Search Results: Authors starting with A from Tannery Books

Melbourne: Australia Yearly Meeting, 1971. Third Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. A. Barrie Pittock, Toward a Multi-Racial Society, The 1969 James Backhouse Lecture, Melbourne, Australia Yearly Meeting (Quakers), 1971, Third Edition (1,000 copies). Stapled white paper covers with red title band, 12mo (19 cm), 36 pp. Topics include Racism in Australia, Assimilation as Racism, Poverty and Black Power, and Cultural Pluralism or "the concept of a tolerant multi-racial society." Very Good: small foxing or stain marks on covers and edges, no markings.

Greensboro: Greensboro Printing Company, 1972. First Printing. Hardcover. Good/fair. A. Earl Weatherly, The First Hundred Years of Historic Guilford - 1771-1871, Greensboro, by the author (Greensboro Printing Company), 1972, First Printing. Green cloth hc with silver-stamped title and flag design on front, 4to (25 cm), 208 pp with index; silver and white dustjacket with blue lettering and matching flag design. Visual history of Guilford County, North Carolina, through post-Civil War period, including postal system, railroads, Quakers, blockade runners, and Wilmington Salt Works. Prolific bw images include many stamps, letters and document examples. Good/Fair: corners rubbed, pages crisp, no markings; DJ scuffed and torn at top corner.

New York: Random House, 1966. Hardcover. Good +. A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway, A Personal Memoir, New York, Random House, copyright 1955, 1959, 1966. Light brown cloth with embossed "H" and three-quarter black cloth spine with gold lettering; 408 pp, uneven cut pages, bw photos. G+/no DJ: spine and top of cloth fading, po names, starting 1966, on ffep, otherwise clean, pages very light yellowing.

Rome: Vision S.R.L., ca 1962. Hardcover Spiral Bound. Good/good. R.A. Staccioli, Rome: Past and Present, with Reconstructions of Ancient Monuments, Rome, Vision Publications, copyright 1962. Plastic comb-bound book in red vinyl cover with gold text, glossy DJ with photo of Colosseum, horizontal 12mo (6 by 4.5 inches), 72 glossy pages, plus clear color overlays to show what monuments looked like before becoming ruins, many color photos, English text. Good/Good: Does not appear to have any pages missing, however the first page has plain white background with text: A Guide to the Monumental Centre of Ancient Rome, with Reconstructions of the Monuments (publication page in back); clean and unmarked; DJ bumped with small cracks on edges and 1-inch tear on back.

Boston: Loring, 1863. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. By the author of "Faith Gartney's Girlhood." [A. D. T. Whitney], Boys at Chequasset ; or, "A Little Leaven." Boston, Loring, 1863, second edition. Mauve cloth hc with blind-stamped covers and edges and gilt-stamped spine titling, 12mo (16 cm), buff endpapers, 28 pp. Good/no DJ: covers wearing with small black dots on back, spine chipped, tiny tear inside rear hinge paper, neat po inscription on ffep dated "Christmas 1863," no internal markings, pages fairly crisp.

Ann Arbor: The William L. Clements Library, 1926. First printing. Paperback. Good. Randolph G. Adams. The Headquarters Papers of the British Army in North America During the War of the American Revolution - A Brief Description of Sir Henry Clinton's Papers in the William L. Clements Library. Ann Arbor, The William L. Clements Library, 1926, First printing. Green paper covers, 2to (32 cm), [vi blank] 49 pp, unnumbered monochromatic plates (most included in pagination, some not). Good: covers scuffed and worn, po bookplate, pencil markings on ffep, no internal markings.

Lewisburg, Penn.: Oral Traditions Project, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Jeannette Lasansky; Celia Y. Oliver et al. On the Cutting Edge : Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions, Lewisburg, Penn., Oral Traditions Project, Union County Historical Society, 1994. Stiff, illustrated paper covers, 4to (30 cm), 118 pp, many bw and color illustrations. Topics include Shelburne's Quilt Collection, the DAR quilt collection, political textiles, Pennsylvania, Amish quilts, Chesapeake plantations, New Jersey, Great Depression, feed sacks, Hispanic traditions in New Mexico, and myths (Were 13 quilts in the dowry chest?). Very Good: light bumping and scuffing, pages crisp, no markings.

Orange, Va.: Publisher's Press, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Edited by Nancy Dearing Rossbacher, Civil War Collector's Price Guide, 8th edition, Orange, Va., Publisher's Press, 1997. Glossy illustrated paper covers, 4to, 256 pp, heavily illustrated. Very Good: covers lightly bumped and scuffed, no markings.

London: Octopus, 1978. Paperback. Good. Alan Frank, Sci-Fi Now: 10 Exciting Years of Science Fiction from 2001 to Star Wars and Beyond, London, Octopus, 1978. Stiff paper covers, 4to (29 cm), 80 pp with index, color photos throughout. Highlights movies (Star Wars, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Logan's Run, Futureworld, Rollerball, etc.) and TV shows of the 1970s. Some nudity. Good: corners bumped, light scuffing, no markings. Printed in Great Britain

Philadelphia: Ferris & Leach, 1902. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library. Sally Wister, edited by Albert Cook Myers. Sally Wister's Journal, A True Narrative, Being a Quaker Maiden's Account of Her Experiences with Officers of the Continental Army, 1777-1778. With Reproductions of Portraits, Manuscripts, Relics and Views. Philadelphia, Ferris & Leach, 1902, First Printing. Yellow cloth hc with dark-blue cover design with cameo silhouette, two-tone Continental officer on spine, 8vo (20 cm), 224 rough-cut pp including front matter and index, color frontispiece plus 36 illustrated plates, illustrated chapter headers and in-text illustrations and facsimile signatures. With correspondence cut off during the British occupation of Philadelphia, young Sally Wister keeps a journal with intended address to her schoolmate friend. Her family's home in a nearby town hosts Continental officers; Cook writes, "Generals, colonels, majors, captains, resplendent in red and buff and blue, and glittering in sashes,… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Cyril Aldred, Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1970 reprint. Stiff paper boards, 8vo, 144 pp with index and notes, illustrated. Good: lightly bumped and scuffed, po bookplate inside front cover, some foxing, no underlining. Printed in Great Britain

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1929. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Philip Alexander Bruce, The Virginia Plutarch - In Two Volumes, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1929, First printing. Black cloth spine and light brown cloth hc with red stripe, 8vo (23 cm), antique-style pictorial endpapers. Vol. I: xvi, 328 uneven-cut pp, 23 illustrated plates including one fold-out map of 1612 Virginia. Vol. II: xii, 354 pp with index, 21 plates. Some pages unopened. Good/no DJ: covers scuffed and lightly soiled, minor po markings include bookplate on front pastedowns (over illustration) and 1930 inscription on flyleaves.

Denmark: Nordisk Forlag, 1928-1930. Hardcover. Good. Alexandre Dumas, De Tre Musketerer (The Three Musketeers), Part I, Denmark, Gyldendalske Bookstore, Nordisk Forlag (Nordic Publishing), 1928-1930, Major Works of World Literature, Volume 38. Half-leather over marbled boards with embossed spine blocks, 8vo (20 cm), marbled endpapers, DANISH text, 388 pp with TOC (in back) and list of publications, black and red illustrated title and opposing pages, 1 bw illustrated plate. Good: Covers scuffed and edges worn, spine peeling at top, front pastedown sticker damage, 2 barcodes on rear pastedown, light tanning, unmarked. Printed in Denmark

London: at the Bible in George-Yard, 1731. First printing. Paperback. Good. Alexander Arscott; Some Considerations Relating to the Present State of the Christian Religion, Part II. Wherein, The Principal Evidence of the Christian Religion is explain'd and defended upon the Principles of Reason, as well as Revelation: With Observations on some Passages in the Book intituled, Christianity as old as the Creation, so far as concerns the Doctrine here advanced. London, Printed and Sold at the Bible in George-Yard, Lombard-street, 1731, First Printing. Disbound 12mo (16 cm), viii, 82 pp, Tightly trimmed with some edge loss. Good: Covers missing, ex-library with stickers on storage sleeve (not on book) and pencil markings on title page, contemporary or early po notes on some pages. Scarce

