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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

First printing (not stated) SIGNED BY AUTHOR DAVID BODENHAMER. x, 270 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket soiled with staining along spine; several short tears, nicks, and some bumping at edges. Brown cloth. Foxing to endpapers; coffee staining at upper spine margins of initial and rear leaves diminishing inward; pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. With Preface, Selected Bibliography, Notes on Contributors, and Index. Features eleven papers/essays (within three parts: "Law and Southern History," "Law and the Southern Economy," and "Law and Race in Southern History") originally presented at the February 1983 Conference on the Legal History of the South sponsored by Vanderbilt University School of Law and the University of Southern Mississippi. Sampling of essays are: "Regionalism and the Legal History of the South" (pages 3-29) by James W. Ely, Jr. and David J. Bodenhamer; "Law and the Antebellum Southern Economy: An Interpretation" (pages 49-68) by Tony A. Freyer; "The Virginia State Debt and the Judicial Power of the United States, 1870-1920" (pages 106-122) by John V. Orth; "Forging the Shackles: The Development of Virginia's Criminal Code for Slaves" (pages 125-146) by Philip J. Schwarz; "'Society is Not Marked by Punctuality in the Payment of Debts': The Chattel Mortgages of Slaves" (pages 147-170) by Thomas D. Morris; 'He read it to me from a book of English Law': Germans, Bench, and Bar in the Colonial South, 1715-1770" (pages 202-228) by A.G. Roeber. Laid-in between pages 34-35 is a July 1984 typed letter signed from USM President Aubrey K. Lucas on office stationary to L.T. Senter. Co-author/editor's four-line ink inscription "For Judge L.T. Senter - | With warmest regards | David J Bodenhamer | USM 7/24/84" on front free endpaper. Lyonel Thomas Senter Jr. (1933-2011) served as Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi from 1982-1998 and as Senior Judge from 1998-2011. ISBN 0878052100.…

INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO SENATOR MARYON PITTMAN ALLEN. 127 pages. Hardcover: H 29.75cm x L 23cm. Dust jacket rubbed; slender vertical slit to front panel; light soiling to rear panel with small ding near center. White cloth with blue stamping to spine and front board. Light foxing to fore-edge. Light toning to front endpapers; author's six-line ink inscription "For Maryon Allen . . . Marian King 1979" on front free endpaper; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Publisher's promotional sheet and mailing card laid-in at front endpapers. ISBN 0810917696.…

First edition (as stated upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [10], 286 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with some bumping/creasing near edges; several vertical furrows to front and rear panel's clear surface laminate; front flap retains publisher's printed price at top right and February 1969 date code at bottom right. Black and yellow cloth; vibrant gilt stamped lettering to spine. Toning to text block edges; deckle fore-edge. Author's near full page ten-line ink inscription on half-title page: "For Maryon Allen . . . Hope Ridings Miller August 15, 1969 Washington, D.C." Toning to pages 76-77 from laid-in newspaper clippings. Laid-in between pages 72-73 is publisher-supplied b/w publicity photo print of Hope Ridings Miller with President Lyndon B. Johnson and entourage along with two single-side stapled sheets from Holt, Rinehart promoting the book. Top fore-edge corners of pages 5-10 creased from fold-downs with ink underlining and margin marks - no other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and leaves otherwise appear to be clean. Binding is firm. Book was acquired directly from the estate of Maryon Pittman Allen (1925-2018) who, at the time of the inscription, was the wife of United States Senator from Alabama James Browning Allen (1912-1978) who was in office from January 3, 1969 to June 1, 1978. James Allen passed away from a heart attack and was succeeded by Maryon Allen who was appointed by Alabama Governor George Wallace thereupon holding the office from June 8, 1978 to November 7, 1978 but thereafter losing a special election. After leaving the Senate Maryon Allen worked at The Washington Post as a columnist, the same institution which had employed author Hope Ridings Miller as society editor from 1938 to 1944. ISBN 0030684307.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Pp. 423 - 831. In well preserved decorative gilt cover& spine.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair to Good. Circa 1862. 32pp, string bound, illustrated showing light foxing and corner turn.

Ninth printing of the 1936 revised and enlarged third edition. i-xiv with remaining leaves [150+] being unpaged. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 17.75cm. Dust jacket with nicks, scuffs, and short tears at edges; staining and some toning to spine panel; impressions and/or residue from removed tape strips at flap corners and on endpapers. Blue cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front board. Some soiling and foxing to text block edges and endpapers; a few scattered spots of light soiling to interior leaves. Binding is firm. Three-line ink inscription "Helen Potasnic | Parsons School of Design | Section 1." at top of front free endpaper; Helen Potasnic was the maiden name of Meridian, Mississippi artist Helen P. Shapiro (1914-2006). Shapiro's only formal art training was her one year enrollment at Parsons as her educational plans were cut short by the passing of her father in 1948. Shapiro was primarily a watercolor painter from the 1940s through the 1960s thereafter focusing on mixed media and fabric collages into the 1990s. Her work remains collected and sought after today. Book has a direct provenance to the artist as it was acquired from the Meridian estate of Helen Shapiro's son David Shapiro.…

First edition (per matching dates upon title and copyright pages) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xvi, 615 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 16cm. Lacks dust jacket. Dark navy blue cloth with mild mottling occurring along board edges and joints as well as on spine; gilt stamping upon spine and front board remains bright; light bump at spine head. Toning to text block edges and endpapers; some staining to bottom edge at fore-edge heel corner. Raleigh, North Carolina bookseller ticket (The State Book Shop) affixed at bottom right of front pastedown. Josephus Daniels (1862-1948) served as Secretary of the Navy from 1913-1921 under President Woodrow Wilson as well as being US Ambassador to Mexico from 1933 to 1941 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Daniels followed YEARS OF PEACE with a second volume titled THE WILSON ERA; YEARS OF WAR AND AFTER, 1917-1923 (UNC Press, 1946). Also affixed to the front pastedown is the personal signed bookplate of USDA research agronomist and Mississippi State University Distinguished Professor Edgar E. Hartwig (1913-1996), a.k.a. "Mr. Soybean," who specialized in developing insect and disease resistant soybean varieties. An estimated ninety percent of soybean varieties grown in the southeastern United States originated from Hartwig's research. A very good copy with Daniel's two-line signed inscription on the front free endpaper: "Sincerely yours | Josephus Daniels.".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good, Chipping. binding tight, owners inscription, High Towers has no DJ and is published in 1949 by McClelland and Stewart S2 5. Maps and Loose Chart of Kings, Queens of England Courtesy Previous Owner (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. This ring-bound album contains black-and-white photographs mounted onto black card. It is in fine condition and securely bound throughout. Each image is described in white. The album captures the entire journey, including moments like waiting for the train, lunch on the train, images from Folkestone, a last look at England, crossing the Channel, breakfast at Basel Station, Basel Cathedral, colleagues, moments on Lake Brienz, various adventures, and much more. The landscape album features 55 pages, with two or three photographs per page. Each image measures 5.5" x 3.5". Overall, it's an excellent collection documenting this memorable school trip.…

1st Printing. 16 pp. and one slip. Illustrated. 9-1/4" x 6" A VG copy. Some light rubbing to edges and corners of the wrapper, couple surface tears to verso of upper wrapper, pos to head of title page, light age toning and foxing to leaves. Last leaf is an "Autograph" page with seven signatures. Overall, clean and bright. Blue textured, card stock wrappers, gold lettering to upper wrapper, white glossy leaves, printed in black. Stapled. One white, paper slip scotch-taped in to lower wrapper, printed in black. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Priceclipped with name & 1934 ,HBDJ , 1912, 1st Edition, Overall Very Good condition VG/VG+ .for an 80+ year old volume, Binding is relaxed yet and secure. Corners & spine square with minimal / no wear. RED CLOTH Covers not faded WITH BLACK TITLES. Interior pages are quite clean considerable toning FOX THRUOUT (expected with pulp stock). Name of original owner on interior cover ENDPAPER & DATE. No other mark-up. No soiling. Original dust jacket with fresh colors, minimal scuffing, edge wear tiny Extremities chips. 269 pgs.…

