Search Results: Authors starting with A from Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse

New York: Horizon Publishing, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Fair. New York: Horizon Publishing, 1964. No edition stated. 13 x 10 1/2 inches: 31 page essay about Atget, 180 plates, with Subject Guide at rear. Black paper dust jacket with white type. Black boards, with embossed title, in blind, vertical along front board. Dust jacket, which suffered scratching, water contact, tears and peeling, has done a magnificent job in protecting the book itself. Sunning to bottom edge. Spine lean. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. "...The supremacy of Atget as an authenitic genius of the cmera -- perhaps the geratest photographer whoever lived --is now coming to be recognized throughout . the . world..."

Chicago, IL: Hazlitt & Walker, 1910. Hardcover. Good. Chicago, IL: Hazlitt & Walker, 1910. 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. 378, [14]. Original burgundy cloth with titles stamped in gold gilt on cover and spine. Plus 14 pages of period advertisements. Decorated endpapers, Over 250 text figures, one foldout. Some frays to head and tail of spine, corners rubbed and bumped, titles bright. Bookplate inside front cover. Name and location written in pencil on upper edge of title page. Some light foxing, toning. Text clean, unmarked. Binding solid.

London, England: UNIVERSITY OF LONDON: The Athlone Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very good/good. London: The Athlone Press, 1973. Single volume measuring 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. xxii, 372, [2]. Plain gray paper dust jacket with black type. Black boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. With appendices, select bibliography and index. 8 plates of photos and illustrations. Dustjacket has sunning to spine and extremities, wear to edges, with a couple of small tears, light chipping. Small bump at upper spine. A few small spots on fore edge. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. A comprehensive survey of the practice of law reporting in the Tudor age as well as an examination of some of the chief practitioners of the profession. University of London legal series.

Great Britain: Allen Lane / The Penguin Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Great Britain: Allen Lane / The Penguin Press, 1988. First edition. 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches: pp. xvi, 466. Red illustrated glossy paper dust jacket with black and white type. Red cloth with gold gilt titles on spine. With illustrations, maps, bibliography and notes. Light edge and corner wear, creasing to dust jacket. Corners are lightly bumped, with bottom corner of front board bump being more pronounced. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.

Reno: Reno Printing Co, 1948. Paperback. Good. Reno: Reno Printing Co., 1948. Single volume measuring 9 x 6 inches: pp. [6], 58. Tan pictorial printer's wraps with red type. Inscribed by author on front free end paper - "Regards, Brewster Adams." 1 1/4 inch tear to bottom of spine. Covers and pages have some creasing and handling wear. Text is unmarked. Binding solid. A collection of folksy newspaper columns, first published in the Nevada State Journal, written by the Rev. Brewster Adams.

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1976. FIRST EDITION. 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches: pp. xx, 274. White pictorial paper dust jacket with black type. Brown cloth with black type. 170 black and white illustrations. Map verso Foreword page. With acknowledgments & credits and index. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half-title page. Dust jacket in Brodart wraps. Jacket has some foxing, light staining, and edges have a few creases with closed tears. Boards have sharp corners. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Light foxing on head and fore edge. Foot has a couple of light stains.Text is clean, bright,unmarked. Binding crisp, tight. With a foreword by Charles E. Clark. "Here is documented, if one chooses to view it that way, the shift in one corner of New England from handicraft to mass production, from wind and water and animal power to steam and petroleum and electricity, from a local culture determined by the locality… Read More

Washington DC: Infantry Journal, 1943. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Mass market paperback. Good. Washington, DC: Infantry Journal, 1943. 7 1/8 x 4 3/8 inches: pp.158. Red, white and blue illustrated wraps with blue, red, white and black type. A bit of edgewear, creasing, with a faint mark to bottom and fore-edge. No read crease to spine. Pages age-tanned, but unmarked. Binding tight A fairly in-depth anthology which" represent a cross section of the material published in MILITARY AFFAIRS, the Journal of the American Military Institute, from 1936-1943. "...The selection was made on the assumption that there are many in the armed services and nation surfeited with superficial writings about military matters who would like to get their teeth into something solid. The studies presented do not make for 'easy reading' but they will repay time spent on them..." (Foreword, p.v). One of the Fighting Forces series which includes: Modern Battle; Americans Vs. Germans; How the Jap Army Fights; Guerrilla Warfare; New… Read More

Washington DC: Government Printing office, 1918. Hardcover. Good. Washington,DC: Government Printing Office, 1918. 9 x 6 inches: pp. 853. Purple cloth binding. Silver lettering to front board and spine. Including 77 illustrated plates, does not have color plates. Minor staining to front and rear board, corners slightly nudged. Sun fading at spine. Book store sticker at bottom corner of front verso endpaper. Name and address written in pencil on upper edge of second blank page, verso side. Some moisture staining on fore edge of first quarter of book, foxing. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. The annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture. Includes articles on topics such as the soy bean industry, drug-plant crops, and the danger of introducing fruit flies to the united States.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Edward Gorey. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. First edition. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches: pp. 252. White illustrated paper dust jacket with black type. Black cloth boards with silver gilt type. With dust jacket illustration by Edward Gorey. Edge wear, some creasing and toning to dust jacket. Two inch closed tear on bottom edge of back flap. Light edge wear, slight bumping on bottom edge of front board. Slight foxing on top of pages. Page 139/140 has some wrinkles on bottom portion. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. From the inside flap - "These eight stories draw the reader irresistibly into eight strange worlds - uncanny, enigmatic, unearthly. In each there is something chillingly wrong - a hint of diabolism or vampirism, of reincarnation or the living dead - all of which could be explained away as hallucination or hysteria. Or could it?...Robert Aickman's stories are the work of a master of the genre, subtle,… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. Romano, Umberto. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1947. 8 1/2 x 6 inches: pp. [4],475. Midnight blue cloth-covered boards with light grey spine. Large gilt design to front board, and gilt titles on blue spine label. Plus extensive 47 page Notes section. With numerous black and white illustrations, colored plates Several corners very lightly nudged. Text is unmarked. Generally tight and bright.

