Style and Grace: African Americans at Home
London: Bulfinch Press, (c. 2003). 1st ed. Hardcover. color photos, index, 160p. Original cloth. dj. 31 cm. More
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Moeurs et Coutumes des Fellahs
Paris: Payot, 1938. Hardcover. photos, 189p. Hardcover (later cloth). 22 cm. Bookplate or Raymond A . Hare. No jacket. French text. Thesis at the Universite de Lyon. More
Midnight Marches through Persia
Boston: Lee and Shepard; NY: Charles Dillingham, 1879. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (double-page), illustrations, 2 maps, index, 267p. Original green cloth. 21cm. Ex lib. (spine label, bookplates, stampings, etc.). Spine slightly sloped. Later brown endpapers. More
The Half-Back: A Story of School, Football, and Golf
New York: D. Appleton, 1899. Hardcover. frontis, photos, 267p. plus (4) pages of publisher's advertisements. Original pictorial green cloth. 20cm. Moderate cover soil and wear. Contents sound and clean. No jacket. More
Infield Rivals
New York: Appleton, 1924. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, v, 258p. Original brown cloth. 19cm. Minor wear only. No jacket. More
The Nile Boat; or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. 1st American ed. Hardcover. frontis, engraved 2nd title-page, map, 32 steel-engraved plates, vi, [2], 218p. plus [2]p. publisher's adverts. Original gilt-decorated blue cloth. 26cm. Partial tear in lower corner of tissue guard for frontis. Former owner's name ("Joseph K. Brick" of Brooklyn, N.Y.) on..... More
A Pilgrimage through the Holy Land, Explanatory of the Diorama of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Painted under the Direction of Mr. W. Beverly, from Original Sketches, Made on the Spot, during Repeated Journeys in the East....
London: n.d. [ca. 1851?]. Paperback. 38p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Modest gnawed (or torn) area at center of top edge of front cover and first few pages. Laid in is an orange pasteboard ticket ("Lecture on the Lands of the Bible. Admit the Bearer"). An illustrated 66-page version..... More
Armies and Parties in Africa
New York: Holmes & Meier, (1978). 1st ed. Hardcover. index, x, 278p. Original green hardcover binding. dj. 23cm. More
A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia; with Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People
London: Smith, Elder, 1868. 1st ed. Hardcover. 8 illustrations (including frontis), xii, 409p. Later large-cornered 1/2 leather. 19cm. One corner darkened on front cover. Trimmed when rebound, removing a bit of the onersdhip ignature on the title-page. Spine slightly sloped. More
The Inscrutable Sphinx: Notes Taken on a Trip to Egypt
Marseilles: F. Detaille, (c. 1939). Paperback. Translated from the French by Catherine Barker. photos, 8 color plates (tipped in), 155p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25 cm. More
Jerusalen
Barcelona: Edita, S.A., n.d. [1926]. Pierre Vignal. Paperback. Translated from the French by Jose-Maria Alvarez. color frontis & 7 color plates (watercolors by Pierre Vignal), photos, index, 128p. Softcover in original pictorial wrapper. Original card box. 33cm. Box rubbed along edges and somewhat worn. Spanish text. Edition limited to 525..... More
The River Column: A Narrative of the Advance of the River Column of the Nile Expeditionary Force, and Its Return down the Rapids
Nashville: Battery Press, (1993). Hardcover. 3 maps (2 double-page in text and 1 folding in cover pocket), vi, 291p. 22cm. No Jacket (as published). Reprint of the original 1885 London edition of this book about the Gordon Relief Expedition of 1884-1885. More
Travel and Adventures in the Congo Free State and Its Big Game Shooting
London: Chapman & Hall, 1894. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, folding map, index, xiv, [2], 335p. Original maroon cloth. 23cm. Rubbing along joints and other extremities. Fraying at ends of backstrip. Modest foxing, mostly on material at beginning and end of book. Bailey's account focuses on his hunting adventures. He..... More
Sources inedites de l'Histoire du Maroc. 1ere serie. Dynastie Saadienne. Archives et Bibliotheques de France. Tome 3: 1617-1665 et Addenda 1533-1591
Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1933. Deuxieme edition (Reimpression photomechanique). Paperback. This volume only. facsimiles, folding map, cvi, 769p. Original wrapper. 29 cm. Backstrip split vertically and reglued (but without hiding the split). Corner heavily creased on back cover. Contents sound, clean and unopened, From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana..... More
The Whale and his Captors: or, The Whaleman's Adventures and the Whale's Biography, as Gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the 'Commodore Preble.'
