Titles starting with A from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Columbia: National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, 1987. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers in color. 120 pages with index, bibliography. Illustrated with photographs of the clocks, their labels and movements, some early broadsides and views. Very nice copy with minor wear. Gives a chronology of the life and work of this Connecticut clockmaker. Three of his contributions to the evolution of the mechanics of the clock were: the torsion pendulum, the flyless strike train, and the walkin... more information

Boston: Ginn and Company, (1918). Revised edition. Octavo, green cloth. 298pp. with topical and alphabetical indices. Good with bumped corners and light soil. Lacks front free endpaper. ... more information

New York: E.P. Dutton, (1978). Octavo, white cloth and blue blind stamped boards, gilt, in dust jacket. 482pp. Illustrated. Good in good jacket. Light soil. Front free fly creased. Soil in margin of frontispiece. One inch tear in jacket cover, and some edgewear. Jacket is price-clipped ... more information

New York: Hastings House, (1957). First edition. Octavo, yellow cloth and grey boards in pictorial dust jacket. 173pp. Illustrated by Alphonse Normandia. Good or better. Faded. Former owner's bookplate with name eradicated on front paste-down. A Communicatons Arts Book. More than just anecdotes; strategies and theory from the golden age of television. Not only the comedy, but the ads were live too. ... more information

Boston: William L. Lewis, 1826. First edition. Octavo, original string tied wrappers. 36pp. Very good. Everett's funeral oration for the last of the Signer's of the Declaration of Independence, who had died on July 4th, 1826 on the 50th anniversary of the event. Sabin 23244, Shaw & Shoemaker 24454. ... more information

Providence: H. H. Brown, Printer, 1830. First edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers. 12pp. Very good. Some dampstains to first two pages. Shaw & Shoemaker 1937. ... more information

Minneapolis: Johnson & Smith Steam Book and Job Printers, 1875. First edition. original printed string tied paper wrappers, 15pp. Very good. OCLC locates five copies. This is the same Horace Bumstead that will make his mark as President of Atlanta University, named the ÒApostle of Higher Education of the NegroÓ by W.E.B. DuBois. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition, with the Scribner "A". Octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. 390pp. with index. Good or better in near good jacket. Jacket is intact, but has small tears and small chips with some light soil. Book has a little foxing at the fore-edge and edges of the boards. With the publisher's prospectus in pamphlet form. ... more information

Saranac: Chauncy Press, 1992. First edition. Square octavo, red cloth in a pictorial dust jacket. 320pp. with index. Illustrated with color photographs and maps. Very good in a very good jacket. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1928). Duodecimo, blue cloth, 308pp. with index. Very good in good jacket with faded spine, chips and short tears. Former owner's name. Some foxing on top edge. ... more information

New York: Privately Printed, 1975. Duodecimo, blue gilt decorated boards in glassine jacket. 50pp. Illustrated with wood engravings by John DePol. Very good in very good glassine. There is a tiny dark speck on the cover, and a small chip on the back panel of the jacket. The Twenty Second in the Printing Week Library of Benjamin Franklin Keepsakes. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First edition. Octavo, terra cotta cloth. No dustjacket. 680pp. with index. Illustrated, endpaper maps, charts, folding maps. Good or better. Light soil. Small scuff on the front cover. Small spot on the bottom of the text block. Internally very good. ... more information

New York: Academic Press Inc., Publishers, 1952. Octavo, navy cloth, gilt. 411pp. with index. Illustrated in black and white. Very good. Former owner's name. This volume contains articles on: Arrangement of Amino Acids in Proteins, Structure of Collagen Fibrils, Proteins of Mammalian Epidermis, Infrared Analysis... Amino Acids, Polypeptides, and Proteins, Ultraviolet Absorption Spectra of Proteins and Amino Acids. ... more information

New York: Academic Press Inc., Publishers, 1953. First edition. Octavo, navy cloth, gilt. 529pp. with index. Illustrated in black and white. Very good. Former owner's name. Contains articles on: Naturally Occurring Peptides, Peptide Bond Formation, Bacteriophages: Nature and Reproduction, Assimilation of Amino Acids by Gram-Positive Bacteria and Some Actions of Antibiotics Thereon, Peanut Protein Isolation, Composition and Properties, Rotational Brownian Motion and Polarization of the Fluo... more information

New York: Academic Press Inc., Publishers, 1954. First edition. Octavo, navy cloth, gilt. 542pp. with index. Illustrated in black and white. Very good. Former owner's name. Articles on: Metabolism of Glycine, Digetion of Protein and Nitrogenous Compounds in Ruminants, Resolution of Raecemic Amino Acids, Naturally Occurring Trypsin Inhibitors....the Keratins, Molecular Structure... Proteins, Protein- Protein Interactions, Physicochemical and Biological Aspects of Proteins at Interfaces. ... more information

New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1958. First edition. Quarto, tan decorated cloth in dust jacket. 127pp. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Very good in very good jacket. Jacket shows minor edgewear. Plans by Marcel Breuer. This copy affectionately inscribed to a famous art historian. ... more information

Philadelphia: Porcupine Press, 1974. Reprint of the Arthur H. Clark edition. Octavo, red leatherette. Hardcover. 301pp. Illustrated, folding map. Good facsimilie reprint of the Arthur H. Clark imprint. Edges of the text block spotted. ... more information

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1925. First trade edition. Quarto, tan buckram in a dust jacket. 372pp. with index. Illustrated in black and white. Very good in a good or better jacket. Jacket has some chips and closed tears. ... more information

London: Hurst, Robinson and Co., Cheapside, 1822. A new edition. Four volumes, complete. Duodecimo, three quarter red crushed morocco and boards. All edges gilt. Bound by Root & Son. I; vii, 334pp, II; v, (i), 312pp, III; viii, 324pp, IV; viii, 316pp. I; vii, 334pp, II; v, (i), 312pp, III; viii, 324pp, IV; viii, 316pp. A handsome set. Near fine. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1959). Octavo, grey cloth in dust jacket. 255, i pp. with index, colophon. Illustrated. Good or better in fair jacket. Corners bumped. Jacket is soiled and has a short tear and some chipping at the extremities. ... more information