Search Results: Authors starting with A from Classic Books and Ephemera

Philadelphia: Temple University, 1996. Hardcover. Fine. 2 volumes with leaves numbered continuously: xxxv, [1], 842 leaves; 28 cm. Brown cloth with author's name in white on spine. "This dissertation provides a new interpretive framework for understanding the historical origins of the American reaction to Chinese immigration from 1848 to the passage of the first Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 . . . by placing the Chinese interaction with Americans within a context of acute consciousness of race." -- leaf iv. The author's Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-82 was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2003. A heavy set; for international shipping, it will have to be sent by priority international. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.

Rotterdam: Koninklijke Philips Electronics, 2003. Paperback. Fine. 352 pages: illustrations, charts; 24 cm. Paperback. An in-depth view of the state of ambient intelligence at the beginning of the 21st century. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.

Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co, 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine. 80 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Hardback with illustrated cover. Part of the publisher's The Sports Heroes Library. In Near Fine Condition: small scrape at tail of spine; edges rubbed; clean and tight.

Chicago: Peoples Book Club, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/good -. 246 p.; 21 cm. Green cloth with gilt spine title on dark green. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. A woman raised in Europe inherits the family paper mill in a New Hampshire valley and returns to sort things out. Book is in Very Good Condition: slightly cocked; corners lightly rubbed; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good- Condition: spine is slightly sunned; edges are chipped; loss at ends of spine and lower edge of front section; small holes; front section is lightly soiled.

London: John Murray, 1846. Hardcover. Very Good +. Two titles from Murray's Home and Colonial Library bound together: Philip Musgrave; or Memoirs of a Church of England Missionary in the North American Colonies edited by the Rev. J. Abbott (1846); and Memoirs of Father Ripa, During Thirteen Years' Residence at the Court of Peking in the Service of the Emperor of China; with an account of the foundation of the college for the education of young Chinese at Naples; selected and translated from the Italian, by Fortunato Prandi (1844). vi, 158 p.; viii, 160 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary half polished calf with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between double gilt rules. Black leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled series title "Home & Colonial Library." Gilt-tooled titles in fourth and fifth compartments. All page edges speckled red. Green endpapers. Both interesting works; Memoirs of Father Ripa is particularly scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: spine… Read More

New York: Sheldon & Co, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. 215, [1] p.: frontispiece and 10 additional illustrations, some in-text and others full-page; 17 cm. Original red-orange, pebble-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and cover title, the spine title intricately embellished. Additional black-stamped ornamentation on spine and front cover; back cover has blind-stamped border. Pale yellow endpapers. Engraved series title page. The eighth volume in the series Rollo's Tour in Europe, concerning the adventures of 12-year-old Rollo Holiday as he travelled across the Atlantic to meet his parents in Europe. An attractive and scarce edition of a volume in the Rollo series in the much less common red-orange, pebble-grain cloth. In Very Good Condition: corners slightly rubbed; clean and tight.

Cambridge, Mass: Welch, Bigelow, and Company, 1870. Paperback. Good. Reprinted from the Congregational Quarterly for July, 1870. 21, [3] p.; 24 cm. Pamphlet with brown wrappers printed in black. Front cover and title page are identical with addition of border on cover. The Reverend Joseph Abbott (1808-1867) was born in Philadelphia and in 1835 married Margaret Ann Ross Tilton (1815-1885). He served in the First Presbyterian Church of Newburyport, Mass., and then Dane Street Church of Beverly, Mass. (Congregational), from 1830 until 1865. This biographical essay focuses on his work as a minister and contains Abbott's own reflections on his career as well as comments by the Reverend Milton P. Braman and others. In Good Condition: front wrapper detached but present; wrapper is stained and edges are creased and chipped with loss at corners; archival repairs at top and bottom edges of front wrapper; foxing throughout; pages are otherwise clean and tight. A very scarce biography of a… Read More

New York: Sheldon & Co, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. 221, [1] p.: frontispiece and 11 additional illustrations, some in-text and others full-page; 17 cm. Original red-orange, pebble-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and cover title, the spine title intricately embellished. Additional black-stamped ornamentation on spine and front cover; back cover has blind-stamped border. Pale yellow endpapers. Engraved series title page. The third volume in the series Rollo's Tour in Europe, concerning the adventures of 12-year-old Rollo Holiday as he travelled across the Atlantic to meet his parents in Europe. An attractive and scarce edition of a volume in the Rollo series in the much less common red-orange, pebble-grain cloth. In Very Good Condition: corners slightly rubbed; clean and tight. 5.

Boston: William Crosby and Co, 1840. Hardcover. Good +. 189, [3] p.: 2 full-page illustrations; 17 cm. Brown rib-grain cloth with gilt-stamped cover title; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Author's advertisement for other books in the Rollo series on one unpaginated page following text. First edition. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: Sarah R. Towne. In Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; loss along both joints and at tail of spine; ink stains on front board; discoloration on back board; light foxing and finger soiling. A solid copy of the first edition of this title in the Rollo series.

Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. xi, [1], 289, [1] p.; 24 cm. Off-chite cloth with red spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The author uses the experiences of a real family in North Lawndale, a suburb of Chicago, to demonstrated the "gaps, inconsistences, and inequalities the poor face when they seek health care . . . how Medicaid and Medicare work (and don't work), the Catch-22s of hospital financing in the inner city, the racial politics of organ transplants, the failure of childhood immunization programs, the vexed issues of individual responsibility and institutional paternalism." -- dust jacket. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and bright.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/near fine -. First edition, 4th printing. 319 p.: illustrations; 30 x 39 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. Blind-stamped illustration on front cover. Orange endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes index. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine- Condition: lightly soiled; light creasing along fore-edge of front section; bright and solid.

Wayne, Pa: Zinka Press, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. xii, 92 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with cover photograph by Steve Morley. Stated First Edition. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: upper corner of front cover creased; upper corners of first 20 pages slightly creased; clean and tight.

Crawfordsville, Ind: Society of Architectural Historians, 1953. Very Good. 32 p.: map, photographs, plans; 28 cm. Stapled red paper covers printed in black. Contents: The Symbolic Sources of Some Architectural Elements by Phyllis Ackerman -- Architecture to Painting in the Middle Ages by Paul M. Laporte -- The Neumann Bicentennial by John Coolidge -- Creative Eclecticism by Carroll L.V. Meeks -- Jacksonville, an Oregon Gold-Rush Town by Marion D. Ross -- American Notes. The last section contains A French Source of Jefferson's Plan for the Prison at Richmond by Howard C. Rice, Jr. In Very Good Condition: slight fading along fore-edge and lower edge of front cover; lower corners slightly creased; p. 1 lightly soiled; pages have slight darkening in gutters; pages are otherwise clean and tight.

New York: Kingsland Press, 1932. Paperback. Very Good +. Wengenroth, Stow. [14], 79, [3] p.: frontispiece, illustrations; 24 cm. Dark blue wrapper with yap edges and a dark blue tie. Decorations by Stow Wengenroth. A very early example of Wengenroth's work as an illustrator, with one lithographed frontispiece of 10 x 7.5 cm. and 16 lithographs of 2.5 x 2.5 cm. interspersed with the poems. In Very Good+ Condition: yap fore-edge of front wrapper slightly chipped; lower corner of front wrapper lacking; a clean and tight copy of this very scarce volume of poetry.

Philadelphia, Pa: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1887. Paperback. Good +. [4], 315, [1] p.; 18 cm. Paperback with light blue covers printed in dark blue. This is no. 73 in Lippincott's Series of Select Novels. Inside of front cover and both sides of back cover contain publisher's advertisements. Former owner's name at head of front cover and first page of text: Schall. A very scarce late 19th-century paperback. In Good+ Condition: cover is slightly soiled; spine is sunned; small scrape on front cover; slight loss of paper at ends of spine; tip of upper corner of front cover and first few leaves lacking, without impacting text; small faint dampstain in upper fore-edge margin on first 9 leaves; otherwise pages are clean and tight.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. xiv, 210 p.: illustrations, maps, tables, charts; 24 cm. Grey cloth with green spine title. Dust jacket. Part of the series Comparative American Cities. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and bright.

Cambridge, Mass: John Wilson and Son, 1892. Paperback. Good +. 23 p.; 24 cm. Plain wrapper printed in black. Former owner's name written at upper edge of front wrapper. Scarce. In Good+ Condition: wrapper is slightly dusty with chipping along edges; closed 2-cm. tear from upper edge throughout; one light vertical crease; internally clean and solid.

Boston: Manning & Loring, 1806. Hardcover. Very Good -. "Printed by Manning and Loring. Sold by them, and by Etheridge & Bliss, Boston; Cushing & Appleton, Salem; Thomas & Whipple, Newburyport; Charles Peirce, Portsmouth; Henry Cushing, Provience; Lincoln & Gleason, Hartford; Bronson, Walter & Co. New-Haven; I. Thomas, jun. Worcester; J. Prentiss, Keene; as also in various other places." [4], 378, [6] p.; 22 cm. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf spine; red leather spine label with gilt-tooled title. Marbled paper over boards. At head of title: Useful Family Book. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: E.H. Sessions. Volume contains Jan. 1806-Dec. 1807, v. I, no. 1-24 (all published). Sabin, 11:47305. Contains research and information on both medical and agricultural matters, including "Natural History of the Horse-Bee" by Rowland Green; meteorological observations for various locations; and "Case of Recovery from apparent Consumption"… Read More

Boston: Lincoln & Edmunds, 1816. Hardcover. Very Good -. Title continued: "In Three Parts. Part I. Geographical Orthography, Divided and Accented; Part II. A Grammar of Geography, to be Committed to Memory; Part III. A Description of the Earth, Manner and Customs of the Inhabitants, Manufactures, Commerce, Government, Natural and Artificial Curiosities, &c. To be read in Classes; Accompanied with an atlas; To which is added, An easy method of constructing maps, illustrated by plates; For the use of schools and academies." Second Edition. 327, [1] p., 2 leaves of plates: tables; 18 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules; gilt-tooled title in second compartment. Includes Erratum on p. viii. Without the separate atlas, as usual. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper by Frederick Shindle. Early American Imprints, 2nd ser., no. 36672. In Very Good- Condition: leather is rubbed; light foxing and occasional soiling; a solid copy.

Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine. xiii, [1], 159 p.20 cm. Grey cloth with silver spine title. First published in 1913. In Near Fine Condition: cover slightly rubbed; pages are clean and tight.