Moonlight Schools. For the Emancipation of Adult Illiterates.
by Stewart, Cora Wilson
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1923 Third printing. Inscribed by the author "For Mrs. Louise Bayum, friend of my nephew, Major Eugene W. McGlone, with the compliments and best wishes of Cora Wilson Stewart. Cloth. Publisher's dust jacket includes atmospheric cover art of adults attending night school. . Octavo. With frontispiece and 25 plates reproduced from photographs. Chipping to spine, front and back cover. Minor foxing to spine. Overall, a clean, tight copy. Very good condition. Scarce in dust... Read More
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Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philoaophy
by Stewart, John B.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, [1992[ Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good d.j. Spine of d.j. faded.
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the Moral and Political Philosophy of David Hume
by Stewart, John B
New York: Columbia University Press, 1963 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Bookplate. Light shelfwear. Very good in very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket.
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Rosemarie Trockel
by Stich, Sidra, ed
[Munich:] Prestel, 1991 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Color and black and white illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.
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God and Space-Time: Deity in the Philosophy of Samuel Alexander
by Stiernotte, Alfred P
New York: Philosophical Library, [1954] First edition, presentation copy, inscribed "To Professor John Wild with compliments of Alfred Stiernotte. Boards. Octavo. Very good+ in price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket has a little light dampstain at foot of spine.
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Ansel Adams The American Wilderness
by Stillman, Andrea G., ed
Boston: Little, Brown, [1990] First edition. Cloth. Oblong folio. With 109 photographic reproductions. Fine in fine d.j.
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Incunabula and Americana 1450-1800: A Key to Bibliographical Study
by Stillwell, Margaret Bingham
NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 1931 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. A little spotting near bottom edge. A very good copy.
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Loud With Laughter. A Novel by Buena Vista Stine, Author of Blood Kin
by Stine, Buena Vista.
Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc 1943 First edition, presentation copy. Thirteen copies in OCLC, most located in California. Red cloth, black lettering; in dust jacket. . Octavo. Mild shelf-wear to spine. Minor stain to upper fore-edge of back cover. Moderate chipping at dust jacket edges and head of spine. Inscribed by author (with self-portrait cartoon) to a friend shortly after publication. A very good copy of a scarce book, published by an obscure Los Angeles publisher that operated in... Read More
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The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books 1566-1910. A Catalogue
by St. John, Judith
Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 1958 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Very good. A second volume was published in 1975.
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Green Leaves: New Chapters in the Life of Charles Dickens. Revised and enlarged edition with 10 illustrations
by Stonehouse, John Harrison
London: Picadilly Fountain Press, 1931 One of 535 copies. Boards. Octavo. Fine in lightly soiled dust jacket.
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Oktoberlied. With an English Translation by C.F. MacIntyre
by Storm, Theodore
Los Angeles: [Printed for the friends of Fay and Lawrence Clark Powell by the Ward Ritchie Press], 1945 First edition, limited to 200 copies. Designed by Joseph Simon. Cream colored wrappers, stitched at spine. Twelvemo. Woodcut title-page illustration in reddish-brown. A fine copy.
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An Impartial Study of the Shakespeare Title
by Stotsenburg, John H
Louisville, Kentucky: John P. Morton & Company, 1904 First edition. Cloth. Octavo,. Fine in very good+ dust jacket. Jacket lightly edgeworn, and spine lightly discolored.
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Ermyntrude and Esmeralda. An entertainment. Introduction by Michael Holroyd. Illustrations by Erte
by Strachey, Lytton
[London:] Anthony Blond, [1969] Pink boards. Quarto. Bottom corner lightly bumped. Otherwise fine in clipped d.j.
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The Unspeakable Curll: Being some account of Edmund Curll, Bookseller; to which is added a full list of his books.
by Straus, Ralph
London: Chapman and Hall, 1927 First edition, limited to 535 copies. Cloth. Octavo. Plates. Spine lightly faded. A very good, tight copy.
