covered boards with foxing to the rear inner hinge due to a reaction to the glue used in binding. A small octavo measuring 8 by 5 3/8 inches. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with small chips and closed tears to the ends of the spine area and with short closed tears to the ends of the rear panel. The rear end paper of the book has a pocket within which is the multi-color map of the state which is in fine condition. 593 pages including an index chronology ten tour guides and text. Illustrated with eight sections of black and white photographs. Overall a very nice tight and with no prior ownership markings of any kind. Houghton Mifflin Co. hardcover
1938TB33569Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1938. First Edition. Very good in red cloth covered boards with the cloth on at the head and heel of the spine lightly worn and with the gilt text on the spine darkened. Missing its issued dust jacket. The rear end paper of the book has a pocket within which is the multi-color map of the state. 593 pages including an index chronology and photographs. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1939TB33842Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1939. First Edition. Very good in printed heavy paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches with wear and rubbing to the folds to the spine and around the edges of the covers. Without a dust jacket as issued. This volume was written and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the WPA of Northern California and is part of the American Guide Series. 75 pages with index and a fold-out double-sided map at the rear end paper. Houghton Mifflin paperback
1938TB33795New York: The Viking Press 1938. Second Printing. Very good in light blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board. The cloth on the spine is slightly faded and the front end sheets are tanned due to the glue used in binding. . Reportedly the first printing of the book was restricted to only 10000 copies. 549 pages with index bibliography chronology text maps and photographs through-out with the fold-out map of the state in a rear pocket of the book. The Viking Press hardcover
1961TB33768New York: Oxford University Press 1961. Second Edition Revised 1950. Second Printing Near fine in blue-green cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and on the front board with map end sheets. A small octavo of 8 by 5 1/4 inches with the top edge of the text block dust stained. In a very good price clipped dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the upper edge of the spine area. 300 pages including an index bibliography text and illustrated from black and white photographs in two sections. Oxford University Press hardcover
1938TB33796New York: The Viking Press 1938. First Edition. Very good in green buckram covered boards with faded gilt text stampings on the spine and with foxing on the end sheets a result of the paper's reaction with the glue used in binding. Missing its issued dust jacket. 583 pages including an index bibliography chronology text and with maps and black and white photographs throughout with the fold-out multi-color map which is in fine condition in the rear pocket of the book. An uncommon early title in the WPA's American Guide series. The Viking Press hardcover
