Search Results: Authors starting with A from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1857. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); tan wrappers printed within double rule; 19pp. Extremities toned and very slightly chipped, faint ring stain to upper cover, else Very Good and sound. Prospectus for a Society in Boston that the author proposed would supplement the foundations of the Smithsonian Institute and the diffusion of human knowledge. Contents include introductory remarks and four essays, all signed "Franklin" at the end, generally drawing on classical and European history as the source for the improvement of American government. The Society appears to have never been formed.

New York: Macmillan, 1935. First American Edition. First printing. Small octavo (19.5cm). Turquoise cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 198pp. Upper board edges just a shade sunned, else Near Fine in the original printed dustwrapper, corners clipped by publisher with $2.00 price overprinted at base of front flap; darkened but legible on spine panel; Very Good. Printed bookplate of New Hampshire author Henry Davis Nadig to front pastedown. Posthumous publication of selections made by Russell prior to his death in 1935.

Cambridge, MA: American Friends Service Committee, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (27cm); black and white photo-illustrated wrappers; 16pp. A few small corner creases smoothed out, else Near Fine. An earlier issue of one of the longest-running journals on peace and justice in the U.S. Founded in 1972 and rooted in Quaker values, Peacework focused on "Global Thought and Local Action for Nonviolent Social Change." A good portion of the contents is dedicated to the planned non-violent occupation of Seabrook Nuclear Plant on April 30, 1977. Though widely held institutionally, issues are uncommon in the trade.

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little & Wilkins, 1831. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); removed; 88pp. Shallow chipping along title page extremities, light foxing throughout, else Very Good and sound. Anonymously penned tract regarding claims that arose during the conflict with France from 1798 to 1800, and the Convention of 1800. SABIN 25751; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 5792.

Boston: Repertory Office, 1808. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 28pp. Stock slightly soiled and rather toned, else Good or better. Brief account of the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, a naval engagement between the warship HMS Leopard and USS Chespeake off the cost of Norfolk, Virginia, in 1807, during which four Americans were killed, and its political aftermath. HOWES L535; SABIN 12490.

Boston: Oak Hall, n.d., ca. 1870s. Twenty-Fifth Edition. Square 12mo (14.5cm.); pictorial side-stitched cream wrappers; 29pp.; illus. throughout. Bottom two-thirds of spine split, wrappers a bit dust-soiled, else Good or better, internally fine. Juvenile reader issued by the Boston Oak Hall Clothing House, run by George W. Simmons & Son. The story, told in rhyme, describes the many wonders of the department store, together with line drawings ("These are the clerks, polite and gay, / Who serve the people, day by day, / At famous Oak Hall in North Street").

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1828. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original drab wrappers; 24pp. Wrappers quite chipped and worn with a number of losses to extremities, light foxing to textblock, contemporary ownership signature to title page; Good overall, internally sound. Treatise by the Federalist Boston lawyer John Lowell (1769-1840), criticizing Orthodox congregationalism while promoting religious freedom and tolerance. SABIN 42457; SHOEMAKER 33924.

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Co, 1828. Second Edition. 12mo (18cm.); removed; 24pp. Light foxing, else Very Good and sound. Treatise by the Federalist Boston lawyer John Lowell (1769-1840), criticizing Orthodox congregationalism while promoting religious freedom and tolerance, arguing "Has not a man, or a body of men, a right to found a church for the maintenance of any religious opinions, and impose what restraints he or they please? To be sure they have. A man may found a mosque, a synagogue, or even a temple to Juggernaut. He may provide for what mode of worship he pleases, provided it is not revolting to public feeling" (p. 21). A note at the end of text on p. 24 reads: "Since the first edition of this pamphlet was published, I learn that there had been two or three of the examples which Dr Beecher would call 'pernicious.' They render it more important, that the public should comprehend the danger to christian liberty." SABIN 42457; SHOEMAKER 33925.

Boston: R.P. & C. Williams, 1821. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 23cm.); disbound; 168pp. Light foxing throughout, contemporary ownership signature at head of title page (serving as upper cover), else Very Good overall. SABIN 102563; SHOEMAKER 6613.

