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pp. xvii, 591, (12) [Catalogue of Mr. Hamerton's Works] + Engraved portrait Frontis. Stamped "from the Library of Rev. Carl Davis Bader". Top edge gold. Endpapers, portrait frontis and title slightly foxed. Penciled ownership of S.S. Rogers on title page. Penciled margin marks. Large 8vo. Original full lime green cloth binding, lettered in gold. Binding rubbed. Hardbound. PA69/STACK LEFT
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Third impression. With 22 plates. Loss to dust jacket on lower half of spine and wear to spine edges and small loss at top and corners. Book has a little wear to top/tail of spine. Foxing on page edges.
229 pages plus bibliography. Follows a strictly-based, educated Wyoming girl through the sweep of sparsely-homesteaded northern Alberta to cross the Rockies and pause for a time of heart-ache and new beginnings in British Columbia's Robson Valley, before moving on to the awesome landscape of Canada's arctic. Includes black and white illustrations. "She was a young school teacher, and he was a homesteader with sawmilling in his blood. When he asked her to marry him, she never dreamed of the places they would go, or the situations she would find herself in. but it wouldn't have mattered - she'd have married him anyway. Prior owner's name atop front flyleaf else unmarked. Light wear. Very nice copy. Book
Cute elementary school text book. Orange cloth boards with black and green illustrations on cover. Wear to edges and corners. Lovely color illustrations. 320 pages.
78 pages. Features: Olaf Skoogfors obituary; American Craft 1976 - Affirmations; Works in Wood - Robert Strini; Guild of Book Workers; The Paper Constructions of Neda Al-Hilali; The American Indian and the American flag; School for American Craftsmen - 25th Anniversary; Maria Martinez - Pueblo Potter; Glenda Arentzen's Magic Metal; The Design of Gae Aulenti; Forged Iron Today; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
116 pages. Features: Reports on Tropical Africa, Australia, Science and Industry; Bugles and a Tiger - Adventure on India's Frontier, by John Masters; The Way the New India Thinks, by Aubrey Menen; Christmas Eve at Chartres (a poem), by Winifred Hare; Billingsley's Bird Dog, by Dillon Anderson; The Bounds of Space and Time - How Long Will the World Last?, by Crary Moore; Hark, Hark, the Lark (a poem) by Marie De L. Welch; Creating a School, by Agnes and Ernest Hocking; The Army Invades the Wichita Mountains, by Clark C. Van Fleet; Dr. Flesch's Cure-all, by Virgil M. Rogers; The Spoiled Honeymoon, by Robert Graves; Renewals if Needed - They Shall Have Music, by John M. Conly. Color ad by the European Travel Commission inside front cover. Fantastic colour photo ad for RCA Victor Colour Televisions on page 19 features family and home in white; Color full-page ad for Old Smuggler Scotch on page 20. Columbia Records ad on page 32 features large black and white photo portrait of Winston Churchill. Very attractive colour ad for Drambuie inside back cover features Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745. Nice color ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
66 pages. From the Collier-Macmillan Reading Program. Preprimer 3. Canadian Edition. School stamp upon title page and black marker marks on back cover. A charming primary level reader. Book
pp. xiv, 169. 8vo. Original marbled boards. Spine taped. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 8
84 pages. Many literary contributions, nice local ads and much more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy of this great memento. Book
240 pages. Commemorates the centennial in a fascinating visual history of the school. Lovingly illustrated in black and white with hundreds of photographs and reminiscences. Prior owner's name atop front endpaper else clean and unmarked with very light wear overall. Excellent copy. Book
20 pages. Reprint of the 1946 first edition. Reproductions of many archival black and white photos. "The reminiscent stories and pictures of our diistrict herein make this a priceless souvenir." - from inside front cover. Topics include: New Denver in Olden Days, Eldorado Named, Poverty Flat, Hotels, Industries, Farms, Recreation, S.S. Wm. Hunter, Mines, Roads of the Community, Water, Lights and Electricity, Water, Parks, Bridges, Railways, Schools, Hospitals, Telephones, Police and Law, Telephones, Mail, Fires, Wharves, Churches, Beauties of New Denver, Newspapers, Eli Carpenter, R.T. Lowery, William Thomlinson, The Japanese in New Denver - recreation, logging, schools, summer school, sanitorium, crematorium. Four hand-written corrections to celebration details on red card covers, otherwise moderate wear. Binding sound. Book
