Search Results: Authors starting with S from Abacus Books

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very good/fair. Joseph Cranston Jones. Green cloth over boards with gilt design and lettering. 8vo. [xii] 151pp. Some offsetting of silhouettes otherwise near fine in a dust jacket that is separated with about a 35% loss of upper spine. Now stabilized in a Brodart sleeve.

Tall plastic comb bound 15 3/4" by 6 1/2" Cardboard covers. Consisting of six groups of six cardboard panels, each with text by Kent Salisbury and a color illustration by Adrina Zanazanian which can be turned and combined to make thousands of different stories.
Spine of plastic comb separated in places but binding functionally intact. Light shelf wear to covers

Soft cover. Side stapled black wraps with silver title and design. 31pp. with b/w photographs. Staples rusted. Occasional foxing otherwise very good.
Upon being freed from Ebensee-Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, liberated by American troops of the 80th Infantry Division on 6 May 1945, Louis Henry Sampaix wrote a long document that was filed among the records of the Legal Adviser to General Eisenhower and published in various newspapers.
Four years later he wrote this booklet and states "These unhappy memories which I have assembled here without any order or place, should not have been published. But my conscience forbids me to be silent any more. I can still hear the voices of those who died and the light of the world becomes dark for me. I can still see, now, coming back again, the symptoms of Nazism and anti-Semitism. Forgive me, but I have no doubt that for you, as for myself, it is USEFUL to go back into the past. That is why: LET US NEVER FORGET.

First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover. Octavo.179pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Firat Edition. Hard cover. Green cloth with black title. Octavo. [xxii] 267pp. with b/w photographs. Tight binding, Very good.
The personal reminiscences of a noted St. Louis lawyer, who spent his summers in the Fall River valley in the Rocky Mountain National Park and in fact passed away there.

Stated First Impression April 14, 1900. Hard cover in publisher's cloth with design in yellow and black to both covers. Light shelf wear to cover and spine slightly darkened otherwise clean and unmarked.
This book is dedicated to the memory of the days spent at the Palette Ranch on the Graybull, where from hunter, miner, personal experience, and the host himself, I gathered many chapters of the History of Wahb.

Signed on half title page by John Farleigh (illustrator) and dated 1933. Hard cover. Octavo. 75 pages. Illustrated boards and decorative end papers designed and engraved by John Farleigh. Engraved title page and nineteen further illustrations by Farleigh throughout the text. Edge wear and some chipping to outer hinges. Binding and text block tight.
The "Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God" caused controversy when released due to the religious, sexual and racial themes within the writing and John Farleigh's complementary (and risqué) wood engravings commissioned by Shaw for the book.

"This booklet was designed and printed by Rosemary Waldrop in an edition of three hundred copies of which this is number 165." SIGNED by author on title page. Stapled wraps in a soft card dust jacket. 8 1/2" by 7" Unpaginated but 36pp.
Laid in is a postcard of a poem, "Shoe Music" by Ron Silliman for TUUMBA Press, signed by him and sent to Keith Abbott. Poet and author Keith Kumasen Abbott taught writing and art at Naropa University. He is perhaps best remembered for his memoir of Richard Brautigan, with whom he was a friend.

Boston: John West & Co., 1810. Quarter leather. Very good. Contemporary quarter leather bound over marbled paper covered boards. Hand written paper label to spine. 8vo. 56pp.Edges a little rubbed. Pages evenly tanned with occasional foxing.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. George Shanks. Green boards with yellow design and lettering. Pictorial endpapers. 8vo. [x] 240pp with color frontispiece and 10 black and white illustrations by George Shanks. Period bookplate to front paste down, name stamp to front free endpaper. Light wear to covers.

First edition. Full calf. 8vo. [xii] 381pp with 2 fold out maps and diagram of the solar system. Pages toned with some foxing. Covers and spine show wear.
The second fold out map "engd. for Spafford's geography 1808" by Gideon Fairman Sr. is titled "United States; or Fredon."
"It was a great oversight" of the Constitution's framers that they did not give the United States a "proper name." So claimed Samuel Latham Mitchill in an 1803 broadside. A doctor by training, Mitchill not only diagnosed this problem, he also proposed a remedy. The land occupied by the United States, he suggested, should be called Fredon, or Fredonia in its more "poetical" form. The people of Fredonia would be called Fredonians or Fredes. And the adjectival form would be Fredish. Mitchill declared these various words were "sonorous," and the whole language "rich and copious." This Fredish language would even translate well into verse: "Their chiefs, to glory lead on/The noble sons of Fredon."

Hardcover. 4to. [x] 288pp. First edition. With fifty plates and numerous smaller woodcuts. Rebound in brown cloth over boards with gold titling to spine. Very good condition throughout.Sir Frank William Brangwyn RA RWS RBA, a prolific artist in many media, was largely an autodidact but did receive training from Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo and in the workshops of William Morris.

New York: Esso Standard, Division of Humble Oil & Refining Company, 1958. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Near fine. Staple bound wraps. 15pp paginated in binary number system 0010 to 1111. 10 1/2" by 8". Fine condition.Prepared by the publisher for teachers in the nine states that Esso had offices this booklet provides an explanation of the binary system as a language for early computers and also asks questions such as "What are these devices? In what sense do they think? Will they replace the human brain? A fascinating glimpse into early electronic computer technology.

Hard cover. Octavo. [ix] 70 pages. Book in very good condition with a very tight binding. Intact dust jacket shows light shelf wear.

Inscribed and signed by the author on the half title page November 19th - 1915. Hardcover. Octavo. [xi] 160pp, 2pp advertisements. With 13 plates and 10 illustrations. Light shelf wear to cover with a little rubbing to edges.This book is written with a desire to establish a rational scientific foundation for the practice of photography and for the study of light as it is daily observed in nature. - from the introduction.

Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1966. Limited Edition. Limp boards in slip case. Near fine/very good. Number 149 of a limited edition of 300 with original lithograph signed and numbered by Steinberg laid in. French language. Text by Michel Butor and Harold Rosenberg, photographs by D'Inge Morath. Oblong 4to. Pictorial dust jacket over limp boards in acetate sleeve. Unpaginated. Numerous full page illustrations, the majority in color, by Steinerg.Small loss to top edge of acetate sleeve otherwise near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Original slip case in very good condition.

1947 printing of the 1940 edition. Hard cover 6 1/4" by 3 1/2". Dark blue cloth with masonic crest in gilt to front. 465 pages. Clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Light shelf wear to cover.