Authors starting with S from Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA

Philadelphia, PA: Sunshine Publishing Company. 1890. HC. good, blue cloth (hardcover) some motling to cloth. Wright III, 2618. . 112pp ... more information

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1927. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) few small chips on dj. 194pp ... more information

New York: Bonanza Books. orig pub 1956. HC. good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover). Clear, simple instructions and a wealth of illustrations fill this guide to a delightful hobby for homeowners and antique lovers. . 132pp ... more information

Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. (1958). HC. good, red cloth (small nick on rear) (hardcover) (no dustjacket). Patterns are provided for the reader's use. . 132pp ... more information

New York: Academic Press. 1974. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0123120683 This volume of The Harvey Lectures 1972-1973 covers topics ranging from regulation of membrane changes, differentiation, and malignancy in carcinogenesis to levodopa, manganese, and the degeneration of the brain. . 475pp ... more information

New York: Stein and Day Publishers. (1964). HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). 315pp ... more information

Chicago: Argonaut, Inc. Publishers. 1965 1st ptg. HC. very good+, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket. Book is written from the vantage point of the colonial businessman. Part I is a general survey of American economy from the first settlements in the New World through the beginning of the Revolution. Part II focuses on the social and economic relationships among various social and geographic groups, in order to show how these ties made the growth of free enterprise inevitable. Part III deals with British ... more information

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.. (1955) 2nd ptg. HC. good, brown cloth spine (hardcover) no dustjacket. First published in 1950. "A Pictorical guide to the evaluation and selection of early American furniture." Compares items of furniture with illustrations as GOOD, BETTER, and BEST. Important reference. . 303pp ... more information

Washington, DC: Highland House Publishers. (1974). HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). A reprint of Sack brochures: #22, #23, #24, and #25 with index. . p852-p1112 ... more information

London: The Hogarth Press. 1931 1st ed. HC. very good, light tan marbled boards (hardcover). One of 500 copies set by hand at The Hogarth Press and printed by hand by Leonard & Virginia Woolf, and signed by the author on the limitation page. A very nice clean and tight copy with the usually light and faint edgewear to the paper covered boards. ... more information

New York: Basic Books. (1991) 1st ptg. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in. ISBN 0465030580 "Democracy is a miracle," Eli Sagan writes, "considering human psychological disabilities." To shed light on this "miracle," Sagan focuses on the world's first democratic society, Athens, and mounts a compelling argument that Athens and the modern American republic, although separated by more than two thousand years, share the same fundamental moral a... more information

Dublin, NH: Yankee, Inc.. (1970). HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). "This fascinating segment of Americana, for years second only to the Bible in most American homes, is reviewed wisely and wittily by America's foremost expert on almanacs." . 318pp ... more information

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company. 1928 1st ed. HC. good, orange cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket couple pencil marks. 403pp ... more information

Sweden: Stena Line AB. (1992). PB. very good, wraps (softcover). Stena Line, the world's largest ferry company, is an internatinal travel and transport company. With 14 strategically located ferry routes in Europe, it links Scandinavia to the Continent, UK and Ireland. This is a history of the lines vessels. . 104pp ... more information

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. (1965) 1st ed. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). A lease man for a major oil company tells how he goes about his work. . 194pp ... more information

New York: Cupples & Leon Company. (1934). HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). Acidic paper used for text. . 202pp ... more information

London: Burns Oates & Washbourne. 1926. HC. very good, decorated brown cloth (hardcover) owner's name. 304pp ... more information

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Mus. Art. (1983). HC. very good+, brown cloth spine (hardcover) in good/worn slipcase. ISBN 0875871100 Translation and facsimile of the 18th-century French text and engravings. . 192pp ... more information

New York: Russell & Russell. (1968). HC. very good+, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket. First published in 1931. . 273pp ... more information

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Publishers. (1970). HC. very good+, purple cloth (hardcover). ISBN 0837140110 First published in 1933. Most of these studies were written between 1882 and 1895, during the author's years of presswork; some, again, between 1919 and 1929, after his retirement from Edinburgh. . 446pp ... more information