An Autobiography. The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith. The Colored Evangelist. With an Introduction by Bishop Thoburn, of India..
by Smith, Amanda
Chicago: Meyer & Brother, 1893 First edition. Publisher's brick red cloth stamped in gilt with portrait of Amanda Smith. . Octavo. With frontisportrait and twenty-five full-page engravings. Some rubbing to cloth and a few spots of discoloration. Dark blue coated endpapers. Some marginal toning, as usual. A good copy of this important autobiography of a Black preacher and missionary. Amanda Berry Smith (1837 - 1915) was a missionary, Methodist preacher, evangelist for the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and founding member... Read More
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An Autobiography. The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith. The Colored Evangelist. With an Introduction by Bishop Thoburn, of India..
by Smith, Amanda
Chicago: Meyer & Brother, 1893 First edition. Publisher's reddish-purple cloth stamped in gilt with portrait of Amanda Smith. . Octavo. With frontisportrait and twenty-five full-page engravings. Slight edgewear. Dark blue coated endpapers. Some marginal toning, as usual. A very good, clean copy of this important autobiography of a Black preacher and missionary. Amanda Berry Smith (1837 - 1915) was a missionary, Methodist preacher, evangelist for the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and founding member of the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.... Read More
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Rara Arithmetica. A Catalogue of the Arithmetics Written Before the Year MDCI with a description of those in the library of George Arthur Plimpton of New York
by Smith, Daviid Eugene
Boston: Ginn and Company, 1908 First edition. Cloth with paper spine label. Octavo. Frontispiece, title-page vignette. Facsimiles in text. Light shelfwear, label a little toned. Very good.
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Fragments, in Prose and Verse: by Miss Elizabeth Smith, Lately deceased. With some account of her life and character, by H.M. Bowdler. A new edition.
by Smith, Elizabeth
London: Printed by Richard Cruttwell...and sold by Cadell and Davies.. 1810 First published in 1808, two years after the author's premature death. Half calf over marbled boards. Spines stamped in gilt and blind, black morocco labels. Edges sprinkled blue. . Two volumes, octavo. Frontisportrait. Binding extremities rubbed and occasionally worn, some light foxing. Ink signatures on half-titles ("Sophia JB Price. Additional signature with annotation on an opening blank of Volume I: "Sophia Boodie Septr. 1st 1810. A Birthday present from... Read More
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Mother Goose Melodies Toybooks
by [ Smith, Jessie Wilcox ]
[ New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914 [. Original stiff paper wrappers, each with a color reproduction of a different plate from The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose. With gilt border and lettering. Rear cover printed with an advertisement for Colgate talcum powder. 10 booklets, 5 inches by 3 inches. 8 pp. each. . With 4 black-and-white illustrations in each booklet to accompany the rhymes. Some creasing to pages and wrappers and some toning throughout the set. Open tear... Read More
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Selections from the Poems of Mrs. Hannah H. Smith, by her Daughter, Julia E. Smith, the Only Survivor of the Family.
by Smith, Julia E[velina] and Hannah H[adassah].
Hartford, Conn: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1881 First edition of this rare work by Julia Evelina Smith (1792-1886), a suffragist and the first woman to publish her own complete translation of the Bible. Julia's sister, the suffragist Abby Hadassah Smith (1797-1879), was the original collector of the poems, which were written by their mother Hannah Hadassah Smith (1767–1850). Some of the poems collected here were written by Hannah in Italian and translated by Julia.... Read More
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Through Romany Songland
by Smith, Laura Alexandrine
London David Stott, 1889 First edition. Original cloth. Small octavo. Binding lightly soiled and spotted, chip at head of spine. Several small paper labels on spine and one on front cover. Bookplate. A tight, clean copy of a scarce book.
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Prolegomena to an Idealist Theory of Knowledge
by Smith, Norman Kemp
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd 1924 First edition. Red cloth with gilt spine. Octavo. Light shelfwear, red mark on front pastedown. A very good, bright copy.
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The Empress of China
by Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Maritime Museum, 1984 First edition. Cloth. Large octavo. Light shelfwear. Very good+ in very good- d.j. Jacket is lightly soiled dust jacket with light dampstain near bottom and two small tape repairs. The 'Empress of China' was the first vessel belonging to the United State to initiate trade with the Chinese.
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Jessica's First Prayer. By the Author of "Fern's Hollow," etc.
by [ Smith, Sarah ]
London: The Religious Tract Society, [1867]. With three early reprints of the same work First edition of a work that originated the genre of 'Arab fiction' – sentimental stories about poverty stricken young persons on the streets of Victorian cities. . Publisher's blue cloth, front board stamped in gilt. . Sixteenmo. . Frontispiece, six full-page engravings, and three textual illustrations. Binding extremities lightly worn. Spine and edges of boards have minor toning. Front hinge cracked, but sound. Endpapers slightly... Read More
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Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth. A Bibliographical Catalogue of the First Appearance of his Writings in Book Form. Part I: The Novels, with Sketches by Boz
by Smith, Walter E
Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop, 1982 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Heavily illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. An essential reference. Printed at the Castle Press in Pasadena.
