Tokyo: Japan Tourist Bureau, n.d. (1950s?). Paperback. illustrations, 19p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19cm. Stain on tip of upper right corner of first three leaves. Mt Fuji and other nearby attractions. More about How to see Huzi-Hakone National Park, Miyanosita, Five Huzi Lakes, Mt. Huzi
[Washington]: U. S. Government Printing Office, [1940]. Paperback. 2 vols. [Brief and Appendix to Brief]. 2 folding maps, xv, [1], 157, i, [1], 66p.p. Softcover in original gray wrappers. 24cm. The Supreme Court decided the case in favor of the Federal Government and limited the rights of bidders on federal contracts. More about In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1939 ... Frances Perkins, Individually...
Los Angeles: 1968. Paperback. Full size 32-page weekly newspaper published in four sections. 58cm. Folded. Some chipping and wear but complete and intact. African American newspaper. Articles in the Sports Pages look forward to O.J. in the Rose Bowl and report that the UCLA Bruins led by Lew Alcindor have... More about Los Angeles Sentinel, Vol. XXXV, No. 52 (December 26, 1968
Santpoort: C. A. Mees, 1930. Paperback. Illustrated. 18p. Printed on double-fold paper. Softcover in original tied wrapper. Square 34cm. Minor wear and some light cover foxing. Dutch text. More about Wendingen. 1930 Series, No. 10 (Rothenburg ob der Taber
[Abidjan]: [publisher not identified], n.d. [date of 1974 in type at bottom of final page in Supplement]. Paperback. a few illustrations, 191p.Softcover in original wrapper. 19cm. Baoule proverbs oganized roughly by subject with French translation and occasional explanation or commentary. More about Les Baoules d'apres leurs Dictons et Proverbes
Ulan-Ude: Buriatskoe knizhnoe izd-vo, 1962. Paperback. 134p. Original wrapper. 26cm. Light cover wear. Mongolian text (with an appendix: Grammatika Tibetskogo Iazyka). More about Kelen-u Cimeg; Mongol'skoe Grammaticheskoe XIX veka: Mongol'skii Tekst, Svodnyi Tekst i Perevod,...
Lansing: Press of Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., (c. 1901). 1st ed. Hardcover. 2 portraits (including frontis), index, 208p. plus (1)p. Index. Pebbled dark green cloth. Gilt bells on front cover and backstrip. 20cm. Recased with new endpapers. No Jacket. *Bishop B. W. Arnett provided a Biographical Sketch [at pages 3-14]... More about The Poetical Works of James Madison Bell
n.p. The Committee, (1950). Paperback. 4 items: (1) Slip announcing an emergency meeting for the reinstatement of Dr Lorch. (2) Mimeographed letter from Rotan Lee briefly explaining the case and urging attendance at the meeting. (1)p. 36cm. 4 horizontal creases. (3) List of the Committee members. (1)p. 28cm. 2 horizonal... More about Materials relating to the dismissal of Dr. Lee Lorch from the Pennsylvania State University. [our...
