Search Results: Titles starting with A from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Culross, Scotland: unpubished manuscript, 1731 Single page letter from John Erskine (?), Culross to James Grierson (?), Brodie's Coffee House, Leith. He writes about trying to offload a barrel of something... Fair condition - the paper is fragile and has wear at the folds with small holes.. Signed by author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair.

Boston : Boston Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 1950 Hard cover, 8vo in blue cloth with titles in gold blocked to top board and on spine, blue endpapers, frontispiece portrait, rubricated title page, illustrations, 253pp., First Edition. This history of the BMMFIC was written by Dane Yorke, who, coincidentally, in 1942 was employed as a city librarian at the Boston's MacArthur Library, and is recorded as participating in a city-twinning broadcast on short wave radio WRUL between Biddeford, Maine and Bideford, Devon, Great Britain, as seen in a press cutting from the MacArthur Library. These broadcasts were considered an important source of morale for the populace of both countries during WW II. (See MacArthurArchivesdotorg). **The present work by this author, however, is a significant and very readable history of Boston industry, and the development of the civic infrastructure that supported it. Topics such as the first public water system in the United States are addressed, as a necessary… Read More

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1960 Hardcover. Black "Novelex" cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. With original, un-clipped dust jacket. Octavo (5 ⅛" x 7 ¼"). 227pp. *** Publisher Arkham House was established in 1939 in Sauk City, Wisconsin, by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei specifically to publish stories by H.P. Lovecraft and others whose works had mostly been printed in the "Weird Tales" magazine and remained unavailable in book form. *** Clark Ashton Smith was a poet and a sculptor, before gaining popularity as a short-story writer for "Weird Tales". This collection contains stories of adventurers seeking their fortune only to be confounded by harsh reality, and ends with some Kafka-esque tales of wistful regret. Includes the story "The Third Episode of Vathek", which completes a fragment by the author William Beckford, author of the early Gothic novel with Arabian setting, Vathek (1786). *** The dust jacket design is by Ronald Clyne and Wynn Bullock. *** Condition: A Fine,… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1930 268pp. "Modernist" novel of the lives of several Londoners, showing their stream-of-consciousness thoughts... but not quite Joyce. Condition: Very Good or better in a not quite Good dustjacket which is worn/torn at edges and dust-soiled.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Good-.

London: John Whiston, 1737 Hardcover, 12mo., pp[1-88]. Signatures: A-I4 K-L4 [D2 numbered as D3]. Quarter-bound in calf, with rubbing and small chips missing from spine. Condition: Very Good. Small closed tear to page E2, light wear to fore-edge of title page. *** William Whiston (1667 - 1752) was an English mathematician, who succeeded Sir Isaac Newton as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in 1702. Whiston was also an ordained minister, and was rector of Lowestoft from 1698-1699. He was a Boyle lecturer in 1707, in which position he defended the position of biblical literalism. In 1710 he was expelled from the university because of his religious views, in particular his denial of the doctrine of the Trinity, saying it had pagan origins. Scarce.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1859 Likely reprint of an early American Edition, in one volume, with the stated date of 1859 on title page (no copyright info. given). Hard cover in brown cloth blind stamped with circular intersecting forms to both boards, the titles in gold to the spine, along with "Scenes of Clerical Life." Glazed brown endpapers, iv, 5-452, plus 4 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. There were a number of early reprints and repackaging into sets which included this very successful debut novel, but Harper & Brothers was the first American publisher. First published in serial at Blackwoods Magazine. CONDITION: Good Plus, small losses to cloth at head and foot of spine, with old water stain to lower bottom fore edge most pages and some minor foxing to prelims. Some edge wear. Hinges are in order. and pages are generally bright.** Warwarkshire-born Victorian novelist, Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), using the pen name George Eliot, tells a delicately drawn tale of the seduction of a… Read More

Burlington, Vermont: The Murray Lyceum Bureau, c.1886 Reprint edition. Hard cover, 16mo, in pictorial illustrated brown cloth blocked in black and gold with images of a deer, and woodsy scene of a log cabin and canoe to the top board. 295 pp. plus 7 pages advertising, several of which feature vintage engraved illustration for fishing equipment and the like. Printed by Rand Avery Company, Boston. Fontispiece portrait of the author, with tissue guard. No other plates. Contains ten short stories which the author describes as "clippings of the chisel" compared to his "larger and more pretentious works." Stories include: "John Norton's Christmas," Henry Herbert's Thanksgiving," A Strange Visitor," "Lost in the Woods (a fragment)," "A Jolly Camp," Was it Suicide?" The Gambler's Death," The Old Beggar's Dog," The Ball," and "Who Was She?" Condition: Very Good Plus. One light mark to cover, light rubbing. Minimal crimping at spine ends. Pages gently age-toned. Hinges in order. Quite clean, top edge a bit… Read More

