Search Results: Authors starting with A from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Birmingham, Alabama: Palladium Press, 2010. Fascimilie of the 1897 First Edition. Full Calf. Fine. Demy octavo, [18.125cm./7.5 inches], full gilt-embossed teal-coloured calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. 192. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Sam Bass (1851 1878) was a 19th-century American train robber and outlaw, who died as a result of wounds sustained in a gun battle with Texas Rangers. Notoriously, he was part of a gang that robbed a train of $60,000 (equivalent to $1.5 million in 2020).

San Francisco & New York: Samuel Carson & Company; C. T. Dillingham, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [21,75cm/8.5inches], full gilt-embossed walnut-coloured cloth w/ blindstamped rear cover and sans dust jacket, pp. 333, indexed. Illustrated with frontis photogravure. Included is an original clipping of a newspaper review and an enlarged pnotocopy thereof. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Robert Ernest Cowan’s: A Bibliography of the History of California, 1510-1930 notes: "A singular book ascribed to Cornelius Cole. Being apparently a weird fiction, to ascertain its purport would be as difficult as to find the individual who has read it. Pp. 141-186 are occupied by a remarkable poem in superlative doggerel, relating chiefly to San Francisco, from the arrival of the "San Carlos" to the advent of Denis Kearney and the Spring Valley water ring, which is only one of the numerous… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full chrome-embossed raven-coloured cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 271, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Collector's Weekly noted: "In the 1880s and 1890s, a new style spread across Europe and the United States—Art Nouveau. Unlike the austere Art Deco that eventually supplanted it, Art Nouveau emphasized flowing lines and organic, asymmetric forms. Many Art Nouveau designs featured stylized naturalism, with floral patterns, dragonflies, snails, and women with long, flowing hair wearing sheer gowns. Many silversmiths produced pieces in the Art Nouveau style, but its impact was not as substantial on silver production as a whole as later styles were, since Art Nouveau’s aesthetics and methods did not lend themselves to… Read More

Loda, Illinois: Aardsma Research & Pub, 1995. Second Edition. Comb Bound. AS NEW/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], comb bound with pictorial covers, pp. 112, indexed. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... A review of The Exodus Happened 2450 B.C. by Gerald E. Aardsma noted: "This is a report on a book entitled The Exodus Happened 2450 B.C. by Gerald E. Aardsma. I have met Gerald, and he is in fact a connection by marriage, being Tina's first cousin once removed. As the title indicates, his book argues for the historical reality of the Biblical Exodus by re-dating it.The most commonly accepted date for the Exodus (or for the claim of the Exodus) is 1450 BC, based on 1 Kings 6:1: "Now it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel,..." (NASB). Other lines of reasoning give the year of Solomon's ascension as c. 970 BC, so that gives… Read More

San Diego: San Diego Society of Natural History, 1949. First Impression. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy table, [8.5 by 11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. .fully illustrated with sepia halftones as well as drawings by Sam Hinton and Margaret Eddy Fleming.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. 

Santa Barbara: Maureen Murphy Fine Arts, 2002. First Impression. Paperbound. New. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Of Meredith Brooks Abbott, one critic noted: "To meet artist Meredith Brooks Abbott at her rural Carpinteria ranch, is to step into one of her soothing and harmonic canvases. Time slows and vision softens at the view of her meandering gardens blending seamlessly into the natural vegetation of the surrounding Carpinteria Valley. A hopelessly romantic white Victorian farmhouse dating to the 1870‘s, sits in the shade of a large oak tree."

Valetta, Malta: Progress Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed royal-blue cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xvii, 206, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Prince Regent, George IV, founded the Order to commemorate the British amical protectorate over the Ionian Islands, which had come under British control in 1814 and had been granted their own constitution as the United States of the Ionian Islands in 1817. It was intended to reward "natives of the Ionian Islands and of the island of Malta and its dependencies, and for such other subjects of His Majesty as may hold high and confidential situations in the Mediterranean. A. E. Abela also wrote Governors of Malta in 1991.

Los Angeles: Marvin H. Newman, Auctioneers, 1969. Paperbound. VG Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 226, 917 Lots. Illustrated with b-w halftones. In exceptionally good condition. Paperback.

Moscow: Unknown, 1970. Hardcover. As New/As New. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed beige cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, unpaginated. Illustrated with 120 colour plates. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Concerns the art of the Eastern Orthodox Church. In the 10th century an ecclesiastical province, -(eparchy)-, was established in Rostov. At that time Rostov was the major center of the Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the region dominated mostly by paganism. Until the 11th century Rostov was often associated with the Novgorod. Evidently the spread of Eastern Orthodox Christianity to the lands of the Great Perm was successfully conducted from Rostov. Rostov was the regional capital; other important towns included Suzdal.

