Search Results: Authors starting with S from Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library

Copyright 1896 hardback as pictured. Number 2 in the Boone & Kenton Series. Binding is firm. Blue cloth boards with black, white and gold stamping are rubbed and worn with light edge wear and bumped corners. Writing on front and rear endpapers. Text is age tanned with mottling of some pages. About twenty pages have folds at upper corner and one is missing a piece of the corner. Several other pages have small tears at the bottom near spine. None affect readability. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

1931 hardcover as pictured. Despite the lurid title, this is essentially a work of nonfiction, describing cases of human developmental malformations, birth defects and growth disorders as understood in mid twentieth century. Binding is firm. Red cloth boards with black stamping on spine are lightly stained and faded over spine with only minimal edge wear. Endpapers are mottled. Text is tanned with some pages foxed. Includes over 70 halftone and line illustrations, one of which (the frontispiece) has been lost. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OF4

1885 hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Blue boards are soiled and worn with fraying of edges. Circular water stain on front cover. FFEP is partially detached. Pencil markings on half title page. Text is tanned but otherwise clean and unmarked. A rare copy. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sB2

Circa 1900 hardcover as pictured. A handsome volume that has seen moderate use but remains very readable. Translation by Charles Jarvis. Binding is intact. Red cloth boards embossed with black and gold stamping are lightly soiled with gently bumped corners. Head and tail bands. Text block with gilt edges. Patterned endpapers. Front hinge is cracked and has been repaired with cloth tape. Rear hinge is cracked. Text appears clean and unmarked. Includes many illustrations by Tony Johannot. No dust jacket. Price reflects condition. Your purchase helps support our small village library. OD4

Volume II, published in FRENCH in 1928. Originally issued as a paperback, this copy has been rebound as a quarter bound hardback. Cover as shown with this listing is rubbed and scuffed. Marbled endpapers, gilt top, head and tail bands, deckled edges. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (O-B1)

1973 hardcover as pictured. A nobel laureate's contemplative look at nature and the often misguided attempts of humans to control it. Binding is firm. Black cloth boards with gold stamping show minimal edge wear. Permanent marker writing on spine and front endpaper. Top of text block is mottled. Eight pages of text have markings in pen. One endpaper has notes written by previous owner. No dust jacket. Price reflects condition. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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Edition published 1924, these copies from the 1937 reprint. Two volume set, unjacketed hardbacks, cloth covers as shown with this listing are rubbed and bumped with gilt stamping on front board and spine. Edges aged and scuffed, binding firm and text appears unmarked. Pen and ink drawings and portraits tipped in. Index in Volume II. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR)

Originally published in 1885 by The Negro Universities Press, this paperback edition is a facsimile published by The New American Library in September 1969. Cover as shown with this listing is rubbed, bumped and chipped. Edges aged, binding firm, text appears unmarked, 656pp including front matter and index. Previous owner signature on inside front cover. A rare copy. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR)

1894 hardcover as pictured. A beautifully made book that is showing wear. Binding intact. Tan cloth boards with gold design on front cover and spine are soiled and rubbed with moderate edge wear and slight fraying at head and tail of spine and corners. Pencil notation on rear EP. Front hinge cracked at frontispiece. Edge of text block soiled. Text is clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sON4

Six book hardcover set as pictured. Handsome copies of Carl Sandburg's acclaimed biographies of Abraham Lincoln. This offer includes volumes 1 and 2 of Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years, and volumes 1 through 4 of Abraham Lincoln - The War Years. The Prairie Years is a 24th printing of the 1926 edition. The War Years is a 1939 printing of the 1936 edition. All are in good shape considering their age. Bindings of each volume are intact. Blue cloth boards with blind stamp on front and gold stamping on spine are clean and show light edge wear. Rear corners of volume 4 of the The War Years are bumped. Front hinges of Volumes 1 and 2 of The Prairie Years are lightly cracked. Endpapers of both have pencil notations. Rear endpaper of volume 2 has a production defect. Texts of both appear clean and unmarked. Endpapers of each volume of The War Years are mottled. Volume 1 has writing on the front endpapers. Texts of each volume appear clean and unmarked. All volumes include many illustrations and b&w… Read More

Published 1981 in Italian. Portfolio cover as shown, rough-cut rag pages, sewn binding. Reprint of the "Fioretti" incunabulum, Venetia, Manfredo (de Bonelli) de Monteferrato, 1495, 4 Nov. 4Â. Would be listed as new but for shelf-wear. Your purchase helps our small public library. p (F2)

1828, three quarter bound hardcovers as pictured. A beautifully made set that has seen better days and are ready for rebinding. Bindings are firm in all four books. Tan leather and marbled paper boards are rubbed and scuffed. Both boards have detached from spine in each book. Sections of leather spine are lost from each volume. Volumes I-III have writing on the end papers. Several endpapers are torn or chipped. Text blocks are wavy and lightly tanned. A few pages are mottled. A contemporary report of Napoleon's reign. Price reflects condition. Your purchase helps support our small public library. s (G4)

First edition, published 1946. Unjacketed hardcover, green cloth cover as shown with this listing is rubbed and bumped and has a stain on the front board. Binding is firm and text appears unmarked. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (O-AR)

1923 hardcover as pictured. A classic Lord Peter Wimsey mystery. Binding is firm. Gray boards with violet stamping are tanned at edges with dent at top of front and small tears at head and tail of spine. Pencil notation on FFEP. Endpapers lightly tanned. Text appears clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. AR

1997 softcover as pictured. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers are lightly rubbed. Notation inside front cover. Text appears clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

Complete 5 volume softcover set as pictured. Bindings firm in all books. Covers are lightly soiled and faded. Edges of text blocks are mottled. Text appears clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s O4

1955 hardcover as pictured. This is an Illustrated book for children featuring short chapters on various events in US history to 1945 from a White and Eurocentric perspective. It is perhaps most interesting for its many WPA style illustrations by James Daugherty. Binding is intact. Red cloth boards with blue and white stamping are soiled and show some wear. Owner's inscription on FFEP. Edge of text block is soiled. Text itself is clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. AR

1944 softcover as pictured. Please note this is a copy of the original dissertation, not a reprint. Binding is intact. Covers are age tanned and show light edge wear. Penciled notes in FFEP. Text appears clean and unmarked. Includes 10 pages of index and bibliography as well as extensive footnotes. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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2005 softcover as pictured. Signed by author. Binding firm, spine uncreased. Text clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

2008 hardcover as pictured. A history of the legendary Westchester County institution, includes many photographs. Binding is firm. Blue boards show light edge wear. Pictorial endpapers. Text appears clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed with stains at front. Jacket is well and truly stuck to the rear board. Price reflects condition. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR