Search Results: Titles starting with A from McBlain Books

New York: A.F.T.U./Bill Hodges Gallery, 1995. Paperback. Fine. illustrations (a few color), (32)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. SIGNED by Andrews (thick black signature on title-page).

1837. Very Good. 2 p. handwritten letter on recto and verso of first leaf of a bifolium which was then folded to form a letter with the address and postmarking in the center of the verso of the second leaf. Single sheet (41 cm x 27 cm) folded to form two leaves. Red circular postmark only partly readable. Seal not preserved. Letter closely and legibly written by Bradford. Online information identifies Colonel Craig as having been an officer in a Virginia regiment in the War of 1812, and a surveyor in Augusta County, Virginia, before he claimed several hundred acres of land in New Madrid, a few miles from ''Old Chariton." He was appointed by the Missouri Legislature in 1820 to help select the location for the county seat of Chariton County. Bradford is seeking his counsel about the Missouri property of his son who appears to have been dead for some time. Bradford says he now has possession of some or all of his son's papers, including an executed but unwitnessed will appointing the father as executor… Read More

1865. Very Good. 1 p. 13 x 21 cm. "Dear Sir, You said you were Class Secretary. I have been appointed by the Alumni Association to prepare the memorial volumes, containing the lives of those alumni who have fallen in the war. Will you be kind enough to tell me how far you have gone, in each case, in preparing these lives, & whether you, or any one else to your knowledge, has done the preliminary work of collecting the materials, or weaving them into a narrative, & whether I cd. hv. the use of these. The more you can answer me in detail, the better. I can't have too much. Cordially yours T.W. Higginson P.S. My strongest desire is to illustrate the spirit with which these young men entered the war, & this must be done chiefly from private memorials." Higginson is probably most remembered for his book about service in a Black Regiment during the Civil War ("Army Life in a Black Regiment") and for his correspondence with Emily Dickinson and involvement in editing her poetry for publication after her… Read More

Very Good. Brief one-page letter agreeing to serve on the Audubon Artists committee on admissions. Handwritten in brown ink on one side of plain sheet. 28 cm. 2 vertical and 1 horizontal folds, probably for mailing in a small envelope. Text of letter:. "Dear Ms. Wengenroth - Thank you for your letter. I shall be happy to serve on the Audubon Artists Committee on Admissions. Sincerely Ellen Key-Oberg." Alabama-born sculptor who studied art at the Cooper Union Art School and later at the Art Students League.

Nashville: A.M.E. Sunday School Union, 1970. Presumed 1st (and only?) ed. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations, 112p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21 cm. Corners slightly bent. Some light spotting. Dr. Gregg, a minister and former President of Daniel Payne College in Birmingham, Alabama, is identified on the title-page as Historiographer of the AME Church.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. (7 pamphlets); Macmillan (1 pamphlet), 1915. Hardcover. Good. 64, 24, 29, 64, 48, 70, 70, 31, 18p. Contemporary red cloth. 21 cm. Ex. lib. (Library of the Episcopal Theological School on bookplate on front pastedown). Library book plate inside front cover and date due slip tipped in on back free endpaper. Covers and backstrips somewhat soiled, rubbed and worn.

New York: McLoughlin, n.d.. Hardcover. Fair. Pictorial paper-covered linen wrapper. 26cm. Substantial wrinkling and wear on the colorful wrapper.

London: William Mullan and Son, 1879. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 color maps (1 folding, the other as frontis), illustrations, viii, 488p. Recent quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in light tan leather). 22cm. Scattered foxing (heaviest on the folding map). All edges marbled. Burton left for India with her husband Richard in December, 1875 and returned to Trieste in June 1866. Her account is almost entirely devoted to the time spent in India with much shorter accounts of the voyages to and from, including an interesting chapter on a stop at Jeddah on the way to India. Portions of this book are generally thought to have been written by her husband.

London: William Mullan and Son, 1879. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. frontis map, illustrations, viii, 488p. Recent 1/2 buckram (marbled boards backed in buckram with matching buckram corners). 21cm. Minor foxing (mostly on a few pages at beginning and end of book). Lacks folding map which should face page 1. Burton left for India with her husband Richard in December, 1875 and returned to Trieste in June 1876. Her account is almost entirely devoted to the time spent in India with much shorter accounts of the voyages to and from, including an interesting chapter on a stop at Jeddah on the way to India. Portions of this book are generally thought to have been written by her husband.

Munchen: Trofenik, 1968. Hardcover. Good. 268p. plus 84 pages illustrations. Original blue cloth. 24 cm. Cover browning or fading around edges and on backstrip. Covers slightly sprung at head of backstrip. No jacket. German text. Geschichte, Kultur und Geistwelt der Slowenen, I. Band.

New York: Doubleday, 1999. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. xi, 350p. Original boards. dj. 24 cm. SIGNED on title-page by Harris. His fifth novel.

Paris: Editions Albert, 1936. Paperback. Fair. maps, photos (not full-page), xi, 143p. Wrapper. 22cm. Musty staining on back cover and last several pages with some destruction of paper in margins. No loss of text. INSCRIBED on half-title by Prevaudeau to "Jerome et Jean Tharaud." French text.

New York: Sotheby's, 2019. Paperback. Near Fine. frontis, illustrations (many color), 107p. Softcover in original wrapper. 27 cm. Auction catalog. 33 items.

Rock Island: Lutheran Augustana Book Concern, 1899. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 portraits, 300p. Original blue cloth. 19cm. Last half of text browned. Gift inscription on endpaper. Soiling on title-page. No Jacket. Considerable material on Nestorian customs.

New York, 1883. 1st ed. Paperback. Good. illustrations, 220p. Softcover in original wrapper. 13 cm. Covers soiled and somethat worn around edges with lower right corner of front cover and title-leaf creased and chipped. An uncommon 19th century work on photography.

St. Louis, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. Folded six-page leaflet. 28cm. Exhibition curated by Marilyn E. Heldman and held Sept. 7 - Oct. 14, 2000 in Gallery 210 at University of Missouri--St. Louis. The leaflet includes color photos of three works, a black and white photo of the artist, and a description (written by Heldman) of the author's life and work. It does not include a list of the works exhibited.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. 1st trade ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 vols. frontises, photos, illustrations, index, xxxi, 660, xii, 655, xiii,, 673, xii, 513p. Original blue cloth. 24 cm. Inscribed by author on half-title in volume 1.

[Springfield]: [Printed at] Illinois State Register, 1924. Paperback. Near Fine. 31p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. First [blank] leaf has a small rectangular piece of wood attached by thin wire next to an ink inscription: "To Barclay Fleming at Lincoln's Tomb April 29, 1925. accompanying a piece of wood from Lincoln's Springfield home. Embossed stamp ("H. W. Fay Custodian Lincoln's Tomb Springfield. Illinois") at top of the leaf OCLC has an entry for a 1924 edition of this oft-reprinted pamphlet which is described as having "a piece of wood (in pocket). We assume that those pieces were also from Lincoln's home. Fay must have also dispensed copies, such as this one, with a piece of wood from Lincoln's home attached by wire to selected visitors. In this case, [Joseph] Barclay Fleming, 1881-1970, was an important Scottish-born Chicago lawyer who served for many years as President of the Chicago Public Library Board.

Strassburg: Karl J. Trubner, 1894. Hardcover. Good. xii, 278. Original maroon cloth. 23 cm. Some cover soiling and wear. Front free endpaper (with ithree former owner's names) detached. German text.

Washington: Association of ICC Practitioners, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. 23cm. No jackets. Vol. One is a 6th printing; Vol. two a 2nd printing; and Vol. three a 1st ed.