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1973217105Chicago: Regnery 1973. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown faux leather. Fine in very good dust jacket. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. The true story of a woman with 16 separate personalities or Multiple Persoanlaty Disorders. This was a best seller and a TV movie<br/><br/>Inscribed "May 1973 To Mark Schubart--with memories of a concentration on selfhood-Flora Rheta Schreiber. Regnery unknown books
1920230028Cambridge Massachusetts Privately Printed 1920. 1920. 8vo. Illustrated with facsimiles. 32 pages. Original printed stiff blue wrappers. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. F. Soft cover. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Privately Printed, 1920. paperback books
1968WRCLIT63645New York: Burt Franklin 1968. Small octavo. Cloth. Reprint of 1938 edition. Near fine lacking dust jacket. Burt Franklin hardcover books
1938WRCLIT83690Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1938. xiv2333pp. Gilt cloth. A near fine unopened copy without dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the compiler on the title-page and inscribed by her on the half- title. The inscription is to a great extent illegible a testament to Livingston's deteriorating eyesight. Harvard University Press hardcover books
193852081Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Original brown cloth binding with gilt stamping. The dust jacket is price-clipped and edgeworn with a lengthy closed tear to the rear panel a bit of chipping and some mild tanning along the spine and folds. A very good copy. <br/><br/> Harvard University Press hardcover books
196815771New York: Burt Franklin 1968. cloth. Kipling Rudyard. 8vo. cloth. xv 333 pages. Reprint of the 1938 first edition. Burt Franklin unknown books
192719340Chicago: The Bookfellows 1927. Limited ed. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth over light brown boards with gilt stamped titles. In original light brown slipcase. Slipcase about good plus. Worn at edges and separating at one corner by several inches. Book however remains fine and protected. Bright and clean throughout. 112pp. <br/><br/>From an edition of 285 copies printed on handmade Van Gelder paper. Includes an original pencil-signed etching as frontis one of fifteen different etchings used throughout the edition's copies. Contains a collection of poems printed in the Bookfellows' monthly magazine THE STEP LADDER. A charming collection. The Bookfellows hardcover books
1950UBAISOM00NJThe Museum 1950. Very Good. Bailey Flora L. Some Sex Beliefes and Practices in a Navaho Community. Cambridge MA: The Museum 1950. Reports of the Ramah Project Report Number 2. 108pp. 4to. Paperback Wraps. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. The Museum paperback books
198064543Santa Cruz: Alcatraz Editions 1980. First edition. 61 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers with sunned spine. Holograph review slip laid in. Santa Cruz: Alcatraz Editions, unknown books
192364120New York: Doran 1923. No "GHD" colophon or statement of edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. frontis portrait photos xvii 319p. dj. 19cm. Jacket chipped and rather worn. Name on endpaper. Moderate foxing. Dr. Albert Leroy Shelton and his wife Flora went to Eastern Tibet as Disciples of Christ medical missionaries in 1904. He was killed by bandits in 1922. <br/><br/> Doran hardcover books
19461372Garden City: Doubleday. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. The author's first book. First edition. Top edge lightly soiled else near fine in a very good dust jacket that has a couple of small chips and closed tears along the top of the front panel and at the spine crown. . Doubleday hardcover books
1891WRCAM43840San Francisco: C.A. Murdock & Co. 1891. pp.135-196. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn. Very good. Untrimmed and unopened. In a half morocco and cloth folding case spine gilt. This was the third in a series of monthly publications of short stories by Flora Loughead called "The Gold Dust Series." This is the story of a boy raised on a California mission who went on to a university education. Following that in this same publication is another short story called "Sealskin Annie." Under the name Flora Haines Apponyi from a previous marriage Loughead published a significant study of the private and public libraries of California. Her sons Allan and Malcolm would go on to form the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation forerunner of the aerospace giant. C.A. Murdock & Co. hardcover books
2014174673Nashville TN and London: Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Philip Wilson Publishers 2014. First edition. Hardcover. 244 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 31 2014 through January 25 2015. Edited by Trinita Kennedy who contributes essays as do Donal Cooper Holly Flora Amy Neff and Janet Robson. Includes numerous color illustrations. A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Philip Wilson Publishers unknown books
2006023991Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006. x 134p. b/w illus. original stiff wrappers. Wilfrid Laurier University Press unknown books
1976209212Washington DC & Baltimore: Printed at Diana Press for Quest 1976. Paperback. 80p. illustrations photos ads poetry essays etc. very good trade paperback journal in white pictorial wraps. Printed at Diana Press for Quest paperback books
2005Embry 178482Alfred A. Knopf 2005. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. B&W and color illustrations. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First U.S. edition. unknown books
