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Marburg & Kassel [or Cassel]: Gedruckt auf kosten des verfassers, und in kommission der Krieger'schen buchhandlung, 1820-1853. First Printing. Hardcover. 9 of 10 volumes (lacking the 10th volume that came out in 1858, the second part of Hessen seit dem westphalischen frieden bis jetzt -- this volume can often be.....
Kaliningrad: 1957. 16 postcards with color illustrations by Konstantin Rotov, published in Kaliningrad (a Russian oblast between Lithuania and Poland). Truly uncommon, especially in such nice condition. Konstantin Rotov (1902-1959) was an very popular Russian artist and cartoonist sentenced by Stalin to 14 years of hard labor because his satirical.....
Buenos Aires: Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1962. First Printing. Wraps. 14 x 10.75 inches, wraparound stiff card chemise housing softcover text, 50 pp, plus "Laminas" -- plates -- 38, collated complete, mainly folding. Very good with light wear, discoloration, rubbing to chemise, the two books very good or better.
From the estate of Henry Kantrowitz, a Pittsburgh CPA who was the PA Chair of the March of Dimes Foundation. All 8 x 10 photos in black wooden frames, 3 of 4 with little typed captions. We have Salk discussing the anti-polio campaign with Harold C. Lund, VP of Westinghouse.....
London: Nicholson & Watson, Penguin, Country Life, Aeroplane, etc. 1940-1943. Wraps. Group of 19 aircraft identification books, over 200 silhouette cards, and a War Planes card game, all collected by Robert Mansfield (1926-2010) as a teenager in London and Coventry; he was a schoolmate of the author Philip Larkin at.....
New York: Open Sesame, Inc., Ca. 1949. Wraps. 12 small children's books in original slipcase, very good, first book (Ali Baba) with mild wear and darkening to front cover. Slipcase also moderately rubbed and used, has "$1 --" written on one side with Scheu-Riesz's name and address in ink below.....
London: George Allen, 1912. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's orange yellow cloth stamped in red, very good, light wear and soil, neat restoration to cloth snap, contents very good, old owner's name stamp; with all 21 maps in the double pockets, 347 pp. One of a series of books on.....
Rangoon: Burma Translation Society, 1955. First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto, 10 x 8.5 inches, in half black calf and rose cloth boards, stamped in gilt on spine (from the Spaulding family estate), very good. Approximately 200 pp. Spaulding was an expert in educational techniques for developing countries and was working.....
Portland & Seattle: English Language Press, 2013. Wraps. No. 162 of 950 copies, this one done in 2013, in an evolving project first begun in 1985, each one unique as Stairs is obligated each time to write the text (and it would interesting to compare texts to see if any.....
Berlin etc. Wraps. 11 offprints, some inscribed, from the collection of Adolf Grunbaum. Strauss was a physicist and philosopher, a member of the Berlin Group of logical positivists, along with Hempel, and linked with Vienna Circle figures, Carnap, Bohm, et al. In no particular order we have: Intertheoretische Relationen, Einfuhrung.....
Honfleur: Pierre Jean Oswald, 1970. First Printing. Wraps. 12mo, wraps, very good, light wear, inscribed by author to some UNESCO colleagues. Mainly poetry, in French. Born in Mpili, near Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa (now Congo) in 1931, U Tam'si spent his childhood in France, where he worked as a journalist.....
Honfleur: Pierre Jean Oswald, 1970. First Printing. Wraps. 12mo, wraps, very good, light wear, inscribed by author to some UNESCO colleagues. Mainly poetry, in French. Born in Mpili, near Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa (now Congo) in 1931, U Tam'si spent his childhood in France, where he worked as a journalist.....
London: Heinemann, 1970. First Printing. Wraps. 12mo, wraps, very good, light wear. Inscribed by author to some colleagues at UNESCO. 143 pp, text in English. Born in Mpili, near Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa (now Congo) in 1931, U Tam'si spent his childhood in France, where he worked as a journalist.....
Leipzig: Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, 1788. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 7 x 4.5 inches, early or original half leather, good with some rubbing and wear to boards but solidly bound and contents very good and clean. 4 (2) 424 pp. A key figure in Germany's educational enlightenment, Villaume was influenced.....
Cincinnati: John S. Williams, 1842-1844. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, 10.5 x 6.25 inches, in early 20th century black half leather and black cloth boards, good with some wear to corners and spine ends, light rubbing and scattered white smudges to boards, contents very good, usual tanning, occasional foxing. The first year.....
London: John Murray, 1912. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, 9.5 x 7 inches, publisher's dark green cloth, good to very good, light wear to binding, spine mellowed in color, small 1 x .5" cloth repair to bottom of spine, contents very good, some foxing, mainly to outermost pages, old owner's.....