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EARL'S ART SHOP; BUILDING ART WITH EARL SIMMONS. University Press of Mississippi Folk Art and Artists Series.
Young, Stephen Flinn. D.C. Young (photographer). Michael Owen Jones (general editor). [Earl Simmons - Earl Wayne Simmons.]
Language: English
Published by Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1995., 1995
- Softcover
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72 pages. Paperback: H 20.25cm x L 20.25cm. Paper covers lightly rubbed with some scuffs at edges. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy. Text by Stephen Flinn Young; color and b/w photographs by D.C. Young. Bovina, Mississippi folk artist Earl Wayne Simmons' Art Shop has burned down twice since… this book was published, the most recent fire having occurred in June 2012. {ArtShelf#3} ISBN 0878058117.

EARL'S ART SHOP; BUILDING ART WITH EARL SIMMONS. University Press of Mississippi Folk Art and Artists Series.
Young, Stephen Flinn. D.C. Young (photographer). Michael Owen Jones (general editor). [Earl Simmons - Earl Wayne Simmons.]
Language: English
Published by Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1995., 1995
- Softcover
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72 pages. Paperback: H 20.25cm x L 20.25cm. Glossy paper covers lightly rubbed; slight scuffing to covers' fore-edge corners. Some foxing to text block edges. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy. Text by Stephen Flinn Young; color and b/w photographs by D.C. Young. Bovina, Mississippi folk artist Earl Wa…yne Simmons' Art Shop has burned down twice since this book was published, the most recent fire having occurred in June 2012. {ArtShelf#4|CMS-02147} ISBN 0878058117.

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Cloth. Condition: Fine in Fine DJ. First printing.

Language: English
Published by Syracuse Univ Pr, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A., 1997
- Softcover
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Printing. pp.158 clean tight unread copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Language: English
Published by Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1995., 1995
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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First edition (not stated). 72 pages. Hardcover: H 21cm x L 21cm. No dust jacket. Pictorial boards lightly rubbed. Text by Stephen Flinn Young; color and b/w photographs by D.C. Young. A near fine copy. {ArtShelf#1} ISBN 0878058044.

Dear Home: The 1901 and 1902 Diaries of Mabel Lila Wait
Wait, Mabel Lila; Ward, Susan; Owen D. Young Library Friends
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- Signed
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paperback. Condition: Like New. ***Please Read*** Author Signed and Inscribed to a friend - No marks on text - My shelf location - 4-a-18*. Signed by Author.
The Frank P. Piskor Collection of Edward Arlington Robinson
Henry Emmans ; Frank P. Piskor ; Special Collections, Owen D. Young Library, St. Lawrence University
Published by The Library, 1991
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Limited to 1000 copies. Outer edges have foxing; tight, text clean. 53 p., illustrated.
Published by Pulitzer Publishing Co., St. Louis, 1928
- First Edition
Seller: Muddy Turtle Books, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.Muddy Turtle Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. A very good copy. [PC-Pamph] We provide PROTECTIVE packaging. Photos of our books are always available upon request. SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS ON ABE SINCE 1997 AND IN OUR STORE IN THE BERKSHIRES FROM 1987 TO 2015.
Language: English
Published by The Crowell Publishing Co, Springfield, OH, 1931
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketStapled. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The October 1931 issue of The American Magazine. Fiction and articles include, most notably, The Smile That Wins, a short story by P G Wodehouse plus part 5 of 5 (conclusion) of High Summer, a novel by Booth Tarkington, Owen D Young, a biography of an industrialist…by Ida M Tarbell, Hitting Fifty, an article by Clarence Budington Kelland, A Gentleman for a Night, a short story by Octavus Roy Cohen, part 3 of 7 of West of the Pecos, a novel by Zane Grey, and others. Condition issues include: light edge wear to the front cover; small closed tear at the bottom of the spine, light soiling to the back cover; and pages 171/172 are missing - affecting an article by Martin H Kennelly, It All Comes Out on Moving Day. A good to very good copy due to the missing pages with a P G Wodehouse short story. Note this item plus my other listings comprise the complete serialization of High Summer (inventory #s 009695, 009696 & 009697). Hayden Hayden (cover), Wallace Morgan (High Summer), Joseph Cummings Chase (Owen D Young), Roy F Spreter (The Smile That Wins), T D Skidmore (A Gentleman for a Night), Frank Hoffman (West of the Pecos) (illustrator).