72, [8] pp. B/w photographic images and illustrations throughout. Oblong 8vo. 7-3/4" x 10-3/4" Tipton High School (Tipton, Indiana) yearbook, humorously and irreverently illustrated by then-freshman Lex Herron. The 1912 senior class included Donald Tresidder, who later became President of Stanford University (1943 - 1948). Wrappers edgeworn and showing general soiling, upper corner lightly creased throughout. Previous owner's ink inscription to title page and brief ink notation to one later page; light soiling. Good+. Dull light blue paper wrappers with embossed navy initials and date on front.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Priceclipped with small creases ,HBDJ , 1909, 1st Edition, Overall Very Good condition VG/VG+ ,, Binding is relaxed yet and secure. Corners & spine square with minimal / no wear. LIME GREEN CLOTH Covers not faded WITH BLACK TITLES. Interior pages are quite clean considerable toning FOX THRUOUT (expected with pulp stock). Name of original owner on interior cover ENDPAPER & DATE. No other mark-up. No soiling. Original dust jacket with fresh colors, minimal scuffing, edge wear tiny Extremities chips. 275 pgs, 7-1/2 x 5 , This is an account of how the young millionaire, Dick Hamilton, unexpectedly did a great service for a stranger, and how, later learning that this same stranger needed help in saving his fortune, Dick took strenous action.…

Paperback. Condizione: New.

"Fifth Edition, New Impression, 1930" (as stated upon title page). xxviii, 595 pages. Hardcover: H 26.75cm x L 18.75cm. No dust jacket present. Dark olive green cloth; light rubbing and mottling; slight scuffing/fraying at spine ends and boards' fore-edge corners; gilt stamping to spine and front board remains bright. Toning and light soiling to text block edges. Toning/foxing to endpapers; personal bookplate of Francis McIlhenny Stifler on front pastedown noting that book was received as "payment for some articles for POLO magazine" and acquired in December 1935 (an artistically clever bookplate design with a rider atop a book-shaped horse jumping a three-rail fence with the rails being a pen and two pencils and right and left posts each supported by a pair of typewriters); ink telephone number at ffep center; a few spots of soiling to interior pages which otherwise remain clean. Binding is firm. Still a handsome book. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 5.25 pounds (2.38 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.…

