Volume I only. Book in good condition. Pages intact and unmarked but yellowed with age. Binding strong and tight, but hinge beginning to feel brittle. Spine creased. Name of former owner on front endpapers but blacked out with marker. This is volume one of the special Certaldo edition of the Decameron limited to 1550 copies. The second volume is missing. View More...
Limited Edition (#: F 544) No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. Gently read. Includes glassine pocket inside back cover is an embossed invitation to the Inauguration. . . . . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * Introduction: A Message from the Chairman by Dale Miller -- * PART I: THE LEADERS OF AMERICA: 1.) A Study in Leadership by William S. White -- 2.) America's First Family by Marie Smith -- 3.) America's First Lady by Doris Fleeson -- 4.) Young Lyndon Johnson by Rebekah Bains Johnson -- 5.) Hubert Horatio Humphrey by Winthrop Griffith -- 6.) The Humphrey Fami... View More...
Quarter leather with gilt decorations and edges. Silk ribbon. CLEAN!! No marks. Might as well be new. Appears unread. Fine edition of this classic, from the Oxford Library of the World's Great Books. View More...
HARDBACK - Signed and inscribed by Author. Limited Edition - 1 of 500. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. .................Leonard Foster was a well known poet who was born in Brooklyn OH in 1840 and who also served in the Civil War..............Mr. Foster was only eight years old when he composed his first poem, consisting of less than thirty words. Since then he has been a constant and prolific writer of poems and gem thoughts, the total of which runs into many hundreds. His published works include 'Whisperings of Nature,' which ran through five editions; 'Blosso... View More...
Limited Edition (1,145 of 3,010) No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. No DJ as issued. . . . . FROM THE INTRODUCTION: The art of essay-writing is peculiar: some of the greatest have never indulged in it and yet literature would be poorer without the essays of Bacon, Montaigne, Emerson and Schopenhauer. I had never thought of writing essays; but my friend Esar Levine who knows my writings better than I know them myself, insists that my fugitive attempts are worthy of enduring form. Naturally I was easy to persuade and they are now assembled in a book for my readers t... View More...
1991 reprint of the 3rd Edition (1856), Number 703 of 900 published. Previous owner's name inside front cover. No marks or writing observed in text. No dust jacket as issued. Binding tight and square. GEntly read if at all. . . . . . . . The Westminster Assembly of Divines was a council of divines and members of the English Parliament appointed from 1643 to 1653 to restructure the Church of England. Several Scots also attended, and the Assembly's work was adopted by the Church of Scotland. As many as 121 ministers were called to the Assembly, with nineteen others added later to replace t... View More...
No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. . . . . This facsimile of a manuscript volume by Ian Jackson and Ann Arnold is published by Serendipity Books in an edition of 500 copies in November 1996. It is inspired by the Indian maharaja and cricketer Ranjitsinhji (1872-1933), who was noted for the simplicty of his private life and for the extravagance of his taste in public ceremony ... View More...
Limited Edition 705 of 1,000 - 4 Volume Set (Cambridge - 1902) Ex-library with usual marks. No marks noted in text. Binding are sound with wear and lightly shaken. Cloth along back gutter of Vol I is torn. Deckled front and bottom edges with some pages uncut) View More...
Limited Edition #2138 / Signed by Belle Case La Follette and Robert M. La Follette Jr. on tipped in Memorial Edition page - Stated 8th Edition/Memorial Edition - . No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. No DJ. Cover has light wear at extremities. View More...
1st Edition / Limited Edition (#52 Of 300 - in writing by author - assumed). Inscribed By Author - assumed. Clean!! No Marks. Might As Well Be New. Appears Unread. . . . . . . . . Now on a mission to find out what the professor was looking for in Sedona, the survivors from Port Aransas continue their journey, unknowing and in constant conflict with their own denials about the end of the world. They soon find that to raise the Djed is to become invincible but the search for the ceremonial hall abandoned by the ancient Anasazi tribe just might kill them first. Who can they really trust? What wa... View More...
Limited Printing (1 of 500) Ex-library with usual marks. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. J. S. Canner 1965 Reprint From The Original 1904 Edition (This Reprint Edition Limited Printing Of 500) View More...
Stated 1st Printing (Random House 1950) This is number 331 of a Limited Edition specially made for presentation to the Booksellers of America. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . . In 1950, Schulberg published The Disenchanted, about a young screenwriter who collaborates on a screenplay about a college winter festival with a famous novelist at the nadir of his career. The novelist (who was then assumed by reviewers to be a thinly disguised portrait of Fitzgerald, who had died ten years earlier) is portrayed as a tragic and flawed figure, with ... View More...
#337 of only 3,000 printed - In slipcase - No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. Book in slipcase. Slipcase has surface scuffing from where price sticker was removed. ......................... Laszlo Matulay was a prolific designer, illustrator, fine art painter and educator right up until his death in 1999 at age 86. Despite Matulay's wide ranging career and position as one of New York's most sought after illustrators in the mid-to late-20th century ? one of the most pivotal eras in graphic design history ? his name is relatively unknown today. So... View More...
Limited Edition (1 of 425) No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. 425 copies (2nd Edition) have been printed on Japan Vellum and type distributed,in the month of August 1900 at the press of George D. Loring, Portland ME. Tope edge uncut. View More...
CLEAN!! No marks. Might as well be new. Appears unread. . . . . . . . . . Jonathan Williams, poet, essayist, hiker, photographer. has here gathered quotes from far & wide, from high & low; from Neo-Platonist Thomas Taylor and Henry David Thoreau to Carlos Toadvine and The Town Drunk of Tarboro, North Carolina. A more eclectic quote book would be hard to imagine. View More...
1 of 1,500 copies printed - CLEAN!! No marks. Might as well be new. Appears unread. . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * Foreword by Winston Tabb -- * Acknowledgments by Cynthia Requardt -- * Introduction by Richard J. Schrader -- 1.) Richard Frary Collections by Richard Frary -- 2.) A Little-known side of Mencken by Robert A. Wilson -- 3.) Bibliography: 3.1.1) Separate publications -- 3.1.2) Collections -- 3.2.) First appearances in books and pamphlets -- 3.3.) Periodical appearances -- 3.4.) Juvenilia, jokes, ephemera, and other private printings -- 3.5.) Keepsakes, offprint... View More...
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