Scribner's Magazine: July 1931

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Paperback. (Vol. XC, Number 1). 4to. Stiff orange glazed wrappers. 16pp, 116pp, pp. 17-28. Advertisement illustrations. Very good. Spine sunned to yellow, some edgewear and small edge tears. Contents include Waldo Frank's "The Ordeal of Cuba," Edmund Wilson's "The Despot of Dearborn," Kay Boyle's "His Idea of a Mother" and William Lyon Phelps' "As I like It." Clean and attractive. .

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Book number: 18865

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Keywords: American Literature

Scribner's Magazine: September 1932

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Paperback. (Vol. XCII, Number 3). Small 4to. Stiff orange glazed wrappers. 8pp, pp. 129-192, pp. 9-16. Advertisement illustrations. Very good. Some edgewear, small edge tears and rubbing to wrappers. Contents include (among other things) part one of John Galsworthy's novel "Flowering Wilderness," Alvah C. Bessie's "Pet Crow," Gilbert Seldes' "Have Americans Lost Their Nerve?," Grace Flandrau's "She Was Old" and of course William Lyon Phelps' "As I Like It." Clean and attractive, with mild library inkstamps on the front wrapper. .

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Book number: 23906

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Keywords: American Literature

Scribner's Magazine: April 1932

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Paperback. (Vol. XCI, Number 4). Small 4to. Stiff orange glazed wrappers. 20pp, pp. 193-256, pp. 21-32. Advertisement illustrations. Very good. Some edgewear, small edge tears and rubbing to wrappers. Contents include (among other things) Thomas Wolfe's short novel "A Portrait of Bascom Hawke," Norman Thomas's "Wanted -- A New Political Deal" and of course William Lyon Phelps' "As I Like It." Clean and attractive, with mild library inkstamps on the front wrapper. .

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Book number: 23914

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Keywords: American Literature

Scribner's Magazine: August 1933

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Paperback. (Vol. XCIV, Number 2). Small 4to. Stiff orange glazed wrappers. 8pp, pp. 65-128, pp. 9-12. Advertisement illustrations. Very good. Spine slightly sunned; minor bit of edgewear. Contents include (among other things) Andre Maurois' "Kate -- A Story," Ludwig Lewissohn's "A Bourgeois Takes His Stand," William Rose Benet's "Challenge to Poets -- A Poem," Max Eastman's "In a Spanish Dungeon" and of course William Lyon Phelps' "As I Like It." Clean and attractive, with mild library inkstamps on the front wrapper. .

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Book number: 32976

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Scribner's Magazine: December 1933

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Paperback. (Vol. XCIV, Number 6). Small 4to. Stiff yellow glazed wrappers. 26pp, pp. 321-84, pp. 27-34. Illustrations, advertisements. Very good. Spine slightly sunned and with small chips at head and tail; some minor edgewear. Contents include (among other things) Caroline Gordon's "Old Red -- A Story," Stuart Chase's "The Consumer's Tomorrow," James Gould Cozzens' "Every Day's a Holiday" -- and of course William Lyon Phelps' "As I Like It." Clean and attractive, with mild library inkstamps on the front wrapper. .

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Book number: 32982

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Keywords: American Literature

Selected CIVIL War State Historical Markers: Virginia

Richmond, Virginia Civil War Commission, n.y. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. 48pp. Near fine. Text block light age toned, as usual. Probable sole printing of this undated (ca. 1960) list and description of each of this state's roadside Civil War markers. Tight, attractive and interesting. .

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Book number: 35817

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Selections from the M. & M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815-1865

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1976. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue decorated wrappers. 53pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Near fine. Probable first edition. .

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Book number: 414

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Keywords: ART ARCHITECTURE Art

Senate... No. 227. Commonwealth of Massachusetts

N.p. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1866. Paperback. Small 4to. Self-cover. 38pp. Good plus. Some soiling and age toning to front wrapper. Titled "European and N. American Railway" on the running heads, this state report issued by the Joint Standing Committee on Railways and Canals discusses the status of this line chartered by Maine and running between Bangor, Maine, and the southern coast of Nova Scotia. .

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Book number: 13449

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Send for a Doctor: Paragraphs from Nashville History -- Lecture Series 1974-75, Number 4

Nashville, The Public Library of Nashville & Davidson County, 1975. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. vi, 164pp. Errata slip tipped in. Near fine. First edition, limited to 600 copies -- tight and bright. Noted Nashville historian and author Alfred Leland Crabb provides the introduction to these profiles of noted Nashville physicians Felix Robertson, Boyd McNairy, John Shelby, Charles K. Winston, William K. Bowling, Paul Eve and William D. Haggard Jr. From the library of noted pediatric infectious disease specialist and medical history scholar Ralph C. Gordon. .

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Book number: 37396

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Service with Fighting Men: An Account of the Work of the American Young Men's Christian Associations in the World War

New York, Association Press, 1922. Hardcover. Two volumes. Small 4to. Burgundy ribbed cloth. xxviii, 636pp; xi, 664pp. Color foldout frontispiece maps, color maps (some foldouts) and charts. Promotional slip tipped to front flyleaf of first volume. Very good. First edition, a tight and decent set -- mild ex-library copy, with relatively few and fairly unobnoxious markings. .

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Book number: 14622

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Keywords: YMCA Military History

Seven Decades of Progress: A Heritage of Aircraft Turbine Technology

Fallbrook, CA, Aero Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. 4to. Blue leatherette, pictorial dust jacket. 232pp. Frontispiece, illustrations (many color). Near fine/near fine. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. First edition. .

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Book number: 1466

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Keywords: TRANSPORTATION Aviation

The Significance of the Fine Arts

Boston, Marshall Jones Company, 1923. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt medallion and gilt lettering. xxix, 483pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good. Rather edgeworn, with spine slightly darkened; bookplate on front pastedown and ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight, nice first edition of this essay collection "Published Under the Direction of the Committee on Education of the American Institute of Architects" and featuring contributions from Lorado Taft, Frederick Law Olmsted, Ralph Adams Cram and other noteworthies. Largely a survey and appreciation of historical architecture (not surprising, given the sponsor), with chapters on the "Allied Arts" such as sculpture, painting, landscape design, city planning, industrial arts, etc. .

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Book number: 34295

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Simple Simon and Other Mother Goose Rhymes

Racine, Whitman Publishing Co, 1930. Hardcover. 4to. Pictorial paper over boards. (14pp). Illustrations (most color). Very good. Mild rubbing, a bit of edgewear, but overall tight and attractive. .

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Book number: 6465

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Keywords: Children's

A Sketch of the Debates in the Convention

N.p. N.p. 1831. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. Pp. 45-75. Very good. Complete in itself, this pamphlet constitutes the second portion of "The Journal of the Free Trade Convention, held in Philadephia from Sept. 30 to Oct. 7, 1831; together with A Sketch of the Debates in the Convention," published by T.W. Ustick in Philadelphia in This convention, the first of its kind, sought to organize opposition to tariffs on imported goods. .

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Book number: 15148

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Keywords: Americana

Skirmisher: The Official Journal of the Southern Skirmish Association

Essex, England, Southern Skirmish Association, 1977. 4to. Grey plastic wrapper with mylar front cover. 19pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Signature of J.W. Farel and a laminated calendar tipped in. Volume 5, Number One (Winter 1980) of this uncommon British publication. Editor's signature and 48mo laminated calendar tipped to front cover verso. .

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Book number: 686

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Keywords: CIVIL WAR Civil War