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![Image for Photographic Cavalcade: Pictorial History of the 75 Infantry Division, 1944-1945 Campaigns: Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe, Colmar - Volume One [1]: European Theatre of Operations: England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany [75th]](/assets/images/product/2296441.jpg)
By: 75th Infantry Division; Zitin, Willard
Price: $750.00
Publisher: The 75th Infantry Division / Army & Navy Publishing Company: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2296441
Condition: Very Good
Original platoon photograph signed by dozens of members of the 75th Infantry Division (and noting their home towns) laid in, along with a Remember Pearl Harbor soldier 'diary' detailing the service of a soldier in the division. A couple faint spots to boards, otherwise an excellent copy. Soldiers who signed included: Pearson C. Schiller; Sgt. Chitwood; Domenico J. Scatena; George T. Wingard, Jr.; Mike Stirling, Jr.; Paul Toman; Joe LaPointe; Lowell E. Murphy; 'myself' (probably Nathan Hena, who signed the Pearl Harbor sheet); Jack M. Reese; Robert N. Dugal; Joseph A. Buzogany; Robert T. Berkeb... View more info
![Image for Cote the Wood Carver (The Canadian Art Series) [Jean-Baptiste Côté]](/assets/images/product/2275900.jpg)
By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Ryerson Press: 1943
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2275900
Condition: Very Good
Inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf ('To my dear friend Nella Sachs, who helped me to select the illustrations, Marius Barbeau'). Hella Sachs was an artist, and wife of Julian Street, Jr. This volume was acquired along with a collection of other books from Street's personal library. Board edges faded, a couple smudges on rear board. 1943 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 43, [3] pp. A brief study of the career of Jean-Baptiste Côté, who worked as a figure-head carver. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs of Cote's works, and woodcut illustrations. ... View more info
By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $10.00
Publisher: National Museum of Canada: 1961
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276393
Condition: Good
Inscribed to Hella Sachs, signed, and dated by author on title page, signed on front wrapper also. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges rubbed with minor loss from spine head and foot, pages toned. 1961 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. v, [1], 97, [1] pp. A collection of native folklore, illustrated with woodcuts. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples. View more info
![Image for Louis Jobin, Statuaire (1845-1928) (Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada, Troisieme Series - 1943, Tome XXXVII [37])](/assets/images/product/2276907.jpg)
By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1943
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276907
Condition: Very Good
Inscribed and signed to Hella Sachs by author on front wrapper. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges faintly creased. 1943 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 17-23, [1] pp. French text. A brief study of the career of a Canadian sculptor. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples. View more info
![Image for Modalite Dans Nos Melodies Populaires (Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada, Troisieme Series - 1944, Tome XXXVIII [38])](/assets/images/product/2276909.jpg)
By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1944
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276909
Condition: Good
Inscribed and signed to Hella Sachs by author on front wrapper. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges faintly creased, minor loss from corners, light stain on top page margin. 1944 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 15-25, [1] pp. French text, title translates as Modality in Our Popular Melodies. A brief study of music. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples. View more info
By: Barbeau, Marius; Melvin, Grace
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. / The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd.: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276387
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed to 'Mme Hella Sachs', signed (in French), and dated (15 Mai 1943) by author on front flyleaf. This volume was acquired from the personal library of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Lacks jacket. Spine lightly toned, corners rubbed and slightly exposed. 117, [3] pp. 8vo. A collection of native folklore, illustrated with woodcuts. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples. View more info
By: Carlson, Ron
Price: $40.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2269564
ISBN: 0393040682
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('For Steve, who has been true! Your friend, Ron Carlson'). A bit smoky, page ridges faintly foxed. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 224 pp. 8vo. A dozen stories feature a young man who discovers that Eden is not a permanent residence, a baseball player who accidentally becomes a killer, and a teenager from Phoenix who experiences an unsettling sexual awakening. View more info
![Image for The Arachnid Order Chelonethida (Stanford University Publications University Series, Biological Sciences, Volume VII, Number 1 [Vol. 7, No. I])](/assets/images/product/2260279.jpg)
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Stanford University Press: 1931
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2260279
Condition: Very Good
