Search Results: Authors starting with S from Boyd Used & Rare Books

London: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Book has a tiny bit of bumping to front fore edge corners. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has a little edge wear. Fore edge corners are worn with small chips. Head and tail of dj spine have a little wear with tiny chips. Fore edges of dj are chipped. Price clipped. Second edition, 1965. 215 pages.

Reading, Pennsylvania: Handy Book Company, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. No date (circa 1920). Green cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front cover. Cloth is lightly worn at extremities. Previous owners' names on ffep and facing the title page; very light scattered soiling. 74 pages. 6 x 4 inches. Published by the Handy Book Company, which incorporated in 1915 and moved from Reading to Harrisburg in 1923. Higher than the Church is a legend set in the early sixteenth century in the German town of Breisach (located on the Rhine, across the river from French Alsace), in which the emperor Maximilian I and the artist Albrecht Durer figure. The main character is a young artisan and student of Durer's, who is commissioned to carve an altar for the Breisach cathedral. During the many-year ordeal he is separated from his lover. Wilhelmine von Hillern (1836-1916) was a German novelist.

New York: Published by the Author / Martin B. Brown Company, Printers, 1905. Hardcover. Good+. Very dark green cloth with white lettering on spine and front cover. Worn at corners and spine ends. A few short closed tears to the edges of the preface leaf, else interior is in good condition and is free of any markings. Includes a frontispiece portrait of author. 312 pages. Reminiscences of a late-19th century traveling shoe salesman and his many short essays on the shoe industry covering a diverse array of subjects relating to the trade. ''A shoe salesman who has fallen into great affliction, Mr. Harry T. Nisbet, has collected a number of papers relating to his calling that he has contributed to trade journals [Boot and Shoe Recorder, The Shoe Retailer] into a volume called ''Foot Prints on the Road.'' They make a pretty thorough treatise on the art of the salesman and, as the author's experience covered nearly thirty years, contain a lot of local history that must be interesting to the trade.'' - The… Read More

Colonia Agricola Oriental, Mexico: Tradicion, 1974. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good+. Book has wear to edges of wraps. Soiling to wraps along with a bit of writing next to author's name on front cover. Faint glass moisture ring on front. A couple creases to spine. Previous owner name on ffep as well as a business card from Rev. G. Gordon Henderson, S.J. at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) laid in. Many black & white photos, illustrations and documents. Stated first edition, 1974, limited to 2,000 copies, of which, this is No. 0005. Spanish Language. 6 x 9 inches. 162 pages + attachments in rear. Rare. "a la epoca actual que solo cree en la ciencia la guadalupana le hace el regalo de una prueba cientifica de su estampamiento

Portland, Oregon: Reed College, 1945. Soft cover. Very Good+. Robert B. Huffman. Saddle stitched booklet is very lightly bumped at fore edge corners. Clean and unmarked. 33 pages. 15 x 23 cm. The May 1945 Reed College literary magazine (poetry & prose). The Gargoyle was established in 1941 and published at the end of each school year. Contributors: Sally Allen, Lee Forbes Hosford, Edwin Kaye, Roberta Chatfield [m. Shaw], Helen Warga, Mary Wilbur [m. Skelton], Robert Huffman, Shirley Peterson [m. Goldberg; later taught film at Vancouver Island University], Katherine Ware [m. Ankenbrandt], Peter Franz Linde [later a professor at San Francisco State College], Bob Thomas, Michael Bauman, Rae Elizabeth Galbraith [m. Ballard; later in life sponsored the U.C. Berkeley American Academy of Poets College prize as the "Galbraith Memorial Poetry Prize."] The last page provides a very brief biography (one or two sentences) for of each of the contributors.

New York: Brentano's, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Navy cloth boards with gilt lettering. Some light fraying to spine ends. Faint crease in cloth on front cover. Interior is unmarked and generally clean. 259 pp. 7.25 x 5 inches. 1909 novel by the American decadent, Edgar Saltus (1855-1921). Daughters of the Rich was made into a silent movie in 1923, directed by Louis J. Gasnier.

