They Wouldn't Be Chessmen: a M. Hanaud Mystery Novel
A. E. W Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
They Wouldn't Be Chessmen: a M. Hanaud Mystery Novel
A. E. W Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Rear hinge cracked. Writing inside. (Vintage Mystery and Adventure)
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The Howitzer of 1947
Stewart, Charles C; Smith, James E.; McNeil, Robert J.; Shook, Charles H.; Pabst, Alfred A.
The Howitzer of 1947
Stewart, Charles C; Smith, James E.; McNeil, Robert J.; Shook, Charles H.; Pabst, Alfred A.
- Publisher: United States Military Academy
- Date published: 1947
- Format: Boards
1st Edition. Hardcover without dust jacket as issued. Folio with 537 pages. The book is in good condition with some slight bumping to the covers edges and foxing to the top pages edges. There is some foxing to the front title page and several pages in the back (pages 528 to the back pastedown). The interior is tight. The spine is sage/black.
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Portrait of a Publisher 1915-1965. I: Reminiscences and Reflections. II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint: Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.
Portrait of a Publisher 1915-1965. I: Reminiscences and Reflections. II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint: Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.
- Publisher: The Typophiles
- Date published: 1965
- Format: Hardcover
First edition. Two volumes. 12mo. 297; 301pp. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Fine in very good dust jackets with toned spines, and a small tear on both volumes tape mended on the verso and housed in an about very good cardboard slipcase with several large chips mostly on the spine and top edge. Typophiles Chap Books 42. One of 2000 copies.
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Old Songs
Abbey, Edwin A., And Parsons, Alfred (Drawings)
Old Songs
Abbey, Edwin A., And Parsons, Alfred (Drawings)
First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. Spine cover missing. Disbound. (ballads, folk songs) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
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Ships and Water
De Lardi, Alfred A. (Ed. And Comp)
Ships and Water
De Lardi, Alfred A. (Ed. And Comp)
- Publisher: David McKay
- Date published: 1938
- Format: Softcover
First edition. Oversized spiral bound softcover. Very good. Unpaginated (aprox. 60 pp. ) plus contents page at rear. Foreword by Joseph Lincoln. Printed in Beck sheet-fed gravure, a collection of 90 striking photographic images of ships, shorelines, splashing dolphins, sailors, etc.
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A Gentleman From Mississippi
Wm. A. Brady And Jos. R. Grismer; [Wise, Thomas A. 1865-1928. (Thomas Alfred); Toombs, Frederick R., 1879-Rhodes; Harrison,...
A Gentleman From Mississippi
Wm. A. Brady And Jos. R. Grismer; [Wise, Thomas A. 1865-1928. (Thomas Alfred); Toombs, Frederick R., 1879-Rhodes; Harrison,...
- Publisher: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company
- Date published: 1909
- Format: A Very Good Hardcover
Light blue decorated cloth with titles and decorations in white and black; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear with some hand-soiling. Illustrated with 8 photographic plates. 7.5 inches tall; [6], 189 pages, followed by 4 pages of publisher's adverts. First Edition in novel form. This novel is an adaption founded on the popular play of the same title produced under the management of Wm. A. Brady and Jos. R. Grismer. A Gentleman from Mississippi is a 1908 comedic play by Harrison Rhodes and Thomas A. Wise. It was popular when released, debuting on Broadway on September 28, 1908, and playing for 407 performances at the Bijou Theatre, and on the roof garden of the New Amsterdam Theatre during the summer of 1909. Douglas Fairbanks played the leading role of Bud Haines. The play was also made into a silent film in 1914, where Wise reprised his role, and a young Evelyn Brent was also in the cast. A plan to make another film based on the play in 1936 was never completed.
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Portrait of a Publisher, 1915-1965, 2 Vols; Vol. I: Reminiscences and Reflections; Vol. II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint, Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.
Portrait of a Publisher, 1915-1965, 2 Vols; Vol. I: Reminiscences and Reflections; Vol. II: Alfred a Knopf and the Borzoi Imprint, Recollections and Appreciations
Knopf, Alfred A.
