Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray
by Simon, Linda
Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x8. First edition. An excellent copy. 2004 Hard Cover. 357 pp. "The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the... Read More
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The Big Bands
by Simon, George T.; Sinatra, Frank (Foreword)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969. 6th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 112x28x152. Sixth printing. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips, jacket spine head bumped. Small light stains on top page ridge, bottom corner of front board bumped. 1969 Hard Cover. xvi, 537 pp. A history of the Big Band era of America Jazz, featuring a... Read More
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Voyage en Italie et en Sicile, Tome Premier et Second
by Simond, L. [Louis]
Paris: Raymond-Bocquet, Libraire, 1838. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Third edition. Former library copy, with stamps St-Louis-de-Gonzague in Bayonne in front and end matter. Boards a bit rubbed, scattered light foxing, modern owner bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. 1838 Hard Cover. viii, 405; 420 pp. 8vo. French text. Leather spines, gilt titles and rules,... Read More
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Oneonta (NY) (Images of America)
by Simonson, Mark
Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. First edition. Faint scuff. 2001 Trade Paperback. 128 pp. Oneonta has an appropriate nickname: "City of the Hills." It is found in the rolling, scenic northern Catskill mountains, very close to the origin of the Susquehanna River Valley. The natural formation of other streams and pathways that... Read More
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The Play Goes On: A Memoir
by Simon, Neil
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x10. First edition. An excellent copy. 1999 Hard Cover. 348 pp. In his critically acclaimed Rewrites, Neil Simon talked about his beginnings -- his early years of working in television, his first real love, his first play, his first brush with failure, and, most moving... Read More
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Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868
by Simpson, Brooks D
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 6x1x9. Jacket edges rubbed. Top page ridge foxed. 1991 Hard Cover. xx, 339 pp. Historians have traditionally drawn distinctions between Ulysses S. Grant's military and political careers. In Let Us Have Peace, Brooks Simpson questions such distinctions and offers a new understanding of... Read More
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Wild Life in the Far West, or, A Detective's Thrilling Adventures among the Indians and Outlaws of Montana
by Simpson, C.H
Chicago: Thos. W. Jackson Publishing Company, 1910. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Littlejohn, G.S. Circa 1910s second edition, following the 1896 original by Rhodes & McClure. Includes original jacket. Pages toned, jacket rubbed with narrow chip from corners. 264, [2] pp. Published by the author of On a Slow Train Through Arkansaw. Jacket art depicts a man on horseback... Read More
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The Night She Died
by Simpson, Dorothy
New York: Scribners, 1981. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x0. Book club edition. Jacket spine faded. 1981 Hard Cover. 188 pp. Investigating the death of beautiful and enigmatic Julie Holmes, Inspector Thanet is faced with several intriguing questions and finds that he may be hunting a murderer who has gone unpunished for twenty years.
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Yarnlets: The Human Side of the Navy
by Simpson, Edward
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Gilt on spine and front board rubbed, pencil name on front endpaper. 1934 Hard Cover. 275 pp. A collection of sketches which may bring out in a way the human side of Navy life, which might be of interest to those... Read More
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Two Looks to Home: The Art of Tommy Simpson
by Simpson, Tommy; Koob, Pam
Boston / New York: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1999. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10x1x11. Simpson, Tommy. First edition. Jacket corners bumped. Board corners bumped. 1999 Large Hardcover. 165 pp. With seasoned insight and humor, Simpson sprinkles autobiographical vignettes, candid childhood snapshots, and wry poems among sparkling reproductions of his ingenious creations and... Read More
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Pierce
by Simpson, Patrick P
Baltimore, Maryland: Apprentice House Press, Loyola University Maryland, 2024. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. First printing. Review copy with slip laid in. An exceptional copy. 2024 Trade Paperback. 213 pp. Author's first novel. When janitor Truman Pierce isn't listening to his classical jazz records, he stays under the radar and keeps to himself. Nothing much happens in... Read More
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Among My Autographs
by Sims, George R
London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Spine toned, pencil marks on list of autographs pages. 1904 Hard Cover. vi, 177, 4 pp. With seventy facsimiles of the handwriting and autographs of various well-known authors. LIST OF AUTOGRAPHS: William Wordsworth; Samuel Rogers; Thomas Campbell; Bulwer Lytton; Charles Reade; D.G. Rossetti; Harrison Ainsworth; Florence Marryat;... Read More
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Swimming (The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, Book 19)
by Sinclair, Archibald; Henry, William
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1900. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Dadd, S.T. Third edition. Some pages lightly foxed, front hinge weakening. 1900 Hard Cover. xvi, 462 pp. Lithographic and photographic frontispiece and plates, engraved illustrations throughout. Includes: Introduction; The Teaching of Swimming; The Art of Swimming; Diving, Plunging, and Floating; Scientific Swimming; Bathing in... Read More
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Memorials of St. Paul's Cathedral
by Sinclair, William MacDonald
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: George W. Jacobs & Co, 1912. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Weirter, Louis. No publisher date (circa early 1900s). Edge wear, front board slightly bowed, some pages foxed. 1912 Hard Cover. xxxi, 512 pp. Gilt title on spine, gilt illustration of St. Paul's cathedral on front board, top edge gilt. Includes black-and-white illustrations and plates. CONTENTS:... Read More
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Hill and Valley, or, Hours in England and Wales
by Sinclair, Catherine
New York: Robert Carter, 1838. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Boards rubbed and soiled, front free endpaper removed, foxed throughout with stain along bottom margin. 1838 Hard Cover. 378, [10] pp. 8vo. A travelogue by the Scottish novelist credited with discovering that Sir Walter Scott wrote The Waverley Novels.
