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By: N/A
Price: $37.50
Publisher: 0
Seller ID: 018319
Condition: Fine
Original letter signed by William H. Appleton. 5 X 8 inches. 2 pages. Dated January 17, 1893. William H. Appleton (1814-1899) was the oldest son of Daniel Appleton. William began his publishing career in 1838 and became senior member of D. Appleton & Co in 1848. In this letter, Appleton writes from Anacortes Washington to Mr. Rickoff regarding the financial soundness of a nearby bank. Appleton writes that it has bee a "few moments since he has listened to a detailed financial statement" of the banks affairs. Appleton writes, "I would advise you not to put any faith or confidence in... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $100.00
Publisher: 0
Seller ID: 018320
Condition: Fine
Original written letter signed by Oliver Wendell HOlmes. 4 1/2 X 7 inches. 1 page. Dated Sept. 22, 1894. With engraving of Holmes, circa 1879. Holmes (1809-1894) was an American essayist and poet. He was also a physician, lecturer and a member of the Fireside Poets. In this brief letter, Holmes tanks a correspondent for sending him a book ("Pretty Little Quarto") and for quoting from his writing. This letter was written two weeks before Holmes' death on October 7, 1894. Letter has been folded but is clean. The engraving of Holmes measures 4 1/2 X 7 1/2 inches. Lower corner is slightly ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $37.50
Publisher: 0
Seller ID: 018446
Condition: Fine
Original autographed letter signed by Robert Lowe. 4 1/2 X 7 1/2 inches. 1 page. Circa 1868-1873. Lowe (1811-1892) was a British statesman and a key figure who shaped British politics. Lowe was Chancellor of the Exchequer during 1868-1873. This letter is written on Parliament stationery with the address of "11 Downing Street, Whitehall" in the upper right corner. This hand written letter to a Mrs. Jones is an apology from Lowe regarding a trip to Scotland that he is unable to make. Letter has been folded. Letter is clean. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Corvallis, Oregon, Oregon State Agricultural College:
Seller ID: 10191
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
"O.A.C. Daily Barometer" 25 pages; brown wrapper (3 1/4 x 5 1/4 inch) with evidence of use to the covers. Some pencil notations in the back. For use as an aid to students to learn the proper style in the College paper 'Daily Barometer''. View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Lee and Shepard, Publishers. 1880. Boston.: 1880
Seller ID: 2751
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
First edition. Illustrated cloth. Contents include numerous writings (with and without authors or sources): The Defense of Lucknow, Tennyson; The Outlaw's Yarn, Michael Lynch; People Will Laugh; Ballad of the Bell-Tower, Margaret J. Preston; Mrs. Br own at the Play, Arthur Sketchley; Apples -- A Comedy, Blackwood's Magazine; The Fast Mail, John H. Yates; The City Man and Setting Hen; Miss Edith's Modest Request, Bret Harte; etc. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Expression Company - Publishers: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14243
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
xvi, 57 pages; red cloth binding with dust jacket (chipped and worn edges, some soiling). "The purpose of this book is to aid the beginner to a quick and painless mastery of the phonetic alphabet." - dust jacket cover. Very good condition. View more info
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1936
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8511
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
(Subtitle): " An Inquiry into the Nature of the Statements, Assertions, Allegations, Claims, Heats, Tempers, Distempers, Dogmas, and Contentions wihch Appear when Human Affairs are Discussed and into the Possibility of Putting Some Rhyme and Reason into Processes of Discussion." Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Dust wrapper soiled and with some chipping along top. Although written in the 1930's Beard's conclusions are expecially interesting in the modern days of Internet chat rooms and talk radio. 124 pages. View more info
By: Becker, David P., Cataloger
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Harvard College Library. The Houghton Library. 1990. Cambridge, Mass.: 1990
Seller ID: 2787
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Illustrations. 2,000 copies printed. From the Foreword: "The Houghton Library has long cherished its close relationship with Stephen Harvard, which began when he was an undergraduate at Dartmouth. He frequently visited the Departm ent of Printing and Graphic Arts, where his interest in the world of letters. was encouraged by Philip Hofer". From the Introduction: "Born in Rochester, Minnesota in 1948, Stephen grew up in Connecticut, where his first interest was natural his tory. " "Along with his boyhood museum of natural history in the basement came the self-taught practice... View more info
By: Buck, Charles, (The Late Rev.)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Published by Joseph J. Woodward. 1833. Philadelphia.: 1833
Seller ID: 2768
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Leather. Some illustrations. 624 pages. Title continued: ".in the Religious World From the Birth of Christ to the Present Day; Together with an Accurate Statement of the Most Remarkable Transactions and Events Recorded in Ecclesiastical History ; W oodward's New Edition, Published From the Last London Edition; to Which is Added an Appendix; Containing an Account of the Methodist Episcopal, and Presbyterian Churches, in the United States, to the Present Period". Front cover partially separa ted from lower spine. Front end papers split at spine. Chipping to bottom of spine. Newspaper art... View more info
By: Carnegie, Dale; Thomas, Lowell (Introduction)
Price: $37.50
Publisher: New York, American Institute of Banking: 1926
Seller ID: 019765
Condition: Fine
Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt decorations and lettering on spine. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 583 pages, complete. Former ownership signature in black ink of Harry Buss on front pastedown. Bookplate of Henry Buss on front free endpaper. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Very minimal, if any, wear on edges of covers. Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) was an American writer and lecturer best-known for his writings and teachings on self-improvement. Carnegie grew up on a rural farm, worked his way out of poverty, and found his true calling by coaching and teaching peopl... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: 0
Seller ID: 018473
Condition: Fine
Original signed sentiment by Mary Hartwell Catherwood. 4 X 6 1/2 inches. 1890. Catherwood (1847-1902) was a Midwest writer of popular romance novels. The signed sentiment is a quotation from "Story Of Tonty". "The Story Of Tonty" is about an Englishman's adventures among the Chippewa Indians of Mackinac. This sentiment is a quotation, "Tonty, I have found the lost river!" ("Story of Tonty.") Sincerely your friend, Mary Hartwell Catherwood". Copy has been folded and is very clean. View more info
By: Frost, S. A.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers. (1871). New York.: 1871
Seller ID: 2765
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Cloth. In the Preface, the author states: "In preparing this little volume of Dialogues for the use of the young folks, the author is aware that she has departed from the usual aim of such works, which is to combine moral maxims and improving ideas with a certain amount of recreation. In defiance of all established rules, the author frankly confesses that she is not writing for their instruction at all, but simply aims at their amusement, in the fulle st sense of the term. The Dialogues are wr itten with a view to recreation only, and are specially adapted for celebrations, juvenile partie... View more info
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New York, Andrew J. Graham & Co.: 1894
Seller ID: 4582
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
New and Revised Edition. (First Edition 1858). Illustrations. Gilt decoration and lettering front cover. Front end papers partially split at spine. This book provides background information about phonography, or phonetic shorthand. The word 'phonograph' (noun) is the graphic or written sign of a vocal element. 'Phonetic Shorthand' is writing produced with an alphabet composed of very simple signs. Book provides an Introduction to Phonography; Simple Consonants; Simple Vowels; Contractions and Expedients; Punctuation - Accent - Numbers; Diphthongs; Writing Exercises; etc. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, H. Copperthwait & Co.: 1857
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8644
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Original leather backed illustrated boards. Signatures of Nathan Newton, Lime Road, Smithfield, Rhode Island, dated 1858 on front end paper and pastedown. 192 pages. View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: 0
Seller ID: 018425
Condition: Fine
Original autographed letter signed by J. W. Harper Jr. Circa 1864. New York, 8 1/2 X 8 1/2 inches. 1 page. Joseph Wesley Harper Jr. (1830-1896) was the son of Joseph Wesley Harper (1801-1870), one of the founding brothers of Harper and Brothers Publishing. H. W. Harper Jr had a long career with Harper and Brothers. In this letter to A. Lyle White, publisher of the "Republican", Harper writes that he will add the "Republican" to the Harper's magazine Exchange List. Harper also writes that he is looking forward to receiving a photograph of a General Canby from White (likely Gener... View more info
By: Harper, J.H.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: 0
Seller ID: 018371
Condition: Fine
Original autographed letters signed by J.H. Harper. Dated January 1874. 2 pages. 5 X 8 inches on Harper and Brother Memorandum stationary. J.H. Harper (1850-1936) was among the second generation of the Harper family that founded and operated Harper and Brothers Publishing. J.H. Harper was the author of "The House Of Harper" (1912) and "I Remember" (1934). Both of these letters are to Ed. Seymour, Harper's cousin and both are in regards to tickets to "Nast's Lecture" (Cartoonist Thomas Nast, 1840-1902). Harper has blocks of tickets to sell and he wants Seymour to sell th... View more info
By: Hondius, Jodocus, A.S. Osley (Introduction and translation by)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Wormley, The Glade Press: 1970
Seller ID: 018996
Condition: Fine
Publisher's green cloth with title label on front cover. Number 39 0f 40 copies prnted. "Corrigenda" slip laid in. 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. 13 pages plus colophon. Signed by Osley at colophon. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, The Better-Speech Institute of America.: 1935
Seller ID: 9588
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Fifteen pamphlets [28 to 32 pages each] boxed with cover sheet discussing the home course, complete. Title band across the cover of the box. Deals with the correct standard-english version usage in conversation and correspondence along with lessons to achieve it. In very good condition. Complete sets are uncommon. View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg and Company: 1897
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 018994
Condition: Very Good
Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. A study of language, historical, contemporary and foreign. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches. 392 pages, including index plus four unnumbered pages at the end of books for sale by the publisher. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1923
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7584
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Four illustrations, including a frontispiece engraving of the author. Dust wrapper with dampstain running down middle of spine, but not affecting the book. Dust wrapper has some small chips and a closed tear. From the promotional material by the publisher: "Sir Harry Johnston's rich life as explorer began while he was still in his teen, shen, as an artist, he stayed in Tunis and made adventurous excursions therefrom. All Africa, since that time, has been his province, as this fascinating book clearly shows. He has made intelligible to strangers the many dialects of the Bantu languages; his... View more info
