Monterrey: Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc, S.A., n.d. [1930s?]. Paperback. Folding four-page leaflets. 28cm. All but one has a sheet of glassine interleaving laid in. Light soiling. Spanish text. We have No. 1 through No. 10. OCLC lists only 3 American institutions (USC, Tulane and U of Texas) as holding any numbers --... More
Talladega: 1934. Folded four-page program. 22cm. Three later horizontal fold marks. Four of the ten prominent men listed on the program were African Americans (Ambrose Caliver, W. E. B. Du Bois, T. Arnold Hill and James Weldon Johnson). More
London: R. S. Francis, 1853. Hardcover. 4 text illustrations and 6 plates (including frontis), [5], [vi]-36p. Contemporary blindstamped green cloth. Original wrapper bound in. Titling ("The Aztec Lilliputians") on backstrip. 20cm. Backstrip lightly faded. Age-toning and a bit of foxing. Title on original wrapper is "The History of the Aztec... More
Washington: GPO, 1882. Paperback. 7p. No separate wrapper. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 23cm. Old stitchmarks along left side. Small tears in bottom margin throughout. 47th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Misc. Doc. No. 70. A petition to the U.S. Congress. More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1913. Paperback. photos, pp. 195-256. Softcover in Original wrapper. 26cm. Includes "The Nebraska Winnebagoes," by Lucy E. Hunter (pages 217-221 with 6 photos). Hunter, a member of the Winnebago Tribe, graduated from Santee Normal Training School in 1910 and from Hampton Institute in 1915. She read... More
Jena: Fr. Mauke's Verlag, 1885. Hardcover. folding plate, folding map (color), xxxi, 842p. Modern cloth. Most of original front and back covers mounted. 22cm. Backstrip faded. Split at folds on plate and map repaired with tape on back. German text. More
London: Oxford University Press, (1967). 3rd printing. Hardcover. 4 maps (1 on frontis, other 3 on a single folding sheet at end), index, v, 286p. Original green cloth. dj (price-clipped). 22cm. Former owner's name stamp on endpaper. First published in 1961. More
London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1792. 2nd ed. Hardcover. viii, 456p. 19th century 1/2 leather. 22cm. Joints tender (some splitting). Endpapers and adjoining leaves browned at corners (probably from the cover leather). Internally sound and clean. More
NY: Knopf, 1927. 1st ed. Hardcover. 89p. Original light pastel striped boards backed in black cloth. No jacket. 19cm. Covers scuffing and light fading. Extremities rubbed. Lettering on backstrip now faint but still readable. Unusual bookplate. No jacket.. The binding is one of about three variants, with no established priority... More
Mt. Vernon, Ohio: Christian Music Publishing Company, 1938. Paperback. photos, illustration, (17)p. Softcover in original wrapper. Bookplate or card pocket removed inside back cover. Cover unevenly darkened (and actually lightened in one area on back cover) and moderately soiled. Contents sound and clean. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1927. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos, illustrations, index, xviii, 529p. Original blue cloth. 24cm. Front cover slightly warped. Backstrip somewhat faded and spotted. No Jacket. More
(ca. 1975). A five inch stack of material. Various dates but almost all from the 1970s. Includes: (1) Typescript (with corrections) of Tape One of March 1975 Smithsonian Interview (41 pages); (2) Class Rules for a class on Jazz music taught by Johnson (1p. - several copies); (3) Unfiled but... More
Leipzig: K. F. Koehler, 1929. Hardcover. frontis, 10 folding maps, 724p. Rebound in later sturdy black buckram. Original wrappers bound in. No Jacket. 23cm. Library markings appear to have been removed (call number on backstrip and bookplates front and back). Tape repair on rear cover or original wrapper (which also... More
[Vientiane]: Ministere de l'Education Nationale, Comite Litteraire Laos, 1958. Paperback. 68, (4)p. Softcover in original pink wrapper. 27cm. Cover stained and faded. Foxing. Last several leaves bound in upside down. French text. More
Single leaf. 19 x 31 cm. Written in a reasonably clear hand -- there were only a few words that we couldn't decipher. Remnants of old red seal on bottom right above and to the right of the attestation before the Justice of the Peace. Later folds. Three small holes... More
[Abidjan]: Universite d'Abidjan, Institut d'Ethno-sociologie, 1970. Paperback. v, 33 leaves. Text printed on one side. French text. More
Boston: Jewett, 1847. Hardcover. frontis, viii, 364p. Original blindstamped cloth. 19cm. Foxing. Backstrip faded. Edges and corners rubbed. Modest cover wear.Pencil inscription on front free endpaper ("A small token of respect for Mr. G. Smith Jan. 25, 1848 Oscar W. Smith"). More
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1921. Paperback. photos, 588p. Wrapper. 26cm. Some cover soiled and wear. Bookplate. Partially unopened. French text. Collection de la Revue du Monde Musulman (series). More
[Washington?]: (1961). Paperback. (4)p. Folded leaflet. 23cm. Browning at extremities. Fastened with staples to the upper corner of this program is a sheaf of notebook leaves (22cm.) containing (59)p. of handwritten notes taken during the various sessions, probably by *Doxey Wilkerson. More
Marine who served in Korea, discharge lists his service which include Inchon. Sokcho-ri, and also Kobe and later Puerto Rico when his overseas tour was finished. Includes PH in case & other medals including NY Humanitarian Service, Misc. papers including his original discharge, family papers, etc. One relative was active..... More
New York: Stokes, 1929. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, xix, 407p. dj. 24cm. Chipped and worn jacket (with some old tape repair). Backstrip and cover edges faded. More
London: John Murray, 1879. Hardcover. 9 folding maps, 1 mounted photographic plate,clxxxii, 319p. Later 1/2 leather. 21cm. Cover chipped and heavily rubbed. Joints cracked. Hinges reinforced with white binder's tape. Contents generally sound with some minor foxing. Includes 20 articles by Richard F. Burton ("On Lake Tanganyike, Ptolemy's Western Lake-Reservoir... More
New York: American Tract Society, n.d. [mid-19th century]. Hardcover. 176p. Original cloth. 15cm. Backstrip faded. Dime-sized discolored area on front cover. Moderate foxing, heaviest on pages near the ends. Royce died in 1845; we suspect that this volume was published within a few years of that date. More
London: William Heinemann, 1921. 12th edition. Hardcover. index, xvi, 390p. Original dark green cloth. 18cm. Cover lettering somewhat faded. No jacket. The first edition of this appealing little book was published in 1881. More
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