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Birds of Southern Africa (Princeton Field Guides)
by Sinclair, Ian; Hockey, Phil; Tarboton, Warwick
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Third Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 6x1x8. Hayman, Peter; Arlott, Norman. Third edition. Spine faded. 2002 Soft Cover. 447 pp. "Birds of Southern Africa is the best and most authoritative guide to the birds of one of the world's most fertile birding regions. Two hundred color plates comprising over 4,000 expert... Read More
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Oil! A Novel
by Sinclair, Upton
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First thus (following self-published version). Front hinge weakening, minor wear to corners, pencil names on front endpaper, ink check mark on copyright page, minor ink marks on margins of a couple pages, ink note on rear endpaper, front endpapers toned. 1927 Hard Cover. iv,... Read More
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A Young Man in Search of Love
by Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x0. Soyer, Raphael. First edition. Edges and some pages foxed. 1978 Hard Cover. 177 pp. Drawings and paintings by Raphael Soyer. Singer describes his life and literary career in Warsaw and the love affairs marking his search for a genuine relationship.
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The Golem
by Singer, Isaac Bashevis
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x0x8. Shulevitz, Uri. 2nd printing. Edges lightly foxed. 1983 Hard Cover. 83, [2] pp. A story for young readers by the 1978 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. A clay giant miraculously brought to life by a saintly rabbi saves a Jewish banker who... Read More
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Nobel Lecture [English and Yiddish Text]
by Singer, Isaac Bashevis
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1979. 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 6x4x0. First printing. Very minor general wear. 1979 Soft Cover. 29 pp. English and Yiddish text. A critical essay on the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer and the author's comments on why he writes for children accompany his Nobel lecture, presented in English and Yiddish,... Read More
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Animal Liberation [A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals]
by Singer, Peter
New York: Ecco / Harper Collins, 2002. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. 2003 6th printing. An excellent copy. 2002 Trade Paperback. xxv, 324, [1] pp. Includes section of black-and-white photographic plates. "Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere --... Read More
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Wildlife Art
by Singer, Alan
Gloucester, Massachusetts: Quarry Books, 1999. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9x0x11. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author on title page with inscription, "To John & Janet & Douglas Westerberg - The Yankee Peddlers - Happiest of Holidays, Dec. '99." Jacket spine lightly faded. 1999 Large Hardcover. 142 pp. Wildlife Art is a one-of-a-kind volume... Read More
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The Lone Ranger: Behind the Mask on the Trail of an Outlaw Epic
by Singer, Michael; Bruckheimer, Jerry; Verbinski, Gore; Depp, Johnny; Hammer, Armie
San Rafael, California: Insight Editions, 2013. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 148x14x176. First edition. Top edge of jacket lightly bumped. 2013 Large Hardcover. 168 pp. Bringing The Long Ranger to the big screen was an epic odyssey for all involved, plagued by freak weather conditions, unforgiving terrain, and a never-ending stream of logistical nightmares. Nevertheless, the... Read More
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Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane Cumming
by Singh, Frances B
Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2020. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 6x1x9. First edition. An exceptional copy. 2020 Hard Cover. xxxviii, 318 pp. Extensive notes, bibliography, and index follow text. Uncovers the life of Jane Cumming, who scandalized her contemporaries with tales of sexual deviancy but also defied cultural norms, standing up... Read More
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by Singh, Simon
New York: Anchor Books / Random House, Inc, 2000. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x7. 6th printing. Minimal wear to corners. 2000 Trade Paperback. xvii, 411 pp. "In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars,... Read More
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