Search Results: Titles starting with S from small volume

Silverton, Colorado: Finn Hill Arts, 1988. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. Gray wraps. 383 pp. Edgewear to wraps with crease to upper left corner of rear panel & original price sticker present. Toning to text block edges. Telephone number for Fin Hill Arts handwritten on copyright page. Black and white illustrations and diagrams throughout. Ecology and philosophical wisdom from the former director of Way of the Mountain Learning Center in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. From rear cover- "Dissects where Western Culture went wrong and shows us how to get back to the old ways.

Paris: Librairie Plon, 1921. Half Leather. Very Good. 4to. 126 pp. Rebound in half brown calf with marbled boards, gilt titling to spine. Hand-sewn endbands. Light rubbing to joints and spine, some chipping to paper of front board at edge of shoulder. Marbled endpapers to match boards, with some offsetting opposite leather turn-ins. Original front wrapper bound in. 8.5 x 11 inch typed prayer of St. Francis laid in, with very small, round rust mark to top, as well as top edge of ffep and front flyleaf, likely from paper clip. Text block very clean, with tipped in black and white illustrations throughout. Text in French.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo. Blue cloth w/ gilt titling. Faint sticker residue to front board. Interior clean, binding tight. Contributions in Women's Studies, Number 39.

Dresden: Salem Cigarettenfabrik, 1932. Wraps. Very Good. Oblong 8vo. 31cm x 23 cm. Red flexible paper wraps, w/ two punch holes tied with gold cord. 23 leaves of tipped in full-color and gilt cigarette cards featuring popular German and American movie stars of the 1930s, many of whom were complicit in participating in the white nationalist propaganda produced by Joseph Goebbels and Leni Riefenstahl for the Nazi Party. w/ 4 full-color plates of movies still from films released in 1932. Edgewear and soiling to wraps, foxing to title page w/ lower right corner roughly removed.

New York: Julian Messner, Inc, 1939. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. 12mo. Unpaginated. Tan cloth with pink and blue titling. First edition. Well-loved copy. Lacking jacket. Soiling and fraying to cloth, PO inscription to ffep in pencil "With Love to Leah, New Year 1951, Emily." Tale told in diary form of a young girl moving to Florida with her Father, a doctor to the Seminole Tribe that resides there. Colorfully illustrated throughout by Elvira Garner.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1968. Paperback. Very Good. Calderon, Ella. 12mo. 176 pp. Pictorial wraps. Red stained text block edges. Creasing to wrappers, heaviest at rear top corner. Some interior leaves lightly creased. "Surefire recipes for the quickest way to a man's heart," with menus to impress every type of man, including: 'Man in a Brooks Brothers Suit,' 'Man in a Garret,' 'Man in Gray Flannel Leaderhosen' and others. As the authors state: "each wily man, though he tries valiantly to pass himself off as a unique individual, is actually just a member of an easily defined type.

DUbna: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, 1959. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 18 pp. Tan stapled pamphlet. Sunning to wrappers, crease to top edge of front wrapper w/ stamp that reads "CEA, Russia" dated 12/8/59. Illustrated with 11 B&W plates. "The device for evaluation of stereophotographs is described which permits to measure simultaneously three space co-ordinates of the track point with automatic punching on the tape"-from introduction.

New York: Sheldon Dick, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. 91 pp. Red paper boards backed in grey cloth with gilt titling to spine. Lacking original glassine jacket. Light soiling to boards and faint darkening to spine cloth. Light soiling to endpapers. Deckled bottom and fore edge. Red ink ownership stamp of noted illustrator Edward A. Wilson to ffep. Colophon states this is number 143 of 400 copies, signed in black ink by Edgar Lee Masters.

Lowell, Mass: E. W. Hoyt & Co, 1890. Ephemera. Good. 8cm x 12cm. Four advertising trade cards for Hoyt's German Cologne, of Lowell, MA. Moderate discoloration and soiling. "The Most Fragrant of all Perfumes". These cards were pre-soaked in cologne and freely distributed as both advertising and samples.

