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Hardcover Small octavo. [xii] 178pp. Red publisher's cloth with gilt title to front and spine. Former owner's stamp to preliminary pages otherwise clean throughout. Light shelf wear to cover. No dust jacket. A contemporary analysis of the New Deal, in political, historical, and economic terms, written at the end of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first year in office.

Staple bound pictorial wraps. 61 pages with diagrams and b/w photographs. Clean and unmarked with a very tight binding. Light shelf wear to cover.For use as a handbook for instructors or as a textbook for students.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1898. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First U.S. Edition with thirty two full page illustrations by S.Paget. Blue cloth with desert oasis scene and black lettering to front, palm tree and gold lettering to spine. Previous owner's name to front fixed endpaper. Spine a little darkened. Covers shelf worn more so at bottom corners.

First edition. Soft cover in duo-tone wraps. Octavo. 65pp. Clean and unmarked with a very tight binding. Very good.

1947 printing of the 1940 edition. Hard cover 6 1/4" by 3 1/2". Dark blue cloth with masonic crest in gilt to front. 465 pages. Clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Light shelf wear to cover.

Signed by author on title page. Octavo in printed wraps. 50 pages.

Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 8vo. [xvii] 212pp. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket. 8vo. [xvii] 212pp. Inscribed to Marjorie Barrett by author and Fred Rosenstock.Near fine in very good dust jacket.

Limp red cover with stamped gilt title. Decorative end papers. All edges gilt. 957 pages of recipes fully indexed. Signed on title page "Best wishes - / Ralph M Hall / Member of Congress / 4th District of Texas and dated 1999. Limp red cover with stamped gilt title.
At 91, Ralph M. Hall was the oldest serving member of Congress at the end of his last term in office, the oldest person to ever serve in the House of Representatives, the oldest one ever elected to a House term, the oldest House member ever to cast a vote, and also the last member of Congress from the G.I. Generation and one of the last two World War II veterans serving in Congress.

Twelve volumes bound in faux leather with raised design. Pictorial end papers. "Christmas 1968" handwritten on front paste down else clean and unmarked. Tight binding Light shelf wear to cover.

Hard cover. Octavo. 394 pages. Gift inscription to front free end paper. Wear to cover and spine.
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), one of the most influential philosophers of the nineteenth century, became a guiding light for modern liberalism and individual liberty. Practical applications of First Amendment principles often rest upon allusions to his ideas, most famously expressed in his essay On Liberty.

Denver: Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, 2008. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Catalog of the exhibition of fine art and pottery by Al and Lou Wynne held at the Kirkland Museum of Fine Art, Denver from Oct. 1, 2008 through Jan 4, 2009. Stapled pictorial wraps. 8" x 8" 56pp. Very good condition. Al Wynnes work has been featured in major exhibitions from Colorado to Washington D.C., south to Texas and north to Alaska. His work has been presented in both individual and group shows. Paintings, calligraphy, and sculptures are held in museums and in private collections around the world. Al was listed in Whos Who in American Art starting in 1959. In June 2013, the majority of Al's life's work was destroyed in the Black Forest Fire. All that remains are pieces held by the family and in collections.

Hard cover. Small octavo. Textured, patterned paper over boards. 160 pages. Gift inscription from author on front free end paper to Josephine Abercrombie reads "To charming / Josephine Abercrombie / May you open this little book with / anticipation and close it with / satisfaction. / Sincerely, / Mrs. Frederick Nussbaum. / September 5, 1941, / at The Broadmoor, / Colorado Springs.
A collection of amusing stories and anecdotes regarding contemporary (classical) musicians.
Josephine Avalona Abercrombie (January 15, 1926 – January 5, 2022) was a prominentAmericahorsewoman businesswoman, boxing promoter, philanthropist, and founder of The Lexington School in Lexington, Kentucky.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very good/fair. Joseph Cranston Jones. Green cloth over boards with gilt design and lettering. 8vo. [xii] 151pp. Some offsetting of silhouettes otherwise near fine in a dust jacket that is separated with about a 35% loss of upper spine. Now stabilized in a Brodart sleeve.

First U.S. Edition. Hard cover. Octavo. [xvi] 326 pages plus folding map and numerous b/w illustrations from photographs. Book and map in fine condition. Price intact dust jacket shows some chipping to edges, now in a new Brodart sleeve.

Atlanta: Rand & Ezor Sports Enterprises, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Hardcover 4to. Inscribed by driver Richard Petty to the original owner on front free endpaper. A photographic essay on a typical week in the life of the King of Stock Car Racing, Richard Petty #43. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Soft cover. Octavo. 153 pp. Clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Very good.

Signed and inscribed by author to architect Carl A. Worthington. Soft cover in pictorial wraps. Octavo. [x] 165 pages. Clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Light shelf wear to cover.
Steamboat Springs — Phippsburg resident and longtime college educator Robert P. Baker has self-published an ambitious book, "Liberal Arts —Education and College Architecture in Steamboat Springs — a Personal HIstory," that succeeds in blending three story lines, including the history of the small college now known as the Alpine Campus of Colorado Mountain College. One story line is the arc of Baker's own career in higher education, including a four-year stint teaching at Stanford University. The second story line is the metamorphosis of Yampa Valley College in Steamboat Springs from a liberal arts college in a ski town into the modern Colorado Mountain College (CMC). And finally, Baker highlights the career of former Steamboat Springs architect Lincoln Jones whose buildings were integral to the early years of the… Leer más

London: Ellis & Green, 1875. Second edition. Red cloth over boards with gilt titling to spine. 8vo. [xvi] 447pp. Second edition. Former library copy. Pervious owner's name to font paste down. Title page has small tears and tape repairs.

New York: A.S. Barnes and Company,, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Blue cloth with gold letterring in red panels. A collection of poems inspired by the threat of war in 1941.Previous owner's name to half title page. Spine slightly faded. No dust jacket.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Maitland De Gogorza. . Hard cover 8vo. Illustrated by Maitland De Gogorza. Very good in a good price clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name to front free end paper. .First volume in the Rivers of America series.