Search Results: Authors starting with S from Yesterday's Muse Books

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by author. First edition. Presentation copy with ALS laid in on State House School letterhead. Boards lightly soiled, board corners bumped. 1888 Hard Cover. 173, 32, 4 pp. Edward Daniel Stone was an Eton schoolmaster and classical scholar. This volume was inspired by the verse of "William Barnes", and includes 76 poems, 4 in Dorset dialect.

Stapled Binding. Very Good. General wear. 1-5 pp. One gathering. From the Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Vol. XXII. Hugh Peter (or Peters) (baptized 29 June 1598 – 16 October 1660) was an English preacher, political advisor and soldier who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War, and became highly influential. He employed a flamboyant preaching style that was considered highly effective in furthering the interests of the Puritan cause. From a radically Protestant family of Cornwall, England, though of part Dutch origin, Peters emigrated to a Puritan colony in America, where he first rose to prominence. After spending time in Holland, he returned to England and became a close associate and propagandist for Oliver Cromwell. Peters may have been the first to propose the trial and execution of Charles I and was believed to have assisted at the beheading. Peters unsuccessfully proposed revolutionary changes that would have disestablished the Church of… Read More

Sakip Sabanci, 1993. Signed Copy. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 0x0x0. Signed by author. Signed by author with inscription, "To Mr. Douglas Beal with the compliments of Sakip Sabanci January 11th, 1995." Jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1993 Hard Cover. vi, 312 pp. "An assessment of the Turkish economy as well as its challenges, written by Turkish businessman and philanthropist Sakip Sabanci."--mullen books

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. No jacket, no publisher date (circa 1920s), top page ridge very faintly foxed, two faint spots on page ridge, ink name on front endpaper. 1924 Hard Cover. viii, 331 pp. "Martin Marie Rigobert de Ganache had far too many important things to do than worry about the plight of an endangered heiress. But as he and the unfortunate lady become more involved, he has no choice but to carry on with the situation until it is reaches its fitting conclusion.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Photoplay Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Photoplay edition. No publisher date. Multiple chips and tears to jacket edges, jacket edges rubbed. Spine leans to the right, pencil name on front endpaper. x, 366, [8] pp. Color frontispiece by Harold Brett. "A masterpiece of historical fiction and a ferociously gripping adventure tale. Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman who helped defeat the Spanish Armada, is betrayed by his half-brother, throwing him into circumstances where he becomes a Barbary pirate and a follower of Islam.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Soft Cover. Good. 0x0x0. Tears to wrappers, stain on front wrapper. 1924 Soft Cover. 86 pp. Promotional copy from publisher to advertise The Definitive Edition of Sabatini's works. Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian-born British writer of romance and adventure novels. He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk (1915), Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (a.k.a. Captain Blood: His Odyssey) (1922), and Bellarion the Fortunate (1926). Several of his novels have been made into films, both silent and talking. In all, Sabatini produced 34 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and several plays.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1923. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Brett, Harold. 1923 first printing of the second American edition of the work first published in the UK in 1915, and in the same year in the US by J.B. Lippincott (Knight & Darley A.15.c.). The personal copy of Henry Strong Durand, with his name ink on front endpaper. Durand practiced men in Rochester, New York, and was friends with George Eastman - Durand Eastman Park, which lies on land they purchased and donated for that purpose, is named after them. Spine slightly faded. x, 366 pp. 8vo. Color frontispiece by Harold Brett. "A masterpiece of historical fiction and a ferociously gripping adventure tale. Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman who helped defeat the Spanish Armada, is betrayed by his half-brother, throwing him into circumstances where he becomes a Barbary pirate and a follower of Islam." CONTENTS: Note; Part One - Sir Oliver Tressilian - The Huckster; Rosamund;… Read More

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7x4x1. First edition. No jacket. Ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1926 Hard Cover. xiii, 334 pp. A Romance of the Texas Frontier.

New York: Readex Microprint, 1963. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1963 Hard Cover. 156 loose cards of microprinted facsimiles, each reproducing 100 leaves from the original work, in hard publisher's case.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1956-01-01. Reissue. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x8x0. Sabine, Ellen S.; Borcherding, Hilda. Reissue, several wrinkles to laminate on jacket. x, 132 pp. Color frontispiece, black and white illustrations.

New York: Thames & Hudson, 1989. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9x6x1. Everton, Macduff. First American edition. Minor tears to jacket edges, jacket faintly foxed. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. 224 pp. Includes 152 illustrations. Ancient Mexico was one of the great independent hearths of civilization. Out of a varied landscape grew some of the richest cultures of the early historic world - Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Toltec, and Aztec. Standard histories tend to focus on the individual societies, but Jeremy Sabloff's popular study takes an original approach, emphasizing the unity of Mexican civilization. In a series of fascinating vignettes, Professor Sabloff describes what it would have been like to have lived during the heyday of Mexico's greatest cities. Through the eyes of astronomers and ballplayers, merchants and priests, we see the temples, palaces, and tombs of a civilization obsessed with ritual and death. But who built these cities and how… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. First edition. Jacket price clipped, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1992 Hard Cover. x, 452 pp. "A collection of correspondence between the poet-novelist and her diplomat-politician-author husband spans fifty years to recount their turbulent and open marriage, Vita's lesbian affair with Violet Trefusis, their colorful circle of friends, and more.

