New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953.. 1953.. Good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The bottom edge of the front cover is slightly darkened with a small dent. The dust jacket is rubbed & soiled with heavy soiling & staining to the front panel. The bottom edge of the rear panel & the tail of the jacket spine are lightly chipped. Half-title, title, [3] leaves & 212 pages. Very good in a fair dust wrapper. First edition.A report on Communist China under Mao by a member of a group of Indians who were invited to China on a "cultural" mission by Mao Tse-tung to study the progress of the ... View More...
- Quarto, 10-7/8 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed red wrappers. viii & 77 pages plus a 10 page catalog of Cornell University Southeast Asia Program publications. Illustrated with 3 pages of illustrations including a full page map. Near fine. "...the account that is here published provides some unusually deep insights into the hitherto obscure formative stages of the revolutionary movement in South Vietnam, particularly the beginnings of the NLF in one of the key provinces there in 1959-60. Centering on the political and military role of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dinh, a ... View More...
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Worcester, U.K.: August 28th, 1810. : 1810.
Seller ID: 35032
Worcester, U.K.: August 28th, 1810.. 1810.. - A letter penned in black ink filling 1-1/4 sides of a 10"x16" sheet folded to form 4 sides. Signed "Your affect. Brother / Tho. Munro". The letter has been folded for mailing several times with the fourth side used as the cover. Alexander Munro's address in Edinburgh has been penned by his brother in the center. The fourth side also bears the broken wax seal used to seal up the letter and 2 postmarks, 1 in black ink & 1 in red. A strip of paper has been glued along the right margin of the fourth side where the letter has been mounted in an album. A... View More...
- 27 words penned on a 7 inch high by 4-3/8 inch wide sheet of his personalized letterhead with his Lower Sloane Street address printed at top right and signed Dunedin. Fine. Dunedin writes: Owing to an accident your letter remained unopened till today. Apologizing for the delay, he is returning a photo [not here present] with his autograph to a collector. Andrew Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin [1849-1942] was a Scottish politician and judge. He served as Secretary for Scotland between 1903 and 1905, as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session from 1905 to 1913 and as a Lo... View More...
Circa [1880's]., [1880's].. Good. - Arthur Mursell's signature on a 5/8 inch wide by 1-7/8 inch wide slip of paper mounted on a 2-3/4 inch wide 3-1/4 inch wide piece of paper cut out from an autograph album. Slightly soiled with minor glue stains. Good. The English nonconformist theologian Arthur Mursell (1831-1914) was virulently opposed to labor unions. Speaking of labor leaders Mursell wrote during times of strike ... while setting up as working men, they appear before their dupes well fed and clothed, their food and clothing obtained out of the incidental profits of the very strikes they... View More...
Paris: Imprimerie Le Soleil, 1966.. 1966.. Very good. - Quarto [11 inches high by 9 inches wide], red cloth titled in gilt. The covers are very lightly rubbed. 90 pages. Full-page & textual illustrations & 1 folding plate in black & white. Very good.
Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies.
The history of the creation of the Place d'Etoile and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. View More...
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1962.. 1962.. Very good. - Large 8vo, navy blue cloth (lightly bumped & rubbed; covers slightly warped) titled in gilt. 335 pp. B&W pictorial endpapers, tipped-in color frontispiece, color plates & full-page & textual B&W illustrations. Very good.
First American edition.
A study of monarchy from the king as magician in primitive societies to the modern British monarchy. First Edition. View More...
- Octavo, bound in limp dark green cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine. The covers are rubbed and bumped with a small stain to the rear cover. x, 211 & [1] pages. The endpapers and pastedowns are darkened and soiled. The pages are slightly toned with occasional soiling and a very few pencil marks. Good.
London, U.K.: Faber and Faber Limited, (1972).. (1972).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed with some very minor soiling to its rear panel & a tiny crease to its rear flap. 320 pages. Illustrated in black & white with maps, cartoons & tables. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.
First edition.
A study of the effects of French colonization of Senegal on the country's post- independence society. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New York: November 15, 1950.. 1950.. Very good. - 37 words typed on a sheet of New School letterhead, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Signed in green ink Saul K. Padover. His title Dean is typed below the signature. There is creasing to the letterhead at top left. Folded once for mailing. Together with a carbon copy of the recipient's letter. Very good. Harold Rugg of Teachers College, Columbia University has written to Padover, seeking to change the date of Padover's meeting with Rugg's Luncheon Forum. Padover replies; The date (November 29th) and topic are fine. I am looking forward ... View More...
New York: Random House, (1985).. (1985).. Very good. - Quarto, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The book is cocked. The rear panel of the dust jacket is lightly rubbed & soiled & there are 2 chips out of the dust jacket's top edge. 255 pages. Profuse black-and-white illustrations. There is a remainder mark on the top edge. Very good. Dust jacket present. View More...
Paris: Francois Maspero, 1962.. 1962.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed with light creases to the spine. 364 & [2] pages. There is a previous owner's blind stamp on the front endpaper & there is a very light horizontal crease to each of the last 40 pages of the book. Good.
Cahiers Libres nos. 37-38. The text is in French. View More...
Lock and Whitfield, between 1874 & 1894. . Fine. - A richly hued 4-1/2 inch high oval woodburytype portrait of Lord Carlingford mounted onto 11-1/4 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide stiff cream stock. A light gray printed decorative frame highlights the image. The subject's name is printed in the same light gray centered within the lower half of the sheet. Lock and Whitfield and Woodbury Process are printed at left and right along the lower edge. Near fine. The British Liberal politician Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford (1823-1898) was elected to Parliament for Louth in 1847.... View More...
New York: Free World, Inc., 1943.. 1943.. Good. - Small quarto [approximately 10-1/2 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in printed gray & yellow wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped with the edges of the wraps slightly darkened. There is a light vertical crease to the front wrap. Pages [97]-192. Black-and-white illustrations after drawings by Robert Hale, Theodore Brenson & others. The pages are a bit toned & the top page corners are lightly bumped. Good. Among the contents of this issue, which is largely devoted to World War II, are a Round Table on "The Future of Italy... View More...
- Letter penned in black ink & filling 1-2/3 sides of a cream-colored 6-1/4 inch high by 4 inch wide sheet of his letterhead with the Stanwick Hall address printed in blue at the top. Signed Northumberland. Folded 3 times for mailing. Fine The Northumberlands' family seat was Alnick Castle, Northumberland. Stanwick Hall in Darlington, Yorkshire was the family's secondary home. The Duke writes that he has not received an account of a meeting. Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland [1810-1899] was a British Conservative politician. He held office under the Earl of Derby as Paymaster-... View More...
New York: George Braziller, (1965).. (1965).. Fine. - Octavo, cloth-backed light blue boards. The spine is slightly sunned. 384 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine.
First edition.
The century's culture explored through the writings of authors of the time. First Edition. View More...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1847.. 1847.. Good. - Octavo, olive green cloth titled in gilt with a crest in gilt & decorative bands in blind on the spine & with decorative frames in blind on both covers. The bindings are rubbed & lightly bumped and the spines & extremities are faded. xl & 527 pages; and xix & 547 pages. Illustrated in black & white with a portrait frontispiece with a tissue guard in each volume & with a facsimile plate & a map. There is an owner's signature on the front pastedown of each volume. There is a light crease to each of the last few leaves of Vol. 1 with a tiny tea... View More...
- Signed "Prince William of Sweden" on a slip of paper which has been mounted on a gray autograph album page, 5-3/4 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide, together with a portrait clipped from a newspaper. A cut-out coat of arms has been mounted to the right of the photo with a note by the previous owner penned below it. There is some light staining to the portrait and the cut signature probably from the glue used in the mounting. Good. Prince William of Sweden was an internationally known big game hunter, a writer of books on travel and exploration, novels and plays, a poet and a contrib... View More...
- Over 80 words penned by Princess Charlotte on 9 inch high by 7-1/4 inch wide creamy white paper. An autograph letter signed by Princess Charlotte and addressed to Jane Stanhope, Countess of Harrington. The letter, written from Cranburn [Cranbourne] Lodge, is dated March 16, [1816] only two days following the public announcement in the House of Commons of her engagement to Leopold, Prince of Saxe-Coburg. She expresses her thanks to Lady Harrington for "your kind offer received by todays Post." Princess Charlotte is excited about the future and relates that "Everybody has taken a great interes... View More...
Cambridge, MA: John Wilson and Son, 1901.. 1901.. Fair. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed light green wrappers. The binding is chipped with several tears & small pieces out & with the edges of the wraps darkened. There is a large piece out of the top corner of the front wrap with several adjacent tears repaired with scotch tape. 10 pages. The page edges are chipped with creasing to their top edges & their corners bumped. There are horizontal creases to the wraps & pages where the pamphlet has been folded. Fair. First separate edition.Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Hist... View More...
