BALLET THEATRE
New York: Ballet Theatre, 1951. Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pictorial Cover. 38 pp. With reproduction of Cocteau sketch for backdrop of the production for 'L'Amout at Son Amour". Slight damp stain of upper 2" of text. More
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You Who Can Help
Boston: Small, Maynard, 1918. 296p, Signed by the author on the title page. From the library of Martha Howey Melissa with her bookplate. Churchill was the wife of an American army officer who worked as an agent for the American Fund for the French Wounded. She depicts French life under..... More
Food Security. New Solutions for the Twenty-First Century. Proceedings from the Symposium Honoring the Tenth Anniversary of the World Food Prize.
Ames, IA; (1999): Iowa State University Press. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 420pp. A collection of articles and essays on important topics of world hunger, sustainable agriculture and food production in the 21st century. References. Bound in green clorh lettered and stamped in gilt, spine lettring gilt. A fine copy..... More
Notes Taken in Sixty Years
St. Louis: R.P. Studley & Co., 1883. First Edition. Octavo. [4] 336 pp., frontispiece portrait of author (artotype photographic process). First issue (with the artotype portrait present). Elliott includes a very humorous account of his aborted attempt to emigrate from Pittsburgh to Texas in 1837 when he encountered the fine..... More
Aviation: An Historical Survey from Its Origins to The End of World War II
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. 316pp. From the antiquity of dreams & myth, through the 16th-to-18th centuries, and smaller intervals of important years thereafter in the history of powered flight. Illustrated with photographs of all forms of powered flight: flops and failures, as well as the..... More
Little and Good and the Giant and the Pigmy
Oxford; nd. Basil Blackwell. Octavo. 29pp. illustrated in black & white by May Smith. One of a series of books Housman and other authors produced. Bound in color pictorial paper over boards, spine had been reglued. A good copy of this charming children's book. More
A Complete Genealogy of the Descendents of Matthew Smith of East Haddam, Conn., With Mention of His Ancestors, 1637-1890
Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1890. Cloth/hard Cover. Quarto. 269p. A near fine copy of a scarce genalogical work. More
Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English Grammar and Beyond
Amsterdam/Philadelphia; (2009): John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2009. First Edition. Large Octavo. This books brings together fresh corpus based research by international scholars contrasting southern and northern hemisphere usage on variable elements of morphology and syntax. Australian and New Zealand use of hypocoristics and changes in gendered expressions are also analyzed..... More
My Mysteries
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1924. Paper Boards. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 123p. Bright cover with photo inset of Ivor Smith amid cards and tricks. Bound in stiff yellow paper boards with advertisements on back cover. This copy has survived quite well usually copies have lost spine this..... More
The Wassail Bowl
London: Richard Bentley, 1843. First Edition. Small Octavo. In two volumes illustrated by John Leech, 252pp., 249pp., (2)pp. ad at rear, half-titles and frontispieces present, bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in blind, nicely rebacked with original pictorial gilt spine laid down, some corner and edge wear, frontispieces have browning..... More
Maggie-Now
New York; (1958): Harper and Brothers. First Edition. Octavo. 437pp. After her success with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the author now traces the story of Maggie-Now whose faither left Ireland at the end of the 19th century and his misadventures in coming to America. She is now carrying for..... More
Ultra-Magic Deals and the Most Secret Special Relationship 1940-1946
Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing Ltd. 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Ocatvo. 276pp., index. During World War II the United States and Great Britain signed secret pacts agreeing to merge the code- and cipher- breaking (cryptan-alytic) operations they were directing against Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan. Near Fine/Near Fine. More
Genius Loci and Other Tales
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1948. First Edition Limited. Small Octavo. . 228 pages. Derleth writing in the English Journal traces the cosmic horror themes which he feels is among the best, agreeing with what Lovecraft had written earlier. This book represents that Lovecraftian concept. Jaffrey #35 reports 3,047 copies..... More
