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191718962Pasadena CA: Radiant Life Press 1917. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo pp. 48 7 b/w plates in original stapled pictorial wrappers. Some chipping and tiny tears to wrappers;contents clean. James first saw Captain a performing horse owned by W.A. Sigsbee of Chicago at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. Amazed by the horse's apparent ability to count add and subtract; play "Nearer My God to Thee" on the chimes; and perform a variety of tricks in response to verbal commands James resolved to learn more about the horse and his trainer. Here their story is told in full from Captain's point of view "There are some people who think I don't like to give performances. I don't know why except that I do get tired a little once in a while and sometimes my master wants me to be quiet and good when I feel frisky and frolicsome and want to kick up my heels. I always feel better the busier I am." and Sigsbee has his say as well. After conducting his own "scientific investigation" of Captain's abilities James concludes that there is no explicit trickery involved in their show but that the horse may pick up on cues of which the audience--and likely even the trainer--is unaware. This leads to his more general observation that there is still much to learn about animal intelligence. "There is too much assumption in human beings about most things animal instinct and human reason not excluded. What I wish to protest against with emphasis and vigor is the assumption that we know all there is to know about intelligence that we know the limits Nature herself has placed upon its development and that all efforts to foster further development are useless. I affirm that we do not know; that we have never as yet even tried to know; and that until men with loving devoted sympathetic singleness of heart and purpose seek to develop all there is in the mentality of all the lower animals dogs cats deer as well as horses shall we begin to have a real foundation for our assumptions upon the subject." Radiant Life Press paperback books
1936006391Los Angeles: Educational Division California Fruit Growers Exchange 1936. Near Fine creased at bottom edge at spine.30 pp. with numerous black and white photographs. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Educational Division, California Fruit Growers Exchange Paperback books
189941250Minneapolis: Press of the C.A. Mitchell Printing Co 1899. Edition limited to 1999 copies of which this is no. 30 4 volumes 16mo; black and white plates some folding; text illustrations; original white printed wrappers red line borders; original green paper slipcase paper labels on upper cover and spine; wrappers a bit toned slipcase edge worn else a very good set. "Printed and published as a lesson in publicity for advertisers and a souvenir of its 21st year for its friends." <br/><br/> Press of the C.A. Mitchell Printing Co unknown books
188319962Boston: Deland and Barto Printers 1883. Softcover. Very good. John L. Stoddard 1850-1931 was a popular American traveler photographer and lecturer. Although the 10-volume set of his lectures is ubiquitous OCLC records no copies of this booklet which announces that he "will give his fully illustrated series entitled The Capitals of Europe at Carll's Opera House" New Haven CT over five nights in January and February. Detailed information is provided about each of five lectures: I Madrid and Lisbon; II Paris The Capital of Pleasure; III Berlin and Sans-Souci; IV St. Petersburg; and V Constantinople The Portal of the Orient. The back panel gives a rather unsatisfactory explanation for the item's shape: "This circular has been printed in this form to enable the holder to detach the pages referring to the different evenings and use as an evening program if desired." Six-panel accordion-folded booklet cut into an unusual shape a rectangle with two corners cut off. One short closed tear minor foxing at the folds. John L. Stoddard 1850-1931 was a popular American traveler photographer and lecturer. Although the 10-volume set of his lectures is ubiquitous OCLC records no copies of this booklet which announces that he "will give his fully illustrated series entitled The Capitals of Europe at Carll's Opera House" New Haven CT over five nights in January and February. Detailed information is provided about each of five lectures: I Madrid and Lisbon; II Paris The Capital of Pleasure; III Berlin and Sans-Souci; IV St. Petersburg; and V Constantinople The Portal of the Orient. The back panel gives a rather unsatisfactory explanation for the item's shape: "This circular has been printed in this form to enable the holder to detach the pages referring to the different evenings and use as an evening program if desired.". Deland and Barto, Printers paperback books
