Search Results: Titles starting with U from Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA

Tucson: UFO Photo Archives / America West Publishers, 1986. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stout 8vo. Pp. 625. Illustrated with line drawings, facsimiles of documents, black and white photos. Maps. Bound in dark red cloth with silver lettering and design stamped on the front cover and spine. In the glossy, photo-illustrated dust jacket. Of an edition limited to a thousand copies, this copy is unnumbered. A thorough treatment of the Aztec crash and cover-up, initially inspired by Steinman's reading of Behind the Flying Saucers by Frank Scully. A particularly fresh, superb copy. Dust jacket is now housed in a clear, archival (and removable) sleeve.

n.p.: n.p., 1949. Matted Photograph. Good. Black & white photograph 9.5 x 8 inches in 12.5 x 10.5 paperboard mat. Ink signatures of crew members on the photo and mat. Mat soiled and stained, edges rubbed. Photo lightly scuffed. USS Amerika was launched as a two-funnel coal-burning passenger liner for the Hamburg America Line in 1905, was seized for the US Navy as a troop transport in 1917, was handed over to the US Army in 1920 as USAT America, reactivated in 1940 as the Edmund B. Alexander, refitted as a fuel-oil burner with a single funnel in 1942, placed in reserve at Hawkins Point, Maryland in 1949, and sold for scrap in 1957. Though undated, we presume the signatures are of the ship's final crew.

Tacoma, Washington: Aero-Marine Photos, 1949. Matted Photograph. Good. Black & white photograph 9.5 x 7.5 inches in 13 x 11 paperboard mat. Ink and pencil signatures of crew members on the photo and mat. Mat soiled and stained, edges rubbed. Photo lightly scuffed. First acquired in 1942 as an Army transport, the O'Hara (APA-90) was acquired by the Navy in 1943 and served as an attack transporter in WWII. She was decommissioned at San Francisco in 1946, transferred to the Army, and sailed from Seattle as a transporter. She was reacquired by the Navy in 1950 and struck from its list in 1961, berthed at Olympia. A few of the signatures are dated, 1946 and 1949.

Tacoma, Washington: Aero-Marine Photos, 1949. Matted Photograph. Good. Black & white photograph 9.5 x 7.5 inches in 13 x 11 paperboard mat. Ink and pencil signatures of crew members on the photo and mat. Mat soiled and stained, edges rubbed. Photo lightly scuffed. Built by Kaiser in Richmond, California and launched in 1944 as an Army transporter, returned veterans from the Pacific Theatre to Seattle and took 3000 more to Okinawa in 1945. Following WWII she transported displaced persons from Europe to Australia. Converted to general cargo service as the SS Poet, she was lost at sea in 1980.

Seattle: Robert Reichert, 1957. First Edition. Diazotype print. Good+. Sepia diazo print 28 x 26 inches, wrapped around chipboard 26.5 x 22.5 and affixed with masking tape verso. Lightly soiled and stained, rubbed and chipped, thumbtack perforations. Robert Reichert earned a master's degree in architecture from Harvard and moved to Seattle in 1948 where he served as an on-and-off professor of architecture at the University of Washington through the 1970s. In his practice he brought to life a distinct modernistic vision. Perhaps his best known work is the Egan House (1958, Lakeview Boulevard) in the Eastlake neighborhood, now owned by Historic Seattle. He was also an accomplished organist; the design of his personal house and the Egan House included wedge-rooflines that accommodated pipe organs. Reichert passed away in 1996. This October 1957 sketch for a two-story restaurant (never built) has his signature roofline echoed in patrons' tail-finned vehicles parked in the lot. Drivas was a Seattle… Read More

London: Putnam, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pp. 32. Half black cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. A particularly fresh copy of the poet's first book, which was followed by two books from Cornell University Press, Kissing the Dancer, then Thousand-Year-Old Fiancee. After posts teaching at a variety of schools (Cornell, Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Victoria, BC), the poet now lives in Santa Cruz, CA, where he continues to teach and write. While our favorite poets are outsiders, Sward's teenage stint as a shiv-wielding juvie endears us to the poet like no other. Dust jacket is now housed in a clear, removable archival protector.

