Birmingham, AL: Classics of Medicine Library, (1981). Privately Printed for the Members of The Classics of Medicine Library. Originally printed in London by William Pickering in 1845. Marbled endpapers. 12 mo. 6-15/16" x 4-1/2". Full dark blue leather elaborately stamped in gold. All edges gilt. Fine condition. Item #904

Utica NY and St. Louis MO: Foster Brothers, (1913). 28 leaves, each with a pink and blue illustration on recto with space to enter baby's facts, events, diet, cunning things, outings, first words, favorite toys and more. 4to. 9-15/16" x 7-7/8". Sky blue cloth covered boards with blue and pink pictorial cover plate with title stamped in gold. Cover plate and illustrations with CM Burd incorporated into picture. A little wearing away of cloth finish along margins of covers. Two pin holes at top of back joint. Phantom darkening from something laid in between front endpapers. Overall a very nice clean copy with no writing. Original glassine wrapper fine. / In original box which is fragile and worn and lightly soiled box. Item #1303

New York: The Viking Press, (1984). First Edition. 8vo. Orange paper covered boards with black cloth spine. 184 pp. Tight, clean very good copy with a little foxing on the top edge of the text block. A dime size water stain on endpaper at top of back gutter where a drop of water probably made the spine bleed a little. / A very good to fine dust jacket.

J. M. Coetzee takes us into the world of Michael K, a young man unwillingly caught up in a war in South Africa. At the age of thirty-one, Michael loses his job as a gardener for the city of Cape Town, and promises to take his ailing mother back to her home town of Prince Albert. On the way there she dies leaving Michael completely alone. He takes refuge on a deserted farm, living off the land "by the rising and setting of the sun in a pocket outside time." . . . In this compelling yet simple story, written in beautiful, spare prose, J.M. Coetzee goes to the center of human experience - the need for an interior, spiritual life; for some connections to the world in which we live; and for purity of vision. ISBN: 0670427896 Item #708

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. Twentieth Edition, Revised. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Green pebbled cloth covered boards stamped in gold and black. 327 pp. Front hinge tender. Overall condition is very good to fine. Item #915

first edition. hardback. good - back strip missing. Item #1510

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (September 1905). Signed "Samuel M. Jones" on the title page. Small 8vo. 7-9/16" x 5-5/16". 248 pp. Brown cloth covered boards stamped in gold. A little light soil. Former owner's rubber stamp on front pastedown. Another owner's name and address in ink on free front endpaper. Overall a very good copy.

"Golden Rule Jones" was the egalitarian, progressive reform mayor of Toledo, Ohio from 1897 to 1904.

Jones died suddenly on July 12, 1904 in the midst of his third term as mayor of Toledo. That presents me with a conundrum. The publication date on the copyright page is September 1905. So, it might be hard to claim this book is signed by the author. Although maybe he received copies to sign before the release date or some such explanation. It looks like his signature but I cannot really claim that he signed this book! Item #1173

Akron OH and New York: Saalfield Publishing Co, (1938). Illustrated by Eleanora Madsen. 4to. 10-7/8" x 8-5/8".Full paper covered boards. Halftone illustrated endpapers. 91 pp. plus one p. glossary. 14 color illustrations and many half-tone illustrations. A lovely book with some slight shelf wear. Item #1751

Verona, Virginia: McClure Press, 1970. Stated First Printing. 8vo. Red cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 387 pp. A tight, clean copy that shows a very faint touch of foxing on endpapers and top of text block. Overall very good. / Very good dust jacket.

In this book the reader accompanies an officer of the United States Marine Corps through twenty years of a world which no longer exists. He is given an inside view of life in the Corps through the years of the Second Nicaraguan Campaign, a tour of duty on a battleship of the U.S. Navy, the beginning of the Fleet Marine Force, and duty with the Marine Detachment at the American Embassy at Peking, China. These were the years when the Corps at times numbered less than one thousand officers and fifteen thousand enlisted men. From this very small cadre the Corps expanded during World War II to nearly one half million officers and enlisted men, and the reader sees some of the problems caused by this sudden expansion. In World War II he progresses from training in California, New Zealand and Guadalcanal into the battles of the Bougainville, the Guam, and the Iwo Jima campaigns. After those days of glory he comes to the contraction and deterioration which followed the ending of the war. Throughout One Marine's Story there is a thread of humor and a good tale is well told. Item #1002

Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe, 1882. 8vo. Blind stamped brown cloth cover. Spine stamped in gold. 464 pp. including indices. A little rubbing at top and bottom of spine. A few tiny white specks on front cover. Small piece missing from bottom corner of back endpaper. Previous owner's name in pencil on free front endpaper. Overall, a tight, clean very good copy.

Table of Contents: Preliminary Observations; Prophecy Compared with Miracle; The Human Will Acts Under Two Laws; The Four Kingdoms of God; The Application of These Principles; The Case of Hazael Considered; The Case of Judas Iscariot Considered; God's Estimate of Probabilities; Fatalistic Tendencies; Where is the Necessity for Absolute Foreknowledge?; Principles Admitted by all Schools of Theology; Calvinistic Views of Foreknowledge; Foreknowledge Incomprehensible; Views of Others; Imperfect Views of Omniscience; The Infinite, the Absolute, and the Unconditioned in Relation to the Divine Foreknowledge; Introduction of Moral Evil into the Universe; Foreknowledge Annihilates the Distinction between Freedom and the Law of Cause and Effect; All Things Will Be as They Will Be; "The Rights of Creature and Creator Germane to the Subject," Foreknowledge Makes God Inconsistent; Foreknowledge Would Detract from Divine Benevolence; Foreknowledge Would Prevent Proper States of Feeling in the Infinite Mind; Divine Foreknowledge is Inconsistent with the Intellectual Perfections of God; Belief in Divine Foreknowledge Depresses the Energies of the Soul; The Denial of Absolute Foreknowledge Tenable; Concluding Observations; Index; Index of Scripture Passages;. Item #853

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1869. With thirty-nine illustrations in addition to the frontispiece. Small 4to. 7-1/8" x 9-3/4." 463 pp. All edges gilt. Specially bound in blue leather binding with green leather medallion stamped in gold, signed H. Bühler, Froschaugasse 20, 8001 Zurich. Engraved title page. Tipped in frontispiece is a real sepia-tone photograph of David Farragut with his signature on the mounting paper underneath the photo. A few faint finger smudges and a touch of light foxing on engraved title page. Former owner's name on front fly-leaf. Fly-leaf also has small tape repair. Otherwise a fine copy of a scarce item. Item #696

Columbus Ohio: 1896. Bright Blue Cloth. Fine Condition. Item #522

London: A. & C. Black, 1931. 8 vo. 269 pp. including bibliography and index. Red cloth. Spine stamped in gold. Illustrated endpapers. Fine condition. / Dust jacket is soiled and somewhat chipped but it is still sturdy. It has done a great job of protecting this lovely book.

This charming book is illustrated with photographs and reproductions of so many of Hugh Thomson's illustrations. Full color frontispiece and 11 full color plates. 16 plates in black and white. 93 reproductions of Hugh Thompson's illustrations scattered throughout the text. Item #156