- Publisher: The Typophiles
- Date published: 1965
- Format: Hardcover
Two volumes. First edition, 1965. 8vos, cloth hardcovers in slipcase, 297 + 301 pp., illustrated in b & w. Books are Fine, pages are clean and unmarked and cloth is bright. Dust jackets are Near Fine, with light tanning to spines. Very small closed tear to Vol. I, corner where rear panel meets flap. Faint edgewear to front flap on Vol. II, including mild rubbing to corner where front panel meets flap. Slipcase is Very Good+, with mild rubbing to edges and top, and mild edgewear to title label.
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Educational History of Astoria Oregon
Cleveland, Alfred A
Educational History of Astoria Oregon
Cleveland, Alfred A
Article on pp. 55-69 in single complete issue of The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, volume IV, March 1903, no. 1. first edition. original printed tan wraps. octavo. Several other articles in issue as well. VG, no ownership marks; text fine and clean.
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An Artist's Life. the Second Burst. the Finish: the Autobiography of Sir Alfred Munnings
Munnings, Alfred (Sir); Abridged And With A Foreword By W. G. Luscombe
An Artist's Life. the Second Burst. the Finish: the Autobiography of Sir Alfred Munnings
Munnings, Alfred (Sir); Abridged And With A Foreword By W. G. Luscombe
- Publisher: Readers Union
- Date published: 1955
- Format: Hardcover
Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; Nice first printing abridgement by Readers Union for sale to its members only in 1955, previously published by Museum Press, London in three vols. No names, closed tears or soil seen in the fine 261pp text. Only one micro chip out of half title page fore edge. Original orange/cream printed dust wrapper is unclipped, darkened on spine, shows short chips on spine ends and a 1" bit of cello tape over a like sized claw scratch in the frt gutter/spine corner of dj and mylar. Autobiography of Sir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA (8 October 1878-17 July 1959), who was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken enemy of Modernism (when inebriated), also past president of the Royal Academy. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prestigious commissions after the Great War that made him wealthy.
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Maiden's Fury
H. A. [Harold Alfred] Manhood
Maiden's Fury
H. A. [Harold Alfred] Manhood
- Publisher: Grayson & Grayson
- Date published: 1935
- Format: Hardcover
Signed and numbered [55/285] first edition, which is also inscribed by Manhood on the ffep. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt, nude pictorial on front cover. Cloth shows light soiling. A tad bit of foxing; minor soiling on endmatter. 20 leaves. Dust jacket has small chips at corners; in an archival mylar sleeve. Printed and made by The Garden city Press, Letchworth. A warped little story by Harold Alfred Manhood (1904-1991) about a randy, young man in Dublin, his uncle's printing shop, a bucket of prawns, and a mysterious room decorated with lusty tapestries which contains a hideous girl holding a revolver.
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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Alfred A. Knopf
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Alfred A. Knopf
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Date published: 1954
- Format: Hardcover
Hardbound, no dust jacket. Limited 1st edition. #116/2500. Boards show fading & minor bumps & wear, otherwise very good.
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Ocean Sailing and Racing By Mason, C. F. With a Preface By Alfred F. Loomis Foreword By Uffa Fox
Mason, C. F. With A Preface By Alfred F. Loomis Foreword By Uffa Fox
Ocean Sailing and Racing By Mason, C. F. With a Preface By Alfred F. Loomis Foreword By Uffa Fox
Mason, C. F. With A Preface By Alfred F. Loomis Foreword By Uffa Fox
- Publisher: Macmillan, New York, 1954
Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes First edition. Tips little bumped else very good no dust jacket. Boating. Racing.
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The Days of the Directoire / By Alfred Allinson; With a Photogravure Frontpiece & 48 Other Illustrations of Which the Costume Plates Have Been Selected By John Colby Abbott
Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)
The Days of the Directoire / By Alfred Allinson; With a Photogravure Frontpiece & 48 Other Illustrations of Which the Costume Plates Have Been Selected By John Colby Abbott
Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)
First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. No date stated; ca. 1910. Short gifter's inscription on endpage, dated 1910. Hinges cracked. (europe, france, history, regency, napoleon)
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Alfred a. Knopf at 60
Knopf, Alfred A.
Alfred a. Knopf at 60
Knopf, Alfred A.
- Publisher: A. A. Knopf
- Date published: 1952
- Format: Hardcover
First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 59. Original publishers brown cloth over papered boards, lettered gilt at the spine with gilt decoration on the front cover. Privately printed". Printing done at the Plimption press. Articles by Carl Van Vechten, Pendleton Dudley, B.W. Huebsch, John Hersy, W.A. Dwiggins, H.L. Mencken. 250 copies for presentation only Clean, very good.
