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1947131972Chicago: Packard and Company / Hendricks House 1947. First Edition. First Edition. Volume 14 in the "Complete Works of Herman Melville." Errata slip laid in. Near Fine in a Very Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. Extremities lightly bumped. Light shelfwear and toning to the jacket. Jacket art by D. J. Toigo. Packard and Company / Hendricks House unknown books
1945142732Denver: Denver Art Museum 1945. Softcover. Good. Tight and mostly clean but with some general soiling to covers and a few light pencil marks in margins. B/w illustrated wraps with red/black lettering. 64 pp. with occasional bw illus. Part of the Cooke-Daniels Lecture Series. Chapters include The Peoples and Cultures of Africa The West African Culture of Dahomey The Patterns of African Art Illustrations and Suggested Reading. Denver Art Museum unknown books
193048131New York: Columbis University Press. Very Good. 1930. Hardcover. NY: Columbia University Press 1930. 283 pages hardbound. A good sound copy with heavy rubbing and rippling to the brown cloth binding. Best suited for reading or reference. . Columbis University Press hardcover books
19651230651965. hardcover. 555 pages. 8vo green cloth dust wrapper worn and torn. New York: Knopf 1965. Very good.<br/><br/> unknown books
197088380NY:: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0394429613 . Fourth printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Knopf, hardcover books
1969255569Boston: Beacon Press 1969. Paperback. xxix 368p. foreword preface references bibliographies index tablesvery good reprint trade paperback in white wraps. Originally published in 1941. Herskovits' pathbreaking study directly challenged the dominant academic beliefs in African American inferiority by examining cultural backgrounds rather than white prejudices. Beacon Press paperback books
192084084London: John Bale Sons & Danielsson 1920. Paperback. Good. text illustrations 29p. Original wrapper. 25cm. Moderately browned. A couple of small chips. Recent label mounted on front identifying this as coming from the library of H. A. R. Gibb. SIGNED on cover "With kind regards" by Hilton-Simpson. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 1920 Vol. XIII. <br/><br/> John Bale Sons & Danielsson paperback books
192113256New York: Dodd Mead and Co 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 248 pp with 40 illustrations and a map of the Aures. Original green cloth bumped at the corners; binding tight and square contents clean. No dust jacket. Account of three winters the author and his wife spent in the remote hill country of Algeria collecting specimens of Berber handicraft for the Pitt-Rivers Museum Oxford. Dodd, Mead and Co hardcover books
1950424055American Literature 1950. Softcover. Very Good. Offprint. Stapled wrappers. Offsetting on front wrapper with light wear and bumped corner a very good to near fine copy. Inscribed in pencil by Hoffman to his mother. Hoffman served as the Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress the equivalent of the United States Poet Laureate in 1973-1974 and published several additional books of poetry and literary scholarship. American Literature unknown books
1990304522New York G.P. Putnam's Sons 1990. 1990. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Dust jacket designed by Lawrence Ratzkin unclipped. Very good. 315 pages. Signed and inscribed by Melville Shavelson on the half title page: "To Lou & Elenor - Best Wishes! Mel Shavelson 8/22/92". Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons [1990]. hardcover books
192952800Seattle: University of Washington Press 1929. First edition issued as vol. 2 no. 6 in the publisher's Publications in Anthropology series 8vo pp. vii 1 175-244 2; frontispiece; near fine in original printed wrappers. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate with a Newberry release stamp inside the front wrapper. The second volume wasn't published until 1934. <br/><br/> University of Washington Press unknown books
1969Embry 79399Folio Society 1969. First edition thus. Fine in near fine lightly worn slipcase. Folio Society, 1969. First edition thus. unknown books
19325976Etching of a Hawaiian woman. Nice virgin image never framed. Hinges to top edge. Full margined 9 3/4 x 8 inches image; 14 x 10 1/4 inches overall. books
1996878Pacific Palisades California: Melville Press 1996. First edition number 29 of 200 copies signed by Kanner & initialed by Shelton. Small 4to publisher's blue cloth lettered & decorated in silver. Unpaginated accordian bound "letter-press printed by John Robinson . on Arches 88 paper. Handbound by Allwyn O'Mara . Silver foil stamping by Custom Bindery Los Angeles. End-papers handmade by the artist and editor" excerpted from the colophon. With TLS laid in on letterhead from Kanner to Don Bruckner then editor of the New York Times Book Review apparently enclosed with this copy in seeking review.<br /><br /><b> Lacking the plastic slipcase </b>binding slightly soiledone corner bruised otherwise fine.<br /><br /> The first publication from this small fine press which was awarded the Rounce & Coffin Award for excellence in book design in 1997. Per OCLC an <b><i>"</i></b><b><i>Illustrated companion to Moby Dick containing 12 engraved portraits of Pequod's crew with accompanying text by Melville Shakespeare and Milton."</i></b> Melville Press hardcover books
