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Price: $28.00
Publisher: NC, The Seebro Company: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller Id: 38108
Condition: Fine
Burgundy hardcover has gold gilt lettering with negligible wear. Unclipped dj has lightly sunned spine, a small crease along upper edge with two 1/16" closed tears, upper tip is lightly worn and foot of spine has light creasing. Title page has "For Sydney Underwood, with best wishes, and a lively hello to Elizabeth & Bryan, Claude U. Broach". 138 pages of tight & bright text with no tears or blemishes. In these brief essays, you willl find a broad slice of life-stories with courage, humor, pathos, and thoughts to stretch your mind, a potpourri of memories and commentary on issues o... View more info
By: Carlyle, Thomas
Price: $7.00
Publisher: NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons:
Edition: Possible First
Seller Id: 27786
Condition: Very Good
Red limp cloth covers with gilt embellishments on frt board and backstrip. Carlyle's essay on the classic German poem. A volume in the Ariel Booklets series. 150 pp. Name/date 1937 on fep. Inner hinge cracked at second blank endpaper, sewing exposed but page block tight and bright. Crisp, clean copy. View more info
Price: $28.00
Publisher: MA, Stone and Pratt: 1852
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 27576
Condition: Fair
1852 only printing listed. Royal blue cloth with ornate gilt floral and scrolling leaf designs all over covers and backstrip. Corners bumped and worn, spine ends rubbed with loss, small 3/4" split in bottom of front gutter, inner hinge paper cracked, page block tight and holding fine. Tissue guarded frontis present, gift dedication on fep. Small white paint dot on foot of rear board, backstrip dulled but quite legible. Endpapers foxed 190 pp. Poems, essays, full page collectible engravings, and musical notation of ballads for the family to sing. View more info
By: Dabbs, George II. R., M.D.
Price: $17.00
Publisher: London, Charles William Deacon & Co.: 1902
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller Id: 34900
Condition: Good
Nice solid copy in soiled cream linen cloth boards. 200 pp text crisp and unmarked. Part 1 has the reminiscences of a very talented bulldog with privileged access to wards and beds in a pre-E-coli. age. Part 2 is an assembly of short essays by a gifted and prolific writer on diverse subjects. View more info
By: Gawani Pony Boy & Various Contributors, Ruth Berman Editor in Chief
Price: $8.00
Publisher: CA, Bowtie Press: 2000
Edition: Fourth Printing
Seller Id: 31989
ISBN: 1889540528
Condition: Near Fine
Lovely 4th printing hardcover in black cloth with bright gilt titles, no names, tears or soil anywhere. Unclipped dj in new mylar has a slight curl to upper edge of frt panel and some yellowing on white background. 176 p. text clean and bright. An illustrated survey of great horsewomen introduces women from all walks of life as they explore their love of horses. View more info
By: Higginson, A. Henry M.F.H.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: VA, Blue Ridge Press: 1949
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller Id: 17624
Condition: As New
1st edition green hardcover with Mr. Osbaldeston's Furrier in double gilt circle on frt cover, bright gilt title and fox mask on spine. As new, 443 pg unread copy in original glassine wrapper and mint condition green board slipcase. With a bibliography by Sydney R. Smith and a foreword by Ernest R. Gee. First edition. Illustrated biographical sketches. This book give biographical essays describing the lives and work of the most significant sporting authors of the British Isles and North America. The essays are arranged chronologically beginning with Edward, Duke of York (The Master of Game) a... View more info
By: Higginson, A. Henry with a Bibliography Bu Sydney R. Smith and Foreword By Ernest R. Gee
Price: $28.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd: 1951
Edition: First UK Edition
Seller Id: 29121
Condition: Near Fine
Lovely 1st British edition green cloth hardcover with dull but legible gilt titles on backstrip. Very light color loss at lightly bumped tips. No fraying. Name, two small bits of cello tape glue remnants and vintage bookstore sticker on frt pastedown from Sydney R. Smith Sporting Books Canaan, NY (Sydney Smith composed the Bibliography). Illustrated with b/w photos and art reproductions. A few check marks and some tidy marginalia in Bibliography in rear of book. An important reference that covers the subject and history of sporting books from 1373 through 1950. 443 pp. This book give biog... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: IL, Open Court: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller Id: 33786
