Search Results: Titles starting with S from Tannery Books

Mountpleasant, Ohio: Enoch and Emily M. Harris, 1854. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Thomas Ellwood, Sacred History: or the Historical Part of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; Digested into Due Method with Respect to Order of Time and Place. With Observations, Tending to Illustrate Some Passages Therein. From the First American, compared with the last London edition. Complete in two volumes. Mountpleasant, Ohio, Enoch and Emily M. Harris, 1854. Half-leather over pebbled cloth with gilt spine lettering, 8vo (22 cm), vol. 1: [i]-viii, 9-544; vol. 2: [iv] 5-456. Good/no DJ: covers bumped and worn with vol. 1 spine leather scraped, faded po name on ffep, vol. 1 1-inch tear in title page with no loss, vol. 2 top corners shaved with no text loss, no internal markings.

Philadelphia: Ferris & Leach, 1902. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library. Sally Wister, edited by Albert Cook Myers. Sally Wister's Journal, A True Narrative, Being a Quaker Maiden's Account of Her Experiences with Officers of the Continental Army, 1777-1778. With Reproductions of Portraits, Manuscripts, Relics and Views. Philadelphia, Ferris & Leach, 1902, First Printing. Yellow cloth hc with dark-blue cover design with cameo silhouette, two-tone Continental officer on spine, 8vo (20 cm), 224 rough-cut pp including front matter and index, color frontispiece plus 36 illustrated plates, illustrated chapter headers and in-text illustrations and facsimile signatures. With correspondence cut off during the British occupation of Philadelphia, young Sally Wister keeps a journal with intended address to her schoolmate friend. Her family's home in a nearby town hosts Continental officers; Cook writes, "Generals, colonels, majors, captains, resplendent in red and buff and blue, and glittering in sashes,… Read More

Leather_bound. Fair. Standard Columnar Book No. 25, half red leather over textured black boards, horizontal folio, 12x15 inches (38x32 cm), numbered as facing pages 1-152 (leaves). The book is filled with accounts from March 1928 through December 1930, with extra page for December 1930 laid in. Many names and companies are listed. No ownership information, but purchased at the Trinity, North Carolina estate of a man whose father-in-law [Marvin V. Andrews, 1930 U.S. Census] owned a lumber mill. Names are consistent with local residents. Fair: covers dirty and worn with leather peeling off and spine missing, pages good, light bumping and tanning around edges. Extra shipping: 7 lbs

London: Octopus, 1978. Paperback. Good. Alan Frank, Sci-Fi Now: 10 Exciting Years of Science Fiction from 2001 to Star Wars and Beyond, London, Octopus, 1978. Stiff paper covers, 4to (29 cm), 80 pp with index, color photos throughout. Highlights movies (Star Wars, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Logan's Run, Futureworld, Rollerball, etc.) and TV shows of the 1970s. Some nudity. Good: corners bumped, light scuffing, no markings. Printed in Great Britain

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1990. Second printing. Paperback. Good. Susan Parman, California State University-Fullerton, ed. George and Louise Spindler, Stanford University; Scottish Crofters: A Historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1990, second printing. Laminated paper covers with bw photo on red background and other titles listed on back, 8vo, 186 pp with index and TOC, many bw photos (low quality), charts and line-drawn maps. Informative social history of an Outer Hebrides community, including vocabulary, tweed-making, clans and kinship, manners and customs (eg. sending children to a neighbor to keep them company). Good: bumped, front corner creased.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1997. Later printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good. Sheila Livingstone, Scottish Customs, New York, Barnes & Noble, 1997. Gray paper boards and black cloth spinie with red lettering, small 8vo (20 cm), x, 150 pp with index; glossy illustrated dustjacket. Livingstone uses examples and quotes to explain "those enduring folkways, with special emphasis on Druiidic origins, Christian modifications, and survival into modern times." She shows "a world where poetry and ritual dignified all the major turning points of life and.... Magic resided in many everyday objects and actions." Organized into chapters on birth, marriage, death, lucky and unlucky, work, water, and plants and animals. Ex-library (VG)/Good: light bumping, ex-lib stamp and minor markings, pages crisp, tight; DJ has spine sticker and black mark down spine. Printed in USA

Bonanza Books - Random House Value Publishing, 1982. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Lawrence Grow, The Second Old House Catalogue, Bonanza Books, 1982. Gray boards, brown cloth spine with gold lettering, imperial 8vo, 224 pp with index, many bw photos and drawings; white DJ with color photo on front. "2,000 Completely New and Useful Products, Services, and Suppliers For Restoring, Decorating, and Furnishing the Period House - From Early American to 1930s Modern." VG/G: lightly bumped on corners, no markings, pages bright, crisp; DJ lightly tanned, corners bumped, small tear near top of spine, price unclipped.

Greensboro: North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends, 2007. First printing. Paperback. New. Billy M. Britt, Self-Supported Ministers: Lest We Forget, Greensboro, 2007. Glossy paperback, 8vo, 179 pp with index; 39 biographies, many with photographs. Biographies of 43 Quaker pastors "who often worked long hours in other vocations to support their families and then spent 'free' time ministering to Friends," whose lifetimes spanned 1801 to 2000. New: light shelfwear (bump on lower spine), crisp, bright, unmarked. use photo 152

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good +. Thomas A. Drain, photography by David Wakely, A Sense of Mission: Historic Churches of the Southwest, San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1994, second printing. Color paper wraps, horizontal super 8vo (22 x 28 cm), x, color photos throughout. Very Good+: covers lightly scuffed, crisp, unmarked. Printed in Singapore

Cerridwen Press - Ellora's Cave, 2007. Paperback. New. Karen McCullough, Shadow of a Doubt, Cerridwen Press - Ellora's Cave, 2007. Trade pb with illustrated cover, 278 pp.SIGNED by author on title page. New: light shelf wear, crisp, clean, unmarked.

