Search Results: Titles starting with J from James Arsenault & Company

Boston: The Sherwood Publishing Company, copyrighted 1900. Fourth Edition. Preface reads "This third edition is brought up to the date of November 1, 1901." Printed by Geo. H. Ellis. 16mo (5.25" x 7"), pictorial wrappers printed in black and orange. [32] pp., numerous illus. from photos. An attractive visitor's guide to Jamaica for travelers on the United Fruit passenger steamer "Admiral Dewey", with numerous illustrations, helpful hints, and observations. An appealing Jamaica item. CONDITION: Very good, clean and sound.

New York: The Pond Bureau, ca. 1931. Leaflet, 8" x 5.25", bifolium. 4 pp. and numerous illustrations from photographs in red and green ink. Early pencil note at top of first p.: "-Tickets on sale at Sherman Clay.-" CONDITION: Very good, slight wear to extremities. A richly illustrated leaflet for a lecture in Seattle by explorer and aviator Richard Byrd, during his 1931 speaking tour on his successful Antarctic expedition in 1928 and '29. Byrd's January 13th lecture at Seattle's Civic Auditorium is advertised here as the "Only Northwest Appearance" on his nationwide tour. Thanks to Captain Ashley C. McKinley's camerawork, Byrd's account of "The Flight to the South Pole and...the epic story of Little America" was "Illustrated by Motion Pictures." This leaflet extolls Byrd's "delightful personality" and public speaking prowess, and hails him as the "aerial conqueror of both poles." Although Byrd's claim to have flown over the North Pole in 1926 is now questioned, the success of his South Pole… Read More

New York, London: M.F. Mansfield & Co., 1901. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 6.75"), half green cloth, gray paper over boards. 70 pp. with tipped in frontis. and 6 tipped in b&w illus. CONDITION: Very good, light wear to extremities, upper right corner bumped, small losses to paper at corners, ffep. browned, terminal endpaper browned, one page lightly torn but no loss to text. First edition, first printing.

Hartland, Maine: [ca 1910]. Warm-toned silver print photograph, 4.25" x 6.5", on 8" x 9.75" paperboard mount; pencil and pen notations and typed label affixed with clear tape on verso: "Miss Helen M. Smith, Hartland, Maine." CONDITION: Good+, lightly faded, two small chips with loss at top and bottom right corners; mount chipped with loss at bottom left corner. A richly toned photograph of the James Moor house, later the Scott-Webb Memorial Hospital, in Hartland, Maine. According to the Hartland Historical Society, "In 1802, James Moor (1800-1873) arrived with his parents William & Sally Moor who settled on what became Commercial Street in Hartland. Following his parents departure to Corinna soon after 1820, James remained in Hartland and began an important role in the early years of development of Hartland's town affairs and its industry. James married Dorcas Wiggin in 1821 and they built a modest home atop the highest hill on Main Street where they began raising their family of 9 eventual… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company; Macmillan & Co., Ltd., London, 1904. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.25"), gilt-stamped tan cloth, t.e.g. Frontis., 541 pp. 2 pp. of ads. CONDITION: Very good, corners bumped, offsetting to paste down and ffep from something previously laid in (now absent), light foxing to endpapers. First American edition, second printing. Copyright page states "Published September, 1904. Reprinted November, 1904.

Boston: Printed Under Direction of the Clerk of the Court, 1876. 12mo, printed brown wrappers. 141 pp. The official account of the trial of the Jefferson Borden mutineers, held in the Circuit Court of the United States, District of Massachusetts. In the spring of 1875, the vessel Jefferson Borden-built on the Kennebunk River in Maine-departed from New Orleans and was making way for London under the command of Captain William M. Patterson of Edgecomb, Maine carrying a cargo of cotton-seed oil cake. Seaman George Miller, a Russian, had been put in irons for 48 hours for his insubordinate behavior just a few days into the voyage. On the night of April 20th, 1875, Miller struck Corydon Patterson-the captain's brother and ship mate-over the head with an iron bar, killing him immediately. Two ship-men-Ephraim Clark and John Glew-assisted Miller in dumping the mate's body overboard. Additionally, Clark killed the Captain's cousin, Charles Patterson, throwing him overboard as well. The Captain, suspicious… Read More

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1950. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Hardcover. 8vo (8.5" x 6"), blue-green cloth, decorative gilt spine title and upper cover, original color dj. Endpaper maps, frontis. port., xvii., [2] p. family tree, 699 pp. , 3 b&w plates, 1 laid-in bifolium pamphlet. A Book-of-the-Month Club edition of National Book Award-winner Bowen's biography of Adams, with extensive notes, index and a promotional pamphlet with essays by John P Marquand and Emily Kimbrough. CONDITION: Good, with light bumping at head and foot of spine, clean pages, sound binding; dj is intact with chips, creases and small tears at edges, light soiling on back, abrasion to spine.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956. Hardcover. Sm 4to (10.75" x 8.5"), tan cloth. Color frontis., unpaginated, illus. throughout, some in color. CONDITION: Very good, covers with some toning at edges and wear to extremities, otherwise fine.

United Artists Pictures, [1929], printed by The Longacre Press, New York City. 4to, half blue cloth with decorative paper over baords, blue and gold spine cord, decorative endpapers. [3], port. frontis., [29 pp.], numerous b&w illus. Souvenir book for D. W. Griffiths's film "Lady of the Pavements", starring Lupe Velez, William Boyd, Jetta Goudal and others. Illustrated with large photo stills and art deco illustrations. Features "Where is the Song of Songs for Me?" by Irving Berlin, sung by Lupe Velez. CONDITION: Good, worn at extremities, soiling at top edge of last two pages, content otherwise clean and quite pleasing.

Washington D.C.: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 5.75"), gilt blue cloth. 50pp. [565-614]. Bookplate of Edwin Stanton Fickes on front pastedown. CONDITION: Good ex-library; residual mark from library sticker on front cover, library stamp and call-number on ffep. An account by the first casualty on the California front of the Mexican American War, Captain Abraham Robinson Johnston, dating from Sept. 24 to Dec. 4th 1846. Excerpted from Emory's Notes of a Military Reconnaissance (1848), it narrates the American Army of the West's passage along the Gila Trail. This volume comprises an extract of a journal kept by Johnston from June 30, 1846 to December 4, 1846, ending two days before his untimely death at the battle of San Pasqual. Included here are the presumably more interesting entries from Johnston's diary, providing detailed descriptions of the vegetation, topography, and peoples along the trail against a "dutifully described" backdrop of a military march through… Read More

London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1821. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 6"), later half red morocco, marbled paper. Untrimmed. Folding map (12" x 14"), [3], 4-102 pp. Bookplate of "H. O. Havemeyer Jr." at pastedown. CONDITION: Very good, moderately rubbed, contents clean; map with 4" separation at one fold, 1.5" separation at another, 3" split along plate mark, a few other small separations and one small hole at fold, tear a bottom of map stub mended with document repair tape. "Schoolcraft and one companion named Levi Pettibone left Potosi (in the lead-mining region of southeastern Missouri) on November 6, 1818, and returned on February 9, 1819, having traveled an estimated nine hundred miles. The settlers that Schoolcraft and Pettibone encountered were just beginning to build cabins and plant crops..." (Wagner-Camp). The map, published Jan. 15th, 1821, is entitled "Countries Bordering on the Mississippi and Missouri" and extends from Michigan Territory and the Northwest Territory in the north… Read More