Condizione: Very Good. Chromolith frontispiece + tailpieces by R.& E. Taylor et al. Duodecimo blue decorated cloth with red and green "painted" floral design (rubbed and slightly spotted) 80pp + publisher's catalogue on endpapers, which are foxed. Beautifully decorated prize inscription on flyleaf "Herbert Minty A Reward from the Baptist Sunday School Chapmansdale by W.M.C. 1893". *Story of children helping their family to overcome adversity. Moral tale quite scarce. 1 volume. Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1981,1st edition, 3rd printing,EX-LIBRARY USUAL WEAR,VG/VG- , ENDS DJ CORNERS LITTLE TATTY WORN, CLOTH PIN HARDBACK WITH GOLD GILT ON SPINE TITLE NICE CONDITION, book is a library discard with the few library markings.The paper has yellowed Only Slightly. dust jacket has wear to the edges and is wrinkled from handing few small edge chips. The spine isslightly faded and is less faded from where the library sticker was removed.The book has moderate wear. ,At a Fitness ranch in Arizona, Nancy discovers the reason For mysteriouys accidents thought to result from a Curse put on the Place by Hopi Indians.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Burnet, Thomas. TELLURIS THEORIA SACRA, ORIGINEM & MUTATIONES GENERALES ORBIS NOSTRI, QUAS AUT JAM SUBIIT, AUT OLIM SUBITURUS EST, COMPLECTENS. Amsterdam, J. Wolters, 1699. Small 4to. 558pp. Engraved Frontispiece, title, printed in red/black with vignette, (5), 12 illustrations in the text (p20, p21, p23, p24, p26, p30, p45, p70, p112, p150, p441, p258) + 2 folding maps, (1 of North & South America with California shown as an island, and 1 of the rest of the world). Early full vellum with ink-lettering of title on cover. Previous owner: Stanislas de Guatia, Rosicrucian and occultist. Overall very clean and in very good condition. "Ex LIBRIS de Stanislas de Guaita, avec une importante notice de sa main à la page 366." With the book-plate of the famous occultist Stanislas de Guaita and a marginal annotation on p366, ownership rubber stamp, and bookplate. Very good copy of what is regarded as the "best" edition. TELLURIS THEORIA SACRA, orbis nostri originem et mutationes generales quas aut jam subiit aut olim subiturus est complectens, appeared in Latin in 1681 as two books. A bookseller, or a previous owner has written on the inside front cover in pencil: "Histoire des Sciences de la Pleiade, p. 1104: "Burnet considére la terre comme un ovoïde gigantesque, dont la croûte se serait percée lors du déluge; les eaux couterraines auvaient jailli en surface, tandis que les fragments detachés de l'écore terrésstre auraient aormé les montagnes. La thèse de Burnet suscite un vif intérêt outre-manche, où elle est traduite in anglais en 1684." Caillet 1819. Ouvre fort curieux. " La théorie sacrée de la Terre contient l'Histoire des temps anti-diluviens, basée sur les paradoxes les plus fantaisistes." Occultist's Association Copy. --The World as a Gigantic Ovoid--. Burnet was an English theologian and a legal scholar who maintained that the earth resembled a gigantic egg; the shell was crushed at the deluge, the internal waters burst out, while the fragments of the shell formed the mountains, and at the same catastrophe the equator was diverted from its original location.…

241, [3 (blank)] pp. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2" Inscribed and dated by author to front free endpaper to "Bill" [Stafford], signed by the author on title page. Slight lean, otherwise VG+. Minor extremity wear to jacket, VG - VG+ Black cloth binding, silver stamped lettering and design to spine and front board. Light blue topstain. Color illustrated DJ 1st edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author. Signed. …

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODJ, 1931, STATED 1st Modern Library Edition on Copyright pg, GOOD CONDITION NOJACKET, Condition: Very Good ,Moderate rubbing wear to heel of spine, light rubbing to corners and head of spine WITH FADE to Spine cvr & 1 1/2 in split top left edge of spine cvr,Sun fading to spine, age toning to block edges, few foxing spots and mild soiling to block edge,Title page slightly separated at the gutter, hinge is still strong, binding is tight, Toledano Style 6 binding, Rust Red balloon cloth over flexible boards, Title in gilt to spine light wear,Kent torchbearer in gilt to front cover, Kent end papers,830 pages + ADS End with Nana , 6 5/8 x 4 1/42 inches,Text is clean,No markings or book plates,Relatively nice condition for 81 years old! TOPSTAIN matches book color, rub 7 wear extremities cvr, FOXING SMALL SPOTS outer pgs edge.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1958, 1ST EDITION, Not Xlib. VG/GOOD, Size: 8vo, wear & Small Chips to dust jacket EDGES & SPINE, Dust jacket now in protective mylar jacket .Green cloth decorated wih a Cranberry ,& Gaily Painted passenger cars which circle the Tracks from Cranberry Junction around the cranberry Bogs Passing te Miniature Village & all the other Fascinating Sights, but Toby wated to ride in the engineer's Cab.…

306, [6 (blank)] pp. 9-1/2" x6-3/4" Inscribed to poet and pacifist William Stafford on the flyleaf: "For Bill Stafford - | A small return for | many fine poems. | Andrew Jolly | 2/23/76." An address is written in ink in a different hand (presumably Stafford's) below Jolly's name in the inscription. Light wear to DJ. A VG+/VG example. Quarter-bound brown cloth spine over beige paper-covered boards. Dark brown lettering to spine, color illustrated DJ 1st edition. INSCRIBED by author to ffep. …

