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1919000265Privately printed by the New York Life Insurance Company 1919. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition; 8vo; pp. 14 13-439 5; 3/4 red morocco and marbled boards; elaborate gilt decorations and title to spine with 5 raised bands; slight wear to edges of covers and corners; roughly cut fore-edge; few small dark spots to upper part of spine; minor age-darkening to margins of first free page else text clean; very good or better condition. Signed/inscribed by Darwin Kingsley on upper margin of title page. Contains Kingsley's speeches on different topics - Democracy life insurance golf freedom etc. Darwin P. Kingsley was president of the New York Life Insurance Company in the early part of the 20th century. He was known among other things for inventing and implementing new types of insurance. An interesting fact of these times was that civil rights leader Susan B. Anthony was one of their first female policy holders. Privately printed by the New York Life Insurance Company hardcover books
1927000266Privately printed by the New York Life Insurance Company 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated c1927; first edition; 8vo; pp. 6 vii-xvi 1-434 2; 3/4 red morocco and marbled boards; gilt decorations and title to spine with 5 raised bands; some wear to edges of spine; small closed chip to head of spine; corners rubbed; roughly cut fore-edge; pages clean; overall in very good condition. Signed/inscribed by Darwin Kingsley on first free page. Darwin P. Kingsley was president of the New York Life Insurance Company in the early part of the 20th century. He was known among other things for inventing and implementing new types of insurance. An interesting fact of these times was that civil rights leader Susan B. Anthony was one of their first female policy holders. Privately printed by the New York Life Insurance Company hardcover books
1916404961916. KINGSLEY Darwin P. THE UNITED ENGLISH NATIONS. A Commemorative Address Delivered for the 125th Anniversary of the University of Vermont and for the Admission of the State of Vermont Into The Union. Burlington Vermont: no publisher 1916. Small quarto: white printed wraps. First Edition. Signed presentation from Kingsley on front cover. Very Good moderate edgewear & soil. $75.00. <br/><br/> paperback books
192727439Leeds: British Association for the Advancement of Science 1927. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. 16 pages. Stapled self wrappers. INSCRIBED "with very best wishes to J. M Wainwright from Arthur Keith 11/9/27" in ink on the front wrapper. Light creasing staining and wear. Tape repair. Wraps. A separately printed copy of Keith's Presidential Address. Keith a Scottish scientist was well recognized for his contributions to anatomy and anthropology. Items signed by him are not often found.<br/><br/>Printed by Spottiswoode Ballantyne & Co. Ltd. London Colchester & Eton. British Association for the Advancement of Science unknown books
1910004142St. Paul MN: McGill-Warner Company 1910. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 405 pages of text followed by xxiii of index. Hardcover binding with gilt spine and front cover lettering and decoration; slightly rubbed at the extremities with fading to the spine and to the top edge of the front cover. Illustrated with numerous black & white historic photographs. McGill-Warner Company Hardcover books
191053443St. Paul: McGill-Warner Co 1910. 8vo pp. 405 1 xxiii 1; portrait frontispiece and text illustrations throughout; burgundy cloth gilt; covers soiled closed tear on last page textblock cocked but sound ex-Minnesota State library with their stamps on endpapers and title page. A history of the early years of the second largest state fair in the US with a number of pictures of old fairgrounds and buildings. <br/><br/> McGill-Warner Co hardcover books
198524056Sunnyside: Avatar Press 1985. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall side-stapled printed wrappers. A very good copy of this oddly uncommon small press literary magazine which includes poems fiction and numerous illustrations in black and white. Only two universities showing any holdings of this magazine in WorldCat. Some gay themes and authors included. Avatar Press paperback books
1956WRCLIT49413Cambridge: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Press 1956. Quarto. Decorated cloth leather spine label. Introduction by Gavin de Beer. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist. Front inner hinge cracking else about fine; the slipcase however is battered. KIRKUS 67. Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Press hardcover books
192153016London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited 1921. First edition. Octavo original green cloth gilt titles to the spine. Frontispiece of George Duncan. Illustrated by photographs by G.W. Beldam. In near fine condition. George Duncan was a Scottish professional golfer. He was also a golf course designer. His much sought-after professional teaching and swing analysis skills lead to him being referred to as "the pro's pro." He won the 1920 Open Championship. Hodder & Stoughton Limited hardcover books