Fate. Vol. 34, No. 5, Issue #374, May 1981
Fuller, Mary Margaret (editor); Balley K. Young; M.A. Hancock; Melvin Harris; Frederick R. Korf; Guy Lyon Playfair; Michael Goss; Jane H. Owen; Barbara S. Guthrie; Curtis Fuller; Loren Coleman; Jerome Clark; D. Scott Rogo
Published by Clark Publishing Co, Highland Park, IL, 1981
- Softcover
- Magazine / Periodical
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. pp. 3-138, illustrations, wraps. 7.25 x 5 in. Very Good. Articles include ?The Psychic Heritage of Thomas Wolfe? by M.A. Hancock, "A Device for Harnessing Bioenergy, " by Guy Lyon Playfair, and "Strange Death of Ella Salamon," by Michael Goss, among many others. Features include a column, ?True Mystic Experiences,? wi…th reader submissions.
Published by Owen D. Young New York, 1924
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.Zubal-Books, Since 1961
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. 19 pp., Pamphlet, minor library markings, spine rebacked with cloth tape else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipien…t's country.
EDUCATION FOR AMERICAN LIFE: A New Program for the State of New York/Report of the Regents' Inquiry
Young, Owen D.; Wallin, William J.; O'Brian, John Lord; Mangan, Thomas J. (Foreword)/Capen, Samuel P. and Gulick, Luther (Preface)
Published by The McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York and London, 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. 168 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ paper title labels on front cover and spine. Binding lightly soiled. Spine ends a bit bumped; small bump at top edge of front cover. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Previous owner's name on front blank endp…aper. Illust. w/ charts and two fold-outs.
Published by St. Lawrence University
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
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Language: English
Published by St. Lawrence University / Owen D. Young Library Special Collections, 1993
- Softcover
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Add to basketTrade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade Paperback -- Very Good -- Clean and bright -- Illustrated.

What Do We Deserve?: A Reader on Justice and Desert (Routledge Advances in International)
Pojman, Louis P. and Owen McLeod, Editors / Contributors: Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Adam Smith, Kant, Mill, W.D. Ross, Joel Feinberg, John Kleinig, David Miller, Julian Lamont, Galen Strawson, Harry Frankfurt, David Miller, Fred Feldman, Herbert Spiegelberg, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Michael Sandel, Owen McLeod, Samuel Scheffler, Michael A. Slote, Norman Daniels, Robert Goodin, Robert Young, Fred Feldman, Owen McLeod, Louis Pojman, Shelly Kagan
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, New York Oxford, 1999
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 317pp., ix. '1' in number line. Notes at end of essays; Bibliography, pp. 315-317. Contributions: Historical Interpretation of Desert: Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Adam Smith, Kant, Mill, W.D. Ross; Contemporary Interpretations of Desert: Joel Feinberg, John Kleinig, David Miller, Julian Lam…ont, Galen Strawson, Harry Frankfurt, David Miller, Fred Feldman, Herbert Spiegelberg, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Michael Sandel, Owen McLeod, Samuel Scheffler, Michael A. Slote, Norman Daniels, Robert Goodin, Robert Young, Fred Feldman, Owen McLeod, Louis Pojman, Shelly Kagan. Glossy medium blue wraps with large silver title lettering on top half front cover; subtitle in smaller white letters across middle front cover; editor names in smaller silver across bottom front cover. Flawless. (NOT POD; No remainder mark; NO previous owner name; Clean Text.).
Published by London: 1970., SPCK,, 1970
- Hardcover
Seller: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, U.S.A.Alec R. Allenson, Inc.
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. 126 p.; 11 illus. on 8 halftone pl.; 22 cm. Published in association with the Victorian Society. Contents: Preface, Anthony Symondson -- 1. The impact of Darwin on conventional thought, Robert Maxwell Young -- 2. Evangelicalism and the Victorians, Geoffrey Best -- 3. The church militant abroad: Victorian missionaries,… Max Warren -- 4. Newman and the Oxford Movement, David Newsome -- 5. The Established Church under attack, Owen Chadwick -- 6. The Prayer Book in the Victorian era, R. C. D. Jasper -- Index. -- Illustrations and artists: 1. Charles Darwin, by John Collier; 2. Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, by George Richmond; 3. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, by Alexander Melville; Lord Shaftesbury, by G. F. Watts; 4. David Livingstone, by Joseph Bonomi; 5. John Henry Newman preaching in St Mary's, Oxford, from a contemporary print published by J. Ryman, Oxford, 1841; John Keble, by George Richmond; 6. Thomas Arnold, by Thomas Phillips; Mrs Humphrey Ward, by J. R. Story; 7. Sir Leslie Stephen, by William Rothenstein; 8. An evening service in Westminster Abbey in March 1861, Illustrated London News. VG orig. gray boards in price-clipped illus. dj.

