Search Results: Non-Mystery / Collectible Non-Fiction from Blackbird Bookshop

Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Near Fine; Book shop stamp on half-title page; light edge soil.. 1986. First Edition. Softcover. An anthology of cartoons from the syndicated comic strip, 'Bloom County' encompasses highlights from the five-year span of the strip. .

New York: McGraw-Hill. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light edge wear, small dent back edge.. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. "Composed to placate kind readers of the Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, who objected to my casually killing my hero." ; 8.5 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches; 160 pages .

New York: Seabury Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Explores an unexamined aspect of Shakespearean drama: its relation to modern interpretations of the different ways we exist in time. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 216 pages .

New York: Barnes & Noble Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Fourth printing of the Barnes & Noble . edition. Light foxing top edge.. 1994. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Although much of the swashbuckling spirit of courageous sea adventures have been captured in fiction, the story of the frigates of 1793-1815 has rarely been told as a continuous historical narrative. Until now. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 176 pages .

New York: Macmillan. Good; "Delivered before the people of Staten Island, at the Castleton, St . George February 24, 1893." Covers rubbed, edge wear, fraying top of . backstrip.. 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. George William Curtis (1824 - 1892) was an American author, orator, and civil service reformer. In 1862, he delivered his "Doctrine of Liberty" address at Harvard on behalf of President Lincoln.   In 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him as Chair to the commission of civil service reform. A prolific speaker, one of his last public appearances was in April 1992 when he delivered his 11th Annual Address as president of the National Civil Service Reform League.; 24mo .

Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Internally clean with spotted edges. . Jacket clipped and edgeworn, mostly at spine; protected in mylar cover. . Laid in is a B&W photo of the Carl D. Bradley, a ship famously lost when . it sank in Lake Michigan. The Bradley is shown on the front endpaper.. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover.

London: Jarrolds Publishers. Near Fine with no dust jacket; Straight and tight with foxing front . endpaper and slight fade to spine.. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. The story of the Atlantic Gulf Stream and its effect on climate and navigation from ancient time to the 1950s. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 223 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Blue boards with gilt spine titles. Book is . straight and tight with light edge wear. Prior owner name to front . pastedown. Underlining scattered through pgs 6-9; typo corrected on pg . 128; margin line to pgs 167-170. Jacket with chips to spine ends, rather . large one to the heel affecting the publisher name; smaller chips to . corners.. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. This practical "first-time" book for all Connecticut Lawyers and Law Students offers coverage in one volume of all matters relating to proof in trials. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.75 inches; 278 pages .

Boston: John P. Jewett and Co. Good; Green boards with black speckled cloth bound to give the impression . of three-quarter leather. Wear to the green boards and a touch of wear to . the gilt lettering on the spine. Some water spotting to pages with no . damage to text. Bookplate on front pastedown: Charles Slocum of Defiance, . Ohio.. 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. A transcript of a court case testing the Fugitive Slave Act, involving a slave that had escaped from Kentucky to Oberlin, Ohio, and the attempts by the slaveholder to recapture said slave. Fascinating look into pre-Civil War history. .

Boston: Little, Brown. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Brown boards with gilt lettering and . decoration; top edge gilt. Book is clean, straight and tight with light . spotting to spine and back board. Jacket has edge wear and small chips to . spine ends and corners.. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 9.25 x 6 x 1.25 inches; 316 pages .

Keene: Granite State Studio. Very Good; Small water stain to bottom edge, else Near Fine.. [1938]. Stapled wraps.

Boston: Little, Brown. Near Fine with no dust jacket; Brown boards with gilt lettering and . decoration, top edge gilt. Book is clean, straight and tight with a hint . of dulling to spine and minor bottom edge wear. Prior owner bookplate to . front pastedown.. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 x 6.25 x 1.25 inches; 290 pages .

Washington, D. C.: War Department. Very Good with no dust jacket; Blue boards with gilt spine titles. . Straight and tight with faded areas to boards, light soiling to edges, and . minor wear. Appendix from April 1945 laid in. Prior owner name and date . (9/30/52) on front endpaper.. 1944. Not Stated. Hardcover. This manual provides a general outline for a course of instruction of x-ray technicians, and a reference text particularly with respect to exposure factors and precautionary measures. Chapter titles include Roentgenologic Physics, Field Equipment, Care of Equipment, Protection, Darkroom Procedure, Anatomy, Techniques, and others. .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Foxing to boards and edges; prior . owner and bookstore stamp, sticker pull to front endpaper, stains to page . 113. Jacket has closed tears to top edge of front panel, flap creases.. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 158 pages .

Boston: Little Brown & Co. Near Fine; Light edge wear and soil. Smell-o-toons flap unopened.. 1989. First Edition. Softcover. A collection of Berke Breathed's comic strips. ; 10 X 0.25 X 9 inches; 96 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Very Good; No ediiton stated, presumed First. Wrinkle front top edge; . prior owner name at top of half-title page; bend to top corner of first . section.. 1985. First Edition (?). Softcover. Milo, Binkley, Steve Dallas, Opus the Penguin, and the rest of the Bloom County residents are represented in this new collection of cartoons, which poke fun at everything from politics to beauty pageants. .

Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Company. Very Good; Solid clean copy, with light spine fading and front cover . spots. 96 pages with 16 pages of ads following.. 1906. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 96 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Very Good; The Bloom Picayune not present. Light edge soil and shelf . rubbing, small crease front bottom corner with corresponding bend to first . few pages.. 1988. First Edition. Softcover. The people and beasts residing in Bloom County are busy as ever--Opus dances in an all-female nightclub, a Congressional investigation into space invaders is underway, and workers strike for a larger comic book size, in a collection of zany cartoons. .

New York: Ballantine Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Front board bowed; jacket with crease . to front flap and back panel.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1871, the Polaris sailed with great fanfare from New York Harbor and began a historic journey to one of the earth's final frontiers. Seven months later, a handful of half-starved survivors returned with a story that shocked the nation. ; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.6 inches; 336 pages .