Gideon's Trumpet : Quarter Leather by Anthony Lewis - 1991

Gold Medal Books #1153, 1961. Paperback, Paperback ORIGINAL, stated 1st Edition, Sept. 1961, water stain back cover & few pgs back book, minor crease Cvr, VG-,AS-IS, SOFTCOVER. First Edition. Soft Cover.

June, 1923 [University Press, Cambridge, Mass.]. Hard Cover. vii, [3], 334 pages, tables & charts (9 folding), 23 folding maps & plans (15 color); 27.5 cm. Discusses New Haven, Boston & Maine, Boston & Albany, Maine Central, Bangor & Aroostook, Grand Trunk, and Rutland railroads and the Canadian Pacific Railway; New England's water transportation, topography, passenger traffic of New England roads, motor truck transportation, and port development (Welland Canal; the Cowie Plan; Boston terminals). A snapshot of commerce in the Northeast between the wars. Bound in full leather stamped in gold with inside dentelles and marbled endpapers; skillfully rebacked. Ex library with a single stamp; internally clean, the maps very crisp, the book itself apparently unread. Copy of Everett E. Salisbury, Rhode Island committee member, with his name stamped on the front cover. A handsome copy. Stock#OB522 oversize.

Hartford, William S. Marsh, 1819. Hard Cover. vii, [1], 389, [1] pages, 2 ports. (incl. front.), 2 folding maps; 22 cm. American Imprints 49034. The map of Connecticut has an old tape repair but slight damage; bound in contemporary leather. A library bookplate, stamp on verso of title-page, and remains of a pocket at rear, obviously not circulated. Stock#OB116 (dr).

Scribner - Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1941,1969. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 190 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on blue cloth; lettered in black on the front panel and decorated in gilt on the spine; no dust jacket. no interior markings.Original ¼ black and blue cloth covers, blind stamped, flat spine with gilt title.

New York: Partisan Review, 1935. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Rare early issue, includes writing by Nelson Algren, Muriel Rukeyser, et al. Unmarked copy, chip at lead of spine, a bit of wear to lap edges, last two leaves have some edge tearing.

[4]+392+[2] pages with a frontispiece from a painting by William Van Dresser. Small Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth illustrated in black,cream and orange, lettered in cream and gilt. (BAL 11966) (Sisson & Martens pg 87) First edition.A tale about a love triangle on a large ranch. Though not published until the year of London's death, he had written this during his bad year of 1913. He spent much of that year visiting a dentist, finally having all of his upper teeth pulled to halt the pyorrhea raging in his gums; at about the same time, his Wolf House burned down two weeks before its completion; and his kidney problems continued to worsen, exacerbated by his drinking and his insistence upon eating raw fish and duck. [The novel] was meant to exalt the splendor of Wolf House and scientific farming and sex." "It is all sex from start to finish", he wrote to the editor of Cosmopolitan, "in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of… Read More

Philadelphia: Charles Lawrence, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. "Covering a Period of Nearly Two Hundred Years: showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the directors of the Department of Charities and Correction." 398 p., frontispiece and 20 leaves of plates; 24 cm. Olive green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Endpapers with light green floral pattern. Former owner Thomas N. Haviland's name written on front free endpaper and bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Inscription on front fixed endpaper indicating that someone, possibly Haviland, purchased the book at Leary's Bookstore, in Philadelphia, in 1954. Thomas N. Haviland (d. 1986) in the late 1930s was the museum curator at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy. In the 1950s he was the curator at the Wistar Institute; after his death it was discovered that he had relieved that Institute of items that were later found… Read More

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme 1815, 7th edition. (Hardcover) 523pp. Very good. Finely bound in black leather, the spine with raised bands and gilt decoration. Green endpapers, marbled edges, general index. The hidden part of the front inner hinge is cracked (the back partially), minor scuffing and a dampstain to the edges of the bottom corner. Biography of Jesus Christ. (Religion, Religion).

Honolulu, HI: Hawaiian Gazette Co, 1916. 1st edition. Hardcover. very good. Hawaiian Gazette Co, 1916, hardcover, 64 pages, 6 pages with photos, binding solid, cover with some shelf wear. The front endpages have some spots and small, old wormholes. All text and photo pages very clean, no foxing. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. First edition. Octavo. Original cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Signed by Russell Kirk's wife, Annette Kirk, on front free endpaper: "With best wishes! / Annette Y. Kirk / August 1997." Fine in fine dust jacket.. A fine copy of Russell Kirk's (1918-1994) memoirs, signed by his wife, Annette Kirk, to whom he dedicated the book. Widely celebrated as a founding father of modern intellectual conservatism, Russell Kirk-the Sage of Mecosta-set out in The Sword of Imagination to describe his participation in the intellectual, social, philosophical, and political contests of the twentieth century. Kirk wrote the book in the third person in order to tell the story of a young boy coming of age in the railroad yards outside of Detroit and maturing into one of the most influential political minds of his generation. Perhaps best remembered for his movement-defining book The Conservative Mind (1953), throughout his life Kirk wielded… Read More