New York: Wm. A Pond & Co., C. 1873. 13.25 inches tall, disbound from a bound volume of music, 8 pp, great lithographed cover of a White Star Line steamship with sails, Robert Teller, lithographer. Light wear and mild stains.
London: Chappell and Co., Ca. 1880. 13.25 inches tall, handsome lithographed covers, 9 pp. Light wear; likely removed from a larger bound volume of music. Several Irish tunes scored for piano.
Paperback. Wraps, 10.5 inches tall, very good with light wear and soil, small stains to covers, about 50 pp, illustrated, lots of ads. RARE. The Sokol movement founded in Prague in the 1860s believed that gymnastics and training led to a sound body and sound mind. The movement spread around.....
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1931. Paperback. 8vom wraps, good with some soil and wear to covers. 43 pp.
Diliman, Quezon City: University of the Philippines, National Research Council, 1955. Paperback. Special reprint incorporating revisions of 1954. Tall 8vo, green wraps, good copy, small snag at top of front cover, 45 pp, 16 plates, plus laid in 4 pp. proceedings of a Science Congress in Manila.
San Diego: Phenix, C. 1968. Presumed first printing. Paperback "adult" reading. 160 pp, light wear. Uncommon.
New York: Otto Construction Corporation, 1940. Hardcover. Quarto (11 inches tall), Cloth stamped in gilt with pictorial onlay to front cover, very good, 40 pp, illustrated with some of the graphics in colors. Uncommon brochure advertising the virtues of the Otto Coke Oven. OCLC locates three copies: NYPL, Cleveland and.....
Athens: El. Kazantzakis, 1969. Paperback. 6th edition. Tall 8vo, wraps with color pictorial dust jacket. Very good, light wear to jacket, previous owner's signature to inner back wrap, hidden by jacket's flap. Signed on the last page by Kazantzakis's widow in authentication.
New York: E. & G. W. Blunt, 1843. Hardcover. Quarto, rebound in early 20th century quarter leather and cloth boards, replaced endpapers, good copy; the binding is a little dried out and needed its joints restored, contents very good, light foxing throughout. 112 plates, lacks folding plate 'Queen of the.....
Moscow: Vysshaia shkola, 1967. Hardcover. Cloth backed boards, very good, light wear and soil, pages tanning. 535 pp. In Russian.
Athens: Neoterika, 1991. Trade paperback, very good. 190 pp.
Moscow: "Prosveshchenie" 1970. Hardcover. Cloth backed pictorial boards, very good, pages tanning. 252 pp, illustrated.
Athens: Ekdoseis Kedros, 1963, 1966. Hardcover. 2 volumes bound in one, small 8vo, bound in reddish cloth, very good, spine a little faded, nice illustrated edition of the first two parts (a third came out later on). Ownership signature twice of a classics professor at the University of Pittsburgh. In.....
Toronto: Teatralia Biblioteka, 1972. First printing. 8vo, wraps, 303 pp, very good, text in Cyrlllic Ukrainian. OCLC locates 3 copies in libraries.
New York: Viking Press, 1948. First printing. Hardcover. Small quarto cloth backed boards, very good with minor wear and stains in good dust jacket with some taping to front panel, top of spine and along edges of verso - now yellowing. Nice semi-attractive copy.
London: The Studio, 1924. First printing. Quarto, wraps, very good, light wear. 39 pp. text, 89 plates, a few mounted and in color.
Measures 12 x 9 inches, on good heavy stock, front cover with painted rose a little worn and yellowed, otherwise very good. Each is neatly signed and dated, the majority are pencil studies and sketches. Ida Cook was probably living in Western Pennsylvania, since we acquired this in a local.....
Chocen (Czech Rep.): Loutkar, (1919). First printing. Large 8vo, (9.75 inches tall, 25 cm), pictorial olive green wraps, good with light wear along right edge of front wrap, some small chips and repairs to rear wrap. 30 (2) pp. The author (1867-1922) was also known as Fa Presto, and is.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, book good with some discoloration to binding, Christmas inscription from 1950 on flyleaf, book otherwise OK, jacket good to very good, light wear, some rubbing to flap hinges, loss loss to jacket's spine ends, minor wear.....
Washington DC: Blair and Rives, 1845. First printing. Hardcover. House of Representatives copy. 8vo, old sheep, fair to good copy, rubbing and wear to binding, some neat reinforcement to front joint, foxing to text, has 21 of 22 lithograph plates by our count, 4 of 5 maps (the fifth one.....
Boston and Philadelphia: Hillard Gray; Kimber & Sharpless, 1835. Hardcover. Volume I only. Old sheep, 364, 180, viii pp. Fair to good copy, heavy rubbing, the first 80pp a little proud but still well bound solid copy, foxing to text, and some old pencil notes to some pages. Greek text.....
Boston and Philadelphia: Hillard Gray; Kimber & Sharpless, 1835. Hardcover. Volume I only. Old sheep, 364, 180, viii pp. Fair to good copy, spine label missing, some neat reinforcement to joints, rear flyleaf missing, foxing to text. Charming pencil sketch by old owner of Thucydides and Xenophon on front pastedown.....
London: Downey, 1896. First printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 8vo, original beveled cloth, very good with light ex-library marks (numbers on spine, pocket residue to rear pastedowns, ink numbers on title pages and their versos. Otherwise, light wear but a nice handsome set.
Hartford: Brownell, 1856. Paperback. Tall 8vo, original tan printed wraps, good copy with some wear and stains to covers, contents very good; paginated 237-416 with about 40 pp. of ads etc. at rear. Includes engravings of George Peabody and of a highschool in St. Louis, layouts for buildings specializing in.....
London: Scholartis Press, 1927. First printing. Hardcover. No. 71 of 80 copies signed by Partridge. Creamy cloth-backed cloth boards, good copy with gray/green discoloration and mottling to boards, spine a little soiled with some staining at the top, contents very good.