Search Results: Authors starting with S from The Book Shed

New York: The Literary Guild, 1936. Reissue. Hardcover. Very Good/good. sunning to spine and covers, previous owner's personal bookplate to front endpaper, pgs. 167-172 dog-eared; jacket sunned, especially spine which also shows staining, tips chipped, corners and edges worn, a few short closed tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover. From Wikipedia: "Historians began to criticize this book shortly after its publication. One issue, as indicated in the quotation above, was that Ms. Sackville-West often created many details by engaging in personal speculation. This sometimes included subjects for which documented evidence does exist, but which the author either deliberately ignored or was unaware of....And yet, as a whole, Ms. Sackville-West's treatment of her subject shows a great deal of sympathy and respect. In fact, even her harshest critics[who?] generally qualify the book as being one of the most readable treatments of the Joan of Arc story, as the author… Read More

London: Constable, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. The 1933 "Crown Constable" issue. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, gift inscription to the front endpaper, else clean and unmarked; no jacket. Sadleir was a novelist, a bibliographer, and a book collector. As collector and literary historian, he specialized in 19th century English fiction, notably the work of Anthony Trollope. He began to work for the publishing firm of Constable in 1912, becoming a director in 1920, and chairman in 1954. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Newton Abbot: David & Charles , 1971. New impression. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. light wear to book and priced jacket, previous owner's name to front endpapers.Third impression. The author was the son of Shapurji Dorabji Saklatvala. A Parsi and a communist the elder Saklatvala was the third Indian member of the British Parliament. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. True first edition. About As New in all respects, clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. From the publisher: The researchers "show how the story—and its continual retelling—tap into modern fears about the power of technology, the duplicity of the government, and the power of the media. UFO Crash at Roswell also includes physicist Charles Moore's meticulous account of how 1947 experiments to launch balloon-borne radar reflectors may have led to the Roswell UFO myth." Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Guilford, CT: Stackpole Books, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Light scratch to the front panel else As New in all respects. First printing, no others noted. "The siege of Plei Me (19–25 October 1965) was the beginning phase of the first major confrontation between soldiers of the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. The lifting of the siege by South Vietnamese forces and American air power was followed by the pursuit of the retreating North Vietnamese from 28 October until 12 November, setting the stage for the Battle of Ia Drang."--Wikipedia. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

New York: Random House, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Lightest wear to the book and jacket. First printing, full number line. John McCain's memoir of his family particularly his father and grand-father, admirals in the U.S. Navy. A moving story by a man of great character, honor and honesty. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!.

New York: Random House, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Signed by the senator on a bookplate affixed to the half-title page. Lightest wear to the book and jacket. First printing, full RH number line. John McCain's memoir of his family, particularly his father and grand-father, admirals in the U.S. Navy. A moving story by a man of great character, honor and honesty. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! .

New York: Random House, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Lightest wear to the book and jacket. Second printing . John McCain's memoir of his family particularly his father and grand-father, admirals in the U.S. Navy. A moving story by a man of great character, honor and honesty. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. As New in all respects. First printing, full number line. “Deeply personal stories that track real soldiers through conditions of trying morale…. A patriotic though unsentimental look at the major wars fought by the United States as told through the difficult experiences of ordinary soldiers…. Arizona Sen. McCain and his longtime staffer and co-author Salter again sound the themes of courage and honor represented by the regular Americans of all branches of the military.”--Kirkus Reviews. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

Cremona, Italy: Cartobina S.N.C., printers, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Slipcased. Scattered foxing. Inscribed by the author/artist on the title page.An unumbered copy from a limited edition of 1,000 copies. The Sri Lankan artist created this collection of line drawings during his time in Italy as an architecture student. The designs were produced for the animated film, Àndar of Sri Lanka, a folk tale from his country. "Akin to the (Sinhala) calligraphy, his lines, incomplete and varying only in thickness and curvature, seem to engage in a constant and breathless dance with space. As he casts his characters and the spaces they inhabit, Samarawickrema delineates the barest minimum and leaves the rest to be sketched out in the imagination of the viewer...The kinetic energy in Samarawickrema’s drawings allowed the artist give the line a temporal dimension by extending it to animated cinema. His film Andare` of Sri Lanka produced by Corona Cinematografica, Rome,… Read More

New York: American Aphrodite, 1953. First Edition. Good/no jacket. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, no jacket; an inked date and a previous owner's emboss to the front free endpaper; a bit whiffy. Includes 25 Nudes a collection of drawings by Eric Gill, a story by T.F. Powys and many others. Edited by the notorious publisher of erotica and frequently imprisoned Samuel Roth who published pirated editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Ulysses. Roth was the plaintiff in the 1957 landmark case before the United States Supreme Court, which redefined the Constitutional test for determining what constitutes obscene material unprotected by the First Amendment. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

