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195618915New York: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Very Good- dj. c.1956. First Edition. Hardcover. minor wear to book light age-tanning to page edges; jacket shows moderate soiling. cartoon drawings Tongue-in-cheek how-to-run-for-high-office handbook that "charts your course from the inevitable denial that you are a candidate to the polite wire of condolence to your defeated opponent" including such helpful advice as "how to throw your hat into the ring with a forthright statement which carefully avoiding anything specific demands justice honor thrift generosity tolerance courage and decency in public affairs -- thus at one stroke indicting any opponent as an unfair biased cowardly stingy ne'er-do-well of terrible habits." As timely now as it's ever been -- and who better to illustrate this cornucopia of hypocrisy than the wonderful Walt Kelly . Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1922UMITHUG00HMRCentury 1922. Fair. Mitchell S. Weir. Hugh Wynne: Free Quaker. New York: Century 1922. 585pp. Indexed. Bibliography. Small 8vo. Tan and navy cloth. Book condition: Fair with small loss of board in bottom edge of rear cover soiled and pink stained covers and slightly rubbed and lightly bumped edges. Century hardcover books
1897223233New York The Century Co. 1897. 1897. First edition first issue with title pages on a stub. 8vo. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Original gray stamped in orange. 2 volumes. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a 1/2 gray morocco over brown cloth slipcase with brown leather spine labels. BAL 14178. F. Hardcover. New York, The Century Co., 1897. hardcover books
18971342New York: The Century Co. 1897 2 volume set. First issue of the first edition. 12mo. Illustrated with black & white frontis plate. Gray cloth with red printing and decoration. Spines of both volumes slightly cocked and soiled light wear to spine ends else a near fine set. . The Century Co. hardcover books
18993734New York: Century Co. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ. Light shelf/edge wear touch of spotting on front board of both spines lightly toned else tight bright and unmarred. Beige cloth boards black ink lettering gilt decorative elements in blind decorative elements teg frontispiece tissueguards. 8vo. ix 306pp; vii 261pp plus approx. 63 np plate pages bound/tipped in. <br/><br/>Mitchell was a well-known Philadelphia physician who was also well known for his poetry and prose. Pyle was commissioned to illustrate this work supporting lithos and photoplates and accepted knowing that Mitchell was well known to be difficult. Though the process was painful the result is quite acceptional. Overall a rather handsome set. Century Co. hardcover books
1898173675New York: The Century Company 1898. Hardcover. VG old bookstore sticker inside front covers light foxing but interior is clean and tight otherwise. Two volume set gray stamped boards with red lettering Volume 1 is 306 pp. Volume 2 is 261 pp each with bw frontispiece. Two volume set correspondence from Weir Mitchell and his son John K. Mitchell to Dr. Elisabeth Ryder laid in. The Century Company hardcover books
1926206141New York: Century 1926. Very Good. Later. Very good. Stamp inside cover. Name on endpaper. Crayon on endpaper. Former school text. Stamp on front cover. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. Century unknown books
189791473New York: The Century 1897. First Edition. hardcover. near fine. Two frontispieces by Howard Pyle. 2 vols. gray cloth stamped in red. N.Y.: The Century 1897. First Edition. First issue.<br/><br/> The Century unknown books
1899WRCLIT80420New York: The Century Co. 1899. Two volumes. Decorated mustard cloth stamped in gilt and black t.e.g. fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontispieces by Howard Pyle numerous illustrations by his and other hands. Denoted the "Continental Edition" with some additional illustrative matter. Some hand-soiling and rubbing ownership signature on front free endsheets; a good set. BAL 14178 ref. WRIGHT III:3782 ref. The Century Co. hardcover books
1897WRCLIT55924New York: The Century Co. 1897. Two volumes. Decorated grey cloth stamped in gilt red and darker grey t.e.g. fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontispieces by Howard Pyle. Later printing with the corrected readings on I:54 and II:260 the titles integral and the edges treated as noted. Modest rubbing 1897 pencil Christmas inscription; a good set. BAL 14178. WRIGHT III:3782. The Century Co. hardcover books
1987307761987. WEIR Ben. With Carol WEIR & Dennis BENSON. HOSTAGE BOUND HOSTAGE FREE. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press 1987. Sm. 4to. cloth & boards in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Ben & Carol Weir on front endpaper. Near fine; little wear d/j. $10.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
194870399London:: Cassell. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. B0007JISZS . With 35 black and white photographs by the author. First edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear dust jacket. . Cassell, hardcover books
1880113228Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1880. Octavo original green bevel-edged cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Mitchell's first book of fiction; three novelettes first published in LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE during the 1870s. "These novelettes are interesting as preliminary studies to HUGH WYNNE and THE RED CITY." - Quinn American Fiction pp. 306-07. BAL 14101. Wright III 3781. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips hairline cracks along inner hinges but still a sound tight very good copy. A somewhat uncommon title. #113228 J. B. Lippincott & Co. unknown books
1899414071899. MITCHELL S. Weir. HEPHZIBAH GUINESS; THEE AND YOU; AND A DRAFT ON THE BANK OF SPAIN. NY: The Century Co. 1899. 16mo. brown half-calf leather & marbled boards. Signed presentation from Mitchell on the front endpaper. Very Good rubbing edges and along spine. $85.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
2001Embry 129152Ballantine Books 2001. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Ballantine Books, 2001. First U.S. edition. unknown books
2001Embry 129153Ballantine Books 2001. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine faintly rubbed dust jacket in mylar cover. Ballantine Books, 2001. First U.S. edition. unknown books
20019011301New York: Ballantine Books 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. <br/><br/> Ballantine Books hardcover books
20019017817New York: Ballantine 2001. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original red quarter cloth and blue boards spine stamped in gilt. <br/><br/> Ballantine hardcover books
1968026925Freeport NY: Books for Libraries Press 1968. xii 284p. b/w illus. original blue cloth. Reprint of the 1912 edition Essay index reprint series. Books for Libraries Press unknown books
195927524Socorro: New Mexico Geological Society. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy but for owner's name at head of title page. 6 maps inserted in pocket at rear.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 162 pp . New Mexico Geological Society hardcover books
1963031932New York: Biblo and Tannen 1963. cxliii 564p. original burgundy cloth. Reprint of the 1899 edition. Biblo and Tannen unknown books
195238028Washington: USGS Bulletin 988-B. Very Good. 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. No dust jacket. . USGS Bulletin 988-B hardcover books
1981139007Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1981. Original British quad poster for the 1981 Australian film. Printed in England by Lonsdale and Bartholomew. <br/><br/>Set during WWI two Australian sprinters Gibson and Lee join the armed forces and fight against the Turkish army on the Gallipoli peninsula. Slowly the men change their stance on war itself. <br/><br/>30 x 40 inches folded as issued. Faint creases light soil and brief annotations in holograph ink on the verso else Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1893134899Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1893. Hardcover. good ex-library with expected marks plus ink stamp on title page and pgs 1 and 53. soiling and toning to cloth with wear at edges corners and spine ends. chip to cloth on spine. White cloth with gilt embossing. vii 60 pp. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
1993290985Washington: Naval Historical Center 1993. hardcover. near fine/very good. Illustrated. xvii 314 pages 8vo grey cloth d.w. Washington: Naval Historical Center Department of the Navy 1993. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Naval Historical Center unknown books
