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1945215692大阪. Osaka.: 每日新聞社. Mainichi Shinbusha. Showa 20 1945. 64pp 18 x 12.6cm black and white line illustration upper cover original wrappers slightly soiled wrappers neatly strengthened with washi on reverse closed tears neatly mended. This book on the United States and the Americans was published in November 1945 by Mainichi Newspaper only a few months after the end of the Pacific War. Kagawa Toyohiko a Christian evangelical pacifist writes on the origin of American morality. Other essays by various authors cover American politics labour movements literature culture and art. In its forewords the editor states that it is very important to understand the United States and its people for Japan. . 每日新聞社. [Mainichi Shinbusha]. unknown
1941008465Mexico: Publicaciones Panamericans 1941. Book. Very Good. Printed Wrappers. First Mexican Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2 preliminary leaves 7-200 pages 3 leaves text in Spanish. Very Good creases at top corners and bottom edge in margins. A SCARCE Wallace publication. Publicaciones Panamericans Paperback
1935006562New York: Columbia University Press 1935. Book. Very Good Plus. Printed Wrappers. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE extract. Paginated 389-515. Very Good Plus from the collection of noted anthropologist linguist and ethnomusicologist George Herzog his signature last name in ink top edge front cover sticker shadow front cover wrappers toned at edges. Printed on cover and title page as coming from Vol. IV pencil corrected to Vol. III. Columbia University Press Paperback
197329576Chicago: Follett Publishing Company 1973. Hardcover. Oblong 12mo. Black cloth pictorial dust jacket. xiii ca. 200pp. Extensive full-page illustrations. Near fine/very good. Quite mild bit of jacket edgewear. A superb first edition of this well-known editorial cartoon collection subtitled "From Little Italy to the Pulitzer Prize" on the jacket front panel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1969 syndicated political cartoonist 1916-80 who delighted "Chicago Daily News" readers for many years before switching to the "Chicago Tribune" in 1978. Handsomely inscribed and signed by the cartoonist in the year of publication on the title page in blue ballpoint: "To Doris and Felix Popper / Who's Mom is a real doll! / -- My warmest good wishes to you both / -- John Fischetti -- " Felix Popper 1908-2000 was a conductor with the New York City Opera his wife Doris born 1924 an opera singer with that same company. An all-around memorable copy. Follett Publishing Company hardcover
190738045Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1907. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers with modern brown cloth tape spine. xii 155pp. Figures line drawings 3 partly-colored maps one foldout 2 large loose folding maps. Very good. Wrappers a bit chipped and edgeworn with several old tape marks but tight and internally bright and sharp. Attractive first edition of this Bulletin No. XIX also #12 in the Economic Series of the "Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey." The two large loose color maps are bright and handsome. Government Printing Office paperback
1972007021Riverside Conn: Chatham Press 1972. 160pp with 4 maps and illus b/w photos by Alfred Eisenstadt and others. Half title page: Map of "Zeb Tilton's Coast". Title spread: waterfront in Edgartown Massachusetts. Decorated cloth cover. Price clipped on dj. Text clean. First Edition. Illustrated Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Chatham Press hardcover
1928103267Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good. 1928. Wraps. Wraps softcover. 1928. Harper and Brothers publishers. 56 pages. Small closed tear on top front cover and on two staples on spine else Very Good condition. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 56 pages . Harper & Brothers Publishers paperback
19895360017Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1989. Hardcover. Fine in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Two volumes in Hamilton's Taylor biography. Crisp binding and hinges. Clean bright pages. Gilt edging to pages all around. Full leather binding embossed and decorated with 22k gold. Exterior is clean with no evidence of wear. Patterned endpapers. Biographies. The Library of the Presidents; 9.5" tall; 831 pages. Easton Press 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
196600018007`: Ginn and Company 1966. green pictorial with brown ltrs edges/corners/and head-heel of spine are bumped/nicked/and beginning to fray clean and tight. Part of the social studies Tiegs-Adams series. . Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Ex-school Textbook. Ginn and Company
19660018007`: Ginn and Company 1966. green pictorial with brown ltrs edges/corners/and head-heel of spine are bumped/nicked/and beginning to fray clean and tight. Part of the social studies Tiegs-Adams series. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-school Textbook. Ginn and Company Hardcover
19174390101New York: Macmillan Company 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary marks. Sound binding and hinges. Clean tanned pages. Cloth over boards is darkened at spine with overall light shelf wear. Gilt lettering on spine and front. Label at lower spine. Reflections of a Frenchman who spent the year 1917 in America. Ex-Library; 7.75" tall; 153 pages. Macmillan Company hardcover
1985003394Sandwich: Heritage Plantation of Sandwich 1985 Sandwich: Heritage Plantation 1985. First edition. Stiff wrappers 101 pp. Heavily illustrated with photographs from the exhibition. Works on canvas and panel miniatures on ivory works on paper and academy board photographs sculpture and porcelain figures furniture samplers ethnographic art dolls and toys. Bibliographies index to artists. Interesting essays on children in art and the history of childhood. Fine in stiff wrappers. Heritage Plantation of Sandwich paperback
19373850052New York: Viking Press 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Front hinge starting; rear hinge and binding sound. Pages off-white generally clean with occasional minor soiling/staining at edge of margin not affecting text or photographs. Cloth over boards is edge worn with slightly darkened spine bumped corners general light shelf wear. Profusely illustrated with powerful b&w photos by Margaret Bourke-White. Photo-documentary with text featuring "the tortured face of poverty" in the deep south of the United States during the Great Depression. Ex-Library; 12" tall; 190 pages. Viking Press unknown