New York: American Aphrodite, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and more to the jacket which has several small chips and tears along the top edge of the rear panel which also has a 2.5 in loss of surface, spine sunned; an inked date and a previous owner's emboss to the front free endpaper and the half-title page; a bit whiffy. Contributions include a story by the Irish novelist and communist Liam O'Flaherty, one by the English feminist writer Sylvia Townsend Warner. Another by the Welsh novelist and short story writer Rhys Davies as well as others. Edited by the notorious publisher of erotica and frequently imprisoned Samuel Roth who published pirated editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Ulysses. Roth was the plaintiff in the 1957 landmark case before the United States Supreme Court, which redefined the Constitutional test for determining what constitutes obscene material unprotected by the First Amendment. Every effort is made to… Read More

London: Macmillan & Co, 1880. New Edition . Hardcover. Good. light wear to tips, corners and edges of book, bookplate removed from front endpaper, rear hinge is tape repaired. All maps and plates present, for this new edition the illustration of the Coor called for on page 153 is combined with the Bayard, also a fish, on page 146. The plates and interior map are relativly clean, frontis map foxed. First published in 1867. From Wikipedia: "Sir Samuel White Baker, KCB, FRS, FRGS (8 June 1821 – 30 December 1893) was a British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin (today's South Sudan and Northern Uganda) between Apr. 1869 – Aug. 1873, which he established as the Province of Equatoria. He is mostly remembered as the discoverer of Lake Albert, as an explorer of the Nile and interior of central… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/good. First trade edition after a 1949 signed, limited edition of 2425 copies. Light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, more to the jacket which is chipped at top of spine with several closed tears, clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. From Wikipedia: "Born in 1873, Barrett became interested in collecting autographs, artifacts, and letters from celebrities. He eventually received his law degree from University of Michigan and fought in the Spanish–American War. Barrett continued his career as a lawyer in Kenilworth, Illinois, and developed an obsession with building his Abraham Lincoln collection. This collection earned him fame among Lincoln scholars and researchers, most notably Carl Sandburg, who also became a client of his law practice. With Sandburg’s help, Barrett wrote a book entitled Lincoln's Last Speech in Springfield in the Campaign of 1858 in 1924. Sandburg also wrote a book about… Read More

London: Cresset Press, 1952. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket; spotting to the covers, offsetting to endpapers, extensive gift inscription and previous owner's stamp to the front endpaper, else clean and unmarked; jacket is rubbed, sunned, several closed tears. First published in 1931. Second printing of the 1946 revised edition. Sir George Bailey Sansom GBE KCMG (1883 – 1965) was a British diplomat and historian of pre-modern Japan, particularly noted for his historical surveys and his attention to Japanese society and culture. "When Sir George Sansom's Japan: A Short Cultural History appeared in 1931, it raised the study of Japanese history in the West to new levels. Its penetrating analysis of institutions, sensitive interpretations of cultural developments, and stylistic charm contrasted with the plodding pedestrian surveys and over-written anecdotal accounts that had hitherto served in the Occident as… Read More

London: Hogarth , 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket, offsetting to front endpaper caused by laid-in newspaper article about the author, previous owner's name to front endpaper; jacket spine sunned, chipping, spotting to rear panel. William Sansom, FRSL (1912 – 1976) was a British novelist, travel and short story writer known for his highly descriptive prose style. From Sansom's early work this is his third published short story collection. 8vo, 232 pp. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Mexico City: River Plate Publishing Co, 1940. Hardcover. Good. Some shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, clean and unmarked. In Spanish and English. (Autorizada por la Secretaría de governación. Guide to Mexico, illustrated, for the tourist and businessman. Spanish-English. 1940-41.) Primarily advertisments, mostly for establishments in Mexico City with a folding map of the central area of same. Government and diplomatic officials. Folded distance chart and a rudimentary auto map of the country. Raúl Saipa Martino wrote several Latin American guide books for the Buenos Aires based River Plate Publishing Co. WorldCat locates only 4 copies of this edition. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket, as issued. Shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book, soiling of covers, gift inscription to front endpaper; no jacket as issued. First printing, no others noted. An essential ornithological reference to the birds of Vermont. A set of four transparencies, eight maps in total in envelope, laid in. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: George Braziller, inc., 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Later printing (2) Light wear to tips, corners and edges of book and price-clipped jacket, small tears on jacket, some spotting to covers, top edge dusty. Second printing of 1964. From Wikipedia: "The book, consisting of Sartre distancing himself from writing and making his farewells to literature was very successful for the author and was hailed nearly unanimously as a "literary success". In November of the same year, 1964, he refused the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded for his work, described as "rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age." Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Coward, McCann, 1929. First Thus. Hardcover. Good/none as issued. William Nicholson. Shelf wear to the book, spine darkened, covers rubbed. No jacket as issued, this was a slipcased edition. Of the case only the front and rear boards remain. No date. On British sheets; "Made and printed in Great Britain at the Chiswick Press London". Illustrated by William Nicholson. All illustrations present and correct. Ivory decorated cloth,endpapers illustrated by Nicholson, deckled edges. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. One of the great World War One novels. Sassoon portrays the idyllic life of a well born Englishman with a private income and a love of country pursuits. The first novel in the semi-autobiographical Sherston Trilogy. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since… Read More