Search Results: Authors starting with S from Evening Star Books

London: George G. Harrap & Co. LTD (1949), 1949. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo. [6], 7-665, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 25'- net on the front flap of the dust jacket. An early printing of the second edition. A historical overview of various political philosophies. A name and bookplate on the free front endpaper and a tiny dampstain to the textblock; jacket has light edge wear and a notable dampstain on its rear panel.

New York: Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1998), 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 3-233, [1] pp. Quarter red paper over blue paper boards with red lettering on the spine and lettering in blind on the front board. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $16.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Vladimir Radunsky. With a few illustrations on the title page. The basis for the epynomous film. Sachar's tale concerns a miscarriage of justice and one boy's navigation of the juvenile detention system. Camp Green Lake, where the protagonist is being held, is a juvenile facility in the scorching American desert and is haunted by what's buried beneath its sand. Minor wear to the extremities, otherwise a pleasing copy.

New York: The Viking Press (1971), 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [7], viii, [3], 4-181, [3] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with yellow and brown lettering on the spine; brown topstain. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Inscribed without personalization by Calley, and signed by Sack on the free front endpaper. John Sack's writing records Calley's thoughts and reactions to the public outcry which ensued after the beginning of the investigation of the Mylai massacre. Here Sack produces a record of conversations between him and the convicted war criminal which took place over a period of one hundred days. The dust jacket is price-clipped with a small crease to its front flap.

New York: Random House [1980], 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 4to. [11], xii-xvi, [3], 4-365, [3] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with red and silver lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several in-text and full-page photographs (both in color and black and white). Title pages printed in black and red. The winner of the 1981 Hugo Award for the Best Non-Fiction Book. The book's chapters correspond to the epynomous hit television show produced by Sagan. The show and this book were wildly popular, ushering in a new era of scientific communication and learning for the general public. A bookplate and a blindstamp on the free front endpaper; jacket with a bit of wear to its tips.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press (1989), 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [12], 322, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several black and white plates and a few in-text diagrams. Includes a bibliography and an index.

New York: Grove Press, Inc. [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [10], 11-351, [1] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A novel concerning juvenile labor camps in California, and the brutality of prison life.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1963], 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [9], 3-248, [2] pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.00 on front flap of dust jacket. Third issue of the first printing, as per Ahearn APG (004d). A Near Fine book with a touch of fading to the edges of the boards in a Near Fine dust jacket with a small closed tear and a wrinkle to the rear panel and minor fading to the spine panel.

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 3-200 pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Minor foxing to the pageblock; jacket mildly wrinkled on its front and rear panel.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [3], iv-xxi, [3], 3-332, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Full contemporary sheep with the spine in five compartments, a red sheep label lettered in gold on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Sallust's bust. Sallust's text in Latin, notes by Charles Anthon in English. Sixth edition, corrected and enlarged. Sallust's history of the rebellion of King Jugurtha, a Numidian noble. One of the Latin language's best stylists. Light wear to the extremities, some of the pastedown edges worn away, an 1839 inscription on the title page.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [5], vi-xxii, 1-538, [4] pp. Blindstamped blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Two contemporary owner's markings.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, [2], 3-293, [3] pp. Bound in dark grey cloth with white and red lettering on the spine. A presentable copy of Salmon's out of print classic in which he argues that Essentialism is not derivable from the Theory of Direct Reference. A book that is still required reading for anyone working in metaphysics or philosophy of language. Traces of edge wear to jacket, two marker scrawls on free front endpaper and one to rear pastedown, some faint traces of foxing, tiny hole near the gutter affecting 27 leaves, light rubbing to the edges of the boards.

New York: Leo. Feist, Inc, 1918. Pamphlet. Very Good+. 12mo. 14 c.m. x 10 c.m. [4], 5-64 pp. Pictorial wrappers, staple-bound, printed in red, white, and blue. The front wrapper with an illustration of a woman reading from Songs of Cheer. Price of 15 cents on the front wrapper and on the title page. The rear wrapper with an advertisement for war savings stamps, and hte slogan: "Every Stamp Shoots a Gun / Every Gun Ends a Hun". With three complete songs, words and music, 19 songs, words only, and 38 complete choruses, words and music, with 17 additional choruses (words only). A songbook to inspire patriotism during American involvement in World War I. Toning to the wrappers, overall a sharp example.

New York: The Macmillan Company (1959), 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-xi, [1], 1-153, [3] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Tenets of the concepts developed by Zeno, Chrysippos, and Poseidonios. With some quotes from Greek and Roman sources in the appendix. A name on the free front endpaper; jacket's spine mildly toned.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc. [1966], 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [10], xi-xxii, [4], 1-158, [8] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a few full-page maps and with several in-text black and white photographs. With a review slip from the publisher, addressed to the head writer for book reviews at the Milwaukee Sentinel. With a copy of the publisher's press release, with a note from a woman at Prentice-Hall to the head book reviewer at the Sentinel. A tiny dampstain on the fore-edge; jacket has the price rubbed away and shows a bit of sunning to the spine panel.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1948], 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [10], 3-1067, [9] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine; grey topstain. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Heise 37. Van Doren 28. The first trade edition, published after a limited edition of 1000 copies. Sandburg's epic novel weaving together four stories from different time periods in American history. Jacket has a dampstain to its reverse and a few traces of edge wear.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1926], 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [4], 7-289, [1] pp. Black cloth with yellow lettering on the spine. Edited with notes and an introduction by Rebecca West. Heise 17. With the correct issue point for the first edition. A nice copy of Sandburg's poems, an important literary figure in American and Midwestern-American culture. A Very Good book with a touching gift inscription dated in the year of publication on the front flyleaf and a bookplate on the front pastedown; dust jacket is Very Good, price-clipped, and shows minor chipping.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1943], 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-310 pp. Navy cloth with white lettering on the spine. With sixteen leaves of black and white photographs with captions and explanations at the end of the volume. Heise 34. Van Doren 25. Sandburg's opinions on the Second World War written during the first three years of the conflict. Textblock lightly foxed and toned; jacket's front flap clipped, jacket also has notable traces of edge wear.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [6], ix-xvi, [2], 3-344 pp. Blue cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $7.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several plates of black and white photographs and with quite a few in-text images. Heise 38. A touch of foxing to the top textblock; jacket has traces of edge wear.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1948], 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine. 2 vol. [12], 3-532, [4]; [6], 533-1067, [3] pp. Blue cloth with a paper label on each spine printed in navy blue; grey toptains. Signed by Carl Sandburg on the limitation page of volume one. 1,000 copies of this edition were printed on rag paper. This set is numbered 69 out of 1,000. Lacks the slipcase and the glassine dust jackets. Heise 37. Van Doren 28. The trade edition was printed after this signed limited edition run. The novel follows a pendant struck in 1607, and the people it is passed down to throughout American history. The setting begins at Plymouth Rock, shifts to Valley Forge, then to the era of John Brown, and finally ends shortly before World War II. A lovely set.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1953], 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large 8vo. [16], 15-445, [3] pp. Navy cloth with a paper label printed in black on the spine; blue topstain, housed in a blue-grey slipcase with a paper label printed in navy. Green endpapers and pastedowns with illustrative photographs. Lacks the acetate dustwrapper. Signed by Sandburg on the limitation page, copy number 45 of 600 that were produced. Heise 44. Van Doren 23. Sandburg's autobiography covering the first 20 years of his life. A small concavity to the spine, sunning and a small split to the interior of the slipcase.