1944496931944. United States. National War Labor Board. The Steel Case. Industry Statements Presented to the Steel Panel of The National War Labor Board. n.p. 1944. Two volumes. Fold-out charts. Original cloth some shelfwear internally clean. Ex-library. Location numbers to spines bookplates to front pastedowns card pockets to rear pastedowns. $80. unknown books
1879399151879. United States. The Statutes at Large of the United States of America from October 1877 to March 1879 and Recent Treaties Postal Conventions and Executive Proclamations. Volume XX. Washington: Government Printing Office 1879. xxiv 955 pp. Folio 7-1/2" x 11-1/2". Contemporary law calf raised bands lettering pieces blind stamped fillets to boards. Moderate shelfwear scuffs to boards and edges rear hinge starting front board partially detached but holding internally clean. $75. With index. This volume contains several acts relating to Reconstruction and the western territories and states. unknown books
1877399141877. United States. The Statutes at Large of the United States of America from December 1875 to March 1877 and Recent Treaties Postal Conventions and Executive Proclamations. Volume XIX. Washington: Government Printing Office 1877. xxv 793 pp. Folio 7-1/2" x 11-1/2". Contemporary law calf raised bands lettering pieces blind stamped filets to boards. Moderate shelfwear with a few scuffs to boards and edges hinges cracked internally clean. $75. With index. This volume contains several acts relating to Reconstruction and the western territories and states. unknown books
1931008940Chapel Hill North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press 1931. Presentation Copy with slip pasted to front end page -"With the Compliments of The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill" above which the ownership signature of Joseph Hyde Pratt noted North Carolina geologist conservationist civic and state leader and activist in the North Carolina Good Roads Association. Near Fine no jacket one fold-out flow chart Fine one folded state map in pocket at rear Near Fine slight toning from pocket a handsome copy with distinguished North Carolina provenance. SCARCE in current commerce. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy. The University of North Carolina Press Hardcover books
1946005337New York: Rinehart & Co. 1946. SIGNED BY AUTHOR and Bloomington Indiana's legendary composer and actor Hoagy Carmichael on front end page. Very Good slight spine lean boards a bit soiled in a Very Good priced dust wrapper rear panel soiled and minor edge wear. An uncommon SIGNED BY AUTHOR copy !. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rinehart & Co. Hardcover books
19951812Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California 1995. Softcover. Near Fine. Trade paperback 182 pp with b/w illustrations from photographs maps. Name written on front inside cover minimal handling wear; else fine. Contains four essays on William Mullholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster of 1928 by J. David Rogers Catherine Mullholland Charles N. Johnson and Abraham Hoffman. Historical Society of Southern California paperback books
196532774New York Chicago et al.: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1965. First edition no. 188 of 500 numbered and signed copies; 8vo pp. 10 309; limitation-p. tipped in before the half-title 2 double-p. maps 13 illustrations in text 3 double-p.; fine copy in original blue cloth publisher's slipcase. <br/><br/> Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover books
1930222591<p>Octavo. Illustrations from the engravings in the original editions. Original blue cloth with spines stamped in gilt with black printed spine labels t.e.g. Fine fresh copies. 4 volumes. Enclosed in blue cloth slipcase worn. #417/750 numbered sets printed by Eugene V. Connett at the Derrydale Press. Handsome printing of Herbert’s four major sporting novels: "My Shooting Box"; "The Dearstalkers"; "The Warwick Woodlands"; and "The Quorndon Hounds." This is an exceptional set for as noted by Frazier in Recognizing Derrydale Press Books "The black printed spine labels are most frequently chipped and sometimes are chipped away altogether even with the slipcase in present it is rare to find the spine labels in fine condition. Siegel 43. BAL 8182. This is Jeffrey Norton's copy with his small bookplate and bookplates of Walter Rutherford Peterson in each volume.</p> Derrydale Press hardcover books
19261061Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 332 pp in original publisher's cloth. Front hinge has a slight wobble light wear to edges; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Signed by Jones on title page. Set in 1850s California. Doubleday, Page, & Company hardcover books
1963TB08089Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1963. First Edition. First printing Near fine in light orange cloth covered boards with blue text stamping on the spine & front board w/ light name on text block edge. In a very good dust jacket with a 1/4" chip at upper rear corner of spine area and light wear and rubbing at the lower edge & a price clipped jacket flap. The author's third volume in The American Frontier Series. Bobbs-Merrill Co. hardcover books
