Search Results: Titles starting with S from Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse

Spoleto, Italy: Grafiche Signoretti, 1988. Paperback. VERY GOOD PLUS. Spoleto, Italy: Grafiche Signoretti, 1988. 9 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches: Unpaginated, (45 pp). White lettering on spine, acid-green lettering and rules on photographic front. 43 sculptures. TEXT IS IN ITALIAN. Sticker residue to front upper corner. Lightly scuffed covers with light edge wear. Clean, bright, solid. Exhibition catalog of the work of Italian sculptor Nag Arnoldi, b. 1928.

New York: Fischer's Foreign Letters, Inc, 1912. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. New York: Fischer's Foreign Letters, Inc., 1912. Limited Edition. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. l, 348. White cloth over tan paper boards with faded gold gilt letters on spine. Gold gilt top edge of pages. "Illustrated from photographs". Corners bumped, spine tanned with titles faded. Front hinge starting but binding tight. Limited edition stating on recto of half-title page: "This edition, printed on Japanese Vellum paper, is limited to two hundred fifty copies." Note: this copy is not numbered. Interior bright and clean.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Dillon, Leo and Diane. Franklin Center, PA, Franklin Library, 1976. First edition. 9 1/2 x 7 inches. xxii, 294.Comes with Notes from the Editor booklet -pp. 22 FINE. LEATHER BOUND. This limited First Edition Society volume is bound in rich brown full leather with gilt decorations on both front and rear boards. The classic hubbed spines of four raised bands have gilt text and decorations stamped in the five compartments. Tangerine-colored moire end papers have a sewn-in silk ribbon bookmark. Pages are edged in gilt, thread-sewn for strength and durability, have long-lasting, acid-neutral, archival quality paper and a handsome, readable typeface. Clean, bright, tight. With illustrations by noted and much beloved husband and wife team, Leo and Diane Dillon. Poems written while the author was in college to his time in Tuscany. "Now many people keep records, but not usually of such an oblique and distorted variety, a peculiar… Read More

Saratoga, CA: Urion Press, 1977. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Miller, Joaquin. Saratoga, CA: Urion Press, 1977. First edition. 9 x 6 inches: pp. xvi, 268. Gilt lettering in red panels to spine and front of ochre colored, cloth-covered boards. Ten drawings, 7 photographs including portrait of Miller on frontispiece. With notes. Scuffing on red panel on front board.Foxing to top and fore-edge. A couple tiny spots to endpapers. Pen mark inside back cover. Otherwise text is unmarked. Binding tight. A collection of Miller's "tremendous prose" which yields an impressive body of work. Cincinnatus Heine Miller, Sept. 1837 - Feb. 1913) better known by his pen name Joaquin Miller.

New York: Atheneum, 1979. First Edition. Trade paperback. VERY GOOD PLUS. New York: Atheneum, 1979. STATED FIRST EDITION. 9 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches: pp. xviii, 125, [4]. White lettering on spine and front of glossy brick-red and white colored wraps. Merwin's photo on back panel. Publisher's letter and slip, laid - in. Light sunning to spine. Light shelf wear. Clean, bright, unmarked. Solid binding. This volume presents many translations from little known poets of the Western tradition, as well as a number of arresting works from the Eastern world, and in both cases, ranges widely through the centuries.

London, England: Printed for Richard Chiswel, at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauis Church-yard, 1680. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. London, England: Richard Chiswel, at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauis Church-yard, 1680. 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches: pp. 32. Rebound pamphlet in recent marbled paper wrappers. Original stab holes present. First leaf bears an order to print. Ink inscriptions by two different hands at end of dedication pp. [7]: "Sarah Ringer Jully 1 l. 1832 January Fbry" and "tray/ My Mother My Father My Caroline." On verso of same leaf, ink inscription of 16 lines of a Christmas poem, dated 1859. Pages neatly trimmed, shaving off pp. 13, 14, 15, and 16 and partially shaving biblical citations in margins pp. 14 and 16. Pages lightly tanned throughout with slight browning around edges. Very clean, copy with sharply printed text. (ESTC R21523). Likely kept as a family book. This sermon by bishop of Salisbury Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) commemorates the anniversary of the Great Fire of London in… Read More

San Francisco: Chronicle, 1999. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. FIRST EDITION. Charming illustrated endpapers. Black lettering on spine. Illustrations on front of glossy white boards. Navy-blue lettering and photographs on white jacket. Unpaginated (28 pp). Clean, bright, tight. Photographs of Shaker objects such as tools and pies illustrate the numbers from one to twelve.

Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press, 1980. 9 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. x, 174.Lavender, illustrated, stiff paper dust jacket with black type. Dark red cloth with gold gilt type on spine. With index, Dust jacket has light edge wear, sun fading at spine, and small hole puncture on front panel near hinge join. Light rubbing on edge and corner wear. Text is unmarked. Binding crisp, tight.

Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 1989. 2nd printing. 9 1/4 x 6 inches: pp. xii, 226. Gray dust jacket with white and red type. Red boards with gray type. Light shelf wear, scuffing, creasing to dust jacket. Bright and clean throughout, no markings. Binding tight. Offers a scholarly review of the shame literature from Freud's time to the present, an original extension of self psychology to the problem of shame, and a clinically grounded typology that will help practitioners understand the differing role of shame in various types of psychopathology.

