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NY: The Association of American University Presses, 1968. First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 25 pp. Mustard wraps, stapled. The address given by Professor Boyd to the 300 delegates of the June 1968 meeting of the Association of American University Presses. Text clean, no tears.

Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1998. 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 211 pp. Since his marriage to an Iowan, Richard, Lord Acton, has divided his time between England and Iowa. This collection of his essays reflects the rich diversity of the author's interests and experiences. Signed by the author on the title page. Binding tight, text clean.

NY: The Macmillan Company, 1925. 3d Printing . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 360 pp. with Notes and Bibliographical List. Green cloth. Light edge wear. Text clean, no tears.

Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 228 pp. with Index. Ex-Library copy with library stamps and stickers. Drawn from the Genetics, Disability and Deafness Conference at Gallaudet University in 2003, this volume brings together 13 essays from science and the humanities, history and the present, to show the many ways that disability, deafness, and the new genetics can interact and what their interaction means for society. Binding tight, text clean.

London: Chaterson, Ltd., 1949. First Printing . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 160 pp. The author's urban and urbane thoughts on London. Gift inscription on front endpaper; edges worn; slight spine slant. The jacket is worn on all edges and there are 2 large pieces missing on the spine. Text clean, no tears.

Norman, OK: Cooperative Books, 1940. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 27 pp. Orange wraps, stapled. Book Number 7 of Series I. Cover lightly worn; 1 page has some underlining.

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. First Pb Ptg. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 355 pp. Edited, with an Introduction and Annotation by Edward Alexander. Cover lightly worn, slight spine crease. Text clean, no tears.

Middletown, NY: Self Published, 1944. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 84 pp. Illus. with B&W photos. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. A collection of sketches, mostly dealing with rural life and rural people as seen from the vantage point of an Orange County, NY Farm. Light cover wear; the gilt titling on the cover has chipped off in places. Binding tight, text clean.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1970. Mass Market Paperback. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 208 pp. Cover chipped and worn; pages browned; edges soiled. Text clean, no tears.

Randolph, VT: Leviathan Press, 1992. First Printing . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 170 pp. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Beyonder is ... dirt roads and frigid excess, where the summers are short and passionate, and where November and March are as tedious as an eternity of daytime TV. The material was originally published in "The Vermont Sunday Magazine" and "The Real Goods News". Light cover soil. Binding tight, text clean.

The Nature Convervancy, 1993. Limited . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Koch, Nora. Unpaginated. Illus. with B&W wood engravings. Handsewn into handmade paper wrappers. One of 500 copies. The authors offer personal essays on three extraordinary places - essays which evoke the wonder and wildness of areas where the Conservancy is working as part of its conservation program "Last Great Places: An Alliance for People and the Environment". The overhanging fore-edges of the cover are lightly worn, with a couple of small tears and 1 larger (about 1/2" square) tear on the back cover. The text is clean, with no writing or tears.

Asheville, NC: Self Published, 1976. First Printing . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 228 pp. A compilation of columns, some hilarious, some unusual from the author's daily column in the Asheville Citizen. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Light edge wear to book and jacket. Binding tight, text clean.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Limited . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 309 pp. Red cloth with white label with red and black lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. B&W frontis of Roosevelt with tissue overlay. This Uniform Edition as first issued was limited to 1310 copies, of which 60 copies were not for sale. There have been sold to the Pubic 250 copies and 1000 copies are now included in the present Elkhorn Edition, of which this is No. 709. The spine ends and corners and slightly worn; the first 4 pages have a vertical crease; the binding is cracked at the front. several pages have unopened fore-edge. Text clean.