- Octavo, blue cloth in a dust wrapper. The extremities of the dust jacket are darkened & lightly rubbed & there is a short tear to the top edge of its rear panel. 205 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Very good.
First edition.
The text is in Swedish. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900.. 1900.. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth. The top edge is gilt. The spine is slightly sunned. xv, [ii], 441 & [1] pages plus 2-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated with 12 black-and-white plates, 7 of them portrait plates with tissue guards, including a frontispiece. The rear hinge is starting. There is an owner's name, address & 1904 date on the front endpaper. There is occasional light foxing, including to the tissue guards & the margins of some plates. Very good. Sir Algernon West served in various political posts and was familiar with the leadin... View More...
- sc Small oblong octavo. 94 words typed on a sheet of notepaper approximately 6 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide with his name & address stamped in blue ink in the top left corner. Signed "With best wishes yours truly / Westpfahl". Folded once for mailing. Near fine. "In your last letter you mentioned an English scientist working about a book on English recluses, hermits etc. You told me your intention to contribute to this work.... I am working upon text editions of the recluse Dorothea von Montau. / Is there anything I could do for you?" Saint Dorothea of Montau [1347-1394], the subject of ... View More...
- Octavo, light blue cloth in a dust wrapper. The spine & extremities are slightly faded. The dust jacket is chipped & lightly rubbed with a piece out of its front panel by the head of the spine. There is some soiling to its rear panel. x & 246 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white portraits of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. Good. First edition. Biographies of Nobel Laureates in Peace with portraits of each. Also included are organizations which earned the award. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Octavo, 9 inches high by 6-1/8 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed green wraps titled within a brown rectangle on the front cover. The spine and edges of the covers are faded. 141 pages, with occasional full-page & textual tables & charts. There are minor faint indentations to the rear blank leaf and a couple of spots of foxing to the book's fore edge. Very good. RARE in commerce. A study of political parties in Germany following the September 14, 1930 election. in the election the Social Democratic Party of Germany maintained the largest number of seats in the Reichstag with 143. But t... View More...
- Over 30 words penned on both sides of 7 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide creamy white paper. The first page of the letter is framed by black mourning borders. William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley writes to apologize as he cannot leave my court. Signed W.P. Wood. Folded for mailing, the letter was once mounted into an album with paper remnants still adhering to the bottom edge of the verso. A previous owner has identified the author as Vice Chancellor Wood, now Lord Chancellor (Hatherley). Good. Together with William Wood's autograph signed Hatherley on 1-1/8 inch high by 2-1/8 inch wide creamy whit... View More...
London: (Printed by Harrison and Son), 1851.. 1851.. Fair. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed blue wrappers. The binding is bumped, soiled & chipped with a number of small creases. The lower half of the spine is perished & the lower third of the rear wrap is detached. Title & 64 pages. There is a contemporary owner's ink name on the title page. The top page corners are bumped and there is some very light damp staining to the front edges of a few pages. There is occasional soiling with a few light pencil markings in the margins. Good working copy. Wrangham speaks for the water companies in o... View More...
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1949.. 1949.. Good. - Octavo, gray cloth. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped with a dent to the bottom edge of the front cover. The rear cover is lightly dampstained with a small brown stain & some creasing to the cloth along the top edge. x & 723 pages. There is dampstaining to the rear pastedown & endpaper & rear blanks & rippling to the last 100 pages of the book. Good.
First edition.
From the library of geographer Vincent Kotschar with his name and address on the front pastedown. First Edition. View More...
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1967).. (1967).. Fine. - Octavo, green cloth titled in dark blue, in dw (price-clipped; rear panel slightly creased & soiled with small tear to bottom of fold). xi, [ii], 156 & [1] pages. Fine in very good dw. Dust jacket present. View More...
Buffalo, NY: Edition Otto Karklin, (1932).. (1932).. Good. - Small octavo [6-5/8 inches high by 5 inches wide], softcover bound in printed red wraps. The spine is slightly faded. There is a small, light stain to the rear wrap & some small black stains to the spine & the adjacent edges of the wraps. 153 plus 4 blank pages headed "Memorandum" & colophon. The top edge is lightly foxed & there is some light creasing[probably a defect in the printing] to a few leaves of the text. The page edges are slightly darkened. Illustrated with a brown & white portrait frontispiece. Good. Added title... View More...
Very good. - A 1-1/2 inch high by 2-1/2 inch wide section of paper with the close of a letter signed by Gregor Ziemer. Above the signature the phrase "Cordially yours" is typed, with Ziemer's name typed below his signature. Very good. Gregor Ziemer (1899-1982) was an American educator and foreign correspondent who lived in Germany during the 1930s serving as headmaster of the American School in Berlin. His writing on German society of the period inspired the Edward Dmytryk film "Hitler's Children". As a correspondent he was embedded with Patton's Third Army. Later he served as a director of t... View More...
- Small quarto [7 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide], printed self-wraps, removed by a previous owner from a larger collection of pamphlets. 11 pages plus 1 blank with a decorative rule above the first page of text. The edges of the title & the rear blank are slightly darkened & there is some light staining to the title. The bottom corners of the last 3 leaves are creased. Very good. An impassioned denunciation of the French for their execution of Louis XVI. The French king was killed in December 1792. The text is in Spanish. Jean Charles de Coucy [1746-1824] was a refugee in Spain during the F... View More...
Morris-Town [NJ]: Printed by Henry P. Russell, 1803., 1803.. Good. - Octavo, 6-1/2 inches high by 4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in full contemporary 19th century calf, titled on a black leather label on the spine. The covers are rubbed and scuffed and the title label is heavily chipped. (x), [1] - 172 pages. The front endpaper is heavily chipped with a large piece out from the bottom edge. Crude annotations are penned on the front and rear blank leaves with a few words from the title penned along the top of the title page. There is scattered foxing and light staining throughout with occasion... View More...
- Ocatavo, 7-1/4 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in the original cloth boards. The spine has perished and is thus lacking and the rear cover is detached. The covers are rubbed with wear to the corners. Pages [1]-5, [vi]-xii, and [13]-432, illustrated with a vignette title page, 18 plates and 48 vignettes in the text. The plates are included in the pagination. The pages are foxed throughout and a previous owner's initials are penned in red on page 119. Fair. TOGETHER WITH A SECOND COPY, AN EARLIER EDITION OF THE BOOK: Published in New York: A. & C.B. Edwards / Philadelphia: T... View More...
- Octavo, unbound, removed from a larger collection of pamphlets. 34 pages. There is some light creasing to the pamphlet & the outer pages are darkened & chipped with an area of light staining to the last page. Good. Third edition. A reply by A Gentleman [George Sewell] to Matthew Tindal's consideration of the defection of Robert Walpole, Earl of Oxford. View More...
- Octavo, brown cloth with a printed title label on the spine. The covers are rubbed, bumped and stained. The head of the faded spine is chipped and the title label is stained an chipped. The cloth is partially split with evidence of early worming along the joints. 190 pages followed by a blank leaf and 12 pages of the publisher's ads. The hinges are cracked and the endpapers and pastedowns are heavily foxed. There is occasional scattered foxing and some of the pages are darkened with occasional offsetting. Despite its flaws, it is still a decent reading copy. First American edition. First Edi... View More...
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