Inscribed to fellow arachnologist Robert L. Gering (from whose library this volume was acquired) and signed by author on dedication page, signed by author again without inscription on title page. Possible custom rebinding (we have another copy from the same collection in red cloth with gilt titles on the spine - this is plain brown cloth with no title on the exterior). Rear hinge a bit shaken. 1931 Hard Cover. 284 pp. 8vo. A study of pseudoscorpions by an arachnologist who spent much of his career as an expert in this particular field. Black-and-white diagrams throughout. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: LSU Press: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2117909
ISBN: 0807123293
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Inscribed & signed by one contributor (Kelly Cherry) on title page ('To Abe, I thought this might interest you. Hope so! Love and admiration forever. Kelly, 11/98'). Rear jacket flap lightly creased. Very Good. 1998 Hard Cover. A New Pleiade is a celebration of close literary friendships among seven eminent American poets -- Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, R. H. W. Dillard, Brendan Galvin, George Garrett, David R. Slavitt, and Henry Taylor. The affection, fun, and mutual respect of this happy association of poets have resulted in this anthology, in which the selection from the work... View more info
By: Cornell, Liz
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Studio Books & Prints: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author. Signed by illustrator
Seller ID: 2282730
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Presentation copy - signed by author and illustrator and inscribed, For Janet Westerberg, Nov. 14 '92. Numbered 1370 of 1500 copies. Rear wrapper very faintly foxed. 1992 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. Illustrated by William Blakesley. A collection of rhymes to say while jumping rope. Rhymes include: Gingerbread Houses; Fishing; Sea Shells; Island Queen; Kites; Catch of the Day; Mad Martha's; Ferry Boats; Flying Horses; Band Concert. View more info
Price: $135.00
Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons: 1906
Edition: Signed Copy
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2299601
Condition: Very Good
Signed. Presentation copy from author to a NYS assemblyman and senator. Bottom edge of boards lightly rubbed, tear on pages xi-xii mended with tape. 1906 Hard Cover. xix, 384 pp. Top page ridge gilt. Newton Martin Curtis (May 21, 1835 – January 8, 1910) was a Union officer during the American Civil War and a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He won Medal of Honor and At the Second Battle of Fort Fisher: the first man to pass through the stockade, he personally led each assault on the traverses and was 4 times wounded. William Caryl Ely (February 25, 1856 –... View more info
By: Duffy, Clinton T.; Linkletter, Eva Irene; Cranston, Alan
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Java Books, Morro Bay: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2022010
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed & signed by Eva Irene Linkletter to Carlson Wade, her literary agent, on front endpaper. Very faint stain to front endpaper along binding edge. Includes original jacket. Very Good. 1977 Hard Cover. 304 pp. A novel focusing on the struggle of a heroin addict during his time in San Quentin prison. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: J.F. Trow, Printer: 1859
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2290936
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed 'To John Austin Stevens Esq, with compliments of his friend the author' on front flyleaf. Spine and edges a bit faded, front and end matter lightly foxed. 1859 Hard Cover. iii, [1], [11]-217, [3] pp. 8vo. Portrait plates of Valentine Mott Francis and John Wakefield Francis (one young, one old). A doctoral thesis written by a member of the New York Historical Society, and the son of NYHS Librarian John Wakefield Francis, who founded Rutgers Medical College. View more info
By: Freeman, Chester D.; McGuire, John E.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2282731
ISBN: 0882899562
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Presentation copy - signed by both authors with inscription, To Janet Westerberg, May the magic of teddy bears always delight your heart! Chester Freeman John McGuire February 10, 1994. Related papers and letter from Chester Freeman to Janet Westerberg laid in. A very nice copy. 1993 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. Illustrated by Rachel Kuper. The morning of the little girls' birthday has almost come, and the bears have yet to return This warm and adventurous story teaches children the importance of being kind and polite when dealing with others. It also shows the positive role of... View more info
By: Gerling, Curt
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Plaza Publishers: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201858
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Association copy - signed & inscribed by Gerling to friends of his, with a postcard and a short typed letter to the same laid in, both referring to a shared interest in music. Very good in good jacket. A few jacket tears repaired with tape on reverse, jacket lightly toned, still nice under fresh mylar. 1974 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 322 pp. A collection of short writings by the author of Smugtown, U.S.A. and Good Enough for Grandpa. View more info
By: Hartley, Margaret L.; Maxwell, Allen; Oates, Joyce Carol; Horgan, Paul; et al
Price: $25.00
Publisher: SMU Press, Dallas: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2118879
ISBN: 0870741470
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by editor and inscribed to a close friend on front endpaper ('For Abe Rothberg, whose friendship during twenty-six years has meant much to me personally and whose contributions have added greatly to the value as well as the prestige of the Southwest Review. With every possible good wish, Margaret, 6-4-79'). Minimal wear to jacket corners. Near Fine. 1974 Hard Cover. xiv, 242 pp. 8vo. A collection of literary works (short stories and poetry) by various authors, including: Paul Horgan; Joyce Carol Oates; J. Frank Dobie; William Stafford; etc. View more info
