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Eagle in the Sky
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1974. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Dust jacket is good, with some edge wear, spine wear, small tear to top of front cover and corner bumping. Black cloth over blue boards, stamp reading, "With Compliments of Doubleday & Company, Inc." on front past-down endpaper, book is tight and square in very good condition.
Wilbur Addison Smith (b 1933) is a South African novelist. This fiction nove,l set in South Africa, follows the life of David Morgan and his love of flying and Debra.
Early 1800s Friendship Album
Regensburg, Germany: n.p., 1806. Approximately 7 x 4", oblong. Red leather over boards with gilt designs on covers and spine, front cover has gilt initials "J. A. S." and back cover has date of 1806, vibrant marbled endpapers with the front one having a minor corner missing, nice quality paper with watermark and chain lines still visible, back cover has some sort of split-open box attached, introduction loosely translates to "Great praise and good wishes, and be assured that I am eternally your respected brother, Joseph Scheller, Regensburg, Year 1806", many friendship entries in German along with some beautiful hand-drawn and sometimes colored illustrations, in very good + condition.
Not much can be known about Johan Andreas Scheller except that he had many friends. As is traditional with friendship albums of this time, they are filled with poems, drawings, personal messages, and small pieces of verse, some religious in nature. The first drawing, for instance, refers to the sacredness of friendship. These friendship books were popular until the mid-19th century, when they were gradually replaced by yearbooks for university students.
Elson-Gray Basic Readers Primer
Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1936. Second edition, Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2". 144 pp. Green, black and orange cloth over boards with illustration on cover, corner bumping and some spine cloth fraying, a few stains. Interior has some stains throughout and small amounts of foxing but is overall very bright and clean with many colorful illustrations by Miriam Story Hurfurd. Very good condition.
William S. Gray developed the Curriculum Foundation Series of books for Scott, Foresman and Company. His vision was to tie "subject area" books in health, science, social studies, and arithmetic (each discipline having its own series of graded texts also published by Scott, Foresman and Company) with the vocabulary mastered in the basic readers, thus vastly improving readability in these same areas. These books often had the very recognizable names of Dick and Jane.
Ethical Setting
Dallas, TX: Aredian Press, 2019. Approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4". First edition, LIMITED EDITION of 10 copies. Design binding by Patrice Miller of Aredian Press, black cloth over boards with silver spider web design, paper title label on removable band, accordion fold, printed on translucent vellum and Neenah Classic Stipple, signed and numbered by the publisher on the colophon, in fine condition.
This John Dos Passos (1896 - 1970) quotation is from The Theme is Freedom (1956). Patrice Miller's work has found its way to private and university collections, in the states and abroad. Human foibles, nature’s panoply, and artistic cleverness cannot help but inform future work. She continues to bind, and rebind, in Dallas, Texas.
Eulogies to the late President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Delivered in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol, November 24, 1963
New Britain, CT: J.L.Kapica, 1964. 30 pp. Approximately 2 1/2 x 2". LIMITED EDITION, although this is not one of the 50 numbered copies. Black leather, gold lettering, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, portrait frontis. A near fine copy. Not in Bradbury.
Contributions by Mike Mansfield, Earl Warren, and John McCormack.
Fair Violet
1949 first hardcover printing. NOTE: ex-library copy. Book is tight and square. Dust jacket is encased in mylar and has creases and chips. Covers of book have tape residue and old tape. Staining and marking to book endpages. Interior is clean, it does have a bookstore stamp, and previous owner's name is on first page. Some tanning to pages.
Festival Figures
New York: United States Committee for UNICEF, 1973. Approximately 4 1/4 x 8 1/2". Illustrated color stiff paper booklets depicting children, which flip up at the wait to show a small booklet, black and white line drawings, two-sided so each booklet depicts two children, a few booklets have minor defects such as a small crease near the neck, a small stain near the face and a few tiny spots, otherwise in near fine condition.
Scarce little booklets produced by UNICEF, portraying children of 8 various countries: The Netherlands, Ghana, Algeria, Poland, Norway, India, Chile, and Japan. Barby and Glen Peterson are authors who have written for the Golden Series of children's books. Set is complete. Only one institutional holding.
Fighters for Peace
New York: The Century Co., 1919. First edition, Hardcover. 311pp + 3 pages of book advertisements; Book has minimal wear to edges and spine, spine is slightly darkened, some foxing and stains on fore-edges, front spine is cracked age tanning and some foxing to pages, no dust jacket. Very good condition.
Biographical information on World War I heroes, including: King Albert of Belgium, Marshal Joffre, Captain Guynemer, Marshal Foch, Premier Clemenceau, Premier George, Sir Frederick Stanley Maude, General Allenby, King Emmanual III of Italy, General Pershing, Admiral Beatty, President Wilson. Photograph of each man is included.
Fletcher and Zenobia
New York: Meredith Press, 1967. 6 1/4 x 6 1/4". First Edition, Pictorial dust jacket and boards with a few ships near the spine top, not price-clipped, in very good condition. Pictorial boards with slight indentation near top spine edge, full-color illustrations throughout, pages clean and unmarked, otherwise in very good condition. (Toledano A25)
A humorous story about a cat, a doll and a moth. Delightful and quite less macabre than Gorey's usual style.
For Kicks
London: Michael Joseph, 1965. 256 pp. Approximately 6 1/4 x 9 1/4". 1st Edition, first printing. Illustrated dust jacket in very good condition with some chipping and subtle pen mark on cover, not price-clipped; Green cloth over boards, gilt title on spine very crisp, minor foxing and darkening to the fore-edges, dark shadow on page prior to half-title due to old bookmark, otherwise in near fine condition.
Born Richard Stanley Francis (1920 - 2010), Dick Francis was a British crime writer whose novels were mostly centered on horse racing in England (he was a former steeplechase jockey himself). This book is Dick Francis' 3rd novel, with Daniel Roke, Australian horse breeder temporarily turned UK investigator.