New York: Osprey, 2006. 2nd Printing. Soft Cover. Fine. 7x0x9. Walsh, Stephen. Second printing. An exceptional copy. 2006 Soft Cover. 96 pp. Osprey's examination of the Battle of Flodden, in which the Scottish and English armies clashed on 9 September 1513. The Scots were superior in terms of artillery and well-trained in the new Renaissance tactics, whereas the English deployed more traditional methods. Historically, this battle is well-known as the last in which the longbow played a role and the first in which artillery had a considerable effect. Recognized as the greatest Scottish defeat in history, it resulted in the death of Scotland's king. It plunged the country into mourning and extinguished Scotland's threat to Henry VIII's reign for the next three decades. This book examines battle, the different tactics of the opposing armies and the personalities of the commanders.

Baltimore: Charles C. Saffell, 1894. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1894 third edition of the work first published in 1858. No jacket. Boards soiled, front hinge starting, ink name on second blank, mull exposed at rear hinge. 555 pp. Maroon cloth boards with gilt title on spine, decorative endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of George Washington, from an oil painting by Rembrandt Peale. A detailed military and financial history of the American Revolution. Sabin 74870. Howes S-10. Containing the Military and Financial Correspondence of Distinguished Officers; Names of the Officers and Privates of Regiments, Companies, and Corps, with the Dates of Their Commissions and Enlistments; General Orders of Washington, Lee and Greene at Germantown and Valley Forge; with a List of Distinguished Prisoners of War; the Time of Their Capture, Exchange, Etc. to which is Added the Half-Pay Acts of the Continental Congress; the Revolutionary Pension Laws; and a List of the Officers of the Continental… Read More

New York: Random House, 1992. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x1x9. Book club edition. Jacket spine faded. 1992 Hard Cover. Introduction; Prologue: The Orphan's File; On Earth as It Is in Heaven; Snowflakes Fallen on the Hearth; "What Makest Thou?"; A Gospel of Dirt; Life Is Just a Three-Letter Word; Us and Them; When Fire Was New; Sex and Death; What Thin Partitions...; The Next-to-Last Remedy; Dominance and Submission; The Rape of Caenis; The Ocean of Becoming; Gangland; Mortifying Reflections; Lives of the Apes; Admonishing the Conqueror; The Archimedes of the Macaques; What Is Human?; The Animal Within; Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors; Epilogue; Notes; Permissions Acknowledgments; Index

Rochester: William N. Sage, 1855. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 1 inch chip from spine head, lightly foxed throughout, ink name and owner bookplate on front endpapers. 1855 Full-Leather. 128 pp. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations. A collection of psalms for use in Baptist churches, with musical notation on versos and words on rectos. Includes index of subjects, tunes, and first lines.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. First edition. Edge wear, sticker on front cover verso. 1994 Trade Paperback. xiv, 188 pp. In May 1829, strange reports surfaced from the Ariège department in the French Pyrenees, describing male peasants, bizarrely dressed in women’s clothes, gathering in the forests at night to chase away state guards and charcoal-makers. This was the raucous War of the Demoiselles, a protest against the national French Forest Code of 1827, which restricted peasants’ rights to use state and private forests. Peter Sahlins unravels the fascinating story of this celebrated popular uprising, and in his telling captures the cultural, historical, and political currents that swept the countryside during France’s July 1830 Revolution. Sahlins explains how and why the Ariège peasants drew on the practices and rituals of folk culture, as… Read More

New York: Penguin Books, 1986. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x7. Reprint. Edge wear. 1986 Trade Paperback. 346 pp. The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers. A remarkably honest and revealing spiritual autobiography, the Confessions also address fundamental issues of Christian doctrine, and many of the prayers and meditations it includes are still an integral part of the practice of Christianity today.

Paris, France: Garnier Fre, 1876. Three-Quarter Leather. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Edges rubbed, endpapers toned, bookplate on front endpaper. 1876 Three-Quarter Leather. 542 pp. French text. Three-quarter leather with marbled paper over boards. A collection of portraits of famous and anonymous women, drawn with great sensitivity and addressing universal subjects such as beauty, love and power.

Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1966. 10th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x7x0. 1966 tenth printing. One inch by two in chip and tear down half of the length of book on rear jacket panel, half inch tear to jacket spine head, jacket clipped. Spine very slightly cocked. 96 pp. "Here is a book to teach the beginner the fundamental techniques of suiboku, the unique form of Oriental art that has produced some of the world's finest masterpieces of ink-painting. Originating in China and having its spiritual basis in Zen Buddhism, this form of expressing nature's colors through shades of black ink monochrome has been enjoyed throughout the centuries in the Orient as a hobby for the amateur.