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pp. x, 284. 12 mo. 195 mm. Paper browned, but not at all chipped. Original full red cloth binding, lettered in gold, and decorated in blind; slightly worn at head and tail. Large printed ans manuscript bookplate for the: Private Library of Douwe P. Boersma. The 4th American Edition, From the 15th London Edition (1844) Revised and Enlarged, with the addition of the most recent statistics relating to religious sects in the United States, by the American editor. A scarce American edition of this classic. PA55
pp. 372 p. + Four Full Page Plates. Plates lightly inked. Text age stained. 170mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Original leather spine label. Hardbound. Very good. CLASSICS BX 3
3 p.l., 3-250 p. front. (port.) 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition, partly unopened, cover spotted & lightly soiled Limited edition of 483 copies
7 p. PAMPHLET Very good condition Printed in facsimile . . . from an 1880 copy in the Boston Public Library on the occasion of the visit to Boston of the International Society of Bibliophiles in September, 1971, in an edition of 150 copies.
211 pages. Revised edition of the 1942 first edition. "Intended solely to teach the technic and art of playing the Boehm system Flute... Presents in concise form the results of the experience of over twenty years as a teacher and a player." - from Introduction. Average wear. Top corner of front cover and title page clipped. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound working copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Sea-side Suits; Indelible Drawings; Home Life; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - postilion-basque polonaise with apron front, summer shopping, inexpensive summer dresses, camisoles, belted dresses, jewelry, under-sleeves, ties, etc.; Personal; borders, insertions and edgings for lingerie and chldren's garments; medallions for cigar-cases; wire and bead basket for worsted; case with Boston tablet; The Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Illustration "Linked Names"; small clipping from page 449; Paris Gossip; My Parasol; English Gossip; George Eliot's Sayings; Illustration "The Death of Cleopatra"; Illustration "David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy"; humor. Average wear. Small clipping from page 445. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Saga of the "400" - it was just an ordinary Pacific which started the high-speed Chicago-Twin Cities service; Dulith, Missabe & Iron Range - in the land of short, stubby cars and long, heavy trains; Empire State Express - Seventeen million miles are credited to New York Central crack train - centerfold photo of this train at the height of her glory; The Traveling Salesman - Railroad glimpses from a thumbworn diary recording 12 years of covering the West by train, by Victor H. White; C&O 4-4-2; Capital Cities Route - Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac is funnel for north and south Atlantic Seaboard traffic; A Vermont Short Line - Montepelier & Wells River Railroad transports heavy granite loads from the Barre & Chelsea to the Boston & Maine; Trains' Map of Vermont Railroads. Average soiling and wear. Small date stamp atop front cover. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 113-176. Features: Cover illustration of Connecticut Painted Wall; American Furniture in a California Collection; Signed and Dated - A Painted Wall in Connecticut; Interior Decorations at Unity Farm; - an editorial note; Glassmaking in South Boston - Part 1; Bellows for the Hearth; Stenciled Coverlets; Arms of the Guilds on Liverpool Ware; Murals in Upper New York State; Two Gold Snuffboxes; Signs bring customers; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Average wear. Unmarked. Moisture exposure to bottom edge. Short archival tape repair to base of spine. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Two folio broadsides (335 x 208 mm), printed in one side only, fine condition. Two letters, heading printed above double-column text in verse. Not recorded by JISC.
pp. vi, (1) [Preface], (1) [Blank], 5-356. Loss bottom margin of page 249. Torn without loss page 225. Small loss in margin and a hole in text of page 19. Very damp stained. Foxed. Uncut and unopened. Early manuscript ownership of S.D. Patterson on title page. Bookplate of Phi Kappa Tau Society on front paste down. Front fly leaves torn. 205 mm. Original paper boards, worn. Front board detached. Major loss tail of spine. Remnants of original paper spine label. "William Tudor (1779-1830) was an American merchant, Massachusetts legislator, U.S. consular officer (Lima and Rio de Janiero), founder and first editor (1815-1817) of the North American Review, and one of the founders of the Boston Athenaeum. He was also famous as the creator of the and established the ice trade with the West Indies. A keen critic of contemporary manners, in this his best-known work he publishes the text sixteen actual letters he wrote to various individuals around the country." He covers subjects such as: Politics; Religion; Commerce; Literature; Fine Arts; On the Relative Ranks of Americans; Character and Condition of Women; Agriculture; Manufactures; Harvard University; Genius; Characters and Manners of the Inhabitants of Boston; the Future state of the Indians; funeral ceremonies; and more. First Edition. S&S/AI 2241; Howes T405; Sabin 97407. AI BX 2?
pp. xxiii, (13)-336. Age stain. Last few leaves dampstained. Uncut. Early manuscript pencil ownership of Elizabeth (Brewster) Champion Lathrop [1818-1895] on first fly leaf. 12mo. 190 mm. Original worn paper covered boards. Boards soiled and fragile. Spine very worn with loss. Original paper spine label. Title continues: "A Serious Appeal On The Necessity Of Mutual Forgiveness And Harmony, To Save Our Common Country From Ruin." Anomosity between the American political parties reached fever pitch in the era around the war of 1812. Carey hoped that his work would bring unity to the national political process. It would be nice to see a Mathew Carey arise today. S&S/AI 34285; Sabin 10877. Hardbound. Good. AI BX 8
Two Volumes. pp. 283; 288. No ads inserted. Front flyleaf excised. 12mo. 190 mm. Original publisher's cloth bindings. Boards decorated in blind. Extremities slightly worn. Hardbound. Very good. First American Edition, second issue. Also published in 1860 at London, in three volumes, by Smith, Elder, and Company, under title: Transformation; or, The romance of Monte Beni. "The MS. of 'The Marble faun' is in a private collection in England, and, in fact, was never in this country, as the American edition was set up from proof-sheets of the English edition." -- Cathcart, Bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cleveland, 1905. "Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing" - Hawthorne in the Marble Faun, Chap. 14. This second issue is identified by having 'the Conclusion' first published here. W147; AI BX 7
Two works bound in one: pp. 122; 128, (2) [Publisher's catalogue]. Lacks frontis in both works. Lacks fly leaves. Stamped ownership of John Dolman, Jr. May 8, 1883, Phila. on title pages of both works. Margins dampstained in first work. All edges gold gilt. 12mo. 175 mm. Contemporary red leather binding, extremities rubbed and worn. Inside gold gilt dentelles. Boards ruled in gold gilt with ownership of Susan T. Hough embossed on front board. Spine decorated and lettered in gold gilt with slight loss at tail. Hardbound. Good. Raised bands. Henry Beck Hirst (1817-1874) was a Philadelphian poet, lawyer and eccentric author. He was also a musician, amateur ornithologist, conchologist, and botanist. In his preface Hirst states he has purposely avoided reading Keats' Endymion "with the express design of escaping the danger of unintentional plagiarism." He was a friend of Poe, but their friendship broke up over Hirst's insistence that he, and not Poe, was the true author of 'The Raven' AI BX 8
214 p. + Frontis. Title page decorated with a copper plate engraving of a bull. Frontis and title page ink stained. Text very foxed. Manuscript ownership of George Sager. 155 mm. Virtually disbound. Paper printed boards very worn with loss. Lacks spine. Title continues: "A Selection Of Valuable Receipts For The Cure Of Diseases In Horses, Cattle, Sheep & Swine, With Directions To Farmers For Choosing Good Stock. Also, A Variety Of Agricultural And Miscellaneous Receipts. With Copper plate Embellishments." Twenty second edition. Hardbound. Very poor condition, but extremely scarce. OCLC Records only AAS and Univ. of Toronto. S&S/AI 3624. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 8
296p. +Plus 7 plates. 8vo. 200mm. Dust Jacket Fragile but intact. Original publisher's full dark blue cloth pictorial binding. The cover (rendered in cream, black, and light blue) shows two couples golfing. Spine lettered in bright gold gilt. A clean and tight example. Hardbound. Very Good. NW66
72 pages. Features: Law rides the Larb Hills; Some facts about Wayne Brazel; Gallina Mountain's Murder Mine; "Boston Cowards" of Fort Hay; A Boxcar, A Siding, A Water Tank - the time when all a man needed for adventure was to hop a train west; Isolated Log Schoolhouses - Death Traps! (vulnerable to Indian attack); Scourge of the Cherokee Nation - Bob Rogers; The Maxwells of Arizona - trackers and lawmen; Revenge by Fire! - Henry Timmerman was the only person ever hung (legally) in Klickitat County, Washington; and more. Average wear. Underlining and a few markings to six pages. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Why Bisque Heads?; Madame L. - Maker of Parisian Automata; Dolling In and Around London; Gifts I Would Like to Present; Ice Capade Dolls; Compo Corner; Preview of the Collector's History of Teddy Bears; Tammy and Dolls You Love to Dress; Dolls at Auction; Ask the Doll's Dressmaker; Sailor Suit from Captain January; An Artist's Paper Dolls from a 19th Century Scrapbook; N.A.M.E. Goes to Boston; From Elspeth's Inkpot; Colleen Moore's Enchanted Castoe - interview with Colleen Moore. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
82 pages. Features: Metropolitan Malaise; "Wozzeck" in the Wings; Home of the Hunter; Luchino Visconti - Composer's Director; Caruso, Go Home!; Boris Godunov, by Modest Mussorgsky - English text of this play; Theatre, U.S.A.; Chicago - Orbit Routine - With Flares; New York's Own Volksoper; Farrell and San Francisco; Callas and Dallas; Boston - Home-Grown, Short Supply; Three pages of photos of Maria Callas. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
