Search Results: Authors starting with U from Bartlebys Books

Albany, [NY]: Whiting, Leavenworth and Whiting, 1802. First edition. 8vo. 796 pp. Original blue-grey paper over boards (soiled), uncut, front board loose, rear board detached, paper spine perished, with an 8-line printed notice (rubbed) pasted to the front cover from the publishers to their subscribers, appealing to their subscribers the justice of raising the price because the book is much larger than anticipated. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 3271. SABIN 19101. Full account of the debate, on a motion of John Breckenridge of Kentucky, which preceded repeal of the controversial Judiciary Act of 1801, seen by the incoming Jeffersonians chiefly as a means of providing employment for defeated Federalists. "This action, at least as partisan as that of 1801, restored the Judiciary Act of 1789 to full force. The repeal debate thoroughly canvassed the issue of judicial review, set forth the Jeffersonian theory of legislative supremacy and furnished the political setting for Marbury v. Madison." --DAH.

Some wear throughout the archive, some poor quality typing paper browned, but a very good archive, important as reporting and analysis by an actor in the events covered. For the archive, (1) Uhl, Alexander. Spain's Cry for Freedom. Madrid, nd [ca. 1975]. Ribbon-copy typescript (with some pages in carbon) for an unpublished work of non-fiction, exploring the effects of the Spanish Civil War on Spanish Society. 4to. (8), 379 pp. [rectos only], with a dozen pages of manuscript and numerous manuscript corrections, additions, and deletions, many substantive. The manuscript portions are in several hands, presumably Uhl's and perhaps his wife's or editors. (2) Uhl, Alexander. Gates of the Sun. NP, 1938. Carbon typescript for an unpublished novel set during the Spanish Civil War. 4to. 477 pp. [rectos only], with occasional simple overtype corrections to punctuation and missed strikes. First leaf with tears resulting in loss of a number of words, next few leaves rumpled. (3) Uhl, Alexander. Not Thy Hate.… Read More

Baton Rouge, (LA): Claitor's Book Store, 1967. Second printing. 8vo. 224 pp. Illustrated from line drawings. "Recipes that make up the daily fare of those folks who live in the Louisiana Bayou Country, recipes that are basic 'Cajun' cooking, many of which were the foundation for the famous ones used in New Orleans restaurants." Several ink tick marks next to recipe ingredie nts, else very good. Comb-bound illustrated stiff wrappers. (9161).

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1889. First edition in English. Large 8vo. xii, 523 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, plates, maps, one folding. Gives a detailed topographical description and considers Alpine rivers and lakes, flora and fauna, roads and railways, geographical boundaries, etc. Very good. Original 4-color illustrated cloth (rubbed), gilt spine title (spine partly darkened). (#7866).

New York: D. Appleton, 1896. First edition. 4to. xi, 158 pp. Illustrated from photographs, 124 plates. Preface: "The want of a book which treats directly of the proper appointment of sporting and non-sporting vehicles has prompted the preparation of this work." Still a good copy in a binding that does not often turn up in much better condition. Publisher's brown three-quarter sheep (spine ends, corners, and edges bumped, spine with many creased lines) and decorated gilt-stamped suede, gilt spine title, top edge gilt., others untrimmed. (#4792).

New York: Brentano's, 1928. 1 of 2500 copies. 8vo.; xv, 269 pp. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts by the author. Illustrated endpapers [previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown]. Brown stamped mustard yellow cloth; small illustration of a cat on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket (spine darkened; small chips to corners, spine ends, and a small triangular chip along spine edge). A very good copy.

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1980. First edition, 1/1000 copies signed by the editor and illustrator. Large 8vo. xix, (1), 460 pp. Line drawings. Contributors include Jack O'Connor, Larry Benoit, Robert Ruark, Archibald Rutledge, William Faulkner, Gordon MacQuarrie, and Theodore Roosevelt, among others. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated green faux-leather, a.e.g., silk ribbon marker, publisher's slipcase. (#4222).

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1980. First edition, 1/1000 copies signed by the editor and illustrator. Large 8vo. xix, (1), 460 pp. Line drawings. Contributors include Jack O'Connor, Larry Benoit, Robert Ruark, Archibald Rutledge, William Faulkner, Gordon MacQuarrie, and Theodore Roosevelt, among others. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated green faux-leather, a.e.g., silk ribbon marker, publisher's slipcase. (#4222).

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1982. First edition, 1/1000 copies signed by the editor and illustrator. 8vo. 609 pp. Plates. Contributors include Russell Annabel, Robert Ruark, Nash Buckingham, Gene Hill, Gordon MacQuarrie, and Archibald Rutledge, among others. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated green faux leather, all edges gilt., slipcase. (#4841).

