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Singing Rails


Pease, Herbert L.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner signature on front endpaper. Covered in black fabric, has a little age wear, light abrasions and discoloration, but still intact. Pages and edges yellowed with age, slight bit of foxing to edges. Top edge dyed red. From the foreward: The incidents related in this chronicle of railroading as I knew it in the early 1900's are without exception drawn from actual happenings."

Record # 30593


Price: $25.00 

Sinhalese LiteratureGodakumbura, Dr. C.E.
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Sinhalese Literature


Godakumbura, Dr. C.E.

Softcover. Battaramulla, Department of Cultural Affairs, 2nd Edition, 1996, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Softcover. French flaps. Yellow wrapper, has some age wear (see image). Binding good, front flyleaf corner clipped. A history of Sinhalese Literature.

Record # 33532


Price: $19.00 

Sink or Be Sunk!: The Naval Battle in the Mississippi Sound That Preceded the Battle of New Orleans (SIGNED)Violette, Paul Estonza LA
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Sink or Be Sunk!: The Naval Battle in the Mississippi Sound That Preceded the Battle of New Orleans (SIGNED)


Violette, Paul Estonza LA

Hardcover. Mississippi, Annabelle Pub, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Note from publisher laid in. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.

Record # 470940


Price: $25.00 

 

Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1829 - 1894: And His Contribution to the Development of Criminal Law


Radzinowicz, Leon

Softcover. London, UK, Bernard Quaritch, First Edition, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 68 pages. Grey pamphlet. Some age toning and light wear to wrap edges. Sewn to spine edge. Frontis illustration of subject with light foxing to edges, in black & white. Light toning throughout. Paper clips & marks to a few early pages, page 69 is relocated by publisher to an earlier section. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751544


Price: $15.00 

 

Sir John Vanbrugh - The Playwright as Architect


McCormick, Frank

Hardcover. University Park, PA, Penn State University, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, B&W illustrations, 196 pages dust jacket with tape repaired tears

Record # 1007


Price: $15.00 

 

Sir Philip Sidney - The Shepherd Knight


Howell, Roger

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 56388


Price: $15.00 

 

Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet.


Duncan-Jones, Katherine

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1991-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462159


Price: $25.00 

 

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings


Keynes (ed.), Sir Geoffrey

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 416 pages. Gilt title on spine, b/w photographs and illustrations throughout. Slight yellowing on edges, dust jacket is slightly age-worn with a couple water spots on spine. Clean inside.

Record # 30119


Price: $19.00 

 

Sir Walter Scott As a Judge: His Decisions in the Sheriff Court of Selkirk


Chisholm, K.C., John

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Ireland, W. Green & Son, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Wear to edges, lower edges bumped, spine lightly rubbed. Interior very good.

Record # 607666


Price: $25.00 

SISTER SOCIETIES: WOMEN'S ANTISLAVERY ORGANIZATIONS IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICASALERNO, BETH A
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SISTER SOCIETIES: WOMEN'S ANTISLAVERY ORGANIZATIONS IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA


SALERNO, BETH A

Hardcover. DeKalb, Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 233 pages. Pencil markings throughout, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458590


Price: $38.00 

 

Sitting Up With the Dead - A Storied Journey Through the American South


Petro, Pamela

New York, Arcade, 1st U.S., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages. B&W illustrations.

Record # 305064


Price: $23.00 

 

Six Crises (SIGNED)


Nixon, Richard M.

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 460 pages, gray cloth covers. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. SIGNED BY NIXON on tipped-in page. Xerox of dealer's letter laid in on the authenticity of Nixon's autograph. (He suggests it's authentic).

Record # 407010


Price: $125.00 

 

Sketches of Noted Maine Horses - Volume 2


Thompson, J. W.

Hardcover. Canton ME, J. W. Thompson, 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 348 pages, b&w illustrations, gilt title on spine. An alphabetical list of Maine 2.30 horses with an Appendix containing the pedigrees of the principal Standard Bred Stallions standing for service in the State, not Maine bred. Volume Two only, there was a Volume One published 1n 1882. Worn ex-library with spine sticker, bookplate inside front cover. The last 20 pages have a water stain.

Record # 411705


Price: $63.00 

 

Sketches of the War: A Series of Letters to the North Moore Street School


Nott, Charles C.

Hardcover. New York, Anson D. F. Randolph, 1865, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages. Beveled edges. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Chipping to spine cover. Rubbing to covers.

Record # 603499


Price: $32.00 

 

Ski Track on the Battlefield


Firsoff, V.A.

Hardcover. NY, A. S. Barnes, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos.

Record # 54609


Price: $15.00 

 

Skyscrapers: Reaching for the Sky


Wright, Herbert

Hardcover. Bath, England, Parragon, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Decorated cover boards, glossy. Decorated endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. In this wonderfully illustrated book, Herbert Wright provides a spectacular history of the world's greatest skyscrapers from the eighteenth century to present.

Record # 32290


Price: $23.00 

 

Skyward


Byrd, Richard E.

Hardcover. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lakeside Classic edition. 388 pages, b&w photographs. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge gilt. Light soiling to covers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850800


Price: $35.00 

Slave Soul of Russia, The: Moral Masochism and the Cult of SufferingRancour-Laferriere, Daniel
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Slave Soul of Russia, The: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering


Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel

Hardcover. NY, NY University Press, 1st ed., 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 330 pages. Light pencil underlining in the introduction. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855527


Price: $25.00 

Slavery and Human ProgressDavis, David Brion
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Slavery and Human Progress


Davis, David Brion

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 374 pages. Light wear and foxing to dust jacket, all edges shows faint foxing. A nice, tight copy

Record # 450560


Price: $12.00 

 

Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny


Morrison, Michael A.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 396 pages. Tan cloth cover, some light wear, very minor foxing. Dust jacket has some edgewear. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 455537


Price: $19.00 

Slavery and the Annexation of TexasMerk, Frederick
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Slavery and the Annexation of Texas


Merk, Frederick

Hardcover. Random House Children's Books, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 290 pages, plus index in rear. Light dust jacket edge wear, remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 457953


Price: $25.00 

 

Slaves in the Family


Ball, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st , 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Winner of National Book Award

Record # 50910


Price: $30.00 

 

Slavic Traditions: The Story of Great Music


Johnson, David

Softcover. NY, Time Inc., 1st ed., 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. Color photos throughout. Light shelf wear. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, foxing to end papers. Tight copy.

Record # 855630


Price: $15.00 

 

Slavs, The: A Cultural and Historical Survey of the Slavonic Nations


Portal, Roger

Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, Publishers, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 508 pages, b&w illustrations and photos. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Black dust jacket with light shelf-wear, front flap creased. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607883


Price: $12.00 


  
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