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Jack Racer.

Jack Racer. by Somerville, Henry, [pseudonym for Mary Gay Humphreys].

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Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
Title
Jack Racer.
Author
Somerville, Henry, [pseudonym for Mary Gay Humphreys].
Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
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 politics. Publisher's tan dust jacket with title in red. . Octavo. Includes decorations on title page and throughout by Anne Goldthwaite. Minor tear to second leaf near head of spine. Light damp stain to upper margin. Clean throughout. A very, tight good copy. Advertisement for "new fiction," including the present work, laid in. Mary Gay Humphreys (1843-1915) was a journalist and author from Ohio. She also served as a nurse during the Civil War. Her writing was published in periodicals such as Harper's Bazaar and Scribner's Sons. In addition to journalism, she wrote several novels using various pen-names. Under the pseudonym Elinor Gray she co-authored Skillful Susy: A Book of Fairs and Bazars which reviewed household craft-work. Humphreys later published Jack Racer under the name Henry Somerville. The news believed Henry Somerville to be an Ohio-native working in the newspaper business: a biography not far off from Humphrey's own.
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... Account of Experiments ... Relative to the Times of Burning Fuzes Driven by Machine ... with ... correspondence ... on ... artillery .... by MacDonald, J

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books
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... Account of Experiments ... Relative to the Times of Burning Fuzes Driven by Machine ... with ... correspondence ... on ... artillery ....
Author
MacDonald, J
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
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Very good, untrimmed with occasional spotting.
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London: Printed for the Author, 1819. First Edition.. Modern cloth.. Very good, untrimmed with occasional spotting.. 8vo. The 4 plates illusrate cannon and signalling devices. A somewhat eccentric book made up of two different tracts that the author felt were of urgent military importance. The second tract, here present with its own title page, deals with the rather tired subject of optical telegraphy as a means of distance communication. The first tract, however, concerns itself with artillery, munitions, field mortars, and cannon of all kinds and their theory, construction, and strategic disposition in battle. The author was an advocate of the use of artillery to support infantry assaults and appears to have known what he was about in the technical end of these matters. The author survived stationing to Sumatra and Penang where he spent 17yrs. in various posts; he was responsible for the first useful maps of Sumatra and a founding member of the Asiatic Society. Absent from Riling; see DNB XII, 484-' 85.
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History of Medicine in New Jersey, and of its Medical Men, from the Settlement of the Province to A.D. 1800. by Wickes, Stephen.

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History of Medicine in New Jersey, and of its Medical Men, from the Settlement of the Province to A.D. 1800.
Author
Wickes, Stephen.
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Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
Description
8vo, brown cloth, gilt partial title on spine, 449 pp. Ex-library copy (South River, NJ), library stamp on endpapers and title, some foxing, browning and aging, a little extremity wear; otherwise very good. Wickes a doctor himself was a member of the Medical Society of New Jersey, the AMA, and the New Jersey Historical Society. This is a somewhat scare title that includes coverage of a range of subjects from early inoculation practices to military hospitals. In the second part of the work, Wickes includes brief biographical sketches of New Jersey physicians.
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A Gift of Wings. Illustrated by K. O. Eckland. by Bach, Richard.

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A Gift of Wings. Illustrated by K. O. Eckland.
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Bach, Richard.
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Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London: Heinemann, (1975). First Edition. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, ix, 337 pp. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges; in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: Richard Bach’s first book since Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a collection of forty-eight stories and articles which celebrate the highlights of fifteen years of flight and flying. He has a sparkling facility for communicating information about flying and aircraft together with an astonishing dreamlike imagination that is as boundless as the sky, though it is no more a book for flying buffs alone than is Francis Chichester just for sailors. Whether he is writing about barnstorming in biplanes, the hazards of being a fighter test-pilot, coping with aircraft that many would consider museum pieces, or the memorable day when he shot down the Red Baron -- for a film -- Richard Bach shares with everyone the meaning and joy of flight. Together with stirring illustrations by K O Eckland, all the book’s thoughts and actions lead in an overall way to the themes of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and contribute to an understanding of that special ingredient of adventure, freedom and discovery with which Richard Bach flavours his life.

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