Ediburgh: W. & A.K.Johnson & G.W. Bacon Ltd,, 1960. Sixth Revised Edition. Hardcover. VG Very Good/Comfortably tattered. Jumbo octavo, [22cm/8.75inches], full gilt-embossed mauvish-redcloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xii, 623, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates, a Folded map of the Scottish Clans, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Innes of Learney's writings contain a number of theories which, at a time when English armorial law had come to dominate even Scottish heraldry, may have seemed quite novel, despite his claims that they were grounded in Scotland's feudal past. As a jurist, in 'Scots Heraldry' and in his revision of Adam's The Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands as well as in The Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland he offers evidence from ancient legal documents as well as more recent parliament and court decisions to support his position

New York: Knopf, 1999 - 2002. First Editions. hardcovers. VG Very Good/VG Very Good. All octavos, Full gilt-embossed quarter-bound cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jackets. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... "Adams's place in late-twentieth-century American literature has been earned", writes Christine C. Ferguson, "not only by the skill and deftness of her prose, but also by her challenge to hackneyed dismissal of love's redemptive possibilities. She presents a world where the potential for smart and independent women to have their cake and eat it, too, to enjoy professional and romantic success, stubbornly persists even if not often realized. No romanticist, Adams never flinches from describing all the vagaries and disappointments that afflict sexual and platonic relationships, but neither does she ever permit these descriptions to produce a sense of crushing pessimism. "Reviewers described her work as "fusing the sensibilities of Jane Austen and… Read More

San Diego: Frye & Smith, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. VG Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed sienna-brown cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 315. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Sant Barbara, California: H. H. Adams, 1939. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Octavo, [20.25cm/8.25inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 34. Fully Illustrated with drawings by Margaret Webb. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... H. H. Adams was a geologist in Santa Barbara. Many of the Poems are concerned with his daugther. ... Margaret Ely Webb (1877–1965) was an American illustrator, printmaker, and bookplate artist. She was part of the Arts and Crafts movement of the early 1900s. Webb's mother married Charles Albert Storke, a prominent citizen of Santa Barbara, California and mayor from 1898-1901. Webb studied in New York at the Art Students' League and at Cooper Union. She lived in Boston and New Jersey, before settling in Santa Barbara in 1922. Webb was an important figure in the Arts and Crafts movement of the early 1900s. She was known for her intricate, pen-and-ink bookplate designs.… Read More

Sacramento, : Caliifornia Highways and Pubic Works, 1995. First Impression. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 64. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, maps, schematics and so on. The back cover is a trifle scuffed; nevertheless this copy is clean, dry and odorless. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Sacramento: California Highways And Public Works, 1950. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 64. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, maps, charts &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. .

Sacramento: California Highway Transportation Agency, 1951. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 64. Fully illustrated with b=w halftones, maps &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Features: Civil Defense, New Freeway Oceanside Carlsbad, Powdered Rubber, U. S. 50 Project, Gaviota Pass, Shell Beach, Vacuum Cleaner, Hachet Mountain, and Coast Highway 

Sacramento: California Division of Highways, 1951. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 52. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, graphs, maps, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Features: Bayshore Free [San Francisco], Colorado St Bridge [Pasadena], Thomas E. Stanton, Riverside, Cabrillo Freeway, and regular departments. In quite good condition.  (24704) $.0

Sacramento: California Highways And Public Works, 1956. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 71. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, maps, charts &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Kingsport, Tennesse: Private Printing by Kingsport Press, , 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. VG Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed denim-blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp. xiv, 364 indexed. with 17 b-w halftone portraits and 11 b-w halftone plates &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... There is a rather exhaustive account of the author by his son, Kermit, entitled: “Robert M. Addington Educator, Scott County Court Clerk” in Historical Sketches Of Southwest Virginia Publication 6 - 1972 Addington's other writings include:  A Syllabus Of Scott County History, Old Time School In Scott County, Scott County In War Times and Exact Location of the Wilderness Road To Kentucky. 

Boston: D. C. Heath & Company, 1911. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Duodecimooctavo, [15cm/6.inches], full -embossed cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 208, Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Sir Roger de Coverley was also the name of a character in The Spectator (1711). An English squire of Queen Anne's reign, Sir Roger exemplified the values of an old country gentleman, and was portrayed as lovable but somewhat ridiculous ('rather beloved than esteemed') (Spectator no. 2), making his Tory politics seem harmless but silly. He was said to be the grandson of the man who invented the dance. ... The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England, lasting from 1711 to 1712. In Number 10, Mr. Spectator states that The Spectator will aim "to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality". He hopes it will be said he has "brought philosophy out of closets and… Read More