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[Ledger of the Citizen's Bank of Nevada City, California, August 1881 to June 1883]

[Ledger of the Citizen's Bank of Nevada City, California, August 1881 to June 1883]

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Title
[Ledger of the Citizen's Bank of Nevada City, California, August 1881 to June 1883]
Seller
Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
[Nevada City, California], 1881. Leather bound. Very good. Folio size, 626 pp., with accompanying "History of Nevada County" While the California Gold Rush may have begun in 1849, mining activities continued for many decades and this bank ledger offers a glimpse into the individuals and businesses that were still in operation in the Nevada City area for the years 1881-1883. The Citizen's Bank of Nevada City received its state charter in 1876 and was still in operation as of 1910 (information from "Banking in California", by Benjamin Wright). Its founders were Dr. R. M. Hunt, J. T. Morgan, George Hughes, L. Housman, T.W. Sigourney, Niles Searls and E.M. Preston. Perhaps the most notable individual was Niles Searls as he served as judge for the region from 1855-1862 and very briefly served in the state senate; entries for his dealings with the bank are frequent in the ledger (information from "The History of Nevada County, Thompson and West 1880"). The ledger is interesting in that it contains multiple entries for the continuing operations of several mining companies, notably The Blue Tent Mining Company and The Nevada City Mining Company, also fascinating are the numerous entries for receipt of and withdrawls of gold dust and the shipment of gold bars. An image of the bank building may be found on the page facing page 32 in "The History of Nevada County", a copy of which is being included in this offering (the reproduction of the original, published by Howell-North Books in 1970). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in part brown leather and part brown suede in a geometric pattern over boards, three raised leather bands to spine, two compartments with black leather labels, one reads "Cash Book", the second reads "Citizens Bank", marbled endpapers, hinges reinforced, "Nevada City and "Aug. 1, [18]81" on page 1; folio size (18" by 12"), pagination: 1-626. ___CONDITON: Overall very good, the hinges and textblock are sound, with vintage manufacturers sticker ("H.S. Crocker & Co.") to front pastedown; three letters in black marker to front board measuring 3", black marker to top edge, corners bumped and rubbed to boards. ___POSTAGE: Please note that the volume is excessively heavy, therefore additional postage will apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
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Lord John Signatures. With an Introduction by Stephen King by KING, Stephen, et al.

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Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
Title
Lord John Signatures. With an Introduction by Stephen King
Author
KING, Stephen, et al.
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Fine copy
Description
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1991. First edition. One of 150 deluxe copies, of which this copy is designated "Presentation copy" in print on the colophon page; signed by the participants, including King, John Barth, Jamaes Blaylock, Robert Bloch, T. C. Boyle, Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, James Crumley, Louise Erdrich & Michael Dorris, Dennis Etchison, Gerald Ford, Richard Ford, Bruce Francis, Ellen Gilchrist, Jim Harrison, William Kennedy, Harry Crews, Thomas McGuane, Tony Hillerman, Ursula Le Guin, John L'Heureux, Elmore Leonard, Norman Mailer, Richard Matheson, Brian Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Robert B. Parker, Tim Powers, Reynolds Price, James Purdy, Dan Simmons, Peter Straub, Ross Thomas, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Eudora Welty, Richard Yates, Donald Westlake, James Lee Burke, and William Everson. Fine copy. Oblong 4to, original quarter blue leather and cloth, publisher's slipcase. Fine copy.
Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition; or, an Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery

Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition; or, an Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery by [Abolition]: [Philadelphia Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society]: [Heyrick, Elizabeth]

