Husher, First Edition (25 results)

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hb. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Hb. Fine/Fine. 1st. 209pp. Index.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Signed. First Edition. Signed by the Author. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. No noticeable to the dust jacket. No cover wear. Clean unmarked text. Tight binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book has green cloth boards with gold titles. No dust jacket. 292 pages with many b/w illustrations. Signed by Richard W. Husher on title page. Selling quality books for over 35 years. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Kane, Henry B (illustrations); Husher, Jean (diagrams) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine condition green linen boards with gold spine lettering contained in a good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preface by John C. Downey; Introduction; List of Works Consulted; A Short Glossary of SOme Biological Terms and Maps. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Henry B. Kane, maps, and diagrams. Dust jacket repaired closed tears and rubbing at edges; all pages are in very fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square condition (see photographs). "This is one of those rare books which afford us an insight into a world of living creatures which few people have ever explored. Wings in the Meadow recounts in poetic detail the life history of an extraordinary insect - hsi birth, growth, metamorphosis, travels, adventures and eventual death. Mrs. Brewer writes with great skill, combining a love of the natural world with a wealth of scientific observation to create a story full of beauty and excitement. In the flowering meadow where the monarch, Danaus, first appears, we are introduced not only to butterflies, but to the whole interlocking life system of the field from microbes and tiny scavengers to man. We then follow Danaus through all the colorful stages which lead him from the confines of a munute eggshell to the final winged state - through his first mating flight, the vicissitudes of his two-month-long life, and finally through the dramatic two-thousand-mile migration of his children and grandchildren, who live through the winter to begin the marvelous cycle once again the following spring. This book will delight nature lovers young and old, who enjoyed Henry Williamson's Salar the Salmon, Rachel Carson's Under the Sea Wind or Robert Murphy's The Peregrine Falcon." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. AN INVALUABLE SIMON WILLARD CLOCK RESOURCE. A few soiling spots on front cover of dustjacket , a 3/4" closed tear at rear top edge and residue from attempted .sticker removal on front endpaper, elsewise a clean, tight copy with all text and illustrations clear/unmarked. MYLAR COVER PROTECTED. "Many people may feel that everything about Simon Willard's clocks has already been told and retold. In reality this subject has only been treated quite superficially in the past; consequently, this study will surprise them. It makes use of primary source information obtained from many actual Willard clocks. All of the old second and third hand Willard references were ignored. By means of this basic and analytical approach, the authors have introduced a completely fresh new concept of Simon Willard's clock designs and of the man himself. Willard's sources of ideas and how he carried them out is the essence of this book." PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED in black & white photography of Willard's clockS and clock mechanisms with accompanying descriptive captions. "Simon Willard's achievements during his sixty very active years as the first developer of American clocks have finally been recognized in this volume. All of the eight major clock types that he designed are included under separate chapters in which the beginning and evolution of each kind is thoroughly discussed." 292 pages. LRS2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 292pp. b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. When after many years Helen Husher returned to horseback riding, she discovered that her perceptions of the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of the sport had in some ways changed, but in other ways had become enhanced. Horses of Instruction is an account of her first year back in the saddle, her trials and triumphs under the instructors and on the horses that inhabited the small Vermont barn that became the author's daily destination and haven. Signed by Author(s).