Boston: W. A. Wilde Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Large, thick 8vo. Pp. 402. Thoroughly illustrated with the author's b&w photos. Endpaper maps. Bound in blue cloth with stylized gilt lettering stamped on front cover and spine. Slight dust soiling to top edge, former owner's name in pencil on ffep, else Fine in a slightly edge-worn dust jacket. A handsome production, with vital first-person views of Alaska's modern development to 1930, then the Territory of Alaska. This copy is particularly well preserved. Dust jacket now protected in a clear removable, archival cover. RICKS, p. 79; SMITH, 2327. Bookseller inventory A01054L.

NP: The Pacific Spectator, 1949. First Thus. Staplebound Wrappers. Fine. 8vo. Pp. 13. Mottled blue printed paper wraps. An offprint from The Pacific Spectator, Vol. III, No. 1, Winter 1949. A very bright copy with no detracting qualities. Scarce. Holt was a longtime professor of history at the University of Washington, and served as chair of the department for a few years. He retired in 1967, and passed away in 1981.

New York: Claude Kendall Publisher, 1929. First US Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo. Pp. xi, 261. Red cloth, titles stamped in dark blue on the cover and spine, red topstain. Corners bumped, moderate age toning to endpapers and leaf edges. A screed against American imperialism and cultural mores, which the Indian author claims is in response to Katherine Mayo's 1927 Mother India..

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. A. B. Shute. 8vo. Pp. ix, 305. Frontis. Shute illustration. Illustrated throughout with Shute paintings reproduced in black and white on coated paper. Bound in red cloth printed in black, white, green and gold. Light wear to spine. Brooklyn bookseller's tag ("F. Loeser & Co.") on front pastedown and discreet stamp ("Fred'k Loeser & Co.") on title page. Text block clean and crisp. A volume in the "Soldiers of Fortune Series" published under the Stratemeyer Syndicate. A bright, handsome copy, now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

New York: Doubleday, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pp. 306. Bound in cream cloth over black paper-covered boards, black lettering printed on spine. In the dust jacket, with price of $26.95 intact within front flap. First printing of the first edition. Dust jacket is now preserved within a clear, removable archival sleeve.

New York: Vail-Ballou Company for the Bibliophile Society, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover with Slipcase. Very Good+. James Fagan. 8vo. Pp. 316. Frontis. engraving with tissue guard. Title page in red and black. Vellum back-strip, tan paper-covered boards, titles and rules in gilt on the spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed: front hinge starting, else Near Fine. In the tan paper-covered slipcase: edges rubbed, light stains and scuffs, short splits at open end. Harper was a founding member and an officer of the Bibliophile Society. Printed on advance subscriptions from members. This copy with the issued slipcase in solid condition, uncommonly found.

1900. Matted Framed Photograph. Very Good. Original 7-3/4 x 5 inch black & white matted platinum print in wood frame that measures 13 x 10 inches. J. F. Ford was a preacher and photographer living in Ilwaco, Washington 1893 - 1914. In 1900 he opened a gallery and studio in Portland, Oregon. Many of his images document logging and fishing operations in the lower Columbia River region.

London New York Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1959. Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. xiv, 424. Fold-out map of Burma included following the Index. Note on printed sources. Index. Bound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. In the price-clipped dust jacket, spine a trifle darkened. Second printing of Tinker's study, first published 1957. A handsome, sturdy copy. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Chicago: L. P. Miller & Company, 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. F. B. Schell, E. B. Bensell, J. M. Butler and others. 4to. Pp. [4], 5-398. Frontis. engraved portrait of the author. Title page printed in red and blue. With a profusion of magnificent full-color and two-color illustrations. Decorated endpapers. In the original elaborate pictorially-decorated blue-gray cloth, stamped in black, red, silver, and gilt. Top edge dust-soiled; one loose plate; a few small stains to preliminaries. Slight wear to corners, head and tail of spine. Ownership signature of W. E. Humphry. An notably well-preserved copy. Published the same year as the Philadelphia edition; priority unknown. Baker was the first head of the U.S. Secret Service Bureau.Of notable interest to Civil War scholars is the plate depicting the autopsy of John Wilkes Booth. A photo was taken of the autopsy and entered into evidence, but was lost. As such, two engraved depictions of the autopsy exist; the plate included here, in which the slab on… Read More