![Image for Monroe Country (1821-1971): The Sesqui-Centennial Account of the History of Monroe County, New York [Sesquicentennial]](/assets/images/product/2201949.jpg)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Flower City Printing, Inc.: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201949
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed without attribution and signed by author on front endpaper. Laid in is a note written by a Democrat & Chronicle photographer explaining his relationship with Hosmer. Near fine in good jacket. 1 inch chip from jacket corner. 1971 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 327 pp. A sesquicentennial history of Monroe County in Western New York, by the editor of the Rochester Times-Union newspaper. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Oak Hill Country Club: 1977
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2291997
Condition: Near Fine
Association copy - inscribed to Rochester author Henry Clune, and signed by author ('To Henry Clune, with every good wish - H. Hosmer') on front endpaper. 1977 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 104 pp. Oak Hill Country Club, located in Pittsford, New York, a suburb of Rochester, has a rich history of golf. It started out in 1901 as only 9 holes on 85 acres (0.3 km²) on the banks of the Genesee River in Rochester. The clubhouse was no more than a converted farm house. However, at the time golf was a relatively new sport in America, and as popularity of the sport grew... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2293265
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author to a personal friend on front endpaper ('To my Faithful Friend Carl Hallauer, who knows a good book when he sees it and adds it to his library, Orchids and good wishes, Edward Hungerford, Westover House, 1941'). Lacks jacket. Hallauer's bookplate on endpaper opposite inscription, spine a bit faded. 1938 Hard Cover. ix, [1], 301, [1] pp. 8vo. A biography of the president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, whose wage negotiations during the Great Depression earned him a spot on the cover of Time magazine. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2289554
ISBN: 0521580099
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('To Brenda, to whom this book owes so much! Best wishes, Steve Hutchings'). Jacket lightly rubbed. 1997 Hard Cover. 316 pp. This book interprets the baffling complex of meanings attached by Russian culture to the concept of everyday life, or byt, and assesses its impact on Russian modernist narrative. Drawing on modern literary theory and theology, Stephen C. Hutchings argues that byt emerged from a dialogue between two aesthetic systems, one predominant in Western Catholic and Protestant cultures, the other reflected in Orthodox... View more info
By: Hutchison, [Hazel] Collister; Romains, Jules
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1950
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276385
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on front endpaper ('For Mrs. Hella Sachs, with best wishes and thanking her for a memorable evening. There is no loneliness. There is only longing to love - Page 57, Hazel Colliston Hutchison, February 8th, 1962'). This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella Sachs's husband. Jacket price clipped, jacket toned, edges lightly rubbed. 1950 Hard Cover. 88, [6] pp. 8vo. A collection of poetry, with four illustrations by Marc Chagall created specially for this book. This unusual volume brings together in col... View more info
![Image for First Person: Canada's First Woman Senator - A Biography of Cairine Wilson [with] Three Signed Letters from the Author to a Contributor of Source Material](/assets/images/product/2275902.jpg)
By: Knowles, Valerie
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Dundurn Press: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2275902
ISBN: 1550020293
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Laid in are three letters (two TLSs, one ALS) from the author to Hella Street, asking for and thanking Mrs. Street for her assistance in providing letters that were used as a source for this work. Mrs. Street is cited in the 'unpublished sources' section of Knowles's bibliography. Hella Street was the wife of Julian Street, Jr., and this volume was acquired along with a collection of other books from Street's personal library. Also laid in is an envelope sent from Ottawa to Connecticut, and a photocopy of an October 29, 1988 review of the book in The Globe and Mail. Street's nam... View more info
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc.: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2281668
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf ('A splendid New Year to our newly made friends. Jan 1 - 1955, Sincerely, Jean B. Kosht.'). 1946 Hard Cover. 102, [2] pp. 8vo. The author enjoys an outstanding reputation for her knowledge of training and raising canaries. She has many trophies and awards for her success in this work... Kosht brings her readers a vivid account of the lives of her trained canaries. Embued with the spirit of make-believe, the author weaves a romantic tale around Tinkerbell and Don Bonito, and another about Fastidious Bunny... An enchanting book of tr... View more info
![Image for Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from its First Planting, in the Year 1620, unto the Year of Our Lord 1698. In Seven Books., in Two Volumes, with an Introduction and Occasional Notes, and Translations of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Quotations [Beecher-Stowe Family Copy]](/assets/images/product/1955932.jpg)
By: Mather, Cotton; Robbins, Thomas; Robinson, Lucius F.