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Title
Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition; or, an Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery
Author
[Abolition]: [Philadelphia Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society]: [Heyrick, Elizabeth]
Seller
The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition
Good.
Description
Philadelphia: Published by the Philadelphia Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Printed by Merrihew and Gunn, 1836. Good.. 24pp. Disbound. Ex-Vermont State Library, with embossed blindstamp and remnants of shelf label on title page and small numbered ink stamp on first page of text. Remnants of original wrappers along outer gutters, mostly minor foxing throughout. A rare Philadelphia edition of an early abolitionist tract by Elizabeth Heyrick, an English Quaker. The work was first published in Great Britain in 1824 and reprinted several times in both England and the United States. The present work is just the second edition published in Philadelphia and the only edition sponsored by the Philadelphia Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, which formed in 1833. The Philadelphia Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society was created in the same year as the American Anti-Slavery Society by a group of Pennsylvania women, both White and Black, including Lucretia Mott. The organization is credited with being among the first and only racially integrated abolitionist societies in antebellum America. Heyrick's work was essentially focused on immediate and total abolition at a time when most abolitionists hoped the end of the slave trade would result in a gradual end to the peculiar institution. Heyrick's central argument calls for a boycott of West Indian sugar as a way to force a faster end to "the hydra-headed monster of slavery." Interestingly, the present work includes a one-page introduction not present in other editions, written expressly by someone in the PLASS. The introduction emphasized the impact of the work upon initial publication, noting that "it proved greatly advantageous to the cause of Emancipation in the British West Indies." It also claims the work was so influential to the general cause of abolition that it convinced no less than William Wilberforce "and other leading abolitionists" to transition as "gradualists" to those calling for an end to slavery "immediately." The conclusion of the introduction continues to praise the work's impact: "It is commended to the attentive, serious perusal of the reader, as the same principles and duties that apply to slavery in the West Indies are equally applicable to that which exists in the United States.
William Eggleston: At Zenith (Signed)

William Eggleston: At Zenith (Signed) by EGGLESTON, William

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Seller: Harper's Books
Title
William Eggleston: At Zenith (Signed)
Author
EGGLESTON, William
Seller
Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
Blue cloth boards with color image affixed to front panel. Save for minor scuff near spine, a fine copy.
Description
Steidl, 2013. Blue cloth boards with color image affixed to front panel. Save for minor scuff near spine, a fine copy.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. SIGNED by Eggleston to title page in black marker. An elegant revisiting of William Eggleston's Wedgwood Blue series of cloud photographs, with 33 color plates. Introduced by a poem from Yeats and concluding with a short text from William Eggleston III, who edited the book.
The Woman in Black

The Woman in Black by Adams, Herbert

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Title
The Woman in Black
Author
Adams, Herbert
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1932. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Lending library stamp on front pastedown, foxing to prelims, else very good in a slightly darkened and lightly worn jacket that as a horizontal closed tear to the top of the front panel.
The Old Wives Tale

The Old Wives Tale by Bennett, Arnold. Swinnerton, Frank (intro). Austen, John (illustrator)

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Title
The Old Wives Tale
Author
Bennett, Arnold. Swinnerton, Frank (intro). Austen, John (illustrator)
Seller
John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1941. [New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941. 2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Dust jacket spine panels toned and with some edgewear, board tips of vol. 1 bumped, slipcase a little worn, volumes clean and square. ß Edition of 1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Bennett's very successful story of the lives of two sisters which was adapted into a 1921 film starring Fay Compton.
Miss Nelly O'Brien

Miss Nelly O'Brien

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Title
Miss Nelly O'Brien
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Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Very good. Some toning, spotting, minor dust soiling.
Description
London: H.G. & Co, 1820. Very good. Some toning, spotting, minor dust soiling.. Scarce mezzotint proof with etching of "Miss Nelly O'Brien", after the original painting by Joshua Reynolds. Signed "S.W. Reynolds" as engraver. Trimmed, measuring 8.5" by 6" and mounted on thicker card measuring 9.5" by 6.75". Plate mark visible.
Cubist Poems

