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189841026Salem: A.N. Webb & Co. 1898. 1839 - 1898. With a frontispiece plate of the club's interior. Very good condition. 29 3 pp. b/w frontispiece. A.N. Webb & Co. books
18474980Troy: Published and Sold by L. Willard 1847. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers uncut and unopened; some chipping at margins sporadic foxing. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contains: The Condemned: A Chapter from Our City Prison: A Tale of Truth and Horror. Wright I 2444 Published and Sold by L. Willard unknown books
1823030211New York: Printed For the Purchasers 1823. No Binding. Very Good. 16mo 8 pages title-leaf with decorative woodcut pagination incorrect paper tanned text pinned together otherwise very good. The text carries four songs with Masonic themes. Unrecorded. Not in American Imprints not in OCLC etc. <br /> Printed For the Purchasers books
183028000972c1830. The labor theory of value LTV is a theory of value that argues that the economic value of a good or service is determined by the total amount of socially necessary labor required to produce it rather than by the use or pleasure its owner gets from it. At present this concept is usually associated with Marxian economics although it is also used in the theories of earlier liberal economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo and later also in anarchist economics. . A 10" x 7 1/4" songsheet with woodcut engravings of a skep clasped hands and a regal lady in a coach guarded by soldiers. Decorative devices add structure to the sheet. Verse begins "Who is the prop the support of the land The rich or the por I would ask." Reverse is blank. Edge tears small amounts of paper log. <br/><br/> unknown books
1975264428Studio City CA: Rosslyn News 1975. Magazine. 30p. 5x8 inches 18 b&w erotic drawings lightly-used pulp booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Story about a redheaded female detective on a sea cruise who gets pulled into lesbian and bisexual spanking wrestling and whipping. Lesbian erotica for straight men. Rosslyn News unknown books
192040979Salem: New England Telephone and Telegraph Company 1920. 92 pp. With period ads some illustrated. <br /><br />"Please destroy the old directory." Water stain on the front cover pages evenly tanned. New England Telephone and Telegraph Company books
193039211n.p: Pacific Whaling Company n.d. circa 1930. 15 pp. b/w halftone ills. <br/><br/>Public relations pamphlet for an outfit calling itself the Pacific Whaling Company. In fact this was a promotional for a stuffed whale exhibit. The centerfold is an illustration of Capt. Lew Nichols pictured chomping his cigar on page 1 killing a sixty-eight ton Blue Fin-Back. Whatever species it actually was Nichols stuffed it and exhibited it in Chicago where over half a million people availed themselves of the opportunity of seeing this giant sea monster in the flesh. A good copy of a scarce whale show promotional. Bound in original pink wrappers. Pacific Whaling Company unknown books
1831039827New York: Jocelyn Darling 1831. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. 1/4 leather worn and scraped but sound over paper boards with a green label. Some staining to boards. Light scattered foxing but otherwise clean internally; the first signature is slightly loose small tear to the margin of page 175. One of the earliest national directories it was published again in 1832 - both years are rare. 395pp with the errata at the rear. The first section lists business geographically the second by trade and the third alphabetically. The last section discusses various industries and tariffs. Index at rear. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 039827. <br/><br/> Jocelyn, Darling hardcover books
417334to. vii 339 pp. b/w plates and ills. Color map. <br /><br />"Its plants animals and natural phenomena. With a historical sketch of Arctic discovery down to the British Polar Expedition 1875-76." A popular history heavily illustrated drawing on contemporary accounts. Very good condition in green cloth with elaborate gild decoration. hardcover books
200541569Princeton Junction NJ: Valuable Book Group 2005. 4to. 107 pp. Duotone and b/w ills. <br /><br />"A brief history bibliography and collector's guide." Bound in printed wrappers. Very good condition ((Valuable Book Group) books
1780042451London: E. Newbery 1780. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. First edition of the Newbery miniature bible approx. 2" x 1 3/4". Contemporary calf modestly worn at edges front board cleanly neatly reattached. Lacking front endpapers but otherwise complete with 2 engraved titles and 14 engraved plates. Light age toning and slight offsetting to the plates - an attractive copy of the Newbery thumb bible. Title in first state with miniature spelled "minuiture". 256pp Size: 64mo. Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 042451. E. Newbery hardcover books
186110267New York James Miller 1861. 1861. Small 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of an Indian maiden; pictorial title page with vignette of an Indian loading a musket and 10 wood engravings. 252 pages. Original gilt and blindstamped purple pictorial cloth with gilt vignette of two armed Indians attacking four settlers defending their cabin spine faded; yellow endpapers. Ink signature of Oliver R. Clark Jr. Dec. 25 1860 on the front free endpaper. Includes information on Indian etiquette torture famous Chiefs and Florida Indian tribes. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. New York, James Miller, 1861. hardcover books
