Search Results: Titles starting with S from Frogtown Books, Inc.

Rand Mcnally, 1937. First Edition. hard cover. fine/very good. Photographic Illustrations.

New York: J. T. Taylor, 1850. 12mo. Blind stamped brown cloth. 204 pp. Engraved title page. Some foxing scattered throughout, heaviest on the prelims. A 1" split on back joint. A little rubbing on fore-edge of front cover. Overall a tight, clean very good copy.. With four steel engraved illustrations.. Chapter titles are Mount Ararat, Mount Moriah, Mount Sinai, Mount Hor, Mount Pisgah, Mount Horeb, Mount Carmel, Mount Lebanon, Mount Zion, Mount Tabor, Mount Olivet, Mount Calvary, The Mount of God and Mount Calvary. The design of the following sketches is to render more familiar and life-like some of the scenes of the Bible. This, I know, is a difficult task, not only from the disposition of men to look at things sacred less naturally than on the common events of life, but from the inability of the writer to find words that shall bring the scenes he would describe home to the feelings, without shocking his own and the reader's sensibilities by too familiar phrases. Yet, unless they cease to become… Read More

Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim & Co, 1856. First Edition. Small 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". 239 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher's ads. Brown cloth covered boards blind stamped and stamped in gold. Name in ink on lithographed title page and one name in ink on free front endpaper. A little scattered foxing. Slight lean. Overall a tight very good copy.. Illustrated with seven lithographs..

Little Brown and Company, 1985. Second printing. Hardcover. fine/very good. Hyman, Trina Schart.

Illustrated Editions Company, 1930. First Edition. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 7-9/16". Red cloth cover. Beveled boards. Black cloth spine stamped in gold. 120 pp. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Otherwise book is fine./Price clipped dust jacket is a little soiled. Edges a somewhat frayed with several shallow chips and closed tears.. Sixteen Drawings Aubrey Beardsley.

New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1969. 4to. 10-7/16" x 8-3/4". 24 pages, all color illustrated plus color title page. Color illustrated endpapers. Fine condition./Dust jacket very good with a few minor flaws.. Illustrated by the Author. Sam boards a bus for a trip to the city to visit his friend Rudolph Rabbit. He doesn't know exactly where Rudolph lives, but he feels sure that any number of people will be able to direct him to Rudolph's apartment. Nobody can, as it turns out, but while he's searching, Sam gets his first look at a fire hydrant, and his first ride in a subway, plus a fine assortment of other city experiences which will stand him in good stead if he ever decides to come back.

Northridge, CA: Windsor Publications, Inc, 1988. Stated First Edition. 4to. 11-1/4" x 8-7/8". Cream colored cloth covered boards stamped in gold. Yellow endpapers. 176 pp. including index. Fine/in fine dust jacket.. This is the definitive story of San Luis Obispo County's unique and interesting history. Researched and written by Dan Krieger, this lively narrative captures the spirit of San Luis Obispo County as never before. Enhanced by more than 150 black and white and color photographs carefully selected by picture researcher Mark Hall-Patton, the book is sure to be a treasured addition to any library.. . . [This book] is a fascinating look at the evolution of one of the West's earliest mission settlements into a dynamic and vibrant modern community. The book will be a continuing source of unique, interesting, and informative reading to be passed on for years to come.

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1946. Small 4to. 9-1/2" x 6-7/8". Decorative pictorial endpapers. 32 pp. Very good condition.. Illustrated by Pauline Jackson. Story of two boys , Alexander Carr and his friend Chang Hon-Li, moving from Hawaii to San Francisco after the outbreak of World War II. They discover life in San Francisco including the celebration of Chinese New Year, Exploring GOlden Gate Park, Fishermen's Wharf and Telegraph Hill and riding the cable cars.

Madrid, 1942. First Edition. flexable leather. very good - previous owner's inscription at the very top of the title page.

London: John Rodker, 1927. First English edition translated by R. C. M. #907 of a limited edition of 1000 copies printed on hand-made all rag Auvergne paper, by Messrs. E. J. Molyneux, London. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-3/4". Bluish grey paper covered boards stamped in gold. Orange cloth spine stamped in gold. Very good./Dust jacket also very good.. Born the son of a French farmer in 1734, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne was apprenticed to a printer and made his way to Paris where he printed and sold at least 200 of his own works. He and the Marquis de Sade maintained a mutual hate, while he was appreciated by Benjamin Constant and Friedrich von Schiller and appeared at the table of Alexandre Baithazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière, whom he met in 1782. Jean Francois de La Harpe nicknamed him 'the Voltaire of the chambermaids'. He was rediscovered by the Surrealists in the early 20th century.

Citadel Press, 1946. Hard Cover. fine/very good.

Philadelphia: Franklin Library, 1980. Full Leather. Fine. Clerici.

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1941. Founded on and continuing the famous Oz stories. Large 8vo. 9-1/4" x 7". Green cloth covered boards. 309 pp. plus 2 pp. map of the Emerald City of Oz in the front and an identical 2 pp. in the back. THey look as though they were meant to be pictorial endpapers. But, the endpapers are blank. Faint stain at bottom of text block. Otherwise book is in fine condition.. With black and white illustrations by John R. Neill and a beautiful full color pictorial cover plate..

1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. fine/fine. Ralph Steadman.

Chicago: Ares Publishers Inc. Unchanged Reprint of the Edition London, 1891 and New York, 1965. 363 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding. A tight, clean, unmarked copy. Very good to fine./No dust jacket.. Photo and drawn illustrations.. Exciting story of the discovery of Troy. Introduction by Walter Leaf, Litt.D. Featuring an analytic inquiry into the life and work of Heinrich Schliemann by William G. Niederland, M.D., FAPA, Clinical Prof. of Psychiatry, State University of New York.

Dorling Kindersley, 1995. First American Edition. 4to 312 pp. Black textured paper covered boards. Spine stamped in silver. Book in fine condition./Dust jacket also fine.. John Clute takes you on an unforgettable journey to worlds beyond our imagining, covering the history of the genre in all its forms, and lavishly illustrated with images from books, films, magazines, comics, and Graphic novels, Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia presents one-of-a-kind, decade-by-decade time charts with fascinating insight into the cultural influences that shaped the Science Fiction of each period. You will see how excitement about the potential of 20th-century America inspired elaborate cityscapes in the art of the 1900s. And you will travel into the future with the artists of the 1920s, watch humanity's ride into space through the eyes of Science Fiction, be drawn into the visions engendered by the invention of the A-bomb, and see what today's writers and artists prophesy in our digitized future. In… Read More

New York, 1885. Revised and Enlarged. Blue Cloth. Very good condition.. Fully Illustrated.

Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1904. Reprint same months as first edition, April 1904. 8vo. green cloth stamped in gold. Deckled fore-edge. 447 pp including index. Former owner's name and a small rubberstamped name on free front endpaper. Otherwise a tight, clean copy, very good to fine.. Stories of Scottish life reflecting the lives, loves, beliefs and character of the Scottish people.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1923. 8vo. 8" x 5-3/8". Blue pictorial cloth cover. 519 pp. Map endpapers of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913. Front endpapers a little toned. Barely visible stain at bottom of cover. Otherwise a book in fine condition.. With Biographical Introduction by Sir J.M. Barrie and a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. With 19 gravure photo illustrations by Herbert G. Pointing and others..

The British Library, 2013. First ed. hard cover. fine/fine.