Cubist Poems by Max Weber

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Title
Cubist Poems
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Max Weber
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
London: Elkin Mathews, 1914. Pictorial cloth. Very Good +. A solid, clean copy of the 1914 1st trade edition. Crisp and VG+ in its blue cloth, with bright gilt-image and titling along the front panel. 16mo, Foreword by Alvin Langdon Coburn, to whom the book also was dedicated.
Dead and Company - 2018 Summer Tour - VIP Poster

Dead and Company - 2018 Summer Tour - VIP Poster

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Title
Dead and Company - 2018 Summer Tour - VIP Poster
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
Mint
Description
2018. Mint. Designed and signed by John Vogl.
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The bulletin of mathematical biophysics, volume 1, numbers 1-4

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Title
The bulletin of mathematical biophysics, volume 1, numbers 1-4
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1939. Contents of number 1: [1] Landahl, H.D. Mathematical biophysics of cell respiration, 1-17. [2] Weinberg, Alvin M. Note on biological periodicities, 19-22. [3] Rashevsky, N. The mechanism of cell division, 23-30. [4] Young, Gale. On the mechanics of viscous bodies and elongation in ellipsoidal cells, 31-46. [5] Rashevsky, N. Mathematical biophysics of the cell with reference to the contractility of tissues and amoeboid movements, 47-62. [6] Householder, A.S. Concerning Rashevsky's theory of the gestalt, 63-73. NUMBER 2, June, 1939 N. Rashevsky. The mechanism of cell division, ii-ii. Gale Young. Elongation and constriction in cell division. 75-91. N. Rashevsky. On the so-called plasticity of the central nervous system, 93-94. H.D. Landahl. Contribution to the mathematical biophysics of the central nervous system, 95-118. NUMBER 3, Sept, 1939 N. Rashevsky. Mathematical biophysics of growth, 119-127. A. S. Householder Studies in the mathematical theory of excitation, 129-141 John M. Reiner Diffusion in colloidal media ,143-149 Volume 1, Number 4, December, 1939 Robert R. Williamson A comparison of electrical and diffusion forces in the metabolism of electrolytes 151--157 H. D. Landahl A contribution to the mathematical biophysics of psychophysical discrimination II . . . . . . . . . . . 159--176 Gale Young Streaming in diffusion fields . . . . . 177--184 N. Rashevsky Mathematical biophysics of growth . . . 185--185 N. Rashevsky The mechanism of cell division . . . . . 185--185 Gale Young Elongation and constriction in cell division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--185 Gale Young On the mechanics of viscous bodies and elongation in ellipsoidal cells . . . . 185--185 Black cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Ex-Library. Library stamps on fep, title page, and rfep. [2], 188pp. Very good+/-.
The Art of Being Happily Married

The Art of Being Happily Married by Andre Maurois; Crystal Herbert [trans.]

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Title
The Art of Being Happily Married
Author
Andre Maurois; Crystal Herbert [trans.]
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1953. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1953]. First American Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket by Mircea Vasiliu retaining original price ($2.95); viii,[2],145pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, spine panel a bit toned, scattered foxing, brief soil to rear endpapers, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy.
White Murder

White Murder by David Wishart

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Title
White Murder
Author
David Wishart
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780340771273
Condition
Very Good+
Description
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002. Very Good+/Very Good. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (£18.99); vi,[2],512pp.; map illus. Light wear to jacket extremities, textblock uniformly toned due to paper quality, else a Very Good or better copy overall. A Marcus Corvinus Mystery.
THE ESSENCE OF LUSTRE IN PORCELAIN ART

THE ESSENCE OF LUSTRE IN PORCELAIN ART by WHITE, Paula

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Title
THE ESSENCE OF LUSTRE IN PORCELAIN ART
Author
WHITE, Paula
Seller
Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
Published by the Author, 1980. WHITE, Paula. THE ESSENCE OF LUSTRE IN PORCELAIN ART. [Loveland, Colorado]: Published by the Author, 1980. Quarto: spiral-bound pictorial cardboard covers; 32 pages. First Edition. Signed by the author: "Paula White Hosmer" on the title page. A scarce book on Lustre porcelain art, especially when signed by the author. Very Good (some rubbing covers; contents clean & tight). $85.00.
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SPEECH DELIVERED ... AT NIBLO'S SALOON, IN NEW-YORK,; On the 15th March, 1837 by WEBSTER, Daniel

