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1956006831New York: Random House 1956. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - "To Kent Cooper- a great newspaperman whose friendship and encouragement over the years was the inspiration which this Kentucky hill billy needed to reach the point of writing this book. My best wishes and with deep affection- Don Whitehead Arlington Va December 1956". A lovely Presentation and Association Copy Kent Cooper is best known for transforming the Associated Press where he served as general manager and executive director in a career spanning over 40 years into the worlds largest international news cooperative. A shrewd and innovative journalist Cooper pioneered many of the publishing techniques that are still used today. Don Whitehead who worked at the AP under Cooper before and during WWII was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who also won the Medal of Freedom for his reporting during WWII. His was the first story on the Liberation of Paris. The book is Near Fine small shelf rub bottom edge. Basis for the 1959 Mervyn LeRoy film of the same title that starred James Stewart and Vera Miles. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy. Random House Hardcover books
198813497Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 0890131732 . Appears to be new book and DJ in as new condition. No ownership marks not a remainder. ; Museum of New Mexico Press Series in Southwestern Culture; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 209 pages . Museum of New Mexico Press hardcover
1986005630Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1986. Book. As New. Full-Leather. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As New and still in publisher's original shrinkwrap bound in dark red leather gilt design on the front cover all edges gilt gilt lettering on the spine with four raised bands & silk ribbon bookmark. Easton Press Hardcover
pp. 568 + Plus portrait frontis. Numerous portrait illustrations of senators. Slight dampstain. 8vo. Original full grey cloth binding, decorated in silver, gold, blue and red with flag and eagle, worn. "A symposium of the views of all parties on the Currency Question" from the 19th century, an issue central to the political campaigns of William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley." Coldwar/Economics 9x2. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1898019460Freedom Publishing Co. 1898. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original moss-green cloth lettered in gilt newly rebacked in dark brown cloth mounted over original embossed leather with embossed pattern still partially visible and lettered in gold foil on spine panel with new endsheets new head- and tail-bands retaining original marbled text block edges. Mildly rubbed corners otherwise presents nearly as issued. 595 pp. illus. w/ b&w plates. Interior clean very slightly toned all plates intact. First edition not a modern-era reprint or facsimile handsomely rebound to be durable for decades of future use. Freedom Publishing Co. Hardcover
373p. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Coldwar/Economics 2
ria9781462515332_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This practical research-based guide provides a wealth of tools and strategies for implementing social skills training in school or clinical settings. Numerous case examples illustrate common social difficulties experienced by children paperback
1922197505<p>Octavo. 4 color plates 1 double-page 10 b/w plates decorations endpapers upper cover label and jacket designed by James Daugherty. Original blue cloth with large color pictorial label on upper cover. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped. Very good. Well illustrated biography of the legendary American frontiersman ca. 1734-1820.</p> Garden City Publishing Co. Incorporated hardcover
1901001512New York: McClure Phillips & Co. 1901. Very Good condition. Tight and unmarked. Spine tanned a little but with lettering still distinct. Previous owner's name and "1902" on the front free endpaper. Original beige cloth handsomely decorated in black green and red. White's second novel published the same year as THE CLAIM JUMPERS. This is the scarce first printing with MCMI on the title page and no mention of additional printings. Merle Johnson's American First Editions Blanck 1942 p. 523. FPAA v.5 p. 355. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Original binding/No dust jacket. 8vo. viii 344pp. McClure, Phillips & Co. Hardcover
1987068021Prescott AZ: Wolfe Publishing Co. 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Complete in eight 8 volumes uniformly bound in brown buckram spine panels lettered in gold foil pale red edge stain. All volumes virtually as issued a few with minor binding lean 6 of the 8 showing former owner's signature/date inked on lower half-title otherwise unmarked. Color illus. dust jackets Near Fine with minor wrinkling several spine panels slightly sunned and "Lions" more notably otherwise as issued now in mylar. Facsimile republication of 8 classic works by White originally published in the early 20th century each limited to 1000 copies. Wolfe Publishing Co. Hardcover