London: Neldon and Sons, 1859. Hardcover. frontis, 240p. Original blue cloth. 15cm. Cover scuffed. Spine sloped. Extremities rubbed (some loss of cloth). Gift inscription dated 1879 on front free endpaper. Frontis browned. Moderate foxing. More
The Whale and his Captors: or, the Whaleman's Adventures and the Whales's Biography, as Gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the 'Commodore Preble.'
[Toronto?]: Board of Publication, Presbyterian church of Canada, 1856. Hardcover. frontis, 240p. Original green cloth. 15cm. Text lightly browned. Foxing and staining on title and frontis leaves. More
Susanna Quadrilles: Arranged from Christy's Melodies for the Piano Forte. No 1 GIve Me the Gal with the Blue Dress on; Oh: Carry Me back to Old Virginny; Dandy Broadway Swell; Oh: Susanna; Way down South in Alabama
New York: C. Holt, Jr., c. 1848. Paperback. [Sheet Music] 8p. Title-page; 2nd and 8th pages blank; music on pages numbered 3-7. 31 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Moderate foxing, mostly around edges. Instrumental pieces. More
Memorials of His Time
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1856. Hardcover. frontis, viii, 470p. Contemporary green leather. 22 cm. Backstrip and edges somewhat faded and with some heavy scuffing (or minor gouging). Lacks title label on backstrip. Endpapers and page edges marbled. Numerous brown glue marks on a few blank primlinary pages. Contents sound..... More
The Death of Minnehaha
Boston: Oliver Ditson, 115 Washington St. n.d. [ca. early 1850?]. Paperback. [Sheet Music] 5]p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 34cm. Light to moderate foxing and soiling. Trimmed at bottom removing any copyright date. Color lithograph on front of a semi-nude Native American young woman with strategically placed necklaces and..... More
Heathen Essays
Madras: Ganesh, 1925. Hardcover. 92p. Original black cloth. Mounted title-labels. dj. 20cm. Front panel of jacket missing a good-sized chip. Foxing (mostly on first few leaves). Asian religions and Christian efforts at conversion. More
Typed Letter, Signed.
Single page dated October 27th 1903 to "Dear Friend", 20 cm x 14 cm. The return address is Clark University So. Atlanta, Ga. Complete text: Dear Friend, Please accept at this late hour my thanks for your kind words of congratulation on my election to the presidency of Clark University..... More
"We think the Inclusion of Mr. Anthony Burns is Necessary to Develop the Intended Reaction which I submit to your Judgement. Your obedient servant, Rich H. Dana Jr. TT Chas. Ellis Esq."
n.p. n.d. [1854 or later]. Bottom portion of a note or letter on light blue paper to an unknown recipient. 20 x 14 cm. Undated but probably circa 1854. Horzontal fold. Brown ink. Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and Chrles Eillis defended Anthony Burns in court when he was arrested as..... More
Guatimala, or, the Republic of Central America, in 1827-8
Detroit: Blaine Ethridge, 1981. Hardcover. double-page map, xviii, 329p. Original cloth. 22cm. No Jacket. Reprint of the 1829 London edition with a New Introduction by James C. Andrews. More
The Townley Gallery of Classic Sculpture, in the British Musuem.
London: M. A. Nattali, 1846. Hardcover. 2 vols. illustratrations, index, 352, 385p. Contemporary 1/2 leather over mabled boards.16cm. Page edges and endpapers marbled to match marbled portion of covers., Ends of backstrips and corners lightly rubbed. Bookplate. More
Graduates of Predominately Negro Colleges, Class of 1964
Washington: U.S. Public Health Service, (1967). Paperback. xix, 262p. Wrapper (scuffed; name on front). 24cm. Public Health Service Publication No. 1571. More