Washington: Associated Publishers, (c. 1943). 1st ed. index, xiv, 248p. Original green cloth. 23cm. Small brown spot at bottom of three text leaves. No jacket. More about Harriet Tubman
Paris: Didier, 1859. Nouvelle edition. Hardcover. 3 vols. frontis (in first volume), 438, 522, 467p. Contemporary leather quarterbinding. 18cm. Extremities scuffed & frayed. Contents sound & clean. French text, More about Theatre de Casimir Delavigne de l'Academie Francaise
Montgomery: Screws, 1875. Paperback. 8p. Wrapper. 23cm. Cover soiled, and lacking a corner chip. Also a competently reinforced tear). 23cm. According to the report, this small hospital had 23 inmates (patients) and a budget with no provision for shoes. More about Annual Report of the Freedman's Hospital, near Talladega, Alabama, For the Year 1874
Paris & Brussels: 1929. Hardcover. 65p. plus 64 plates (images tipped-in). Original cloth. dj. 37cm. Jacket chipped & fragile. Moderate cover spotting. More about Drawings by Pisanello: A Selection with Introduction and Notes
[Delhi]: Printed at the United Press, 1950. Paperback. 8 pages of photos, 15p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Cover scuffed. More about Apartheid: trategy of Race Discrimination
New York: MacMillan, 1922. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos, map, 418p. Original blue cloth, lettered in orange. 22cm. Modest waterspot on front cover. Head of backstrip chipped. No Jacket. INSCRIBED on endpaper by Johnson in 1929 ("Autographed for my friend & student ..."). More about Constantinople To-Day; or the Pathfinder Survey of Constantinople; a Study in Oriental Social Life
Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe): Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1855-1860. 1st ed. Hardcover. 4 volumes. 410, 496, viii, 464, iv, 457p. Contemporary 1/2 leather (marbled green and black boards backed in dark leather with matching corners). 21cm. Edges rubbed. Age-toning, especially in first volume. French text. Lacour's 4-volume history covered 1635-1830. A 5th volume... More about Histoire de La Guadeloupe
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Memphis: Malcolm-Roberts, (c. 1935). Hardcover. indexes, 65p. Cloth. Mounted title-label on front. 22cm. Chipping in front hinge at staples. Edited by Helen M. O'Brien [and others]. Copy #141 of an unspecified number of copies. This, the second (and final) anthology with this title, includes poetry from students at eight African... More about The Brown Thrush: Anthology of Verse by Negro Students. [Vol. 2
New York: Brentano's, n.d. (circa. 1920). Hardcover. frontis & illustrations (some color), ix, 278p. Original purple cloth, decorated in black and gilt. 25cm. Doering bookplate (for Otto C. Doering, an Executive at Sears, Roebuck) on front pastedown. Offsetting and browning on front free endpaper. No jacket. An appealing copy. More about Romances of Old Japan
Springfield, Mass. Willey & Co., 1892. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos & illustrations, 622, 18p. Recent quarterbinding (marbled boards neatly backed in leather). 20cm. Contents browned and somewhat brittle, with some chipping and repair. Biographical sketches of about 137 African American ministers plus short descriptions of 15 Baptist colleges and seminaries for African Americans. More about Our Baptist Ministers and Schools
Hardcover. Approximately 275 postcards glued down, generally four to a page, on both sides of the album leaves. All of the cards are commercial and almost all have printed captions in English, Japanese, French or some combination of those languages. Most are black and white, some are color and a.... More about British Sailor on the HMS Suffolk in the Far East (China Station) and West Indies in the Late...
Nairobi: Printed by The Colonial Printing Works, n.d. [WWII-era -- Preface refers to this as a "War Production"]. Paperback. 64p. plus 14 unnumbered leaves of advertisements inserted here and there among the numbered pages. Softcover in original wrapper. 16cm. Pages 30-31 contain an appeal by Shamsud Deen (Shams-ud-Deen) to members... More about The Kenya Easy Swahili Specially Revised for H. M. Forces, English Swahili with English...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. Hardcover. frontis (ortrait), photos, 4 maps (1 folding) plus map on endpapers, xx, 388p. Original cloth. 24cm. Cover and cover lettering dulled; extremities rubbed. Lower right corner clipped on title-leaf. Map marred on rear endpaper from removal of a label. No jacket. More about Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1974. Paperback. 124p. Original wrapper. 26cm. Cover slightly faded. Asiatische Forschungen, Band 37. More about Kumiss Ceremonies and Horse Races: Three Mongolian Texts
(c. 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. illustrations (mostly portraits), 144p. Brown cloth. 19cm. Several white spots on front cover. Edges rubbed. Bookplate removed from endpaper. No jacket. More about The First African Baptist Church of North America
Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books (Asia), (c. 1977). 1st ed. Hardcover. xv, 47p. Rebound in contemporary leather. 19cm. INSCRIBED on title-page by Yeo (as ""Robert" "). More about And Napalm Does Not Help
