Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st US, 1875, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with black design and gilt lettering, 363 pages plus publisher's ads. A late nineteenth century reference on natural science and philosophy. Papillon's engrossing essays, written at various times and put together in this volume as - after the fashion of the time - an effort to dovetail science, metaphysics and philosophy into a higher understanding of life. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 653 pages. Gilt top edge. Minor spine and cover edge wear. Minor soiling on cover and spine. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy. Foreword by President Roosevelt and a preface by Captain Dudley W. Knox. plus 10 plates including 2 folded maps and the frontispiece. Fp: U.S. Ship of War Delaware. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 624 pages. Gilt top edge. Minor spine and cover edge wear. Minor soiling on cover and spine. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Theo. Audel & Company, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft maroon leather lettered in gilt, aeg, 541 pages. Illustrated in-text with electrical machines and tools. Addressed not to "the experimenter or to the toy-maker, nor to the scholar in school or college, but to those who have to deal with Electricity as a part of their life work," this volume seeks to provide an introduction to the theory and scientific discourse concerning electricity. Author Nehemiah Hawkins (1833-1928) was an American inventor, publisher, and author who sometimes wrote under the pen name Theodore Audel or the pseudonym William Rogers. Minor shelf wear, clean copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two Volume Set. Volume I of the set, "Documentation: Reviews" is 485 pages in length and is divided into eight sections, one for each of the original impressionists. Volume II of the set, "Documentation: Exhibited Works" is 300 pages in length and consists of black and white photographic illustrations of the works that were presented at the eight exhibitions, along with annotations and references to the original reviews, as well as other sources of documentation.
Hardcover. New Haven, S. Converse, 4th Ed., 1823, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 856 pages, the Fourth Edition, revised and corrected of this classic work. Bound in worn calf with an inch and a half tear to top of spine. Previous owners signatures on front fly leaf. Very good with light, scattered foxing. Issued with an separate atlas of maps which is missing.
Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 245 pages, b&w and color photographs and illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy. The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small towns'' in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. You'll discover the amazing potential for this kind of work as well as case studies, site plans, project analyses, and 180 beautiful photographs. This unique reference also tackles--and answers--the critical issues of crime, health, traffic, environmental degradation, and economic vitality and opens a startling window on the look and feel of future communities.
Softcover. Amherst MA, White River Press , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 462 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of the impact and consequences caused by the use of inflammatory racially-related language during a police investigation conducted by the Vermont State Police. Beginning in 1968 with the Irasburg Affair when a White man fired shotgun blasts into a home occupied by a Black family, the story describes in detail the course of the investigation. Adverse publicity about the Vermont State Police's work alleging racism within its ranks ensued resulting in its managers withdrawing from public view and refusing to work with the legislature in the next years causing significant internal problems. They finally came to the forefront in 1979 when a despondent trooper committed suicide at the state house in Montpelier in an event called the Router Bit Affair that led to significant reforms beginning in1980. Includes bibliographical references and an index. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st paperback, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages. Softcover. Light pencil underlining in a few places. Wrapper good, with a touch of agewear, no tears, some slight moisture damage at the bottom of the back cover.
Hardcover. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2nd printing, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 348 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy. "In this original and authoritative work, Vance argues that the railroad in North America is a distinct indigenous creation and not an importation from Britain and Europe. His combined familiarity with railroading, routes and cities, facilities, and North American geography is unsurpassed and the result is quite unlike anything in the historical or specialist literature."--Donald Meinig, Syracuse University "No previous book has presented the over-all picture of the development of the North American railroad network with Vance's emphasis on the reciprocal relationships among the economic and technological conditions on the one hand and the geographic aspects of development on the other. The scope of the presentation is virtually encyclopedic -- and there is no doubt that the book will quickly become a standard reference on the subject." -- Harold M. Mayer, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Softcover. Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 434 pages with b&w illustrations. Unique in its comprehensive coverage, this book describes the major vegetation types from the arctic tundra of Alaska and Canada to the tropical forest of Central America. This original detailed summary provides the reader with a sense of the species composition, architecture and environment of each ecosystem. Each chapter opens with a map of North America that delineates the specific geographic area discussed within the following text. Some basic topics covered include paleobotany, autecological behaviour, nutrient cycling, and productivity. In addition to the basic biology of the ecosystems, environmental issues and management problems are addressed. Notes on areas for future research conclude each chapter. Comprehensive bibliographies provide references to additional details published in the technical literature. Mild crease to front cover and first 5 pages, otherwise very good, clean copy.
Hardcover. Beatrice Bayley, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Gilt decorated covers and spine. Very minor edge wear on the corners. Otherwise, tight clean copy.
Softcover. Providence RI, Berg Publishers, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 131 pages. Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society's exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and object; the construction of the person in the matrix of social relations; and the contrast between 'socio-cosmic' systems and other societies which recognize a universal term of reference beyond their community. WITH A CARD SIGNED BY ALL 3 AUTHORS LAID IN.
Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 414 pages. An anthropological and historical discourse on the arrival of Christianity in the Southern Tswana region of South Africa. A compelling read and referenced in an in-depth manner. Clean copy.
Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. Hypnotic flowering vines, black-and-white Op Art odysseys, and seas of patriotic warships are just some of the beautiful, strange, and fantastic patterns that have adorned the walls of homes the world over. In the tradition of best-seller Fabulous Fabrics of the 50s, this home decor reference book entertains while it inspires with flawless reproductions of 150 classic and unique wallpapers; many of which are drawn from the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Covering every decade of the century, Off the Wall celebrates robust pattern and detail in all their manifestations. Lively text and captions help to capture the designers, trends, and world events relevant to each piece, and the broader evolution of the genre, from a 1948 mural of rural America, replete with plump livestock and ripening fields, to the boldly colored abstractions produced in the 1950s by Herman Miller for MOMA. A useful resource for collectors, designers, decorators, and artists, Off the Wall is a colorful and captivating tribute to a widely appreciated medium. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, The Medical World, 2nd Ed., 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages, brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. A collection of pharmaceutical mixtures, enlarged from the previous year's edition. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Hartford CT, Guyde Publishing Co., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Limp red cloth covers stamped in gilt, now faded. Vintage travel guide for the northeast. Maps, advertising, photos, large folding map inside rear cover with a tear to one panel, no paper loss. Previous owners embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Bowling Green Press, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt medallion on upper cover, gilt-lettered on spine. limited to 1000 copies, this one of 750 for sale, this copy #62 and so attested to in ms. on the copyright-page by Edward Stern & Co., Inc. 368 pages, color frontispiece portrait, 87 reproductions of title pages, letters, portraits, etc. Introduction by A. Edward Newton. Well annotated, with full collations, descriptions, pagination, etc. This is the standard Oliver Goldsmith bibliography, but it can be read for enjoyment as well as for reference. Has much on Samuel Johnson. Previous owner's commentary on rear fly leaf, rear hinge cracked.
Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Reprint, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, 604 pages. Stated: First Edition - Third Thousand. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Minor fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. College Station, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Softcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front cover. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Darkening to spine paper, light surface rubbing to front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Massacusetts, D. Lothrop & Co., 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Green cloth covers with black titles and gilt illustration, all edges gilt, beveled edges, multiple full page b&w tissue-protected plates, 12 chapters on different American artists. Very light foxing to tissue paper, mild wear to cover edges and spine; overall a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
 "Nature and Life. Facts and Doctrines Relating to The Constitution of Matter, the New Dynamics, and the Philosophy of Nature by: Papillon, Fernand")
 "Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France: Naval Operations from February 1797 to October 1798 by: Swanson, Claude A.")
 "Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France: Naval Operations from November 1798 to March 1799 by: Swanson, Claude A.")
 "Navies in the American Revolution: A Bibliography (Vol. 1) by: Smith, Jr., Myron J.")
 "New Catechism of Electricity: A Practical Treatise by: Hawkins, N. (Nehemiah), 1833-1928")
 "New Painting Impressionism, The 1874-1886: Documentation. 2 volumes: I reviews, II Exhibited Works by: Berson, Ruth (Editor)")
 "New Universal Gazetteer or Geographical Dictionary/ Containing a Description of the Various Countries, Provinces, by: Morse, Jedidiah and Richard")
 "New Urbanism, The by: Katz, Peter")
 "Night-Rider Legacy: Weaponizing Race in the Irasburg Affair of 1968 by: Gary G Shattuck")
 "Ninth of Thermidor, The: The Fall of Robespierre (Problems in European History: A Documentary Collection) by: Bienvenu, Richard (Editor)")
 "North American Railroad, The : Its Origin, Evolution, and Geography by: Vance Jr., James E.")
 "North American Terrestrial Vegetation by: Michael G. Barbour and William Dwight Billings")
 "O'brien Family Heritage Book, The by: Bayley, Beatrice")
 "Objects of Thought by: Prior, Arthur N./P. T. Geach/A. J. P. Kenny (Editors)")
 "Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges Explorations in Anthropology by: Cecile Barraud; Daniel de Coppet; Andre Iteanu;")
 "Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa by: Comaroff, Jean, Comaroff, John L.")
 "Off the Wall: Wonderful Wall Coverings of the Twentieth Century by: Gideon Bosker / Lena Lencek")
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 "Old Homes of Roxbury Township - Third in a Series of Books on the History of Roxbury Township by: Seraly, Ruthann/Frances Lyman")
 "Oliver Goldsmith Bibliographically and Biographically Considered based on the collection of material in the library of W.M. Elkins, Esq. by: Scott, Temple / Newton, A")
 "Origin of Indian Corn and its Relatives - Texas Agricultural Experiment Station - Bulletin Number 574 - May 1939, The by: Mangelsdorf, P. C./R. G. Reeves")
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