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1982. First edition, 1/1000 copies signed by the editor and the publisher, Jim Rikhoff. 8vo. 2 volumes: xxii, 497; (4), 501-1102 pp. Plates, some in color, color frontispiece to each volume. Among the contributors to this anthology of North American big game hunting are Jack London, Russell Annabel, Charles Sheldon, Jack O'Connor, and Elmer Keith. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated green bonded leather, publisher's slipcase. (7251).

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1982. First edition, 1/1000 copies signed by the editor, illustrator, and the publisher, Jim Rikhoff. 8vo. 609 pp. Plates. Contributors include Russell Annabel, Robert Ruark, Nash Buckingham, Gene Hill, Gordon MacQuarrie, and Archibald Rutledge, among others. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated green faux leather, all edges gilt , slipcase. (4841).

March 7: "We remained in Baltimore ... then we took the steam boat Fortress Monroe." March 9: "I left Fortress Monroe ... and went to Norfolk the next day." March 29: "I took the steamboat for Plymouth, N. C. ... we were garding the paymaster." April 4: "Still in Plymouth. We played foot ball in the afternoon." April 13: "We took three days rashings and went up the James River on a raid. We lost one man that night. He was washed out of the launch and drowned. We went into Smithfield, Virginia, the rebels fired into our small boats that sum of our soldiers were in and killed one of our officers and wounded two of our pryvets, then ran away ... I liked that journey first rate." April 28: "There was 40 of us got orders to get ready to go to North Carolina." April 29: "We left Norfolk and started for Newbern, North Carolina. We got as far as the Pungo Landing that day ... next morning we started for Roanoke Island." May 1: We left Roanoke Island and started for Newbern." May 2: "We got to Newbern and went… Read More

(1 letter), Newberne (8), Washington (5), and Newport News, Va. (1), to his cousin Wesley Strong in Grout's Corner, Massachusetts, and other relatives. 8vo. 73 pages, approximately 8000 words. Passages from the letters below give a flavor his life and military service in eastern North Carolina, primarily in the siege of Washington and campaigns out of New Bern, before the regiment moved to the Virginia campaigns of 1864. Accompanied by a small bifolio, with three pages of sketches, signed by Stone, picturing Skirmishers (guarding a house by a lake), Deploy Skirmishers (guarding a grove beneath a castle), and pencil images of an intrenchment, a barricade, and various sizes and types of cannon shells and cartridges. Folded for mailing, several envelopes present (stamps removed), some storage soiling, but a very good lot. Newberne (7/11/62): "Early on the morning of the 4th we formed a line and began our march. It was tremendous hot ... two days rations and forty round hung heavy ... we were accompanied… Read More

Louisville, (KY): Courier Steam Printing Establishment (for the School of Medicine), 1851. First edition of the second annual announcement. 8vo. 7, (1) pp. Prospectus for the session, along with lists of trustees, faculty, students, and the first graduates. Cover title: Kentucky School of Medicine, under the Auspices of the Masonic University of Kentucky: Annual Announcement for Session 1851-2. Not recorded on OCLC. Disbound pamphlet; original illustrated green wrappers. Very good.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958. First edition. First state of the dust jacket. First book. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket not price clipped.

Petersburg, [VA]: Edmund and Julian C. Ruffin, 1840. First edition. 23 cm. 132pp., errata. Rebound in green buckram. Institutional blind stamp on title page. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Howes U-24. Cohen 2947. Haynes 19533. Upshur was removed from Princeton for leading a student rebellion in 1807. He was a pro-slavery advocate and a staunch supporter of the limits of the Federal Government. He was Secretary of the Navy under Tyler until his death aboard the U.S.S. Princeton when it exploded.

(Denver, CO: Rio Grande Railroad System, S.K. Hooper, Gen. Pass. Agent, 1906. Illustrated front wrapper, with three pages of dense text, listing and describing about 125 fishing spots on the lines of the Denver & Rio Grand, Rio Grande Western, and Rio Grande Southern Railroads, noting available fish and game, extent of waters and hunting areas, and local services. Apparently not located on OCLC. Original illustrated wrapper (a little edgewear). Very good.

[Chattanooga, TN: The author], 1910. Printed broadside, 14 1/2 x 10 inches, caption title followed by 19 paragraphs of dense text printed in four columns on the upper half of the sheet, the proposed group's constitution of three articles and a section of "by-laws and working plan," also printed in four columns, on the lower half. Sawdon advertised in a 1910 "International Socialist Review" for this Tennessee co-operative project, wrote a letter to the editor of "The To-Morrow Magazine" concerning the project in 1908, and donated a dollar for Soviet relief in 1922; we've have found no other information about him. Apparently unrecorded on OCLC, which does locate four other Sawdon publications, the first in three copies, the others in one: "A Practical Co-Operative System" (Chattanooga, TN, ca. 1910; broadside); "Use Natural Law" (California-Berkeley; printed in San Francisco, 1905; 39 pp.), "The New Social System or the Correct Basis of Economics and Ethics" (Wisconsin-Milwaukee; NP, ca. 1900-1910, 53… Read More