Samuel W Cooper (56 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.…

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Reprint Edition. Duodecimo in worn and chipped dust jacket with a few smudges, frontispiece drawing, iv,120 pp., ads, b/w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj w/chipping, tears; 120 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover, Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. iv, 120 pages. 19 x 13 cm.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later. Very good plus. Hardcover is rubbed at spine ends and bumped corners, spine darkened, coer and foredges lightly soiled, writing on front endpaper.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. v, 120 pages, 2 pages of publisher's ads. 19 x 13 cm. Frontispiece, of Sir Moses Montefiore, with tissue guard. "A tale for the young, narrating in romantic form the boyhood of Sir Moses Montefiore.".

1905. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 392pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map, index. Some small trears at top of spine, corners bumped and rubbed. Biography of Thomas Edward. Illustrations by J.D. Cooper & J.W. Whymper. Locale. (Natural History).

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 482 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN: 58-13278 ; LC: QE711; Dewey: 560 ; OCLC: 547382 ; "The story of life during the past two billion years. . . Here the Fentons tell what fossils are, where they are found, what they mean, and how they are related to plants, animals, and other creatures living on earth today." ; brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels ; Contents: Tales told by the dead -- Rocks, fossils and ages -- Groups, names and relationships -- Earth's oldest remains -- A variety of protists -- Sponges, true and probable -- Simple coelenterates -- Moss animals, or bryozoans -- The sturdy brachiopods -- Armored echinoderms -- Sea stars, urchins and cucumbers -- Snails and their kin -- Pelecypods: clams, mussels and oysters -- Feet before heads: the nautiloids -- Ammon's stones and naked cephalopods -- Worms, burrows and trails -- When trilobites roamed -- Crustaceans -- Arthropods from shoals to air -- Nets and wrigglers to sharks -- The bony fishes -- New plants on old lands -- Lungs, legs and land-dwellers -- Amphibian and reptile groups -- Farewells to land -- Scale-bearers and lizard-hipped dinosaurs -- Bird-hipped dinosaurs -- Flying reptiles and birds -- The rise of mammals -- A revolution and its sequel -- More and better mammals -- Ancient families -- Beasts and birds of the Ice Age -- Read, see and collect. ; VG. Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 17 + 652pp. Cover loose at front internal hinge but content still well bound together. Interior in nice clean condition, Owner's name on fep. 12 plates (including 2 chromo-lithographs on Glaucoma.). See my other listings for more vols between the 1840's & 1973.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 17 + 652pp. Cover a bit worn but content still well bound together. Interior in nice clean condition, some top edges still uncut. Foundation lib bookplate inside cover. 12 plates (including 2 chromo-lithographs on Glaucoma.). See my other listings for more vols between the 1840's & 1973.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 48.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. lxvii, 760 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm OCLC 52073501 This reprint of the first edition of Sweet's Catalog commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Sweet's business."--Foreword ; "In offering to the public, and especially to the architects of the United States, the first edition of Sweet's Indexed Catalogue of Building Construction, the publishers have realized at the very outset the importance of stating clearly, first, what the book is, and secondly, the reasons for commending it to the architectural profession for their use and support. .to explain in a few words the character and purpose of the work, . a embodied in these first successful efforts toward a really scientific standard catalogue and index of building materials and construction. Let the matter be looked at entirely from the point of view of the architect. For a period of a dozen years, every possible method of collecting, sorting, classifying, filing and indexing all the catalogues and circulars of building materials was conscientiously given a fair trial, and after a thorough test, every method was just as conscientiously abandoned. They were abandoned because they did not work well in the specification room. They were not practicable. Everything was tried, arrangements of shelves, bookcases, pasteboard boxes, filing cases, patent binders, filing cabinets, cases of drawers, indexing schemes and " index- rerums. " At first, all the big books were put together in one place and all the little books in another place; and then all the big and little books were mixed up together, and indexed according to subject. Some had four pages, and some had four hundred pages. Barely two were of the same shape or superficies. The little ones would not stand up, and could not be gotten at when laid flat. Another elaborate system was introduced, and a voluminous cross-index started, but the big books contained too much useless matter, and the little books got lost or mislaid or could not be found just when wanted. Then the writer decided, after much time and expense, that the present system of publishing and distributing catalogues, as far as the architect is concerned, might be rightly termed " The Catalogue Delusion, " and that the only solution of the problem must lie in a scientific standard catalogue and index of building materials and construction, gradually developed toward an ideal result by the co-operation of manufacturer and architect. Briefly, then, what is Sweet's Indexed Catalogue of Building Construction? It is a scientific catalogue book system ( a volume or series of volumes) , as easy to refer to as a dictionary, consisting of groups of catalogues from which as much unnecessary matter as possible has been eliminated, carefully indexed and cross- indexed, and sent out gratuitously by the publishers to every architect of good standing. Each catalogue in the work is organically arranged in its parts. It proceeds in a regular order from fact " A " to fact " Z " . Illustrations of a certain class are all grouped and arranged according to some obvious plan. " Literature " and " mere writing " are omitted, as an architect has no time in his office for either."; authors and compilers include Wm. Martin Aiken, Claire Allen, J. M. Baillie, Charles I. Berg, Otto Block, Claude Bragdon, Arnold W. Brunner, George Cary, Henry M. Congdon, James B. Cook, Francis W. Cooper, R. L. Daus, Robt. E. Dexter, A. F. D'oench, Gustav W. Drach, Wm. S. Eames, Stephen C. Earle, E. J. Eckel, John H. & Wilson C. Ely. George B. Ferry, Clellan Waldo Fisher, W. E. Fisher, Herbert W. Foltz, Henry Lord Gay, Arthur N. Gibb, Robert W. Gibson, Chas. Sumner Greene, Fred. B. Hamilton, George F. Hammond, Samuel Hannaford, Olof Hanson, H. J. Hardenbergh, W. S. Hebbard, Charles Henry, J. G. Howard, Wm. B. Ittner, Elmer F. Jacobs, Clarence H. Johnston, Harry W. Jones, E. A. Kent, Thos. R. Kimball, Edward Kneezell, Theo. C. Link, W. E. Mansur, Thos. H. Morgan, Wm. G. Nolting, J. O'Rourke,; FINE. Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. First edition. First edition of this comprehensive two-volume set on the poetry of Richard Lovelace, featuring extensive notes to Volume I and numerous plates and musical settings. First edition. Large-paper edition limited to 400 copies, of which 350 are for sale.Complete in two volumes.In publisher's original quarter-cloth binding.Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates, plus an additional musical setting. Volume II is illustrated with thirteen plates, four of which are double-sided, including seven facsimile reproductions of musical settings. Collated, complete.Scholarly collection of the poems of prominent seventeenth-century English poet Richard Lovelace, best known for "To Althea, From Prison" and "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres". Edited by Oxford academic C. H. Wilkinson with an an introduction and extensive notes to Volume I, the poetry and musical settings being contained in Volume II. In publisher's original quarter-cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with slight bumping and rubbing, resulting in loss of cloth to fore edge of both texts, more moderately to the rear of Volume I, with some peeling to the rear of Volume II. The odd mark to each but a more sizeable tide mark to Volume II. Internally, firmly bound. Several unopened pages, especially to Volume II. Reasonably bright and clean with sporadic spotting throughout, heavier to the first and last few pages. Good. W. Hollar; Samuel Cooper; Richard Gaywood (?); Francis Barlow or Francis Cleyn (illustrator). book.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 68 pages. Features: Fantastic cover illustration of three large pink flamingoes; Cute illustration of boy and girl inside front cover with caption "Eat Fish!" in ad sponsored by the Government of Canada; Major editorial about CBC Radio; Brief news coverage of - Australia's 150th birthday, League or Anti-League, A Mediator's Difficulties (re: the League of Nations); Vintage one-page photo ad for the 1938 Dodge Custom Six, Four-Door Touring Sedan; The 3 Daughters of De Monaye (part 1); Listen to Your Heart (short story); Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - The 'Lone Wolf' who put modern Turkey on the Map (Part 2 of this photo-illustrated article); A Hook for Murder (short story); Cherry Amber (short story); The Tale of the Angus Bull (short story); The Murder on the Links (conclusion of this short story by Agatha Christie); Photo-illustrated article on Lieutenant W. Marshall Cleland, of the Governor General's Horse Guards; Nice one-page ad for the 1939 Oldsmobile - showing the Six Sedan with trunk and Six Coach with trunk; Woodbury Soap ad features photo of June Lang; Parker Vacumatic pen ad features photo of Dale Carnegie; Lux soap ad features photos of beautiful Merle Oberon; Movie news with photos of Shirley Temple, Chares Butterworth, Jane Withers and Errol Flynn; Pond's ad features photo of Mrs. Eugene Du Pont, III; Scott's Emulsion ad features Old Scottie comic; Sweet Caporal ad features photo of dog Pal of Kezer, owned by 'Dickie' McMaster of Montreal; One-page ad for the 1938 Plymouth De Luxe Four-Door Sedan; Article on child-rearing; World Sayings; Nice colour Rinso and Lifebuoy ads inside back cover; Lovely 1938 Ford car ad on back cover features brown and silver cars - the V-8 Tudor and the De Luxe V-8 Fordor; and more. Moderate wear. Few faint pencil markings to front cover, otherwise unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; National Home Monthly Magazine, March (Mar.) 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (part II) / Horseman Lieutenant W. Marshall Cleland, of the Governor General's Horse Guards cover illustration of three large pink flamingoes; Cute illustration of boy and girl ins. Illustrated by Hunt, Lynn Bogue (cover); Smith, Ralph C.; Garland, C.George; Maltman, W.; Burke, MAy C.; Diamond, Samuel; Clymer, John F.;Diamond, Samuel (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Octavo, four volumes. In Good plus condition. Rebound. All volumes half-bound in leather with marbled paper boards. Spines have black labels with gilt titling and ornamentation. Boards have chipping to corners, and rubbing wear throughout. Textblocks have library stamps to the fly leaves, minor foxing scattered to some pages, and light age toning throughout. Volume 1 plate A 3.b. is detached from textblock. Shelved in Room A. CONTENTS: Originally issued as a two volume set, this set has been broken into four volumes and bound incorrectly. The sections appear to be bound together at random and do not correspond to the table of contents pages found in volumes One and Four. The four volumes collectively contain 180 illustrated plates out of 209 plates listed in the table of contents. Not fully collated due to the random order of the binding. The volumes are also unpaginated. 1410160. Special Collections - Upstairs.…

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Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. {Size: 14.60 x 22.86 cms} Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2026, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1815. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Vol:- Volume 33, Pages:- 71, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. Volume 33 71.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 314 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.71 inches. This item is printed on demand.