Hard. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 1999, first printing. Small 8vo., 206pp. "A collection of travel essays, written with an irresistible sense of humor, keen insight, and a taste for the off-beat. Off the Leash is an exuberant grand tour of some of Vermont's most interesting and undervalued places." Signed by author on half title. Some dust spotting along top edge, else fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Nahant, MA: Husher and Welch, 1980. First edition, 1980. Very good condition with a very subtle bow to the front cover from the book being shelved flat with stack of smaller books on top of it. Meticulously researched work illustrated mainly in black and white. Green cloth with dustjacket. The book has a firm binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has just a touch of shelf soil to the white background, no chips or tears. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Photograph. First Impression. ORIGINAL PRINT 7 by 9 inches photochrome photograph. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. John Greenleaf Whittier was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on December 17, 1807. His middle name is thought to mean 'feuillevert' after his Huguenot forbears. He grew up on the farm in a household with his parents, a brother and two sisters, a maternal aunt and paternal uncle, and a constant flow of visitors and hired hands for the farm. As a boy, it was discovered that Whittier was color-blind when he was unable to see a difference between ripe and unripe strawberries. Their farm was not very profitable and there was only enough money to get by. Whittier himself was not cut out for hard farm labor and suffered from bad health and physical frailty his whole life. Although he received little formal education, he was an avid reader who studied his father's six books on Quakerism until their teachings became the foundation of his ideology. Whittier was heavily influenced by the doctrines of his religion, particularly its stress on humanitarianism, compassion, and social responsibility. Whittier was first introduced to poetry by a teacher. His sister sent his first poem, "The Exile's Departure", to the Newburyport Free Press without his permission and its editor, William Lloyd Garrison, published it on June 8, 1826. Garrison as well as another local editor encouraged Whittier to attend the recently opened Haverhill Academy. To raise money to attend the school, Whittier became a shoemaker for a time, and a deal was made to pay part of his tuition with food from the family farm. Before his second term, he earned money to cover tuition by serving as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse in what is now Merrimac, Massachusetts. He attended Haverhill Academy from 1827 to 1828 and completed a high school education in only two terms. Garrison gave Whittier the job of editor of the National Philanthropist, a Boston-based temperance weekly. Shortly after a change in management, Garrison reassigned him as editor of the weekly American Manufacturer in Boston. Whittier became an out-spoken critic of President Andrew Jackson, and by 1830 was editor of the prominent New England Weekly Review in Hartford, Connecticut, the most influential Whig journal in New England. Whittier's family farm, known as the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead or simply "Whittier's Birthplace", is now a historic site open to the public. His later residence in Amesbury, where he lived for 56 years, is also open to the public, and is now known as the John Greenleaf Whittier Home Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Ed. 1980 green cloth hardcover with dust jacket, Inscribed by the authors, copy number 32, DJ is lightly soiled, owner's name, book is clean, well illustrated with photographs, 292 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. dust jacket with light foxing to front and back panels. Dust jacket in clear protector. The book is organized into ten chapters and is illustrated in black and white: 1. The thirty hour Grafton wall clock (26 illustrations); 2. Willard shelf clocks (26 illustrations); 3. The improved timepiece or banjo clock (35 illustrations); 4. The regulator banjo clock (14 illustrations); 5. Gallery clocks (33 illustrations); 6. The patented alarm or lighthouse clock (25 illustrations); 7. Tall case clocks (26 illustrations); 8. Tower clocks (10 illustrations); 9. Clockwork roasting jack (5 illustrations); 10. Orrery (2 illustrations). In addition, 24 clocks are illustrated in color. 292pp 3.23lb 11.3x8.9x0.9in.

