3rd edition hardcover rebound in what appears heavy tan linen, no titles on boards of spine. Innards tight but quite foxed. Names on fep. All there but not pretty. 532 p. Reading copy. View More...
Lovely copy in light blue boards illustrated with red drawings, lightly bumped at tips. Text tight bright. DJ in new mylar is a professional reproduction. 96 pp. A more than collectible copy of a hard to find hardcover offering. In this book the author tells the story of one market day in a country town, traces the history of the market and describes the changes which have taken place. He also describes the trade, agriculture and life of the neighborhood. There are two parts to every chapter in the book; the first is the author's part, the second serves as a guide to help the reader to find ou... View More...
Dark red 1st edition hardcover with gilt lettering has negligible wear. Off-white unclipped dj shows like new. 286 pages of tight & bright text with no tears or writing. This history has a special value to all university alumni, but, more important, it offers an enlightening record of the formative roll of the Baptist church in the development of southern education. View More...
First edition stapled paperback in golden background card covers show light handling soil. Illustrated in b/w. 72pp text is crisp and unmarked. There are many facets of Chartism that the author could have chosen to introduce us to, however, he decided to show the significant characters, the major events of August 1842, and just for fun, a few corrections to mistakes that have been consistently written into local history books since the 1880's. View More...
Stapled paperback in yellow background card covers. Illustrated in b/w. 62pp text is crisp and unmarked. his booklet [states the foreword], is intended to be a short history of one of the most significant and least written about periods of history in North Staffordshire. The Chartist movement was to be the catalyst to perhaps the greatest radical and violent political action that Staffordshire has ever experienced. There is a special section about Joseph Capper, one of the most enduring and interesting characters to come out of North Staffordshire. he was not a famous potter, or a member of... View More...
Stunning copy in black boards with bright gilt titles in unclipped dj in mylar. 144 pgs of pictorial history. Nostalgia Series captures the essence of each decade in a compelling and lively way by spotlighting the people and events, the fashions and enthusiasms unique to the period. This one (first published 1976) focuses on the Festival of Britain, flying saucers, books, films, with special attention to Westerns, new indepedent comic papers. 122pp, View More...
1st edition paperback with closed taped tear at head of front cover touched up with matching pen. 46 pp text clean and bright. A rare book for girls of Latter-day Saint's faith. Coloring and activity book with first page (title page) neatly colored, few items circled, few mazes completed and questions answered in ink, within the text but remains a presentable copy of an uncommon title. View More...
Brand new book in green leather boards with gilt ornamentation. A book of family history with only the title page and ownership leaf filled in, remainder of book void of personal information but full of the author's (Beatrice Bayley's) sources for anybody to search for their family roots. Includes a brief history of name origins, common names and their translations, meaning and origins of heraldry, genealogical jargon, forward lineage charts, personal history sheet, suggested references. Unpag, approx 230 pp. Appears to have been ordered from publisher Beatrice Bayley then never filled in. View More...
Tight bright 1st edition in orange cloth with sharp tips and spine ends. Exlib with pocket pulled but all pages present. 131 pp without tears or fingerprints. View More...
1st printing glossy, uncreased paperback with negligible color loss at tips from storage. 148pp text is fine, crisp and unread, no names tears or soil. Jane Beeson draws on her experience of hill farming in writing a narrative of poetry and prose - a personal portrayal of the moors from 1939 to the present day. View More...
Upper tip and head of spine slightly rubbed, one riny bit of color loss is 1/4" away from upper staple. 24 page stapled text is tight and bright. 7" x 9" souvenir booklet, color prints and word sketches of British Royalty starting with Egbert (802-839) to Queen Elizabeth II. Inside front cover is a genealogy chart depicting the line of descent for Queen Elizabeth II. View More...
Near fine 1st edition review copy hardcover. 144 pp text crisp and unread. Serious 'ding' on foot of both boards, bumped spine ends, review sticker on rear panel of dj, else fine. Help and rehabilitation boys home in Florida on the Suwannee River. View More...
1st edition hardcover with bumped spine ends and lightly shelf worn boards, text tight and bright. DJ in mylar looks VG. Exlib with all pages and pocket present. 192 pp. Includes: Intro/ Famous Women of the Eighteenth Century/ Angelica Kauffmann/ Jane Austin/ Elizabeth Fry/ Florence Nightingale/ Mrs. Beaton/ Mary Kingsley/ Mrs. Pankhurst/ Marie Curie. View More...
Author's Presentation Copy: Signed on fep "To Danny & Johnny, with best wishes from Mary Jo Borreson 1968". 1st edition hardcover in illustrated cloth with lightly brushed tips, illustrated yellow background boards show Papa Pilgrim chopping a log while two others assemble a cabin and his wife and son look on. Mayflower in harbour behind them. Library binding but NOT an exlib. 48 tight and bright pages with many duo-tone illustrations throughout View More...
16 pgs. Lovely undated copy with light sticker mark at upper fore edge of frt cover, else fine. No names, tears or soil. Includes: America's Greatest Eighteenth Century Achievement/ Washington's Dream - Opening Up the West/ Mount Vernon Compact/ Washington - Patowmack Company President/ Improving River Navigation/ Plans for Five By-Pass Canals/ Building the Canal at Great Falls/ Completion of the Canal at Great Falls/ Canal Commerce/ Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. View More...
1st edition hardcover in turquoise cloth covered boards with lightly sunned spot on spine. Sharp tips and spine ends w/color loss only, no rubbing. 160 pp crisp and unmarked. Unclipped DJ in new mylar has very light color loss at extremities, small chip at head of spine and 1 in closed tear at head of rear panel. This early culture in the Western Hemisphere, its swift collapse at the hands of the conquistadors, and its heyday when they ruled a vast wealthy South American empire 600 years ago. View More...
4th Edition hardcover in olive green cloth covered boards with black titles, thistles and castle drawing on frt cover. Tips and spine ends bumped with light color loss but no rug through. Small ink name on frt pastedown, pencil name/addy on fep, rest of the 168 pp book is crisp, clean an unmarked showing no tears, and is not a former library book. Twenty stories, or "memories" of factual Scottish history plus tales of folk lore of this legendary "Castle on the Hill." 20 Memories are as follows: 1. The Passing of a Queen, A.D. 1093 2. A Perilous Climb, A.D. 1312 3. The Black Dinner A.D. 14... View More...
Back cover has a small sticker pull at the bottom of the page, else fine inside and out. 42 pp. A Massachusetts Historical Society Picture Book. Being selections from an Exhibition Prepared by Charles D. Childs & Sinclair H. Hitchings. Filled w/black and white photos of vintage books, works of art, manuscripts etc. View More...
Tight bright beige cloth hardcover with partial cup ring on frt board, tips fairly sharp, spine ends lightly bumped. Exlib with pocket and all pages present. Hinges fine. 300pp. Internally crisp and bright. Relates in vigorous prose the tale of Aeneas, the legendary ancestor of Romulus, who escaped from the burning city of Troy and wandered the Mediterranean for years before settling in Italy. View More...