471p. + Plus Frontis and full page plates. Frontis slightly damp stained. A few pencil marks. Lacks front fly leaf. Sm. 8vo. Original full red leather spine over publisher's cloth boards. Spine lettered in gold and embossed in blind. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA64 TOP
pp. 248, (8) [Publisher's catalogue of school books] + Plus Frontis and full page plates. Slightly damp stained. Foxed. Early inked ownership of Henry Dissinger, Dec. 1882. Engraved plates of horses and a cow pasted on fly leaves. Sm. 8vo. Original leather spine over publisher's cloth boards. Spine lettered in gold and embossed in blind. Boards stained. Hardbound. PA64 TOP
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 295 pages with sections on Victoria and school days, Teignmouth, Eli Harrison, Tom pool murder, Eastern Thakur, Parliament buildings, etc.
5 vols., [of 6], roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with numerous mounted portraits toned in sepia; ivory boards, oatmeal holland backs, upper boards and backstrips with printed paper labels, gilt tops, uncut, blue silk markers, boards mildly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, crisp run. One of the finest and most comprehensive of the public school WWI rolls of honour. The run comprises Vol. I: 23 August 1914 to 20 March 1915; Vol. II: 31 March 1915 to 11 September 1915; Vol. III: 13 September 1915 to 3 July 1916; 5 July 1916 to 11 April 1917; Vol. V: 11 April 1917 to 10 April 1918. A crisp run tragically wanting the sixth and final volume. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 256 pages. 8 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. Slight edge wear to cover and dust jacket. Many color photos.
178 p. + Illustrations. Cloth binding.
Veduta panoramica di Roma presa da Ponte Milvio, tratta dal celebre dipinto di Richard Wilson, finemente incisa da Thomas Hasting nel 1824. Wilson (Montgomeryshire, 1º agosto 1714 – Denbighshire, 15 maggio 1782) è stato un pittore gallese e uno dei membri fondatori della Royal Academy nel 1768. Thomas Hastings era un pittore dilettante, disegnatore, acquerellista e incisore di paesaggi, vedute topografiche, soggetti marini e scene della costa. Nato Thomas Barnett; cambiò il suo cognome in Hastings nel 1812, con il quale espose e pubblicò dopo questa data. Ufficiale dell'esercito britannico 1795-1811, capitano dal 1799. Ufficiale di dogana dal 1819. Esposto alla Royal Academy of Arts, Society of Painters in Watercolours, British Institution, Liverpool Academy e Hibernian Academy. Socio dell'Accademia di Liverpool. Uno dei fondatori della Società degli Arcieri di Carisbrooke nel 1829. Incisione in rame, in ottimo stato di conservazione. Bibliografia Marianne A Yule, Captain Thomas Hastings (1778–1854): His full identity revealed, in “The British Art Journal”, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Autumn 2015), pp. 56-69. A panoramic view of Rome taken from Ponte Milvio, on the Tiber. After a painting of Richard Wilson and engraved by Thomas Hastings. Richard Wilson RA (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was an influential Welsh landscape painter, who worked in Britain and Italy. With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake. Thomas Hastings was an amateur painter, draughtsman, watercolour artist and etcher of landscapes, topographical views, marine subjects and coast scenes. Born Thomas Barnett; changed his surname to Hastings in 1812, under which name he exhibited and published after this date. Officer in the British Army 1795-1811, Captain from 1799. Customs Officer from 1819. Exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, Society of Painters in Watercolours, British Institution, Liverpool Academy and Hibernian Academy. Associate of the Liverpool Academy. One of the founders of the Society of Carisbrooke Archers in 1829. A fine impression, printed on contemporary laid paper, good condition. Bibliografia Marianne A Yule, Captain Thomas Hastings (1778–1854): His full identity revealed, in “The British Art Journal”, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Autumn 2015), pp. 56-69.