Published by Whittington Press, Andoversford n.d.; 1972, 1972
Seller: Acanthophyllum Books, Holywell, FLINT, United KingdomAcanthophyllum Books
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Add to basketPaper covers. Condition: V.g. No Jacket. Offprint with new cover. Reprinted from an article in the Veterinary Record, but not to be taken entirely seriously. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.
Published by Time, Inc., New York, NY, USA, 1931
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. Issued Without DJ. 1st Edition. FRONT COVER, BY SPINE CHIPPED AND FRAYED. COVER SLIGHTLY RUBBED Contains portrait and article re Owen D. Young (Part 1) Vice-President of G.E. Page 107 contains Diego Rivera black and white photos OF HIM AND 3 OF HIS PAINTINS. SPONG DIVERS. WINSTON-SALEM, IN NORTH…CAROLINA, CAMELS. JOHN FOSTER DULLES. ELISHA WALKER OF BLAIR & CO., AMADEO PETER GIANNINI. JOHN AUGUSTUS ROEBLING. DIEGO RIVERA, TABACO, THE BANK OF AMERICA, THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE, NIAGARA. RIVERA, DIEGO. RODERICK D. MACKENZIE (illustrator).
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents
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Add to basketCondition: VG. Cambridge, Mass. 1971 first edition. American Schools of Oriental Research. Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol XXIII, no. 4. Owen and Young article on pp. 95-115. Complete issue paginated 95-129. VG, no ownership marks.
More imagesPublished by The Stable Money Association, New York, 1929
- Hardcover
Seller: Livresse, Gatineau, QC, CanadaLivresse
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Add to basketCouverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. 54 p. Bookplate and stamps of the Fraser Institute.

Published by Philadelphia ; London : J. B. Lippincott Company ; [Kingsport, TN : Kingsport Press], 1941., 1941
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Blue, black and gold covers ; 436 pp. ; foxing, else VG. Book.
Published by The Stable Money Association, New York, 1929
- Softcover
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., JapanYushodo Co., Ltd.
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Fair. no dust Jacket. 54p. Ex-library. Covers soiled. Stamped on front cover.

Language: English
Published by Multigrafica Editrice, Rome, 1975
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- Signed
Seller: Library of Religious Thought, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.Library of Religious Thought
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 33pp,CVI Plates,19 Plates, 35pp,CLV Plates. Both volumes signed by D. I. Owen. Minor wear at head of spines. Inscribed by Author(s).

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Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 80.

Language: English
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Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, IndiaS N Books World
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. 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. Reprinted from 1925 edition.… 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 and contains approximately 20 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. 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. Language: English.

Language: English
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Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 32. A perfect gift…for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1925 edition. 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. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. 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. Language: English Pages: 32.

Language: English
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Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 82. A perfect gift…for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1902 edition. 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. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. 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. Language: English Pages: 82.

Published by William Edwin Rudge), (Mount Vernon, New York, 1926
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Privately printed presentation copy. Octavo. 120pp. Vellum backed paper-covered boards, as issued, along with contemporary cloth dustwrapper with leather gilt spine label. One of 100 copies printed on Navarre paper and Signed by the author, as well as b…y the book's designer, Bruce Rogers, and the dedicatee, Owen D. Young, the first president of General Electric. This copy is additionally Inscribed by the author to his friend, Nelson L. Robinson, in the form of a page-long poem, along with a tipped in pocket at the rear that contains: three ALS from Gaines; nine holograph poems by Gaines; four photos of the author's family; four printed Christmas cards; and a three-page handwritten list of the poems that appear in the book with dates (presumably created by Robinson). Overall near fine or better with the boards lightly cocked and two small tears to one of the unopened pages, in near fine wraps with some minor fraying at the corners; the letters, manuscripts, cards, and photos are all fresh and new. Further details available upon request.

Seller: Buch & Consult Ulrich Keip, Berlin, GermanyBuch & Consult Ulrich Keip
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Add to basket(Berlin, Druckerei der Reichsbank), 1929. 106, 106 S. Originalumschlag (etwas fleckig u. gebräunt, Buchblock mehrfach gebrochen u. vom Rücken gelöst). Deutsch/Englisch. Der Entwurf für den sogenannten Young-Plan, der letzte der Reparationspläne, die die Zahlungsverpflichtungen des Deutschen Reichs auf Grundlage des Versailler Ve…rtrags regelten. Er wurde von einem Gremium internationaler Finanzexperten unter Vorsitz von Owen D. Young vom Februar bis Juni 1929 in Paris ausgehandelt u. trat am 17. Mai 1930 rückwirkend zum 1. September 1929 in Kraft. Er setzte eine durchschnittliche Annuität von rund zwei Milliarden Reichsmark fest, die zum überwiegenden Teil in Devisen zu zahlen waren. Er sollte bis 1988 gelten, wurde aber bereits im Juni 1931 durch das Hoover-Moratorium ausgesetzt u. im Juli 1932 von der Konferenz von Lausanne aufgehoben. - Einige Bleistiftunterstreichungen, Titel leicht wasserrandig u. mit 2 Stempeln.

Published by New York, 1914
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Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerunbound. 1 page on "General Electric Company" letterhead, 10.5 x 8 inches, New York, October 30, 1914. Written by the counsel and later Chairman of the Board of General Electric to a newspaper editor, undermining the campaign of Seth Low, the first mayor of Greater New York City, in part: ".Confidentially Mr. Pratt [of Pratt Ins…titute] has expresses the view that although Mr. Low is a highly successful teacher of history, he has some doubt about his qualification on the administrative side.".