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

New York: Columbia University Press, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. First edition. Publisher's gilt stamped green cloth with medallion on front cover. Spine ends show wear; corners pushed. Index. vii, 401 pages. A study of William Wordsworth's body of poetry on childhood in a time of changing values, in a perspective against the background of 18th century poetry, including the work of William Blake, Robert Burns, William Cowper, Michael Bruce, George Crabbe, Alexander Pope, Robert Southey, James Thomson and John Langhorne among others. Adolph Charles Babenroth (1883-1928), after earning his A.M. at Harvard in 1906, taught English at Syracuse University until 1919, when he became Professor of English at Columbia University. The professor died in 1928 following an appendectomy.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition. Ex-library. Seafoam green boards with gilt stamped spine. Library pocket at rear; library rubber stamp on front free endpaper and the initials ''TBH'' stamped on title page and the top edge of the text block; bit of soiling on a few pages, else generally clean. Dust jacket a little rubbed at foot of spine; has a few very small closed edge tears, else near fine; not price clipped ($2.50); in an archival mylar sleeve. 223 pages. The southern, backwoods sheriff and investigator Jess Roden sets out to untangle the questions which arise when the body of a teenage boy washes up on the banks of the Green River, months after a tragic flood. A tale of rustic crime and corruption. Albert Benjamin Cunningham (1888-1962) was the author of 42 books, which included many mysteries, a college administrator, and a longtime professor of English. He received his doctorate (Litt.D) in 1917 from Lebanon (Ohio)… Read More

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Sullivan on half-title page. First edition, first printing (with full number line). Burgundy cloth boards with silver lettering on spine and front cover. Bit of light foxing to fore-edge of text block; slight foxing to a few pages. Small spot at foot of title page, else clean. Dust jacket shows a bit of chipping at spine ends and other general edgewear; not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. xviii, 299 pages. The final published volume by the American poet, Aloysius Michael Sullivan (1896-1980), being a collection of poems, most of which were previously published in the years 1932 to 1968. Sullivan was a native of New Jersey and a long-time resident of that state. He served five terms as the president of the Poetry Society of America.

Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, 1939. Book has bumping and very light wear to head and tail of spine as well as fore edge corners. Name on ffep. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has light edge wear; some age-toning to spine and edges; not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. 182 pages. Alvin Pender Cummins (1886-1983) was a Methodist preacher for many years in Oklahoma during the 1920s & 30s, and then at Paradise, Kansas in the 1940s. He retired to Colorado Springs in the early 1950s.

San Antonio, Texas: Shepard Bros. & Co., Printers and Publishers, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and blind with gilt pictorial on front cover. Light wear to boards. Front inner hinge shows mild cracking, but is still firm. Previous owner's name on ffep and at head of ch. 2. Light colored-pencil scribbles on copyright page and in the margins of page 18. Some instances of minor page soiling, else generally clean. Nine in-text illustrations. pp. [2], 411, [5 blank]. [Jenkins BTB 192, Howes S801, Graff 3909]. An important primary source for Texas Indian Wars and pioneer history, written by Andrew Jackson ''Jack'' Sowell (1848-1921), who had served as a Texas Ranger and was also the son of a Texas Ranger. Per the historian, bibliographer, and former ABAA president, John H. Jenkins, this is ''one of the basic sources on the vicissitudes of the pioneer settlers in Texas, this work contains numerous accounts gathered from… Read More

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. First edition, first printing (March 1945). Blue cloth boards with gilt on the spine. Map endpapers. Interior is unmarked. Bottom fore-corner of text block lightly bumped. Dust jacket worn at head of spine; chipped at corners; some tears along top edge; not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. 307 pages. A highly detailed, day-by-day, study of the evacuation of Allied soldiers at Dunkirk, May 26-June 4, 1940. The author combines eye witness reporting and authoritative source material to describe the men, ships, planning and strategy of the evacuation, and provides quite a bit of necessary minutiae. The appendix includes a complete list of all the ships that took part in Operation Dynamo. The author, A. D. ''David'' Divine (1904-1987), was himself a participant at Dunkirk with the small boats, where he crossed the channel three times and was wounded on the final voyage. He went on to write… Read More

London: Percival Marshall and Co., 1909. Hardcover. Fair. Ex-library. Recased with the publisher's original blue cloth sides stamped in black and gilt. Board edges worn. Blacked-out call number on spine and black-out marks on a few pages, otherwise no other library markings. Bottom margin of one leaf removed, leaving the text unaffected. Issued with 24 illustrated plates I-XXIV [plate I absent]. 53 pages. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. [Issued as a supplement to Vol. XIX of the Transactions of the Junior Institution of Engineers.] The inaugural Gustav Canet Lecture, delivered by Trevor Dawson (1866-1931), managing director of Vickers from 1906-1931, Lieutenant, Royal Navy, and the first Gustave Canet Gold Medallist of the Junior Institution of Engineers. Knighted in December 1909. Contents: [I] Introduction on recent history of mechanics and ordnance. [II] The Influence of Metallurgy on Guns (steel manufacture, wire-wound vs. solid steel, gun construction). [III] Powders and Explosive Compounds and… Read More

Boston: Adams & Co., 1869. Hardcover. Good. Original brown boards with gilt lettering on spine. Cloth is faded and shows light wear. Interior is unmarked; a bit of dampstaining to the last few leaves. iv, [5]-154 pages. 7.3 x 4.6 inches. Five copies noted on OCLC (Center for Research Libraries, LOC, Boston Athenaeum, Quebec National Archives, Univ. Manchester). Asaph Bemis Child (1813-1879) was a Boston dentist and Spiritualist. Better Views of Living he expounds on the universality of religious belief, positing the equal validity of all religious thought and practice, including Christianity as it has evolved. He discuses the activities and refinement of the soul throughout life, maternal pre-natal influences, the devil as an aspect of the natural world, spiritualism, fear of death, various virtues and vices, and man's appropriate roles in society.

New York - Chicago: A. L. Burt Company, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Olive green cloth boards stamped in yellow. Ends of spine lightly pushed. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is chipped and edgeworn; spine is faded and missing bottom inch; in a clear archival sleeve. [Dust jacket shows a complete list of fiction on its reverse side]. 321, plus [8] pages listing other recently published titles in fiction. 7.3 x 4.75 inches. Just as the villa in the little French town of Cluny is recovering from a daring jewel theft, Mr. Brownlow and Sir Anthony Cross are found dead in one of its rooms, the door locked from the inside. The French police make their assessment, the coroner his inquest, a confession is found but contradicted. Mr. Pointer, a detective of Scotland Yard, discreetly observes. A. Fielding was a pseudonym of the British author Dorothy Feilding (b. 1884). Little is known about this author, though about two dozen of her mysteries were published between 1924 and 1937. She was… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. First Edition stated. Boards in black cloth, gilt stamped spine; front cover is blind stamped with a zig-zag pattern. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few very small chips and shows some minor edgewear; not price clipped ($2.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. 233 pages. Keller's examination of traditional social values concerning property, the family, education, economics, and government: how they came about, why they are maintained, why they are preserved in times of stress, and why they are indispensable to progress. Albert Galloway Keller (1874-1956) was a conservative sociologist and professor at Yale University. He was closely associated with his teacher and colleague, William Graham Sumner.

Madras, India: New Era Publications, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Light wear to board edges. Binding is sound. Pages clean. Dust jacket attached to boards. Light wear to edges of dj. 18 x 24 cm. 87 pages + 50 black & white plates.

Toronto, Canada: McClelland and Stewart, 1923. Hardcover. Good-/No Jacket. Tan boards with orange border and lettering. Book has bumped corners with wear and a little fraying. Head and tail of spine are bumped with fraying at the spine corners. Spine is slightly cocked. A few soil spots and a little overall general soiling to surfaces of boards. Name and date of March 13, 1924 on ffep. Very small hole (not tear) in back hinge. Pages are clean. Binding is separating from spine a little at head. All pages are still secure and tight. 296 pages. Hiram Alfred Cody (1872- 1948) was a Canadian novelist and clergyman.

Seattle: Shorey Book Store, 1967. Soft cover. Very Good+. Staple bound book with original cloth tape binding and bound-in clear protective wrap over main wraps. Front clear wrap has a crease. Both clear wraps have rubbing. Very tiny bumps to fore edge corners. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Second printing of reprint, June 1967. Limited to 100 copies. Original reprint in 1965 of 1881 document. 73 pp. 5.25" x 8.25

Wellington, New Zealand: R.E. Owen, Government Printer, 1964. Hardcover. Good+/Very Good. Third impression (with amendments), July, 1964. Book is bumped with a bit of wear to head and tail of spine. Light wear to fore edge corners. Slight cocking to spine. A little light foxing; heaviest on end papers. Dust jacket shows minor wear; tiny chips to spine ends; light soiling & age toning; some spotting, a couple blemishes and tape on dj flaps; not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. 150 Pages.

Paris: Bistor, Libraire-Editeur, 1845. Hardcover. Good. Boards bound in quarter leather (darkened green) cloth with marbled/mottled sides. A bit worn, but intact. Pages foxed. First third of volume has biopredation in the bottom margin. Leaves partially opened. Errata page at terminus. Lacks the atlas of ten folio maps. 8vo. pp. 566, [1]. Scarce. Itineraire General de Napoleon, chronologie du consulat et de l'empire, indiquant jour par jour, pendant toute sa vie, le lieu ou etait Napoleon, ce qu'il y a fait, et les evenements les plus remarquables qui se rattachent a son histoir; suivi d'un dictionnnaire geographique Napoleonien contenant tous les lieux parcourus par Napoleon, ceux ou se sont passes les faits les plus interessants, avec la date de chaque evenement. Chronology of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821, indicating day by day the place where he was, what he did there, and the events connected with his history. Includes a 115-page geographical dictionary containing all the… Read More

Moscow, Russia: Progress Publishers, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is a bit cocked at the spine Fore edge corners are bumped. Faint soiling/fading to edges of boards. A couple scuffs to cloth on front board. Previous owner name in a small, neat hand on ffep. No other marks. Binding is sound. Approximately 200 pages. Translated by Joseph Shapiro. Text is in Russian, English and Arabic. No jacket. 8.5 x 11.5 inches.

New York: Schocken Books, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. Book is very lightly bumped at head and tail of spine. Very slightly cocked spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has one moderate sized chip at upper front edge near spine. A little edge wear to dj. Light rubbing. No price on dj, but not clipped. 226 pages.

New York: Privately Printed for Rarity Press [Godwin], 1931. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good-. Alastair. Burgundy-plum colored cloth stamped in silver on the spine and front cover. Foot of spine a bit pushed; a couple lightly faded areas on spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. Eleven full-page illustrations by Alastair (two on color plates). Introduction by Arthur Symons. Translated by D.C. Moylan. pp. xxxv, 196, [1]. 9.2 x 6.1 inches. Dust jacket rubbed; spine has a mid-section chip and an abraded area; a few short closed tears; in an archival mylar sleeve. This volume is the Godwin edition, which is identical to that of the Rarity Press, both in formating and binding.

Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on title page. Black cloth boards with red lettering on spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket DJ in archival sleeve. 230 pp. 9 x 6 inches. An examination of the treatment of frontier and pioneer life in works of science fiction, including homesteading, community building, mining, and other themes familiar with western historians. Considering these common threads, this is the first book to explore the ways that science fictions writers have drawn directly on narratives of the American West to frame their visions of the future. Abbott details the overlap of science fiction and western fiction, especially relating to their mutual interest in and concerns about frontier expansionism; he reveals an unsuspected common ground that informs the writings of both camps. He reviews the work of many Hugo and Nebula Award winners (as well as popular film and television series),… Read More

New York: Hurd and Houghton [Riverside Press], 1867. Hardcover. Good+. H. W. [Henry Walker] Herrick. Boards in original brown cloth with decorative gilt stamped spine. Fraying to head of spine. Interior is unmarked. Some scattered soiling to pages. Three engraved plate illustrations by H. W. Herrick (including frontispiece). 192 pages. Volume II (''Spring'') of the John Gay series. The series was published in four volumes, one for each of the seasons. Written for boys, the stories suggest practical and pleasing occupations. In this volume, ''Work for Spring,'' the primary focus is on woodworking and simple carpentry. In it, John encounters a local carpenter and becomes his indentured apprentice. The author, Jacob Abbott (1803-1879), was an American educator and writer of children's books. Early in his career, he taught at Amherst College and in 1829 became the founder and first principal of Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston. Through the course of career, he authored more than 180 books… Read More