ISBN: 0812693116
Condition: Very Good +
1st edition hardcover with sharp tips and spine ends. Signed by author fep. Several of the interior pages are wavy at foot due to possible water damage. Not stained, musty or moldy. 421 pp text is crisp and tight. This book combines a sweeping narrative history of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. A unique feature of the book is the bibliographical essays which follow every chapter. Here the author survey... View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: NY, Harry N. Abrams, Inc: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 31337
ISBN: 0810925621
Condition: Fine
No names, tears, soil or marks. 304 pp. Special museum publication. Negligible wear to tips of glossy uncreased illustrated soft covers. A background to the Kress collection introduces this fully illustrated, descriptive catalogue of 57 paintings. Artists featured include Tiepolo, Batoni, Canaletto, Claude Lorrain, and Rubens. With bibliography, indices of works in the exhibition by artist, and by location. View more info
By: Ives, Colta; Stein, Susan Alyson; Steiner, Julie A.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: NY, The Metropolitain Museum of Art: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 31338
ISBN: 0870998374
Condition: Fine
Fine 1st edition hardcover in near fine dj. No names, tears, soil or marks. Dark green cloth boards sharp and straight. 142 pg text as new. One 1" closed tear to lower edge of dj front panel, now in new mylar and displays beautifully. This volume represents a reconstruction of Edgar Degas' private collection of over 5000 paintings, drawings and prints, which came to light at his death in 1917 and has long since been dispersed. The book also contains 11 essays about the artist and his passionately held ideals. View more info
By: Jefferies, Richard; Looker, Samuel J. (Editor)
Price: $12.00
Publisher: London, Lutterworth Press: 1946
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller Id: 38675
Condition: Very Good
2nd printing hardcover in deep red hard boards with gilt title on spine; spine bumped with light color loss, no other noticeable wear. Unclipped illustrated Dj; chipped at the head and foot of spine and at tips; panels soiled. 268 pp. Illustrated frontispiece, as well as throughout, with exceptional wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Faint staining on endpps at hinges; staining on upper fore-edge of several pages not to interfere with text; otherwise text clean & bright. Former owner's name penned on FEP. Spring holds a special place in the hearts of us all. As the sunlight gets stronger ... View more info
By: Jodidio, Philip
Price: $32.00
Publisher: Munich, London, NY, Prestel: 2013
Edition: 1st English Trade Edition
Seller Id: 46305
ISBN: 3791352989
Condition: New
Brand new, gift quality, oversized hardcover in smooth merlot colored paper over hard boards with sharp tips and spine ends. Measures 11.25" x 9.75" x 7/8" . 176 pp text is flawless, crisp, unmarked, unread book in gorgeous, unc-clipped, full color glossy photo dj of 8 race horses on grass, coming around the final turn, with the Museum in the background. DJ protected in new mylar to keep it looking like new always. Published to commemorate the reopening of an equestrian museum, this book celebrates the grandeur of the horse. One of France's most visited monuments, the Chate... View more info
By: Jodidio, Philp
Price: $185.00
Publisher: Prestel: 2011
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller Id: 46304
ISBN: 3791350722
Condition: New
Brand new in shrink wrap. Gift quality offering landscape 8vo measuring 9.5" tall x 12.75" long x 1 1/8" long. 288 pages. ISBN: 3791350722 or 9783791350721. Mint condition hardcover in cream colored cloth with stunning pasted on color photo showing a mare and her foal looking left with a sunny blue sky and puffy cloud backdrop. Second edition published January 17th, 2011. This lavishly illustrated volume highlights fifty years of the horse racing and breeding activities of His Highness the Aga Khan. In addition to his well-known presence in the areas of world affairs and cult... View more info
By: Kelley, Michael
Price: $35.00
Publisher: NY, Sanders Newspapers: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 44690
Condition: Near Fine
