- Quarto [11-3/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial red-and-white wrappers with a black-and-white illustration by Lynd Ward on the front cover. The binding is lightly rubbed. The corners of the front cover are slightly creased & there is some minor soiling to the rear cover. 38 pages. Illustrated in black & white with photographic illustrations & illustrations by Lynd Ward. Very good. This issue celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union [1917-1942]. Featured on the cover is the section America Salutes her Soviet Ally, which includes brief tributes from ... View More...
ILLUSTRATED WITH A SUPERB COVER ILLUSTRATION BY LYND WARD - Quarto [11-3/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial cream & dark green wrappers with an illustration in brilliant silver & green by Lynd Ward on the front cover. There is some minor soiling & creasing to the covers. 34 pages with black-and-white illustrations throughout. There is some very light creasing to the edges of the pages. Very good. Among the contents of this wartime issue are an illustrated article on Soviet war posters; the text of Joseph Stalin's speech on the eve of the 24th anniversary of the ... View More...
- Over 45 words penned on 9-1/4 inch high by 7-1/4 inch wide creamy white watermarked paper. Apparently only one page of a longer letter, likely missing an attached leaf, from what is claimed by the endorsement on the verso to be a letter of recommendation. Only the closing lines and sentiments are present. Lady Clifden presents her best compliments to you and adds her wishes to mine to see you once more in good health & spirits in this old Castle.... Signed Clifden. Brig. Gen. Clarke is penned in darker ink in a contemporary hand next to the Viscount's signature. A few letters are smudged, in... View More...
New York: J. Winchester, New World Press, 1843.. 1843.. Good. - Octavo, marbled boards backed with blue calf, titled & decorated in gilt on the spine. The edges & endpapers are marbled. The leather is rubbed & the boards are lightly rubbed with the paper chipped at the corners. xxiv & 494 pages. There is scattered foxing & light staining throughout & the pages are somewhat rippled. The top corners of pages 331-348 are creased & a few page corners are lightly bumped. Good. From the library of Clarence Livingston with his signature on the title page."Abridged from the Last London Edition: fo... View More...
Paris: Leon Techener, Libraire, 1872.. 1872.. Very good. - Small octavo, softcover bound in printed yellow wraps. The binding is lightly bumped & very lightly soiled. The head & tail of the spine are chipped. Half-title, title & 125 pages. Some overlapping page edges are darkened. Very good. View More...
New York & Washington: Frederick A. Praeger, (1965).. (1965).. Very good. - Octavo, 8-3/4 inches high by 5-5/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in indigo cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The head and tail of the spine are bumped and a dark stain line is evident on the upper portion of the spine. xvi, 527 & [i] pages, illustrated with a 16-3/4 by 24 inch wide folding map. A previous owner's name is stamped in blind on the front endpaper and there is some soiling to the front pastedown. Very good. View More...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926.. 1926.. Good. - Octavo, blue cloth. The covers are rubbed & bumped with the extremities faded. The spine is darkened with the head & tail chipped & the titling completely faded. xxvii, [ii], 464 & [1] pages plus 2-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated with 32 black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece, and with 1 folding black-and-white map & 4 color maps, 3 of them folding. Also with a 2-page synchronistic table of the Amarna Age. There is occasional light soiling & the edges of the pastedowns & endpapers are darkened with an owner's name & date on... View More...
- Approximately 40 words typed on his personal 6-7/8 inch high by 6 inch wide stationery. Barnes writes to Mr. Hirsch that he is never in New York during the middle of the week but is writing Warden Lawes personally. Signed Harry E Barnes. Folded for mailing with remnants of tape to the top and bottom edges of the verso. Very good. Once highly regarded, the American historian Harry Elmer Barnes (1889-1968) lost credibility in his later years and came to be regarded as a pariah for his revisionism and denial of the Holocaust. In his younger days, Barnes was a professor of history at Clark Unive... View More...
Paris: 6 October, 1877.. 1877.. Good. - Approximately 119 words penned in black ink on a 8-1/4 inch high by 5- 1/4 inch wide sheet of bluish-gray paper. Signed "B. S Hilaire". The paper is lightly bumped with its edges slightly faded. There is a small tear to the right edge. Folded twice for mailing. Good. Barthelemy-Saint- Hilaire writes in French to an English gentleman who has been referred to him by Lord Houghton. He apologizes for failing to find him at a crowded function. He explains that he had ordered the guards to make sure that the gentleman got past the door, and had also b... View More...