835 Broadway, New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1905 Hard cover, 32 mo, in blue cloth , the titles blocked in gold to the top board and the spine, (8) 84 pp., First Edition in book form. Condition: Very Good. Some water damage to front board, browning to paste-downs. Foxing opposite photograveur illustrations. Otherwise clean. **This is a biographical sketch of the father of the Outdoors Movement, William Henry Harrison Murray (1840-1904), as told by Harry V. Radford , editor and publisher of "Woods and Waters Magazine," in which this was first serialized beginning the Autumn of 1904. (p.3.) Radford describes his friend Murray as "The Great Evangelist of Outdoor Life for the People." This is a psychological look at the forces which shaped the life of an extraordinary man; early poverty, self-sufficiency, the hard farm work from a young age used to pay for his own education; all these character-building ways the young man was led to his later callings as an original thinker, orator, and… Read More

Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1831 Reprint. Hard cover, 24 mo (measuring 3 1/2 x 6 inches) in half red leather, with marbled paper-covered boards, the title in gilt to the spine. Condition: Very Good Minus. Hinges cracked, but holding firm. Interior pages are sometimes stained and generally foxed. Paper label to front pastedown appears to be an old library label dictating the proper care of books, with a number in old ink upon it. Also, the stamp of John Price, Salem is on the ffep. **The moral tales written by Mrs. Hofland were extremely popular juvenile fiction in the early nineteenth century, both in America and their native England. The didactic tale recounted here was first published in both countries in 1816. Partly autobiographical, the tale is of the travails of a widowed young mother who finds herself with three children. The family's change in fortune brings to light some uncharitable reactions from old friends, and help from unexpected quarters. Mrs. Barbara Hofland (1770-1844) wrote under… Read More

Norwood, Massachusetts: Privately Printed, The Plimpton Press, 1931 Hard cover, 8vo, in red cloth, gilt with the state symbol of Hawaii to front board, titles in gilt to spine, top edge stained red, with tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and other black and white reproductions, 167 pp. (The Limited Edition is not numbered.) Condition: Near Fine. One spot to rear board. Inscribed in old ink by the Author on the ffep, dated 1931. One page corner turned and written on in preface in old ink. One pinhead sized rub-through to top edge front board. One plate with small soiling at one edge. Generally very clean. At least one page unopened. **An introductory family genealogy lays out Mr. Pitman's descent, on his mother's side, from a line of Hawaiian chiefs and monarchs dating back hundreds of years. His father, Benjamin Cox Pitman (1815-1888), sailed to Hawaii from Salem, Massachusetts, in the 1820's, first running a chandlery catering to the whaling fleet, establishing the first Volcano House tourist… Read More

Boston: James Osgood and Company, "late Ticknor and Fields", 1873 First edition, first state. This is the "Boston Edition"(which was published simultaneously with the London Edition). Hard cover, 12 mo (measuring 4 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches) in publisher's original terra cotta cloth with bevelled edged boards, a pictorial wheat and scythe illustration in gilt to center front board and another blind-stamped decoration to rear board. Spine with same gilt illustration, title and publisher's monogram. Includes tissue-guarded frontispiece. Glazed brown endpapers. Contains Tales of the Wayside Inn, Part the Third, and the Third Flight of Birds of Passage. Conforms with BAL No. 12164 readings p. iii and p.54 for first state. Condition: Very Good. Moderate rubbing to boards, with light wear to joints and corners. Three small manufacturing bubbles to boards. Front hinge cracked but holding firm. Interior is clean and unmarked. . "Boston Edition". Hard Cover. Very Good.

Manchester, NH: Privately Published, 1924 Hardcover. Octavo. 52pp. Condition: Some light damp stains to corner of some pages. Some cracks to spine. ** Agnes Hunt (1876 - 1923) was a history scholar with degrees from Smith College and Yale University. She was also a published poet. OCLC 11524642.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Magdeburg: Printed for M. Rauscher by Johann Franken, 1612 pp (32) 283 (1) 71 (1) 72-76 (1) 77-81 (1) 82-90 (1) 91-95 (1) 96-104 (1) 105-124 (2) 200 (2) 52 (2). Collation: )(6 )()(4 ()6 a-i6 k-u6 x-z6 Aa4 A-I6 K-L6 a-j6 l-q6 r4 s6 t6 v6 x6 y4. PUBLISHER: Printed for M. Rauscher by Johann Franken, Magdeburg, 1612/13.Four Parts in One.In German, with some Latin. Red and black title page in Fraktur/Gothic, Roman and Italic types. Folio (8 1/5" x 13 1/8") bound in calf, tooled in blind over heavy, champfered-edge wood boards and five raised bands to spine. Cover design with fields of roses and other foliate bands of decoration centering a cartouche with Adam and Eve "unter dem Apfelbaum." Brass clasps partly remaining on front cover; not present on rear, leaving some holes in rear binding. SUMMARY: This rare volume is an encyclopedic presentation of scholars both classical and medieval, upon matters of agriculture, as well as a medical treatise including substantial information about the prevention,… Read More

