John Smith Compiler (23 results)

Paperback. Condition: Used: Good. A good copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean. Softcovers are lightly scuffed. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery.

paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: 2025&RareBk. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. GOOD CONDITION: Book may have creases on spine. May have discreet tape and/or bent corners on cover or pages. Moderate edge/shelf wear. Oversized books or multi-volume SETS OVER 3 LBS may require additional shipping. Please message for custom shipping estimates on multi-volume sets before purchase. BUNDLE & SAVE ON SHIPPING: Additional books ship for $1 each on Biblio. LOCAL PICKUP: Across the street from the funeral home in Fairfax.…

Condition: Fine. - 8vo, teal cloth titled in silver on spine with vignette stamped in silver on front cover, in dw (lightly soiled with small stain to front panel). xix & 235 pp. B&W vignettes by Uri Shulevitz. Near fine in very good dw. First edition.British poet John Smith writes in his Introduction: "My first principle in choosing the poems has not been to ask, 'Is this a suitable poem for a child?' but rather, 'Do I like this poem?' Only if the answer has been 'yes' have I then put the supplementary question about suitability". Among the poets from the fifteenth century on included in Smith's anthology are Brecht, Cavafy, Keats, Lorca, Plath, Rilke, Shakespeare, Stevens and Yeats.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Good-VG. 1st Edition. Brown cloth, lettered in gold foil. Book plate from the Franklin Institute mounted inside front cover, with unstamped circulation sheet mounted inside back cover and call label on lower spine, with minor foxing along text block edges, otherwise unmarked and about as issued. Dust jacket is price-clipped, with modest soiling/dampstaining, minor loss at several corners and 1" area of loss at head of rear joint, now in mylar. x,491 pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The Pattern Of Poetry. The Poetry Society Verse Speaking Anthology. Compiled By William Kean Seymour And John Smith. With Illustrations. Please note some stock images show a jacket, this copy does NOT include a jacket. Previous owner's ink inscription. Ink ticks in the contents list Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. octavo hardback 96 pp Illustrated Very Good condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket. Lengthy (amusing) original gift inscription on front end paper Scarce. Beryl Sanders (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Average. . 88 pages, frontispiece photo of Smith. A second volume of comments gathered from Bishop Taylor Smith's wide margin Bible. John Taylor Smith (1860-1938) was bishop of Sierra Leone and a regular speaker at the Keswick Convention. Edges foxed, front external hinge a bit torn.…

Plastic comb. Condition: Collectible. Woodlawn Plantation/Pope-Leighey House Council, Second printing, June 1980. 260 pages. Illustrated. 8.5 x 6", plastic comb. Schlesinger Library bookplate, clean, very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book with usual markings. Good Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Paperback. Condition: vgc. No Dust Jacket. seems unread, but a name plate inside, 1st ed. An Anthology of poems and verses. "Masterpieces by such geniuses as Keats or Marvell, Hopkins or Yeats are.'complemented by children's poems, entertainments and minor delights which surround them' within the anthology." Pp.14/130, decorations by Winifred Boon. Blue and yellow laminated boards. VG.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Presumed first edition (no direct statement but with matching dates upon title and copyright pages). 312 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket (as issued?). Pebbled black cloth; light rubbing to boards; residue from removed sticker at lower spine with some shallow overlap onto adjoining lower boards; slight dulling/flaking to front board and spine's stamping but all still easily legible. Some foxing to text block edges; past owner's name/address label affixed to front pastedown; interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. Laid-in at front endpapers is the author's promotional brochure/order form announcing the first printing of Volume III and reprintings of preceding Volumes I and II. With Preface, a few b/w plates, and Index. Features fourteen essays regarding various facets of regional history of which the more interesting titles are: "Some Economic and Social Aspects of the History of Cullman, Alabama" by John Clinton Bright; "An Early Fayette County Home" by Marguerite T. Callahan; "Recollections of Olden Days" by Bertha Massey King; Early History of Winston County, Alabama Schools" by Sallie P. West; "The Pursuit and Capture of Streight's Raiders" by John A. Wyeth; "Some Recollections of My Family" by Andrew Lee Massey; "From Oxcarts to Diesels: A History of Hanceville, Alabama" by Emmie Alldredge Smith; "The Civil War as Seen by Captain Isaac Jasper Rogers" by Charles E. Wilson; and "History of Marion County" by a Committee of School Teachers. Series compiler Carl Atwood Elliott (1913-1999) served eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's northwestern 7th Congressional District from January 1949 to January 1965. {AL-Shelf#1}.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Tight and square. Local history reference for northwestern Alabama counties of Blount, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Walker, and Winston. Inscribed by Author(s).

INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE COMPILER. ii, 328 pages. Paperback: H 27.75cm x L 21.25cm. White paper covers lightly soiled; light crease to rear cover's lower left. Three-line ink inscription "To Herschel Guess | With Best Wishes | John Paul Smith" on page ii; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. OCLC only locates a single copy at a Virginia member library. Preface on page i states "This book is an attempt to bring forward information derived from early Brookhaven newspapers first begun by Yvonne McGlothing in her books, 'Lincoln County Mississippi, Its People 1875-1895,' published in 1988, and 'Lincoln County Mississippi, Its People 1897-1912,' published in 1992" and "The newspapers from which this book has been compiled are 'The Semi-Weekly Leader' and 'The Lincoln County Times.'". …

FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 650 UNNUMBERED COPIES. 240 pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 15.75cm. Lacks dust jacket. Maroon cloth rubbed and some light mottling; spine ends bumped with minor fraying; spine's gilt stamping still reasonably bright. Foxing and toning to edges and endpapers; four-line ink ownership inscription upon front pastedown; light foxing to early and late leaves with some scattered light occurrences to interior pages which otherwise remain clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy of an uncommon local history reference for west central and northwest Alabama. With Preface and Index. PART I comprised of Nelson Smith's 1856 History of Pickens County, Alabama (pages 11-131) with Part II (pages 133-221) comprised of 24 essays reviewing various facets of regional history. Although with no specific indicators per se (save for a single gilt star upon the spine) this is Volume I only of the "Annals of Northwest Alabama" series which is comprised of a total of four volumes. Series compiler Carl Atwood Elliott (1913-1999) served eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's northwestern 7th Congressional District from January 1949 to January 1965. {AlabamaShelf #1}.…

FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 650 UNNUMBERED COPIES (per publisher's limitation on page 2). 240 pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket present. Maroon cloth lightly rubbed; spine's gilt stamping still bright. Minor foxing to text block's top edge and fore-edge. Some foxing to endpapers; interior leaves are clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy of an uncommon local history reference for west central and northwest Alabama. With Preface and Index. PART I comprised of Nelson Smith's 1856 History of Pickens County, Alabama (pages 11-131) with Part II (pages 133-221) comprised of 24 essays reviewing various facets of regional history. Although with no specific indicators per se (save for a single gilt star upon the spine) this is Volume I only of the "Annals of Northwest Alabama" series. Series compiler Carl Atwood Elliott (1913-1999) served eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's northwestern 7th Congressional District from January 1949 to January 1965. {AlabamaShelf #4}. …

Personal copy of Mississippi state legislator James Milton Weaver (1853-1936) gifted by Mississippi Representative John Mills Allen (1846-1917; in office 1885-1901). DIGEST AND MANUAL OF THE RULES AND PRACTICE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN WHICH IS ALSO INCLUDED THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WITH THE AMENDMENTS THERETO, AND SO MUCH OF JEFFERSON'S MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE AS UNDER RULE XLIV GOVERNS THE HOUSE, THE STANDING RULES AND ORDERS FOR CONDUCTING BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; TABLES SHOWING COMMENCEMENT AND TERMINATION OF EACH SESSION OF CONGRESS WITH NAME OF SPEAKER AND CLERK, OF APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS FROM 1787, AND FORMATION OF STATES AND TERRITORIES, OF THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE NINTH AND TENTH CENSUSES, AND LIST OF MEMBERS AND DELEGATES, AND ALSO OF THE COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Ninth edition (as stated upon title page). vi, 550 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 15cm. Half leather binding - leather spine and marbled paper boards with leather corners. Scuffing to spine ends and along joints; spine's gilt lettering remains bright; surface paper losses to both boards with leather corners worn. Text block edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Four-line ink inscription "Jas. M. Weaver. | Rara Avis. | Miss. | Present by J.M. Allen. M.C." upon front flyleaf. Foxing/toning most prevalent to initial and rear leaves but with internal occurrences too. Binding is firm. A school teacher for 32 years and lifetime farmer, James M. Weaver (1853-1936) was elected to two terms as Superintendent of Education in Itawamba County before moving on to higher state offices, first representing Itawamba County in the Mississippi House of Representatives and thereafter elected to the state senate representing both Itawamba and Lee County. Per the inscription, Weaver's residence was in what is now the ghost town of Rara Avis located in eastern Itawamba County atop the Alabama state line. Weaver's tenure in state politics overlapped the career of U.S. Representative John Mills Allen (1846-1917) aka "Private John" Allen, a Tupelo attorney and former Confederate soldier who was elected to eight consecutive terms from 1885-1901. The book's inscription does not match the single Allen signature exemplar found online so there is some possibility that it is secretarial writing although this is countered by the two Tupelo-area politicians certainly knowing one another and the odd impropriety of Allen passing off an inscription to a political cohort upon an underling.…

1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xiv + 423pp. Rubric t.p., frontis. Some light browning, original black and red dec. cream cloth, some soiling and browning, spine bumped. US$74.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Prepared for the Technical Assistant to CNO for Polar Projects. "While this work is primarily prepared for military planners, it also presents the foundation study for engineers undertaking any planned construction. It is hoped that the study leads to consideration of a transportation approach from the inland rather than depending entirely on the difficult and unreliable sea approach to certain areas requiring logistic support. Covers in detail the north Canadian mainland and Baffin Island." - from Preface. Includes several bibliographies covering the geographic areas studied. Black and white illustrations and maps. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Canadian North: Technical Assistant to Chief of Naval Operations for Polar Projects (OP - 03A3) Arctic Resources Maps Bibliography Canada Military Planning Cold War Defense.…

Fo. vi, 45 leaves printed on rectos (and occasional versos), 2 double-page engraved maps at front, text pedigrees, pedigrees (some folding) laid down on linen to rear. Contemporary decorated full navy calf gilt. Light spotting to prelims; pedigrees at rear browned. Fine engraved book-plates to feps. COPAC locates copies at BL and Cambridge. OCLC lists the title but with no location. Thomson page 152. …

Leather Bound. Condition: new. Language: English. {Size: 14.60 x 22.86 cms} Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2026, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1893. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 47, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 47.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1843. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 617, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 617 617.…