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Published by Makerere University College, 1959
Seller: Shore Books, London, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 75 pages. M A Paffard "Wordsworth & the Autobiographers" / D Walker "Economics in East Africa" / O R Burley "John Locke and his Biographers" / D D Stuart "William Blake" / D A Low "Alexander Mackay: A Sermon" / R W Beachey "'FREELAND' - A Socialist Experiment in East Africa - 1894" (BT#41).
Published by New York: Kelley & La Tourrette
Condition: Fair. Paris: Librairie de Victor Masson, 1836. Second edition, with supplement, corrections and additions. Volume I. 8vo. 678pp. B/W illustrations, and that of the author to the frontispiece. Acceptable condition. Ex-library copy. Reading copy. Boards detached, heavily rubbed, edgeworn with frayed corners. Boards have tape along the joint edge where they have been secured to the spine. Spine defective, quite erose at tips, and are covered in tape. 10 or so pages of prelims detached and are taped together. Dampstained in the front. Library bookplate to front pastedown with ink stamps to the front endpage, title, and a few other leaves. Inquire if you need further information.
Thick 8vo, full leather, scuffed and rather worn, hinges hanging, author frontispiece, [xlviii], 782, ii pp. Some line drawn text illustrations. Moderately foxed throughout. A good copy.
Published by New York: Published and For Sale by the Author, 1847
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4to, full sheep, spine worn, black gilt morocco label, lithographed frontispiece of the author, after a daguerreotype by Chevalier, 272pp. Some heavy foxing. With 57 lithographed plates (by Sarony), some of them colored, some brilliantly so. ATWATER/HOOLIHAN 250 ("popular obstetrician literature of the period"). A Good+ copy.
Published by Stovel / National Home Monthly, Winnipeg, 1941
Book First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Diamond, Hal (cover); Humphrey, Walter Beach; Holmgren, John; Burke, May Cornelia (illustrator). First Edition. 48 pages. Features: Cover art of totem poles with mountain backdrop; Glorious colour Coke ad inside front cover features beauty lying on beach towel; News digest considers why Hitler attacked Russia, a bid for British 'appeasers', Hess as a bargaining agent, and what Hess relied on; Photo of Sir Stafford Cripps; Summer Night (short story); Tower of Babel - photo-illustrated article on the Britain's B.B.C. which fights a war of words in over thirty languages from its London HQ; Best of Breed (short story); Gideon of the Dessert - photo-illustrated article on General Sir Archibald Wavell; Courtesy of Capricorn (short story); A Moment for Jerry (short story); Photo of King Farouk being invested as first King of an independent Egypt; Vintage one-year Good Year photo ad shows kids wading into water with title "Enjoy Canada on Goodyears"; 1/4-page photo ad for the 1941 CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) in Toronto; Photo-illustrated article on "Those Hollywood Huns"; Woodbury soap ad features photos of Miss Lori March; Photo of Poland's Prime Minister, General Ladislaus Sikorski, giving radio address to his forces in England; Nostalgic two-page colour General Motors of Canada ad entitled "A Good Life Work for Any Man" pumps up the image of their dealers; Photo of Sir Noel Ashbridge at his desk; She Walks in Beauty - shoe fashion article; Article on food preserving; Quotes from around the world; Colour Shredded Wheat ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this excellent wartime issue.
Published by Jas. McAlister, New York, 1847
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
272 [8] pp. Portrait; color frontispiece, and all plates present as called for in the list of contents. Folio, rebound in modern half calf over marbled boards. Light, generally inoffensive foxing throughout; securely rebound.
Published by Published and for Sale by the Author, New York, 1847
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
272 pp. Frontispiece portrait, color frontispiece plate plus plates numbered 1-5 and 12-19 and 21-53, most of them hand-colored and three plates labelled A, B, C and D for a total of 50 plates. Folio, rebound in leather; original gilt-lettered spine label retained. First edition. Text foxed; one plate detached; binding worn; the plates generally very nice.
Published by Scribner: NY, 1851
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
50 (of 51) illustr, 11 x 9, full leather, black spine label, 272 pp. Disbound, covers fair-poor, title page to p 6 detached, portrait attached to the front cover, staining, spotting, soiling, small tears, loose signatures, lacking plate 2 (frontis), pencil name of a previous owner, Wm. H. Andrews MD, on a front blank page and enclosed is an advertisement (torn) for one of his lectures. Well used. Dr. Wooster Beach, founder of "Eclecticism," opposed the practice of bloodletting, believed in natural healing with herbs and roots and was both a medical and religious reformer. He died in poverty because he did not believe in being paid for his services.