Publicado por Halifax, 1936
Librería: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, Estados Unidos de America
173p. Hardcover, rebound. Ex-seminary library book. Old paper label on spine, stamp on title page but otherwise a clean, tight copy in very good condition. Text in Latin.
Publicado por Rochester Centennial, Inc. / The John P. Smith Company, Inc., Rochester, 1934
Librería: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Stapled Binding. Condición: Very Good. Half inch tear along top edge of front wrapper, pencil name on page 1. 1934 Stapled Binding. 108 pp. Stapled binding. Various articles written in celebration of Rochester's centennial, with numerous ads, photographs, and illustrations throughout, including a frontispiece of Nathaniel Rochester from John J. Audubon's oil painting, and engravings by Hurst Engraving Company. Contributors include: well-known Democrat & Chronicle columnist Henry W. Clune; city historian Edward R. Foreman; mayor Charles Stanton; Charles Hastings Wiltsie, president of the Rochester Historical Society; and Mrs. Frank E. Gannett, wife to the newspaper owner.
Publicado por Betts, Hartford, 1869
Librería: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, Estados Unidos de America
Engraved title page features a portrait vignette of Florence Nightingale reading a book. Subjects are pictured in tissue-guarded engravings Very good. Edges are bumped and rubbed. Frontispiece is nearly detached. Frontis, its guard and engraved title page are lightly foxed. Pages are quite clean 3/4 brown leather with gilt embossed backstrip. 8vo.
Publicado por S. M. Betts & Co., Hartford, CT, 1869
Librería: Samuel H. Rokusek, Bookseller, Pleasant Prairie, WI, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Decorated Cloth. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Corner and spine end wear, no frontis but other 13 engravings present all with original tissue, pon and address dated Dec, 1890 on 2nd ffep. Nice copy.
Publicado por Hartford, CT: S. M. Betts & Company, 1868, 1868
Librería: WellRead Books A.B.A.A., Northport, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
1st edition; 8vo. green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, hardcover; 628 pages; 14 steel engravings ot the women; edgeworn covers have been neatly taped and reinforced else it is a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy.
Publicado por Arno Press, New York, USA, 1974
ISBN 10: 0405061161 ISBN 13: 9780405061165
Librería: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 628pp, 4pp adverts; 14 black and white engravings. Grey cloth-covered boards, violet titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Shelf wear to covers. Evidence of previously erased text on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. 8vo. Collection of short biographies drawn from life by outstanding biographers and writers who knew their subjects personally. Facsimile copy of the original which was published in 1869. Subjects include Florence Nightingale, Lydia Maria Child, Fanny Fern - Mrs Parton. Lydia Sigourney, Sarah and Amanda Gremke, Francis Gage, Queen Victoria, etc.
Publicado por U.S. Bureau of Mines ; USGPO, 1911
Librería: Katsumi-san Co., Cambridge, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Deaccessioned from the Harvard College Library (which received the bulletins from the U.S. government), which overbound the three bulletins in light brown buckram with black morocco leather gilt-stamped spine labels, which are a bit chipped; binding has soil and wear; corners bumped; tight, text clean. 204 p.; 64 p.; xiv, 1200 p; with in-text illustrations plus plates. Thick, heavy volume. Size: 9 7/16 x 6 inches. [br 40].
Publicado por S. M. Betts & Company, Hartford, CT, 1868
Librería: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 628+pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on front cover. All edges gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed w/ wear to extremities. Edges of leaves lightly age toned. Front hinge just starting. Richly illustrated w/ 14 steel engravings. Contents nice.
Publicado por S. M. Betts & Company, Hartford, CT, 1869
Librería: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. 628+pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on front cover. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed w/ wear to extremities. All edges gilt. Some age toning to text and light foxing throughout. Small tear to bottom margin of one leaf, not affecting text. Hinges just starting. Richly illustrated w/ 14 steel engravings. Contents nice.
Publicado por S. M. Betts and Company, Hartford, Conn., 1869
Librería: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, Estados Unidos de America
Full Sheep Leather. Condición: Very Good. Full sheep leather binding with black leather labels on spine, gilt lettering and raised bands, simple gilt rulling in each compartment. Top & bottom os spine bumped a litth modes wear, leather starting to split at the bottom of the front cover at the spine. Botton corner bumped on the first few pages giving them a dog-eared appearance. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
Publicado por Rochester Historical Society, 1931
Librería: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Spines faded, boards a bit rubbed, volume four is a former library copy whose binding does not match other volumes (these were released in several different colors). 1931 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. viii, [2], 403, [1]; viii, [2], 431, [1]; vi, [2], 419, [1]; viii, [2], 483, [3] pp. 8vo. Essays and articles celebrating one hundred years of Rochester, New York, including contributions by various authors. The first three volumes include poems about Rochester, and the fourth the music for the Centennial Hymn composed for the occasion. Includes Volume 1: Beginnings, Volume 2: Home Builders, Volume 3: Expansion, and Volume 4: Jubilee.
Publicado por [St. George's Church], Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1910
Librería: Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts, Toronto, ON, Canada
Original o primera edición
Stapled Wraps. First Edition, First Printing. Exceedingly rare ephemeral programme issued on the occasion of a gathering commemorating the death of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. pp. 7. 12mo., measuring 5.5" x 8.5". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers bearing a likeness of the King in lilac ink to the centre of the front cover. Comprises of a complete order of events including details of hymns, text of remembrances, lessons, psalms, prayers, sermon by the Rev. Canon Howitt, etc. Two light horizontal creases to the front cover, one very faint spot to the rear page, else, remarkably well-preserved in consideration of its age. Contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, stapled binding. Unrecorded in commerce. OCLC indicates no institutional holdings of this title at time of cataloguing. Rare indeed.