New York: Routledge, 2003. Hardcover. Very good. New York and London: Routledge, 2003. First edition. Single volume measuring 9 x 6 inches: pp. xiv, 296, [2]. Errata laid-in. Brick red and olive green illustrated, glossy boards with whiite, olive green and brick red type. With bibliography, contributors bios and index. Boards have light shelf wear, scuffing. Text is unmarked. Binding crisp, tight. A collection of essays by fifteen scholars exploring the writings and late Medieval cultural influence of France's first woman of letters, Christine de Pizan. An overview of medieval studies and a collection of new research on the work of Christine de Pizan, a 14th century writer and poet.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1975. Later printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. Dewey, Kenneth Francis. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1975. Later printing. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches: pp. xviii, 486. Yellow and white paper dust jacket with red, blue and white type. Blue cloth over red boards, with white type, title on spine in red rectangle. With 8 pages of photographs, illustrations by Kenneth Francis Dewey. Dust jacket in Brodart wraps. General wear and tear to dust jacket, some soiling. Rubbing on board edges and corners. Book plate affixed inside front cover. Some soiling on page edges.Text is unmarked. Binding tight.

New York: New American Library, 1965. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. New York: New American Library, 1965. Book club edition. 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches: pp. xi, 142, (6). Tan illustrated and photographic, paper dust jacket with brown and blue type. Tan cloth over red boards with purple type on spine. With appendices and reference guide. Dust jacket has edge and corner wear, a few chips and tears, with a small round circle on spine. Small bit of rubbing on edges and corners of boards. Hinge inside front cover has a hint of cracking. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.

NEW YORK: Theodore Audel & Company, 1917. Revised Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. New York: Theodore Audel & Company, 1917. Revised second edition. 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches: Cumulative numbering begins on p. 697, running through p. 996, with one page ad for other Audel publications, at rear. In rugged, black, flexible iron-cloth with gold gilt type. All edges gilt. Drawings, diagrams, and a few photos. Shelf wear, some spotting on boards, rubbing wear and faded gilt titling to spine. Previous owner's names in ink to front free endpaper. Small tears to front endpapers. Light toning. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. Covers distribution systems, wires and wire calculation, inside, outside, underground, and building wiring, sign flashers, lightning protection, storage batteries and systems,

New York: Jacobson & Co, 1924. Hardcover. Good Plus. New York: Jacobson & Co., 1924, (original copyright 1915). 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches: 183 black and white plates. Gray cloth with gilt decoration of company medallion on front cover and titles in brown. Corners bumped, wear at head and tail of spine and general soiling to binding. Name on front inside board. Toning throughout. Upper edge of back pages have a slight wrinkle. Otherwise unmarked. Binding solid. 183 pages of decorative plasterwork: Sculptured ornaments, Wall fountains and niche shells, Friezes, festoons and ribbons, Wall mouldings, Beadings, etc. Nice sourcebook for decorative plasterwork of the period.

Greenburg, PA: THE KELLY & JONES CO, 1926. Revised. Hardcover. Good. Greenburg, PA: The Kelly & Jones Co., 1926. 7 3/4 x 5 inches: pp. [8], 538. Red cloth with white lettering debossed to front, rear and spine. Includes a table of contents on rear board. Includes cast iron, casing, steel and brass fittings, valves, expansion joints, engine and boiler fittings, hose goods, and other miscellaneous items. Covers have edge wear, some soiling. Corners faded and nudged. Text is unmarked. Binding tight, solidly bound.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1925. Numbered, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good/poor. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1925. Numbered, limited edition (#488/1000). Single volume, measuring 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. [6],72, [6]. Original off white illustrated dust jacket. Bluish-gray boards with paste-on label (title, author, year) to front board and title label to spine. Stained, edgeworn and chipped dustjacket in two pieces (missing spine). Boards have minor rubbing, sun fading to spine and extremities. Corners a bit nudged. Light foxing on head. Text is unmarked, clean and tight elsewise. The author's first volume of poetry.

City of Washington: A. & G. Way, Printers, 1810. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. City of Washington: A. & G. Way Printers, 1810.First edition. 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches: pp. [14] including 3 foldout tables. Sewn binding. Removed from a book of pamphlets. Title-page wrinkled near spine, impression from paper clip near upper left-hand corner, and small fold on bottom edge. Two vertical, parallel creases run along length of pamphlet. First leaf has come loose from the thread. Pages lightly tanned with minimal foxing. (Poore, Feb. 21, 1810). Most likely a forged bill of lading. "In the normal course of events the seller of a cargo (‘the shipper') delivers the cargo to the sea carrier at the port of loading, and the sea carrier issues a bill of lading to the shipper. The shipper  then sends the original bill to the buyer of the cargo (‘consignee'). The consignee presents the original bill to the carrier, at the port of unloading, who in return issues a delivery order to enable the consignee to… Read More

San Francisco: Luna's Press, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Redo. Unpaginated [34 pages]. Black and white drawings throughout. Illustrated staplebound wraps, square octavo. Some light soiling, sticker residue to wraps, interior clean and bright. Bilingual love poems in Spanish and English.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. xiv, 277. Gilt lettering to spine of blue-berry colored, cloth-covered boards. Blue and white lettering to blue jacket. with index. SIGNED INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR to front free endpaper. Previous owner's name to ffep. Mild wear to extremities. A bit of foxing to top and fore-edge. Clean, tight, bright. A look at the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford.