- Octavo, light grayish blue pictorial boards backed with a gray cloth spine, titled and illustrated in maroon and black on the front cover. The covers are soiled with slight wear to the corners and head and tail of the spine. 95 pages, plus 6 pages of ads for charts and material offered for sale by the publisher. Illustrated with a folding map and numerous textual and full page illustrations. An early owner's name is penciled at the top of the front endpaper. Very good.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887.. 1887.. Good. - (The Story of the Nations series). Octavo, green & maroon cloth titled in maroon with vignettes in maroon, green & black on the front cover. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. The spine is slightly faded with a small stain. xxi & 408 pages plus 2-page publisher's catalog. Black-and- white plates, including a frontispiece with a tissue guard & 2 folding maps, & black-and-white textual illustrations.The front hinge is cracked. There are small stains to the endpapers & rear pastedown with a small chip out of each. A corner of 1 ... View More...
- Octavo, black boards backed with brown cloth & titled in gilt in a dust wrapper. The tail of the spine & the adjacent corners of the covers are faded. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed. xxx, 555 & [2] pages. Illustrated in black & white with photographic illustrations, maps, charts & tables. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. First edition. An account of relations between the British people and the three million American soldiers who passed through their country between 1942 and 1945. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Octavo, black cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a device in blind on the front cover. The binding is rubbed with the head & tail of the spine chipped. vi, [ii] & 489 pages plus colophon. Illustrated in black & white with maps & plans. The endpapers are darkened & the pastedowns are slightly foxed. There is a tear to one of the preliminary pages. The edges of the book are foxed with a small area of soiling to the bottom edge. Good. First edition, with a chronological table and a classified bibliography. From the library of Major J. F. K. Lockhart with his book label mounted on the front... View More...
(London: London School of Economics), 1968.. 1968.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed blue wrappers. The wraps are slightly darkened along the spine. Pages 207-221. Very good.
Reprinted from Government and Opposition, A quarterly of comparative politics. Vol. 3 No. 2 Spring 1968.
Inscribed [but not signed] by the author above his printed name A small expression of appreciation from.
Rintala contrasts the effects of the industrial revolution on the relative powers of the ruling class, the middle class and the new proletarian class in England and Germany. View More...
London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1917.. 1917.. Very good. - Small octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wraps with a vignette in black on the front wrap. The wraps are darkened & lightly bumped. 10 pages. The contents are very good. One of a series of Pamphlets on the War published by T. Fisher Unwin. The author reports that the Mayor of Nuremberg has revealed as a lie a German claim of acts of aggression by the French, which were used as a pretext to declare war on France. He speculates that since the Mayor's revelation was published in a medical journal, it had escaped the notice of the Germa... View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wrappers. The binding is soiled, lightly bumped & a bit darkened with a few small, light stains to the wraps. There is some creasing to the edges of the wraps. [vii] & 128 pages. Illustrated with 4 plates with tissue guards, including a frontispiece. 1 of the plates is in color. Also with a few black-and-white textual illustrations. There is some foxing to the fore-edge & a few page corners are lightly bumped. Very good. From the library of A. F. Roessler. Laid in is an ALS in French from the author signed G. [i.e. Gustave] written on a postcard and a... View More...
Oh Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name! - 12mo, unbound leaves laid into plain creamy-yellow wraps (soiled, with tiny chip at top of front wraps; crease & tear to top corner of rear wrap); titled in holograph on front cover. 14 & [i]pp. Fine in good wraps. A famous letter from the Girondin interior minister, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platiere (1734-1793), addressed to King Louis XVI. It is an impassioned appeal for the King to cooperate with the National Assembly. The letter was drafted by Roland's wife, Jeanne-Marie Philipon Roland de la Platiere (1754-1793), known commonly as Mme Ro... View More...
- Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth's signature at the bottom left of a 3 inch high by 5 inch wide clipping from an envelope. PAID 1857 with the royal crown is stamped in red at top right and partially overlaps the address penned in an unknown hand. The autograph is mounted with glue from the verso onto a larger sheet of heavier stock clipped from an album. Very good. The British lawyer and Liberal politician Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth (1790-1868) represented Peryn and Falmouth in Parliament before being appointed a Baron of the Exchequer in 1839. He was appointed Lord High Chanc... View More...
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1987).. (1987).. Fine. - Octavo, cloth-backed boards, in a dust wrapper. There is a crease to the front fold of the dust jacket. 478 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Letter penned on 2 sides of a sheet of cream letterhead folded once to form 4 sides, each 7-1/4 inches high by 4-5/8 inches wide. The first side is bordered in black and is headed "Holyrood Palace" in black with a small embossed image of the royal crown above it. Signed "W. S. Sands." Folded once for mailing. Together with the black-bordered Holyrood Palace mailing envelope. Near fine. Sands profusely thanks Major James B. Pond for sending him and his wife a copy of Pond's book "Eccentricities of Genius", "such a valuable & delightful souvenir of your visit to Ho... View More...
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1896.. 1896.. Good. - Octavo, olive green cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is lightly rubbed. The spine is a bit darkened & there is dampstaining to the front edge of the rear cover. Half-title, title, [3] leaves & 310 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait frontispiece. A owner's name & date is penciled on the front endpaper. There is foxing to the preliminaries & the dedication page is nearly detached. There is dampstaining to the bottom corners of the leaves in the rear quarter of the book with light soiling to a few other leaves. ... View More...
- A one-and-a-quarter page letter with over 325 words typed on 2 sides of her 11 inch high by 8-3/8 inch wide light blue "4740 Dorchester Ave., Chicago" stationery. In her letter to the American lecture agent James B. Pond, the noted feminist & pacifist Rosika Schwimmer outlines her intention to offer a lecture on Henry Ford's role in the Peace Ship expedition she led in the early years of the First World War, a timely subject as Henry Ford was then campaigning for the Presidency. "Though numbers of Ford biographies and articles have been poured out, none of them contains more than a hint abou... View More...
- An autograph document penned in an unknown hand on 2-1/2 inch high by 7-1/2 inch wide parchment paper with clipped corners. A bankruptcy document dated 21st November 1801 reading Let a Commission issue as prayed and be directed to Francis Maude Thomas Clifton Esquires Edward Brooke Thomas Edward Upton and Joseph Hood Gentlemen, signed Eldon by the British Barrister and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Once likely mounted in an album, there is some soiling with offsetting to the edges of the document from the glue with adhered to the verso. Good. The British barrister and politician Joh... View More...
NY: Atheneum, (1970).. (1970).. Very good. - (A Social History of the British Overseas). 8vo, red cloth (bumped) titled in gilt, in dw (top edge lightly creased; extremities slightly darkened; spotting to folds & top corner of front panel). xvi & 215 pp. Illustrated in B&W. Very good. Preface by Peter Quennell, series editor.The author writes in her Foreword: This is a study of the British who lived in or were associated with the Middle East between the middle of the sixteenth century and the outbreak of World War I. It is not a history of British political activities....I hope in this book to... View More...
New York: H. S. Nichols, 1913.. 1913.. Good. - Thick octavo, purple cloth titled in gilt on the spines with a vignette stamped in gilt on each front cover. The top edges are gilt. The bindings are lightly bumped & rubbed. Vol. 1 and the spine of Vol. 2 are faded. xiv, [1] leaf & 524 pages; and vi, [1] leaf & 600 pages. There is an owner's ink signature on the front endpaper of Vol. 1 & there is some soiling to the front endpaper of Vol. 2. The contents are very good. Good. Translation of "Les femmes des douze premiers cesars". Based upon Hon. Bysse Molesworth's translation. There is a ... View More...
New York: Columbia University Press, 1942.. 1942.. Good. - Octavo, green cloth. The binding is bumped with some very light staining to the corners of the covers. The head of the spine is chipped & the tail is very lightly chipped. x & 156 pages. The contents are very good. Good.
Kathmandu, Nepal: Nepali Congress, (1956).. (1956).. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed light green wraps. The wraps are darkened, soiled & stained with a library sticker on the front wrap. 54 pages. There is a stamp on the title page & the bottom 2 inches of the page are detached with a small piece out where it has torn away from the staple. There is some underlining on 1 page & there is occasional light foxing. Good.
Second edition. A pamphlet on the foreign policy of Nepal. View More...
