John Paschall (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, hardcover, dust jacket, 268pp., map & ills. First edition, first printing. VG+/VG+: a clean, bright and sound book in a like jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 284 pages. 8.98x5.98x0.79 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Algonquin Books 1989. Very Good/No Jacket, No ink marks, 247pp inc. essay on sources, index. Plus list of illustrations, list of maps, introduction, acknowledgements. ISBN:094557505X.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 247 pages; Near fine in a fine DJ. (Black remainder stripe at bottom edge. Slight bump to upper tip of board. ) (G) 0-945575-05-X.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. iChronicles the journey of Charles Pancoast from Philadelphia, PA to S. Louis, MO, where he was stranded & left bankrupt. He then joined another party headed to the gold fields of CA, taking the seldom-used southern route over a nine-month expedition through uncharted territories & dangerous terrain. This is a personal account of those adventures & the characters he encountered along the way, offering rich insights into the social & personal dimensions of America's westward expansion in the gold rush era. In 402 deckled-edge pages, including Index, with bright orange map endpapers & original sepia-toned drawings by various artists as frontispiece & on full-page plates throughout text. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1930, this hardcover octavo has brown cloth-covered boards with faded gilt lettering & design to spine/blindstamped ruling to front cover. Condition is VG+: unusually clean, binding strong & straight, hinges secure. Pages creamy off-white with light tanning, but completely unmarked. Mild rubbing to extremities & slightly bumped corners. No DJ (missing). A handsome copy! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.

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Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xix, 127 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm ISBN 9780252015533, 0252015533 OCLC 17676686 LCCN 88004825 LC KF5692 .C67 1989 Dewey 346.73045 and 347.30645 ; grey cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents : Aesthetics in the Museum and in the Courthouse -- East side, west side all around the town (and nation) -- The case for coherence -- Aesthetics at any price opr no aesthetics at all -- The case for legal aesthetics -- Aesthetics and the Legal System -- The swinging pendulum -- A blessed union? -- A return to first principles -- Legal Aesthetics and legal institutions -- Icons and Aliens -- A format for aesthetics controversies -- The aesthetics impulse: Beauty as a nonstarter -- Aesthetics and Process Values -- Legal language and lay language -- Process and end-state values: Pathways to accommodation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index ; Discusses issues surrounding the daily war being fought in cities across the country--developmental change and business growth versus historic preservation. Can there be a meeting of the minds beween those who strive to preserve our environment and historical landmarks and those who continue to try to meet the needs of a changing society? publisher's promotional materials laid in, associated with a Kiwanis Club presentation to Memphis area Law alumni ; SIGNED letter to attorney Richard W. Foster from the author with comments upon the city of Memphis, laid-in with envelope ; John Costinis was dean of the Vanderbilt Law School who previously taught in the urban design, historic preservation and property fields on the law faculties of New York University and Illinois. A frequent contributor of essays on design and land use topics to legal and lay publications, Costonis was also the author of Space Adrift, Landmark Preservation and the Marketplace, a seminal study of the use of incentive zoning to finance the preservation of endangered urban landmarks. ; Allan Jacobs was was a professor of environmental design, University of California at Berkeley and the former director of planning, Department of City Planning, San Francisco ; includes discussions about the Zucchini on Park Avenue, East Side buildings on Manhattan's West Side, Billboards along a scenic Arizona highway, Sodium vapor lamps in downtown Bronxville, An international style tower atop the Beaux Arts Grand Central Terminal, a Con Ed pumping station on Storm King Mountain, the Transamerica Building in San Francisco, McDonald's Speedee Service Drive-in, Goodyear Airdock, Isaac I Rice Mansion, Upper East Side Historic District, ; inlcudes numerous New Yorker cartoons and black and white photographs ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 418 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.21 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). An intriguing in which one John Paschall debriefs his acquaintance on his parliamentary case of war Prizes. A curious and very scarce record, which makes reference to an order sent by Parliament to the writer, John Paschall, and one John Parkhurst and others, requesting recipients to exhibit an account of all the ships and goods taken and condemned as Prize during the "late War". With a table detailing the necessary information, including the names of ships and vessels, number and quality of guns received, when paid for, by whose orders, annual salaries or other allowances, etc. This is bound together with 'A List of the Names of such Captains who Served in His Majesty's Fleet, during the late War', (dated 27 May 1700), dates of their first commission as captain and which of them were presently emplyed at the time, followed by a very similar list, but with the names of Lieutenants, dated July 1, 1700. Register: A-D2, B2, A2, B3. Register for Mr. Paschall's letter (A-D2) collated against ESTC No. T41559 and is complete. Bound in plain brown wrappers. Bound in plain brown wrappers. Externally, with moderate edge wear, with loss to the tail of the spine and small splits around the staples. Internally, firmly bound. Pages for 'Paschall's Letter' generally bright and clean with occasional light spots. Heavier spotting and occasional ink marginalia to the following leaves. With numerous chips and closed tears to the margins. Good. book.