90 pages. Articles: How to Beat the Communists - by UAW (United Auto Workers') chief Walter Reuther; Walter Winchell - Aan American Phenomenon - a study of the fastest talker on the airwaves; Our Lights are Going Out - electrical power shortage; John N. Garner's Story (part 2) - the former Vice-President tells of his most serious disagreement with Mr. Roosevelt; Hot-Sun Hockey - The Pacific Coast goes for hockey in a big way - article with color photos including the Fresno Falcons playing the Los Angeles Monarchs; Boys at Work - this school reforms tough kids. Fiction: Jason Hazard's Swim; The Female Circumstance; Cupid Up the Bayou!; The Farmer's Face; The Mysterious Way; Interruptions, Interruptions. Nostalgic ads include: Old Thompson Whiskey; Packard cars; GMC trucks (nice!); Nash cars; Oldsmobile two-page color ad; Dodge Trucks; Lord Calver liquor ad featuring one-page color photo portrait of Richard C. Kettles, Jr. and his boxer Worlord; Chrysler color centerfold features cowboy scene; Chevrolet trucks; Botany 500; Samson card tables; Kleenex (featuring Little Lulu); Wow! - two-page color ad for Roma Wines features large image of Jane Russell; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features rodeo star Jerry Ambler, fisher Dorothy Allan Newstead, polo star Cecil Smith and table-tennis star Mary Reilly. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
27 pages. Features: Iroquois cultural history carved in stone; Arts Safety; Interview with Ron Noganosh - Will the Canoe Ever Look the Same?; Back to School for Native Artists and Artisans; Photo of Joe Jacobs receiving Order of Canada; Visual Cadence - Rebecca Belmore at Club Saw; and more. Average wear. Bit of writing on page 23, otherwise unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
xii, 147, 2 [ads] pp. Index. "Beitrage zur Konjunkturforschung - Herausgegeben vom Osterreichischen Institut fur Konjunkturforschung nr. 1" - front cover. Text in German. In 1933 this work appeared for the first time in English as "Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle". Hayek went on to share the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. Moderate wear to original brown paper wrappers. Binding sound. Small chip from top of backstrip. Top corners of last five leaves were folded. Several mostly imperceptible pencil erasures in first 66 pages. A well-preserved example of the first edition of this, Hayek's first book. Masui p.1277, Cohen 184, Cody & Ostrem B-1. Book
94 pages plus 3 pages of advertisements at back. "The five lectures which are here reproduced are necessarily confined to certain aspects of the wide subject indicated by the title. They are printed essentially as they were delivered." - from Preface. Lectures include: National Monetary Systems; The Function and Mechanism of International Flows of Money; Independent Currencies; International Capital Movements; The Problems of a Really International Standard. Blue cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering legible upon spine despite moderate sunning. Binding and hinges intact. Unmarked. Average wear. Very light foxing to front endpaper - even less to back endpaper. Moderate foxing to edges. A sound copy. COHEN 916, MACHLUP B-3. Book
162 pages plus advertisements. Includes the following four lectures: Theories of the Influence of Money on Prices; The Conditions of Equilibrium Between the Production of Consumers' Goods and the Production of Producers' Goods; The Working of the Price Mechanism in the Course of the Credit Cycle; The Case for and Against an 'Elastic' Currency. Appendix: Capital and Industrial fluctuations - a reply to criticism. No. 107 in the series of Monographs by writers connected with the London School of Economics and Political Science. Average wear. Prior owner's address and his Yale University address upon front endpaper else unmarked. Cohen 183, Cody & Ostrem B-2, Hutchinson 912. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and a plate in monochrome; original beige pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red and black, gilt edges, a remarkably crisp, clean copy. With a prize bookplate on front paste-down. Scarce.