76 pages. Features: Colour photo of Bobby Orr in Yardley ad inside front cover; Carol Vadnais Has a Job To Do; Meet Dallas Smith; Canucks on the Road - candid photos; Photos of Canuck management, staff and players; Nice CJOR ad features Jack Webster; Who is the Greatest? - Bobby Orr or Eddie Shore?; The Leaders are Most Important; Nice full-page CKNW ad features Jim Robson; Don Awrey - The Bruiser; Photos of Dunc Wilson at Work; Royal Bank Player of the Week - Bryan McSheffrey; Great full-page caricature feature on John Bucyk; Wayne Cashman Works the Corners; Photos of Bruin players; Center page loose but present; Great colour photo ad for "Old Style" beer features blacksmith; Full-page ad for Butler Tire features Don Awrey; J.Paul McConnell in CKWX ad; Article on the Knee/Bobby Orr; plus many great vintage ads. Short tape repair to page 21. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Clear photo of a barrage balloon over an R.A.F. patrol vessel; Inside front cover is an illustration of a youthful John F. Kennedy in connection with his book "Why England Slept"; Formation of American Stinson 105 light planes over Montreal; Canadian coastal gun crew at work; Canadian soldiers and sailors train together off Newfoundland; Savage glare of night bombardment of Cherbourg; Meeting the Enemy's Challenge - article by Ernest Bevin; Photos of Italians in the desert war; Photos of the Royal family in war, including a lovely full-page photo of Princess Elizabeth making her first radio broadcast to the children of England, with sister Margaret by her side; Graphic evidence of punishing R.A.F. raids on enemy ports at Le Havre and Antwerp plus Berlin; Great photos of the Royal Engineers bridgebuilding; Centerfold illustration by Montague B. Black shows the H.M.S. Ajax winning new glory in Mediterranean battle as she destroyed multiple Italian vessels; Photo of sacrilege at St. Paul's cathedral - bomb damage through the roof; Many photos of London destruction, including the destroyed 100,000 volumes of University College Library; Photos of British children seeking safety in North America, including photo with the Mayor of Boston, Maurice J. Tobin, and his son; The German Air Offensive - text of broadcast by Sir Philip Joubert; photo of a sound locator crew of a searchlight unit in the London area; Diagram of the 'simple and efficient' Hawker Hurricane; 4 nice photos on page 60 present the R.A.F.'s American squadron with Leader W.E.G. Taylor and others; A Commentary on the war this week; Photo of Hitler with Mussolini and Ciano as they plot in their bullet-proof train on October 5th; Photo of Hitler with four of his air chiefs; Photo of bomb damage in Hamburg. Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Illustrated declaration by President Roosevelt at the annual dinner of teh White House Correspondents' Association on 15th March, 1941; Photo of mosquito boats speeding by the Statue of Liberty; Photo of Douglas Boston bombers nearing completion for service with the Royal Air Force; Photos of Australian Prime Minister R.G. Menzies touring Nelson's flagship Victory and in Coventry observing engine manufacture; The reconquest of Abyssinia; Illustration by Montague Dawson depicting the H.M.S. Guillemot shooting down a German Heinkel 111; Photo of a Wellington navigator at work over the Western Desert - where landmarks are few; Many photos of Nazi bomb destruction in London; Aerial photos of R.A.F. damage caused to Gelsenkirchen and the Bremen which was docked at Bremerhaven; Centerfold illustration by Montague B. Black depicts a ferocious R.A.F. night bombardment on Berlin, March 23rd, 1941; Three great photos of Canada's east coast anti-aircraft forces; Photos of the German occupation of Bulgaria; Poignant full-page photo of Britain's national day of prayer with injured airman in church; Large map of Albania entitled "The Greek Fighting Line"; Photo-illustrated text of broadcast by Air Commodore R.V. Goddard entitled "Spring - and the R.A.F."; Super full-page photo of a U.S. Liberator bomber in flight; Excellent photo from the back of a corvette showing fuses being set on depth charges; A Commentary on the war this week; Photos of their majesties in the south-west; Photo of some British night fighters wearing darkened glasses prior to beginning their mission; Summary of the chief events in the war this week. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
Second Printing. Library of Congress Number 73-134657. 96 Pages including index. Pictorial boards. Fine aside from very light rubbing on corners and a touch along bottom of front board. NOT ex-library. Hard to find a better copy. Book