Price: $3,750.00
Publisher: Silas Andrus & Son.: 1853
Edition: Second Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1955932
Condition: Very Good
Second American edition, including a new preface and the preface from the 1820 edition. This copy belonged to the Stowe family, and is quite likely the precise copy referenced in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Poganuc People': It was a happy hour when [father] brought home and set up in his book-case Cotton Mather's Magnalia, in a new edition of two volumes. (quoted in Baker, America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi America, p. 5). Harriet is noted as among the authors influenced by this title (Hall's Dictionary of National Biography). Given the importance of the work, and it's influ... View more info
By: McKee, Lanier
Price: $500.00
Publisher: The Grafton Press: 1902
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2297487
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('To Miss Tremain, with the compliments of Lanier McKee.'). Spine faded, top edge faintly foxed. 1902 Hard Cover. ix, [3], 260 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles and rules. A firsthand account by a senior partner of the New York law firm of Hervey, Barber, and McKee, who practiced law in Alaska during the Nome Gold Rush. The first half of the book comprises an account taken from the author's diary, and includes a sketch of the rush to the Cape Nome gold-fields and the character of the country and its people. The s... View more info
By: McKelvey, Blake
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Syracuse University Press: 1993
Edition: Second Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2282387
ISBN: 0815625960
Condition: Near Fine
Second edition. Inscribed and signed by author ('To Harold Hacker, innovative civic leader, compassionate retiree and warm friend, with best wishes, Blake McKelvey'). Related inserts laid in. 1993 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 333 pp. This updated edition marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of Rochester. It is a narrative history of the ten generations that inhabited and built what began as a mill town on the Genesee Falls and which has grown into one of upstate New York's key cities. View more info
By: Nichols, Beverley; Rhodes, Dennis
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Cecil Woolf: 1983
Edition: Signed Copy
Seller ID: 2278593
ISBN: 0900821000
Condition: Near Fine
Signed by publisher (Cecil Woolf) with inscription: For Leslie Elliott and Mr. Elliott, with all manner of good wishes, from the publishers, Jean and Cecil (Woolf), 28.VII.84. Tear along jacket spine and hinge previously mended with tape on jacket rear, one-and-a-half inch tear along front jacket panel hinge, front jacket flap price-clipped. Ink note (Leslie sent to me, 1985) on half-title page. 1983 Hard Cover. 57 pp. Cecil Woolf, the publisher, is the nephew and oldest living relative of Virginia Woolf. In 1917, Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard Woolf founded the British publishing hous... View more info
![Image for Impact: The Battle Story of the Tenth Armored Division [10th]](/assets/images/product/2298348.jpg)
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Bradbury, Sayles, O'Neill Company, Inc.: 1954
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2298348
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author to a Tenth Armored member George Iwamoto, with Iwamoto's patch and card mounted on verso of front flyleaf. Iwamoto's bookplate on recto of front flyleaf (someone has crossed out his name with black marker, but it is still visible). Jacket and boards a bit rubbed, small tape remnants on jacket flaps and endpapers. 1954 Hard Cover. 325, [19] pp. 8vo. Maps on endpapers, black-and-white photographs and maps throughout text. An account of the service of the Tenth Armored Division during World War II, including sections on Metz, the Battle of the Bulge, ... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: St. Bernadette Institute of Sacred Art: 1994
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200541
ISBN: 0962790044
Condition: Near Fine
Signed by author with letter. 1994 Large Hardcover. 208 pp. 11 1/8 x 8 5/8. Numerous photographs. Signed association copy with letter, The personal testimonies in this book were written from the heart, by people of all walks of life and levels of education... Keywords: NUNS RELIGION CATHOLIC CHURCH HISTORY BIOGRAPHY MONASTICISM CATHOLICISM RELIGIOUS CHRISTIAN CHRISTIANITY DANIEL THOMAS PAULOS View more info
By: Pulsifer, Harold Trowbridge
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276397
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('Dear Julian Street -- I send you this in gratitude - duly acknowledged on page 95 for your friendly interest in my effort to crowd a full course dinner into a sonnet -- A college boy read it last night and exclaimed God, that makes me hungry! -- Harold T Pulsifer'). The referenced page is marked with pencil in the margin, next to the text reading I am indebted to Julian Street's 'Where Paris Dines' and to his friendly personal suggestions for help in constructing this sonnet. This volume was acquired from the personal collection... View more info