London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1900. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. No statement of publication date, likely circa 1900. Greenish-beige cloth. Bumped fore-edge corners. Light wear to head and tail of spine. Rear paste-down cracked in middle. Pages are clean. 282 pages. Contents: [Samuel Johnson]: Introduction. Anningait and Ajut. Story of Misella. Story of Zosima. Victoria, or the Beauty. Almamoulin. The Disappointed Heir. The Scholar. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. [Henry Mackenzie]: Introduction. Louisa Venoni. La Roche. [Laurence Sterne]: Introduction. Le Fevre. Maria. Yorick.

Charleston, Illinois: Prairie Press, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Signed by author on title page. Boards in buckram cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. Clean and unmarked; corner creases on a couple leaves. 43 pages. Poetry reflecting on life in the western states (Washington, California) by California poet Lucille Vera Sandberg (1906-1982). The pieces had been previously published in the Caxton Poetry Review, American Bard, Pen Woman Magazine, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Examiner, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Maui News, American Poetry League, Accademia Internazionale, etc. Sandberg was born in Greenback, Oregon (now a mining ghost town about a dozen miles north of Grants Pass), raised in Washington state (presumed Richland), and lived and worked as a librarian in the Los Angeles/Bakersfield region.

Portland, OR: Retirement Association of Portland State University, 2009. Soft cover. Near Fine. Brent Schauer. Book has very light rubbing/shelf wear to surfaces of wraps. Pages are clean and binding is tight with no creases to spine. 11 x 8.5 inches. 183 Pages.

Reigate, Surrey: The Omega Press, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Maroon cloth with light green paper title label on spine. Spine ends lightly bumped. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket lightly chipped at spine ends and bottom-left corner of front panel; tape repair at head of spine; price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. Sixteen photographs on plates. 255 pages. The autobiography of the English psychical researcher George Sandwith. The author was presented with a wonder-working icon in Abyssinia in the 1940s, which, he believed, opened the door to contact with invisible beings who continued to guid and protect him. Magical Mission traces Sandwith's adventures and psychical investigations as he traverses Africa, Polynesia and Britain.

Follonica, Italy: Editrice Leopoldo II, 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Black cloth gilt stamped. Clean and unmarked. Dust jacket show very slight handling; short closed tear at head of spine. 64 pages of photographs: 41 color, 23 black-and-white. [96] pages. 27.5 x 21 cm. Slip case shows very mild wear and has a touch of toning. Picture book of architectural decorations from Follonica [province of Grosseto,Tuscany, Italy] from the period 1830 to 1930. Includes a scholarly 14-page introduction and a two-page bibliography.

Portland, Oregon: [published by author], 1983. Soft cover. Near Fine. Staple-bound in card cover. Limited Edition (copy #37). Clean and unmarked. 55 pages. 11 x 8.5 inches. One copy noted on OCLC. Nearly fifty illustrated pages showing a catalog, organized alphabetically (by location), of tokens from Oregon, with relevant county and year(s) of production. Contents: - Introduction: The Need. - Interesting Facts. - The Purpose and Availability. - Symbols. - Rarity Scale. - Questionable Tokens. - Military Tokens. - Oregon Locations (pp. 9-53). - Unusual Transportation Items. - Spelling Varieties of the Name of Oregon. - Wrong State Tokens.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. First Edition stated. Book has a little light edge wear to top and bottom edges. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket is chipped at fore edge corners as well as bottom spine corners. Age toning to wraps, heaviest at spine. Not price clipped. Dj has been placed in an archival mylar sleeve. 237 pages.

Pontiac, Michigan: E. J. Sawyer, 1930. Hardcover. Fair/Good. Signed by Author(s). With Sawyer's inscription on ffep and signed again on second flyleaf with his bird drawing. Limited, numbered edition [181/1500]. Green cloth boards pictorially stamped on front. Large damp-stain and discoloration spot on front board. Some minor soiling, creasing and edgewear to the dedication and the acknowledgments pages, otherwise interior is generally clean. Dust jacket has large chip at and around head of spine; chipped at top corners; general soiling; price of $1.75 on rear flap. DJ in archival sleeve. Features seven full-page b/w illustrated plates and almost sixty sketched text figures. xvi, 74 pp. Poems about Yellowstone National Park and birds, augmented with little sketches and some full illustrations by Edmund J. Sawyer (1880-1971), the Park Naturalist of Yellowstone National Park between 1924 and 1928.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. July 1941 printing (with Harper's G-Q code), with scarce Maginel Wright Barney illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth stamped in black on spine and front cover. Spine ends lightly rubbed. Interior is clean and unmarked, pages crisp. Dust jacket chipped at spine ends and corners; not price clipped ($1.25); in an archival mylar sleeve. Frontispiece illustration only. pp. 165, [1]. This Way to Christmas, originally published in 1916, was the first children's book written by Ruth Sawyer (1880-1970). She would go on to win the Newbery Medal in 1937 and in 1965 was awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her lifetime achievement in children's literature. The dust jacket and frontispiece were illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright Barney (1877-1966), an illustrator of children's books and the mother of Elizabeth Enright, who was herself an author and illustrator of children's books and the Newbery Medal winner in 1938.

