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

London, England: William Heinemann Ltd, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1941. First British edition. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches: pp. 153. Red and white paper dust jacket with gold and red gilt type, beehive motif in gold on front panel and repeated in red on spine. Blue cloth with Maugham's characteristic beehive symbol, in black, embossed to front board, still-bright gold gilt titling to front panel and spine, with publisher's windmill symbol in black on back panel. Dust jacket in Brodart wraps. Some darkening, smudging, edge wear, creasing and very light chipping to top of spine of dustjacket, and at top of front flap. Original 6s price to bottom of fold. Light rubbing to cloth edges. Endpapers quite browned; textblock just lightly age-tanned. Very faint, and not displeasing, pipe aroma. Binding tight.

Topeka, Kansas: F.M. Steves & Sons, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Topeka, KS: F.M. Steves & Sons,1904. First edition. 8 1/2 x 6 Inches: pp. 199, 3 pages of ads. Yellow boards with black tape over spine. Octavo. Author and title lettered on spine in white ink, author title embossed in gilt on font board. Frontis portrait of Carry Nation, nine full page photos. NOTE: READING COPY ONLY: Soiling and stains to cover, title faded. Front hinge cracked. Foxing. A few margin markings, scattered throughout text. Binding fragile. Carry Nation was known to take a hatchet to a saloon in her fight for temperance -- in other words, she would have been rightfully accused of being an anarchist. This is a straightforward memoir, with bible thumping religion, righteous pronouncements about the evils of drink, and a realisic look at the hardships of the times.