Weston's Westons: California and the West
Boston: Bullfinch Press, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. quarto, grey cloth boards in dust jacket, jacket and book are in very good + condition and shows light overall wear, 146pp.
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Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvnia, Vol. III (3); 1831-1832
Philadelphia: Nicklin & Johnson, 1833. Hardcover. This volume only. 8vo, calf, good to very good, light wear, rubbing, etc. Band at bottom identifies this as belong to D. A. Reed; David Aiken Reed (1880-1953), Pittsburgh attorney and very conservative Senator from Pennsylvania, co-author of the notoriously restrictive Johnson-Reed Immigration Act.....
German Expressionist Art: The Robert Gore Rifkind Collection
Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery / University of California, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. With typed letter signed by Robert Gore Rifkind loosely inserted. First edition, 1977. Quarto, red cloth hardcover with gilt titles on the spine and front cover, 375 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good+ copy.....
The Occult on the Tudor and Stuart Stage
Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1965. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, good in a good dust jacket, erasable pencil-notes to the margins of some pages, discoloration and wear to the dust jacket.
5 Books by Ron Rege Jr. - Against Pain (2008); Skibber Bee-Bye (2006); The Awake Field (2006); Stop Thinking - Start Sleeping, Stop Sleeping - Start Living (2006); Does Music Make You Cry? (2003)
Drawn And Quarterly / Highwater Books, 2003-2008. Hardcover. Five books by acclaimed cartoonist Ron Rege Jr. Against Pain; c.2008; Drawn & Quarterly; hardcover, 4to. Skibber Bee-Bye; c.2006; Drawn & Quarterly; softcover, oblong 8vo.; Inscribed by Rege with original drawing. The Awake Field; c.2006; Drawn & Quarterly; softcover, square 8vo. Stop.....
Peace in a Nuclear Age: The Bishops' Pastoral Letter in Perspective
Washington DC: Catholic Univ. of America Pr. 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 1986, First Edition, 426 pp. Hardcover. Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket that shows only minor signs of use.
Studies in the Theory of Knowledge (American Philosophical Quarterly, Monograph No. 4)
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1970. First edition. Paperback. First edition, 1970, paperback, octavo, 132pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with faint sun and crease to spine, sticker to front panel, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
The Forum, November 1899
New York: The Forum Publishing Company, 1899. 9.25 inches tall, pale peach printed wraps, very good with light wear and soil. A pioneering journal of progressive education, edited by one of the first to apply "scientific management" to education as well as large-scale statistical surveys. Articles on domestic and foreign.....
Propertius: Elegies I-IV
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1977. Cloth hardcover, 489 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, previous owner's ink signature on the front pastedown, some age-toning to the pages and page-edges, some rubbing and age-toning to the covers of the book, no dust jacket.....
Emerson: The Mind on Fire -- the copy of Nancy Craig Simmons, Thoreau & Emerson scholar & editor
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, leatherette backed cloth boards, in dust jacket, very good, light wear, with bookplate signed by Nancy Simmons, with her pencilling and notes throughout; Nancy Craig Simmons edited the letters of Mary Moody Emerson (Emerson's aunt, an author and intellectual in.....
History of Custer Battlefield
Fort Collins: Old Army Press, 1998. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 151 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, blindstamp to titlepage, light rubbing to the tips and edges of the dust jacket. 1998.
75th Anniversary Emsworth Borough 1896-1971
Emsworth: Souvenir Book Committee, 1971. First printing. Paperback,176.
An Appeal from the Judgements of Great Britain Respecting the United States of America ; Part First Containing an Historical Outline of their Merits and Wrongs as Colonies; and Strictures Upon the Calumnies of the British Writers
Westport, CT: Negro Univesities Press, 1969. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo, brown cloth. Book is Very Good with light wear and soil, slight musty odor, the usual offsetting to inner hinges, typical of books from this publisher. Creasing to a few pages. Reprint of a book from 1819. Overall solid copy.....
The Boy's Account of It: A Chronicle of Foreign Travel By an Eight-Year-Old
New York: The Waterloo Press, 1909. First printing. Hardcover. Signed in blue ink on the frontispiece page under the portrait. First edition, 1909. Green cloth hardcover with gilt titles and a pictorial onlay on the front cover, gilt top edge, illustrated, 79 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, faint.....
Shabik'Eshchee Village: A Late Basket Maker Site in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico; Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 92
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1929. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1929. Cloth hardcover, 164 pp., illustrated (including fold-out map), clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, owner's stamp on the pastedowns, soiling or discoloration to some pages and to the page-edges, light rubbing or wear to the covers, no dust.....
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, Numbers 26-32; Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 185
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1963. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1963. Softcover, illustrated (including fold-outs), 344 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, a bit of creasing to the tips of some of the pages, some soiling or age-toning to the outer pages and page-edges, some discoloration to the.....
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, Numbers 15-20; Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 176
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1960. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1960. Softcover, illustrated (including fold-outs), 337 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, a bit of creasing to the tips of some of the pages, some soiling or age-toning to the outer pages and page-edges, creasing and light wear.....
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, Numbers 33-38; Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 189
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1964. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1964. Softcover, illustrated (including fold-outs), 405 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, a bit of creasing to the tips of some of the pages, some soiling or age-toning to the outer pages and page-edges, a bit of creasing.....
Athens in the Age of Pericles -- inscribed by author to John Cheever
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket, good with some general soil to edges of text block, light wear and soil to jacket, inscribed "John Cheever -- with happy memories. Alex Robinson. Providence Thanksgiving 1959." 165 pp.
Poor Women, Poor Children: American Poverty in the 1990s
Amonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. Third edition. Paperback. Third edition, paperback, octavo, 203pp., with charts and graphs. Book condtion is Very Good + with light wear to edges and some light soiling to the text block otherwise binding is tight and pages are clean, bright and unmarked.
Ruanaidh: The Story of Art Rooney and His Clan (Signed copy)
Pittsburgh: Geyer Printing Company, 2009. Later printing. Paperback. Fifth edition. 8vo, paperback with French flaps, 483pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Inscribed by Rooney and signed by both Rooney and McHugh to title page, with remaining contents clean and unmarked. Book has creasing to front cover and front flap, affecting.....
The Hornbook of Virginia History: A Ready-Reference Guide to the Old Dominion's People, Places, and Past
Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 1994. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Fourth edition, 1994. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 324 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, light age-toning to the page-edges, minor rubbing or wear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust.....
A Theory of Middle English Alliterative Meter: With Critical Applications (Speculum Anniversary Monographs : 1)
Mediaeval Academy Of America, 1977. Hardcover. 1977, Edition not stated. Publication location not stated. Softcover, in Near Fine condition, with light shelf wear.
Carbon - 14: A Comprehensive Annual Bibliography of Applications in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine; Volume 1: January - December, 1962
Los Angeles: Calbiochem, 1962. First printing. Paperback. Volume one only. First edition, 1962. Softcover, unpaginated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, some soiling or age-toning to the outer pages and the page-edges, some soiling and discoloration to the covers, wear to the edges of the book's covers including some rubbing.....
Canadian-American Slavic Studies - A Quarterly Journal Devoted to Russia and East Europe. Vol. 9, No. 4, Winter 1975. Special Issue - The Reign of Alexander I
Universite Du Quebec A Montreal, 1975. Paperback. Softcover. c.1975. 8vo. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, mild tanning to wraps, mailing label on rear wraps.