1863005455NY: Feeks and Bancker. First edition. Original wrappers. Published NY: Feeks and Bancker 1863. 12mo. 4 7/8" x 7 1/4" printed glazed orange wrappers 48pp. Only two copies of the 1863 first edition in world Cat. "A satirical history of the administration of Lincoln told in biblical language." Some chips/creasing to the covers loss along the spine stain to lower corner first few sheets. Good. . Good. Soft cover. 1st. 1863. Feeks and Bancker paperback
1990005146NY: St. Martin's 1990. Author's first hardcover book and the first to be published under his own name. First book in the Doc Ford mystery series. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. The book is very lightly soiled at page edges else about fine condition and the dust jacket is clean bright and not price clipped. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. St. Martin's Hardcover
1995K5421995. Hardcover. Good. Good Condition/163 pages - A bibliographic guide. HT2K542 hardcover
1913SB12558Denver: M.W. Grand Lodge 1913. Original copy NOT a reprint; Marbled end pages. Silk bookmarker sewn into headband minimal wear to textblock. All edges gilt. Usual leather wear to edges/spine/corners. 450pp. including index. Full Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Flexible Cover. M.W. Grand Lodge Hardcover
1979027250Modoc County Historical Society 1979. Offered here are the first five issues of this yearly publication -- Numbers 1 2 3 4 and 5 1979-1983. Near Fine condition. Flat uncreased spines. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT remainders. NOT library discards. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked. The five volumes are uniformly bound in the original tan wraps each illustrated on its cover with a different historical photo. The Journal of the Modoc County Historical Society. For railroad enthusiants Volume 4 features an article on the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway: "A Layman's History of the N-C-O Railway" by Patricia A. Barry; "Comments on the N-C-O Rolling Stock" by Tom Armstrong; "Buster Blurton Portrait of a Pioneer" by Jeri Withycombe; and "N-C-O Whistle Stops" by Velma Cloude Newcomb. Illustrated with diagrams photos map. A fold-out time table for January 29 1918 is bound in. In volume 3 you will find: "The Modoc Press" by Robert L. Sloss "Squirrel Tails A Rodent's Role in History" by Loring White "Clover Swale" by Clara B. Gutzmann "Woodward Diary" by Kathleen Woodward Paulson "Reginald A. Bradley: Portrait of a Pioneer" by James O. Souther "Early Country Births" by Reginald A. Bradley. Well illustrated with vintage photos. For shipping you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the other 4 volumes at no extra cost. First Editions. Softcover. Near Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 5 consecutive volumes 1979 - 1983. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Modoc County Historical Society Paperback
194015743Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1940. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/Good. Limited Edition one of 400 copies this volume unnumbered; Volume II only; 4to brick red cloth; vg- boards faded and lightly scratched; spine faded ends lightly bumped in good dj wear and tears to edges; top corners lightly chipped; light dustsoiling to rear panel; 266pp incl. index. <br/> <br/> University of New Mexico Press hardcover
183523399Washington 1835. Softcover. Very good. 23d Congress 2d Session Document 56. 33 pp disbound. Full title "In the Senate of the United States January 14 1835. The following documents relating to Spanish grants in Louisiana between the Perdido and Mississippi we laid on the table by Mr. Waggaman to accompany Senate Bill No. 92 were ordered to be printed. " White's "Exposition" 16 pp is the first document. "Extensive history of the Louisiana-West Florida Boundary Controversy" Eberstadt 1940. unknown
1937005616Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. 1937. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Goldenrod cloth 75 pp. untrimmed edges. First edition limited to 100 copies this copy out of series unnumbered presented bo Charles E. Oakes by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company Feb. 26 1948. As issued. "Giving in detail the circumstances which led to the introduction of Canal Navigation and the use of Anthracite Coal in Pennsylvania.". Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. Hardcover
