Trinity and Society
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1988. Hardcover. Maroon cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 272pp., not illustrated. Book has hint of shelfwear to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ gently rubbed and toned.
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Cunard Line Sailing Schedule and Rates of Passage, Italian and Sicilian and Adriatic Lines, With Letter of Transmittal on Burns and Mac Iver Letterhead
Liverpool: Burns and Mac Iver, 1878. Sailing schedule and rates of passage for the Cunard Line for the Italian, Sicilian, and Adriatic lines, with letter of transmittal on Burns and Mac Iver letterhead addressed to James M. Lincoln of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 1878. Schedule measures 9 by 12.....
Telling America's Story: A History of the Henry Ford (2019 expanded ed.) AND Official Guidebook, The Henry Ford
Brookfield, MO; San Diego: Donning Company; Beckon Books, 2017, 2019. Hardcover. 2 vols. The first book is 12.25 x 9.5 inches, glossy boards in dust jacket, fine copy, 232 pp, illustrated in color. Foreword by William Clay Ford Jr., revised from original edition. The guidebook is a trade softcover, 9.....
Legacies in Law and Medicine
New York: Science History Publication, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 1977. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. 310pp. Very good. Light wear to boards, date in pen on flyleaf. Contents unmarked.
Legacies in Ethics & Medicine
New York: Science History Publications, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 1977. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in tan cloth. 326pp. Very good. Light wear to boards, date on flyleaf. Contents unmarked.
Pennsylvania Architecture: The Historic American Buildings Survey with Catalog Entries 1933-1990 [Signed by Burns, Webster and Peterson!]
Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2000. Hardcover. Signed by Burns, Webster and Peterson (and another person)! Gray cloth boards in dust jacket, square quarto [10.25" x 10.25"], 629pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has mild rubbing to boards and spine, binding tender, text clean and unmarked. DJ has moderate.....
A Handbook of Marxism: Being a Collection of Extracts from the Writings of Marx, Engels and the Greatest of Their Followers Selected so as to Give the Reader the Most Comprehensive Account of Marxism Possible within the Limits of a Single Volume [Two volume set!]
New York: Haskell House, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Two volume set! Red cloth boards, octavos, not illustrated. Books have handsome boards and tight bindings that feel unread, texts clean bright and unmarked.
An Angler's Anthology
Harrisburg: The Stackpole Company, 1952. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1952. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 147 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Good dust jacket, soiling or discoloration to some pages and to the page-edges, some discoloration to the covers, soiling and discoloration to the dust.....
JAM: Projekte der Arthropoden zur Gestaltung der Zukunft -- inscribed to one of his collaborators
Koln: Phaidon, 1971. First printing. Paperback. Quarto, wraps, very good, minor wear. Inscribed, "Thanx, Willard, Good Luck, Jim." The inscription is to Willard van den Bogart, an artist and philosopher with deep Pittsburgh roots, now in Bangkok; he is credited for some of the photos in this book, and he.....
Essays in Honor of James MacGregor Burns
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. First Printing. c.1989. Hardcover. 8vo. 256pp. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Mild age toning to dustjacket.
Recording Historic Structures
Washington DC: The American Institute of Architects Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1989. Oblong quarto, hardcover, NEW copy, still in original shrink-wrap.
Lucifer with a Book
New York: Harper Brothers, 1949. Hardcover. 1949, code B-Y on copyright page (presumed first edition, although no statement on the copyright page, and no date on the title page). Hardcover, black cloth. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Cloth lightly bumped and frayed at the corners and spine ends;.....
Third Conference on Vitamin C
New York, New York, U.S.A. New York Academy of Sciences, 1987. Paperback. Sof cover, octavo. Copy is VG+, with light edge wear to cover and spine ends. Inside, pages crisp and clean, with text unmarked. 538 pp. Octavo.
Badges and Battle Honours of H.M. Ships
Liskeard: Maritime Books, 1986. Hardcover. Small quarto, cloth in dust jacket, near fine copy with slightest mellowing to spine color. 208 pp, illustrated, with the badges pictured in color.
Pity and Tears: The Tragedies of Nicholas Rowe
Salzburg, Austria: Salzburg Studies in English Literature, 1974. Softcover. Printed paper wraps, octavo, 256pp., not illustrated. Book has toning to wraps, binding tight, previous owner Robert D. Hume's stamps to inner front panel and foredge of text block, text clean and unmarked, with foxing to top edge of textblock. Robert.....
Graphixus, Issue 4 (June-July 1978)
London: Media and Graphic, 1978. Paperback. Issue 4. Softcover. 1978. Near Fine.
German Cultural Studies: An Introduction
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Paperback. Paperback, 1995, octavo, 375pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild shelfwear to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Complete Writings / Poems, 10 volumes, 1926, limited edition
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. Hardcover. 1926, 10 volumes, no. 409/750 of the American issue (there were also 250 made for England). 8vo, red cloth spines, brown paper covered boards, brown paper spine labels printed in gilt. Very good crisp set with mild soil and darkening, pages uncut, untrimmed, unopened, each.....
Irish Parliamentary Politics in the Eighteenth Century, 2 vols.--Volume I: 1714-1730 & Volume II: 1730-1760
Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1989/90. First printing. Hardcover. Two volumes, complete. First editions, 1989 & 1990. Hardcovers in dust jackets, 282 + 356 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copies in Near Fine dust jackets, previous owner's blindstamp on the front flyleaves, light soiling or wear.....
Islam Under the Crusaders: Colonial Survival in the Thirteenth-Century Kingdom of Valencia
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has soil and rubbing to boards and spine, binding tight, price stamp in blue to front endpapers, text clean and unmarked but has basement odor. DJ edgeworn and torn, rubbed and.....
The Jolly Beggars, A Cantata
Portland: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1914. First printing. Hardcover. One of 750 unnumbered copies. First edition thus, 1914. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase, 106 pp., clean unmarked copy, Near Fine copy in Good dust jacket in Fair slipcase, soiling to the book's page-edges, soil and discoloration to the dust jacket.....
The Jolly Beggars, A Cantata
Portland, Maine: Thomas Mosher, 1914. First edition thus. Hardcover. 1914. First edition thus. Hardcover, 8vo. in patterned paper boards, lacks slipcase. 106pp. frontis of Burns. Very good. Lacks slipcase, board extremities toned. Contents unmarked.
Cotter's Saturday Night: A Poem
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872. First printing. Hardcover. Gilt-decorated green cloth, all edges gilt, illustrated, clean unmarked text, good copy, previous owner's signature on the first blank, a bit of tidemark dampstaining to the outer edges of the pages, small cloth repair to the front cover at the upper inner.....
Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. Red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards showing hint of wear to spine ends, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front endpaper, text has some erasable pencil underlining and marginalia scattered throughout. DJ.....
The 1919 Owl; University of Pittsburgh yearbook
Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh / John Ross Burns Byers and Robert M. Campbell;, 1918. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1918. Quarto, hardcover with gilt title on front cover, 417 pp., heavily illustrated, clean unmarked text, Good copy, soiling or discoloration to some pages and to the page-edges, soiling to.....