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South Africa: Schweizerverein "Alpina" 1891-1898. Hardcover. Oblong folio (16.5 x 12 inches), half leather and cloth boards, fair condition with wear to binding, cloth tape on spine, photos very good although the mounting pages are a little soiled, sometimes show light chipping to edges and general light soil, wear, darkening;.....
Harrisburg: Meyers, 1886. Hardcover. Large 8vo, blue cloth, very good, both front and rear inner hinges were cracked and have been neatly mended. 259 & 308 pp, mainly on anthracite and bituminous coal mining industry, with many lithograph plates, some tinted and appear to be heliotype or albertype photographs, and.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1932. First printing. Hardcover. Small quarto, silver and black cloth boards in dust jacket, book very good, slightest bowing of boards, jacket very good, some wear and darkening / soil, light abrasions. Handsome book on urban and industrial design. 293 pp, illustrated.
New York: Random House, 1940. First printing. Hardcover. Small quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book very good with light soil to edges of binding and to edges of text block, bit of offsetting, tanning and spottiness to endpapers, dust jacket very good with least touch of wear and soil. Truly.....
New York: British Library of Information, 1940. 14 x 8.5 inches, 3 sheets, stapled at top left, recounting the French dramatist's speech broadcast on British radio, recounting his experiences in Paris and disappointment with the Vichy regime and, as a refugee in Britain. He recounts with pride his founding of.....
Dublin: William Curry, 1826-1827. First printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 8vo (9 x 6 inches) original buff red paper covered boards, spine labels, good to very good, some neat restoration to spine of the first volume, lighter restoration to spine of second volume, some rubbing and wear to boards, contents very.....
East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters, Ca. 1910s. First printing. Paperback. 8 x 6 inches, sewn wraps, (18) pp, frontispiece. Very good, some soil and one faint stain to front cover. Verses memorializing the author's Louisiana "mammy." One of the rarest Roycrofter books, 4 copies located by OCLC: Tuskegee, LSU, State.....
New York: British Library of Information, 1940-1942. All 111 issues are present. First published in late August 1940, in stapled mimeo'd sheets, first 5 pp, then 8 pp. and finally 16 pp. each, the Bulletins from Britain were a curated compilation of the cables and news sent privately to British.....
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1825. First American edition. Hardcover. 12mo (6.5 x 4.2 inches), paper-backed drab olive boards, spine label, good or better, general rubbing and wear, replaced flyleaf with old paper, text good with some foxing throughout. 237 pp. Often printed in the UK, but this appears to be.....
Catskill, NY: M. Croswell, (1798). Hardcover. Early Catskill imprint. 12mo (5.25 x 3.125 inches), leather backed paper covered boards, good copy with quite a bit of rubbing to binding, but still sturdily bound, contents good, tanned, foxed, occasional crease or small stain, inscription from Betsey Clark to Eliza Clark in.....
London: Printed for Mathew Lownes, 1604. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto (10.75 x 8 inches), 18th century vellum over boards, good copy, light restoration to outer joint and inner hinges, front endpapers somewhat soiled and stained, two modern bookplates on pastedown and on flyleaf; with rarely seen portrait frontispiece of Caesar.....
Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1916. Paperback. Vol. IX, no. II, gray wraps in red and black, very good, light wear. Inscribed next to his poem ("Snow") by Robert Frost to the Boston dealer in antiquities who was friendly with many modernists including Stravinsky, Russell Alberts. A wonderful issue in that.....
New York: Macmillan, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, book very good, jacket also very good, light wear, a couple short tears and nicks. INSCRIBED: "Jujne 17, 1977 (A Nineteen Seventeen Day and it was Harvard 1917 that brought Abbot and Fuller and Hewletts into Confluence.) Sarah.....
Dublin: William Watson, 1777. First English language edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 8vo (9 x 5.5 inches), original cloth backed drab buff boards, about very good, some rubbing and wear to boards, first volume has had some cloth restoration to spine; original handwritten spine labels chipped and worn, contents very good.....
NP: Printed by Colormagic, C. 1975. First printing. Paperback. 15 x 11.25 printed folder with photographic onlay, housing 8 pp. leaflet on coal mining strikes in Kentucky, with interviews with Houston Elmore, head of the UMW in Brookside KY and Nolan Hubbs, a retired coal miner. With 11 photos printed.....
Albany: J. B. Lyon; New York Department of Agriculture, 1908. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, green cloth stamped in gilt, very good with light wear and rubbing to binding, contents very good, 564 pp, 90 plates in color.
Leipzig: Bibliographische Institut, 1925. First printing. Paperback. No. 295 of 1200, signed by Steiner-Prag at the colophon. Small 8vo (7.5 x 4.75), stiff black wraps stamped in gilt, about fine copy in marbled paper slipcase. 3 etchings by Steiner-Prag: a vignette on the title page and two full page plates.....
London: Whittaker, Treacher, Ca. 1830. Hardcover. Fourth Edition, with Additions. 8vo (7.5 x 4.75 inches), original green cloth boards, recent cloth spine, good copy, some wear and stains to boards, contents very good and bright, ownership signature on title page dated 1830, 327 pp., 6 colored plates as called for.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, C. 1888. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo (8.5 x 7.25 inches), pictorial dark brown cloth decorated in gilt and silver, very good sharp copy, small owner's namestamp on flyleaf (with funny little purple stamp of a running clown), touch of surface wear and soil to binding.....