Hard Cover. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. HBDJ, 1932, Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-, AS-IS, First American Edition. 12mo , VeryGood green cloth hardcover volume light wear lettered in Black with Girl Holding Hat as onDJ. Slight wear, Some wear and tear to beautiful color DJ, Scuff Front Edge DJ & Tiny Chips Tears Extremeites, Fox Back DJ lists Linger-Nots thru Secret Maze, Front inner flap DJ & PreText lists Thru Searching For Her Parents, Small Bump Cvr Edge, Interior nice tight clean light Wear FOX, 200 pgs + ADS thru Next Door Neighbors, Fox stains Outer Pgs Edge . She has the ability of turning every event in her life into the most absorbing and astounding adventures, and when she is sent to visit her only other Uncle in the British West Indies, it proves to be the beginning of not only an entirely new mode of living, but a series of tremendously thrilling adventures and stirring deeds that every girl will thouroughly enjoy.…

12mo. [2pp.]/pp.9 -608/[6pp. - Adverts] . All pages lightly toned with red-ruled border. Clear English text throughout. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper and purple ink stamp: "N. N. Stranahan July 9th, 85. 75c". All page edges bright gilt. Clean blue cloth decorated boards with gilt titles. Edges lightly rubbed. A well preserved book with an interesting provenance. ** Nevada N. Stranahan (February 27, 1861 - July 6, 1928). Born Osewego County, New York. He was a member of the New York Senate 1896-1902. In March 1902, he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as Collector of Port of New York. In 1907 he had to resign his seat and resign the collectorship due to ill health. Stranahan died in Winwick, Huntingdonshire, England. His wife Elsie predeceased him in 1922. Afterward he lived in Winwick with his daughter Louise, the wife of Major Henry Torrens. Subsequently the collection of poetry books were passed down via various members of the Torrens family.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. HBDJ, 1928, 1st Edition,Hard Cover. Book Condition: GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: FAIR-, AS-IS, DJ Has Small Chips Pieces Missing at Extremities & On Front at Bottom Edge Takes out most Authors Last Name Marshall O/W OK condtion, Spine Ends DJ small Chips but Mainly Title is Intact, Back DJ soil ,wear & Small Edges Chips but all Print INTACT, Small light Roundish Stain Front DJ.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1957. First Edition , Second Printing. VG+/VG-, AS-IS, Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good- with slightFade Spine DJ. Very clean beige cloth boards with red school house illustration on cover, red lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying; hint of lightest surface wear to spine corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. no other marks. 134 pgs. . Clean dustjacket has slight wear and closed edge tears at top and bottom spine edges, very slight fading to spine. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. , Joe moved from the city to his grandfather's home town in New Hampshire and didn't really want to go to schoool in a little red schoolhouse. After a year of learning about people and doing things such as keeping cafeteria accounts which is how one learned math, he couldn't wait to get back to the little schoolhouse for another year.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1958, 1st edition,First Edition with Complete number line. VG/VG-, Book in Very Good condition. DJ IS VG-, Square and solid binding. Clean red boards with clean and bright interior. Red cloth with Black titles on Spine cvr, DJ Small chips and tears and spine tips. DJ Small chips to corners. Small tears to edges. Soiling on rear DJ. Crease to rear flap. NOT EX- library. Attractive copy in Brodart., Bound out of London for America in 1716. Pirates Sailed the Oceans in those Days. TOM FELL INTO THE HANDS OF CAPTAIN LAND, WHOSE PIRATE SHIP, SEA BIRD, was the terror of the ships, Spider with his cruel face & Long Arms was on Board. Peter Burchard, (illustratore).…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Thus. HBDJ, 1928, 1st Edition THUS, Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 8vo - over 734" - 934" tall. Original blue cloth covers, moderately soiled w/ mild rubbing to spine ends. .Light foxing throughout. Leaves age toned. DJ has wear and short tears to edges w/ light chipping to corners and spine ends. Soiled. 212 Pgs, Back DJ lists kids books ends with Terry & Pirates. …