The Story of Jewad: a Romance
New York: Gottsberger, 1888. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. 241p. Original blue cloth. 18cm. Moderate cover scuffing and wear. Fiction. The English edition of this translation was published by E. J. W. Gibb in 1884. More
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Beknopt Handboek der Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie
Haarlem: H. D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1927. Hardcover. errata leaf, photos, xii, 583p. Original dark blue cloth. 26cm. Edges rubbed. Former owner's name stamped here and there. No Jacket. Dutch text. More
Paleopathology in South American Mummies: Application of Modern Techniques
Richmond: Virginia Commonwealth University, January 1982. 3rd ed. Paperback. photos, 103p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21 cm. More
Croyances Religieuses et Coutumes Juridiques des Agni de la Cote D'Ivoire
Paris: Larose, 1960. Hardcover. photos on 8 plates, folding map, 2 tables 184p. Later two-toned cloth. 23cm. Contents moderately browned. French text. More
Contribution a l'Etude des Confreries Religieuses Musulmanes
Alger: La Maison des Livres, (1956). Paperback. 368p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Backstrip and strip along top edge of front cover faded. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on first blank page. French text. More
L'Islam Noir: Contribution a l'Etude des Confreries Religieuses Islamiques en Afrique Occidentale suivie d'une Etude sur l'Islam au Dahomey
Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1924. Paperback. folding table, 129p. Wrapper. 19cm. Foxing on cover. Contents lightly browned. Last portion of book is partially unopened. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on first blank leaf. French text. More
![Item #95608 Autograph Letter Signed. Text: "Editor 'The PIttsburgh Currier' [sic] 1212 Wylie...](https://mcblainbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/95608.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1752096183)
Autograph Letter Signed. Text: "Editor 'The PIttsburgh Currier' [sic] 1212 Wylie Avenue, City. Dear Sir, I have heard that your publication has and is in favor of African American Culture and alowing [sic] Creative writing features for previously unknown authors. I shall be pleased to hear from you concerning this at your earliest convenience. Yours truly Ella J. Baker ... City of New York."
New York: 1930. Handwrititen in pencil on one side of a leaf of inexpensive lined (and rather acidic) paper. 26 cm. Browned. Two light horizontal creases where this was presumably folded for mailing. Envelope not present. Baker was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and spent most of her childhood in North..... More
Things Chinese; or, Notes Connected with China ... Fifth Edition. Revised by E. Chalmers Werner
Shanghai: Kelley & Walsh, 1925. 5th ed. Hardcover. index, iv, 766p. Original orange cloth. 21cm. Spine sloping. Modest cover soiling. Backstrip slightly faded and has inked white call numbers toward bottom. Small bookplate on front pastedown. No jacket. More
Recherches Archeologiques sur les Colonies Pheniciennes etablies sur le Littoral de al Celtoligurie
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1878. Hardcover. frontis, 7 plates, 160p. Contemporary quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in leather). 23 cm. Extremities lightly worn. Remnants of bookplate on endpaper. French text. More
Peter and Wendy
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. F. D. Bedford. First American Edition. Hardcover. illustrations (by F. D. Bedford), vii, [3], 267p. Original gilt decorated and lettered olive green cloth. 21 cm. Minor uneven fading on front cover. Minimal wear at ends of backstrip and at corner tops. Former owner's name..... More
White Slavery in America: The Blackest Crime that Ever Stained the Human Race. [cover title]
n.p. n.d. Paperback. 32p. Original wrapper. 15cm. At head of title: Just Think? The Selling of Human Souls. Pamphlets starts by quoting a few newspaper reports (year not given) of prosecution of white slavers. One reports on the arraignment of Victor Flachon in Paris which appears to have happened in..... More
Land in African Agrarian Systems
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, (c. 1993). Paperback. xi, 418p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23 cm. More
From Forecastle to Cabin: The Story of a Cruise in Many Seas, Taken from a Journal Kept Each Day, Wherein Was Recorded the Happenings of a Voyage around the World in Pursuit of Whales
