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1971167281London: Anglo-Chinese Educational Institute 1971. 41p. staplebound pamphlet touch of rust at the staple. Modern China Series No. 2. Four brief articles reprinted from 'China Now' the monthly journal of the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding. Anglo-Chinese Educational Institute unknown books
1891313258Nantucket Ma 1891. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. 1 vols. Light fold lines small tears along vertical fold line. Very good. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. 1 vols. Snow writes in detail of the sinking of the boat and the subsequent rescue effort. Included is a list of names of those saved and by whom. A charming piece of real-life Nantucket romance. Eberstadt 132:497 unknown books
1866List806Washington: For the Author 1866. 8vo blue wraps 42 pp. Apparently a gift copy from Curtis. Near fine overall with minimal wear. Near Fine. A scarce survival from Lorenzo Snow's trial in the U.S. Supreme Court for polygamy under the Edmunds Act where two of his three convictions were eventually overturned as the court determined that the offense was continuous and therefore only warranted a single conviction. George Ticknor Curtis defended Snow and published this edition of his speech himself. Curtis argued that Snow had lived continuously with one woman and defended his right to have multiple "wives" as a matter of religious freedom. This copy with "From the Author" on the top margin of the title wrap apparently presented as a gift from Curtis. For the Author unknown books
1789197053Privately Printed 1789. 1789. First edition. Small 8vo. Old 3/4 calf over marbled boards upper cover and first signature detached. Bookplate of Oliver Pemberton. 146 pages. Privately printed in a small edition of 200 copies. Also includes essays on Shakespeare Dryden Chaucer and others. Coleridge 369. F. Hardcover. Privately Printed, 1789. hardcover books
1943171457Springfield: Charles Thomas 1943. hardcover. near fine. Illustartions some color plates. Tall 8vo blue cloth. Springfield: Charles Thomas 1943. Third Printing. Near Fine.<br/><br/> With a 9-page bibliography.<br/><br/> Charles Thomas unknown books
1962208197New York: Scribner's 1962. Hardcover. 187p. cast facsimile letter from C. P. Snow laid-in very good first edition Scribner A in black cloth boards very nice and unclipped but edgeworn & sunned dust jacket. Millar's adaptation of the eighth novel in Snow's eleven novel cycle titled "Strangers and Brothers". Tensions within academia reified by a legal review. Sample dialogue from p.161 "Crawford slowly: 'I do not know that Getliffe convinced me beyond the possibility of doubt that Howard is innocent. He did convince me that it is impossible to say with certainty that he is guilty. I therefore find myself obliged to believe that he should be re-instated by this Court.' Winslow with satisfaction: 'I make that DUO UTRIUS LATERIS.' Scribner's hardcover books
1970287596London: Chapman & Hall 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. First Edition of Dickens 1970; Centenary Essays edited by Michael Slater. Signed by the editor with a personal inscription to fellow scholar and friend Bland Crowder "and many thanks for his help in setting up The Suzanne Rooms at the Dickens House." With the recipient's bookplate and his scattered scholarly annotations. Small chips and tears to the dustjacket; shelfwear. Green cloth. Very Good with Very Good dustjacket. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Chapman & Hall unknown books
1993UMCLDIS00JKNDeseret Book c1993. Fine. McLean Michael. Distant Serenade. Snow Scott. Salt Lake City Utah: Deseret Book c1993. 44pp. Illustrated. Oblong 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Fine. Like new. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Like new. Deseret Book hardcover books
197124578Springfield IL: Charles C. Thomas 1971. First Edition. Slim octavo 23.5cm; original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xiii181pp. Chip to jacket crown touching the "M" in "Madow" minor dust soiling to extremities else Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Includes chapters on LSD and marijuana. Charles C. Thomas unknown books
041581London: University of London Institute of Historical Research Athlone Press. 1962-1967. 12 volumes complete original green cloth. Contents: v. 1 Lincoln Diocese compiled by H. P. F. King. v. 2 Hereford Diocese compiled by Joyce M. Horn. v. 3 Salisbury Diocese compiled by Joyce M. Horn. v. 4 Monastic cathedrals Southern Province compiled by B. Jones. v. 5 St. Paul's London compiled by Joyce M. Horn. v. 6 Northern Province York Carlisle and Durham compiled by B. Jones. v. 7 Chichester Diocese compiled by Joyce M. Horn. v. 8 Bath and Wells Diocese compiled by B. Jones. v. 9 Exeter Diocese compiled by Joyce M. Horn. v. 10 Coventry and Lichfield Diocese compiled by B. Jones. v. 11 The Welsh Dioceses Bangor Llandaff St. Asaph St Davids compiled by B. Jones. v. 12 Introduction errata and index compiled by Joyce M. Horn. University of London, Institute of Historical Research, Athlone Press unknown books
