Baltimore, MD: 1953. Single sheet printed on 1 side. 22 x 16 cm. "Dear Dr. Patterson: It was a surprise to hear of the news that you are resigning from Tuskegee. You have done such an outstnding job at the University as the successor to Mr. Washington and Dr. Moton..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Limited edition. Hardcover. [6], 70, [1]p. Parchment-backed marbled boards with the paper made especially for this binding by Rosamond Bowditch Loring. Original glassine jacket present with a chip in front panel. No slipcase. 30 cm. Text unopened suggesting that this copy remains..... More
Durham, Ct. Publisher not identified, 1899. Paperback. [12] unnumbered pages.oftcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Cover split at fold. More
Seattle: 1972. 1st ed. Paperback. [28] unnumbered pages. Softcover in original untitled wrapper. 11 x 11 cm. Poetry. Issued as Vol. 2, No. 3 of Toothpick, Lisbon * the Orcas Islands. More
Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Organ of the Berkshire W. T. A. Society, 1844. [4] unnumbered pages. 52 x 35 cm. Later horizontal and vertical folds. Intact and readable with quite a bit of old foxing, browning, staining and spotting. Some edge-wear. Former owner's name at top of first page (G. D. Bidwell)..... More
Te Middelburg : bij Abrahams, ; te Arnhem : bij Troost, ; te Groningen : bij Huizing ..., n.d. [Bericht dated 1781]. Paperback (as now lacking covers). [4], 92p. Lacks cover with stitching, etc. visible along left edge. 23 cm. Dutch text. More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (c. 1914). 1st American edition. Hardcover. frontis and 6 other illustrations (by Arthur I. Keller), 320p. Original red cloth. 21 cm. Rubbing along sides of backstrip with some loss of color. Ends of backstrip and cover corners rubbed wih minor loss of cloth. Intenrally..... More
Atlanta: House of PRAE. (c. 1978). Paperback. illustrations, 20p. Softcover in original orange wrapper. 28 cm. Funded in Part by the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Maynard Jackson, Mayor. OCLC locate only a few holdings, two of whi appear to be a microfilm holding that had Vol. 1..... More
(Atlanta and Lincoln Ridge Kentucky): 1946. Printed for Distribution by The Southern Regional Council Inc. Atlanta, Georga for it's affiliate The Kentucky Interracial Council Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky ... By Permission of the Kentucky Commission on Negro Affairs. Pamphlet. [8] unnumbered pages. No separate cover. Softcover pamphlet in original wrapper. 22..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1933. Hardcover. illustrations, 363p. plus 16p. adverts. Original green cloth. 31 cm. Edition limited to 1200 copies. A couple of printed LEC items Minor cover soiling and wear. No jacket -- presumably as published. More
New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1910. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (color), illustrations, 160, xxivp. Original green cloth. 32 cm. Title label worn around edges on backstrip. Backstrip frayed at ends. Front free endpaper chipped and detached but held on by some later cellophane tape. Text and illustrations sound and clean..... More
West New York, NJ: Mark Batty Publisher, (c. 2005). Hardcover. illustrations (many color), 192p. Original decorative printed boards. dj. 33 cm. More
Oxford: Oxford University PressClarendon Press, 1967. Hardcover. portrait frontis, photos, index, 278p. Original blue cloth. dj. 38 cm. Jacket has some edge-wear, a couple of small holes on back panel and is CHIPPED AND TORN AT BOTTOM OF BACKSTRIP PANEL. 1000 copies were printed. More
New York: Thomas Y Crowell, (c. 1925). Hardcover. portrait frontis, index, 416p. Original blue cloth. 22 cm. Some cover spotting and wear. A former owner's name on front free endpaper. Several leaves roughly opened. No jacket. Howard is most remembered as the a publisher (especially at Fords, Howard & Hulbert..... More
[Manchester, Ct.]: n. d. [probably mid to late 1920s] 1923-1932]. Paperback. 40p. Softcover in original tied wrapper. 23 cm. Covers soiling, spotting and wear. Outer corners creased most leaves. Age-toning. Has car advertisements for Hudson-Essex and Willys-Knight Fours and Sixes which suggests mid-1920s. More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, (c. 1918). 1st ed. Hardcover. index, 417p. Original cloth. 20 cm. Backstrop darkened. A few small cover spots. Spine lightly sloped. Small ownership label ("A. F. Teusner") on front free endpaper. Intenally sound and clean. No Jacket. A seriously-intentioned but badly flawed study by this white..... More
Boston: Laban Heath, (c. 1864). Twelfth Thousand [statement on title-page]. Hardcover. frontis, 8 (of 10) plates, 32p. Original cloth. 17 cm. Has plates numbered 1-5 and 8 plus 2 folding facsimiles of two banknotes. We assume that the missing plates were numbered 6 and 7. This Twelfth Thousand printing of..... More
Ogdensburgh, N. Y. James H. Coffin, 1852. 8 pages. Proposed monthly periodical in small newspaper format. 31 cm. Unbound. Fragile and worn. Foxing. Substantial edge chipping. Splitting along horizontal fold on all four leaves. Inked partial name of former owner at top of first page. First and last leaves detached..... More
Stanford: Eldridge Cleaver Crusades, Box U, Stanford, CA 94305, 1977. Paperback. photos, 8p. Slender softcover periodical. No separate wrapper. 28 cm. Larger Cleaver signature in blue-green (turquoise) marker on front page. Cleaver and his wife reportedly became members of the Word of Life International Church. Identified on cover as Newsletter..... More
Hampton, VA: Normal School Steam Power Press Print, 1882. Hardcover. frontis, 242p. Original red cloth decorated in black and lettered in gilt. 21 cm. Cover has a fair amount of spotting, mostly on back cover. Contents now generally sound with some light foxing and age-toning after a binder disassembled the..... More
New York: 1882. Hardcover. frontis portrait, viii, 352p. Original blue cloth. 19 cm. Endpapers replaced along hinge area. Chipped ends of backstrip replaced with stiffened blue cloth. Wear at corner tips visibly repaired on front cover but not the back cover. The cloth along the rear joint appears to have..... More
n.p. Japan Tourist Bureau, (October 1932). Paperback. photos, 2 modest maps , [12] unnumbered pages including cover. Softcover tourist brochure. 19 cm. Later vertical crease. Staple rusty. Several editions or printings of this brochure/booklet were issued by the Japan Tourist Bureau beginnng around 1930. More
Oblong panoramic photo. 15 x 64 cm. Framed under glass in a perhaps contemporary black frame. Most of the brown paper backing has been removed making the underlying cardboard backing visible. The right 5 cm. of the photo has some visible water damage. We did not try to remove the..... More
Buenos Aires: Editorial Sud Americana, (c. 1963). Hardcover. illustrations, 24 shiny color photos, indice analitico, 875p. Original blue hardcover binding. dj. 24 cm. Spanish text. This appears to be the Spanish language edition of his 1958 Harvard dissertation -- the English-language title of his Harvard dissertation was "From counting-house to..... More
New York: 1891. Hardcover. index, 765p. Contemporary thin black 1/2 leather binding. 23 cm. Original wrappers not bound in. Leather portions of binding rubbed with visible loss of some leather along cover edges. Embossed library stamp on title-leaf (High School Library, Hot Springs, S. Dak.). Some modest age-toning of content..... More
