Search Results: Authors starting with A from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

Chicago: Homewood Publishing Co., [ca. 1915]. 4to. [44 pp (unpaginated)]. Frontisp., illustrated title page, printed in colours of brown, green, red & blue throughout. Colour chromolithograph front cover, blue-coloured illustration on back cover, red cloth back (slight rubbing, very slight bumping to corners, very slight interior toning), still NF copy. First edition of this scarce and wonderfully printed ABC which includes the ABC verses, and children’s rhymes printed in multi-coloured inks.

New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 88 John Street, [1850]. 48mo. 16 pp. Numerous woodcut-engravings, wood type capital letters. Buff-coloured printed softcovers (slight shelfwear, very slight dustsoiling), still VG copy from library of Columbia Lancaster Klady (1845-1906), homesteader and dairy farmer in Pekin, then Woodland, WA, originally from Nottawa, MI. First edition, thus, of this scarce and early near-miniature chapbook for instructing children on their ABCs.

Mulhouse, France: Th. de Dillmont, [ca. 1925]. Oblong 16mo. [2], 92 plates in red, gray & black, 16 tracing patterns for plates, plus 32 pp. illustrated publisher’s ads. Beige boards, lettering and decorative borders in red (slight shelfwear), still VG copy. Early English edition, 4th issue, of this beautifully illustrated work on ABC embroidery and stitches for samplers.

[New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1899. 4to. [16 pp (unpaginated)], colour-chromolithograph & colour-lithograph printed illustrations & text, w/ 6 full colour plates. Self-printed colour-chromolithograph illustrated softcovers (minor shelfwear, very slight rubbing), NF copy. First edition of this beautifully printed ABC and counting book for children, with splendid colour lithography. The wonderful letters include A is for Alice, C is for Cora and Candy -- both sweet, G is for George a Gay Grenadier, P is for Patty and Plum-Pudding too, X is for X-mas, and Z is for Zillah. Also includes sections on children’s toys manufactured and sold by Mcloughlin Bros. at the time. Worldcat locates 4 copies (American Antiquarian Society, Brown, Univ. of Florida, U of C Boulder).

Culver City, CA: Murray & Gee, Inc., [1949]. 4to. [44] pp (unpaginated). Illust. endpapers, over 40 illusts. Brown cloth, black lettering (offsetting from removed paperclip at upper fore-edge first 2 leaves), w/ d.j. cover art by Le Mohn (minor closed tear at upper fore-edge corner, shelfwear), still VG/VG copy. First edition, signed, of this charming ABC’s for children on California History in verse, with pictorial map endpapers.

Seattle: Superior Publishing, [1965]. 4to. 190 pp. Double-page photo illust. title, 100s of photo illusts. Orange cloth, black lettering front cover & spine (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. (couple minor closed tears, edgewear, creasing), still NF/VG copy. First edition, stated.

Seattle: Superior Publishing, [1961]. Oblong 4to. 192 pp. Photo frontisp., 100s of photo illustrations. Gray & blue cloth, gray & blue lettering, w/ d.j. (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing), NF/VG copy. First edition, stated, of this pictorial history of railroads and men in the Civil War from 1861 through 1865.

New York: Bonanza Books, [1960]. 4to. 191, [1] pp. Double-page photo-illust. title, over 100 photo illusts. & plates. Green cloth, blk lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/Nf. Early reprint edition of this third title in Abdill’s famed series on Steam Railroading.

Tokyo & Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., [1970]. 12mo. [6], 237, [3] pp. Colour-illust. softcvrs, NF. Early Tuttle edition.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1989]. 4to. 181, [1] pp. 100s of illusts., some in colour, diagrams. Colour-illust. softcvrs, NF. First ediiton.

Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987. 8vo. xv, [1], 438 pp. Numerous diagrams, photos, charts. Colour-printed boards, white lettrng (dmpstng & soilng to uppr guttr margn textblk), reference copy from library of mathematician & physicist, John A. Simmons. First edition.

Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1953. Tall 8vo. [Approx. 200 pp (sections separately paginated)]. Over 100 text diagrams, photo plates, illusts., 1 large folding plate in rear pocket. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on front cover & spine, w/ d.j. (minor scuffing to spine, minor dustsoiling), NF/VG- copy. First edition of this work aiding the naval officer understand flotation, buoyancy, stability, strength of the ship, hull systems, subdivision and communications.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1961]. 12mo. [8], 175, [1] pp. Frontisp., numerous illustrations. Gray tweed publisher’s boards, black lettering front cover & spine, illustrated endpapers, w/ d.j. cover art of Biff reading a map on a glacier (minor scuffing front cover, shelfwear), NF/VG copy. First edition of No. 6 of this scarce title in the Biff Brewster travel series for the Stratemeyer Syndicate featuring the talents of the author for the many of the Rick Brant Science Adventure stories. This travel mystery is set against the backdrop Biff Brewster and his father attempting to deliver secret strategic minerals to scientists in Alaska.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, [1977]. Folio. 124 pp. Over 100 photos. Gray cloth, blk lettrng (slght shlfwr), w/ d.j. (mnr shlfwr, dustsoilng), VG/VG. First edition, 3rd printing of this anthology reproducing Ansel Adams’ famed portfolios.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, [1978-1980]. Four vols. lrg. 8vo. Approx. 850 pp. 100s of photos, plates, text diagrams. Uniformly bound in black cloth, silver lettrng, w/ d.j.s (slght sunng to spines), NF/VG set. First editions, thus, of this entirely rewritten and reorganized series on photography, including many of the author’s most famous images.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. Oblong Folio. 28 pp. Photo frntsp., 115 photos. Quarter-burgundy cloth, over blue boards (slght shlfwr, vry slght sunng to lwr fore-edge), w/ d.j. (1 vry sml clsd tear), VG/VG. First edition of this stunning photo essay on Yosemite.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1961]. 12mo. [8], 175, [1] pp. Frontisp., numerous illustrations. Gray tweed publisher’s boards, black lettering front cover & spine, illustrated endpapers, w/ d.j. cover art of Biff looking on an African village with ivory tusks, and elephants looming above (minor shelfwear, price-clipped), NF/VG copy. First edition of No. 5 of the rather uncommon, and well-written title in the Biff Brewster travel series for the Stratemeyer Syndicate featuring the talents of the author for the 1952 African Safari. This travel mystery is set against the backdrop Biff Brewster and his uncle fighting ivory poachers in Tanganyika.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1928]. 8vo. iii, [1], 219, [1] pp. Glossy frontisp. Blue publisher’s cloth, orange & black lettering and illust. of plane on front cover, red lettering on spine, w/ d.j. cover art of South Pole Flying Boat flying above a yacht on fire (minor chipping head & foot of spine, very small tear upper fore-edge front cover), NF/VG- copy. First edition of this third title, listing to this title in the Andy Lane Flying Series on back cover, of this exciting installment of an air race around the world in a Flying Boat.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1951]. 8vo. xxxiv, [2], 279, [1] pp. Gray cloth, blk & gilt lettrng (mnr shlfwr, dustsoilng), w/ d.j. (edgewear, slght chppng), VG/G. First edition of this revealing selection of letters stretching from his youth in Germany to his last years in Washington during World War I. One title in the Great Letters Series.

[New York]: Classics of Liberty, [1997]. 8vo. xv, [1], 317, [1] pp. Quarter-brwn calf over brown cloth, gilt decrtn & lettrng on cvrs & spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., F. First Classics of Liberty edition of this excellent essay by the author, grandson of one president, and great-grandson of another.