Search Results: Authors starting with S from Common Crow Books

Littleton, CO: Ukrainian Academic Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First Edition. c.1973. Hardcover. Cloth, gilt titles. 8vo. 200pp. Ex-Library. With library stamps on endpapers and pocket in rear. Very Good+. Light general shelfwear, rubbing at corners and endpapers, light age toning to head of text block.

Springer, 1985. Paperback. Near Fine. 1985 Softcover 8vo, 232pp. Near fine. Contents are clean and unmarked.

Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. Paperback. Fine. Paperback, inscribed by author to Richard M. Gale. 164 pp, fine copy. Richard M. Gale (1932-2015) was an important American philosopher and longtime faculty member of the University of Pittsburgh's esteemed Philosophy department, and the author of major books on William James, John Dewey, etc.

Bredfield, Woodbridge, Suffolk: S. C. Pearce, 1965. Wraps. Very good. 9 x 7 inches, stapled wraps, very good, light wear and soil to covers. 43 pp, lots of b/w photos. Beautiful gates!

Boston: S. H. Peterson, 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. Published 1855, tall 8vo, embossed cloth gilt, 48 pp, with ads on endpapers, and the text also composed of ads, many with woodcuts or other illustrations, including ship's chandlers, stores, sperm whale oil processors, merchants of all varieties, etc. Lacks front flyleaf else very good, light occasional foxing. NO COPIES IN OCLC.

London: Wertheim & Co, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. c.1853. Hardcover. 8vo. 131pp. Frontis. New spine and yellow coated endpapers, original spine cloth laid down, a few signs that this was ex-library: spine numbers, abrasion to verso of frontis. Very Good. Sunning to spine and board edges, light soiling, age toning to contents. Scarce!

Jerusalem: Published for the Government of Palestine by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1935. First Printing. Wraps. Very good. Large 8vo, wraps, very good, light edgwear to wraps, owner's namestamp. 73 pp, many plates, folding chart, etc. Husseini's Unfinished Monlith Column in Mah Neh Yehudah Quarter, Jerusalem; Baramki's Two Roman Cisterns at Beit Nattif; Avi-Yonah's Mosaic Pavements at El Hammam, Beisan; Johns' Excavations at Pilgrims' Castle, 'Atlit (1932-3), Stables SW of the Suburb; Iliffe's A Hoard of Bronzes from Askalon, 4th C. BC; Mayer's Evliya Tshelebi's Travels in Palestine, III.

Very good with light wear and soil, section on Anarchists, labor strikes, H. G. Wells "Anticipations -- V. Language" and section on modern city government.

Philadelphia: NP, 1914. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, 1914. Tall 8vo, purple cloth, lettered in white, 155 pp. Very good, but spine somewhat faded. Tributes by W. W. Keen, James Tyson, G. E. De Schweinitz, Frederick B. Henry, James Cornelius Wilson, Talcott Williams, William H. Welch, Owen Wister, et al.

Lisboa (Lisbon): Medialivros, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Lengthy inscription, in English, from the author on the half-title. 2003, First Edition. Text in Portuguese. Hardcover, large 4to., illustrated throughout with b&w photos. 198 pp. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Clean, sharp copy.

Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1980. Facsimile. Paperback. Very Good. Facsimile of dissertation, 1980, paperback, octavo, 437pp. with printing on recto side of pages only, not illustrated. Book VG with title label peeling from spine, mild sun, spine head and corners slightly bumped, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ. Dissertation.

Paris: Seghers, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Hardcover. c.1978. Brown cloth, gilt spine titles. 4to. 122pp. Illus. Text in French. Near Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket. Light general shelfwear to dustjacket, mild wear and creasing along top edge. Contents unmarked.

NP: College Art Association of America, 1966. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, cloth, no jacket, very good, with Franklin Toker's 1971 pencil inscription and extensive pencil notes to front flyleaf. Both Toker and Saalman were academics in Pittsburgh and both had longstanding architectural research projects documenting Florentine churches. 42 pp. plus plates & large folding frontispiece plan.

Durango: Logbridge-Rhodes, 1987. First printing. Paperback. Very good. First edition, 1987. Softcover, 40 pp., clean unmarked text, very good copy, light rubbing or wear to the tips and edges of the covers, tiny stain to front cover. Signed by both translators and with very small note from translator Karen Kimball to her parents laid in, telling them about a "signing party" etc.

Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Presumed first edition, 1979, hardcover with brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 392pp., not illustrated. Book fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with mild edgewear, now in archival mylar wrap.

Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Kirjapino, 1958. Paperback. Very Good. Softbound. 208pp. Very good copy with some creasing and rubbing to covers. Some edgewear and discoloration. Mostly clean, with a few minor pencil markings.Overall, a nice, tight copy.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967. Hardcover. Very good+/very good. Gilt stamped brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild wear to spine ends and corners, rubbing that dulls title gilt, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ rubbed and toned, edgewear to spine ends and corners.

Pittsburgh: RWS Publications, 2010. Softcover. Near fine. Printed paper wraps, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild rubbing and shelfwear to wraps, binding tight, text clean and unmarked.

Amberes: Iuan Bautista Verdussen, 1678. Hardcover. Good. Folio (12.5 inches, 32 cm tall), old but probably not original vellum, hand lettered on spine, (18), 34 (6) 398 (Empresa Politica), 2 pp (Sumario); lacking at least one more page of the Sumario at end, with woodcut emblems throughout. Good text, with dampstaining, the Table page of Republica Literaria and last page of text have wear, pp. 370-378 have some lining to the outer margins, and flipping through the book there are probably a handful of other pages similarly lined. Rare edition of this Anti-Machiavellian emblem book.

Leipzig: Poeschel & Trepte fur den Insel-Verlag, 1919. Hardcover. Good. No. 141 of 320 copies. Quarto, 11.5 x 8 inches, full vellum, good to very good, boards somewhat bowed, light soil and darkening to covers, contents very good, gift inscription of a 10-line poem dated 1929 on flyleaf, the facsimile taking up 48 unnumbered pages, with 5 colored full page woodcut illustrations, followed by an afterword discussing the text and the printing, 12 pp. Very handsome book.