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SPEECH DELIVERED ... AT NIBLO'S SALOON, IN NEW-YORK,; On the 15th March, 1837
Author
WEBSTER, Daniel
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Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description
First Edition. 8vo, pp. 32. Leaves sewn together, no wraps. Light moisture staining,edges little chipped, o/w VG.
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Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America, With essays by Harry Rand, Frederick Leach, Susan Rather and four others

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Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America, With essays by Harry Rand, Frederick Leach, Susan Rather and four others
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition
As new.
Description
St. Paul, Mn: Minnesota Museum of Art, 1985. 1st Edition. Softcover. As new.. Bound in publisher's original glossy printed wraps. 160 pages. 30 full color illustrations, 119 black and white illustrations. One of 2500 copies printed (hb and pb combined) by West Publishing.
Archivio Storico Italiano. Fondata da G.P. Vieusseux. Anno CXXIX. 472. Disp. IV

Archivio Storico Italiano. Fondata da G.P. Vieusseux. Anno CXXIX. 472. Disp. IV

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Archivio Storico Italiano. Fondata da G.P. Vieusseux. Anno CXXIX. 472. Disp. IV
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1972. Paperback. Good. Paperback. Beige paper wrappers with black title to spine and front cover. Dampstained on cover and first few pages. Minor browning to margins and chipping to edges of wrappers and some pages. A good reading copy of this Italian history periodical. pages 387 - 586. ITA/041219.
The Glass Cage
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The Glass Cage by Carr, Nicholas

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Title
The Glass Cage
Author
Carr, Nicholas
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780393240764
Condition
Very Good
Description
W. W. Norton & Co., 2014. Very Good. Carr, Nicholas. The Glass Cage. NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2014. 1st edition. 276pp. Indexed. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped foot of spine.. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently rubbed edges..
Narcissus Festival Cookbook and Cherry Blossom Cookbook 1960s/70s HAWAIIAN COOKBOOKS

Narcissus Festival Cookbook and Cherry Blossom Cookbook 1960s/70s HAWAIIAN COOKBOOKS

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Narcissus Festival Cookbook and Cherry Blossom Cookbook 1960s/70s HAWAIIAN COOKBOOKS
Seller
Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fair
Description
Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaiian Electric Company, 1970. Staplebound wraps. Fair. Staplebound wraps. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". Unpaginated, 12pp each. Staplebound pictorial wraps. Heavy wear to Narcissus Festival Cookbook, with 3 3/4" X 3" open tear to rear wrap. Light soiling and edgewear to wraps. Bindings are sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid pair of these two cookbooks prepared "with a spirit of Aloha" for the Narcissus and Cherry Blossom Festivals in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1969 and 1970.
The Wonder Book of the Air

The Wonder Book of the Air by Allen, C.B.; Lyman, Lauren D

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Title
The Wonder Book of the Air
Author
Allen, C.B.; Lyman, Lauren D
Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1936. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x7x1. Small spot on bottom edge, ink stamp and pencil name and address on rear endpaper. 1936 Large Hardcover. xi, 339 pp. Monochrome photographs throughout. Includes: An Air Trip Across America; South America; Around the World; A World in Quest of Wings; Man Flies; Why an Airplane Flies; Early Flights; The Golden Age of Flying; Airships; The Air Explorers; The Heart of the Airplane; In the Pilot's Cabin; Motorless Flight; Women in Aviation; Military Aviation; The Plane in Peace; The Air Mail; The Marvels of Aircraft Radio; Flying Phraseology and Sky Slang; The Future; Chronology of Famous Events in the Story of Flight.

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