New York: The Editor Publishing Co., 1905. Hardcover. folding map (bound in after front endpaper), frontis, illustrations, 341p. Original cloth. 23cm. Cover browning, soiling and wear. Modest wear at ends of backstrip. Endpaper split and visibly reglued along rear hinge. No jacket. More
Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1918. 1st Edition. Hardcover. illustrations, index, x, 236p. Cloth-backed boards. 29 cm. Corners rather worn.Other minor wear. A few tiny inked notes. Modest smudging on one text leaf. No Jacket. More
Excavations in Residential Areas of Tikal: Groups with Shrines
Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1999. Hardcover. xviii, 165p. plus 125 figures. Original cloth. 28cm. No Jacket. Tikal Report No. 21. More
The Early Motive Power of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
New York: Angus Sinclair, 1912. 1st ed. Hardcover. illustrations, index, 157p. 23cm. Extremities scuffed. corners bumped. White paint streak on back cover. Contents sound and clean (just a little foxing). No Jacket. More
Cultura Atacamena
[Santiago, Chile]: Departamento de Extension Cultural del Ministerio de Educacion, (c. 1978). Paperback. color illustrations, 63p. 19 cm. Softcover in original oblong wrapper. 22 x 18 cm. Modest wear on back cover. More
Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in Which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained, and Adapted to the Comprehension of Young Pupils. Illustrated with Plates, by the Author of Conversations on Chemistry, and Conversations on Political economy ...
Boston: Linxoln & WsmNSA, 1825. Hardcover. 24 plates (including frontis), index, 252p. plus xxiii(p) plates. Contemporary leather. 18 cm. Missing about half of small black leather title label mounted on backstrip. Covers scuffed. Oblong piece of leather replaced on back cover. Names and notes inked on rear endpaper. More
Essais et Portraits
Paris: Les Bibliophiles Fantaisistes Dorbon-Aine, 1912. Paperback. 171p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Minor cover soil. Printed review slip laid in. INSCRIBED on first blank interior page by Blanche ("a Ugo Ojetti tres amical hommage de ... J. E. Blanche"). French text. More
Papoea's Aan De Mappi
Utrecht: De Fontein, n.d. [1958]. Hardcover. frontis map, photos, index, 264p. Original cloth. dj. 23cm. Jacket chipped and worn along edges. Some pencil underlining. Dutch text. More
Catalogue No. 351. The Iberian Peninsula the Maghrib and Africa (Except Egypt) Mainly from the Collection of Prof. R. Basset
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1962. Paperback. 170p. Softcover in original green wrapper. 20cm. Contents moderately browned. Backstrip faded. 2555 items are listed and priced. More
The Iraq Levies 1915-1932
London: The Royal United Service Institution, 1932. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, 3 folding maps, photo, index, 88p. Original brown cloth. 25 cm. Minor edge-wear on a few leaves. No jacket. An uncommon military item about this unit initially composed initially of 40 Mounted Arabs in 1915 which quickly grew into..... More
Czechoslovakia before Munich: The German Minority Problem and British Appeasement Policy
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. index, xiii, 334p. Original red boards. dj (price-clipped). 22cm. Former owner's name stamp embossed on free endpaper. This was revised and translated Bruegel's "Tschechen und Deutsche" (Munich 1967) with the deletion of some German material and the addition of material..... More
The Cruise of the 'Antarctic' to the South Polar Regions
London and New York: Edward Arnold, 1896. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 243p. Contemporary 1/2 leather. 22cm. Covers scuffed. Front and back covers detached. Offsetting on title-page from staining and browning on tissue guard protecting the frontis. Minor foxing on page edges. Publisher's Presentation slip bound in ("With Mr. Arnold's Compliments"). Small..... More
Diagnosis by Transillumination: A Treatise on the Use of Transillumination in Diagnosis of Infected Conditions of the Dental Process and Various Air Sinuses with a Chapter on the Electric Test for Pulp Vitality
Chicago: Cameron's Publishing, (c. 1930). 7th ed. Hardcover. illustrations, 64p. Original green cloth. 23cm. Name on endpaper. No Jacket. "Movable" card laid in with a pull-tab to demonstrate how Cameron's Dentalamp supposedly illuminated hidden abscesses. More