Chicago: Sieble Institute of Technology, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Chicago: Siebel Institute of Technology, 1917. First edition. 9 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. xiii, 190. Red cloth with titles in red on gilt background on cover and spine titles in gilt. Plus 32 pages of ads of baking equipment. Ten black and white plates, mixing charts. Spine faded, some darkening to gilt cover decoration. Corners bumped, edge wear, soiling, back board has some wrinkling. Some notes on last blank page inside back cover. Otherwise, text clean and bright, binding strong. Note: This is the original printing,

New York: The Free Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. New York: The Free Press, 1989. First edition. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. xiv, 419. Red and white illustrated paper dust jacket with black type. Black cloth with gold gilt type. Dust jacket has creasing, edge wear, and one closed tear at the upper edge of spine. Thumbing on fore edge. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.

San Francisco, CA: Aviation Press, 1942. Illustrated Edition. Spiral_bound. Good. Spiral bound, green cover with moderate wear, chipping and slight tear to edges. Some creasing, soiling. Thumbing, soiling to head, foot and fore edge. Previous owners name signed in ink to title page. Spiral slightly rusted, with rust marks to inside of front and rear covers. Text is unmarked. Binding solid, sound.This is an Aeronautical Dictionary from 1942, with definitions ordered from A-Z, and with numerous black and white illustrations throughout.

London: David Nutt at the Sign of the Phoenix, 1900. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Crawford, M. M.. London: David Nutt at the Sign of the Phoenix, 1900. Second edition. 5 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches: pp. xvi, 96. Brown cloth with black bordered illustration in blue, green, dark green and gold on front board, titles in black type on front board and spine. Gold gilt on head of pages. With prefaces, notes. With designs by M. M. Crawford. Edges of spine and board corners have some wear, rubbing. Corners bumped. Toning on spine and inside covers. Name written on upper edge of free facing end page. A few scattered pencil underlinines throughout text. Hinge inside back cover seems to be starting, but binding is solid, sound overall. Volume No. 1 in the Arthurian Romances Unrepresented in Malory's "Morte D'Arthur" series.

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1922. Hardcover. Good. Whitman 631B. Color boards measuring 9" x 6 5/8". Color frontis and black and white illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers depicting knights and maidens. In Two Parts.Includes: Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham; David and Goliath; Damon and Pythias; William Tell; Joan of Arc; John Smith and Pocahontas. 64 unnumbered pages. Front hinge just started, and wear to extremities. Cheaply made, but has held up well during the past 9 decades!

New York: Bantam Books, 1974. First edition thus. Mass market paperback. Good. New York: Bantam Books, 1974. First edition, first printing thus T8254. 6 7/8 x 4 1/4 inches: pp. (6), 250, (4). Black illustrated wraps with purple, orangeand gold type. With four pages of ads for other Bantam books and catalog. Edge and corner wear, creasing, scuffing to cover. Small tear at bottom spine join at front cover. Pages are age toned with some handling wear. Unmarked. Binding tight.

New York: Henry Z. Walck, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Good. Carigiet, Alois. New York: Henry Z. Walck, 1958. FIRST EDITION. 9 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches: unpaginated. Illustrated paper dust jacket with white and black type on front panel. Blue cloth binding over light blue boards with dark blue lettering. Illustrated jacket with 2" tear and 7" diagonal crease to rear panal. Smaller tears to spine edges. Sunning to all edges. Very mild nudge to bottom corners. Previous owner's name and bookplate affixed to front paste-down endpaper. Otherwise, test is unmarked. Binding tight. Translated from the original German. The story of a brother saving his little sister and how they commemorated the day.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1900. Hardcover. Good Plus. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1900. 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. xxii, 216. Forest green cloth boards with gilt illustration to front board, and design with fish hook and a leaping fish, to spine. Black endpapers. Illustrations drawn and engraved by members of The Club. 21 engravings by William Forrest, and the rest by (editor) J. Smitth. List of members at rear. Moderate shelf wear, spotting and rubbing to extremities. Tiny rip in cloth at top of spine. Wear and nudging to corners. Two signatures to half title page. Some moderate toning.Text is unmarked. Two small punctures in front and back hinges. Binding solid overall.

San Francisco, CA: Harr Wagner Publishing Company, 1926. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. GOOD. San Francisco, CA: Harr Wagner Publishing Company, 1926. First edition (NAP). 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. 55. Dark blue cloth with tan paste down on front board with blue type. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Book in good condition with moisture stains to cover, two small shelf-dents to top of book, corners nudged, pages slightly rippled, tidelines (moisture wrinkling) throughout. Text is unmarked. Binding sound. Contains several songs about the Sierra Mountains, as well as illustrations throughout the book. With introduction by John Hale Constance.

New York: The Frick Collection, 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very good. New York: The Frick Collection, 2010. 11 x 9 inches: pp. 208. Black and red illustrated paper dust jacket with red and white type. Bound in black cloth boards, with gold gilt lettering to spine. Color illustrations throughout book. Dust jacket has light edge and corner wear, some light scuffing on back panel. Upper corners of boards are lightly bumped. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. "This elegantly designed, fully illustrated volume presents more than two centuries of exquisite drawings by spanish artists..." (Front flap of book).

New York: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. and E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1921. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Very Good. New York: E.P.Dutton, 1921. 7 x 5 inches: pp. (4), 123. Brown cloth, with black lettering. Rubbing to extremities, fraying to top corners. Pencil and colored pencil markings inside back cover. Otherwise, text is unmarked. Binding is a wee bit shaken, but overall, solid. Contains over 6600 commercial terms and over 360 abbreviations, to which have been added tables of money, weights and measures, and the thermometers. Some topics include: Accounts, articles of trade, banks and banking, bankruptcy, bills of exchange, cheapness of good, cheques, colours, correspondence, Execution of Orders, Invoicing, Mercantile Firms and Companies, Packing of Goods, etc.