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Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth: A Bibliographical Catalogue of the First Appearance of his Writings in Book Form. Part II: The Christmas Books and selected Secondary Works.
by Smith, Walter E
Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop, 1983 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Fine in fine d.j. An essential reference. Printed at the Castle Press in Pasadena.
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The Student's Vade Mecum. Containing an Account 1. Of Knowledge and Its General Division. 2. Of History. 3. Of Philosophy. 4. Of the Institution of Society and Nature of Government. 5. Of the Heathen Idolatry or Faith Philosophy, and Its Analogy to the Revelation or True Philosophy. 6. Of the Different Systems of Philosophy...7. Of Mathematics. With Directions how to proceed in the Study of each Branch of Learning..
by Smith, William
London: Printed for the Author, 1770 First edition. Contemporary sheep, gilt-ruled spine with brown morocco label, edges sprinkled red. . Octavo. Head and foot of spine lightly worn, joints starting to crack, some scuffs to covers, first and last few leaves lightly foxed, light dampstain at bottom margin toward the end of the book, bookplate neatly removed. A good, sound copy, complete with half-title, of scarce book. Very little is known about the author, and we could find no dates... Read More
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The Master Jewelers
by Snowman, A. Kenneth, ed
New York: brams, [1990] Cloth. Quarto. With 377 illustrations, including 251 plates in full color. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket has small tear at top corner of back cover and a couple of light scratches..
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What Can Philosophy Determine? The Symposia Read at the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society, the Mind Association...Supplementary Volume XV>
by Aristotelian Society
London: Harrison and Sons, 1936 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Spine a bit faded. A very good copy.
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Mind, Matter and Purpose. The Symposia Read at the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association
by Aristotelian Society
London: Harrison and Sons, 1928 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Spine lightly faded, spine ends starting to fray. A good, clean copy.
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Le Merveilleux Voyage de la Goutte de Vitamine. Translated by Jeannette Marandon. Foreword byAndre Maurois
by [ Children's Books].[World War II]. Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies
[ New York: Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, [1942 ] First edition of this children's book that was sold to raise money for the Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies (CCFRS). "It often happens that my American friend say: 'Of course it is terrible to see French children starving. We long to do something about it. But do you really think we can, without danger, send them Vitamins and milk? Can we be sure they will get it?' The... Read More
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History and Human Nature: A Philosophical Review of European History and Culture 1750 -1850
by Solomon, Robert C
[Sussex:] Harvester Press, [1980] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Edges lightly foxed, minor shelfwear. Very good in very good d.j. Jacket has light edgewear.
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What Nietzsche Really Said
by Solomon, Robert C., and Kathleen M. Higgins
New York: Schocken Books, [2000] First edition. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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Jack Racer.
by Somerville, Henry, [pseudonym for Mary Gay Humphreys].
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901 First edition. Rare in commerce, especially in dust jacket. Jack Racer follows the titular character, an Illinois lawyer who runs for political office. Jack is also a ladies-man and the novel chronicles his flirtations. His political success is halted when his romantic relationships become suspect. According to a contemporary review from the Los Angeles Evening Press, the novel contains "clever character sketches" and "is tainted with so ambitious a root of aspiration as... Read More
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From Ebru to Marbled Paper. Vom Ebru zum Marmorpapier. On the History of Marbled Paper in the Orient and its way to Europe.
by Sonmez, Nedim
Tubingen: Sonmez & Jäckle-Sonmez, 1995 Limited to 250 copies, signed by the author. Full red cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. . Quarto. Eleven tipped in mounted paper samples. Text in German and English. A fine copy.
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Sonmez: Klassische Marmoriermust/Classic Marbling Patterns
by Sonmez, Nedim, and Nuran Sonmez.
Tubingen: 2002 One of 100 copies, signed by both authors. Tan cloth over marbled board folding case with tan silk ties. 12" x 8 1/2. 15 leaves of introductory material, printed on rectos only, plus 110 leaves, each with a mounted paper sample. Text in German and English. A fine copy.
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Manners & Customs of the French. Fac-simile of the scarce 1815 edition. With ten whole-page amusing and prettily tinted illustrations printed from the original copper plates (copper plates now destroyed).
by [Sotheran, Thomas]
London: The Leadenhall Press, 1893 One of 250 copies. Contemporary full red straight-grain morocco binding. Gilt-decorated spine, gilt borders on covers, gilt turn-ins, marbled edges. All edges gilt. Octavo. Ten hand-colored plates, plus facsimile of the 1815 title-page, entitled Letters from France Written by a Modern Tourist. Foreword by Henry Sotheran, bookseller and son of the author. A very attractive copy.
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Gluck 1895-1978: Her Biography
by Souhami, Diana
London: Pandora, [1988] First edition. Boards. Octavo. Black and white and color illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.
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Ellen Fitzarthur: A Metrical Tale, in Five Cantos.
by [Southey, Caroline.]
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820 First edition. Contemporary straight grained calf, covers decoratively bordered in gilt. Spine also decoratively gilt with raised bands, neatly rebacked with the remaining portion of the original spine laid down. Gilt turn ins. Marbled edges and endpapers. . Octavo. Bound without the half-title. Binding extremities rubbed and calf slightly worn away at corners. Very light foxing. Later ink signature on title page. A good copy of a scarce... Read More
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