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Stravinsky in pictures and documents
by Stravinsky, Vera, and Robert Craft
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1978] First edition. Blue cloth with gilt spine. Quarto. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Spine a bit cocked. Very good in fine d.j.
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American Ethical Thought
by Stroh, Guy W
Chicago: Nelson-Hall, [1979] First edition. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy
by Stroll, Avrum
New York: Columbia Univ. Press, [2000] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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The Sacred River: An Approach to James Joyce
by Strong, L.A.G
New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, [1951]/ First U.S. edition. Cloth. Octavo. Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket has a little edgewear and one short tear.
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Henry Holland: His Life and Architecture
by Stroud, Dorothy
South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes, [c1966] First US edition. Cloth. Large octavo. Black and white illustrations. A little browning near foot of spine. Very good+ in price-clipped d.j.
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The School Nurse. A Survey of the Duties and Responsibilities of the Nurse in the Maintenance of Health and Physical Perfection and the Prevention of Disease Among School Children.
by Struthers, Lina Rogers.
New York: G.P. Putman's Sons, 1917 First edition. Scarce, especially in dust jacket. The School Nurse describes the importance of school nursing as a connector between the school and the home, at the time of its inception. Struthers includes instruction on how physicians should treat the common ailments of children as well as suggestions for state regulations. Blue cloth boards stamped in white lettering. Includes a former owner's contemporary inscription. With original dust jacket. C. Octavo. The last 32 pages... Read More
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Thomas Struth 1977 2002
by [ Struth, Thomas ]/
Dallas: Dallas Museum/Yale University Press, 2002 Oblong quarto. With 67 color illustrations, 34 duotones. Fine in fine d.j.
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
by [ Stuart, Gloria, designer and book artist.] Housman, A.E
Los Angeles: Imprenta Glorias, 2008 No limitation given. Designed by Gloria Stuart and printed by John Robinson. Initialed by Stuart on the colophon. Cream-colored Zerkall paper self-wrappers with an additional strip of red Cockerel paper (1954, from the stock of Ward Ritchie). Disbound, as issued. . Oblong quarto (12 x 9 "). A fine copy. Made by Stuart as a Zamorano Club souvenir for the San Francisco Roxburghe Club.
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G to W/W to G. These two poems were written for Ward Ritchie. Christmas and New Year's 1995
by Stuart, Gloria
[ Los Angeles: Imprenta Glorias, printed for Zamorano-Roxburghe, 1996 One of a small edition size, probably around a hundred copies. The two poems included in this item were written by Gloria Stuart, Ward Ritchie's longtime partner, during the last winter of his life and printed soon after his death in January of 1996. Blue and beige Cockerell paper wrappers. . 4 1/2 x 7 1/2,. Fine. Gloria Stuart (1910 - 2010) was an actress, visual artist, letterpress printer, and a... Read More
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The Ladies' Notebook and Calendar. With Selected Receipts and Household Information
by [ Women's studies]
Buffalo, NY: World's Dispensary Medical Association, 1887 First edition of this issue of a yearly periodical. Rare item. OCLC only lists 1 copy in libraries worldwide. Wrapper and pages feature engravings. . 6 x 3.5 in. . Light foxing to front cover, edges, and back cover. Minor damp stains on last few pages. Intact, very good copy. This piece of ephemera features a range of household information including recipes for soup and stew, advice for "diseases of women" such as... Read More
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Important Trial for Seduction, in the Superior Court of N. York, before Justice Oakley, Nancy Van Haun vs. Silas E. Burrows, on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th November, 1833.
by [Women's studies.]
[New York Superior Court of New York, 1833.] First edition. Printed paper self-wrappers. . 5 x 8 in. . Toning to first and last leaf at spine. Splitting at spine. Contemporary ink ownership signature to top margin of first page. Some foxing and dustsoiling. A good copy of a fragile and uncommon item. Mary Carew and her sister Nancy van Haun were employed as servants in the home of Silas E. Burrows, "an eminent and wealthy merchant." Van Haun was... Read More
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