Photograph. First Impression. ORIGINAL PRINT 7 by 9 inches photochrome photograph from the Detroit Photographic Company . The Detroit Photographic Company was started by publisher William A. Livingstone and photographer Edwin H. Husher in the late 19th-century. The best-known photographer for the company was William Henry Jackson, who joined the company in 1897. Photochrome (also known as the Aäc process) prints are colorized images produced from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography, a broader term that refers to color lithography in general. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional snapshots. . One of Daniel Chester French's first, and most beloved sculptures is of an image of a Revolutionary War "Minute Man" near today at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. On April 19, 1775, British regulars marched from Boston toward Concord in an effort to capture colonial revolutionaries including John Hancock and John Adams, and to confiscate or destroy arms and ammunition the colonial "Minute Men" had accumulated. The British encountered their first resistance in Lexington, Massachusetts where the first armed conflict of the American Revolution took place. Several Lexington Minute Men were killed and the regulars marched on to Concord. The "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" and that of his companion, William Dawes, alerted the citizens of Lexington and Concord to the coming of the regulars and when the British reached Concord, they met with fierce resistance at the Old North Bridge over the Concord River. The Minutemen of Concord and neighboring towns successfully routed the British who retreated to Boston under heavy fire from colonial soldiers who positioned themselves behind rocks and walls to shoot at the British soldiers. Thus began the war we know as the American Revolution. April 19 is celebrated as "Patriots Day" in Massachusetts. For the centennial of the beginning of the Revolution, the town of Concord commissioned French to create a statue of a continental Minute Man. It was to be French's first full size statue, and was to stand on a base inscribed with a sentence from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn." French was paid $1,000 for the statue which was unveiled on April 19, 1875. He soon established his own studio, first in Washington DC, moving later to Boston and then to New York City. French's reputation grew with his Statue of the Republic for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, in Chicago. Other memorable works by French include: the First Division Monument and the Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain in Washington; John Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bronze doors for the Boston Public Library; and The Four Continents at the US Custom House, New York (now the Alexander Hamilton US Custom House). In addition to the Lincoln Memorial, French collaborated with architect Henry Bacon on numerous memorials around the country and on the Dupont Circle fountain in Washington DC. At this time the general populace didn't have cameras, thereby insuring the popularity of colour photographs such as these. in exceptionally good condition.

Photograph. First Impression. ORIGINAL PRINT 7 by 9 inches photochrome photograph. There is a small nick on the lower right-hand edge. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. The original name La Misión de San Luis, Rey de Francia (The Mission of Saint Louis, King of France) was named for King Louis IX of France. Its 'nickname' was "King of the Missions."It was founded by padre Fermín Lasuén on June 13, 1798, the eighteenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions built in the Alta California Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. At its prime, Mission San Luis Rey's structures and services compound covered almost 950,400 acres , making it one of the largest of the missions, along with its surrounding agricultural land. Two outposts were built in support of Mission San Luis Rey and placed under its supervision: San Antonio de Pala Asistencia in 1816 and Las Flores Estancia in 1823. With secularization of the mission in 1834, no religious services were held and the Luiseño were left behind by the fleeing Franciscan padres. The Mission's religious services restarted in 1893, when two Mexican priests were given permission to restore the Mission as a Franciscan college. Father Joseph O'Keefe was assigned as an interpreter for the monks. It was he who began to restore the old Mission in 1895. The cuadrángulo (quadrangle) and church were completed in 1905. San Luis Rey College was opened as a seminary in 1950, but closed in 1969. The first season's episodes of the Zorro TV series were filmed here in 1957. Walt Disney added a skull and crossbones to the cemetery entrance. In 1998, Sir Gilbert Levine led members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and, with the special permission of His Holiness Pope John Paul II, the ancient Cappella Giulia Choir of St. Peter's Basilica, in a series of concerts to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the founding of the mission. These festival concerts constituted the first-ever visit of this 500 year-old choir to the Western Hemisphere. The concerts were broadcast on NPR's "Performance Today". In February 2013, the seismic retrofiting was completed In exceptionally good condition.

Photograph. First Impression. ORIGINAL PRINT 7 by 9 inches photochrome photograph from the Detroit Photographic Company [#53851]. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Jamestown Church, partially built in 1639 in Jamestown, Virginia, is one of the oldest surviving buildings built by Europeans in the original thirteen colonies that became the United States. It is part of Jamestown National Historic Site, and is owned by Preservation Virginia (formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities). The first church on the site was constructed in 1617. It was in this church where the first Representative Legislative Assembly met, which convened there on July 30, 1619. Construction on the current church tower began in 1639 taking 4 years to complete. The rest of the original church was destroyed after abandonment in 1750 when a new church was built 3 miles away. Next to the original 1639 tower is a church building built in the twentieth century on the cobblestone foundations of the older 1617 church and brick foundations of the 1639 church. It was designed by Edmund M. Wheelwright of Boston. The present church was built by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in 1907, and the original 1617 foundations may be viewed under glass on the floor inside. The design is derived from the nearby St. Luke's Church, a similar church surviving from 1682 (though at the time thought to be 1632, thus contemporary to the Jamestown Church) In exceptionally good condition.

