Samuel Eliot Morison Editor (26 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Clean, sturdy, unmarked copy. Front free page has previous owner's name in top left corner. Slight handling wear on edges and corners. SZ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First UK edition. light wear to the book, spine slightly sunned, offsetting to endpapers; no jacket. 5 maps, including one fold-out. An abridgment of Parkman's multi-volume work. First printing, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.…

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; a selection edited with an introduction and notes by Samuel Elio t Morison; light fading and shelf wear to exterior; bump to top front corne r; former owner's name written on front end page; fading to pages, with spo tting to page edges and endpapers; in good condition with clean text and ti ght binding.…

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Stated first edition. NOT an ex library book. Darkend endpapers from dust jacket endflaps. Label over last line on copyright page. 533 pages with foldout at rear. Dust jacket with light blue background has slight fade on spine, no chips.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. mild age discoloration, former owner's book plate on front free end paper, otherwise a nice, clean copy, quarto hardcover, 417 pages, pictorial boards housed in original publisher's slip case, publisher's Sandglass blurb laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. The cover shows minimal wear. The binding is sound. In Very Good slipcase.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 232 pp. Glossy fold-out between pp. 30-31: "Photostat of the frontispiece to the NEW ENGLAND PSALM-SINGER (1770) (Engraved by Paul Revere)". Following a word "TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS", Contents divided as follows: [1] John Coolidge, "Low-Cost Housing in New England"; [2] Raymond Morin, "A Pioneer in American Music: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914): "A Pragmatic Transcendentalist" (F.I. Carpenter); "His Metaphysics of Evolution" (Charles Hartshorne); [3] Wylie Sypher, "Irving Babbitt: A Reappraisal"; MEMORANDA AND DOCUMENTS [1] K.W. Porter, "The Oxford Cap War at Harvard"; [2] H.A. Davis, "From the Diaries of a Diplomat"; [3] R.R. Moody, " A Proposed Province of Georgia in New England"; [4] W.H. Bell, "A Captain in Captivity"; [5] T. H. Johnson, "An Edward Taylor Poem that Was Printed"; [6] C.J.Weber, "Miss Owen Corrects a Sonnet of Longfellow's"; BOOK REVIEWS [pp. 145-205, including:] "Charles Noyes Greenough: An Account of His Life as Teacher, Dean, Master & Scholar" By Ruth Hornblower Greenough" and "Collected Studies by Charles Noyes Greenough" (Louis I. Bredvold). . . "An Academic Courtship: Letters of Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer (1886-1887)" (M.A. DeWolfe Howe). . . Cotton Mather: A Bibliography of His Works" By Thomas J. Holmes (Thomas H. Johnson). . . "The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution (1774-1781)" By Merrill Jensen (Daniel Aaron). . . ; SHORT NOTICES (pp. 206-211); A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NEW ENGLAND 1940 By Allyn B. Forbes ( pp. 212 229); Notes on Contributors, p. 230; Corrections for December, 1940 ( p. 231); Donors to New England Quarterly (p. 232). Green wrappers with full front cover with large Title lettering and Contents in smaller black letters; rough-cut lower edge. Top right cover corner and ensuing pages (diminishingly) with very small outward curls; book manufacture diagonal soft crease (from 2" down fore-edge at early pages to 1 1/4" down fore-edge at top rear (truly nugatory, but there you have it). Binding strong; Essentially NO rubbing wear, but for 1/32" thin line of rubbing across top spine; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Solid copy. The way to read a Classic Compendium of New England History/Americana more than 80 years old.…

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Pamphlet. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Good copy of this 29-page paperback off-print of a chapter from a 1930 publication. Mild tanning/soiling to the covers, clean/unmarked within. No publication information given, but presumed by Harvard University and c.1930. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback with dust jacket. Dust jacket is in fair condition, small tears along the edges, some tape. Cover edges and corners in good shape. Spine is tight. Newspaper article pasted inside front cover and an owner's name label. Pages are clean, no markings, notes or stains. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Includes dust jacket. Ninth printing 1982. DJ in protective mylar cover. DJ with mild edgewear or bumping. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. (1963) 84 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends bumped and rubbed. Light foxing to edges of text block. DJ lightly soiled. Contents very nice.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. pgs.533 with index illustrated with maps clean tight copy with former owner name on frontpiece slight rubbing to extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated pale green boards w/gilt spine lettering/VG; strong & sound w/rubs to edges, corner tips and surfaces; showing light discoloration. DJ/None as Issued. Slip-case/None. Maps to endpapers. American historian, Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison (1887 - 1976) authored several works on maritime history. Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, one of which was for "Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus" (1942), which was followed by a briefer biography, "Christopher Columbus, Marine (1955). Researching for these two books, Morison found trustworthy translations of primary source materials were scant, and therefore made translations of his own or had new ones made. This volume is an anthology of selected from those translations, and are, for the sake scholarship integrity, intentionally literal. The documents begin those establishing Columbus' birth date through the four voyages mades. Illustrated with map and woodcuts, with a convenient Chronology. Excellent primary resource. Strong copy less slip-case. Lima de Freitas (Illustrator) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. 8vo., 380 pp. 1951 reprint of the 1929 second edition. Very Good in blue cloth with tender hinge and bookplate on pastedown .

