Search Results: Titles starting with H from Tannery Books

Smithsonian Institute Press, 1992. First printing. Paperback. Very Good +. Keith Melder, Hail to the Candidate: Presidential Campaigns from Banners to Broadcasts, Washington and London, Smithsonian Institute Press, 1992, first printing (numberline). Glossy paper covers, 4to (27 cm), xii, 212 pp, many color photos, includes list of presidential candidates by year through 1988. Very Good+: covers lightly bumped and scratched, pages bright, crisp, unmarked. Printed in USA

Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1993. Reprint. Hardcover. Ex-Library. William A. Albaugh III, Richard D. Steuart, Handbook of Confederate Swords, Wilmington, N.C. Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1993 reprint, copyright 1951. Black textured covers with thick gold lettering, [14] 11-128, line drawings. Ex-lib (Very Good)/no DJ: ex-library with stickers and markings, tight, crisp, no underlining.

Ann Arbor: The William L. Clements Library, 1926. First printing. Paperback. Good. Randolph G. Adams. The Headquarters Papers of the British Army in North America During the War of the American Revolution - A Brief Description of Sir Henry Clinton's Papers in the William L. Clements Library. Ann Arbor, The William L. Clements Library, 1926, First printing. Green paper covers, 2to (32 cm), [vi blank] 49 pp, unnumbered monochromatic plates (most included in pagination, some not). Good: covers scuffed and worn, po bookplate, pencil markings on ffep, no internal markings.

Little, Brown & Co., 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. James Silke, Here's Looking at You, Kid - 50 Years of fighting, working and dreaming at Warner Bros. [Brothers], Little, Brown & Co., 1976, First Edition. Red cloth hc with blind-stamped Warner Brothers logo on front, 4to (29 cm), 318 pp, heavily illustrated, no index; silver dustjacket with stars and logo. Very Good/Good: spine bumped and bottom faded, top edge lightly worn, crisp, no markings; DJ bumped and scratched with small tears in corners.

High Point, N.C.: A.G. Whitener, 1963. First edition. Good. High Point Daily News, High Point, N.C., A.G. Whitener, First two issues, 25 July and 1 August 1963. Broadside - width 16 in. (41 cm), 16 pp. First issue claims "A New Viewpoint," news of the "average citizen" as opposed to propaganda for the wealthy; front page features a photo of the new offset printing press. Issue no. 2 also 16 pp. Good: lightly tanned especially edges, no. 2 has tiny tears on the folded edge.

London: T. Booker, 1785. First Printing. Hardcover. Fair. Francois Soules, Histoire des Troubles de l'Amerique Anglaise, two-volume set, London, T. Booker, 1785, First Printing (Howes S-770). Quarter pink paper over gray paper boards, 8vo, plain endpapers, viii, 336 pp with TOC and errata; ii, 1-4 pp, 5-8 leaves (double-numbered), 9-224, 223-234, 58 pp papers and TOC, [2] TOC of papers; many pages unopened. Fair-to-Good in Near Fine clamshell box; boards detached and spines missing, po bookplates on front pastedown, bumping and small closed border tears, V1 pp 61-64, 289-290, 311-312, and V2 pp113-114 corners torn with no loss, p. 205 ink stain at bottom edge, no internal markings.

Coastal Georgia Historical Society, 1973. First edition. Paperback. Good +. Historic Glimpses of St. Simons Island, Georgia 1736-1924, Coastal Georgia Historical Society, 1973, First Edition with no other printings mentioned. Trade paperback with folding rear cover, 8vo (22.5 cm), [viii] 68 glossy pp, sepia illustrations throughout including maps, portraits and photographs, riverboats and other ships, lighthouse. History covers colonial times through Civil War and Spanish-American War, to modern bridge. Good+: sticker residue on front, light bumping and scuffing, foxing on edges, pages crisp, no markings. Printed in USA

