Authors starting with A from J & J Hanrahan

Pittsburgh: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institure,: Boston: Museum of Fine Arts,, (1978).. .. ix,221pp. Illustrated. 4to.. Original publisher's pictorial wraps. . Two pamphlets on the exhibit from the Boston Museum of Arts laid in. Light wear to wraps; former owner's name stamp on preliminary leav else in very good condition. ... more information

Philadelphia:: Bennett & Walton; James Stackhouse, Printer,, 1815.. Second Improved Edition.". vii, [3] 30, [46]p. 4to.. Contemporary pastepaper boards covered in wastepaper, calf spine, skillfully rebacked in period style. American Imprints 34982 (2 locations); Kress B6510. Leaves K and K1 supplied in exact facsimile else a fine copy of this early American accounting book. ... more information

Boston:: Printed by John West Folsom, [1791].. Second edition.. 410, 17pp. [A]-Z4; Aa-Zz4; Aaa-Ddd4, Fff2 with a long list of subscribers and an errata page. 8vo.. Contemporary calf with red label on spine. Evans 23102; cf. DAB for Adams, "probably the first woman in America to make writing a profession," and the daughter of "Book Adams. Among the subscribers are John Hancock and John Adams, Vice President and Hannah's distant cousin, to whom the book is dedicated. Adams said that "... more information

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:: The University of Pittsburgh Press,, 1985.. .. 314pp. Index and illustrated. 4to.. Original publisher's wraps. . Sunning to the spine. A nice copy in very good condition. ... more information

Boston:: Richardson, Lord and Holbrook,, 1831.. 8vo.. In original wrap stabbed and sewn as issued. American Imprints 5631. Spine is gone. Historical Society blind stamp on title page. Tall, uncut, wide margins. Salma Hale Esq.'s signature on the outside wrap (wrote Annals of Keene, N. H., etc.) Very good copy. ... more information

Ann Arbor:: University of Michigan Press,, 1943.. Second edition.. 41pp. plus reprints of original documents. 8vo.. Original publisher's wraps. . Sunning to both wraps. Else very good. ... more information

Washington, DC:: Smithsonian Institution,, 1967.. First edition.. Original green cloth with lettering and decoration.. 4to.. Some scuffing to boards; 4 short notes on rear pastedown. Else very good. ... more information

Paris: ,, 1936.. Annual edition.. 120pp. plus plates. 4to.. Original printed wraps, detached but present. . With wear to edges of first leaf and two others. Covers detached, shows age, but appears complete. ... more information

C. J. Affleck, 34 Peyton St., Winchester, Va.;: B. M. Douglas, 401 12th., N. W., Washington 4, D. C.:, (1960).. First Edition.. 38pp. Illustrated. 12mo.. Original publisher's wraps. . . In very good condition. ... more information

New York:: The Viking Press,, 1938.. Second printing, 1938.. xix (2),845pp. 8vo.. Original cloth. . For Conrad" on title page and Van Doren has drawn through his name as author and written, "Carl Van Doren" underneath. Additionally, Conrad Aiken has signed his name clearly on the front free endpaper -- a nice clear signature of this important poet. His Selected Poems, 1929, won the Pulitzer Prize. Originally from Georgia, Aiken lived in England and New England for years after graduating fro... more information

New York:: Bonanza Books,, (1968).. First Bonanza printing.. xiii,242pp. Illustrated. 4to.. Original yellow publisher's cloth with dust jacket. . . A wonderful copy in very nice condition. ... more information

Cambridge, Massachusetts:: Harvard University Press,, 1962.. First Edition.. xi,431pp. Illustrated. 8vo.. Original red publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to spine. . . A very nice copy in very good condition. ... more information

Boston:: George W. Briggs & Co.,, 1855.. First edition of author's first book.. 182pp. with a frontis and five plates. Small 8vo.. Original cloth stamped in blind with gilt. BAL 142. Professionally repaired. Plates partially colored (neatly). Only 1600 copies of this little book were issued. This copy is collated and complete. ... more information

Boston and New York:: Houghton Mifflin Company,, (1915).. .. 287pp. 12 mo.. Original green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering. . Bookplate from the Thomas Aldrich House, where the book was probably purchased, on front pastedown. Inscription on front free endpaper "Barbara Wiley August 1923". Some wear to head and tail of spine. Else a very good copy. ... more information

Boston and New York:: Houghton Mifflin Company,, (1917).. .. 128pp. with 20 black and whites illustrations + 2 extra illustrations laid in. 8vo.. Original blue and green pictorial publisher's cloth. . Sunning to the spine with words barely visible. Else very good. ... more information

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday & Company,, 1949.. First edition.. [viii], 343pp. 8vo.. Original beige publisher's cloth in dust jacket. . Soiling to jacket which is chipped at extremities. Else a very good copy. ... more information

(Oxford):: Oxford University Press,, 1969.. Tall 8vo.. Original gray cloth in dust jacket. . Very good in slightly chipped dust jacket. ... more information

Boston and Toronto:: Little, Brown and Company,, (1973),. First Edition.. 302pp. Illustrated. 8vo.. Original blue cloth-backed boards with dust jacket. . Slight wear and chipping to edges of dust jacket; small label of former owner on front free endpaper. Else a good plus copy. ... more information

New York:: The MacMillan Company,, 1955.. 8vo.. Original green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and dust jacket. . Wear to head and tail of spine on dust jacket; with small split on top front of dust jacket. Else quite good. ... more information

New Haven:: Yale University Press,, 1921.. First edition.. 69pp. 8vo.. Printed wrappers over stiff wrappers. . Issued in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Chipped at head of wrapper. Inner hinges starting else a very good copy. ... more information