Author contributions include Elbridge S. Brooks, John G. Whittier, Rev. Samuel Longfellow, Harriet Lewis Bradley, Culling Clive Eardley, and Louise Imogen Guiney. 114 pp. Blue cloth covers with white/silver decorative spine. Covers in Poor condition with corner and edges bumped and rubbed, dirt/stains completely over the cover faces and spine, cloth is bubbling, spine is rubbed and faded, spine ends are bent. Gilt page edges. Browning and stains to endpapers. Hinges are loose. Interior pages have some dog-earred corners, some browning. Book in Fair to Good- condition. View More...
168 pp. Olive cloth covers with gilt image of flowers, faded gilt title lettering on front and spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed to boards, edges rubbed, fading to color, dirt smudges and wear to cover faces, rubbing to joints, wear to spine, spine ends are torn and fraying. Loose hinges. Foxing to endpapers and throughout interior pages. Spine broken within interior. Browning along edges of interior. Book in Good- to Good condition. View More...
Illustrated by A. B. Frost. Blue decorative cloth covers with image of front door on front and gilt lettering on front and spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed to boards, edges rubbed with some small patches of board exposed, moderate scuffing/bubbling to cover faces, rubbed areas on joints. Spine ends are bent, fraying and torn. Gilt top page edge. Cocked spine. Front hinge broken, back hinge and spine loose. Interior page edges browning, some foxing spots. Book in Good condition. View More...
"Note. Governour Dudley was one of the five undertakers of the Settlement of Massachusetts, and came over with the Charter in 1630. The following Letter, addressed to the Countess of Lincoln, in whose family he had been steward nine or ten years, was written nine months after his arrival, and contains the events pertaining to the Colony during that period." 19 pp. String-tied document. Many pages uncut. Page edges are chipped and some small tears, corners creased. Foxing and browning throughout, text is easily legible. Document in Good/Good+ condition. View More...
214 pp. Green cloth covers with gilt title lettering on front and spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges rubbed, scuffing to cover faces, rubbing to joints, spine ends and corners are bent and fraying, with small tears. Cocked spine. Faded red top page edge. Uncut page edges. Tears and stain to page edge on front pages, rest of interior is slightly browning, some foxing marks. Book in VG- condition. View More...
"This book is the natural outgrowth of a friendship between artist and author - the one a Spaniard, the other familiar from youth with Spain, and both lovers of the book wherein are recounted the adventures of the good Knight and of his faithful Squire." 239 pp. Illustrated by Daniel Vierge. Gift inscription by author on second free endpaper. Maroon cloth covers with gilt imprint of Quixote on his steed on front cover, faded gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners and edges are bumped and rubbed, cover faces are scuffed and darkened along edges, spine is discolored and faded, wear to jo... View More...
"No More Words is a moving and compassionate memoir of the final seventeen months of Reeve's mother's life.... Anyone who has had to care for an elderly parent disabled by Alzheimer's or stroke will understand immediately the heartache and anguish Reeve suffered and will find comfort in her story." 174 pp. Trade paperback with image of author on front cover. Gift inscription from author to previous owner on front free endpaper, along with previous owner's name written at top. Light wear to cover corners and edges, spine is bent and spine ends are worn. Interior pages are tight, clean. ... View More...
122 pp. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Cover corners are bumped, fraying and rubbed to boards, edges rubbed, fading to lettering on spine, spine ends are bent and torn. Water damage on bottom of book with bubbling/rippling/fading to cover faces, water stains to endpapers and page edges, some stains on interior of book. Writing on front inside cover, gift inscription on back of front free endpaper. Bookstore sticker on back inside cover. Significant tear to bottom of page 109-10. Foxing to interior, otherwise tight. Book in Good- condition. Scarce. View More...
"...will forever alter our fundamental view of television and what it has brought to and stolen from our lives." 261 pages with index. Cream paper hard cover with red cloth spine. Very light wear to cover corners and edges, spine ends are bent. DJ in VG+ condition with slight wear to edges, corners and spine ends, small scuff on front of jacket. Uncut page edges. Interior pages are crisp, clean, easily legible. Book in VG+ to NF condition. View More...
"To most of us the sea is an adventure to which we gladly go and from which we return with relief. To others it is romance, vaguely enticing, dimly alluring, always maintaining its distance. To Captain Nelson the sea is a place where men are bred, toil, live, struggle and so reach their desired haven." 374 pp. Blue cloth covers with image of boats on front cover, title in gilt on front and spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges rubbed, light wear/scuffing to cover faces, wear to spine, spine ends are bent and starting to fray. Spine slightly cocked. Interior pages are lightl... View More...
