Search Results: Authors starting with A from Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB

Leipzig: George Pulman & Sons, 1927. 1928 edition. Limp paper-covered boards. A very good- copy with slight roll to spine, soiled boards, light foxing verso of frontis, else contents clean and bright.. 464 pp. Illus. with 3000 color & b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Catalogue in German with some English for the English speaking market:original title Farbige gemäldewiedergaben: Systematisches verzeichnis von 3000 farbentreuen kunstblättern nach den bedeutendsten bildern alter und neuer zeit aus allen europäischen galerien.

Philadelphia: A. Finley, 1830. Very good, minor edge wear and soiling.. 1 sheet. 22 x 29 cm on 27 x 35 cm sheet. Cooper engraved colored map. 8.5 x 11.25 inches. Engraving by Young & Delleker. Taken from 'A New General Atlas'. Engraving by Young & Delleker. Includes Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. According to Ramsey "This atlas was first issued in 1824, with editions published annually to 1834. Each succeeding year new maps were added and others updated." The map of Canada in this edition added material not found in the first edition and does not have color added just to the right of Lake Superior. Phillips: Atlases 755-5.

Boston, 1891. Very good, minor edge wear, occasional soiling.. [1] sheet. 5 x 4 inches. A printed request for stories and reminiscences pertaining to General Benjamin Butler, from A. M. Thayer & Co., who would then be sued. "Many instances of spicy personal reminiscences, stories, and saying evoked by chance occurrences, like many of Lincoln's stories, pass current among friends and acquaintances of General Butler but have never been published.... We invite any person having knowledge of such incidents to transmit them to us...We will be especially indebted to such contributors and it will be our pleasure to reciprocate the favor at any time when opportunity offers... Authors are requested to submit manuscripts, which will receive careful consideration and liberal offers for publication." Known as "The Beast," Union Army Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818 -1893) played an instrumental role in the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, and held a few political offices, serving as a member on the… Read More

[San Diego]: [O.A. Tunnell], 1920. Pebbled gray card mount frame with embossed borders, with small gilt-titled calendar attached to lower margin of frame. Some spotting and scratching to image, though still quite sharp, calendar intact with closed tear on last page, boards edge worn.. 6.5 x 10.5 inches on 11x 15 inch board. Silver gelatin print. Decorative caption title in print. USS Melville, a 7150-ton destroyer tender, named for Rear Admiral George W. Melville (1841-1912), a noted Arctic explorer, was built at Camden, New Jersey and commissioned in early December 1915. In July 1919 she was transferred to the Pacific Coast, and on station at San Diego, California, maintaining the Fleet's destroyers. O.A. Tunnell was active as a photographer in San Diego, California, from the second to fifth decades of the twentieth century, with photographs dated between 1919 and 1945. The main bulk of his known work relates to the navy, with numerous shots of the naval vessels stationed in San Diego. To the… Read More

Oxford: A. Rosenthal, 1949. First edition. Paper wrappers. Very good, lightly soiled wrappers, contents fine.. 66 pp. 8vo. ..including Bible, Hebrew studies, Rabbinics, history, literature, philosophy, etc." 2120 items including supplement and post card laid in loose. OCLC locates five copies: Rosenbach, Temple Univ., National Lib Israel, Univ. Leeds, YIVO.

Boston: B.B. Russell & Co., 1868. Second printing. Cloth. Rebacked in modern brown cloth, some soiling on boards, front hinge starting, light scattered foxing, faint dampstain to lower fore-edge, otherwise contents quite clean, good or better.. 480 pp. Illus. with 7 steel engravings with tissue guards. 8vo. First published a year earlier in 1867.

[Washington, D.C.]: Ritchie & Heiss, printers, 1845. First edition. Removed. Inked numeral on title else a very good copy.. 13 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w drawing. 8vo. 29th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Doc. no. 26. Rfats were a contlinual problem for navigation. OCLC locates onlt 4 hard copies: Tulane, Historic New Orleans, LSU, NSU Louisiana.

Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College Museum, 1969. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good+ copy, with faint crease to front wrapper.. xii, 64 pp. Illus. with b/w plates. 8vo. Franklin W. Robinson, intro. Signed by Robinson.

Chicago: Year Book Publishers, 1947. First edition. Cloth with gilt title. A very good or better copy. No dust jacket.. 454 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 12mo. Arthur F. Abt, collaborator.

Chicago: Year Book Publishers, 1944. First edition. Cloth with gilt title. A very good+ copy in a very good edgeworn dust jacket.. 448 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 12mo. Arthur F. Abt, collaborator.

Chicago: Year Book Publishers, 1940. First edition. Cloth with gilt title. A very good+ copy. No dust jacket.. color frontis, 520 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 12mo. Arthur F. Abt, collaborator.

Chicago: Year Book Publishers, 1946. First edition. Cloth with gilt title. A very good copy. No dust jacket.. 448 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 12mo. Arthur F. Abt, collaborator.

Chicago: Year Book Publishers, 1945. First edition. Cloth with gilt title. A very good+ copy. No dust jacket.. 448 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 12mo. Arthur F. Abt, collaborator.

Chicago: Year Book Publishers, 1941. First edition. Cloth with gilt title. A very good+ copy. No dust jacket.. xli, 590 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 12mo. Arthur F. Abt, collaborator.

Chicago: Year Book Publishers, 1947. First edition. Cloth with gilt title. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket.. 464 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 12mo. Arthur F. Abt, collaborator.

Chicago: Year Book Publishers, 1943. First edition. Cloth with gilt title. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket.. 512 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 12mo. Arthur F. Abt, collaborator.

Chicago: Year Book Publishers, 1942. First edition. Cloth with gilt title. A very good+ copy. No dust jacket.. 512 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 12mo. Arthur F. Abt, collaborator.

Madrid: Tipografia de la Revista de Archivos Bibliotecas y Museos, 1930. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good+ unopened (uncut) copy with a few light soiled spots on wrappers.. [145-302] pp. Sm. 4to.

Madrid: Tipografia de Archivos, 1935. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with tear at head of spine, bump to same corner, light soiling on rear wrapper.. [555-691] pp. Illus. with 22 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. Publisher's tissue-guarded photo and ad laid in loose.

Buenos Aires: [Didot], 1946. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good+ copy, with light soiling on the wrappers.. 45 pp. 16mo. Includes lists of publications, members, directors, and rules. None in OCLC, but one in France and a 1941 ed. in Chile. Not in BN de Argentina