Straight Paths and Crooked Ways de Mrs. H. B. Paull - 1887

Chicago: Boy Scouts of America, 1930. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial Cover. 51 pp. Dark green cover with orange drawings by the author. No. 3196 in Boy Scouts of America Service Library. Some light soiling in text. Techniques and designs for totem poles, frequently used in Scout camping.

Boston: Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1846. Thin blue cloth binding with gilt titles on spine. This ex-library book has been professionally rebound both boards and endpapers are in great condition and probably 100 or more years younger than the rest of the book. 59 pages with some library markings including some punch throughs. Bright pages with no foxing. Pages are not flat. Penciled price on blank page after fep. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase price benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. First. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Memphis, Tennessee: Southwestern at Memphis, 1967. Folio sized hardcover; 304 pages, dark brown endpapers. Brown leatherette style cloth with embossed name and design on front cover; the background of the design is gilt. The spine has the embossed name, year and volume in gilt. Full color photograph inset of one of the school's buildings is also on front cover. Black and white photographs throughout, green endpapers and color photo illustrated title page. Yearbooks are always a fascinating snapshot in time memorializing hairstyles, fashion and social conventions. This book is very well photographed with some interesting and thoughtful compositions. Founded in 1848 the oft renamed school began: in 1848 as the Masonic University of Tennessee in 1850 was renamed Stewart College in 1850 to honor its then president William M. Stewart in 1875 was renamed Southwestern Presbyterian University in 1925 was renamed Southwestern in 1945 was renamed Southwestern at Memphis (which was its name at the time… Leer más

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good-. 159pp; Green cloth boards with white lettering to front, rear board slightly scuffed, lettering rubbed off spine & slightly rubbed off front, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Analysis of the Nature Study Movement in Education.

Patchwork Nichols, Beverley. Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1921. First Edition; no other printings listed. Green cloth boards, gilt spine titles. Spine is faded, boards have patchy fading and some surface wrinkling (see pictures). Binding is secure. Light toning and penciled owner's name and date (1921) free endpaper. 2 tiny smudge marks outside of text block on separate pages; otherwise pages are clean and without folds or tears. Patchwork is Nichols' second book, very rare in this edition. The book received high critical acclaim: "a novel which at once takes a distinguished place in the gallery of University fiction". The Saturday Review, 22 October 1922. Here is the preface:
It is the custom of novelists to-day, even when writing obviously of public men or women, glibly to inform their readers that these characters are entirely imaginary. Whether such a fiction expresses a secret wish that they had indeed been creatures of the brain and not of the flesh, I do not know. I would merely… Leer más

This used paperback book is in very good condition. The pages are clean and neat. The binding is tight. The boards are clean inside and out.

Chicago: Boy Scouts of America, 1930. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial Cover. 51 pp. Dark green cover with orange drawings by the author. No. 3196 in Boy Scouts of America Service Library. Some light soiling in text. Techniques and designs for totem poles, frequently used in Scout camping.

Memphis, Tennessee: Southwestern at Memphis, 1967. Folio sized hardcover; 304 pages, dark brown endpapers. Brown leatherette style cloth with embossed name and design on front cover; the background of the design is gilt. The spine has the embossed name, year and volume in gilt. Full color photograph inset of one of the school's buildings is also on front cover. Black and white photographs throughout, green endpapers and color photo illustrated title page. Yearbooks are always a fascinating snapshot in time memorializing hairstyles, fashion and social conventions. This book is very well photographed with some interesting and thoughtful compositions. Founded in 1848 the oft renamed school began: in 1848 as the Masonic University of Tennessee in 1850 was renamed Stewart College in 1850 to honor its then president William M. Stewart in 1875 was renamed Southwestern Presbyterian University in 1925 was renamed Southwestern in 1945 was renamed Southwestern at Memphis (which was its name at the time… Leer más

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good-. 159pp; Green cloth boards with white lettering to front, rear board slightly scuffed, lettering rubbed off spine & slightly rubbed off front, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Analysis of the Nature Study Movement in Education.

A Comic Romance. To which is prefixed The Life of the Author. xiv+578 pp. 12,8x7 cm. London, 1808.
--- Half leather. Covers are detached. Text in english. Engraved frontispiece. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked. No foxing.