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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "County government is as American as a pumpkin," says Bob Miller in his serious, yet light-hearted story of an active political life in Upstate New York. From his boyhood dreams of being a farmer, through his teen-age hopes of becoming a hotel manager and a baseball player, with the constant nag of a musical career at his elbow, and finally to the plunge into public life with its resultant disappointments, excitement and rewards, Bob Miller reveals himself to be just as American as that proverbial pumpkin. Anyone who has ever been active or interested in politics or government will hardly fail to see himself in many of the anecdotes and chapters. Politics is People is the engaging self-portrait of a determined and human public servant and local statesman who follows the conviction that politics is people are one and the same. says Bob Miller in his serious, yet light-hearted story of an active political life in Upstate New York. From his boyhood dreams of being a farmer, through his teen-age hopes of becoming a hotel manager and a baseball player, with the constant nag of a m (illustrator).…

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: Ruth and Naomi German: Ruth und Noomi French: Ruth et Naomi Spanish: Ruth y Naomi High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (between 1880 and 1895). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.…

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: Jeremiah Meyer German: Jeremiah Meyer French: Jeremiah Meyer Spanish: Jeremiah Meyer High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 18th century (1769). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.…

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. None. No.

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Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: B. West, Historical Painter German: B. West, Historischer Maler French: B. Ouest, Peintre historique Spanish: B. Oeste, Pintor Histórico High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 18th century (1768). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.…

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: Portrait George Stubbs German: Porträt George Stubbs French: Portrait George Stubbs Spanish: Retrato George Stubbs High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 18th century (1769). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No. …

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: Sir William Chambers German: Sir William Chambers French: Sir William Chambers Spanish: Sir William Chambers High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 18th century (1769). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.…

Condition: Good. - Hume's signature, "Joseph Hume", is penned in black ink on a slip of cream-colored paper 3/4 of an inch high by 2-5/8 inches wide. The paper is mounted on a somewhat larger piece of card. The slip of paper is lightly foxed around the edges. Good. Joseph Hume [1777-1855] was a Scottish doctor and a Radical Member of Parliament, born in Montrose, Angus. He moved to India in 1797 and was commissioned as a surgeon to an army regiment. He was able to take up work as an interpreter and commissary-general owing to his knowledge of the Indian language. After resigning and returning home in 1808, he traveled around England and Europe before entering politics as MP for Weymouth, Dorset. He became acquainted with John Mill and the philosophical reformers of the school of Jeremy Bentham. Thereafter he devoted himself to political activism, embracing such causes as improving the life of the working classes and trade union reform. He was especially known for holding the feet of Chancellors of the Exchequer to the fire, challenging every item of public expenditure, exercising a check on extravagance and causing the word "retrenchment" to be added to the Radical program of "peace and reform".…

NORMAN MITTELMANN (1932-2019) kanadischer Opernsänger, Bariton Oper Zürich, Hamburg, New York / Canadian operatic baritone who had an active international opera career from the 1950s through the 1990s. A winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Frühes Rollen-Porträtfoto, eigenhändig signiert. …

Condition: Very Good. First US edition hard back binding in publisher's original fawn cloth covers, red and black title and author lettering to the spine with red and black design to the upper panel, orange dyed upper edges, fore edges uncut. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 339 printed pages of text. Age marking to the end papers, a little foxing to the closed page edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition art deco dust wrapper with very little wear to the edges, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [Literature].…

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 366 pages. 10.00x6.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original turquoise cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered navy back and front. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Author's first book. Contains 223 pp with 4 full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Smart parrot bookplate inside and printed name and address 'Margaret Chace, Nanaquaket Road, Tiverton, Rhode Island'. In Very Good clean and bright condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR GIRLS.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. There is a blue plaque at his house in Onslow Square, announcing that he lived there from 1851 to his death in 1867. 2pp, 12mo. On first leaf of bifolium with mourning border. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. Addressed to 'Mon cher Monsieur'. He has returned home after several days in the country, to find his 'garde manger si bien rempli des preuves de votre bon et bienveillant souvenir'. He wishes him a happy new year, and many other years with 'toutes les prosperités qu'on peut esperés en ce monde', and ends in thanking him again for his 'excellent cadeau'.…