Kenosha, WI: Samuel Lowe Company, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. Crowe, Jack; Osborne, Richard. Set of 4 titles from the "Ten Cowboy Stories" series for children. 4.25 x 3.5 inches, unpaginated (appx. 30 pp each). Glossy pictorial printed boards backed in pale rust paper. Rear boards lightly rubbed, front joints lightly creased, otherwise fine. Interiors toned but clean. Titles included: "Little Tex In the Midst of Trouble" by Ben Bolt, illustrated by Jack Crowe; "Get Them Cowboy!" by Ben Bolt, illustrated by Richard Osborne; "Nevada Jones, Trouble Shooter" by Joe Adams, illustrated by Richard Osborne; and "The Mail Must Go Through! A Story of the Pony Express" by Alan James, illustrated by Richard Osborne.

U.S.A.: Norcross. Cardstock & Silk cord. Near Fine. 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm. Set of 8 circular die-cut bridge tally cards w/ yellow and orange silk cord. Horizontal fold with die-cut pop-up at center. Light fraying at cord ends. Otherwise clean and bright.

Minneapolis: Buzza, 1930. Cardstock. Near Fine. 8 cm x 9.5 cm. Six Die-cut place cards printed with a pink and blue plaid dog. Buzza No. P. 6007. Clean and bright.

U.S.A.: Norcross. Cardstock. Near Fine. Set of Six 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm Card-stock with pink and blue silk cord. Circular die-cut bridge score tally cards, with horizontal fold at center with three pop-up of images Pierrot and three depicting Pierrette. Light discoloration and fraying to cord, otherwise clean and bright.

1930. Ephemera. Very Good. 10 cm x 13 cm. [c. 1930] Two folded greeting cards with scalloped edges printed on front and rear panels in red and gold. Central images of children encircled by heart shaped paper doilies, creating a slight two-dimensional effect. Interior printed with short verse. Some light toning and chipping to doilies.

New York: R. Worthington, 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. Lathbury, Mary A.. 8vo. Unpaginated [32 pp]. Pictorial boards backed in salmon-colored cloth. Light soiling, sticker removal mark to front board, rubbing to edges and corners, joints and spine ends. Floral endpapers, ffep has small (appx 1 cm) closed tear to fore edge, rfep partially detached at hinge but holding. Short verses accompanied by bright chromolithographic illustrations. Ghosting opposite plates, small pencil marginalia to rear flyleaf, otherwise fine.

Hollywood, CA: Wilshire Book Company, 1966. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. [1-6] 7-136 pp. Black and white wraps. Light rubbing and soiling to covers and spine, soiling to fore edge. Interior clean, with faint musty odor. 1966 Edition. A Monarch Human Behavior Book. "A Doctor's Report On the Daring New Therapy for Emotional Problems and Sexual Conflicts.

Boston: Henry A. Young & Co, 1871. Cloth. Near Fine. 18mo. 104 pp. Green cloth with blind ruled boards and decorative gilt titling to spine. Light rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corners, and slight fading to gilt, otherwise near fine. Ffep partially detached, with previous owner's name in pencil, interior otherwise pristine. Part of Aunt Hattie's Library for Girls.

New York: The Taft Grill, 1940. Folded Menu. Very Good. 23 cm x 36.5cm. [c. 1940] Red and white tri-fold cardstock menu for The Taft Grill, New York. Creased at center, light discoloration from lively dinner throughout. Label for a drink special, "Today's Thirst Quencher. The Long Cuba Libre: A cocktail consisting of Puerto Rican Rum, fresh squeezed lime juice and Coca-Cola" tipped in. Signed in ink by big band leader, Frankie Masters.

St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Women's Consortium, 1992. Wraps. Very Good. Square 8vo. 63 pp. Red pictorial wraps with orange titling. Rubbing and scuffing to front and rear wrappers. Interior clean. Program for The Silent Witness Exhibit. A traveling memorial honoring the 26 women who were murdered in Minnesota during 1990 in acts of domestic violence.

Providence: Burning Deck, 1975. Wraps. Near Fine. 15.5 cm x 12 cm, 34 pp. Letterpress, 2 colors throughout, saddle-stitched red paper wrappers, numbered edition of 500 of which this copy is numbered 189. Inscribed by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop to Author and Professor Emeritus of English at Brown University, Andrew J. Sabol and his wife Marion (Allen) Sabol.