1911A37852Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good. 1911. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping rubbing and beginning fraying. The book covers have several tiny spots of white discoloration. The text pages are generally clean and bright. The last thirty pages or so have noticeable tidemarking /possible water spotting. The full page illustration at page 314 has an inch sized semi-circular chip missing where the pages adhered along the bottom edge of the page does not affect the illustration. All 17 black and white photographs are present. "J. Smeaton Chase 8 April 1864 29 March 1923 was an English-born American author traveler and photographer. Joseph Smeaton Chase has become an integral part of California literature: revered for his poignant descriptions of California landscapes. An Englishman who toured the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto mountains in 1915 with his burro Mesquit Chase published poetic diary entries detailing his escapades through the Sierra Nevada mountains and California desert." from Wikipedia . Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
194622336Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 10.75" x 7.25" 104 pp illustrated in orignal red and grey cloth. Fine copy with Verne Howard Mountaineering Books label on rear pastedown. Dust jacket has just a touch of shallow creasing to the top edge of the front panel else fine. Farquhar describes and provides full bibliographic details on twenty-five books selected for their importance and rarity. University of California Press hardcover
19981254York Historical Society 1998. Hardcover. Good/Good. Dustjacket has wear a large tear along upper right front and some lines along top edge. Cover has some wear and a small indention on bottom front and rear edges. York Historical Society hardcover
192713855New York: The Dorland Press. Very Good. 1927. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition #1049. Clean dark blue cloth has bright gilt titles on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Pictorial frontispiece & title page. Illustrated with B/W photographs. Prior owners book plate inside front cover. Authors signature on Half-Title page. A few lightly foxed pages. Pages 32 & 33 with slightly toned area from laid-in news print. New York ; B/W Photograph Illus.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 296 pages; Signed by Author . The Dorland Press hardcover
1973031751Escondido California: Ryan Lewis C. sketches by 1973. NOT a library discard. Fine condition in a Good dust jacket one tiny hole and small chips to the jacket's top edge. Sharp corners. Square and tight. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Pages are otherwise crisp clean and unmarked - apparently seldom if ever read. Escondido California history. Bound in the original gilt-stamped green cloth. Complete with green pictorial dust jacket featuring a photo on the front of "A Grape Day Parade on Grand Avenue." 7.25" wide by 10.75" tall. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 2 190pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Ryan, Lewis C. (sketches by) Hardcover
19765752Miami FL: E. A. Seemann Publishing 1976 . First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 4to 204 pages cloth; owner's embossed stamp at pictorial endpaper. <br/><br/>Presentation Copy for warmly inscribed for Marian in 1984 by both co-authors. Issued in Seeman's Historic Cities Series. Illustrated. " Our aim in these pages is not only to trace the history of our favorite city but to convey its flavor and tone at specific periods in its turbulent lifetime until the mid-1950s - Foreword." E. A. Seemann Publishing hardcover
19840021594Callahan Florida: Thomas O. Richardson 1984. 3rd Revised Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . VG/VG/3rd prntng. A tight and solid copy of an indepth county history. Not ex-library not a remainder. Third revised printing. 363 pages endpapers are maps of Florida starting at the Florida line-the St. Marys River down the coast to Smyrna Florida. Lots of pictures and illustrations lots of maps 2 main section broken down by rivers and railways in the county. Lots of information about local families. List of People interviewed for book information about communities that are no more. Book is clean with a little rubbing near spine. Pages are lightly tanned. No markings or soiling. Dust jacket has no tears or nicks a couple soiled spots on front cover. Jacket has been covered with mylar. Signed by author on the verso side of half title page with "Best Regards". <br/> <br/> Thomas O. Richardson hardcover
1976044060Bangor-Brewer Ywca 1976-08-01. hardcover. New/New. 10x7x0. New black boards with white lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; Contents clean and unmarked. New dust jacket not price clipped. Still in original shrink wrap. Seemann's Historic Cities Series No.23 Bangor-Brewer Ywca hardcover
192510757Tucson AZ: Archeological Society Tucson Arizona 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Short 8vo Brown fabrikoid pp. 69; embossed illustration on front cover black & white photographic illustrations throughout. Minor amount of rubbing at the spine tips and corners. -- Overall condition. "Phoebe Bogan author teacher and Arizona pioneer came to Arizona as a child. She was supervisor of Spanish at Tucson High School and author of many articles and books on Indians of the Southwest including "The Yaqui Indian Dances" published in 1925. She died in Tucson in 1927"-AZ Historical Society. Archeological Society Tucson, Arizona hardcover
1968548458London: Archon Books 1968. Hardcover in very good condition with clipped dust jacket in good condition. From the collection of the late Professor Malcolm Deas an English historian who specialised in the study of Latin America whose monogram is noted on the FEP. Jacket is sunned and lightly marked. A section of the rear upper edge near the spine is creased with small tears. Board corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block head is lightly foxed. Boards are clean binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used. Archon Books Hardcover
19595090106Tuscaloosa Alabama: Confederate Publishing Company Inc 1959. Limited Edition. Softcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Limited Edition. Exlibrary marks. Sound binding. Clean tanned pages. Wrappers shelf worn with darkened spine label at lower spine light handling wear. Edition of 450 copies. Confederate Centennial Studies; Ex-Library; 12; 8.5" tall; 102 pages. Confederate Publishing Company, Inc unknown