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Alternative to Serfdom: Five Lectures Delivered on the William W. Cook Foundation at the University of Michigan, March 1947
Clark, Alfred A.
Alternative to Serfdom: Five Lectures Delivered on the William W. Cook Foundation at the University of Michigan, March 1947
Clark, Alfred A.
1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. xii & 153 & vi pp. Some shelf wear, heavy chipping & tearing, and extreme toning to dust jacket otherwise protected by acetate cover. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Pages moderately toned. Penciled margin notes to text. Altogether a copy in Good condition. Good. (Subject: Economics & Business History).
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Les Tribus Anciennes Des Marches Sino-Tibetaines: Legendes, Classifications Et Histoire; Bibliotheque De L'Institut Des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, Volume XV
Stein, R. A.; Rolf Alfred Stein
Les Tribus Anciennes Des Marches Sino-Tibetaines: Legendes, Classifications Et Histoire; Bibliotheque De L'Institut Des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, Volume XV
Stein, R. A.; Rolf Alfred Stein
- Publisher: Presses Universitaires de France
- Date published: 1961
- Format: Paperback
First edition, 1961. Softcover, 105 pp., fold-out map at rear, clean unmarked text, Good copy, light soiling or age-toning to the pages and the covers, covers with rubbing and edgewear including some tearing and minor loss at the spine-head. Text in French.
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Pipe All Hands: a Collection of Salty Verse Not Calculated to Interfere With Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men
(Masefield, John, Alfred Noyes, William H. Davies, Wm. Henry Drummond And Walter De La Mare) Geo. A. Zabriskie, Gathered By
Pipe All Hands: a Collection of Salty Verse Not Calculated to Interfere With Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men
(Masefield, John, Alfred Noyes, William H. Davies, Wm. Henry Drummond And Walter De La Mare) Geo. A. Zabriskie, Gathered By
- Publisher: The Doldrums
- Date published: 1938
- Format: Hardcover
First edition. Illustrated. Bookplate of Yale art historian Theodore Sizer & Caroline Foster Sizer (with a small remnant of dust jacket stuck to the edge). Corners and spine ends slightly bumped and rubbed, boards with modest edgewear, very good in an about very good dust jacket with a few chips and tears to the spine and along the edges, and modest tanning to the spine and extremities. Issued as a holiday gift by Geo. A. Zabriskie with "Mr Sizer" addressed in an unknown hand at the top of a printed greeting. Contributions by John Masefield, Alfred Noyes, William H. Davies, Wm. Henry Drummond, Walter de la Mare and more.
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The Art of Willa Cather: Miracles of Perception
(Cather, Willa). (Knopf, Alfred A., Yehudi Menhuin And Eudora Welty)
The Art of Willa Cather: Miracles of Perception
(Cather, Willa). (Knopf, Alfred A., Yehudi Menhuin And Eudora Welty)
- Publisher: Alderman Library/ University of Virginia
- Date published: 1980
- Format: Softcover
First edition. 30pp. Illustrated from two black and white photographs. Printed dust jacket over plain stapled wrappers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Limited to 1500 copies. Published on occasion of an exhibition, at University of Virginia Library, beginning October 18, 1980.
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Distilled Wisdom: an Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form
Alfred Armand Montapert
Distilled Wisdom: an Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form
Alfred Armand Montapert
- Publisher: PRENTICE-HALL, INC
- Format: Hardcover
Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the dust jacket with some chipping and tearing. Moderate wear to the boards with some fading and discoloration. Foxing along the spine. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Alfred a. Knopf at 60
Knopf, Alfred A.
Alfred a. Knopf at 60
Knopf, Alfred A.
- Publisher: A. A. Knopf
- Date published: 1952
- Format: Hardcover
First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 59. Original publishers brown cloth over papered boards, lettered gilt at the spine with gilt decoration on the front cover. Privately printed". Printing done at the Plimption press. Articles by Carl Van Vechten, Pendleton Dudley, B.W. Huebsch, John Hersy, W.A. Dwiggins, H.L. Mencken. 250 copies for presentation only Clean, very good.
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