Search Results: Authors starting with S from Collectible Books

1. Stated first edition. Random House. Lightly rubbed intact dj with purple background, silver and white lettering, and photo on back. 1/4 black cloth with silver to letters and boards. Bottom outside corner ends bumped and rubbed. Clean, bright, tight and appears unread.

1. Stated first edition. Bottom front corner lightly bumped on dj and book cover. Untorn dust jacket very lightly rubbed. Else clean, bright and tight.

1. Francois the Waif by George Sand. Published by H. M. Caldwell Co, New York. Copyright 1894, by George H. Richmond & Company. Good or better condition. No date on title page but likely pre 1897 as I believe Caldwell added a Boston address in 1897. 243 pages. 6.25 x 4.25 inches. Spine and front cover fully decorated with floral and design decorations in gold, green and red. Moderate soil, fade and rub to blue cloth. Spine tips starting to fray. Previous owner name and 1910 date on front blank endpaper. Small text illustrations at chapter headings.

1. SIGNED by the former Governor. Assembled and with a Narrative by Jack Flannery. 1976. Rear cover reads: 'Publication of this Document Approved by Alfred C. Holland, State Purchasing Agent.' Inscription above title is signed, ""Lettie and Henry, These were exciting and productive years but Jessie and I couldn't get to Franconia as much as we now hope to! Thanks for your many kindnesses and great support, Sarge, June '76."" 5.75 x 9 inches. 291 pages + 2 page index. Light age discoloration to white wraps. Black letters to spine and front cover + small coat of arms emblem on front. Pages clean, bright and tight. A narrative history of Massachusetts during Sargent's tenure and his public responses and actions. VG condition.

1. I hope some day a film or book will ensue about the writers in the Scott/Wellman family...drama, success, failure, joy, sorrow, poverty, writings, painting, inventing, scholarship, travel... NOT A REPRINT. Very scarce first edition. Published by George H. Doran Company, New York. 1921. 321pp. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. No dustjacket. Pale green cloth with small scattered dots of foxing. Front cover with pressed border and lighty faded black letters. Spine with vertical roll (probably stored flat and sandwiched); black letters, tanned, and fraying to ends. Light browning to endpapers and text block edges. Pages tight, clean, bright and intact. Good to VG condition.

1. Stated first edition. No dustjacket. 381 pages include index. Sturdy maroon cloth with pressed cover borders and letters to spine. Spine impressions have no sign of color or gilt. Top edge was probably damp cleaned as faint water-stain extends to 3/8""; max from top of pages into margin. Endpapers with light spotting. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and bright. Minor wave to tops of pages. Explores the causes and psychology of the inferiority complex for the lay person. Scarce Psychology book.

1. R.W. Seaton, Prairie Chief Office, Book and Job Printer,, Cambridge, Illinois.1876. First edition. 327, (1) pp. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Suitable for rebind. Original cloth boards with blind-stamped illustrations are rubbed, badly edgeworn, and barely holding. Surface spine cloth virtually absent. One of the six endpapers is partially torn away; else complete. Pages amazingly clean. Includes: Illinois history, Famous Personalities; Fauna & Flora; Public Enterprize, Election returns 1839-1872; Union soldiers' Records during the US Civil War w. list of all soldiers and their regiments; Census; Agricultural Records...Howes S-326.

1. A Quaker experiment in Government by Isaac Sharpless. Scarce 1898 first edition in original light grey cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Frontis of young Penn + five full-page plates. Very light rub to spine ends. Fep with penciled gift inscription and small tear at bottom inside edge. Tissue guard missing from frontis. Exceptionally clean bright and tight. 5p,280p., 5.5 x 7.75 inches. About Pennsylvania history and politics of the "";Society of Friends"";. Includes many famous Americans; matters of indians, war, slavery, morality, liberty, education, trade, sorcery, witchcraft, and much more.

