New Oxford, Pennyslvania: George Daily and Mike Caveney, 2000. Loose_leaf. Offered here is a bidder's archive of a trip to one of the most famous magic auctions in modern times: the sale of rare books, magazines, catalogs, apparatus, playbills, and posters from the legendary Egyptian Hall Museum, the oldest private..... More
Quincy, Massachusetts: Boston Gear, 1982. Paperback. 7" X 4". 192pp. Moderate to heavy wear to stiff pictorial wraps, with creasing, shallow chipping, spots of soiling, and light scratching. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this 1982 electronics catalog from Boston Gear, with..... More
New York: The Home Pattern Company Inc., circa 1920. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6 1/4". Unpaginated, 22pp. Printed staplebound wraps. Mild edgewear to wraps, with shallow open tears to head and tail of spine. Pages age-toned but clean and unmarked. A very well-preserved, circa 1920s trade catalog of bridal fashions..... More
New York: United Nations Department of Economic Affairs, 1954. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6". 59pp. Mild wear to paper wraps, with sunning, light dust soiling, mild edgewear, and bumping to tail of spine. Binding is sound. Very occasional underlining and notations in red ink, else clean. Binding is sound. From..... More
[Stamford, Connecticut]: Champion International Corporation, 1985. Loose_leaf. 11 1/2" X 10 1/8". Cream portfolio, pictorial and die-cut to front, holding 6 die-cut papers featuring folk art masks from around the world from museum collections. Each die-cut page is printed front and back with a different mask, and each includes the..... More
Baltimore: Montgomery Ward & Company, 1941. Paperback. 13 1/8" X 9 3/8". 62pp. Paper wraps show rather heavy edgewear, with tears to edges and extremities, chipping and tears to spine, dust ssoiling, and faint dampstains. Front hinge tender. Binding remains quite sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Blank order form..... More
London: The National Trust, [1939]. Staplebound wraps. 9 1/2" X 6". 38pp. Moderate wear, toning, and sunning to stapled paper wraps, with bumping, edgewear, and small open tear to tail of spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A nice, solid copy of this government publication detailing the..... More
New York: National Cloak & Suit Co., 1907. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9 3/8" X 7". 60pp, plus order forms and size guide. Blank post card for requesting sample materials laid in, with heavy toning to front pastedown. Pictorial staplebound paper wraps show moderate wear, with open tears to corners..... More
Terra Haute, Indiana: Nor'Way Commercial Solvents Corporation, 1950. Staplebound wraps. 6 1/8" X 4". 32pp. Mild wear to staplebound wraps, with pencilled notes to wraps, light soiling, and a touch of shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A charming mid-century pamphlet for commerical customers from the Nor'Way..... More
Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Eastern Seed Company, Circa 1920s. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6". Unpaginated, 20pp. Rather heavy wear to staplebound pictorial wraps, with closed tears to spine at head and tail and small tears and chipping to edges and extremities. Some pages disbound from staples. Eastern Seed Company ordering form laid..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1866. Hardcover. 9 1/8" X 6 1/8". 394pp. Tan cloth over boards, with spine lettered in brown. Heavy wear to binding, with mottling to cloth, soiling, sunning, lacking last 1 1/4" of cloth backign spine, small tears to head of spine, and bumping to extremities..... More
London: Kogan Page, 1999. Ex-Library. Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 6 1/4". xii, 211pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Gentle bumps to covers and edges of green paper over boards. Library sticker and stamp to front endpapers. Very occasional inked underlining to pages. Underlining..... More
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Paperback. 8" X 5 3/4". xii, 430pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book presents accounts of economic and psychological analyses of association football (or..... More
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009. Paperback. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xviii, 830pp. Mild rubbing, creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please..... More
Washington DC: Pan American Union, 1913. 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 is nearly..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6". viii, 456pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 494pp. Rubbing, creasing, and small tears to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in red cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Very occasional inked underlining to pages. Underlining does not obscure..... More
Inter-American Development Bank, 2017. Paperback. 9" X 6". xix, 308pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Despite governments' best efforts, many people in Latin America and the Caribbean do not have the..... More
New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1972. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". 267pp. Hard bumping and mild rubbing to corners and edges of brown cloth hardcover binding. Gilt lettering to cover and spine. Front board rather loose. Binding remains sound. Previous owner's label to front paste-down. Small stain..... More
Boston: Elsevier Ltd., 2005. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". vii, 372pp. Mild rubbing, toning, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Occasional penciled and inked notation to pages. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Experimental economists are leaving the..... More
New York: Coward McCann, Inc., 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/8" X 5 1/2". 128pp. Signed by Eugene Carr and dated November 14, 1956 at front free endpaper. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket, with small closed tears to edges and extremities, dust soiling, and faint dampstain to rear panel..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Paperback. 9" X 6". xi, 278pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In an important contribution to educational policy, Daniele Checchi offers an economic perspective on the..... More
Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2003. Paperback. 9" X 5 3/4". xvii, 277pp. Very mild shelf wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing to covers and edges. Penciled underlining and notation to Introduction. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This new volume from SEA illuminates..... More
n.p. Alpine Marketing, 2018. Paperback. Signed by Robert Coggin at title page. 9" X 6". xvi, 301pp. Moderate wear to glossy paper wraps, with edgewear and center-crease to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid, signed copy of this memoir by Bob Coggin, who enjoyed over..... More
New York: Greenberg, 1933. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5 1/4". vi, 86pp. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Wear to boards with rubbing, toning, and gentle bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Sunning to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Faint..... More
