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Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown cloth boards are scuffed and rubbed. University library markings. Front inside hinge is library-mended. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: X, 676 Pp. First American Printing, 1920, With 1920 Date On Title Page. Volume Ii Only. Light Wear.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Presumed first edition. 8vo. Cloth. 676 p. Maps. Index. Volume 2 of Wells' bestselling two-volume work, The Outline of History (1920), which began a new era of popularized world history. It was praised by Arnold Toynbee as the best introductory history available. Hinges cracked. Shelf wear and fading to spine. Good.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two Volumes. Xix, 648 Pp.; X, 676 Pp. First American Printing, 1920, With 1920 Dates On Title Pages. Volume Ii With Ownership Signature Of Fanny Bixby Spencer, Dated 1921. Light Wear, Gilt Bright. Fanny Weston Bixby Spencer (1879 – 1930) Was Born Fanny Weston Bixby In Los Angeles, California, The Youngest Of Nine Surviving Children Of Jotham Bixby; He Had Arrived In California In 1852 From Maine, Where He And Several Cousins Had Formed Flint, Bixby & Company, Which Acquired Major Landholdings, Including The 27,000-Acre Rancho Los Cerritos In What Is Now Long Beach. Fanny Grew Up Wealthy, And Although She Was An Active Philanthropist, When She Died In 1930 Her $2.5 Million Estate Was The Largest Ever Probated In Orange County Up To That Point. Fanny Grew Up On Rancho Los Cerritos, Of Which Jotham Was The Manager. Later, Fanny's Grandfather, The Prominent Abolitionist And Unitarian Minister George Whitefield Hathaway, Came To Live With The Family. Fanny Bixby Wrote About His Abolitionist Activities, Including Turning His House Into A Station On The Underground Railroad, In Her Pamphlet Entitled How I Became A Socialist. Fanny Bixby Was Educated At The Marlborough School In Los Angeles And The Pomona Preparatory School.[3] She Attended Wellesley College For Three Years But Left Without A Degree. At Wellesley, She Studied Sociology With Emily Greene Balch, Who Would Go On To Win The 1946 Nobel Peace Prize. While Still At Wellesley College, She Worked For A Time At The Denison Settlement House In Boston (Founded By Balch) And The Nurse's Settlement House In San Francisco. On Leaving College, She Moved Back To Long Beach, Where She Donated Money To Various Civic Causes, Including Long Beach's First Hospital (Seaside Hospital), And The Walt Whitman School (Private) And Her Settlement House, Both In The Boyle Heights District On The East-Side Of Los Angeles. She And Her Husband Often Invited Ghetto Youth Of Working Mothers To Stay On Their Farm In Orange County To Divert Them From Gangs And Delinquency. In 1907 She Founded What Is Now Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. She Also Helped Found The Town Of Costa Mesa, California. When Long Beach Formed Its Police Force In 1908, Captain Tom Williams Brought Fanny Bixby Onto The Force Because Of Her Extensive Philanthropic Work In The City. She Was Sworn In As A Special Police Matron On January 1, 1908, Making Her One Of The First Women Police Officers In The Country. Fanny Bixby Worked With The Long Beach Police Force For Four Years. An Admirer Of Leo Tolstoy, Fanny Bixby Was A Socialist And A Pacifist. She Published Some Poetry In The California Socialist Party's Newspaper, The Oakland World, And She Attended At Least One Antiwar Meeting In Pasadena Before The Espionage Act Of 1917 Made It Risky To Speak Out Against The War. Her 1920 Play The Jazz Of Patriotism Was About A Woman Who Is Ostracized For Refusing To Salute The Flag. It Premiered At The Egan Theater (Later The Musart Theater) In Downtown Los Angeles. Fanny Bixby Met Her Future Husband, W. Carl Spencer, At A Socialist Party Meeting In 1917. They Moved To Costa Mesa (Then Named Harper) In 1919, Where They Raised Five Adopted Children And Supported Many Others. The Couple Donated Land To The City For A Park And A Library. A Couple Of Years Before She Died, She Wrote To Her Cousin Sarah Bixby Smith: "I Have Three Lines Of Work, Bringing Up My Foster Children, Helping My Neighbors (Mostly Japanese Farmers) And Banging My Head Against The Stone Wall Of Militarism And Conservatism That Hems Me In.” Her Papers Are Housed At The Rancho Los Cerritos Museum.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$412.79 + shipping
Description: 2 vols, 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous illustrations and maps in the text; original burgundy cloth, gilt backs, uncut, tops lightly spotted else a very good, bright, crisp copy. The first Macmillan edition, published in New York in November 1920. It retains the illustrations and maps of the first edition but omits the coloured plates. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Wells, pp.50-52.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
H. G. Wells. THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY 2 Volume Set. MacMillan Company, New York, 1920.
Price: US$449.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Vol. II hinges cracked, spine starting.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
H. G. Wells. THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY VOL. 1 & 2. MacMillan Company, New York, 1920.
Price: US$529.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Light staining on bottom of Vol. II front panel.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
H. G. Wells. THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY VOL. 1 & 2. MacMillan Company, New York, 1920.
Price: US$534.95 + shipping
Description: Both Volumes Very Good+ in boards. Owner bookplate on front pastedown of both volumes. "Page 424" inked on vol. II FEP. Light staining on Vol. II front panel.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G.. The Outline of History Vols I and II, Clarence Darrow's Personal Copy. , 1920.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Clarence Darrow's Copy Wells, H.G. [1866-1946]. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. xix, [1], 648; x, [2], 676 pp. 2 volumes. Illustrated. Publisher's red textured cloth, central embossed vignette to front boards, gilt titles and volume numbers to spines. Light soiling and shelfwear, faint staining to front board of Vol. I and spine of Vol. II., light fading to spines, chipping to spine ends, corners bumped and lightly worn, front hinge of Vol. II cracked, moderate toning, pencil marks to margins of pp. 573-581 of Vol. I, text otherwise clean. Ownership signatures of Clarence Darrow ("C.S. Darrow") to front free endpapers. $1,500. * New Republic edition, published the same year as the first collected American edition. Though best known for his science fiction, Wells was also a dedicated socialist and progressive thinker and wrote a number of non-fiction works discussing history, politics and society. Originally published in parts, his popular Outline of History documents world history from the origins of the Earth to World War I and "the next stage of history." This copy was owned by American attorney Clarence Darrow [1857-1938], famous not only for his skill as a lawyer but for his intellectual contributions to progressive thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The pencil markings to Vol. I are in the section "The Beginnings of Christianity" and highlight paragraphs discussing the life and personal characteristics of Jesus Christ.
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, U.S.A.