New York: Greenwich House, 1984. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Alfred Eisenstaedt, intro by Philip Kunhardt Jr., Eisenstaedt's Celebrity Portraits: Fifty Years of Friends and Acquaintances, New York, Greenwich House, 1984, later printing. Photos and facsimile autographs from the collection of Alfred Eisenstaedt, "Father of Photojournalism" who worked for Life magazine from its beginning. The collection includes not just Hollywood celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, but world leaders and first ladies, authors and artists. Many are candid, light-hearted shots and include their families. Bright red cloth hc with gold spine lettering, about 224 unnumbered pp (no index); illustrated dustjacket on black background. Very Good/Good: corners lightly bumped, crisp, no markings; DJ bumped and scuffed with light creasing. made in Japan

New York: Alfed A. Knopf, 1946. Second printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Alfred Hoyt Bill, The Beleaguered City: Richmond, 1861-1865, New York, Alfed A. Knopf, Second printing, March 1946. Red cloth hc with gilt design on front and blind-stamped publisher's seal on rear, 8vo (21 cm), [ii] xvi, 314 pp with bibliography, xviii index [ii], 33 plates including frontispiece and 2 fold-out maps. Ex-library (Good)/no DJ: ex-lib with stickers and stamps, no noticeable internal markings, tiny tear on rear map fold.

Worcester, Mass.: Alfred Seelye Roe, 1899. First Printing. Hardcover. Fair. Alfred Seelye Roe (of Company A), The Ninth New York Heavy Artillery. A History of Its Organization, Services in the Defenses of Washington, Marches, Camps, Battles, and Muster-out, with Accounts of Life in a Rebel Prison, Personal Experiences, Names and Addresses of Surviving Members, Personal Sketches, and a Complete Roster of the Regiment. Worcester, Mass., published by the author (F. S. Blanchard & Co. Press), 1899, First Printing (Broadfoot, p. 389). Red cloth hc with stamped illustrations on front, heavy 8vo (23 cm), 616 pp with index, 45 plates plus frontispiece, plus in-text illustrations of camp life and maps. Detailed Civil War regimental narrative with personal narrative and a wealth of genealogical data. Many of the plates are photographs of collections of cabinet cards and tintype portraits (not just officers). Fair/no DJ: ex-library with stickers and stamps, taped spine, modern endpapers, minor edge tears and… Read More

Raleigh: N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1976. First edition. Paperback. Good. Alice Elaine Mathews, Society in Revolutionary North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C. Department of Cultural Resources and Division of Archives and History, 1976, First Edition with no other printings mentioned. Trade pb with bw photo of cabin on red covers, viii, 92 pp with notes, 9 bw illustrations. Social history with examples, including bias against building brick houses; women who could own land and act as executors, but not vote; lack of access to education; where travelers stayed; and much more. Good: covers scuffed and edges worn, light foxing on page edges, no markings.

Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1975. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. John V. Allcott, Colonial Homes in North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1975 reprint of 1963 edition. Gray paper covers, 8vo, 114 pp, many sketches, maps and bw photos. Includes floor plans, construction methods and details, including the Enos Blair cabin in the Piedmont and several historic houses in eastern N.C. Very Good: light bumping and scuffing, edges and spine tanned, price stickers on cover, clean, no markings.

New York: Henry Holt and Co. , 1906. Hardcover. Good. Alphonso G. Newcomer, Elements of Rhetoric - A Course in Plain Prose Composition, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1906, copyright 1898. Dark brown cloth hc, small 8vo (19 cm), xii, 282 pp with index [2 pp ads]. Good/no DJ: light dampstain on top front cover, edges worn especially spine, po markings especially endpapers and page edges. printed in USA