Search Results: Titles starting with A from Bygone Books

Akron, OH: Saalfield, 1929. Soft cover. Collectible; VG-. Folio wraps, stapled, [12p] each with 2 letters of the alphabet with accompanying color illustration; stiff card covers ( front and back covers are the same illus) are illustrated by Jan Cragin depicting 3 children reaching for books with a clown-like figure in a crumpled hat looking happily upon their reading adventures; the interior text pictures are not credited. VERY GOOD- : front cover has some paper-thinning in 3 sm. spots, a 2" tear to the paper at the illustrator's name, some typical lt. edgewear, lt. creasing and scuffing to covers, rubbing to spine, interior pages are clean and tight. A nice collectible ABC.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1958. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG. Regional Guides to Ancient Monuments Series. 1st ed, 12mo, green cloth, 89 pages, 12 b/w plates, 28 plans, some fold-out, glossary. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: light edgewear to book and jacket, spine of book is gently creased, jacket has owner name on front panel. A common but quite delightful little book for anyone bent on a gothic adventure... [ Northanger Abbey anyone? ]

London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1953. First Edition . Soft cover. VG. First published September 1953. 12mo, paperwraps, 30 items with b/w photographs. Condition: VERY GOOD with light rubbing to spine edges..

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919. Soft cover. Collectible; VG. As per Senate Resolution No. 447, that this manuscript be printed as a Senate Document, and that an 10,000 additional copies be printed for the Senate Document Room. 65th Congress 3d Session. Small quarto, stapled wraps, 56 pages, in the original mailing envelope. Condition is VERY GOOD+ in a GOOD envelope: 1/4" closed tear to bottom edge of front cover, otherwise has been nicely protected in the envelope; the mailer has been opened along top edge, has a few closed tears and light soiling. The address of Senator Lodge on the death of Theodore Roosevelt...

Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf / Heritage Press, no date., 1937. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Richard Floethe. C. Collodi. Pinocchio: The Adventures of a Marionette. Translated from the Italian by Walter S. Cramp. With an introduction by Carl Van Doren and Illustrations by Richard Floethe. Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf / Heritage Press, no date. Reprint of the Limited Editions Club publication of 1937. 4to, blue illustrated cloth, blue page edges, 157 pages, full page color illustrations throughout. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / no jacket / GOOD slipcase: book appears unread, slightly faded spine, faint mark on rear board, small faint spot on spine, owner inscription on ffep; slipcase is edgeworn with some discoloration.

St. Albans, U.K.: H.A. Richardson Ltd., 1954. Soft cover. NF. Reprint of 1954 (originally published in 1946). 12mo, illustrated stapled wraps, [48] pages, b/w illustrations, photographs. Condition is VERY GOOD+ : a few owner notations on last page, otherwise like new.

London: 20th Century-Fox Company, Ltd / Odhams Ltd., 1972. First Edition . Soft cover. VG. 1st edition. The musical film program of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which includes photographs of the film and the players, all the best of the British stage and screen (Michael Crawford, Robert Helpmann, Hywel Bennett,Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Ralph Richardson, Flora Robson, Peter Sellers, and others, with Fiona Fullerton as Alice.) Quarto wraps, unpaginated, color photographs. VERY GOOD with sl. edgewear, lt. staining to covers. Interior pages are clean and tight. A wonderful piece of screen and literary history.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. Hardcover. As New. Copyright page reads "First published in 2005" / number line begins with 2. Two volumes, large 8vo, glossy illustrated boards, 804 pages over the 2 volumes, b/w illustrations throughout, extensive bibliography and index. Condition is AS NEW. A must-have invaluable resource for, well, "all things Austen.

Scotia, NY: Americana Review, [no date]. Soft cover. VG. The first issue of the journal of Americana..they were not dated, only numbered. 8vo, stapled wraps, [20] pages (not including covers.) Condition is VERY GOOD : lt. discoloring to the blue/green paper covers, sm. chip at fore edge bottom corner, sl. yellowing to page edges. A collection of ads for toys selected from catalogs and magazines from the period. Back cover has an 1880 ad for the Mechanical Locomotive "Vulcan.

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG-. 1st edition [stated], preface by A. Hyatt Mayor, Foreword by Donald H. Karshan, introduction by J. William Middendorf II, text by Wendy J. Shadwell. Published for The Museum of Graphic Art. 4to, sky blue cloth, 180 pages, b/w and color illustrations [115 plates: 111 reproductions in gravure and 4 full-color]], bibliography. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has remainder marks to top page edge, 7 pages have a gentle crease at bottom corner, internally clean and tight; jacket has chipping at spine extremities, a 1" chip and creasing to rear panel, a 2" ragged tear at front fold. The "historical prints" of the early days of the nation, from the years 1670 to 1820.

New York: J. B. Ford, 1870. Hardcover. VG+. Printing of 1870, c1869. 8vo, green cloth beveled boards with gilt decorated spine and gilt author names on front cover, brown endpapers, all edges gilt, 500 pages, [8] pages publisher adverts, engraved frontis (Reuter-Stewart) and title page with tissue guard, text engravings throughout. Condition: VERY GOOD+ : light rubbing to extremities, small tears at spine head, tiny tear front cover, scratch to rear cover, a few faint foxing stains to tissue guard, clean and tight throughout. A lovely copy of this important book on the domestic lives of American women. Catharine Esther Beecher (1800-78), was an educator and women's rights activist who wrote a number of educational treatises and handbooks for housewives, this one with her more famous sister Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96). The work is dedicated "To the Women of America, in whose hands rest the real destinies of the Republic.

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973. First Edition . Hardcover. LIKE NEW/VG+. 1st edition [stated], INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR [PAT KANE] on the half-title page; foreword by Charles F. Montgomery; introduction by Derek de Solla Proce. 4to, red cloth with black titles, 207 pages, glossary, annotated bibliography. NEAR FINE book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: jacket has slight yellowing to white, slight edgewear and a slight fading to the red titles on the spine. A very nice copy of this important resource on American clocks.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1890. Full-Leather. G+. 367p. 2nd edition. Full burgundy leather. GOOD+/ - : edge and corner wear; sl soiling to pg edges and endpapers; front hinge cracked; spine head torn; quarter-sized stain on pgs 206-286 (text unaffected).

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1972. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG. 1st edition, quarto hardcover in blue cloth, 313 pp, b/w and color illustrations throughout. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has lt. edgewear, owner name on fep; jacket has lt. wear at edges, two 1" closed tears (one at spine head gutter, the other at front fore edge fold), chipping to spine head, faint spotting to underside, crease to rear flap.

Rutland, VT: Academy Books, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition, 4to, red cloth with gilt titles, 210 pages, b/w photographs throughout, pull-out map, index. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: very faint spotting to page edges, owner name on fep; slight discoloring to jacket at top edge, old price sticker on rear panel. Nice copy of this uncommon book. Stone structures and other cultural relics have been found in the Green Mountains of Vermont as well as precise alignments with ancient astronomical events such as summer and winter solstices... who built them??

NY: Harmony Books, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG. 0517538431 1st edition, 8vo, tan / burgundy hardcover, 296pp, bibliography. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has lt. spotting to top page edge; jacket has sl. edgewear, sunned spine.

Rochester, NY: Stecher Litho. Co., 1917. Soft cover. Very Good. The Angora Twinnies: A Child's Story. No. 301. Drawings by Margaret Evans Price. Rochester, NY: Stecher Litho. Co, 1917. Folio (13 ¾"), stapled illustrated wraps, color lithographs and blue/white illustrations throughout by Margaret Evans Price. Condition is VERY GOOD with light edgewear, light creasing at spine, crease to front cover, stain at spine tail on last 2 pages and rear cover. Adorable!

Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia / University Press of Virginia, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 1st edition, 8vo, blue cloth, 359 pages, index. Condition is NEW: still in shrink wrap, no jacket as issued. One of the three bibliographies Roth compiled to accompany the essential David Gilson. It includes an annotated list of books, essays, articles, doctoral dissertations, and mere mentions of Jane Austen between the years of 1973 and 1983. There are 1045 entries, followed by 3 indices: authors, Austen titles, and subjects. Essential Austen.

New York: Anchor, 2011. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. 8vo, softbound, illustrated covers, 735 pages + maps, extensive bibliography. Condition is NEW [there is a slight scratch to the front cover at the spine gutter]. The complete text of the novel with more than 2,000 annotations on facing pages to include: historical context; citations form Austen's life and letters; definitions; literary commentary; maps of England and London; chronology of events; more than 100 illustrations; and details about clothing, furniture, carriages, and what have you. A must-have companion to your reading of Jane Austen!

NY: McGraw-Hill, 1972. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG. Introduction by James C. Massey. 1st edition [stated], large 8vo, cloth, b/w photograph endpapers, 286 pages, b/w illustrations throughout, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has a small stain to top page edge and three remainder marks, tiny tear to spine head, clean and tight; jacket has light edgewear with chipping to spine head and three cornes, tiny hole on rear spine gutter, some tanning to white.