Search Results: Americana from Cat's Cradle Books

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Square, sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has light edge wear. ; History of the American Revolution. ; 9.25" tall; 400 pages.

New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. Hardcover. As New in As New dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean with no evidence of wear. DJ has only very light shelf wear. ; Chapters on the eclipse of 1831, slavery and abolition, religion and politics, state and nation, and machines and nature. ; 8,5" tall; 247 pages.

Austin: Printing Craft, Inc, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Noncirculating reference copy with exlibrary markings on endpapers, label on lower front. Binding and hinges sound, pages clean and a bit off-white. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with darkened gilt lettering at spine. ; Listing of deaths in Texas from June 1, 1849 to June 1, 1850 with causes, Transcribed from Schedule 3. ; Ex-Library; 11.0" (28 cm); 94 pages.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1996. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have general light shelf wear, especially at tips of corners. ; Text and pictures giving a look at Western cultural, social, and political environment at the turn of the 20th century. ; 10" oblong; 192 pages.

New York: P. F. Collier Books, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Writing on front pastedown. Cloth over boards is clean with minor shelf wear, bright gilt lettering on spine. ; Many short stories. 7.5" (19 cm) tall; 383 pages.

New York: Waring Products Corporation, 1947. Ephemera. Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wraps have soiling, handling wear. Many recipes to be made in a kitchen blender. Recipes for children and for the sick and convalescent, along with a wide range of general cookery. ; 9.0" oblong; 64 pages.

Little Rock, AR: International Graphics, Inc, 1993. Ephemera. Very Good with no dust jacket. Embossed stiff paper wrappers are slightly soiled with minor edge rubbing. Interior clean and bright, with little handling. Color photographs and text. First William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton inauguration program, January 1993. 11.0" (28 cm) tall; 24 pages.

Winston Salem, North Carolina, U. S. A.: Wake Forest University, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author with additional inscription on ffep. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has light overall shelf wear. ; Bibliography of work by and about American poet Archie Randolph Ammons (1926-2001). 9.25" tall; 179 pages; Signed by Author.

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. An exceptionally nice, clean, bright copy, bound in green paper-covered boards; text is clean, crisp, bright; binding shows a few tiny dings to bottom extremities and what may or may not be a bump to top spine end, o/w near-pristine; dust jacket is clean and bright, with mild shelfwear. Illustrated in b&w/color. ; Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York, this book documents Copland's friendships with a broad range of well-known painters, photographers, composers, choreographers, and writers, "exploring the direct exchange of ideas these relationships engendered and examining esthetic and intellectual parallels between their work and Copland's."; 9.75" tall; 173 pages.

New York: MacMillan Company, 1918. Hard Cover. Good with no dust jacket. 1926 printing. Square, sound binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with slight fading at spine. Gilt lettering on spine is bright. ; American Progressive Era argument in favor of heavy estate taxes as a means of redistributing unearned income. 7.75" (20 cm) tall; 312 pages; Renumbered.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Previous owner's name on ffep. Front hinge and binding sound; rear hinge cracked but holding. Pages clean, tanned. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed and shelf worn, with cloth split at hinge between spine and back. Lettering on spine is dulled. ; Author was a mail carrier for the Confederate Army, running the lines between the two armies to deliver letters. ; Ex-Library; 8.25" tall; 216 pages.

Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1955. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wraps have heavy edge wear, some fading and creasing at spine. ; Abstracts of studies in general literature; museology; materials, construction, and conservation of objects; and technological examination of objects and analysis of materials. Index. ; 9.25" tall; 408 pages.

Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bright gilt lettering. ; Contents: Biographies of Robert Marion La Follette and Jo Davidson, the sculptor. Proceedings in Statuary Hall (addresses by A. Eustace Hayden, John J. Blaine, Robert La Follette Sucher, Marion Montana Wheeler, Philip F. La Follette, Charles H. Crownhart, Gilbert E. Roe, Victor A. Olander, Mabel Cory Costigan, Edward Keating, Claude G. Bowers. Acceptance of the statue by Congress. ; 9.25" tall; 90 pages.

Springfield, Missouri: Springfield Public Library and Greene County Historical Society, 1961. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Facsimile Reprint. Exlibrary markings. Very lightly circulated. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards has minor edge rubbing. ; Account of the first major battle of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. ; Ex-Library; 8.75" tall; 111 pages.

Detroit: University of Detroit Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean, slightly off-white pages. Writing on front endpaper. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. Light shelf wear to exterior. ; Annotated bibliography of works by American poet Robert Lowell (1917-1977). 8.5" tall; 41 pages.

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2001. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. Illustrated. ; Contents: Adam Hoops. Summerseat in history. Thomas Barclay. Summerseat the house. Illustrations. Appendix A: Adam Hoops and Benjamin West. Appendix B: Summerseat inventory. Appendix C.: Transcriptions of Adam Hoop's properties. Appendix D: Summerseat in the twentieth century: Appendix E: Mapping Summerseat. Index. ; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge; Vol. 90:5; 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 106 pages.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1959. Numbered. Hardcover. Near Fine with no dust jacket. Numbered. Sound binding and hinges. Signed by author on page preceding title page. Pages clean, slightly tanned. CLoth over boards has minor edge rubbing. Gilt lettering is darkened but still visible. ; Edition limited to 750 copies, of which this is number 365, on rag paper. ; 7.75" tall ; 20 pages.

N.p.: n.p., 1931. Ephemera. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Stapled binding is sound. Pages slightly tanned. Most pages are clean except for the first page of text, which has an underlined passage and several marginal notes. Wrapper signed by Hugh G. [Gladney] Grant (1888-1972), Alabama-born American diplomat, with additional inscription: "At Yorktown sesquicentennial celebration Oct. 17-18-19 1931." ; Wrapper signed by Hugh G. [Gladney] Grant (1888-1972), Alabama-born American diplomat, with additional inscription: "At Yorktown sesquicentennial celebration Oct. 17-18-19 1931." ; 10.0" tall; 20 pages.

New York: The University Society, 1905. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Later Printing. Exlibrary markings. Very lightly circulated. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. CCloth over boards is edge rubbed with heavier wear at extremities of spine. Light overall shelf wear. Lettering on spine is a bit faded but visible. ; Biography of David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870), a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. Mahan was perhaps best known as the author of "The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783." ; Makers of American History; Ex-Library; 7.25" tall; 333 pages.

United States: Boy Scouts of America, 1945. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is discolored at spine and dampstained on back with pictorial design on front still clear despite edge rubbing and light overall soiling. ; Detailed guide to opportunities, activities, citizenship and expeditions. ; 7.0" tall; 687 pages.