- Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5 inches wide. 60 issues bound together into contemporary full vellum with holographic title labels on the spine. Faded ink annotations on the covers would suggest that the vellum covers themselves were recycled at the time from even earlier documents. The covers are stained, the labels are chipped and the bottom portion of the spine is heavily chipped. 480 pages in all, each issue consisting of 8 pages with a banner title at the head of the first page of each issue and the publisher's credits printed at the bottom of the last page of each issue. The bottom front... View More...
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, (1931).. (1931).. Good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The corners of the covers are rubbed with slight fraying. The head of the spine is creased & lightly chipped. The dust wrapper is rubbed & chipped with tears & pieces out. The jacket spine is darkened & torn with a piece out of its head. 320 pages. Black- and-white illustrations & a black-and-white portrait frontispiece. There is light soiling & a light stain to the top edge and the fore-edge is lightly foxed & soiled. The front endpaper is foxed & there is a small area of soiling to the half-title. Go... View More...
New York: Educational Department,, The League of Nations Association, Inc., November, 1930.. 1930.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed green wraps. The front wrap is lightly bumped & spotted with some soiling & an ink notation in the top inner corner. 31 & [1] pages, The top corners of the first 4 leaves are creased. Good.
This pamphlet originally appeared under the title "A Manual for Teachers and was intended for teachers of the social sciences in New York City. This is its fifth revised edition. View More...
- Quarto [approximately 11-1/4 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial dark blue & white wrappers. The wraps are rubbed with their bottom 2 inches detached. The top corner of the rear wrap is lightly creased & there is a piece out of its bottom inner corner. 34 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. 1 signature [pages 17-20] is nearly detached. Good. Among the contents of this issue are Together with Our Soviet Ally by Howard Fast; Soviet Children Paint the War by Holger Cahill, recently National director of he WPA; and Assignment in Myopia, Full Face: Eugene Lyons by A... View More...
London: Maggs Bros. 1934.. 1934.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed light tan wraps. The spine & extremities are darkened & the spine is rubbed with pieces out of the head & tail. The wraps are soiled & lightly bumped with some small stains. There is pencil scribbling to the rear wrap & there is a tiny chip out of its front edge. Title & 116 pages. The page corners are lightly bumped. There is staining to the front margins of a few pages & light foxing to the fore-edge & to the last page. Illustrated with a facsimile frontispiece & several full-page facsimiles. Good. 259 items are ca... View More...
New York: The Viking Press, (1971).. (1971).. Very good. - Small quarto [10-1/2 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], cloth, in a dust wrapper. The extremities are very slightly faded. There are creases to the surface of the front panel of the dust jacket & the rear panel is darkened. 249 & [3] pages plus colophon. There is a bookplate with the owner's name blacked out in ink on the front pastedown. Profusely illustrated in color & black & white. Very good. Dust jacket present. View More...
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1823.. 1823.. Good. - Octavo, brown boards backed with brown cloth with printed paper labels on the spines. The bindings are bumped & rubbed with small stains to the boards. The heads & tails of the spines are creased & the head of the Vol. 2 spine is chipped & torn. The labels are darkened & chipped with pieces out of the Vol. 1 label, affecting the titling. xii & 375 pages; and v & 399 pages plus colophon. Illustrated with 2 frontispieces [a portrait & a facsimile]. The Vol. 1 front hinge is cracked with the rear hinge startin... View More...
ILLUSTRATED WITH A FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT ENGRAVED BY PETER MAVERICK - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Disbound, lacking the covers with only remnants of the leather spine. 503 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Napoleon Buonaparte engraved by Peter Maverick after a portrait by Vauthier. There is offsetting to the pages with occasional foxing. One signature (i.e. group of pages) is lightly pulled. A piece has been clipped from the front margin of page 79, without loss of text. A complete copy which would be well worth rebinding. The American engraver and lithogra... View More...
York, PA: The Maple Press Company, 1951.. 1951.. Fine. - Large octavo [approximately 12 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], blue paper covered boards backed with white cloth with the United Nations logo in white on the front board and a gilt-lettered paper label on the spine. The book was issued with a slipcase, which is lacking. The boards are lightly bumped & rubbed & there is some light foxing to the spine. Half- title, title, [vi] & 142 pages plus colophon, printed in black & blue with decorations in blue by George Trenholm. The contents are near fine. No. 776 of an edition of 2,000 copies.... View More...
- sc - Six pages consisting of over 1,000 words penned on both sides of 3 sheets of 10-1/2 inch high by 8-1/8 inch wide buff-colored paper. In a lengthy letter James H. Armstrong, the author of this account, responds after reading a book which Mrs. McDougall has sent him. The book, Rosa E. King's "Tempest Over Mexico" which had just been published that year, has stirred up Armstrong's memories and feelings. He doesn't view the "rebels" (The Liberation Army of the South, known as the Zapatistas) with as much fondness "She rather idealizes Zapata, though strangely she makes no mention of his br... View More...
