Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. viii, 349 pages. The Barretts were traveling through Patagonia when they met Chace (Of Taunton, Massachusetts and of Patagonia), a fearless adventurer. Book cover is quite sunned, with a couple very small faint stains on front; one corner lightly bumped. Some pages have light foxing at margins or gutter; page edges foxed. Pages 3-6 & 335-338 were crudely opened, so that there are rough tears/pieces missing from fore edges (does not affect text). Previous owner's name in pencil on half-title page. Dust jacket is price clipped; heavily toned, especially on spine; heavily chipped wtih pieces missing from extremities of spine and corners; tears along folds. In mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Good+/Fair. Illus. by Rockwell Kent. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Portland, Oregan: Breitenbush Books, 1986. 85 pages. Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye, winner of 4 Pushcart Prizes, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Robert Creeley Award, and the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature. SIGNED by Nye and warmly inscribed by her to Virginia Poet Laureate Joe Awad. . The book is an unread copy in as-new condition.. SIGNED. 3rd Printing. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1837. Folio (18 3/4 inches by 14 1/4 inches) lithograph from the first folio edition.  The print is in excellent condition, with vivid hand-coloring and none of the foxing frequently seen.  There is a dime-sized stain in the bottom margin--well away from the image; there is a very narrow line of glue residue along the binding edge--again well away from the image. In 1825 Mahaskah's father (also named Mahaskah) had traveled to Washington, where he negotiated a treaty and had his portrait painted by Charles Bird king.  In 1837 "Young" Mahaskah made the same trip because the United States had not lived up to the terms of the treaty.  He too had his portrait painted by King, and apparently he was wearing the same bear claw necklace that his father had worn.. First Edition. Paper. Collectible-Very Good. Illus. by Charles Bird King. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Fine Art Print.

Octoraro, Pennsylvania: Francis Bailey, 1807. viii, 364 pages + 25 plates (some folding). 8vo. Oliver Evans was largely responsible for early automation in the American milling industry. Among those licensed to use his patented devices was George Washington, and many of the mills built in the early 19th century were based on Evans' designs. Part five of the book and its accompanying plates are by Thomas Ellicott, whose family were the largest flour mill owners in Maryland. Preceded only by the now rare 1795 first edition, this second edition was printed by Lancaster County printer Francis Bailey, who is best known for the printing of the first complete official edition of the Articles of Confederation. Second edition of the book described by William Reese as "the first American book on mills and milling machines and a landmark of early American technology" (Federal Hundred, #50). Recently and sympathetically rebound in full brown leather with the original title patch retained.… Read More