Leather Binding. Condition: Fine. First Thus. A fine copy in full red leather decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers.

Light Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 533pp. A fresh copy of this first edition. There is normal toning to the end papers caused by the flaps of the wrapper. There is the slightest of bumps to the head of the spine & light foxing to the fore-edge. Otherewise a clean, tight book. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped, though does have slight/light soiling & slight suninng to the spine. There are also a couple of niks to the head of the spine of the wrapper. Despite these faults, the book is clean and tight and in very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dark blue cloth boards with bright silver gilt on cover and spine. DJ is unclipped and near fine. Edited by Emily Morison Beck, the author's daughter. With a foreword by Walter Muir Whitehill. First Edition, First Printing.…

Illustrated Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued. First Edition. 417 pp with 7 maps, 1 colour medallion on title spread, 5 double-page colour illust. and 59 bw illust. in text. (illustrations by Lima de Freitas). Eps: Map of the Caribbean Sea. Decorated cloth cover, gilt title on black vignette on spine.Clean. Lima de Freitas (illustrator). …

Hardcover. No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. Blk slipcase with blue cloth book and blk; slipcase has light edge wear; No marks or writing,; clean tight binding; Signed limited edition no 785/1500; beautiful full page color illustrations; includes members newsletter; ; Signed by Illustrator Very Good image and spine label clean tight binding.…

Hardcover (Full Leather). Condition: As New. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 417 pp. Pages are tight and clean. All edges gilt - bright, rich condition. No significant flaws. Illustrator: De Freitas, Lima. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 - 3 pounds. Category: History; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001806. Additional shipping charges may apply. De Freitas, Lima (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in a Fine slipcase. Folio (9" x 12") bound in full blue natural linen buckram with a large black medallion of Columbus embossed on the front cover and a gilt-lettered and decorated black leather spine label; 440 pages. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was so impressed with this book when it was first published in 1942 that he allowed Morrison to join the Navy as an historian. He left as a rear admiral in 1951 and eventually published a definitive 15-volume history of the United States Navy in World War II. Copy #751 of 1500 illustrated by Lima de Freitas with 65 black-and-white text drawings and 5 double-page spreads, the latter having color hand-applied at the Walter Fischer Studio, and maps by Rafael Palacios. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Lima de Freitas (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Class report. Cloth and papercovered boards. Corners bumped, a trifle soiled, very good. A survey of the Class of 1908 including autobiographical statements from most of the class members. Signed by the editor and class secretary, Guy Emerson. This was poet John Hall Wheelock's copy, and is signed by him by his statement. It also includes autobiographical statements from author Van Wyck Brooks, African-American scholar and author Alain Locke, historian Samuel Eliot Morison, and world-renowned cardiologist, Paul Dudley White.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Class report. Red cloth gilt. Light wear, near fine. A survey of the Class of 1908 including relatively long autobiographical statements by the class members. This was poet John Hall Wheelock's copy, and is signed by him by his statement. It also includes autobiographical statements from author Van Wyck Brooks, African-American scholar and author Alain Locke, historian Samuel Eliot Morison, and world-renowned cardiologist, Paul Dudley White. This issue of the class report also includes photos of the students as undergraduates, and as they were when this volume was printed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Class report. Red cloth gilt. Fine. A survey of the Class of 1908 including autobiographical statements by the class members. This was poet John Hall Wheelock's copy, and is Signed by him by his statement. It also includes autobiographical statements from author Van Wyck Brooks, African-American scholar and author Alain Locke, historian Samuel Eliot Morison, and world-renowned cardiologist, Paul Dudley White.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Class report. Black cloth gilt. A bit of wear to the cloth at the spine ends, very good. A survey of the Class of 1908 including autobiographical statements from most of the class members. This was poet John Hall Wheelock's copy, and is Signed by him by his statement. It also includes autobiographical statements from author Van Wyck Brooks, African-American scholar and author Alain Locke, historian Samuel Eliot Morison, and world-renowned cardiologist, Paul Dudley White.…