195552499Laguna Beach California: Mermaid Books 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated with full-page black-and-white plates. The text discusses both Filipino dolls and costumes and includes notes on Philippine women and history. Inscribed and dated by Bass on the front flyleaf. Original blue cloth binding. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Some light wear along the extremities of the dust jacket; otherwise an especially crisp and clean copy. Inscribed by Author. <br/><br/> Mermaid Books hardcover books
19555235NLaguna Beach CA: Mermaid Books 1955. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author Flora Gardner Bass with a warm inscription. A delightful book consisting of full-page photographs of handcrafted dolls in costumes which show the influences of other cultures on the dress in the Philippines with commentary and historical information by the author. Bass was a WW II refugee from Manila who was awarded the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Ribbon by Gen. Douglas MacArthur “for fortitude and courage which contributed materially to the success of the Philippine campaignâ€. Fine in dust jacket. Mermaid Books unknown books
1986122099London England: Century Hutchinson 1986. cloth dust jacket. 8vo. cloth dust jacket. 224 pages. First edition. Table of contents introduction index notes on illustrations. Introduction by Julian Shuckburgh. Illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout text. Describes country life in late 19th century Oxfordshire. Century Hutchinson unknown books
2009276106New York: Knopf 2009. hardcover. fine/fine. Illustrated. xvi 287pp. 8vo cloth-backed boards d.w. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2009. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
1923SB2158San Francisco: The Book Club of California printed by The Grabhorn Press 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Lange Dorothea; H. Von Schmidt. No. 136 of 400 quarto size 140 pp. A tribute to Oscar Weil 1839-1921 born in New York and educated as a musician. When the Civil War started he enrolled in the Northern cause as a private and by the end of the war he was a Major; however injuries received during the war meant he could no longer be a violinist. He therefore turned to composing and settled in San Francisco where he also served as the music critic for the Argonaut newspaper; he was a man much loved by the community as attested to by this memoir. Frontispiece a tipped-in photograph by Dorothea Lange from a painting of Oscar Weil by Olga M. Ackerman; when this photograph was taken Dorothea Lange 1895-1965 was living in Berkeley having recently married the western painter Maynard Dixon. Printed by the Grabhorn Press the renowned publishers/printers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Brown laid paper boards with a black cloth spine red paper spine label with gold lettering and border red paper label on the front board with gold lettering and decorative border over a slightly larger black pastedown fore- and bottom edges uncut plain endpapers tissue-guarded frontispiece the photograph by Dorothea Lange of a painting of Oscar Weil as referred to above title page in red and black almost every page of text has red lettering for marginal notes and capital letters some of which are blue; quarto size approximately 11.5" tall pagination: i-xiv 1-119 blank 120 sectional title page "Compositions of Oscar Weil" 121 blank 122 3 pp. of compositions 123-125 colophon page 126. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Overall in near fine condition with a strong square text block solid hinges straight corners with no rubbing the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; there is a minor spot or two of soiling to the front board some light rubbing to the paper label on the front board a hint of rubbing to the head and tail of the spine the corners are straight with some light rubbing and the spine label is somewhat faded. <br/><br/>___CITATION: BCC 100 no. 19; Grabhorn Bibliography no. 58. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Book Club of California [printed by The Grabhorn Press] hardcover books
1923209953San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California 1923. Hardcover. xv 119p. plus an unpaginated list of compositions. Rubricated letterpress on laid-lined paperstock with blue initials at chapter heads hardbound in 11.5x7.5 inch brown paper over boards with black buckram spine and printed red spine and cover labels. The somewhat pedestrian casing belies a textblock with a wonderful limp feel; no.304 of 400 copies. Covers are somewhat worn the black spine slightly dim with a little color loss at head and tail spine label is faded to pink and nearly illegible cover label is edgeworn and dim corners are turned with card showing at the lower tips. There is pronounced ripple to many signatures although the casing is perfectly square; the frontis photo tissue-guarded has not aged well: no impacts to it but its surface has developed a glare; front hinge is partially cracked a four-inch-long gap. A good-only copy. Mr. Weil's prose is quite lively as an aside. Printed by the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California hardcover books
1967021153New York Etc.: McGraw-Hill Book Co 1967. 1st Edition. 270p. b/w illus. dj. McGraw-Hill Book Co unknown books
1941S8621Chicago:: Nobelle Publishing 1941. 1941. Second revised edition. Tall 8vo. xvi 144 pp. Frontis. photo folding tables biographies. Gilt stamped blue cloth; spine ends worn a bit scuffed ex-library marks including ms. spine no. rubber & perforated stamps title & bookplate. Good. Nobelle Publishing, (1941). hardcover books
1985210129New York: Abrams 1985. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 245 Illus. 81 in color. 4to crimson cloth d.w. New York: Abrams 1985. Fine<br/><br/> Abrams unknown books