193056106New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1930. Hardcover. Previous owner signed covers are slightly toned with a discolored spine contents are clean and nice. A very good copy. . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
19301549.4New York: The Macmillan Company 1930. 1st edition NCBEL III 840. Blue printed cloth boards. Dust jacket. VG slight lean/Abt VG edgewear & chipping. 208 pp. Illustrations from the original adverts. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1936762.9London: Chapman & Hall Ltd 1936. 1st edition. Orange cloth binding with black stamped lettering. Dust jacket. VG bookplate/period poi to ffep/VG spine panel a bit darkened/some edgewear. 243 1 pp. Last page blank. Publisher announcement leaflet laid-in. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/>A collection of essays by divers Pickwickians including Alfred Noyes J. W. T. Ley Bransby Williams Alec Waugh Walter Dexter Bernard Darwin Arthur Waugh & Hugh Kingsmill on the many characters in Dickens' first novel. Chapman & Hall, Ltd hardcover books
1981RDARDAR00EFRare Publishing 1981. Very Good. Darwin. Darwin's Thumb Tip Miracles. Oliver cartoonist Richard; Grenewetzki illustrator Dave; Siegfried & Roy foreword. Las Vegas: Rare Publishing 1981. 129pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback with embossed illustration. Signed by author. Book condition: Very good gently rubbed edges and a few faint scratches in front cover. Gift inscription to former owner by the author Darwin on first page. Rare Publishing paperback books
1950BL3818New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons 1950. 1950. Series: Twentieth Century Library. First edition. 8vo. ix 124 pp. Index. Black cloth dust-jacket; light wear to jacket edges. Very good. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. hardcover books
1945141536New York: D. Appleton-Century 1945. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1958 film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Dana Andrews. <br/><br/>Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Ink mark to the front flyleaf. Jacket lightly rubbed and chipped with vertical and horizontal tears to the heel. D. Appleton-Century unknown books
1982S8521Oxford:: Oxford University Press 1982. 1982. 8vo. viii 101 pp. Index. Pictorial wrappers. FINE. ISBN: 0192875566 Oxford University Press, 1982. unknown books
1980WN60975New Haven: Yale University Press 1980. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Book and dust jacket are without defects. Wonderful study of the work of pioneering Colonial architect and planner. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Yale University Press Hardcover books
1964BL3816Garden City NY:: Doubleday 1964. 1964. First American edition. 8vo. xi 290 pp. 24 plates 31 figs. index; some minor penciling. Two-tone cloth dust-jacket design by Ellen Raskin. Very good. Doubleday, 1964. hardcover books
1984S10245London:: Printed for the author 1984. 1984. Facsimile of the 1888 original. 4to. viii 84 pp. Green cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles. Fine. Printed for the author, 1984. hardcover books
1958RH1372Goteborg: 1958. 1958. Series: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis Goteborgs Universitets Arsskrift vol. LXIV no. 7. 8vo. 394 pp. Original printed wrappers; partly unopened. Ownership signature of Roger Hahn. Very good. Ellegård had been known as a Swedish linguistic scholar and promoted the idea of a Jesus myth theory. This book is a detailed study of the changes in British public opinion which took place following the 1859 publication of The Origin of Species. 1958. unknown books
1997S12976Knoxville:: University of Tennessee Press 1997. 1997. 8vo. xxi 184 pp. Frontis. index. Tan gilt-stamped cloth dust-jacket. Fine. ISBN 10: 087049984X University of Tennessee Press, 1997. hardcover books
1960BL2035Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press 1960. 1960. 8vo. 72 pp. Indexes. Printed wrappers; covers lightly browned. Sewn. Burndy bookplate. Very good. Scarce. Cambridge University Press, 1960. unknown books
1936293669Garden City: The Sun Dial Press 1936. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo.; in the publisher's green cloth binding in a dustjacket with fantastic art; x 1 2-302 pages; there is a previous owner name pencilled on the front endpaper; there is also some surface loss to the very top edge of the boards.~~The second of the Inspector Koz mysties and one of the first by Darwin Teilhet with his wife Hildegarde.~ Reprint Edition. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. The Sun Dial Press unknown books
191623292Cambridge: At the University Press 1916. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. lv 81 pages. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Large 8vo. Lower corners bumped. Occasional pencilled notes internally. Stamp of astronomer T.J.J. See on title page. 1 leaf with titles available from Cambridge University Press laid in. Cloth. Sir George Howard Darwin KCB FRS 9 July 1845 - 7 December 1912 was an English astronomer and mathematician. wiki. At the University Press unknown books
191767094London:: John Murray. Very Good. 1917. Hardcover. First edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings else very good in green cloth. No dust jacket. . John Murray, hardcover books