Antwerp: Henrici Aertssenii, 1628. First printing. Hardcover. 16mo (4.75 x 3.5 inches; 120 x 90 mm), original leather boards, respined some time ago, a bit crudely, (30) 455 (2) pp, with half title, woodcut pictorial title, coat of arms of Pope Urban VIII, 46 full-page emblems by Christoffel van Sichem.....
London: J. Duncombe, Ca. 1830s. Hardcover. 16mo (4.25 x 2.75 inches), 22 volumes, in crushed deep red morocco by Bayntun with rubbing and wear, many of the boards are detached, spines dry and rubbed. Contents very good. Each volume contains 4 stories, each with a folding colored aquatint frontispiece and.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Paperback. 10 x 7.5 inches, wraps, very good, light wear and soil. Jack London's "Housekeeping in the Klondike," (early published appearance of his, age 24), etc. Includes hardly ever seen New Pattern Sheet supplement.
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1973. First printing. Paperback. Wraps, very good, light wear, inscribed on a laid in half-sheet of paper in red ink to Jim Daniels (fellow Detroit poet and an anthologist of poems on race): "To Bro Jim Daniels -- may you always find the Right Words to tell.....
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Basel / Basileae: Apud Nicolaum Episcopium Iuniorem, 1554. Hardcover. 8vo (6.25 x 4.25 inches), contemporary vellum, very good, some wear and soil to covers, contents very good, 575 pp, colophon. In the "Fourth Decade" Livy covers the Roman wars with Antiochus and Macedonia, which takes place over 23 years.
Albany, UK: 1853. Dated May 9, 1853, the letter reads: "Dear Holland, I return the Review. I have read it with the greatest interest, often agreeing, often doubting, sometimes dissenting. I should like to have a day; talk with you about the numerous questions which you have handled so well.....
Berlin: Vossianae, 1830. Hardcover. 3rd revised edition. 8vo, papercovered boards, 240 pp, good with some rubbing and loss to paper covering of boards, contents very good. First a follower of Schelling, Marheineke found his real mentor in Hegel and applied Hegelian philosophical precepts to his studies of religious symbolism, and.....
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1974. First printing. Hardcover. Rare clothbound issue. We don't think this was issued in dust jacket. Blue cloth lettered in white, very good, minor wear,
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. Rare hardback issue in color covers, probably not issued in dust jacket, very good plus or better, just a touch of wear. Cover and illustrations by Ademola Olugebefola.
Bloomington: The Lilly Library, (1963). First printing. Paperback. 11 x 8.5, wraps, very good with mildest wear, inscribed by Sinclair in 1965 to John B. Whitelaw, a researcher on education with the US Government. 56 pp, illustrated.
New York: E. P. Dutton, (1923). First American edition. Hardcover. Translated from the third German edition by Henry L. Brose. 8vo, green cloth in dust jacket, book very good, spine a bit mellowed, some surface scratches to rear board and a small spot, light corner bumping, presented to a student.....
Monachii (Munich): Mariae Magdalena Schellin viduae, 1668. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo (5.25 x 3.25 inches), full contemporary vellum, very good, some light stains and wear to binding, contents very good and bright, unmarked. (16) 606 pp, plus errata page. First printing of this work. Martin de Esparza Artieda (1606-1689) was.....
Venice: Apud Georgium Angelerium, 1573. Hardcover. The fourth of four volumes, each complete in itself: this prints his "Distinctio" 1-50. (16) 658 - i. e. 1316 pp. (4). 7.5 x 5.25 inches (190 x 135 mm), contemporary limp vellum with yapp edges, good with some yellowing, darkening and wrinkling to.....
Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1610. Hardcover. 8vo (6.5 x 4.5 inches), contemporary vellum, very good, has old bookplate of the archdiocese in Baltimore, stamp on verso of flyleaf, stamp of the Catholic University of America in Washington on title page and on p. 11, title page has dime-sized ink spot, and.....
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Kyoto: Fushoda, 1893. Printed Meiji 26 (1893). 6.8 x 4.75 inches, old wraps, good with some abrasions and soil to covers, contents very good, 40 leaves (80 pages), illustrated. Appears to be a guide book as to how to interpret personality through physiognomy and palmistry. Many illustrations of various kinds.....
Nuremberg: Wagenmann, 1617. Hardcover. Editio II, Cum Indicie. Large 8vo, 8.2 x 6.5 inches, full heavily gilt decorated contemporary leather, very good, some loss to corners of the covers, endpapers a little tanned and stained, contents very good and clean, (8) 540 (44) pp, with many in-text engravings, usually of.....
London: Samuel Mearne, John Martyn, Henry Herringman, 1673. Hardcover. Later edtion, first published 1605. 8vo (6.5 x 4.25 inches), bound in 1830s calf, very good, light restoration to front outer joint and inner hinge, (24) 374 (18) pp, with engraved vignette of the Tower of Babel on title page and.....
New York: Essential Books, C. 1945. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, original cloth in dust jacket, book very good or better with touch of soil, jacket good plus, somewhat spotty and soiled, a few closed tears. Classic book by the great photographer of NY's underbelly.
China: Catholic Mission Press, 1915. Hardcover. Two volume complete set! Gilt stamped black cloth boards, octavos, 602pp. and 516pp., not illustrated. Books have rubbing and mild edgewear to boards and spines, gentle bumps to corners, bindings tight, previous owner's stamps to front endpapers of both volumes, toning and foxing throughout.....