Search Results: Authors starting with U from DeWitt Enterprises

St Louis MO: National Historical Company, 1884. "Written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, towns and villages. Together with a condensed history of Missouri; a reliable and detailed history of Callaway County - its pioneer record, resources, biographical sketches of prominent citizens; general and local statistics of great value; incidents and reminiscences Illustrated" 954 pages. Dec. leather/gilt titles. Covers detached, attempted repair was made with package tape at front hinge. Inside front cover and ffep repaired with strapping tape. Covers very worn with preface and content pages loose but present. Pages 279-294 loosely attached - balance still bound with exception of back end paper. Pages age toned with minimal wear at edges. Minor marginalia. 4½" lower part of backstrip detached from spine with 2/3 of this piece still present. 1 x 1¼" piece of leather cover at front lower left is… Read More

New York: J Walther Thompson Company, 1926. 371 pages. Foxing and smudging. A few dog-eared pages. Covers stained and bumped with dents. Binding loose.. 4th Ed.. Black Cloth. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

St Paul: West Publishing Co, 1915. 1294 pages. Gilt titles with gilt printed label at top of spine, "C.J. Moynihan". National Reporter System - State Series. With courts of appeal of California and Colorado, and criminal court of appeals of Oklahoma. Key-Numbered volume. Case index pasted inside front cover (tattered at right and top edges. Colorado Cases index pasted inside back cover (5" diagonal tear at right edge). Last 6 pages are table of Pacific cases. Spine darkened with crackled surface. Covers bumped and worn. Interior mostly crisp/clean except for a stray pencil mark.. Full-Leather. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

1948. 47 pages. Laid on photo of Wm. S. Stratton on cover. Highly illustrated history of Myron Stratton Home and surrounding Colorado Springs area. Yapped edges. Covers stained and rusty near stapled wraps. Minor moisture damage to interior and back cover. Top left corner of photo has surface damage.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Ithaca NY: Cornell University, 1897. 374 text pages + 65 page Appendix. Gilt titles. Illustrated. Many charts. Index. Loose cover with worn edges and corners. Soiled covers. Hinges nearly detached. Ffep detached and rear endpaper nearly detached. Interior is age toned but pages are quite clean and crisp. Inserted is slip: Compliments of I.P. Roberts, Director.. Black Cloth. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Unknown, 1893. 144 pages. No date (1893), no place. Illustrated with photos. Gilt titles and page edges. Index: Memoir, Memorial Services - President Eaton's Address, Scoville Institute, Chicago Tehological Seminary, Beloit Academy, Memorial Library - Northfield, Minnesota, Gift of organs - Oak Park and Pasadena, Address to Foreign Missions, Pastors' Tributes and Resolutions. Edges of leather covers worn. Front hinge is starting. Age toning along page edges, a few smudges, one dog-eared page, else interior crisp/clean, a nice VG.. Leather. Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston and Chicago: Universalist Publishing House, 1894. 361 pages. Gilt titles. Frontispiece. Bumped corners and shelf wear. A few top right page corners with minor dog-ears and page edges slightly smudged. Otherwise interior crisp/clean.. Green Cloth. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

St Louis, Mo., 1901. Each section separately numbered (seems to be at least 14 sections). Floral endpapers. Gilt titles. Worn edges and corner bumps. "Divit" pressed into right edge of front cover. Interior pages mostly clean with some marginalia and dog-eared corners. Lower cover corners worn through.. Half-Leather. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Kingsway, Bath, London, UK: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1929. 162 pages + 27 page abridged list of other Pitman technical publications. No date (thought to be 1929). Illustrated/Indexed. Chemical instructions in manufacture of glue. Page 1-2 not present. Minor edge and corner wear. Back cover slightly stained. Pages crisp/clean with just an occasional smudge. May have been bound from softcover.. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

St Paul: West Publishing Co, 1909. 1210 pages. Gilt titles with gilt printed label at top of spine (partially missing, "C.J. Moynihan". National Reporter System - State Series. With courts of appeal of California and criminal court of appeals of Oklahoma. Case index pasted inside front cover. Colorado Cases index pasted inside back cover. Last 4 pages are table of Pacific cases. Spine darkened with some surface tears. Covers bumped and worn with two corners showing through. Dog-eared page and a bit of pencil marginalia. Interior mostly crisp/clean.. Full-Leather. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Unknown, 1890. c. 1890s. Gilt tiles on embossed red leather. Missing front matter, first 16 pages, pg 33/4 and last few pages of index (ends in "Da"). Large book of many subjects; Literature, Education, Writing, Elocution, Courtship and Marriage, Animals, Cooking, Health, Etiquette, First Aid, Correspondence, Sports, World History, Astronomy, Latest Discoveries (electricity, phonograph, telephone), Photography, Weather, Railroad Signals, Games, Curious Facts, Business and Bookkeeping and Law. 702 pages - only A through C of index pages are present. Population table 1810 through 1890. Profuse with elegant (woodcut?) illustrations including several on Blackboard Flourishing. Many illustrations might be suitable for framing. Color fold-out maps; US with Alaska insert, world map with Europe on reverse, Palastine or the Holy Land with Modern Jerusalem on reverse, 3 page illustrations depicting 45 state's coat of arms - the last one being Wyoming (1890). Much smudging and loose pages. 3 pages… Read More