Seattle: (Associated Students of the University of Washington), 1959. First Edition. Full Cloth Binding. Very Good-. Volume C-11. Folio. Pagination varies from 8pp. to 16pp. per issue. Laden with black-and-white photography, cartoons and ads. Bound in full light blue cloth with black lettering stamped on spine. Cloth slightly soiled and with boards a bit splayed. An uncommon bound volume of the daily campus newspaper, presenting a slice of quotidian student life and evidence of late-stage McCarthyism, a plague that exerted particularly harsh injustices on the UW faculty. On a lighter note, fun ads for cool cars, Nordstrom shoes, jazz at Pete's Poopdeck, movies of the era (The Confessions of Felix Krull at the Guild 45th, for example) and Luigi's Pizza in Bothell evoke the cultural life of 1959-60. Classified ads fill the back page of each issue.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover with the Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. Small 8vo. Pp. 92. Introduction by Glenn Hughes. Bound in half blue cloth over pale blue paper covered boards, black lettering stamped on spine and cover, pale blue endpapers. Age tone transfer to endpapers. In the scarce dust jacket, age-toned edges, spine darkened, shallow chips, transparent tape reinforcements verso. The first collection produced by the legendary drama teacher, presented here in the scarce dust jacket. Four plays by students in the Play-Writing course deemed of interest without apology: Esther Shepherd Jet, Max Miller Imposition, J. M. O'Connor, Jr. These Wild Young People, Otis Richardson Tweddledum. Shepherd went on (as Esther Shephard) to renown as a literary critic and folklorist, publishing a well known collection of Paul Bunyan tales.Dust jacket is now protected in a clear, removable, archival sleeve.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. J. E. Duggins. 4to. Pp. xiii, 232. Color frontis. Illustrated with many full color plates, and line drawings throughout. Index. Bound in blue cloth with blindstamp rules and gilt design on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. A touch of dust soiling to top edge, and three white spots on front cover, size of a pinhead and smaller, else bright and presentable. First published in England the year prior. By the author of "The Story of Coventry.

New York: A. Sulka & Company, 1965. In Original Parcel Packaging as Shipped from New York to Washington, DC. A box of 25 handkerchiefs sent by US Postal Service to US Senator Warren G. Magnuson in original packaging, unopened. The handkerchiefs were made by A. Sulka & Company (1893-2002), the French haberdashery that featured stores in Paris, London, New York, etc. The box was sent from their New York store to "Maggie," as he was known to his constituents, at his DC apartment at the Shoreham.Senator Magnuson was one of two senators from Washington State to earn the sobriquet "the Senator from Boeing," a tribute to his finesse in securing federal funding for the defense contractor. Please note: the images of the Sulka box and handkerchiefs are from a box previously opened. The box wrapped in parcel paper may well contain monograms in green, red or some other colored thread.We do not suggest Magnuson was dirty; on the contrary, his biographer, Shelby Scates, compliments his rectitude. That said, if the… Read More

Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Good. Henry Ives Cobb. Oblong 4to. Pp. xx, 262. Foreword by Neil Harris. With appendices, notes and index. With reproductions of superb photographs, plans, sketches, etc. Endpaper maps. Bound in taupe cloth with the U of C seal stamped in brown on the front board, brown lettering on spine. In the photo-illustrated dust jacket that has a closed tear along the spine, mellowed creases on rear panel, and slight soiling on front panel. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve. A fine treatment of the master plan and execution of the campus by Henry Ives Cobb, one of the finest examples of American the collegiate Gothic. Appendices focus on the landscaping plan designed by Olmsted Brothers, and those by Bennett Parsons & Frost, and Beatrix Farrand.