TURHAN BEY (1922-2012) österreichischer Schauspieler und Fotograf. Er war ein populärer Hauptdarsteller im Hollywood der 1940er Jahre / Austrian-born actor of Turkish and Czech Jewish origin. Turhan was active in Hollywood from 1941 to 1953. He was dubbed "The Turkish Delight" by his fans. FOTO, EIGENHÄNDIG SIGNIERT (Photodruckbild, mit Katharine Hepburn) (Einzelporträt signiert für Euro 45,- vorhanden). …

Condition: Fine. 8½'' x 5''. Certified Copy No. 9 of 14 first day Royal Navy cover stamped envelope. SIGNED ' Chris Craig | Captain Royal Navy HMS Alacrity'. One cachet insert. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. FALKLAND ISLANDS.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Wanted Poster 20 x 20 cm. In acid free Mylar sleeve. Will be shipped flat between heavy cardboard layers, never rolled. [Transcription:] IDENTIFICATION ORDER NO. 1893 June 7, 1943 WANTED ALLAN KRAMER FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON, D. C.F.P.C. (NONE AVAILABLE) [Penciled:] 3-3355 [Printed:] FBI No. 3,302,657 IMPERSONATION DESCRIPTION Age: 41 years, date and place of birth not known; Height: 5 feet, 7 inches; Weight: 160 pounds; Eyes: blue-gray; Hair: dark brown, wavy, thin on top, gray at temples; Complexion: ruddy; Build: medium; Race: white (Jewish);Nationality: American; Occupation: confidence man; Scars and marks: several teeth missing right upper jaw, several lower teeth chipped; Peculiarities: short pudgy hands, persuasive manner, convincing talker with slight Southern accent but uses poor grammar, complains of backache, usually wears small mustache, wears rimless glasses, usually wears sweaters, borrows money on various pretexts representing himself as member of wealthy family, good duckpin bowler. RELATIVES (none known) CRIMINAL RECORD (none known)(Signature) Allan Kramer Photographs taken about 1939 An indictment in four counts was returned by a Federal Grand Jury at Boston, Massachusetts, on March 1, 1940, charging subject as Allan Kramer with violation of the Federal Impersonation Statute in that he did, on or about February 13, 15, and 16, 1940, at Boston, Massachusetts, unlawfully and with intent to defraud, obtain certain services and money by falsely assuming and pretending to be an officer of the U. S. Government. An indictment was returned by a Federal Grand Jury at Shelby, North Carolina, on March 18, 1941, charging subject as Allan Kramer with violation of the Federal Impersonation Statute in that he did, between February 26, 1940 and April 16, 1940 at Charlotte, North Carolina, unlawfully and with intent to defraud, obtain certain money by falsely assuming and pretending to be an officer of the U. S. Government. Law enforcement agencies kindly transmit any additional criminal record or information to the nearest division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U. S. Department of Justice. If apprehended, please notify the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U. S. Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., or the Special Agent in Charge of the division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation listed on the back hereof which is nearest your city. (over) Issued by: JOHN EDGAR HOOVER, DIRECTOR" Allan Kramer was actually an alias used by a notorious confidence man named Alexander Arlinsky. According to contemporary news records and historical archives of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Arlinsky eluded capture for years by changing his name, altering his appearance, and moving across the country. He was finally tracked down and arrested by FBI agents in a Manhattan hotel room on July 23, 1946. While exact federal sentencing records from 1946 are not broadly digitized, he faced a massive stack of multiple multi-count federal indictments across multiple states (including Massachusetts, North Carolina, and California) for violating the Federal Impersonation Statute. He was extradited back to Boston to face these charges, where a standard federal impersonation conviction at the time carried heavy consecutive prison terms and steep fines for each count. Arlinsky was a career criminal who reportedly operated under 37 distinct aliases and married as many as six different women across the country to swindle them out of their money. FBI records show he specialized in posing as an FBI Special Agent or a secret Army intelligence officer to target wealthy families and courted women. Following his prison time, he eventually returned to his family's home region of Lowell, Massachusetts, and passed away in mid-1955. counts of violating the Federal Impersonation Statute under his "Allan Kramer" alias. This triggered a widespread tracking effort documented extensively in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. (illustrator).…