New York: Hurd and Houghton / Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1870.. 1870.. Good. - Octavo, rust brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine with decorative frames stamped in blind on both covers. The covers are bumped & lightly rubbed & soiled with dampstaining to the top corners. The spine is faded with a small area of dampstaining & the head & tail are chipped. xv & 350 pages plus errata page. There is staining to the endpapers with a small label on the front pastedown. There is light soiling to the prelims & the page edges are slightly darkened. Good. First American edition. The book was origi... View More...
London: Thames and Hudson, (1975).. (1975).. Very good. - Small quarto, green cloth titled in gilt, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly soiled with the spine & extremities darkened. 112 pages with profuse black & white illustrations. The page edges are slightly darkened. Very good. Dust jacket present. View More...
(Avignon): Academie du Var/Aubanel, (1988).. (1988).. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial white wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed with some very light foxing & some tiny gray marks. The top edge of the rear wrap is darkened. 334 pages plus colophon. Illustrated in black & white. Very good. Number 82 of a limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies.This book developed out of the Academie of Var's 1980 celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Provence region's most famous son, the celebrated antiquarian, humanist and scholar Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc [1580... View More...
New York: Free World, Inc., 1944.. 1944.. Good. - Small quarto [10-5/8 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial white wrappers with a cover illustration in pink & black by Luis Quintanilla. The binding is bumped & soiled with a few light creases. The spine is rubbed with the head & tail lightly chipped. Pages [486]- [574] plus ads. Black-and-white illustrations after drawings by Stan Fraydas & others and maps by Marthe Rajchman. There are small stains to the fore-edge & the pages are darkened. There are tiny chips to a few top page corners. Good. Among the contents of th... View More...
(Moscow): U.S.S.R. Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, (1943).. (1943).. Good. - Small quarto [approximately 10 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in printed cream wrappers with a vignette in black on the front wrap. The wraps are soiled & darkened around the edges. The head & tail of the spine are torn. 62 & [2] pages. Black-and-white illustrations, including 2 pages reproducing World War II drawings by Nikolai Zhukov. There is a light vertical crease to each wrap & each leaf where the bulletin has been folded. Good. From the Stefansson Collection of the Dar... View More...
FROM THE LIBRARY OF VICTOR REISEL - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream-colored wraps. The wraps are lightly bumped, soiled & chipped with their edges darkened & with some minor foxing. iv & [141] pages, including wraps. Illustrated with a chart of major events in the development of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1946. The corners of a few leaves are lightly creased. Good. From the library of Victor Reisel. A note penned at the top of the front cover indicates that it was given to him at the request of Dirksen. Reisel. [1913-1995] was an American journalist who specialized in news relate... View More...
Gottingen: Dieterich'schen Buchhandlung, 1830.. 1830.. Good. - Small octavo, three-quarter green cloth & decorative green & black paper covered boards with a paper label on the spine. The binding is rubbed & bumped with the head & tail of the spine chipped. The label is darkened & chipped & no longer readable. There is a small sticker with the author's name on the front cover. Title & 69 pages. There is foxing & staining throughout. Good working copy. An early volume of an important bibliography of primary and secondary sources of works on German history, issued in parts. The multi-volume work... View More...
- Small quarto [10-3/8 inches high by 7-7/8 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan wraps with a decorative illustration in black on the front cover. The spine is rubbed & torn. The corners & top & bottom edges of the wraps are lightly creased. 72 & [4] pages. Illustrated in black & white with 4 plates & numerous textual illustrations. Good. From the Stefansson Collection of the Dartmouth College Library with a library stamp and a discard stamp on the front wrap. This issue of the English-language Soviet cultural journal VOKS contains a lengthy listing with commentary of the 1942 Stalin P... View More...
New York: Random House, (1981).. (1981).. Very good. - Small quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], cloth, in a price- clipped dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped & the head & tail of the spine are creased. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with creases & short tears to the top edge & creasing to the bottom corner of the front panel. xx & 284 pages. Profuse black-and-white photographic illustrations & a double-page map. Very good. Dust jacket present. View More...
[Altdorf]: Literis Henrici Meyeri, [1693].. [1693].. Good. - Small quarto [8-1/2 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide], softcover, printed self-wraps. 32 pages. The paper has becom somewhat limp. The title page is foxed with its edges chipped & there is foxing throughout. The page corners are creased and/or chipped. Good. A dissertation in Latin by seventeenth-century philologist Daniel Wilhelm Moller [1672-1712], professor of history and metaphysics at the university in Altdorf, Switzerland. The subject of this work is Gaius Julius Solinus, a fourth- century or possibly third-century Latin gramma... View More...
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