Not in WorldCat

Jane And Carl, The Sunshine Pals, A Collection Of Popular Radio Songs

notinworldcat — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:52:27 +0000

Jane And Carl, The Sunshine Pals, A Collection Of Popular Radio Songs [SIGNED By Jane Lee, Songbook]
Jane And Carl

Bookseller:
Red Sky Books
(Washington, DC, U.S.A.)

Price: $25.00

Book Description: Peer International Corporation, New York, 1941. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good. 32 pp, 9″ x 12″, copy is in about average used condition, SIGNED in pencil by Jane on the front cover. This very scarce vintage songbook contains arrangements with guitar chords for 32 songs recorded and sung by Jane Lee And Carl Swanson, who were known as “The Sunshine Pals”, including I Am Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes, You Are My Sunshine, Worried Mind, and many others. Signed by Artist. Bookseller Inventory # 036626

ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET KARAXE

notinworldcat — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:49:19 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted. Partly, I’ve been busy, partly, it’s getting harder for me to find good items on ABE. Many fascinating items have no image included. Some images are terrible- dark, fuzzy, cell-phone-like shots of books propped up against shelves. So, I’ve been getting creative in finding likely candidates. Rather than just searching for keywords like OCLC, Worldcat, none, not, etc., I’ve been looking at things “not in COPAC,” “extremely scarce” and so on. Then I look for them in Worldcat. This is much more labor intensive. Today, I looked at older titles from Vantage Press, a vanity press, and thus less likely to be collected by libraries (in theory). I like “Escape from the Planet Karaxe.” The title and cover illustration seem more like an Avalon SF title from the late 1950s than something published in 1970.

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ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET KARAXE
Dunn, William B.

Bookseller:
BOOK EDDY
(Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.)

Price: $15

For sale at: www.abebooks.com

Book Description: Vantage Press, New York, 1970. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Moderate edgewear to dustjacket. Small chip to top edge of rear of dustjacket. Spine of dustjacket is sunned. Bookseller Inventory # 088177

Recollections of Deal

notinworldcat — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:30:43 +0000

Recollections of Deal.
VICTORIAN SEASIDE).

Bookseller:
Justin Croft Antiquarian Books ABA, ILAB
(Faversham, KEN, United Kingdom)

Price: $835.62

For sale at: www.abebooks.com

Book Description: London: Newman & Co., n.d. [c. 1864.], 1864. 32mo (60 × 48 mm.), 15 tinted engraved views presented concertina fashion on a long folding sheet. Publisher’s blindstamped green cloth, title and imprint in gilt to upper cover. Slightly rubbed, paper lining to spine slightly cracked. An excellent copy. A rare miniature seaside souvenir from Deal, Kent. Though undated, several of the views depict the iron pleasure pier opened in 1864 and perhaps this ephemeral item was printed to accompany the opening. The views present a rather elegant view of a Victorian seaside town full of fashionably attired promenaders. The town would have been working hard to dispel its reputation for infamy and gloom reported earlier in the century by Cobbett (“a most villainous place. It is full of filthy looking people”) and later by Dickens in Bleak House. Besides the pier there are images of the esplanade, castle, barracks and church. Not in COPAC. Bookseller Inventory # 1694

PASSING ALONG

notinworldcat — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:55:11 +0000

PASSING ALONG.
Roberts,Eric S.

Bookseller:
John L. Capes (Books) Established 1969
(Staithes, ., United Kingdom)

Price: $102.61

For sale at: www.abebooks.com

Book Description: SHEFFIELD. J.W.Northend West Street., 1930. A Fine Copy in dustwrapper of this first world war autobiography from the notable Sheffield family of Queens Tower first published for private circulation in 1925. 8vo. 167pps.eight illustrations. Scarce Not in COPAC or BL Catalogue. Bookseller Inventory # 2726

An Almanack for the Year of our Lord God MDCCC

notinworldcat — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:44:48 +0000

Annuals and serials can be confusing to look up on WorldCat, but if I’m not mistaken, this is only listed in an electronic version put out by the Gale Group. I believe that they may have digitized a copy owned by the British Library. Great for access, but not quite the same. This beautiful material object calls out to be handled.

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An Almanack for the Year of our Lord God MDCCC
Goldsmith, John

Bookseller:
George Bayntun ABA ILAB
(Bath, SO, United Kingdom)

Price: $920.39

For sale at: www.abebooks.com

Book Description: by H. Baldwin and Son, for the company of Stationers, [1799], London, 1799. .. Wherein are contained Necessary Rules, and Useful Tables. With a New Chronology of Remarkable Events; also the Proper Days and Hours for Transferring Stocks and receiving Dividends; and a List of Holidays Kept at the Public Offices, &c. Calculated by John Goldsmith. Printed in black and red. Interleaved with blanks. 24mo. [104 x 56 x 9 mm]. 48pp. Contemporary binding of red goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a border of a fillet and three rolls, enclosing a variety of small tools, including a bow and arrows and an anchor, and with a large wheat-sheaf at the centre. Smooth spine divided into six panels by a gilt pallet, each with a central star shaped tool, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt roll, marbled endleaves, circular silver bosses on the covers secured with a stylus, gilt edges. (Corners a little bumped). With the duty stamp on the verso of the title, and two coated leaves for use with the stylus. This edition is not listed on COPAC. A fine copy. Bookseller Inventory # ebc2371

Guide of Berlin, Potsdam and Environs. A Special Summary from the Notes of the Best Tourists as Baedecker and Others.

notinworldcat — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:18:46 +0000

Interesting. WorldCat has the bibliographic information on this, but shows no library holdings. Either it’s a new and incomplete record, or perhaps some library once had it, then withdrew or lost it.