1979117571Colorado Springs: The Research Committee The Colorado College 1979. Paperback. v 124p. preface very good trade paper journal in brown printed wraps. The Colorado College Studies Series #15. The Research Committee, The Colorado College paperback books
189976141899. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed and dated Februrary 6 99; a section of Knowlton's arrangement of "There Little Girl Don't Cry" pasted with two photographs of the composer one sepia one b/w on a gray card written and signed by Knowlton. Size: 6 x 6-1/2" .Top edge slightly sunned. Marks on back of card from the removal of other pasted items. "There! Little Girl Don't Cry!" is a musical adaptation of the poet James Whitcomb Riley's poem "A Life-Lesson". Fanny Snow Knowlton's 1859-1926 arrangement of this popular Riley poem published in 1891 by Brainard's Sons Company of Chicago was one the earliest arrangements written by a woman. An American composer Knowlton was writing during a period of great opportunity for female composers. From 1890 to 1930 scores and musical compositions by women were being published in record numbers in the United States. For her arrangements Knowlton selected popular poems such as Riley's "A Life-Lesson" and Samuel Minton Peck's "The Grapevine Swing" and well-known hymns such as "Give Ear to my Words O Lord" and "Come Unto Me All Ye That Labor." In 1903 she produced one book of sheet music Hawthorn and Lavender: A Song-Cycle for Women's Voices with Piano Accompaniment. Her work was mainly published by two Chicago companies: Brainard's and Clayton F. Summy. Riley 1849-1916 was a famous Indiana journalist and poet and his words appealed to common people especially children. Riley was known as "The Hoosier Poet" because of his use of characters settings and dialect that evoked small town life in Indiana. He earned his second moniker "Children's Poet" because of his sympathetic depictions of children and childhood. Riley's writing was not limited to an Indiana audience however. Although Riley's work reflected life in the American Midwest much of his work was as well-received in New York and Boston as it was in Indiana. A journalist by trade and an actor at heart Riley was deeply interested in seeing his work published and performed. He had a long-standing interest in music and allowed many of his verses to be set to music. "A Life-Lesson"--a poem originally published in the Indianapolis Journal July 25 1880 and included in several of Riley's books beginning with his collection Afterwhiles in 1887--was a particularly popular poem to be translated to music with over twenty-five different arrangements published between 1889 and 1919. As a song the poem was retitled "There! Little Girl Don't Cry!" although some composers opted for alternative titles such as "The Silver Lining". Eitel The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley II; A. Russo and D. Russo A Bibliography of James Whitcomb Riley. unknown books
1982MMRM1225Princeton:: Princeton University Press 1982. 1982. 8vo. vii 3 336 2 pp. Index. Tan gilt-stamped cloth dust-jacket; jacket lightly worn. Very good. ISBN: 0691082979 9780691082974 "Lester King always termed himself a self-made historian. By this he meant simply that he had received no advanced degree in that subject. But in his chosen area of specialization the Eighteenth Century his scholarship was widely accepted and sometimes seminal. His contributions were recognized in many ways most notably in his long-term connection with the American Association for the History of Medicine. He was president of the Association in 1974 and 1975; delivered the prestigious Garrison Lecture in 1975; received the 1977 William H. Welch Medal for best book in the history of medicine; and was the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1988. In 1964 he received the Boerhaave Medal from the University of Leyden. King was also an active participant in the Chicago Medical Historical Society. He was a member of the Department of History University of Chicago through most of the 1970s and 1980s. King was Senior Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA from 1963 until 1973 and Contributing Editor for many years after that. In the 1960s a happy decision by John Talbott then editor-in-chief of JAMA made King the book review editor." Charles G. Roland Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Volume 58 No. 3 2003. Princeton University Press, 1982. hardcover books
1982136587New York: The Robert Freidus Gallery Inc 1982. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran September 38 through October 23 1982. Introduction by Ann-Sargent Wooster. Includes black and white images by Bayat Keerl George Miller Andrew Moszynski Bruce Patterson Michael Snow and Ted Victoria. A close to near fine copy in stapled wrappers that are very lightly soiled/ rubbed but an internally clean copy. Uncommon. The Robert Freidus Gallery Inc unknown books
19899024072Birmingham: Classics of Medicine Library 1989. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original blue composition leather stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon bookmarks sewn in. Publisher's numbered bookplate of reknown professor of opthamology at Washington University School of Medicine for 35 years world famous glaucoma researcher and book collector Dr. Bernard Becker. <br/><br/> Classics of Medicine Library hardcover books