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated First Edition. Pictorial boards. Pages clean. Dust jacket not price clipped ($4.50), though bottom corner of front flap is clipped. DJ in archival sleeve. 31, [1] pp. 9.25 x 7.25 inches. An unhappy and miserly village landlord accidentally swallows a cherry pit. The pit begins to sprout and a cherry tree begins to grow out of the old landlord's head. The tale of what happens is based on a popular and ancient tale in the Japanese rakugo tradition. Allen Say (b. 1937) is a Caldecott Medal-winning, Japanese-American writer and illustrator who has lived in both San Francisco and Portland.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1956. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Second printing. Boards in red and black cloth. Light wear. Internally clean and unmarked. Frontispiece portrait of author. Dust jacket has some shallow chipping; part of title on spine is effaced; not price clipped ($5.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. 412 pages. John Scarne (1903-1985), at the time the world's leading expert on gambling, tells in this no-punches-pulled, startling frank book the whole inside story of gambling, and reveals all the dodges, gimmicks and tricks used by cheaters at dice, cards, roulette, and other games of chance. His sensational revelations extend also to magic and escape tricks, to the chicaneries of carnivals and even to the blasting of mind-reading, hypnotism, extra-sensory perception and other such pseudo-psychic and occult theories. In Scarne's life story, he tells not only how he achieved his unique position as the leading authority, but also a host of wonderful true stories about his experiences… Read More

Ireland: Duchas The Heritage Service, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. Revised edition. Wraps show a bit of scuffing. A one centimeter section of the bottom edge on the back cover has a sliver of bubbling to the surface laminate. Interior is immaculate. Every year many thousands of people visit the monuments of Ireland. Many of the photographs in this book show these just as they looked in the late 19th and early 20th century, often in a poor state of preservation. Nevertheless these photographs are the earliest objective visual record of these monuments. Photographs feature cathedrals, castles, abbeys, friaries, rocks, tombs, monasteries, city walls, stones, round towers, dolmen, churches, cairns, priories, crosses, and doorways. They are located all across Ireland, in County Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Limerick, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, and Wicklow. 21 x 21 cm.… Read More

Portland, Oregon: Fisher Music Co., 1905. Soft cover. Very Good-. Sheet music. One page insert with covers featuring a front pictorial (showing a young woman brandishing two juggling pins and wearing a skirt and a top garment emblazoned with a "M"). Four pages of music. Covers are rubbed and edgeworn; a few closed tears. There is a bit of dry-transfer of color on the inside of the front cover. Music is unmarked. 14 x 10.5 inches. The "Multnomah Club Two Step" was first performed publicly on December 9, 1905 by the Parson's Orchestra at the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club. It was written by Gertrude Schacht and arranged by F. C. Harnach. This piece of music was officially dedicated to Professor Robert "Bob" Krohn, the Director of the Multnomah Athletic Club between 1899 and 1913. He had also been the Director of Physical Education for Portland schools since 1893 and in which association he remained involved until his death in 1937.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Schauffer on front free endpaper. Red cloth, pictorially stamped in black. Internally clean and bright. Dust jacket spine toned; very slight edgewear; not price clipped ($2.75); in an archival mylar sleeve. 318 pages. An anthology of patriotic writings, by notable authors, on the themes of of Independence Day (the Fourth of July), the significance of the Declaration of Independence, the fight for American freedom, and the blessing of liberty. Includes pieces by John Quincy Adams, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Daniel Webster, William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Bancroft, Julia Ward Howe and several others. Robert Haven Schauffler (1879-1964) was an American writer, poet, biographer, Olympic tennis player, and decorated veteran of the First World War.