Search Results: Authors starting with C from Adamstown Books

Harrisburg PA: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , 1927. Book. Good. Softcover (Side-stapled). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Board of Fish Commissioners Bulletin No. 4. 16 b&w photos. Overview of fish intended for middle and high school students. Discusses fisheries and natural habitat. Book Condition : Good; no markings to text; crease at bottom right front cover also effects first several pages; light age toning; scuffing to covers..

York PA: Conservation Society of York County, 1944. Book. Good Minus. Softcover (Side-stapled). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Side-stapled softcover, 124 pp. w/ b&w photos and illustrations throughout and two maps. Primarily focused on Seneca life in Pennsylvania near the Allegheny, their crafts, dances, games, and other customs. Also discusses the Indian Steps Museum in York County. Book Condition: Good-; no text marks; some creasing and soiling to covers; foxing to text block..

Rindge NH: Richard R. Smith, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 64 pp.Short chapters on famous authors and individual religious themes, such as Shakespeare and Sin; Browning and Service; Tennyson and Faith; Emerson and Prayer; Hawthorne and the Puritan Soul; and more. Book Condition : Very Good; no text marks; owner's rubber stamp on front free end paper; light toning inside covers; crease to rear free end paper. Dust Jacket Condition : Good; light soiling; some chipping and tearing to edges; pen note at top right corner; crease to rear inner flap..

Berkeley CA: Univ of California Press, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Presumed 1st Edition. Hardcover, 519 pp. w/ 131 primarily b&w illustrations and several color tipped-in plates.24 essays offer "a comprehensive investigation of the response to Nature in the 19th century". Sections examine Victorian responses to Nature in - city, suburb, and country; the Alps and Arctic; science and philosophy; literature and visual arts. Book Condition : very Good; no text marks; a few small stains to text block; light bumping to spine ends. Dust Jacket Condition : Good+; shelf waer along edges; price clipped. c.

New York NY: Plenum Press, 1984. Book. Good +. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Collection of 10 essays discuss how Darwin, Marx, and Freud "challenged or reaffirmed traditional notions about human individuals as rational, responsible agents, and about society as the medium for mankind's pursuit of justice and human good." Book Condition : Good+; pencil underlining and margin notes to 80 pp (c. 1/3 of book); bumping to spine ends; fingerprint smudge to rear free end paper. Dust Jacket Condition : Good+; light shelf wear to edges and corners; light age toning on reverse..

New York NY: Paul Drey Gallery, 1993. Book. Very Good Plus. Soft cover. Probable First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover, 64 pp. Paul Drey art gallery catalog, 1993. 30 b&w plates of drawings ranging in date from 1520s to the 19th century. A full page of text faces each plate. Condition: Near Fine; clean, crisp, unmarked, light shelf wear to cover. .

Amherst MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, 480 pp. w/ CD image archive. Collection of 37 essays designed to present American book history for classroom study featuring primary sources and images. Covers Literacy and Reading Puritan New England to the rise of Zines. Book Condition : Near Fine; no text marks; a few stains to text block. No Dust Jacket..

Oxford, England: Oxford Publishing Co, 1979. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Oblong hardcover, 120 pp. B&w photos throughout, many full page. Photo essay seeks to portray the heritage and sometimes gritty reality of the Welsh rail lines born in the Industrial Revolution. Book Condition : Near Fine; light wear; no text marks. Dust Jacket Condition : Very Good; rubbing; small tear at bottom spine end; price unclipped..

Boston MA: Ginn and Co./Atheneum Press, 1893. Book. Good Minus. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1893 Home and School Library edition of Cervantes' Don Quixote. Book Condition : Good-; bumping to spine ends and cover corners; binding relaxed but fully intact; rubber stamp inside front cover, no markings to text; dirt/staining to covers, darkening to spine..

Albuquerque NM: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author/artist on half title page. Oblong hardcover, 112 pp. w/ 42 b&w full page plates. Large landscape photos of the American West and Canadian Rockies. Includes introductory essay. Book Condition : Very Good; gift inscription on front free end paper, no other text marks; front board slightly cocked. Dust Jacket Condition : Very Good; light edge wear..

State College PA: Barash Group, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Oversize hardcover, 224 pp. w/ b&w photos throughout. Suitable for gift giving. Issued in conjunction with town centennial. Organized chronologically, the store starts with Centre County winning the contest to host an agricultural school, the predecessor to Penn State. Book Condition : Fine; slight bump to bottom spine end; no text marks. Dust Jacket Condition : Near Fine; minimal shelf edge wear..

