Hamburg: C. Boylen, circa 1892. Loose_leaf. 15 3/4" X 12 1/8". 20 tipped in plates, plus tipped in title page with list of plates to verso. Bound in original green cloth portfolio with pictorial label to upper board, elaborately decorated in black and gilt to upper board, stamped in blind... More about Malerische Ecken & Winkel Hamburgs
New York: Paulist Press, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. 8 3/8" X 5 1/4". 188pp. First American Edition, Signed and Inscribed by the Author to front free endpaper, dated "28/11/00 (21st Anniv of Incarnation Monastery)". Moderate rubbing to paperback binding, with light creasing. Stamped numbers to front free endpaper and previous... More about Canterbury and Rome: Sister Churches, A Roman Catholic Monk Reflects Upon Reunion in Diversity
Bombay: India Book Distributors (Bombay) Ltd., 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 12 3/8" X 10". 247pp. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, with small tears to head of spine and top edges of flaps at fold-over, as well as dust spotting and surface wear. Black cloth over boards with upper board and... More about Rajasthan: A Land of Splendor and Bravery
New York: Orange Judd and Company, 1869. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". vi, 249pp, plus ads. Ex-library, with associated stamps and library card envelope. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Green cloth over boards, with bouquet stamped in gilt on upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Mild wear... More about Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florists' Plants, for the...
New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1899. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 5". xv, 9-315pp, plus 2 leaves of ads. Ex-Mussel Slough District Library, with usual stamps. Pictorial reddish cloth over boards, with cover and spine lettered in black. Moderate edgewear to binding, corners bumped and rubbed to boards, scattered rubbing... More about The Funny Side of Politics
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1939. Paperback. 12 1/2" X 10 1/8". Unpaginated. Rather heavy weary to staplebound wraps, with chipping to extremities, scattered rubbing, and dust soiling. Binding is firm and sound. Previous owner's name to front pastedown, dated 1942, else pages unmarked. A quite charming copy of... More about Famous Planes and Pilots
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". 489pp. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket, with small tears to extremities, sunning, edgewear, and light scattered rubbing. Red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with faint dampstains to cloth, bumping to extremities... More about The Raven: The Story of Sam Houston
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 7/8". 335pp. Warmly inscribed by Erin E. Jucker-Fleetwood to his colleague on front free endpaper. Mild edgewear and light sunning to unclipped dust jacket. Red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to... More about Money and Finance in Africa: The Experience of Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, the Rhodesias and...
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 7/8" X 5 3/4". [viii], 246pp. Related ephemera laid in: promotional pamphlet for the book with reviews and synopsis, typed humorous poem "Death of a Government Employee," photocopy of Andor Klay's essay "Hungarian Counterfeit Francs: A Case of Post-World War... More about Daring Diplomacy: The Case of the First American Ultimatum
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Moscow: Order of Lenin printing house “Red Proletarian”, 1984. Loose_leaf. 26 1/2" X 18 1/2". A striking 1984 Russian Cold War poster designed by one of the most highly regarded Soviet propaganda artists, Victor Koretsky. The poster communicates a profound anti-American sentiment and was created as a response to Ronald... More about No To Chemical Weapons [Soviet Propaganda
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. 8" X 5 3/8". 45pp. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with light dust soiling, rubbing to covers, and mild edgewear. Bookseller notations pencilled to half title page. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are clean and unmarked. A nice, solid first... More about The Blood of the Air
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 5/8". 286pp. Signed by Willie Mays at front free endpaper. Moderate edgewear to unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Yellow paper over boards with spine backed in tan cloth and lettered in gilt. Moderate edgewear to binding, with slight... More about Say Hey: The Autobiography of Willie Mays
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". 398pp. Lacking dust jacket. Purple cloth over boards, with pictorial title label to spine. Moderate wear to binding, with sunning to spine, small tears head and tail of spine, and light scattered rubbing. Front hinge... More about Race
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 5/8". 148pp. Ex-US Air Force Library, with associated labels, marks, and stamps. Dust jacket enclosed in protective archival sleeve taped to binding and with wood-grained tape to edges. Blue cloth over boards, with spine lettered in... More about Kent Barstow: Space Man
Perry, Georgia: Southern Trellis, 1998. Hardcover. 10 3/4" X 8 1/4". 325pp, plus index. Signed by Bobbe Hickson Nelson to title page, as well as by Butler Brown, who designed the book cover. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, with rather heavy scratching to rear panel. Glossy pictorial paper over boards... More about A Land So Dedicated: The History of Houston County, Georgia
Goteborg: Joh. Lundens Tryckeri, 1907. Leather bound. 9" X 6 1/8". 239pp. Text in Swedish. Halfbound in black leather with what appears to be alligator or crocodile skin over boards, but cannot confirm. Spine lettered in gilt with gilt floral decorations and five raised bands. Moderate edgewear to binding, with... More about Passionspredikningar och Skriftetal
New York: Silver Burdett Company, 1938. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 5/8". vii, 168pp. Patterned cloth over boards. Moderate edgewear, soiling, and sunning to binding, with fraying to corners and ink marks to front. Soiling to edges of text block. Toning and foxing to endpapers, with open tears to front... More about Olaf and Ane: Children of the Northland
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Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1984-1985. Paperback. Within this collection of publications by the Novosti Press Agency, the USSR's state public information service from 1961 to 1990, you'll find Soviet cruises, an Italian journalist's praises of the Russian Orthodox Church and religious freedom in the U.S.S.R., an Australian peace..... More about Cold War Era Soviet Publicity Booklets]: Flying the Soviet Flag; How I "Discovered"...
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/8" X 5 5/8". xxii, [ii], 363pp, plus one page index. Extensive wear to dust jacket, taped to binding, with aggressive price-clipping to front flap at top corner and bottom 3/4", rear flap excised, tape repairs to recto and verso... More about The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 310pp. Signed by Jason Reynolds to title page. A touch of shelfwear and surface scatching to unclipped dust jacket, with "Signed by the Author" label to front panel. Stain to verso of dust jacket at bottom... More about All American Boys
Delhi: The Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 1955. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 7 1/8" X 4 3/4". 30pp. Moderate sunning and wear to paper wraps. Rear wrap undone from staples, binding remains sound. Previous owner's name to clipped title page. Occasional underlining to pages. A solid, if worn... More about Marx, Marshall and Keynes
London: MacMillan & Co, Ltd, 1918. Leather bound. 8 1/2" X 7 1/8". ix, 341pp, plus ads. Dated 1918 at title page with gift inscription dated Christmas 1918 to flyleaf. Green patterned paper over boards, with spine backed in black morocco leather and lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding... More about English Fairy Tales
New York: United States Publishing Company, 1874. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xii, 13-669pp. Brick-red black-embossed cloth over boards, with inmate gripping cob-webbed bars stamped in black and gilt to spine and spine lettered in gilt. Rather heavy edgewear to binding, with chipping to cloth at head and tail... More about The New York Tombs: Its Secrets and Mysteries. Being a History of Noted Criminals, with...
London: Bloomsbury, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 245pp. Signed by Joanna Trollope at title page. Dust jacket presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Mild edgewear to unclipped dust jacket. Blue cloth over boards, with upper board and spine stamped in gilt. A touch of... More about A Passionate Man
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1921. Fourth Impression. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/8". 125pp. Lacking dust jacket. Blue paper over boards, stamped in orange to upper board and spine. Mild edgewear to binding, with small tear to bottom corner of upper board and bumping to extremities. Foxing to edges... More about Ptomaine Street: The Tale of Warble Petticoat