New York: A.S. McCredie & Co, 1831. Printed broadside receipt (25x20.5cm.) signed and accomplished in manuscript by A.S. McCredie, "Dealers in Fancy Silk Goods, Paris Embroideries, Shawls, Hosiery, Gloves, Lace, Linens, Prints, &c. &c.," October 27th, 1831, payment received November 28th of that same year. Previous folds with some splitting not approaching text, light toning to extremities, else Near Very Good. Receipt made out to a Mrs. H.W. Livingstone, who purchased several yards of Merino wool and cloth, a Hernani shawl, and silk velvet, a purchase totalling $52.50 1/2 (about $1500 in today's currency). The Hernani shawl appears to have been a fashion based on Victor Hugo's play "Hernani," which opened in Paris in February, 1830; by May the following year "Hernani Shawls" were being imported from France to the United States, though the play had yet to be mounted there.

Boston: Etheridge and Bliss, 1807. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); removed; 20pp. Extremities a bit worn and dust-soiled, leaves held together by a couple threads, light foxing, else Good or better overall. Satirical account of the Rotten Cabbage Rebellion at Harvard in 1807, an uprising/food fight galvanized by the presence of maggots in the cabbage and splinters in the sugar bowl. Among the expulsions were Dr. Walter Channing and Richard Henry Dana. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 13752.

New York: Marlborough, 2005. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers; 40pp.; color photographic illus. throughout. A hint of wear, else Fine.

Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, [2005]. Octavo (22.5cm.); original glossy photo-illustrated card wrappers; xvii,[1],275pp. Small bump to bottom fore-edge corner, else Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on p. [1]: "For / Mr. Arthur Obermayer, A man whom I hold in high respect. Thank you for your friendship. With personal regards, Yours sincerely, Hassan / Sep 17, 2004.

Delhi: Lok Publications, 1979. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 112pp. Light external wear, still Near Fine in a lightly worn jacket. The prolific author/filmmaker's fictional documentation of the Indian communist youth movement of the Seventies and Eighties; the basis for Abbas's 1980 award-winning Bollywood film of the same name. Uncommon in the trade.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 333pp. General edge wear to jacket extremities, spine a bit sunned, corners bumped, light soil to textblock fore-edge, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "To Professor Babcock: A man for whom I have a very deep and real respect, one who has influenced me for the best, one with whom I can talk on common grounds of faith.." The poet's first novel, set in a small town in the author's native New England. Not in Hanna.

Boston: Russell and Cutler, 1802. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's side-stitched blue unadorned wrapper; 23pp.; woodcut adornments throughout. Extremities rather ragged, lacking rear wrappers, some light dust-soil, else Good or better. Upper cover inscribed and signed: "Gen. Winslow's Compliments to the Hon. Judge Paine, & asks his acceptance." General Winslow (not to be confused with the British Revolutionary War General of the same name) appears in both lists of chosen Officers for 1801 and 1802 printed p. [24]; Judge Robert Treat Paine, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was an Associated Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court at the time this pamphlet was presented to him and quite possibly may have been present at the anniversary. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 1706.

Cambridge: Perseus Publishing, 2002. First Edition. First printing. Small quarto (24cm). Original grey paper over boards, backed in purple, with green dust jacket; purpel endpapers; xxvii,[3],239pp; black and white illustrations. Minor spotting to top edge, else straight, clean, and bright: Very Good or better. Jacket lightly rubbed with minor marks to front and rear, old barcode label to rear, else clean and whole: around Very Good.

New York: Abbey & Abbot, 1860. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm). Stab-sewn, with wrapper title; 352pp. A sound copy, lacking rear wrapper, with minor water damage to first few leaves, folding to corners of initial leaves; some leaves browned: Good or better. Antislavery travel narrative. LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 10. SABIN 40.

Cleveland: Case Western, 1979. First Edition. Sewn illustrated wrappers. Poetry anthology with short poems Sheila Nickerson, Doyle Wesley Walls, Peter Wild, William Jay Smith, John Druska, Jared Carter, Leonard Nathan, Jim Handlin, Robley Wilson, Jr., Red Saner, Merry Speece, Albert Goldbarth, Scott Simmer, John Fandel, Dennis Trudell, Jean Balderson, Frank Short, William Hoagland, Sonia Gernes, and Joseph Bruchac. Near fine.

Zaria: Northern Nigerian Publishing Company, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 109pp. Includes bibliography. Corners bumped, with consequent creasing to wrapper edges; text clean, tight and unmarked. Good.