Little Rock AR: August House Pub Inc, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition hardcover, 147 pp. 6 historians contributed essays to this volume that examines the Battle of Poison Spring near Camden, Arkansas in April 1864. Lesser known than the controversy of Fort Pillow, the massacre of Black Union soldiers marked one of the most brutal incidents in the Trans Mississippi theater. Book Condition : Near Fine; no text marks; remainder mark to bottom text block. Dust Jacket Condition : Very Good; light shelf wear to edges; price unclipped..

Hanover PA: Anthony Printing Co. / Association of Buroughs, 1946. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4th Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1946 compendium of Pennsylvania laws pertaining to boroughs. Sections include Code, Non-Code (including taxation), Borough Law in Action. Book Condition : Very Good; owner stamp on inside front & rear covers; pencil notes on rear free end paper, no other internal markings; binding tight; light rubbing to covers; slight fading to gilt lettering on spine. No Dust Jacket as issued..

Lancaster PA: History Committee of the First Presbyterian Church, 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Includes 2 companion booklets "Minutes of Our History 1742-1992" and "The Stained-Glass Windows of The First presbyterian Chuch". A written history of the First Presbyterian Church of Lancaster, Pennsylvania produced to mark its Sesquicentennial. Hardback - light gray cloth with white lettering and drawing to church steeple on front. 292 pages. Condition: Very Good; no text marks, former owner's name on front free end paper; a few marks to covers. No Dust Jacket..

Harrisburg PA: The Evangelical Press, 1934. Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Presumed 1st Edition. Hardcover, 220 pp. Discusses unique issues for missionary work in rural Japan pre-World War II. Book Condition : Good+, Ex-Church Library; rubber stamp on title page; catalog label on spine; pocket inside rear cover; binding tight, apparently little used. No Dust Jacket..

London: Jonathan Clark, 1999. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. N/A. 4to up to 12" tall. Brown glossy wraps, embossed titles, 4to up to 12" tall, 49 pp. Condition: Very Good; small amount of black marker to front flyleaf and overall very light top corner bend. Pages clean and crisp, no markings, or tears. Catalogue issued in connection with the 1999 summer exhibition held at The Jonathan Clark Gallery in London. 38 works of art are described and pictured in full color. Paperback.

Taylorville, IL: C. M. Parker, 1900. Book. Good +. Soft cover. Probable First. Light brown stapled softcover. C. M. Parker, 1900. Paged 171-210. One of a series of Biographical Studies of Great American and English Authors written especially for school reading. Condition: One page has a small spot otherwise interior is clean, unmarked, no tears. Light crease to last 8 pages and rear cover. Contents of each booklet in this series: the first 18 to 20 pages gives an interesting biographical sketch; remaining pages contain 3 - 6 noted selections from the author to be studied in connection with the biographical sketch; each booklet contains three or more appropriate illustrations. Paperback.

Boston MA: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; The Riverside Press, 1897. Book. Good Minus. Hardcover. Probable First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Collection of essays represents Clarke's thinking on a variety of subjects - Literary Studies, Religious and Philosophical, and Historical and Biographical. Essays include : Voltaire, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dualism in National Life, The Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, and more.Book Condition : Good-; Ex-Seminary Library; separation beginning inside front and rear covers, all pages intact; bookplate inside front cover, slip and pocket removed inside rear cover; light age discoloration at outside page edges, no markings to text; catalog labels at bottom spine and right top rear cover..

American-Scandinavian Review, 1930. Book. Good. Soft cover. Edition Unstated. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Reprinted from the Andersen Anniversary Number of the America-Scandinavian Review, April, 1930, published in honor or Andersen's one hundred and twenty-fifth birthday. Contains four articles: The Writer by Helge Topsoe-Jensen and Paul V. Rubow - Childhood Home in Odense by H. G. Olrik - The Poet and the Fair Sex by Kai Friis Moller - Abroad and at Home by Julius Clausen. Illustrated. No date shown for this reprint (c. 1940). 32-page stapled softcover.Book Condition : Good; previous owner's name inside front cover. Pages are clean and bright, no markings and no tear. Overall bend to top spine corner has left some light wrinkling to pages . Cover is worn with creasing, aging around the edges, wear and chipping to edges. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 0 0.

Kirkwood NY: Town Historian, Town of Kirkwood, 1985. Book. Good. Softcover (Side-stapled). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Side-stapled softcover, 41 pp. Short biography of the 19th century civil engineer and railroad surveyor details his time as Superintendent of the Erie Railroad and helping map the Pacific Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. Copyright edition, Library of Congress stamps on front cover and reverse. Book Condition : Good; light soiling to covers and around staples; no text marks; crease at left top rear cover..