Coastal Georgia Historical Society, 1973. First edition. Paperback. Good. Historic Glimpses of St. Simons Island, Georgia 1736-1924, Coastal Georgia Historical Society, 1973, First Edition with no other printings mentioned. Trade paperback with folding rear cover, 8vo (22.5 cm), [viii] 68 glossy pp, sepia illustrations throughout including maps, portraits and photographs, riverboats and other ships, lighthouse. History covers colonial times through Civil War and Spanish-American War, to modern bridge. Good: light bumping, front corner creased, title marked with black marker on spine, no internal markings Printed in USA

Wellesley, Mass. : Thurlow S. Widger, 1957. First Printing. Paperback. Very good. Thurlow Stanley Widger; Historic Marblehead: A Guided Tour of Places of Interest with Historical Descriptions and Chronological List of Events to 1950 Including Yachting; Wellesley, Mass., by the author, 1957, First Printing. Stapled, textured blue paper covers with gilt-stamped design and title, 52 pp including map, corrections pasted inside rear cover. Very Good: edgewear, rear cover lightly creased, pages lightly tanned, no markings.

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Ex-Library. U.S. Coast Guard, Public Information Division, Historically Famous Lighthouses, Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1972, first printing. Paper pamphlet with bw photo on front and navy blue logo design on rear cover, 8vo (23 cm), 88 pp with sources, bw photos. Ex-library (Good+): ex-library with stickers, in protective periodical cover, minor pencil markings, rear cover lightly scuffed. Highlights 56 lighthouses, listed by state.

Hartford, Conn.: Case, Lockwood and Company, Printers, 1866. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library. J. A. Mowris, M. D., Regimental Surgeon. A History of the One Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers, (Fourth Oneida,) from the Date of Its Organization, August, 1862, till that of Its Muster Out, June, 1865. Hartford, Conn., Case, Lockwood and Company, Printers, 1866, First Printing (Broadfoot, p. 317). Brown pebbled leather with blind-stamped cover design, 8vo (21 cm), dark brown endpapers, xii, 13-316 pp. Includes history, rosters, and appendix of prison life at Andersonville. Ex-library (Good)/no DJ: covers worn with spine joint cracked, spine titling completely faded, ex-library with stickers and minor markings, light foxing. Protective cover taped to covers.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1975. Later printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. XII, Leyte, June 1944-January 1945, With Illustrations, An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1975. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering and design on spine, 8vo, xxv with abbreviations, 446 uneven cut pp with index, approx. 53 bw photos including one with General MacArthur, President Rooselvelt, Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Leahy, about 30 bw maps, and a fold-out map of the Western Pacific. Ex-Lib(Fair)/No DJ: spine scuffed and worn with tear on back joint, covers scuffed and bumped, ex-lib stickers and stamps including stamp of Citadel Library, pocket damage to rear pastedown, light foxing on frontispiece, some pages dog-eared, light tanning.

New York: Bonanza Books. Reprint. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Howard I. Chapelle, The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development, New York, Bonanza Books, undated reprint, copyright 1949. Tan spine and blue cloth hc with ship silhouette on front, 4to (25 cm), xxii including color frontispiece, 3-558 including index (some plates included in numbering), illustrated with sketches, plans, and 3-view plans ("building draughts") of ships. Ex-library (VG)/no DJ: ex-library with stickers and minor markings, minor bumping and scuff marks, spine starting at head, pages crisp.

Harper & Row, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. George C. Neumann, The History of Weapons of the American Revolution, Harper & Row, 1967, First edition. Orange cloth hc with blue-stamped sword on front, large 8vo (23 cm), x, 374 pp, profusely illustrated with drawings and bw photos. Ex-library (Good)/no DJ: covers faded esp. spine, ex-library with stickers and stamps, pages crisp.

Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1839. Leather_bound. Good. T. Smollett, The History of England, from the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George the Second. Designed as a Continuation of Hume. Philadelphia, M'Carty & Davis, 1839 (revision or later printing). Full leather hc with gilt-stamped spine title, 8vo (22 cm), brown marbled endpapers, double frontispiece, xiv, 15-968 with index. Good: leather scuffed and scraped with tail of spine damaged, po names on front pastedown and ffep verso, light foxing and dampstaing to pages.

New York: Macmillan, 1902. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Edward McCrady, The History of South Carolina in the Revolution (4-volume set), New York, The Macmillan Company, 1897-1902, First Printing [Howes, M-73]. Volumes include The History of South Carolina Under the Proprietary Government, 1670-1719, published in 1897; The History of South Carolina Under the Royal Goverment, 1719-1776, 1899; The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1775-1780, 1901; and The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1780-1783, 1902. Red cloth hc with gilt spine titling (possibly library binding), 8vo (20 cm), gilt top edges; V1: x, 762 pp with index [4 ads]. V2: xxviii, 848 pp with index [2 ads], fold-out map; V3: xxxiv, 900 pp [2 ads], 6 maps including two-tone frontispiece; V4: xxviii, 788 pp [2 ads], 5 maps including two-tone frontispiece. Very Good: scuff marks on spines, corners bumped, po bookplate on front pastedowns, a few pages bumped or roughly opened, tight, tiny tear in fold-out map… Read More

New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1901. Advance Copy. Hardcover. Good. Edwin Emerson, Jr.,A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year, New York, P. F. Collier and Son, dated 1901 (Volume 1 title page, copyright 1900), Salesman's Sample of all three volumes. Dark red cloth hc with no titling, 8vo (20 cm), plain endpapers. Contains all 16 color plates and 32 half-tone cuts (not in order), two maps (the World in 1801 and in 1901), lists of illustrations for all three volumes, a sampling of text (year 1900) pp 1877-1912, and the index pp 1913-1924. In addition to major battles and events (Gettysburg, the Monitor and the Merrimac, Mobile Bay), includes a painting of the first steam railway with carriages instead of cars, American inventors (including Colt), and reading the Emancipation Proclamation. Good/no DJ: bumped and scuffed with spine worn, cracked behind title page and in middle, sticker or ad residue on versos of plates Battle of Tugela and Battle of Manila, small sticking damage on… Read More

1983. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. George M. Bailey, The History of Thomasville Masonic Lodge #214, AL 5860 to AL 5983 (AD 1860-1983), no publication data [ca. 1983, First Printing per Worldcat]. Dark red hc with gilt lettering on front, 4to (27 cm), 126 pp, many bw photos. History of the lodge including building, Oxford orphanage, many group photos from 1960s-1970s, many with names identified. Very Good: covers lightly scuffed, some foxing, no markings (handwritten names p. 28 appear to be as published).

London: J. Sowle, 1722. First English Language Edition. William Sewel. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers, Intermixed with several Remarkable Occurrences. Written Originally in Low-Dutch by William Sewel, and by himself Translated into English. Now Revis'd and Publish'd, with some Amendments. London, J. Sowle, 1722. First English language printing [Smith, p. 561]. Full leather with hand-tooled design on covers, quarto (31 cm), [xii] 1-724 pp, [16] index, [4] ads (books printed by J. Sowle); p. 480 misnumbered as 40; pagination skips 553-556 with no loss; 578 misnumbered as 478.Good to Fair: Front board through initial signatures loose, spine leather missing, contemporary and later po markings including "Jno Nainbys Booke 1722" on title page, very minor defects such as spotting and corner creases, rear pastedown slightly wormed in corner. 1934 letter laid in that, with po names in front, adds provenance for this copy.

New York: American Tract Society. Revised. Hardcover. Ex-Library. J. H. Merle D'Aubigné, translated by H. White. The History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. New York, American Tract Society, undated [19th-century] revision, Vol. 4. Brown lined cloth with blind-stamped covers and gilt spine design, 12mo (19 cm), light yellow endpapers, frontispiece, 508 pp [2 pp ads]. Ex-library (Good)/no DJ: covers bumped with spine and corners wearing, ex-library with pocket and minor markings, po name on ffep, tissue paper darkly tanned, pages good.