190956852Providence: Preston & Rounds Company 1909. 8vo pp. vii 2 207 4 ads 1; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; very good. The author was Pastor Emeritus of the First Baptist Church Providence. "Born and died in England Vane 1612-1662 came to New England in 1635 and the following year was elected governor. He returned to England in 1637 to become a leader of the Long Parliament. His interest in New England continued. He was instrumental in procuring the Rhode Island charter and his friendly efforts to aid the New England colonies were appreciated by Winthrop and Roger Williams. Soon after the restoration of the monarchy he was convicted of treason and executed" Goodspeed 198: 597. Not in Parks. <br/><br/> Preston & Rounds Company hardcover books
1909Embry 179017Preston & Rounds 1909. First edition first printing. Small bookplate light rubbing to edges very good with hinges firm. Deep teal cloth no dust jacket. Preston & Rounds, 1909. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
1966qms1319New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation 1966. Octavo paperbound stiff light blue wrappers 44 pp. Near-Fine with slight sunning to edges. Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966. unknown books
1934ULESLIF00AFLincoln Williams 1934. Good. Leslie-Melville R. The Life and Work of Sir John Fielding. Graham-Campbell Foreword Rollo F. London: Lincoln Williams 1934. 323pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Blue cloth. Book condition: Good with faded spine. Cloth loose but holding well. Corners slightly bent inward. Spine ends lightly rubbed. Lincoln Williams hardcover books
1953225579New York: Random House 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good or better in a Very good plus dustwrapper. Book and dustwrapper lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners book cover and foredges lightly soiled dustwrapper worn and soiled. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. Random House hardcover books
19565252Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing 1956. Hardback. Dust jacket. F/NF. 218 pp 8vo. <br/><br/>A murder mystery set in a small Adirondack resort town. Bruce Publishing hardcover books
1996044556London New York: I. B. Tauris & Co 1996. xi 426p. b/w illus. maps folded plan stiff printed wrappers Pembroke Perisan papers 4. I. B. Tauris & Co unknown books
197352003New Brighton MN: Starosciak 1973. No. 209 of 600 numbered copies. 8vo pp. not numbered. Introduction by Kenneth Starosciak. Paper wraps. A nice copy. The anecdotes appeared in "Yankee Doodle" a satirical magazine between July 24 and September 11 1847. Zachary Taylor was the butt of these nine short satires along with the journalism of the time. Starosciak unknown books
19816788Westmoreland NH: H.H. Hurley 1981. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. miniature. Tight bright and unmarred. Red leather boards gilt lettering in blind decorative elements frontispiece. 2 1/16x2 13/16. 14pp. One of 350 copies 24 copies on paper handmade by Henry Morris plus three copies on Morris paper with Cock & Bull Press name at title page this one of an unknown number of deluxe in gilt leather. <br/><br/>Printed letterpress. H.H. Hurley paperback books
19959027280Minneapolis: Indulgence Press 1995. Fine Condition. One of one hundred hand numbered copies of the regular edition the deluxe edition of 26 lettered copies was never completed. Fontispiece photograph is a kallitype print on Kitikata paper. Bound in publisher's original half red cloth and paper sew-boards. Printed by Wilbur Schilling at Claire Van Vliet's Janus Press in West Burke Vermont. The sew-boards binding was learned by Wilbur Schilling from Daniel Kelm at the Wide Awake Garage in East Hampton Massachusetts. Printed on Arches MBM mouldmade paper with ochre colored endpapers handmade by MacGregor & Vinzani. First letterpress book of the Indulgence Press. <br/><br/> Indulgence Press hardcover books
199526344Minneapolis: Indulgence Press 1995. Edition limited to 126 copies this is one of the 100 "regular" copies the 26 "deluxe" copies have never been completed; narrow folio in sixes; pp. 6 39 7; title-p. printed in ochre and black the phrase "I would prefer not to." printed in ochre across the text pages in three successively larger sizes; printed by Wilbur Schilling at Claire Van Vliet's Janus Press from polymer plates. Fine throughout in original red cloth-backed gray paper-covered boards simulating bricks. The first letter-press book of the Indulgence Press. <br/><br/> Indulgence Press hardcover books