Glendale: Century of Diversity, an Illustrated History
Glendale, AZ; (1992: City of Glendale, Arizona. First Edition. Quarto. 184pp. History of Glendale, illustrated with color and black and white photographs. With a special chapter highlighting many entrepreneurs who helped the city grow adding richly to Glendale's diversity.A very good copy with white spot to front and rear boards..... More
Rocky Mountain West, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana 1859-1015
Albuqueque; (1992): University of New Mexico Press. First Edition. Octavo. 290 pp. The lively history of Colorado, Wyoming and Montana from 1859-1915, the era of booms and busts, of a scramble for property and profits on the part of the railroads, miners, and cattle ranchers. Bound in blue cloth, spine..... More
Stephen Foster or Weep No More My Lady
Knoxville, TN; (1936: The Foster Players. Octavo. 3rd edition, signed and inscribed by the author to H. H. Fuson dated 1936.136 pp. A play with musical scores written and composed by Stephen Foster. A very good copy bound in black decorative clioth lettered in gilt, spine plain... More
Incidents Among Shot and Shell; the only authentic work extant giving the many tragic and touching incidents that came under the notice of the United States Christian Commission during the long years of the Civil War
(Philadelphia, 1868): Edgewood Publishing Company. First Edition. Octavo. 512 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates, index, The work of the U.S. Christian Commission depended on the donated services of 4,859 Protestant ministers and laypersons including the famed evangelist D.L. Moody who was among the first to deal with the wounded..... More
Incidents of the United States Christian Commission
Philadlephia: J.B. Lippincott, 1869. Octavo. The first edition of this work was published in 1868 under the title Incidents Among Shot and Shell. The title was changed and reissued the following year under the present title … "a more peaceful title". 512 pages, index, illustrations. This copy is inscribed by..... More
A Dissertation on the Prophecies Relative to Antichrist and the Last Times; Exhibiting the Rise, Character, and Overthrow of That Terrible Power; and a Teatise on the Seven Apocalypitc Vials
Charlestown, Massachusetts: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1811. Octavo. xiv, [17]-380 pages. One of the classic works of millennialism in the 19th Century. He calculates that the reign of Christ will begin in 1866 though he admits the calculation may not be exactly correct; however, are close to the reign of Christ..... More
Elizabethian Critical Essays, Edited with an Introduction by G. Gregory Smith (2 volumes).
Oxford, (1959): Oxford University Press. Octavo. 2 volume set. From the sheets of the first edition. Volume I, xcii, 431 pages; Volume I, iv, 599 pages, index. This remains one of the great collections of criticism from the 16th century including the often-neglected essay by Sir Philip Sidney's An Apology..... More
Phytoplankton of the Inland Lakes of Wisconsin, Part II Desmidiaceae
Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1924. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 227pp., index, diagrams. Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, Serial No. 1270, General Series No. 1048. This bulletin constitutes part II of Bulletin 57 of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. Cloth has some age..... More
Legends of the Old West Trail
Deadwood, SD: Old West Trail Association, 1968. Oblong 16mo. [24] unnumbered pages, illustrated by Frank Holub, published in the first year of the association in a very small print run, issues are not found in OCLC. Each legend deals with such figures as Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Theodore Roosevelt..... More
T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays, a Study in Sources and Meaning
Chicago(1956): University of Chicago Press. Poetry and Plays: a Study in Sources and Meaning. Octavo. 356 pages, notes, index. After first publishing his study of Eliot's Poetry, he now contributes an examination of the plays and in the work has created a useful synthesis. He would agree there is no..... More
FIRST NIGHTS AND FIRST EDITIONS
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1931. Limited Edition. Octavo. Autograph edition limited to 250 signed by the author, 325pp., bound in 3/4 black cloth over light brown cloth, spine lettering and top edge gilt, previous owner's name, light finger soiling and wear to spine ends otherwise a very nice copy..... More
Rough Rhymes of a Cowboy
The Mail Box. Orginal Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to., 42pp. Almost 40 poems, done in the rough-structured manner of trail wise cowboys. Inscribed by "Blackie" on front cover. Printed wrappers. More