Search Results: Authors starting with A from Austin's Antiquarian Books

New York: Frank Tousey, 1945. Charles Bragin's Dime Novel Club Facsimile Reprint of this 1890 issue. Wraps. Edge wear, some light toning. Quarto; pp; 32; Cover illustration; original printed pictorial self wrappers;. Facsimile Reprint. Charles Bragin, an avid collector of dime novels, used his vast personal collection to issue a series of reprints in the late 1940s. This enterprise became known as the Dime Novel Club and was based in Brooklyn, New York. For a small fee, collectors around the country would receive the reprints through the mail. The dime novels featured heroes such as Buffalo Bill, Frank Merriwell, Nick Carter, and Deadwood Dick.

London, New York, etc.: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Quarto; pp; 412, (ii), ad leaf; Profusely illustrated, many black and white photographs, color plates from watercolors by E. J. Read and Gordon Grant and a folding color map; full black pebbled leather covered paper boards lettered in gilt, marbled end papers. A good or better copy. Wear to extremities, leather separating but still intact. Internally very good. Building the Panama Canal was the greatest engineering feat of all time. From the first French efforts through the American completion, an amazing story. Theodore Roosevelt considered the Canal his greatest achievement.

Boston: Noyes, Snow and Company, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp. 158; Frontispiece and five additional silhouette illustrations by Helen Maria Hinds and line drawings; pictorial brown cloth lettered in gilt and black, brown coated endpapers; a bit of wear at spine bottom;. Scarce. The first of a juvenile series.

New York: The Outlook Company, 1908. Wraps. Wrappers chipped and toned but internally vey good. 16mo; pp; 210; frontispiece portrait of the author; original printed blue paper wrappers;. American, preacher, publisher, reformer and author . Friend and advocate of Theodore Roosevelt.

(Detroit: J. M. Evans, 1910. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Duodecimo; pp.32; Illustrated with photographs; original pictorial printed wrappers;. Scarce. Chronicle of a trip by two young boys from Oklahoma to New York and return, by horseback and a Bruce Automobile.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp. 510 with index; Black and white photographs; red cloth, gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;.

Keene NH: John Prentiss, 1814. Ninth edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo; pp; 216; quarter leather and marbled paper covered boards; Internally complete and very good. Externally the boards are worn and nearly detached, leather spine ends worn. Daniel Adams (1773-1864) was a noted physician, textbook author, and state legislator. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1797, and received his M.D. in 1799. Adams compiled or wrote several different textbooks over the course of his life. His first was The Scholar's Arithmetic (1801). The text was very popular during the first quarter of the 19th century, and he published a revision of it, entitled Adam's New Arithmetic, in 1827.

Middleburg: Roosevelt Study Center, 1986. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Octavo; pp; 76 plus an ad leaf; slick blue wrappers lettered in silver;. Publication No. 4 of the Roosevelt Study Center. Morris, The Venezuelan Crisis of 1902; Holtfrerich, The Roosevelts and Foreign Trade; Arthur Schlesinger, Jr; FDR Education of a Statesman. Scarce.

Keene NH: John Prentiss, 1819. Stereotype editition revised and corrected with additions. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; 224; quarter leather and marbled paper covered boards; edgewear else a solid copy;. Daniel Adams (1773-1864) was a noted physician, textbook author, and state legislator. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1797, and received his M.D. in 1799. Adams compiled or wrote several different textbooks over the course of his life. His first was The Scholar's Arithmetic (1801). The text was very popular during the first quarter of the 19th century, and he published a revision of it, entitled Adam's New Arithmetic, in 1827.

Norwalk, Ct: Easton Press, 1992. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes; Octavo; pp; I: ix, (iii), 542, appendix; II: pp. 576, appendix; frontispiece portraits, facsimile; full gilt decorated blue leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards, silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine, all edges gilt;. Classic Easton Press styling: premium leather, silk moiré end leaves, distinctive cover design, raised bands, accented in real 22KT gold, satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, long-lasting, high quality acid-neutral paper, sewn pages for strength and durability. Library of the Presidents. The works of our second President.

London: Hutchinsn & Co, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Octavo (5.25" x 8.5"), green cloth with white ink title. 328, (8)pp. with index and publisher's ads. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A quarter size stain on the back cover and a small spot on the front. Ink is starting to rub from the title. Most of the wonderful photographs were taken by the author.

New York: Munder-Thomsen Press, 1913. First edition. Original wraps. Very good. (Munder-Thomsen Press, 1913). Tall, slender octavo. Original pictorial wrappers printed in gold. 30pp. Illustrated with color and black and white plates of the Chrysler Building. A five digit number printed on the upper right corner of the cover. Lavishly illustrated guide to the Woolworth Tower, New York, published for distribution among the visitors... The Woolworth Building, completed in 1913, stands at a height of 792 feet, 1 inch. Conceived by Frank W. Woolworth, designed by Cass Gilbert, and engineered by Gunvald Aus, it was designed and built to be the tallest buiilding in the world.

New York: Pynson Printers for The Colophon, Ltd, 1931. Limited Edition, 1/3000 copies. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto; pp; unpaginated, pictorial colophon; illustrated; book themed color paper over boards;. llustrated title page by Rockwell Kent; No matter what the issue there was always something of compelling interest in the Colophon. In this issue; Irving S. Underhill on "Huckleberry Finn"; also Willa Cather on her First Novels, Burns Miniature, Original Linoleum Cut "Wood Nymphs" by K. M. Ballantyne, and more.

New York: Printed by the Anthoensen Press for Duschnes Crawford Inc, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto; pp; 107-216, (1), colophon; illustrated; book themed color paper over boards;. No matter what the issue there was always something of compelling interest in the Colophon. In this issue; Lawrence Thompson on "An Early Frost Broadside"; also Dard Hunter, Jacob Blanck, articles on Elbert Hubbard, Puritan Books and an original serigraph by Leonard Pytlak.

New York: Printed by the Anthoensen Press for Duschnes Crawford Inc, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto; pp; (iv), 221-312, (v), colophon; illustrated; book themed color paper over boards;. No matter what the issue there was always something of compelling interest in the Colophon. In this issue; Ames Williams on "Stephen Crane war Correspondent"; also Philip Hofer, John Carter, articles on Holbein's Old Testament Woodcuts. Thomas Hardy plagiarism.

New York: Pynson Printers for The Colophon, Ltd, 1931. Limited Edition, 1/3000 copies. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto; pp; unpaginated, pictorial colophon; illustrated; book themed color paper over boards; Minor edge wear else very good. Illustrated title page by Rockwell Kent; No matter what the issue there was always something of compelling interest in the Colophon. In this issue; John Carter on "Publisher's Cloth Bindings"; also Wagenknecht of Shakespeare's First Editor, Adams on Illustrations in Weem's Washington, , Original Lithograph "Gardenia" by Victoria Hutson, and more.

New York: Advertising Typographers of America, 1927. First Edition. Wraps. Wrappers detached but present else very good. Quarto; pp; 10, printed on rectos only, blue paper wrappers;. Each page is a tenet of the Code of Ethics and as you expect nicely printed. I suspect these were broken and framed within a shop or agency. Veru uncommon.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; 318, index; frontispiece portrait and eleven photographs; green cloth, ruled and lettered in black; a tight, clean copy;. Memoirs of Artillery officer in Afghanistan 1878-79, Egypt 1882, Sudan 1884-5, Boer War & WW1 Salonika & Palestine.

Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; x (2), 3-, 370, index; photographs; gray cloth and blue paper covered boards, lettered in gilt, in a dust jacket; Very good, edges toned. Sen. Aiken was referred to as "the conscience and work horse of the United States Senate"

Np: Eastern Airlines Engineering & Maintenance, 1980. Stiff wraps. Good +. Octavo, original light blue printed wraps. 203pp. Profusely illustrated with technical drawings and diagrams. Light soil and a a little wrinkle on the cover. Back cover has a few staiins and two small spots of glue residue. Overall good or better and sound. A manual for trainiing purposes only, covering a wide range of tchnical subjects. Eastern was one of the Big Four domestic airlines. Eastern ceased flying in 1991.