4901512mo pp. 28. Paper wraps. Portrait inside front cover. Cover little soiled and slightly chipped interior with one or two small spots. VG. From the reference library of Seven Gables Bookshop. Two essays. unknown books
1867RW1467London:: Virtue 1867. 1867. 8vo. xxxiv 291 3 pp. 119 figs. Original maroon blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; extremities worn. Ownership signature of George Gilmore Sloane 1907 extensive neat pencil marginalia on rear endpaper. Good . Rare. William Snow Harris also known as "Thunder-and-Lightning Harris" was an English physician and electrical researcher. He is best remembered for developing a successful system of lightning conductors to protect ships from lightning strikes. One of his earliest models was employed on the Beagle during Darwin's famous voyage and successfully protected the ship from multiple lightning strikes. / Frictional Electricity was Harris' final work collecting a lifetime of experience in the field of early electrical research. It is split into two parts: "Elementary Electrical Phenomena" and "On the Laws of Electrical Force" and includes "Two Lectures on Atmospheric Electricity and Protection from Lightning." Virtue, 1867. hardcover books
1839S4189London:: Richard and John E. Taylor 1839. 1839. Third Series. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXXIX Part II. 305 x 241 mm. 4to. Pages 215-241. Entire volume: vi 215-438 12 4 pp. 6 tables. Original navy cloth black leather spine label gilt spine; joints reinforced with kozo. Very good. FIRST EDITION of William Harris' Bakerian Lecture. Harris contributed papers on the elementary laws of electricity in 1834 1836 and 1839 and they are described in the DNB as "his best work." Sir William Snow Harris was an electrician who was knighted in 1847 for his improved lightning conductor. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831. In 1835 Harris received the Copley Medal from the Royal Society for his papers on the laws of electricity of high tension. "The two great authorities on electrical distribution and its consequences are Coulomb and Sir William Harris. . . on repeating the experiments Harris found Coulomb's results only approximately correct and modified these laws accordingly. . ." – John T. Sprague Electricity: Its Theory Sources and Applications 2nd ed. London 1884 p. 63. "Sir William Snow Harris 1 April 1791 – 22 January 1867 was an English physician and electrical researcher1 nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris2 and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMS Beagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin. . . He read papers on the elementary laws of electricity to the Society in 1834 1836 and 1839 and also sent accounts of his experiments and discoveries to the Royal Society of Edinburgh." – Wikip. REFERENCES: DNB XI pp. 30-31; Encyclopaedia Britannica XIII pp. 20-21; Mottelay Bibliographical history of electricity and magnetism pp. 468-469. See: Uman Martin A. The Art and Science of Lightning Protection. Cambridge University Press 2008. pp. 175–176 179. Richard and John E. Taylor, 1839. hardcover books
196757688NY:: Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Black and white photographs by Paul Genereux. First printing. SIGNED and dated by the author in the year of publication. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Macmillan, hardcover books
194828066New York: Vanguard Press 1948. 1st edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo cloth viii 297 pp. Fine in a slightly chipped dust jacket. Vanguard Press, [1948]. hardcover books
195874929NY:: Coward-McCann. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. A novel of the founding of Georgia. First edition. INSCRIBED by the author. Very good in a very good fading along the spine price clipped dust jacket. . Coward-McCann, hardcover books
187331849New York: G.W. Carleton & Co 1873. First Edition. Small octavo 18.5cm.; publisher's terracotta cloth embossed in black and gilt blue endpapers; 2004pp. Boards quite rubbed and worn with small losses to spine ends the whole rather soiled a couple tiny losses to extremities of endpapers occasional finger soil to textblock. Good or better overall. Inscribed on front flyleaf: "Presented to Henry M. Duryen / By his sincere friend / The Author / Nannette S. Emerson. G.W. Carleton & Co unknown books
19456195Boston: Yankee Publishing Company 1945. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. 1945 stated 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine with bright gilt-lettering at the front panel and spine in a crisp VG dustjacket with very light chipping along the panel edges and light rubbing to the spine. Octavo 457 pgs. Includes inserted map at rear pastedown. <br/><br/> Yankee Publishing Company hardcover books
1969119750Seattle: University of Washington Press 1969. 112p. preface introduction very good first English-language edition in dj. A direct attack on Stalinism set in 1955 written by a Bulgarian Communist Party member. International Play Series. University of Washington Press unknown books
I27F-00328Kogan Page/Kingfisher. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates stamps limited notes and highlighting or a few light stains. Kogan Page/Kingfisher unknown books