Publicado por National Home Monthly / Stovel, Winnipeg, 1938
Librería: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, Canada
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Original o primera edición
Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. Gauthier, Joachim (cover); Smith, Ralph C.; Clymer, John F.; Holmgren, John; Burke, May C.; Clymer, John F.; Phillips, John; Rubin, Zig Ilustrador. First Edition. 48 pages. Features: Cute colour cover illustration by Joachim Gauthier; Dignified colour ad inside front cover presents the new 1939 Ford cars, showing a dark green De Luxe V-8 Fordor Sedan and a blue V-8 Tudor Sedan; News digest includes these headings - For a Cool Head, What Happened at Munich, Two Different Problems, The Belgian Parallel, Keep the Home Fires Burning, and Books of the Season; One-page ad for Parker Vacumatic Pens; "The Bells of Bethlehem" - Photo-illustrated Christmas article on the Holy Land; Before St. Mihiel and All That (short story); Mrs. Scodger's Husband (short story); Letters to a Former Husband (short story); Britain's Army Road Scouts - great photo-illustrated article on the British Automobile Association (A.A.); The Man Who Was Lucky (short story); The Mysterious Affair at Styles (part 2 of 5) by Agatha Christie; Salute to Winter Sport - article with photos of ski jumper, bob-sledders and the honourable rite of 'bouncing' (in front of the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec); Nice Kodak one-page ad; Hollywood news includes photos of Shirley Temple, Loretta Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mickey Rooney, Hedy Lamarr, Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Jane Withers, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Edward G. Robertson with his wife; Scott's Emulsion ad features Uncle Dan comic; Personal Finance article; Christmas dinner suggestions and recipes; Gorgeous colour ad inside back cover for this magazine features formal couple and many front cover images on jet black background; Handsome colour Nash car ad on back cover features an orange 1939 four-door; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy.
Publicado por Stovel / National Home Monthly, Winnipeg, 1939
Librería: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, Canada
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Original o primera edición
Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. Cucchi, Anthony (cover); Holmgren, John; Garland, C. George; Smith, Ralph C.; Clymer, John F.; Lowthian, Louis R.; Diamond, Samuel Ilustrador. First Edition. 56 pages. Features: Cover illustration of horses pulling sleigh to Christmas church service; Midnight Sailing (part 1); Blood Out of a Stone (short story); Gorgeous Courts of the Malayan Sultans - wonderful photo-illustrated article on royal romance in the middle east where nine moslem rulers stand on guard for their King and Emperor George VI; Joy of Man's Desiring (short story); In the Beginning (Christmas tale); The Yearling (part 3); Smart Fighters (Boxers) - Old Tom Sharkey; Personal finance article; Movie news and photos; Photo of Miss Carlotta Lagorio in Woodbury soap ad; Fashion illustrations; Never Late on a Date (short story); Article on Christmas Parties for Kids; Quotes of the World; Nice colour subscription ad for this magazine inside back cover; Vintage colour-photo Canadian apple ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue.
Publicado por Stovel / National Home Monthly, Winnipeg, 1939
Librería: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, Canada
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Original o primera edición
Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. Davis, Clara O.; Clymer, John F.; Maltman, W.; Garland, George; Smith, Ralph C.; Lowthian, Louis R. Ilustrador. First Edition. 60 pages. Features: News digest includes 'a British ministry of propaganda', America's altered mood, free speech in Canada, Moscow bargaining, and from Poland to Rumania; Canada's Prison Shame - intersting article by J. Alex. Edmison includes photos of - the B.C. Penitentiary at New Westminster, youn ladies in the Borstal Institute at Aylesbury, England, Montreal Gaol (Bordeaux Gaol), and members of the Archambault Commission - R.W. Craig, J.L. KKent, Mr. Justice Archambault, J.C. McRuer, and Allan Fraser; Uncle Romeo and the White Pendennings (short story); The Missing Passenger (short story); A Letter to Anne (short story); Samaritan on Wheels - the story of the Empire's greatest philanthropist and leading industrialist William Richard Morris, now Viscount Nuffield - article with photos; Land of Wish-It-Were (verse); If I Die Before I Wake (part 4); Nice one-page ad by the Automotive Industries of Canada features the province of Alberta with map and text; Colgate ad features illustration of the Dionne Quints; Palmolive soap ad features illustration of the faces of the Dionne Quintuplets and (faux) signed photo of Gladys Cooper of 1973 Robson St. in Vancouver; Stewart-Warner radio ad features photos of the 4575, 4351 and 4511 models; When Contagious Diseases Stay Home; Movie news and photos, with brief write-up and photo of Geraldine Fitzgerald, plus additional photos of King Vidor, Alexander Hall, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, Sam Wood, Jack Conway, Clarence Brown, Frank Borzage, Tod Browning, George Cukor, Victor Fleming and Norman Taurog; Fashion illustrations; Nice half-page two-colour ad for RCA Victor radios shows the A-2, A-1 and A-4; Scales of Fortune (short story); Half-page tourism ad for Italy (unfortunately, many young Canadians would soon be fighting there!); Beauty article; Charis foundations ad features nostalgic photo; Autumn fashion preview; Pickling Made Easier; Quotes of the World; Nice Heinz ketchup ad inside front cover includes photo of restaurant scene; Vintage colour back cover ad for Canadian-grown fruits and vegetables; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue.