Search Results: Titles starting with U from The Book Shed

New York: The Newcomen Society in North America, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. VG. light soiling. An address by the Chairman of the Board and CEO of UAL, Inc. and United Airlines to the Newcomen Society. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stapled. The Newcomen Society of the United States was a non-profit educational foundation for "the study and recognition of achievement in American business and the society it serves." It was responsible for more than 1,600 individual histories of organizations, from corporations to colleges, which were distributed to libraries and its membership. In 2007, the chairman and trustees announced the society's closure. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. True first edition. About As New in all respects, clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. From the publisher: The researchers "show how the story—and its continual retelling—tap into modern fears about the power of technology, the duplicity of the government, and the power of the media. UFO Crash at Roswell also includes physicist Charles Moore's meticulous account of how 1947 experiments to launch balloon-borne radar reflectors may have led to the Roswell UFO myth." Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Lorenz Books, 2000. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Light wear to the book and jacket; spine sunned, jacket rubbed. First printing full number line. First published in 1997. 4to. China, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, India. From the jacket: "The very best of Chinese and Asian cooking, brought together in one definitive volume." Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1895. Revised. Hardcover. Good/no jacket, as issued. A. B. Frost. Ninteenth printing of 1901. Very light wear to the book, a few pages proud, a few corners creased. Clean and bright in red and gilt pictorial boards, top edge gilt, deckled edges. A lovely copy of the first revised edition of Joel Chandler Harris's first book. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. 

Garden City: International Collectors Library . Hardcover. Near Fine. About As New in all respects. Sewn in book marker. A fundamental novel of American literature. In the blue and gold leaf and acorn design of the sought after William Morris binding recreated by Rafael Palacios for the ICL. From the publisher's description: The International Collectors Library was a book club series published by Doubleday Book & Music Clubs, Inc. from the late 1940Â’s through the late 1980Â’s. They were produced in Garden City, New Jersey. They were intended to be inexpensive reprints of great literature similar EverymanÂ’s Library (Dent/Dutton), Modern Library (Random House), Penguin Classics (Penguin Publishing), and Oxford WorldÂ’s Classics (Oxford University Press).Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller… Read More

New York: Macmillan & Co, 1896. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, very slight loss to the upper spine tip, spine darkened a bit, previous owner's initials to the front endpaper, hinges cracked-reglued. From the Novels of Charles Dickens edition in green and gilt bindings with the CD device on the front cover. Introduction and notes by Charles Dickens the Younger. This set was released over a number of years by the publisher. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1874. Hardcover. Good +/no jacket, as issued. Dalziel. wear to corners and edges and especially tips of book, previous owner's name and dates to front endpaper and first blank page. The ownership inscription are of Willard S. Pope, an engineer and his son Willard B., professor and chairman of the English Department at the University of Vermont, retiring in 1968. Illustrated by Dalziel. Carleton's New Illustrated Edition. Green and gilt blind-stamped boards, purple endpapers, 7 pages of ads. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket, top edge dusty, offsetting to ep's, penciled gift inscription of 1961; jacket is price-clipped. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2012. First edition. Hardback. Near Fine/near fine. Unmarked / Unread. About As New in all respects. First printing, full number line. From the flap: "Teresi also provides a brief history of how death has been determined from the times of the ancient Egyptians and the Incas through the twenty-first century. And he draws on the writings and theories of celebrated scientists, doctors, and researchers—Jacques-Bénigne Winslow, Sherwin Nuland, Harvey Cushing, and Lynn Margulis, among others—to reveal how theories about dying and death have changed. With The Undead, Teresi makes us think twice about how the medical community decides when someone is dead." Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, 1899. unauthorized edition. Hardcover. Very Good /no jacket. spine faded, corners bumped. Light green cloth gilt title and elephant decoration, top edge gilt. According to James McGregor Stewart, the bibliographer, an unauthorized edition. Kipling brought a complaint against R.F.Fenno in the U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York in 1900. Eight stories :The Education of Otis Yeere; At the Pit's Mouth; A Wayside Comedy; The Hill of Illusion; A Second Rate Woman; Only A Subaltern; In the Matter of A Private; The Enlightenments of Pagett M.P., first published in the Indian Railroad series. A bit uncommon in this edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a… Read More

Vergennes, Vermont: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 2001. paperback. Very Good. A scarce report. Light wear to the book, clean and unmarked. Comb bound. First printing. The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum (LCMM) is non-profit museum located in Ferrisburgh, Vermont. Its mission is to preserve and share the history and archaeology of Lake Champlain. As a maritime museum specializing in archaeology, LCMM studies the dozens of shipwrecks discovered in Lake Champlain and plays a major role in the management of those cultural resources. Through the preservation and interpretation of those and other artifacts, the museum strives to tell the story of the people and culture of the Lake Champlain region.Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: The Helmsman Press, 1958. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; no jacket or slipcase. Clean and unmarked.. Bound in black embossed cloth.. Introduction by the psychoanalyst Theodor Reik; preface by George Jean Nathan. An Unhurried View started as an article for Esquire. Ginzburg quickly expanded it to a book which went on to sell over 125,000 copies. "An Unhurried View examines examples of English erotic literature in an interpretive and explanatory context. The end of the book includes a bibliography of 100 titles."--Wikipedia. Subsequently Ginzburg went to prison on pornography charges in a case that went to the Supreme Court. The magazine at the center of the case was Eros, a high quality magazine of erotica launched in 1962. The magazine folded after four issues. Ginzburg served eight months of a five year sentence."Eros magazine is significant in American publishing history as it covered and helped to incite the sexual… Read More

South Brunswick: Thomas Yoseloff, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. VG/good. shelf wear to book and dust jacket, clean and unmarked. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Light shelf wear to the books and jackets, jacket spines are sunned--volumes 1 & 2 spines illegible. Volume 1 is the simultaneously published British edition by the Leicester University Press in identical jacket save for the press logo on the spine. All are first printings published between 1979 and 1985. "Stephen Z. Starr's definitive trilogy on the history of the Union cavalry includes The Union Cavalry in the Civil War, Volume I: From Fort Sumter to Gettysburg, 1861-1863, The Union Cavalry in the Civil War, Volume II: The War in the East from Gettysburg to Appomattox, 1863–1865 and The Union Cavalry in the Civil War, Volume III: The War in the West,1861–1865, completed shortly before his death in 1985. His other books are Colonel Grenfell's Wars: The Life of a Soldier of Fortune and Jennison's Jayhawkers: A Civil War Cavalry Regiment and Its Commander."--LSU Press. Every effort… Read More

Leipsic: Karl Baedeker Publisher, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. light wear to covers, which are uniformly faded, previous owner's inscription of 1897, chip to the title page edge. Published in Leipsic by Baedeker and London by Dulau & Co. Quite scarce, the WorldCat locates 5 copies of this edition, 4 in thee UK and 1 in Australia. 17 maps and 22 plans called for all present and correct, with an occasional short tear. Verso of front cover: an advertisement for twenty-five titles available in the US from Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Quite scarce in the first edition. Hinrischen E259 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. First printing, no others noted. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Leipsic: Karl Baedeker Publisher, 1909. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good. Shelf wear to covers, splits beginning on spine, previous owner's name. Published in Leipsic by Baedeker, New York by Scribner's, London by Fisher Unwin. Thirty-three maps and forty-eight plans.The first edition to include Cuba, Porto Rico and Alaska. Scarce, the WorldCat locates 6 copies of this edition, just 2 in the US. Verso of front cover and free endpaper: advertisements for thirty-five titles available. E259 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. First printing of the revised edition, no others noted. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

Chicago: Culinary Arts Institute, 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, spine darkened; no jacket. White cloth with floral decorations. Thumb-indexed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover. The Culinary Arts Institute can be traced back to an 1860's New York fashion magazine called the Delineator, through which the Butterick Co. sold their sewing patterns. Leonard Davidow, a cook book publisher, purchased the rights to the Delineator's cooking material. He formed the CAI to publish these recipes in cook books and other formats. Ruth Berolzheimer, the second female science graduate of the University of Chicago was hired as editor. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

Hanover, NH: University of Vermont College of Medicine, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG. gift inscription under flap; light wear to jacket, small hole to rear panel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover.

London: Spring Books, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. corners bumped, previous owner's name and address to the front endpaper, some inked underlining and notations to first 75 pgs, several pages dog-eared; jacket tips, corners and edges worn, upper tip chipped, light soiling and rubbing, small open tear to rear panel. Originally published shortly before WW1. Many facets of unkown London didn't survive the wars. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006. annotated edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First American Edition. Lightest wear to the book; jacket shows minor edge wear (wrinkling), front flap corner creased. First printing, no others noted. First published in the UK by Greenhill Books.Military historian David Lee "... contends that a unit's success in battle is the result of the type of training it received. His analysis includes a careful examination of the weapons and tactics of each action. Finally, using material gathered by General Marshall and his team of combat historians, he tells the story of a U.S. infantry regiment on D-Day. This revealing and absorbing account of the terror and excitement of close-quarter combat takes the reader directly into the heat of battle." The author expands on his thesis with comments from the combatants themselves. Men who served in most theaters of WWII. Lee was the author of Beachhead Assault: The Story of the Royal Naval Commandos in World… Read More