Search Results: Titles starting with S from Abacus Books

First Edition, First Printing. Oblong hard cover. 91 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with closed tears to back otherwise very good.
A tribute to the talented saddlemakers of Sheridan, Wyoming past and present. Artists in leather would be a most appropriate way to describe those individuals who create the beautiful trophy saddles seen in parades and often found in museums. - from the book.

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.

Unknown: Unpublished, 1905. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Bagshawe. Original art Sketch book (13 1/2" by 9 1/2") with printed East Lake design, containing within nine pencil sketches. Six sailing ships, titled, dated and unsigned. Two wildlife and one railroad scene dated and unsigned.Most tissue guards creased. Endpapers foxed else very good throughout.

Two Volumes. Octavo. [xvi] 587pp with 4 engraved plates, [xii] 584pp with 4 engraved plates. Both volumes beautifully rebound in green half calf with Morocco and gilt spine labels over original marbled boards. All edges marbled.
James Silk Buckingham spent four years in the United States, and in 1839 travelled across the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia and Alabama to observe at first hand the inhumane treatment of slaves in a system that showed "reckless indifference to human life". This two-volume work documents Buckingham's findings and argues that the USA should follow Britain's example in abolishing slavery. Buckingham describes the use of slaves in industries as diverse as gold mining, cotton manufacturing, railways, canals, and agriculture. He highlights the economic, social and political implications of a change to free labor, and also relations between the slaves and their employers. Howes B923.

Soft cover. Octavo. SIGNED by author with a personal inscription to Keith Abbott. Slight fading to spine otherwise very good.
Poet and author Keith Kumasen Abbott was a colleague of Berlin's at Naropa University where he taught writing and art. He is perhaps best remembered for his memoir of Richard Brautigan, with whom he was a friend.

London: Ellis & Green, 1875. Second edition. Red cloth over boards with gilt titling to spine. 8vo. [xvi] 447pp. Second edition. Former library copy. Pervious owner's name to font paste down. Title page has small tears and tape repairs.

Dedication signed by author to a Mrs. Mast for helping him put the book together. Soft cover in pictorial wraps. Quarto. [vi] 268pages and 29pages chronology and tables. Withdrawn from the Albany County Library with associated markings.Pages clean and unmarked.

String tied oblong booklet in card stock covers. 8 1/4" by 6 1/4". 34 pages of type examples with preface and index. With annotations to the index and printed paper amendments pasted in. Cover shows wear with some discoloration to rear.
Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose, which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. The OS is still in existence and since 2015 has operated as Ordnance Survey Ltd, a government-owned company and remains accountable to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

London: Frederick Warne , 1895. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. [xxiv] 701pp. Plain olive library binding with associated pastedowns, half-removed, and markings.

First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover. Octavo. Inscribed and SIGNED by author in blue ink on title page "Best wishes to J----- V--- / Philip Pullman" Hard cover. Clean and unmarked with a very tight binding. Minimal shelf wear to intact dust jacket.
Second volume in the highly acclaimed "His Dark Materials" trilogy.

Boulder, Co: Red Cedar Press, 1998. Limited Edition. Staplebound wraps. Fine. Chapbook. Folded stapled 8vo. 44pp. in printed wraps. Fine.50 copies of the chapbook were published. "John Martin (Black Sparrow Press) gave me full permission to publish the Bukowski letters which, up to that point, were unpublished. The chapbook is not a memoir, just a series of quotes from letters written by Ann, my cousin, to me during the 60s and 90s. The chapbook was published after Bukowski's death. Buk dedicated South of no West to Ann Menebroker. Since nothing has been written about their relationship, I thought the work would add a little bit to the knowledge about Buk." (Roger W. Langton, Editor).Worldcat shows only three copies.