1973SJ2728Waco TX: Rosa White Pace and John T. White 1973. Reprint of Rare original Edition; No pagination. Textblock and binding are immaculate and tight. Gift quality copy in lightly rubbed unclipped dust jacket with moderate edge wear and chipping at spine extremities. Reprint. Green Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good in mylar. Illus. by Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Rosa White Pace and John T. White
1947051302Concord North Carolina: Published by the War Records Collection Committee and Sponsored by Cabarrus County 1947. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to. 430 2 pages. Hardcover bound in blue cloth. Moderate wear to the binding. The edges of the spine show heavier rubbing. A sound copy with secure hinges and clean text. There are some color illustrations of insignia at the front and some black and white photos mostly portraits of soldiers. This is NOT a textual or narrative history. It is more of a listing of soldiers from Cabarrus County North Carolina living and dead who served in the wars. The most detail is from WWII and WWI and the bulk of the photos are of soldiers who died in WWII. The details of the soldiers becomes thinner for those in the earlier conflicts. <br/> <br/> Published by the War Records Collection Committee and Sponsored by Cabarrus County hardcover
188355513<p>Harrisburg PA: Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn shaken rear hinge cracked . and several rear pages loose bookplate scar on front pastedown endpaper . some soiling to text and edges. 1883. Hardcover. Original black cloth binding. Two color folding maps at rear. xxx 464pp 6pp publisher ads. Illustrations frontispiece state map. .</p> Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey hardcover
190646619New York:: Silver Burdette and Company. P/NONE. 1906. Hardcover. Extremely worn hardback 1906 edition as part of Silver Burdette's series titled Stories of the States. Red and black lettering/decoration on heavily soiled faded tan/yellow background. Frontis portrait of John C. Calhoun with index maps additonal illustrations. Notes on ownership in pencil large on front endpapers. Hinges cracked but holding. Some pages bit water-stained mostly in index at upper right corners and does not affect text. ; . Silver, Burdette and Company, hardcover
192110027Los Angeles: George Starr White 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo.283 pp. black cloth over/boards front cover and spine lettered in gilt illustrated with many drawings. Gold lettering on the spine very faded. Faint crease to the approxiametely the first 14 pages. -- Condition. "George Starr White July 13 1866 - November 28 1956 was an American physician chiropractor and inventor of many chromotherapeutic apparatus radionic devices and other types of medical nostrums. By his own accounting White diagnosed nearly a quarter of a million cases and penned over a hundred books. George Starr White hardcover
1907SB13268Denver CO: State Bureau of Mines 1907. Retired library copy stamped labeled and marked; Quarter-sized edge chip along the top edge of the front cover; Tipped in is a printed note with compliments of T.J. Dalzell Commissioner of Mines appointed May 10th 1907; Blind-embossed seal on title page. Ink signature of Geo. A. Wackenhut Colorado Springs along upper edge of title page. Usual age wear else textblock is clean and tight interrnal staples are sound and secure. Preceding the beginning of the report is a large folded illustration of the General Arrangement of the Electric Hoist of the Ore Handling Plant for Sitwell Raise Liberty Bell Gold Mining Co.; Other folded illustrations all in perfect condition are found tipped in at pages 6 8 64 66 67 72 74 80 & 88; In the rear pocket a large folded map of Colorado in color also in perfect condition; The map shows the ore deposits of the entire state; The gray covers have edge-wear creased corners and fore-edges library labels on front cover light sunning to edges on back cover. This report also includes a lenghty article by S.A. Worcester titled The Ore Handling Practices at Colorado Mines; 127p. including index plus other single page illustrations and photographs; Not found in Wynar/Depp. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Illus. by Folded Maps/Folded Diagrams/Graphs/Charts. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Paperback. State Bureau of Mines Paperback
2000313655The Arthur H. Clark Co. Spokane Washington. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0870622579 . First Edition Hardcover. Volume 7 in the series of 9 volumes. Each volume was published on different dates to be sold alone or accumulated into a complete series. We are selling each volume separately. This volume's focus is on the Mailmen 1857-1865; Gold Seekers Pike's Peak 1858 1865. 518 pages. Publisher issued without a dust jacket. Book is in Fine as new condition. ; 7 1/4 in. x 10 1/4 in. . The Arthur H. Clark Co. , Spokane, Washington. hardcover
