[Hartford?]: 1845-1847. Hardcover. 264, 3, (2), [266]-288, 288p. Contemporary 1/2 leather over marbled boards. 22cm. Covers heavily scuffed and rather worn. Front joint partially split. Ex lib. (spine label and bookplate on endpaper). Foxing (mostly light to moderate). The entry in OCLC adds "East Windsor, Con." as a subtitle but..... More
New York: Congress of Racial Equality, n.d. [early 1960s?]. Small bronze broadside. 14 x 22cm. Horizontal crease. Urged New Yorkers to boycott Macy's in New York until lunch counters were integrated in Atlanta at Davison-Paxson stores, described here as wholly owned by Macy's. More
New York: Published by the Lodge, 1928. Hardcover. frontis (portraits), illustrations (portraits), xv, 204p. 28cm. No Jacket. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Accompanying this are: (1) 10 photos of men (presumably Lodge members); (2) Large folded duplicate copies of the annuals Returns of Members for this lodge for the..... More
Bogota: Imprenta del Vapor, 1904. Hardcover. Later binding. 20cm. Moderate browning. Spanish text. More
Dublin: J. Exshaw, L. White and Wm. Jones, 1793. 1st Dublin ed. Hardcover. 2 vols. xv, 531, xiii, 515p. plus a [43]-page Index. Contemporary leather. 21cm. Cover sound but show some scuffing and wear. Joints tender. Armorial bookplate in both volume of Joseph Beasley (motto: pax et copia) and well..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1880. 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. 12 plates (including frontis 4 folding), vii, 277p. plus (2)p. publisher's advertisements at end. Original cloth. 21cm. Extremities worn. Joints spliting and partially reglued at ends of joints. Unusual 20th century bookplate of W. E. Stanley Merrett. Scattered foxing (significant on..... More
n,p. Colloque de Bondoukou sur les Peuples communs au Ghana et a la Cote d'Ivoire, 1974. Paperback. 43p. Softcover. No separate wrapper present. 30cm. A couple of short tears and other modest wear. Printed on one side. French text. More
London: John W. Parker and Son, n.d. [1858?]. Hardcover. frontis, 5 maps (1 folding), xiv, 344p. Contemporary blind-stamped orange cloth. 22cm. Covers sound but rather worn (with some splitting, fraying, etc.) along joints and extremities, and with some soiling, minor spotting and uneven fading. Scattered foxing (heaviest on folding map..... More
[Florence]: Privately Printed, 1925. Hardcover. 230. A pleasantly understated later quarterbinding (green cloth backed in darker green leather). 27cm. Minor scratching and light soil on covers. Copy No. 159 of the Limited edition signed by Douglas. More
Paris: Librairie Militaire de J. Dumaine, 1856. Hardcover. 4 plates (3 folding), 234p. Old quarterbInding. 14cm. Cover scuffed and rather worn but still sound. Institutional stamp (British Embassy Washington) on page facing title-page. French text. More
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Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard) [first volume]; Ssndefjord: Utgitt av Norges Hvalfangstforbund [final three volumes], 1959, 1967, 1969 and 1970. Hardcover. 4 volumes. Original cloth. djs. 28cm. Norwegian text. Each volume separately subtitled. An abridged single volume edition ("History of Modern Whaling") was published in English in 1982..... More
Baltimore: John S. Horton, 1836. First American, from the Last London Edition. [ststement on title-page]. Hardcover. title vignette, woodcut illustrations (we counted 40, all half- or quarter-page), 90p. Original brown cloth. Printed title label on front cover. 15cm. Imperfect -- lacks one leaf (pp. 81-82). Backstrip crudely replaced with modern..... More
n.p. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., (c. 1958). Hardcover. 140p. Original green boards. dj. 23cm. Jacket somewhat creased and worn, and is chipped at head of backstrip. Several ink underlinings in first portions of text. Text browning. More
Wien: Alfred Holder, 1911. Hardcover. Text double-columned. 402 columns [i.e. 201p.]. Original boards backed in cloth with tiny matching corners also in cloth. 31cm. Cover browned. Some bubbling on back cover. Former owner's name stamp (Edward Stankiewicz). No Jacket. Schriften der Balkankommission. Band IX (Linguistische Abt. I. Sudslawische Dialektstudien. Heft..... More
Oxford: Clarenden Press, (1988). 1st printing of this edition. Hardcover. xlix, 1274p. Contemporary 1/2 leather over marbled boards. 24cm. No Jacket. More
Boston: Arena Publishing, 1892. Hardcover. frontis, photos, ills, 435p. Original red cloth with beveled edges. 24cm. Water spot on front cover. Backstrip moderately soiled and lightly streaked. Extremities frayed. Front hinge has been repaired with glue. Gift inscription. Contents sound. SIGNED by author on leaf inserted after title-leaf (Certificate No..... More
[[Singapore]: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, (1973). Paperback. [4], 124p. [text printed on one side]. Softcover in original wrapper.28cm. Oral history Programme Series, no. 3. Recollections of a Japanese official who served in occupied war-time Singapore in various posts (Advisor of Defence Headquarters, Chief Officer of Education and Chief Welfare..... More
New York: D. Appleton; Philadelphia: George S. Appleton, 1845. Paperback. 43p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). No separate wrapper present. 23cm. Foxing on outer leaves. "N. S. Southgate" inked in upper right corner of title page. More
London: George Virtue, n.d. [1847?]. Hardcover. frontis (map), engraved 2nd title, 78 plates (including a double-page plate of Jerusalem), [2], iv, [2], 234p. Contemporary 1/2 leather. 28cm. Extremities rubbed (some fraying). Scuffing. Minor foxing (including some on the double-page plate). Armorial bookplate (Henry Parsons). More
Paris: Hachette, 1886. Hardcover. 3 volumes. 462, 387, 410p. Contemporary quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in red leather). 18cm. Corners and edges lightly rubbed. French text. We don't know much about the printing history of French editions of "War and Peace." The first French edition appears to have been published by..... More
Washington: GPO. Hardcover. indexes, xxi, 397, 439p. Rebound in modern cloth. 23cm. Library stamp (of the Warren Library Assn in Warren, Pa.) embossed on title-leaf. In 2 parts: Part I: A List of Books (with Reference to Periodicals) in the Library of Congress, by A. P. C. Griffin; with Chronological..... More
Washington, D.C. Press of C. F. Sudwarth, 1910. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), 233p. Cloth (recased with new endpapers). 22cm. Spine lettering dulled. Ends of original backstrip chipped. Some cover spotting. Scattered foxing. Former owner's name and address on back of frontis. No Jacket. This uncommon novel turns up mostly..... More