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Guide of Berlin, Potsdam and Environs. A Special Summary from the Notes of the Best Tourists as Baedecker and Others.
Marcus, Max.

Bookseller:
Heldfond Book Gallery, Ltd. ABAA , ILAB
(San Anselmo, CA, U.S.A.)

Price: $400

For sale at: www.abebooks.com

Book Description: Berlin. Max Marcus, Bookseller. n.d. (circa 1885)., 1885. Illustrated with one very large coloured folding map. 68 pgs. 12mo (6″ x 4.5″). Bound in gilt titled red cloth. Wonderful and scarce example of Marcus’ attempt to duplicate the Baedeckers Guides. An effort which eventually led to Bankruptcy and prison. Covers somewhat soiled with some minor staining to front cover. Lack of continuity to endsheets at front and rear hinges. Map presents three marginal tears two of which extend 1/2 inch into image. A Very Good or better crisp copy. Quite rare.Featured Misc. Bookseller Inventory # 7863

TRU-AMERICANISM

notinworldcat — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:12:02 +0000

TRU-AMERICANISM
Mulvey, Owen

Bookseller:
Antiquarian Book Shop
(Washington, DC, U.S.A.)

Price: $44.96

For sale at: www.abebooks.com

Book Description: Chicago Owen Mulvey 1939., 1939. Fine. ; 8vo; The time for another American Evolution has come. Now is the time to make our donation to humanity. Author calls for a guaranteed minimum income, jobs for all, good schools & good hospitals for all people, etc. Excellent pictorial wrappers. Quite scarce pamphlet. First Edition. Binding is Softcover. Bookseller Inventory # 8715

Practical Hints to Young Officers in the Mercantile Marine

notinworldcat — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:32:53 +0000

COPAC lists one 1907 edition at the British Library. Presumably, this 1920 printing is significantly different, if only for the list of “owners who take apprentices.” Not in WorldCat.

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Practical Hints to Young Officers in the Mercantile Marine
An Old Hand

Bookseller:
Rare Books at Vagabonds’ House
(East Boothbay, ME, U.S.A.)

Price: $35

For sale at: www.abebooks.com

Book Description: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, Glasgow. 1920 printing, ed unk, 12 mo, 18 * 12 cm, illustrated boards, 110 pp. Very neat underlining. Contains myriad “Useful tips for young Officers joining a ship.” Also “Contains a List of Owners who take Apprentices.” Quite scarce; in very good condition. Bookseller Inventory # VH000433

Sin Suits Me

notinworldcat — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:42:55 +0000

Sin Suits Me
BOOTH, Roy

Bookseller:
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)

Price: $400

For sale at: www.abebooks.com

Book Description: New York Godwin, Publishers (1935)., 1935. First edition. Near fine in good plus dustwrapper with some modest chipping, mostly on the front panel, and at the crown. Rejected by her lover, a beautiful woman lures men with her paganesque practices. Very uncommon. OCLC locates no copies. First edition. Bookseller Inventory # 85580

The Runaways

notinworldcat — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:46:08 +0000

Another sea-adventure published in London in 1941. According to the bookseller, the author was an “original member of Sinn Fein.” Five in COPAC, but not in WorldCat.

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The Runaways
O’Brien, Conor (pseudonym of Edward Conor Marshal O’Brien)

Bookseller:
Augustine Funnell Books
(Fredericton, NB, Canada)

Price: $150

For sale at: www.abebooks.com

Book Description: George G. Harrap, London, 1941. Hard Cover. Book Condition: About Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Very Good. T.H. Robinson (illustrator). First Edition. Small Octavo — from 7.75″ to 9.75″ Tall. O’Brien was a yachtsman, mountaineer, and original member of Sinn Fein, as well as the first person to sail around the world in his own yacht. This boy’s adventure story is a very scarce tome, telling the tale of a pair of lads who, with a newfound friend, take their father’s yacht up the west coast of Ireland to Skye, where, among many adventures, they acquire a stowaway who ends up being “the cause of a clash with a gang of Communists.” Red cloth w/black spine lettering, 220 pages + map. A bit of wear to corners/spine ends, dusty/tanned edges, light cover soil, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/short edge tears, 1.25″ tear to bottom edge of front panel, light chipping to corners/spine ends, small piece (3/8″ x 1/4″) from top edge of rear panel, smudging to rear panel. Naturally, the jacket is now in a protective mylar sleeve. Bookseller Inventory # 016100