Photograph. First Impression. Photochrome Print, [17.5cm/7inches by 23cm/9inches]. The Palacio de Captains Generales is today Havana's City Museum. It was built in 1776, concurrent with the Spanish and French alliance with the American revolutionists and under the administration of the Marquis de la Torre to house the Spanish governing body and completed in 1796. During the American occupation of Cuba, -1898-1902-, El Palacio was headquarters for the Yanqui administrators. In exceptionally good condition.

Photograph. First Impression. Photochrome Print, [17.5cm/7inches by 23cm/9inches]. Fort Charlotte was constructed by Lord Dunmore after the end of the American Revolutionary war on a hill over-looking Nassau harbor. In 1776 the Battle of Nassau resulted in a brief occupation by American Continental Marines, where the Marines staged their first amphibious raid on Fort Montague after attempting to sneak up on Fort Nassau. In 1778 after an overnight invasion, American raiders led by Captain Rathburn, left with ships, gunpowder and military stores after stopping in Nassau for only two days. In 1782 Spain captured Nassau for the last time when Don Juan de Cagigal, governor-general of Cuba, attacked New Providence with 5000 men. Andrew Deveaux, an American Loyalist who resettled on the island, set forth to recapture Nassau with 220 men and 150 muskets to face a force of 600 trained soldiers. Deveaux forced the Spanish to surrender on April 17, 1783, without a single shot fired. During the wars in the Thirteen Colonies, Nassau experienced an economic boom. With funds from privateering, a new fort, street lights and over 2300 sumptuous houses were built and Nassau was extended. In addition to this, mosquito breeding swamps were filled. John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore governed the colony from 1787 to 1796 and oversaw the construction of Fort Charlotte and Fort Fincastle in Nassau. During the American Civil War, Nassau served as a port for blockade runners making their way to and from ports along the southern Atlantic Coast for continued trade with the Confederacy. In exceptionally good condition.

Photograph. First Impression. Monument to the Forefathers, formerly known as the Pilgrim Monument, commemorates the Mayflower Pilgrims. Dedicated on August 1, 1889, it honors their ideals as later generally embraced by the United States. It is thought to be the world's largest solid granite monument, and is the third-tallest statue in the United States. The Detroit Photographic Company was started by publisher William A. Livingstone and photographer Edwin H. Husher in the late 19th-century. The best-known photographer for the company was William Henry Jackson, who joined the company in 1897. Photochrome (also known as the Aäc process) prints are colorized images produced from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography, a broader term that refers to color lithography in general. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional snapshots. 5/19/2015 5:30 PM The Detroit Photographic Company was started by publisher William A. Livingstone and photographer Edwin H. Husher in the late 19th-century. The best-known photographer for the company was William Henry Jackson, who joined the company in 1897. Photochrome (also known as the Aäc process) prints are colorized images produced from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography, a broader term that refers to color lithography in general. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional snapshots. In exceptionally good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. signed by authors; light foxing to edges of text block, dust jacket with light foxing to front and back panels, small tear at bottom of front panel, small tear at top of back panel. Dust jacket in clear protector. The book is organized into ten chapters and is illustrated in black and white: 1. The thirty hour Grafton wall clock (26 illustrations); 2. Willard shelf clocks (26 illustrations); 3. The improved timepiece or banjo clock (35 illustrations); 4. The regulator banjo clock (14 illustrations); 5. Gallery clocks (33 illustrations); 6. The patented alarm or lighthouse clock (25 illustrations); 7. Tall case clocks (26 illustrations); 8. Tower clocks (10 illustrations); 9. Clockwork roasting jack (5 illustrations); 10. Orrery (2 illustrations). In addition, 24 clocks are illustrated in color. 292pp 3.23lb 11.3x8.9x0.9in. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback book in near fine condition,dust jacket is very good to near fine.