Search Results: Authors starting with A from Common Crow Books

London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1971. Paperback. Very Good. Single issue of The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume XCI, 1971. 8vo. in printed wraps. 231pp. plus 14 plates. Very good. Light edge wear and foxing to wraps, spine creased. Contents unmarked.

Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. ca. 1865. Linen backed color folding map housed in green cloth boards with gilt title and decoration, ads for additional guide books on pastedown. Map measures 6 by 4.5 inches folded, 33 by 24 unfolded. Very good. Boards mottled, outer hinge starting to split but holding, ownership inscription on pastedown, light wear to map creases, else map is clean, complete, and unmarked. Housed in mylar.

Pittsburgh: A. & B. Smith, 1955. Paperback. Very Good. ca. 1955. "A. & B. Smith Art-Sign-Process No. 55", "Nu-Film and Blufilm", "Artists Materials Catalog 38". Softcover 8vo's, all illustrated in black and white. Handsome art materials catalogs and a how-to on hte nu-film silscreening process, with two swatched of the material at the rear.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Good. First Edition. c.1906. Hardcover. Brown cloth, gilt spine titles. 8vo. 633pp. Frontis. Good. Wear to spine-ends, rubbing at board corners, some wear to outer hings, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, library label on rear pastedown, foxing to frontis, light age toning to contents.

(Pittsburgh), 1920. Hardcover. Fair. 8.5 x 5.75 inches, in leather, fair condition with covers dry, weak and rubbed, contents very good. Over sixty snapshots and small photos, mainly of the several women the photographer ("A. B.") has been courting or flirting with, plus photos of his boss at Pittsburgh Steel Co., John Hepburn, and of the offices, secretaries and clerks with whom he worked. Several outdoor photos in typical western Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh landscapes, and most charmingly captioned by the photographer throughout. Includes some cut-out thumbnail photos from Pittsburgh Steel Co. and a page of thumbnail pictures of the women in his circle arranged as fruits in a tree he has drawn. A fun, witty and very Pittsburgh photo album.

Amherst: University Gallery, UMass Amherst, 2005. First printing. Paperback. Fine. 2005 Softcover 8vo, 38pp. Illustrated with color plates. Essays and catalogue. Fine with clean, unmarked contents. Like new. Scarce.

New York/ New Delhi: Talwar Gallery, 2007. Paperback. Near Fine. Softcover, Exhibition catalogue. Near fine copy. Small water-stain on rear wrap, otherwise a fine copy. All contents as new.

New York: A. S. Barnes, 1924. Paperback. Good. Blue printed wraps, 32 pp, illustrated, good copy with some cover wear and soil, bit of nibbling to rear wrap.

New York: A. S. Barnes Co, 1946. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and tanning. Includings Barnes' official sports guides, the Countryman Press, Smith & Durrell. 82 pp, illustrated. Barnes specialized in sporting and outdoors books. Includes not only their recent releases but their backlist as well.

London: A. J. Valpy, 1820. First Printing. Wraps. Very good. Disbound pamphlet from "The Pamphleteer," a compilation of various pamphlets, speeches, articles and letters published quarterly and with uncirculated stock bound up at the end of each year and issued as an annual volume. Very good, two staples along left edge. 18 pp.

Webster, MA: A. J. Bates & Co, 1896. Paperback. Good. 1896. Printed wraps, 8vo. 48pp. illustrations of products listed with contemporary prices. Good. Front wrap foxed, damp staining to rear wrap, contents waved throughout, else internally clean and unmarked.

London: Published at the Punch Office, 1845. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, 1845. Tall 8vo, bound in full polished light brown calf, raised bands, gilt exta, gilt inner dentelles, bound by Morrell for John Wanamaker, about fine with just a touch of rubbing, contents, 284 pp, with 12 full page steel engraved plates and numerous other illustrations; the plate listed as facing page one has been bound in as a frontispiece facing the engraved title page.

Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition. c.1992. Hardcover. Green cloth, paper cover label. 8vo. 328pp. Fine.

Erlangen, West Germany: C.A. Götz, Jr., 1965. Paperback. Very Good. 11.5 x 8.25 inches, wraps, very good. 16 pp, illustrated. Catalog of small, medium and full sized guitars, classical guitars, ukeleles, baritone ukes, solid body electric guitars, straps (includes two color plates of straps), bridges, machine heads, picks, and tailpieces.

Erlangen, West Germany: C.A. Götz, Jr., 1965. Paperback. Very Good. 11.5 x 8.25 inches, wraps, very good. 56 pp, illustrated. Catalog includes violins, violas, bows, cellos, double basses, cases of all sorts, and strings, plus guitar strings, some in nylon, electric bass guitar strings, pegs, bridges, frogs, trimmings, chin rests, pins, saddles, pitch pipes, rosin, necks, tailpieces, etc.

Erlangen, West Germany: C.A. Götz, Jr., 1965. Paperback. Very Good. 11.5 x 8.25 inches, wraps, very good. 28 pp, illustrated. Catalog includes violins, violas, bows, cellos, double basses, cases of all sorts, and strings.

Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1848. Hardcover. Good +. The Pilgrim in Many Lands dated c.1848. 16mo. Hardcover. 34pp. / 16pp. Frontis illus. Good+. Heavy rubbing to corners, light wear at spine-ends, boards rubbed, foxing to contents.

London: J. Blacklock, 1817. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1817, Second edition. 184 pp. + 69 pp. appendix, though there are a few errors in pagination, as page 48 is numbered as page 48-60 and the next page is 65. Ads in rear for books published by C. Chapple. Hardcover, 8vo. Rebound in plain tan cloth, no half-title or original fly leaf present. Unmarked, readable text. Scarce, OCLC locates only 14 copies worldwide.

Irvington, NY: John Brisben Walker, 1897. Very Good. 9.75 inches tall, pale yellow wraps lettered and decorated in red and dark blue, very good, light wear and soil. Conan Doyle's "Uncle Bernac," complete over three issues, plus work by Irving Bacheller, Margaret Sangster, Edgar Fawcet and others. Uncle Bernac is a Napoleonic era murder mystery, featuring a recurring character, Gerard. First American appearance.

Irvington, NY: John Brisben Walker, 1897. Very Good. 9.75 inches tall, pale yellow wraps lettered and decorated in red and dark blue, very good, light wear and soil. Conan Doyle's "Uncle Bernac," complete over three issues, plus work by Irving Bacheller, Margaret Sangster, Edgar Fawcet and others. Uncle Bernac is a Napoleonic era murder mystery, featuring a recurring character, Gerard. First American appearance.