108 pages. Features: Great color ad for a purple two-door Buick Grand Sport Riviera; Cover photo of Munick; Front cover fold-out photo of Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot; Segretation Crisis - Chicago's Troubled Schools; Germany Twenty Years After Hitler; The Last 100 Days; Germany Today; A New World of Surgery; The Butler goes to College - California students work their way through college; Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox High Note; On the Set with Moreau and Bardot; Electric heat features color photo of Gene Carolan and family in Iowa; Edison Electric Inst. ad features photos of Edward Stansfield and family of PA, Giacomo Liggera and wife of Poughkeepsie, Oklahoma executive Kenneth White, Jr. and wife, and Kentucky Salesman Arthur Waits of Lexington, and family; Dove ad features photo of Mrs. Marilyn Konzet of Great Neck, Long Island; Lovely color-photo ad for the (yellow) 1965 Chrysler; Two-page color Del-Monte ad; Nice color-photo FTD ad; Vintage two-page colour-photo ad for Greyhound bus lines; Two-page Budweiser ad says "No additives, please!"; Color-photo ad for a maroon Chevrolet 1965 Chevelle; CBS radio network ad with photos of Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Lowell Thomas, Phil Rizzuto, Marvin Kalb, Frank Gifford and Harry Reasoner; Classy color ad for a cream-colored 1965 Pontiac Bonneville (in Italy?); Wow! - two-page color-photo ad for the (red) 1965 Ford Mustang GT; All-American cities; Nice color ad for GMC pickup trucks; Back cover color ad for Chesterfield King cigarettes includes photos of Elly Travlou Dubinsky of Missouri, randall A. OSmon of Florida, and Donald C. Barnette, Jr., of Ohio; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
116 pages. Features: Kids say the darndest things (part 1 of 3); Ivan goes to sea - what is behind the unparalleled build-up of the Red Navy?; Lawyer for the Defense - James D.C. Murray; Jim Tatum of the Tarheels; The Face of America - Pirates on the Porch (trick or treat); Artificial Arteries Can Save your Life; The Don't Need Progress. Serials: Murder on my Street (par 1 of 7); Trouble at Midas Creek (part 5 of 7). Short Stories: New Man in Her Life; The Sin of Sister Louise; Three Days' Leave; The Crying Cop. Ads: Yale & Towne color-photo ad shows loader with Niagara Falls in background; Otarion Listener ad features Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Lee de Forest, Sumner C. Hayward and Car F. Woods; Motorola TV; Sensational 1958 Chevrolet Truck ad features two-page illustrations of yellow trucks; Lucky Strike cigarettes; Winston cigarettes; Great two-page B-58 Buick ad; Nice color two-page ad for the 1958 Dodge trucks; Philco Slender Seventeen TVs; Wow - two-page color Edsel ad!; Color-photo ad for the Boeing 707 features photos of William Flynn of the Boston Globe, authors Walton and Richard Tregaskis, Albert D. Hughes of the Christian Science Monitor and Lucia Lewis of the Chicago Daily News; U.S. Savings Bond ad features Harriet Quimby, first woman in the world to fly the English Channel; Betty Crocker Marble Cake Mix (back cover). Somewhat average wear. Bits of tape remnant upon front cover. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
112 pages. Features: Nice color 7up ad with Fiesta theme; Great color full-page ad for the 1958 Chevrolet; Color photo ad for Johnson outboard motors - the new "V" Sea Horse; Actual case histories from the files of the Marriage Council in Philadelphia; Hornblower's Hurricane - Part 1 of 3 by C.S. Forester; Those Amazing Island Medics - article and color photos of native physicians of the Pacific Islands, by Milton and Margaret Silverman; Shock Treatment - story by Allan Seager; The Greek Americans - two-page color photo of their January 6 gala version of Epiphany at Tarpon Springs, Florida; Maverick Boy - story by Prentiss Combs; Why Russia Has Poland Problems - for generations the Poles have hated the Russians, and they still do - photos; Private Life of Marshall Matt Dillon aka James Arness - great article and photos; House of Illusion - National Historical Waxworks Museum; Frank Malzone of the Boston Red Sox; The Man Who Wouldn't Fall - story by Richard Stern; The Flaming River - story by Dion Henderson; Beautiful colour Cadillac ad shows high class couple stepping out of the Del Monte Lodge to their blue coupe; Death Stalks the Bride - story by Nancy Rutledge; Two-page Pall Mall cigarette ad; Color photo ad for 1958 Ford cars; Sweet color photo ad for Gulf service stations; Sensational color photo Oldsmobile Super 88 ad features Patti Page outside CBS TV Studio 50; Great Caterpillar ad illustrates and describes massive interstate development and tax generation spinoffs in Needham, Mass.; Nice color photo ad for Delco radios - auto and portable; Great Viceroy cigarette ad features large photo of Cary Middlecoff; Harrison Air Conditioning color ad; Front cover essentially detached and heavily worn. Back cover missing. Occasional underlining and notes. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