London: Oxford University Press, 1939. Reprint. Hardcover. Ex-Library. E. A. G. Lamborn and G. B. Harrison, Shakespeare, The Man and his Stage, London, Oxford University Press, 1939 reprint. Rust-brown cloth with black lettering and heart-spade border design, 128 pp, bw photographs and facsimiles including Shakespeare's handwriting. Chapters include Shakespeare's life, social history of his age, the Theatre, and (evolution of and influences on) his Plays. Fair+/no DJ: gutters cracked and joints starting (tears in spine), ex-library with pocket and minor markings throughout, pages good. Erroneous po date in ink on title page probably comes from faint, earlier po stamps on title and last pages. Printed in Great Britain

New York: Philosophical Library, Inc. , 1967. Hardcover. Good/good. Walter Cozens, Robert Harold Goodsall, Short Dictionary of Archaeology, New York, Philosophical Library, Inc., 1967. Gray paper boards with blue titling on spine, 12mo (18 cm), 124 pp [4 blank]; black and yellow dustjacket with ads on the back. Good/Good-: light bumping and wear, old price marked in ink on ffep, no other markings, pages tanned; DJ scuffed and worn with up to 1-inch tears, unclipped.

Berkhamsted, 1972. Revised. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Percy Birtchnell, A Short History of Berkhamsted, Berkhamsted, England, 1972 by the author, revised. Navy blue cloth hc, 8vo (22 cm), 128 pp with index, 20 plates of bw reproductions and photographs plus small bw illustrations in the text; yellow dustjacket with 1857 engraving on front and red lettering. Compiled articles on the town and castle history (from the Norman conquest to early 20th century), social history, anecdotes and characters. Very good/good: corners bumped, pages crisp, no markings; DJ faded, spine chipped, unclipped with price.

Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1985. First edition. Paperback. Good. John W. Shirley, Sir Walter Ralegh and the New World, Raleigh, North Carolina Division of Archives and History-America's Four Hundredth Anniversary Committee, 1985. Parchment-colored paper covers with blue portrait and lettering on front, 8vo, xi, 129 pp, about 19 illustrations and maps. G: corners lightly bumped, crease on back corner, tiny stain on back, clean, no markings.

Chapel Hill: University Archives, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Slavery and the Making of the University: Celebrating Our Unsung Heroes, Bond and Free, A bibliography of sources in The Wilson Library, University Archives, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005. Extracts from university records of slaves and hired servants associated with UNC. Stapled paper covers with photograph on front, 38 pp [2], 8vo, bw photos. Very Good: corners lightly bumped, no markings.

Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1892. Later printing. Hardcover. Good. John Greenleaf Whittier, with designs by E. H. Garrett, Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1892, later printing. White cloth hc with green-stamped design, 12mo (18 cm), green floral endpapers, [vi] v-[x] leaves, 1-43 leaves with text on rectos, 10 illustrated plates including portrait frontispiece, red title and capitals. Good/no DJ: corners and edges bumped and wearing, foxing or glue bleed-through on covers with spine tanned, no po markings.

Raleigh: N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1976. First edition. Paperback. Good. Alice Elaine Mathews, Society in Revolutionary North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C. Department of Cultural Resources and Division of Archives and History, 1976, First Edition with no other printings mentioned. Trade pb with bw photo of cabin on red covers, viii, 92 pp with notes, 9 bw illustrations. Social history with examples, including bias against building brick houses; women who could own land and act as executors, but not vote; lack of access to education; where travelers stayed; and much more. Good: covers scuffed and edges worn, light foxing on page edges, no markings.

1976. Paperback. Very Good. Betty Rauers and Franklin Traub, et al; Sojourn in Savannah, An official guidebook and map of Historic Savannah and the surrounding countryside - Bicentennial Edition, featuring Extraordinary Individuals and Primary Events of the American Revolution in Savannah; 1976. Trade paperback with textured yellow covers, 128 pp, many drawings and monochromatic photos, fold-out color map with tour routes in the back, bound-in supplement with Revolutionary history. VG: covers lightly tanned and bumped, small spot on back cover, 16 pp blank with loss of text (part of excursions, no loss in history insert), no markings.

Philadelphia: William H. Pile, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Joseph Edgerton, Some Account of the Life and Religious Services of Joseph Edgerton, a Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends. With Extracts from His Correspondence. Compiled from original manuscripts by his daughter Eunice Thomasson. Philadelphia, William H. Pile, 1885, First Edition. Brown cloth hc with gilt-stamped title on front and blind-stamped borders, 12mo (18 cm), brown endpapers, [i]-viii, [9]-252 pp. Good (no DJ): edges very worn, light tanning, pages crisp, no markings.

Troy, N.Y.: The Southworth Company, 1914. First printing. Hardcover. Good +/fair. Howard A. Kelly, Some American Medical Botanists Commemorated in our Botanical Nomenclature, Troy, N.Y., The Southworth Company, 1914, First Printing. Biographies of American botanists including John Bartrum, who explored Florida at the age of 70. Dark green cloth hc with gilt writing and a leaf on the spine, 8vo (21 cm), gilt top edges, roughly opened pages, [viii] 7-216 pp, many unnumbered illustrated plates; plain brown dustjacket with black lettering to reflect the cover design. Good+/Fair: corners rubbed, spine lightly skewed, po name in pencil on ffep, no internal markings; DJ scuffed and torn with large chip at head of spine, faded at top edge of flaps. printed in USA