1935003309Baton Rouge LA: The Journal of Southern History 1935. Reprinted from The Journal of Southern History Vol.1 No.2 May 1935. 12 pages in tan paper wrappers Near Fine wrappers lightly soiled and faint corner crease front wrapper. . Reprint. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. The Journal of Southern History Paperback books
195995433Washington: GPO 1959. Three volumes vi 17-312 viii p. wraps slightly worn. GPO unknown books
1999209542White Caps Press 1999. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. No marks of any kind. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket. White Caps Press unknown books
1942008565Clinton South Carolina : Jacobs Press 1942. Poems in dialect that "explore the literary possibilities" of the "Gullah Negroes" of South Carolina while at the same time being utterly clueless as to the the casual harm caused in that exploration. Excellent and unsentimental black and white photographs by Carl Julien provide subtle yet clear counterpoint . Near Fine slight even toning small bumps at corners lacking the dust jacket. Photographic paper label front cover. . First Edition. Pebbled Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jacobs Press Hardcover books
1892201762New York: The Office of the Daily Investigator 1892. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards soiled; corners bumped. Spine slightly darkened. Small bump at bottom of rear board near corner. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. The Office of the Daily Investigator unknown books
1939002478No Place: The Pacific Historical Review 1939. Reprinted from THE PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW Vol. VIII No. 2 June 1939. Near Fine in stapled wrappers slight crease top corner of pamphlet. Paginated 159-178. . Reprint. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. The Pacific Historical Review Paperback books
197912408Washington: GPO 1979. x 271p. 8.5x11 inches second printing wraps. Current population reports special studies series P-23 #80. GPO unknown books
187721006New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 221 pp with folding map Hyposometric Map of the South West or New Spain with Lines of Railways West of the Mississippi River in Operation 1877 also The Ocean Warm Streams. Publisher's green cloth with map printed on cover. Some very mild soiling to boards rubbing to extremities a few small tears to the map. Binding tight text clean. According to the Preface "this is a book of facts not theories. It describes the land of silver and shows that the Southwest is producing each year two-thirds of the silver of the whole world; but it does not attempt to discuss the merits of a double-standard of gold and silver. It treats of railways generally and gives facts and figures showing how these great civilizers have neglected the Southwest." In addition to considerable detail on the mineral wealth of the region there are chapters on other natural resources topography and climate and an extensive bibliography of "the authorities" on New Spain Mexico California. Texas New Mexico Arizona Colorado Nevada and Utah. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1908255687Richmond: Whittet and Shepperson 1908. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The first year book issued by the Richmond Academy a secondary school for boys established by the Trustees of Richmond College in 1902. The Academy was housed in two buildings -- one containing a study hall and four classrooms and the other containing the primary school --located just south of the College on Lombardy and Park. We particularly like the page dedicated to the "Academy Chapter of Knights of Inertia and Lassitude" Place of Meeting: "Biach right-hand corner of study hall". A nice item of Richmond lore from the turn of the last century. Hinges have been reinforced. Very Good binding. Whittet and Shepperson unknown books
1951255475Lynchburg VA: Brown Morrison Inc 1951. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Previous owner name; this is a year calendar for students bound as a book; the calendar has metal spiral binds on spine and is bound in hardcover embossed cloth with raised lettering; paper note pad attached inside front board; binding slightly soiled. Very Good binding. Brown Morrison, Inc unknown books
187011910Boston: Fields Osgood 1870. First edition 8vo pp. viii and 232 plus pp. 12 ads at back; frontis showing "White Bear Lake" 5 plates charts and tables in text and large folding map handcolored in outline approx. 42" x 16" showing the northern regions of the U.S.A. and southern Canada from Nova Scotia to Vancouver Island southern portions of Hudson Bay south to northern Kansas; original green cloth gilt very minor wear to extremities spine ends chipping the front hinge cracking else very good. <br/><br/> Fields, Osgood hardcover books