Two pages, 12mo, corner chipped with loss, evidence of its being tipped onto something, not affecting the text, mainly good condition. Text: "Many thanks for letting me know of the coming concert. Being here I should probably not otherwise have heard of it. I do hope your lovely music will be properly appreciated and the concert altogether a great success. I cannot - alas! attend it myself. I am here on the Sick List more or less, and not yet [.?] to anything much in the way of exertion[.]".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1st Edition, 1973. Purple Hardcover Titled in Silver gilt on Spine Cvr. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Flat signed by author on title page in ink. Good with some mottling to cloth mainly along edges. No remainder marks. No prior owner markings or bookplates. In very good dust jacket. No jacket tears or chips. Signed by Author, plus short information on lesser knowns. Mary Pickford, CAROL DEMPSTER, Blanche Sweet, The first Griffith Girl was the 18-year old Lillian Gish in the Birth of a Nation. During his career he acquired a whole stable of them, some like the Gish sisters and Mary Pickford still remembered, most long forgotten. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Fair. London: Printed by and for John Watts at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1740., 1740. Fair. - Octodecimo (18mo), 6-7/8 inches high by 4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in contemporary period brown calf with raised bands. The covers are detached, rubbed & scuffed and chipped. The corners and head & tail of the spine are chipped. [16], 249 & [11] pages, with decorative head and tail pieces, initials, and illustrated with 133 engravings mostly of fish, including eels, a sea-snail, a whale, a porpoise, a shark, a pilot fish, an angel-fish, etc. An early owner's name is penned at the top of the title page. The pages are slightly toned and a few corners slightly bumped. Good. First edition. The English physician Richard Brookes (active from 1721 to 1763) was the author of books on medicine, surgery and natural history, including "The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea-Fishing.". …

Second edition hard back binding in original full brown diced leather covers, gilt title lettering to the spine, all page edges gilt, lemon end papers. 8vo. 8'' x 5''. Contains [x] 40 printed pages of text. Foxing to the paper throughout, neatly hand written and perfectly legible two page appreciation of 'The Fort' to the front paste down and end paper, note opposite the title page by Arthur Mackie?, name to the title page Ambrose Brackett, the title page is starting to pull away from the text block, 30 mm piece of leather missing to the top of the spine. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Margate].…

TURHAN BEY (1922-2012) österreichischer Schauspieler und Fotograf. Er war ein populärer Hauptdarsteller im Hollywood der 1940er Jahre / Austrian-born actor of Turkish and Czech Jewish origin. Turhan was active in Hollywood from 1941 to 1953. He was dubbed "The Turkish Delight" by his fans. GROSSFOTO, EIGENHÄNDIG SIGNIERT (Repro) - mit Hund . …

engraving 43 x 24 cm.Trimed at plate edge.

°°° FIRST EDITION, LARGESIZE FRENCH BIBLIOPHILE ORIGINAL, #350 of 325 numbered copies (#71-#395) on 'Vélin Lana'-paper (totel edition 395 copies): Loose sheets in cardboard-cover with titled silk-paper covered large-paper dustjacket in a strong cardboard-folder with title at spine which again lies in the illustrated publishers stiff cardboard-slipcase; 4to.(ca. 30 x 20 x 4,5 cm; ca. 1,2 kg.); WITH ALL OF SUSSANS DELICATE ETCHINGS. - ''>LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE< composes dès 1648, ne parut qu'en 1657, après la mort de son auteur, chez le libraire parisien Charles de Sercy. Cette première en date des utopies francaises fait écho aux entretiens d'un petit cercle de libertins qui se réunissait en 1641, autour du philosophe Pierre Gassendi. . . Quelques notes ont parus nécessaires pour éclairer ce texte très touffu qui, s'il n'a point la belle ordonnance classique, témoigne de ce jailissement d'idées, de cette liberté d'expression et de cette verve désordonnée qui caractérise bien la littérature du temps de Louis XIII. . . Cyrano de Bergerac voudra bien nous pardonner d'avoir tracé quelques sentiers dans le MONDE LUNAIRE''.(Introduction). --- A BEAUTIFUL COPY IN BEST CONDITION.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1768 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 101 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 101 Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1723 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 446 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 446 Dampier, William, 1652-1715,Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742,Hacke, William,Dampier, William, 1652-1715. Voyage from Achin in Sumatra, to Tonquin, and other places in the East Indies. French,Dampier, William, 1652-1715. Voyages to the Bay of Campeachy. French,Dampier, William, 1652-1715. Discourse of the trade-winds, breezes, storms, seasons of the year, tides and currents of the torrid zone throughout the world. French,Wafer, Lionel, 1660?-1705? New voyage and description of the Isthmus of America. French,Wood, John, Captain. Voyage thro' the Streights of Magellan. French,Sharpe, Bartholomew, active 1679-1682. Journal of his expedition. French,Cowley, William Ambrosia. Voyage round the globe. French,Robert, A., 17th cent. Voyage to the Levant. French.…