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1963).. (1963).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The covers are bumped & lightly spotted. The dust jacket is rubbed & lightly soiled & chipped with spotting to its spine. vi & 240 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. The contents are very good.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903.. 1903.. Good. - Quarto, maroon cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & in gilt with profuse decorations in gilt on the spine. The top edge is gilt. The covers are bumped & lightly rubbed with a small dent to the front cover & a small stain to the rear cover. The head & tail of the spine are chipped. xiii & 400 pages with a large folding black-and-white map in the rear. Black-and- white frontispiece with tissue guard & black-and-white plates & full-page & textual illustrations. There is some foxing to the prelims & to the last page of the index. There is an... View More...
Good. - The autograph of Thomas Myddelton Biddulph penned on a 7/8 inch high by 2-7/8 inch wide slip of paper clipped from a larger sheet. Signed Sir Thomas Biddulph. A line of text below the signature has been clipped away. The slip of paper is mounted with glue from the verso onto slightly larger card stock. Good. The British army officer and courtier Thomas Myddelton Biddulph (1809-1878) purchased commissions in various regiments of the army. Appointed Master of the Household to Queen Victoria in 1851, he was made an Extra Equerry to the Queen in 1854. Made a Knight Commander of the Civil ... View More...
Santa Barbara, CA and Oxford, U.K.: Clio Books, (1976).. (1976).. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth, in dw. The binding is bumped. The dw is soiled with several tears & creases. 257 pp. USPS auction stamp on front pastedown. Very good in a good dw. Dust jacket present. View More...
- Large octavo [9-7/8 inches high by 7 inches wide], blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine & in gilt within a decorative gilt panel on the front cover. The top edge is gilt. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed with some minor white spotting to the front cover. 307 pages. Illustrated with 4 plates with tissue guard, 3 sepia-toned & 1 in black & white, & with black-and-white textual illustrations. Very good. Inscribed by the author at the top of the title page to Civil War veteran Louis Livingston: "To Col. Livingston / with the compliments of the author / Edward Blair". Livingston, a member... View More...
circa [1860].. [1860].. Good. - sc A 3-1/2 inch high by 2-1/4 inch wide sienna-toned carte-de-visite portrait of the French Army General Pierre Bosquet after an 1857 painting by Horace Vernet. Mounted on 3-3/4 inch high by 2-1/2 inch wide card stock, the image shows Marshal Bosquet, standing in full regalia, with his elbow leaning against a cannon. The edges of the mount are slightly rubbed and the corners very lightly creased, though not affecting the image. Good. Pierre Francois Joseph Bosquet (1810-1861), entered the artillery in 1833. As a captain, he distinguished himself at Sidi-Lakhdar ... View More...
(Paris: Les Bibliolatres de France, 1942).. 1942).. Very good. - Large octavo [11-1/4 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide]. 6 signatures are laid into printed cream wraps with a vignette of a printing press on the front wrap. The corners of the front wrap are bumped. 36 & [1] pages plus colophon, partially unopened. Illustrated in black & cream with an engravedd title vignette, and with an engraved portrait frontispiece, head- piece & tail-piece by J. Pheulpin. Very good.
Reprinted from the original 1670 edition. View More...
(Paris: Les Bibliolatres de France, 1942).. 1942).. Good. - Large octavo [11-1/4 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide]. 7 signatures are laid into printed cream wraps with a vignette of a printing press on the front wrap. There is a long tear to the spine & the lower half of the rear wrap is detached. 41 & [2] pages plus colophon, partially unopened. Illustrated in black & cream with a portrait frontispiece, a title vignette & a head-piece by J. Pheulpin. Good.
Reprinted from the original 1683 edition. The text is in French. View More...
(Paris: Les Bibliolatres de France, 1943).. 1943).. Fine. - Large octavo [11-1/4 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide]. 7 signatures are laid into printed cream wraps with a vignette of a printing press on the front wrap. The rear wrap is slightly darkened around the edges & the tail of the spine is lightly chipped. 43 pages plus colophon, partially unopened. Illustrated in brown & cream with a portrait frontispiece, a title vignette & a head-piece & tail-piece by J. Pheulpin. Near fine.
Reprinted from the original 1687 edition. The text is in French. View More...
