n..p. Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1954. Revised Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6". 32pp. MIld edgewear and dust soiling to staplebound pictorial wraps, with light scattered rubbing and closed tears down from head and up from tail of spine. A charming copy of this 1954 guide to the circular saw..... More
Ohio: circa 1965. Cards. 8 index cards and 13 photographs taped together to form a binding of 28 pages, unpaginated, forming a typewritten and photo-illustrated account, with one hand-drawn diagram, of 9 vehicles purchased and driven by Milton and Ross Elliott of Ohio from 1908 to 1965. Vehicles include: The..... More
New York: Fisher Scientific Company, circa 1950. Staplebound. 9" X 6". Light creasing and wear to covers and edges. Staples from binding slightly rusted. Pages free of marks and notations. Binding is sound. A pamphlet from the 1950's or 60's published by the Fisher Scientific Company informing readers on the..... More
Philadelphia: Railway Lighting & Heating Company, June 1st, 1889. Wraps. 6 3/8" X 4 1/8". 19pp. Stiff russet printed paper wraps with spine backed in red cloth. Moderate wear to binding, with small open tear to top corner of upper wrap,creasing, spots of soiling, and scattered rubbing. Binding is sound..... More
Cleveland: The Automobile Institute, [1907]. Hardcover. 7 1/8" X 4 4/8". Unpaginated, 128 pages plus nine pages of ads. Green cloth over boards with upper board lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with bumping and light fraying to extremities. Small tear at gutter several leaves. Spine visible at first..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. All 6 books are hardcovers in very good or better condition, all but one a first edition, first printing.. All bindings are firm and sound. All pages are clean and unmarked. A solid collection of 6 books about injury, illness, and disease in the American Presidency and..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 378pp. Stated First Edition. Mild rubbing, toning, and wear to covers, corners, and edges of price-clipped dust jacket. Rubbing and toning to edges of blue cloth over boards. Gentle bumps to corners of boards. Stamp from the..... More
Washington DC: Pan American Union, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 120pp. Dust jacket is encased in protective archival sleeve. Rather heavy wear to jacket with toning, soiling, creasing, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Top 1/2 of rear jacket is missing. Front cover of jacket..... More
Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of green paper over boards. Pages of all volumes are clean and unmarked. Bindings are firm and sound. A presentable set, complete in three volumes. This set is heavy and oversized..... More
Philadelphia: Ed. Barrington & Geo. D. Haswell, 1845. Third Edition, Enlarged and Improved. Leather bound. 9 1/8" X 5 7/8". xx,13-728pp, plus 36pp ads. Bound in full leather with black leather title label lettered in gilt to spine. Heavy wear to binding, with edges and extremities rubbed to boards, losses..... More
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xiii, 325pp. Rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Rubbing and gentle bumps to corners and edges of black paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and..... More
London: Butterworths, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 184pp. Mild rubbing, creasing, and toning to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in brown paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Very occasional penciled underlining to pages. Binding is firm and sound. A presentable..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1948. Third Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xvi, 309pp. Mild shelf wear to to red cloth over boards with scattered rubbing to covers and edges. Corners are slightly turned in. Light dust spotting to top edge of text block. Previous owner's name in..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1913. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xix, 1132pp. Bound in brown cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Wear to boards with rubbing and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Spots of paper residue to spine. Pencil mark to front..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". ix, 435pp. Ex libris Bradley Polytechnic Institute of Peoria, Illinois. Wear to green cloth over boards with rubbing, toning, creasing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Stickers to spine and front cover. Dust-spotting and..... More
San Francisco: University of California, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1986. Paperback. Compiled by the co-directors of the Women, Health and Healing Program at the University of California, San Francisco in 1986, this set of resources for instructors of courses on Women, Health and Healing includes: Teaching Materials on..... More
London: William Heinemann (Medical Books) LTD., 1936. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xv, 272pp. Rubbing, bumps, and gentle shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of orange cloth over boards. Light age-toning to edges of text block and to endpapers. Curious inked endpaper notes from frevious owner..... More
New York: Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers, 1890. Hardcover. This admittedly worn but still exceedingly fun and thoroughly illustrated 1890 guide to the pseudo-science of phrenology, reading people's characters by the shape of their skulls, comes from the personal library of Anders Ericsson (1947-2020), “The Expert on Experts,” the late..... More
Chicago: American Medical Association, 1908. Wraps. 8 3/8" X 5 1/2". 26pp. Reprinted from The Journal of the American Medical Association. Plain printed staplebound paper wraps show mild dust soiling and edgewear, with faint red mark to upper wrap. Binding is sound. Pages are unmarked. A quite nice copy. More
East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 4 1/8". 83pp. Lacking dust jacket. Dark brown cloth over boards. Moderate wear to binding, with heavy rubbing to white lettering, small dampstains to spine and boards, and mild edgewear. Binding is firm and sound..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xix, 278pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Galen was probably the greatest medical writer of antiquity and certainly the..... More
Garden City: Syracuse University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiv, 278pp. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 262pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in brown cloth over boards with spine lettered in..... More
Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xiii, 364pp. Rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Creasing along the top front of jacket. Rubbing and creasing to back of jacket. Small tear to back of jacket. Creasing and rubbing to..... More
New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". 395pp. Toning, rubbing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of brown cloth over boards. Sunning and fading to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Toning to endpapers and to some pages throughout. 1"..... More
