La Habana: Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, (1977). 1st ed. Paperback. 554p. Original wrapper. 21cm. Small chip and a couple of creases on front cover. INSCRIBED by Augier (as "Angel"). Spanish text. More about De la sangre en la letra
Waltham, Mass. 1967. Hardcover. [3], iv, 336p. Dark khaki buckram. 28cm. No jacket. "Offset production on a Multigraph Model 1250 by the Brandeis University Service Bureau." [From publication information on last unnumbered leaf]. No stated limitation. More about Bibliotheca Bibliographica Incunabula. A Manual of Bibliographical Guides to Inventories of...
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1876. 1st ed. Hardcover. 2 vols. 4 plates (including frontises), several smaller illustrations in text, 2 folding maps, xiv, 261, vi, 355p. [misnumbered as 255]. Original green cloth. 22cm. Volume 2 spine sloped. Covers frayed at corners and scuffed. Secondary binding (green with... More about Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. frontis, 5 maps (one folding), illustrations, index, xxviii, 354p. Original cloth. 23cm. Tear in folding map where it is attached to the book. Large water streak on backstrip. Old water/mildew stain in bottom margin. No Jacket. More about Innermost Asia: Travel & Sport in the Pamirs
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. frontis map, title vignette, 5 plates, xiv, 226p. Original cloth. 20cm. Ex church library (markings consist of embossed stamp on front and back cover and call numbers inked or printed on backstrip; a bookplate was removed). Contents sound and clean... More about Armenia: a Year at Erzeroom, and on the Frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia
Washington: Associated Pub. (1949). Revised ed. Hardcover. photos, index, xvi, 507p. Original reddish brown cloth. 20cm. Corner lightly bumped. Foxing on top edge. No Jacket. Pioneering effort focused on African American achievement in athletics. More about The Negro in Sports
Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1864. Hardcover. 298p. Original brown cloth with guilt decoration on front cover. 18cm. Backstrip slightly faded and has a few small spots. Modest chipping at ends of backstrip. Spine slightly sloped. Bookplate ("Frances Wason").. Hepworth, a chaplain, served for about three months with the 47th... More about The Whip, Hoe, and Sword; or, the Gulf-Department In '63
New York: J. w. Scherrmerhorn & Co., 1867. Hardcover. 18p. Original brown cloth. 19cm. Minor cover wear. A few purple spots on blank page preceding title-page. Loomis, identified on the title-page in this book as Professor of Wheeling Female College, was a member of the initial faculty of the Medical... More about Mental and Social Culture: A Text Book for Schools and Academies
[Philadelphia]: 1947. Paperback. 11p. Typed carbon copy. Cover sheet, two staples at left side. 28cm. Signed by Arthur H. Thomas, Acting Chief of Surgery. An African American hospital. More about Report of the Surgical Service of Mercy Hospital
Greensboro, N.C. The Record Job Office, (ca. 1913). Paperback. photos, 111p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Cover faded on and around backstrip. Lower right corner clipped on first three leaves. Issued as Bulletin of A & M College, Vol. 6, No. 1 (June, 1912). More about Eighteenth Annual Calendar of Agricultural & Mechanical College for the Colored Race ......
Singapore: University of Singapore, (c. 1969). Paperback. maps, index, 285p. Original black cloth. dj. 25cm. Jacket slightly soiled and wrinkled. Corner bumped. More about Modern Singapore
Cincinnati: Printed by Cranston & Stowe for the Author, 1889. Hardcover. 184p. Original decorated cloth. 17cm. Covers unevenly faded and rather worn. Hinges cracked (& rather stiff from later gluing). Payne, a Bishop of the AME Church, was one of the founders of Wilberforce University and served as its first... More about A Treatise on Domestic Education
Hardcover. 101 photos, most 5 1/2cm. x 8cm., up to 12cm. x 16cm.; most mounted, usually 4 per page, in a moderately worn album, 21cm. x 17cm.; a few laid in. Only the first four photos have captions. Numerous empty spaces. Note at beginning of album says "Album No. 2... More about British Soldier's World War II Kenya Photo Album, 1941
Washington: GPO, 1895. 1st ed. Paperback. 52 plates (photos of objects), often with explanatory notes on facing pages, pp. 665-747. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 23cm. First few leaves detached. No separate wrapper present. Extract from the Report of the U. S. National Museum for 1893. More about Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet. Based on the Collections in the U. S. National Museum
[Tokyo?]: Printed by Benrido Co., (1964). Paperback. photos (many color), 93p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26cm. More about The Ceramic Art of Kitaoji Rosanjin: Three American Collections
Seymour: W. C. Sharpe, 1908. 1st ed. Hardcover. photos, 132p. Original brown cloth. 23cm. Ends of backstrip worn. Former owner's address label on front free endpaper. Contents shaken and reglued. No jacket. More about Bethany Sketches and Records
New York: Brentano's, 1921. Paperback. ciii, 300p. Softcover in original wrapper (Shaw's image on green front, rest of wrapper white with green print). 19cm. Wrapper split at front joint and also chipped and rather worn. Spine concave. Contents sound and clean. "Ready about May 25" on front flap and "Order... More about Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Pentateuch
[Grenoble?]: 1959. Paperback. maps, 104p. Softcover in original wrapper. 30cm. Text printed on one side. French text. Appears to be a paper presented for a "Diplome" d'Etudes Superieures de Geographie to the Faculte des Lettres de Grenoble. Other works (or versions of this work) by Sinali show up in OCLC. More about Regime Foncier et Systemes de Cultures en Pays Senoufo (Subdivision de Korhogo - Haute Cote d'Ivoire
London: William Heinemann; NY: Doubleday, Doran, n.d. (1931). Limited Edition. Hardcover. Thin book with unnumbered pages. Bound in original cloth-backed boards. 27cm. Non-authorial gift inscription on front free endpaper (accompanying card laid in). No jacket. Copy No. 87 of an Edition limited to 525 numbered and signed copies. More about Three-Quarter-Length Portrait of Michael Arlen
New Brunswick: J. Simpson and Co.; Philadelphia: Brannan and Morford; and Charleston, S.C.: E. Morford, Willington, and Co, 1810. 2nd ed., Enlarged and Improved. Hardcover. 411p. Contemporary 1/2 leather. 21cm. Covers worn, lacking portions of backstrip. Joints splitting. Bookplate (D. J. Brimm). First few leaves loose. Text heavily foxed. An... More about An Essay of the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species. To Which are...
Amsterdam: B. R. Gruner, 1968. Hardcover. index, vi, 347p. Red cloth. 22cm. No Jacket. French text. Reprint of the 1841 edition. More about Bibliotheque Asiatique et Africiane ou Catalogue des Ouvrages Relatifs a l'Asie et a l'Afrique...
Tashkent: Izd-vo Akademii nauk Uzbekskoi SSR, 1964. Hardcover. 2 vols. photos, 4 folding maps and a folding chart, 426, 336p. Original cloth. 27cm. Covers dull. Later bookplate laid in both volumes identifying this as having once belonged to Joseph Francis Fletcher, Jr. No jackets. Russian text. Edition limited to 2000... More about Ocherki Istorii Karakalpakskoi ASSR
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos, index, xxx, 316p. Original cloth. 22cm. Minor rubbing. No jacket. Washburn served as President of Robert College from 1878 to 1903. More about Fifty Years in Constantinople and Recollections of Robert College
Boston: Redding and Company, 1850. Paperback. 39p. Softcover in original wrappers. 24cm. Minor cover soiling and wear only. Contents bright and clean. More about Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster on the Subject of Slavery; Delivered in the United States...