"The letters, of which this publication presents choice excerpts, deserve to be published in their entirety, for they are in a very real sense the beginnings of at least one of the important news services upon which the informed public in our modern world has come to depend." 41 pp. Light blue stiff paper covers with light wear to corners and edges, spine ends rubbed. Interior pages are tight, clean, no marks. Pamphlet in VG+ condition. View More...
Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous Places and People, Being The Identical Discourses Delivered During The Past Eighteen Years Under The Title of The Stoddard Lectures. Tells the world travels of John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931), a teacher, author and lecturer. 304 pp. 58 pages of index and list of illustrations. Red marbled board with dark brown leather corners and spine, gilt title on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed to boards, edges rubbed, significant wear to leather with tears and chipping, spine worn, spine ends are torn and fraying. Gilt top page edge.... View More...
Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous Places and People, Being The Identical Discourses Delivered During The Past Eighteen Years Under The Title of The Stoddard Lectures. Tells the world travels of John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931), a teacher, author and lecturer. 336 pages with index and list of illustrations. Red marbled board with dark brown leather corners and spine, gilt title on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed to boards, edges rubbed, significant wear to leather with tears and chipping, spine worn, spine ends are torn and fraying. Gilt top page edge. Spin... View More...
Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous Places and People, Being The Identical Discourses Delivered During The Past Eighteen Years Under The Title of The Stoddard Lectures. Tells the world travels of John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931), a teacher, author and lecturer. 336 pages with index and list of illustrations. Red marbled board with dark brown leather corners and spine, gilt title on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed to boards, edges rubbed, significant wear to leather with tears and chipping, spine worn, spine ends are torn and fraying. Gilt top page edge. Flor... View More...
As written on the included lay-in message from the President and Chairman of Hooker Electrochemical Company: "This is the story of the Hooker Electrochemical Company. It was written to celebrate our fiftieth anniversary and to acquaint our employees, customers and friends with Hooker's growth and progress." 109 pp. B/W photographs throughout. Orange cloth covers. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed, top back corner is rubbed exposing board, minor soiling to cover faces, spine is faded, spine ends are rubbed. Residue on front free endpaper and back of lay-in (residual adhesive?).... View More...
144 pages with bibliography. Red brick cloth covers with gilt title lettering on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges rubbed, soiling and scuffing to cover faces, small holes in joints, spine is worn, spine ends are bent and fraying. Stains to top page edge. Slightly cocked spine. Previous owners' names written on front free endpaper. Evidence of water damage on back inside cover, with stains to top page edge of back pages. Some foxing on interior pages, discoloration to top edges. Book in Good- to Good condition. View More...
"There have been collected in the accompanying volume a set of studies prepared by present or former members of the department of Romance Languages in the Johns Hopkins University and recent lecturers before that department. These studies were planned to celebrate the completion of Professor Elliott's thirty-fifth year of service in the University, and were to be offered to him as a mark of his pupils' esteem for their teacher and an evidence of the profit they have derived from his scholarly example." Volume I: 450 pp. Fold-out map. Volume II: 334 pp. Brown cloth covers with gilt titl... View More...
"This collection of individual memories of children growing up is filled with the hilarity of youthful ignorance played out in a time over fifty years ago, in a place that had its own unique differences, its own way of doing things. We can bring back the past and we can even profit from it." 301 pp. Trade paperback. Signed/gift inscription by several authors and the illustrator on the title page: Joy Holcome Turnage, Mike Mahan, Gene Baldwin, Ed Givhan, Ray Fowler, Gene Baldwin and Laurie Binion (illustrator). There's another autograph on title page, but unable to determine who the sig... View More...
An Address Delivered Before The Georgia Historical Society, at Savannah on the 5th of December, 1887. Printed for the Society. 25 pp. Blue paper covers. Ink numbers written on front cover top corner, cover edges are chipped and darkened, covers are soiled, back lower spine corner is torn and missing, top spine end is also torn. Front cover loose and nearly detached from rest of document. Document creased in middle throughout. Interior pages clean. Document in Good condition. View More...
"How does a great novel come into being? What is its genesis? How does it develop?...These and similar questions often come to the mind of every reader of fiction-and they have never been answered with such frankness, honesty , and conviction as in this brief "credo" of an outstanding American novelist." 93 pp. Published in 1936, stated "D-7-58[MH]" on copyright page. Lavender cloth covers. DJ in Good+ condition with chipping/browning to edges, discoloration on front, tear to spine ends and larger tear on spine, not price-clipped. Cover corners and edges are bumped and... View More...