Hartford: Published by the State , 1928 Soft cover 8vo, in tan card wraps, 245 pp. with 28 plates. Condition: Very Good. Some cracking to spine, half inch chip to foot. Ownership signature in pen to cover. **Includes a history of Connecticut Algologists as well as information of the function, presentation and distribution of the different algae found in various ecosystems such as in marshland, ponds etc. Includes 28 full page plates of illustration, and index. A useful resource for the water engineer or environmentalist. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good .

North Salem, NY: The Adventure Library, 1996 Hard cover, Octavo (5 ½" x 8 ⅜"). pp [12] 307 [1]. In half buckram with paper-covered boards featuring a manuscript text, gilt titles to spine on red labels, and end papers featuring facsimile autographs. With color photographic plates. Includes publisher's letter to subscribers. Condition: Near Fine. *** An account of the Uruguayan rugby team's 72-day fight for survival, after their airplane crashed in the Andes in 1972. The 16 survivors of the crash were forced to take shelter in the wreckage of the aircraft, and for sustenance had to ea the bodies of the dead. The original rescue mission was abandoned after eight days, and so two of the survivors eventually made a ten-day journey over 32 miles of mountainous terrain to fetch help. This account by Piers Paul Read has been widely praised as being a "classic in the literature of survival". *** The Adventure Library was a series of 30 books sold by subscription between 1994 and 2003. The series was the… Read More

New York: Mason/Charter, 1975 Black publisher's trade paper with gold titling, in dust jacket with mylar cover, 183 pp. California author Arthur Lyons's second novel, All God's Children (1975), finds private investigator Jacob Asch searching for a missing girl who's fallen in with head-stomping bikers, one of whom Asch, frustrated and angry, tries to run down with his car. ("My attention was focused on the face staring at me through the windshield, shouting for me to stop. I accelerated to fifty and jerked the wheel back and forth, sadistically savoring the abject terror in the face as the car swayed from side to side.") -Kirkus Reviews. This is the second of the eleven-book Jacob Asch series. Condition: Near Fine with a Very Good dust jacket. Interior is bright and clean, with only a bit of wear to head and foot of spine. Bright, attractive dust jacket has small wear to corners and edges, but no tears. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: The Woman's Press, 1931 Hardcover, 8vo (5 ½" x 7 ⅞"). Revised version of the 1926 first edition. Condition: Fine. *** A study of the music, musical instruments, dance, songs and ceremonies of Native Americans, by the American anthropologist, Frances Theresa Densmore (1867-1957). As well as writing about the tribal songs, she made may recordings of them too, for the Bureau of American Ethnology (many of which are now housed in the Library of Congress). Her studies included the Chippewa, Mandan, Hidatsa, Sioux, Pawnee and the Papago.. Revised edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Library, 1990 Soft cover, quarto, 213pp. Organized by year, a listing of notable prints published in America, with illustrations throughout. Condition: Near Fine.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Carbondale-Edwardsville: The Library, Southern Illinois University, 1969 Soft cover, quarto, 166pp. Extensive bibliography of travel accounts, expeditions etc. Condition: Very Good. Some shelf-wear and darkening to covers.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Boston: Perkins, Marvin & Co., 1834 Hard cover, 8vo, in three-quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards, all edges marbled, the spine with five raised bands, titles in gilt, First Edition, 304 pp. Condition: About Very Good, wear to both outer hinges, but holding firm. Scuffing to the calf and boards, with small losses at corners and chip to spine. Feels firm.** Produced annually between the years 1829 and 1843, this is Vol. VI of the series. The American Education Society, for which the Author, Bela Bates Edwards (1802-1852) wrote, was conceived as an outreach for the promotion of training for Protestant ministers, and associated with the Andover Theological Society. The book provides an encyclopedic summary of the known world, with lists and time-line of things such as: the populations of the American States from1790 through 1830, a timeline of mathematical and scientific discoveries, a list of American authors, manual labor schools, literary societies, medical schools, list of the… Read More