1. Abingdon Press: New York/Cincinnatti/Chicago. 1933. First edition. 322 pages. Bibliography and Index. 6 x 8.25 inches. Scarce dust jacket is lightly soiled with edge tears and chips (less than 1/4"";) to top and bottom edges. Dj spine is faded. Burgandy cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine and cover. NO wear to cloth. Very attractive. Top corners lightly bumped. Light foxing to foredge, pastedowns and endpapers. Due to a slip laid-in, "";Compliments of The Abingdon Press to the editor...""; some faint foxing is present on the first two pages. Else clean, bright and tight. Publisher's script info below the author's name on both the dj and the title page continues, "";Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy in Boston University"". Noted author explores ethics as a science, presenting principles based upon law and obligation.

Third edition with an original and very scarce dust jacket. Published by Winston, May 1913. Book clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Very good+ condition in clean maroon cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Brodart protected dust jacket also in very good condition; lightly and evenly soiled with minor edge chipping.

1. By Elliot S. Barker (Author of When the Dogs Barked 'Treed'). 1st ed. 1953. Green cloth with letters and cabin illustrations in white on spine and front cover. Published by University of New Mexico Press. x, [1], 220pp. Near Fine condition in a Very Good, price-clipped, colorful dustjacket with light edgewear, painting of cabin and landscape on front, and photo of J. Frank Dobie and Mrs. Barker on horseback on back, and blurb by Dobie on flaps. Clean, bright and tight. Double-page map on front pastedown and endpaper with photos and illustrations in black and white. Wildlife, people and nature in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

1. The March Of Empire Through Three Decades. Geo. Spaulding & Co., San Francisco. 1884 on the title page. Maroon cloth with black letters and designs on front and pressed designs on rear cover. Spine print absent. Floral endpapers. 189pp. 5x7 inches. Some bump, rub and soil to spine and covers. Penciled bookseller notations on the front flyleaf. Light foxing on the frontispiece, tissue guard and title page. Contains the memoirs of Mallie Stafford who went to California in 1854 and later to Colorado. Howes S874. Scarce.

1. Ex-library. GPO. Stated first issue 1908. Contents include, Outside operations of boat lines, ferry lines, harbor terminal transfers, electric railways, express lines, cab and omnibus service, sleeping-car service, parlor and chair car service, dining and special car service, electric light and power plants, gas-producing plants, canals, grain elevators, stock yards, commercial telegraph and telephone lines, hotels and restaurants, amusement parks and resorts, coal storage plants, cold-storage plants, commercial Ice-supply Plants, Public toll-Bridge Service.

1. 1981 Hardcover. 218 pages. First edition. ISBN 09397500007. No dustjacket issued. Shelfware to edges of pictorial boards shows a few tiny color flecked spots. Pages clean bright and tight. Gorgeous full and double page color photos of natural sites on the Texas Gulf Coast with descriptive text. Includes chronologically arranged photo explanations at the end.

1. BABY'S BAEDEKER : AN INTERNATIONAL GUIDE-BOOK for the YOUNG of ALL AGES. Peculiarly Adapted to the Wants of 1st & 2nd Childhood. By Col. D. Streamer (Pseudonym for Jocelyn Henry Clive Graham or Captain Harry J C Graham). Author of Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes. New York; R. H. Russell, Publisher 1902. First edition. 56 pp. Cloth spine; pictorial paper pastedown covers in black, orange and blue. Age toned, normal wear to edges, and rubbed overall. Faded blue top edge. Bottom and side edges rough cut. Contents tight and clean. 9 full-page plates and additional text illustrations.

1. Avon, 1982. Soft cover. Stated First Printing. 9.25 x 7.75 inches. 560 pages including appendices, illustration list, and index. ""First complete story of the lives and art of hundreds of women artists who have enriched our heritage since the beginning of American history"" About their lives, times, and influences. Painting, sculpture, leather, weaving, beadwork, baskets, architecture, lithography, engraving, etchings. 49 color plates. 1.5"" vertical wrinkle centered at spine top. Faint rub to spine edge (no color loss). Else appears unread, clean, bright, square, and tight.