Search Results: Titles starting with U from Old Algonquin Books

New York: Scribners, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. First Scribner's edition. 160 pages, many photos. Fine in fine dust jacket with price on flap and mylar protective cover.

U. S. Camera, 1941. Magazine. Very Good. See also our issues 10 & 14. A landmark photography magazine. Perfect bound. Travel issue with photos from South. Carolina, Canada, Venezuela, etc. Photos and articles by Feininger, Atkeson, F. S. Lincoln, Ansel Adams, etc.

U. S. Camera, 1941. Magazine. Very Good. Spring 1941 issue. See also our issues 10 & 15. . Landmark photography magazine. Highlights include D.W. Griffith film photography, photos & articles by Ansel Adams, Fleischmann, etc. Perfect bound. Scotch tape repair 2" at top of spine, otherwise a very nice copy. Magazines

New York: Bowker Co., 1982. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. One of many reprints of book originally published in 1954. Brown boards with slightly rubbed gold lettering on spine.

Washington DC: War Department, Government Printing Office, 1863. Hardcover. Poor. Well-worn and used hard bound book of 370 numbered pages plus numerous fold-out sheets of music, diagrams, illustrations at the end. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper and 3rd page. Embossed decoration on front and back of brown cloth boards. Partial title and 1863 stamped in black on spine. Board edges bumped and worn through at corners & spine. Board chipped at rear corner and cloth rubbed on rear board. Stains on foredges and on first and last few pages. Foxing on margins of pages. General soil, but complete and tight. A rare original copy.

NY: Random House, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A non-fiction confrontation between author & John Updike, and the influence of a writer on the reader.

New York: Putnam , 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 841 pages, index, maps, photos. Couple of small nicks on bottom board edge, else fine. Fine dust jacket with price on flap. Clean tight, and straight.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very good. First printing. Author's second novel. Book has trace of erasure on front free endpaper. Dust jacket, with price intact, has a couple of 1/2" tears at top of spine and a 1" tear on rear panel. Light toning on jacket spine & top edge.

New York: Modern Library, 1948. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. ML 261.1. Reprint ca. 1963 per list of books inside jacket. Book is fine in burgundy boards. Blue-green price-clipped dust jacket. Small spot on rear panel of jacket.

NY: Doubleday, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Molly Cates mystery involves the kidnapping of a school bus driver & 11 children. Winner of Hammett & Macavity awards. Signed by author on title page. First printing.

New York: Appleton, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good . Recollections of Military Operations in the War for the Union, The Spanish War, The Boxer Rebellion, etc." Copyright page states Published October, 1912. Two volumes in blue cloth boards with gold lettering and front stamped with flag on gold circle. Top edges gilt. Indexes, 580 and 582 pages, Frontis portraits of author with tissue guards. Previous owner's name and 1912 date on front free endpaper of each volume and partly blotted onto front pastedown of vol. 2.. Spines slightly concave, and board corners lightly worn. Author advanced to Major General during the Civil War and returned to military command troops in later contests.

Kansas City: Franklin Hudson, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, translated and edited by F. L. Dodds. Captain Cerazo was the only surviviing officer of a Detachment of Spanish soldiers defending the town of Baler on Luzon in the Phillippines in 1897-1898. Author photo frontis, and two group photos. Bright red cloth boards with paper insignia on front, gold titles on front and spine. Spine is slightly faded. Previous owner penciled name and 1923 date on front pastedown over an erasure. Narrow chip on edge of photo pages. Light wear at board corners.

NY: St. Martins, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Ben & Carrie Porter mystery. Review copy with PR sheet laid in. First printing.

NY: Harper & Row, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. English couple invites Kenyan student to stay with them; self- image problems emerge. Dust jacket has 1/2" tear , edgewear, small scrape on front flap.

NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Novel of intrigue & violence in post Duvalier Haiti.

NY: Mysterious Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Indianapolis crime novel. Review copy with PR sheet laid in. First printing.

Denver: The Denver Post, 1969. Very Good. Newspaper 8-page "Bonus" section written by Denver Post reporter John Dunning about Denver area priests, pastors, and groups of congregants who met and joined together for services and study. The paper is signed by author Dunning on the front. Paper has browned with age but otherwise is fine.

NY: Knopf, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Lew Archer, a group of troubled people, and an old murder. Tiny wear at bottom board corner and light fading at top of rear board. Bright dust jacket with price intact was folded slightly off center and has tiny tear at bottom of spine, otherwise fine.

NY: Morrow, 1994. ARC. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Author's first novel. Hardback advance reading copy with wrap-around band. Half-title page also says advance reading copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Near fine with light crease top of spine.

NY: Morrow, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's 1st novel; young couple's relationship in Los Angeles, their dreams, families and neighborhood. First printing.