59 pg stapled booklet with faint tiny soil spot on rear cover, tiny indentation on frt cov near title, else fine. Rare 59 pp work by woman author sportswoman "Michael" Kelley and is a collection of her weekly newspaper columns. Lively personal essays on the chase. Her second work, following the first volume printed in 1975. Illustrated throughout with b/w line drawings by Custer Cassidy, John Tickner, and clip art (b/w vignettes) from the Chronicle of the Horse. Collectible copy. View more info
By: Kronhausen, Drs. Phyllis and Eberhard
Price: $16.00
Publisher: NY, Bell Publishing Company: 1978
Seller Id: 46794
ISBN: 051724893X
Condition: Near Fine
Straight, square hardcover in quarter-bound rust paper covered boards with a black cloth covered backstrip. Head of spine cloth barely crushed, board tips still sharp. 270 pp text is crisp, unmarked and profusely illustrated primarily with 781 b/w plates and 81 color plates on glossy stock scattered throughout this work. The unclipped, black background dust jacket is now in protective archival mylar shows a crescent shaped closed tear at the head of spine area on frt cover, the upper and lower dj flap fold tips show a hint of color loss and the front dj flap has a diagonal crease. Includes ... View more info
By: Lawrence, Marilyn Editor; Foreword By Susie Orbach
Price: $7.00
Publisher: NY, Peter Bedrick Books: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 28731
ISBN: 0872261727
Condition: Good
1st edition paperback with rubbed spine ends & corners, sticker rems on rear cover, 236 pp text is tight, bright and unmarked. A stimulating and positive collection of essays by woman who have had direct experience, personal or professional, of anorexia nervosa, bulimia and compulsive overeating. Analyzing the complex social forces which dominate women's lives and affect their relationship with their bodies, the authors insist that it is not the medical establishment which offers the chance for women to reclaim their bodies, but the unique insights offered by the women's liberation movement ... View more info
Price: $16.00
Publisher: NY, Fleming H. Revell Co.: 1908
Edition: Possible First
Seller Id: 8003
Condition: Very Good +
1901 hardcover in textured hunter green cloth with ruled edges and bright gilt titles. Few light marks on frt board, spine ends bumped, tips still fairly sharp. No names, not exlib. 181 pp text tight and bright w/neat dedication on fep and lightly foxed endpps. Essays on how to be happy and a bright-eyed optimist. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: London, Max Parrish and Co. Ltd.: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 3177
Condition: Very Good
First edition ex-library in brown paper covered boards. 172 pp text is tight and bright w/small amount of loss to last blank page from removed card pocket, and small area of paper lifted off of front pastedown from dj pull. Sticker residue on sunned backstrip, unclipped dj in new mylar has two areas with sticker residue, still displays well. A symposium of essays contributed by: Sir Adolphe Abrahams, Dr. Hugh Barber, Dr. Maurice Davidson, Dr. C.G. Learoyd, Robert Maxwell, Margot Naylor, Sir Arthur Thomson, Dr. Henry Wilson. A symposium of essays for those approaching middle age. View more info
By: Parkman, Francis; Edited From His Notebooks by Mason Wade
Price: $38.00
Publisher: CT, Heritage Press: 1971
Edition: Reprint
Seller Id: 38648
Condition: Fine
1971 reprint of the Heritage Club's 1943 Edition. Magnificent light brown leather boards with gilt lettering and illustrated front board. Peach paper colored slipcase *very* lightly soiled and rubbed. 297 pages of pristine text and illustrations. Promo leaflet for The Sandglass, Number VI-R:41, another Heritage Club offering laid in. The story of a young man of privilege who left the comfort of his Boston home and set off on an arduous and unforgettable journey to the untamed West. This timeless account of Parkman's travels and travails affords the reader a vivid portrayal of the rough fr... View more info
By: Pratt, William
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1969
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller Id: 6640
Condition: Very Good
First edition, first printing paperback in green card covers showing moderate color loss at periphery, lower fore edge of frt cover was torn, now taped back on, second blank fep also has a chip of same size, no names or soil. 443 pp text appears unread, tight and bright. Chapters include: Exposition, Comparison and Contrast, Classification, Analysis, Argument and persuasion, The Arts VS. The Sciences, Description, Narration, Characterization, Rhetorical Analysis. 4-7000 at foot of spine, as published. No ISBN. View more info