48855NY: Wm. H. Murphy. Booklet 2-3/4x4-3/8 inches pp. 34. Decorated with woodcuts of an eagle butterfly flowers and a row of soldiers as well as a full page woodcut and the comic cover illustration. Paper wraps. Cover slightly soiled but a nice copy. Wm. H. Murphy unknown books
1814041921Boston: T.B. Wait 1814. Early Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. 1/4 cloth over marbled boards red morocco lettering piece. Wear at corners binding sounds. Moderately foxed throughout but completely legible. 868pp. Sabin 45674 Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Law & Criminal Studies. Inventory No: 041921. <br/><br/> T.B. Wait hardcover books
1808040384Catskill: Nathan Elliot 1808. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Fair Condition. Full leather scarred and worn but intact. Lacking endpapers. Dampstaining to pastedowns foxing to pages. Complete and intact though. 304pp. There does not appear to have been a second volume though the title page states Volume 1. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 040384. <br/><br/> Nathan Elliot hardcover books
176548742Glasgow: printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis 1765. First Foulis edition 8vo pp. 597 21 table; modern quarter polished tan calf over marbled boards spine in 6 compartments with gilt rules and elaborate decorations stamped in blind maroon morocco label; trimmed toned at edges occasional spots overall a very good attractive copy. Gaskell 440. <br/><br/> printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis hardcover books
044015Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Finely bound in full contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt and stamped. Worn at corners and spine ends with a bit of loss to leather at one end front hinge cracked rear rubbed darkened lacking clasps. Scattered foxing discoloration to endpapersContaining Lists of both Houses of Parliament The Court Register and Lists of Army Navy Universities Public Offices Hospitals etc. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 044015. <br/><br/> hardcover books
170851699London: printed and sold by J. Morphew 1708. Folio pp. 12; removed from binding; small withdrawn stamp at the base of A2 light soiling short tear at the top gutter; all else very good. Foxon C-541. Not found in CBEL or NCBEL. Apparently rare: ESTC locates only 3 copies: British Library Guildhall Library and the National Library of Scotland. OCLC adds Minnesota this copy and the only copy in America and the National Library of Sweden. COPAC finds three more: Manchester York and Leicester. <br/><br/> printed and sold by J. Morphew unknown books
1780228287London n.p. September 4 1780. 1780. 8vo. Later tan wrappers. 8 pages. Scarce. Extensive discussion of the losses in the war with America France and Spain. Sabin 21474. Soft cover. Very Good. [London, n.p., September 4, 1780]. paperback books
183049252Boston: Wells and Lilly 1830. 8vo pp. 285. Paper wraps nearly separate. Worn. Articles include one on the life of John Locke the French commercial system a review of poems by Felicia Hemans vegetable physiology a review of Flaxman's "Lectures on Sculpture. Wells and Lilly unknown books
1787045863London: H. Gardner 1787. Third Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary acid calf light wear at the edges spine cracked in the center and book a bit over opened but binding still sound. Identified as the Third Edition on the title though it went through a few editions with slightly different titles since it was first published in 1754. 2 volumes bound as 1; 211pp; 210pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory No: 045863. <br/><br/> H. Gardner hardcover books
1830045140London: Sears & Co 1830. First Edition. Hardcover rebound in cloth. Very Good Condition. M.U. Sears. Rebound in salmon cloth with the chipped lettering piece laid back down. A singularly paternalistic and shotgun approach to the genre - includes recommendations on apparel the duties of married life female biography "or records of feminine talent worth and virtue" courtship and marriage among the Tartars of the Crimea arithmetic contentment and cookery. 440pp. Scarce. Size: Octavo 8vo. Illustrator: M.U. Sears. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Women & Feminism. Inventory No: 045140. <br/><br/> Sears & Co hardcover books
187643199Gloucester MA: Procter Brothers 1876. Published by the newspaper book and real estate impresarios the Procter Brothers and loaded with facts and statistics on the fisheries as well as an article on the granite industry. Illustrated with period ads. Rust marks over binding staples else a near-Fine copy of a scarce and desirable title bound in original pictorial wrappers. Am I the only person left who loves old Gloucester stuff. 88 pp. b/w ills. Procter Brothers books
9859ANTIOCH LEDGER 1924. BRIDGING THE SAN JOAQUIN VERY GOOD. ANTIOCH, LEDGER, 1924 unknown books
1800045663sl: sn 1800. Broadside. Very Good Condition. Single sheet worn and soiled chipping at edges title in an old hand to verso bleeding through - with three attractive woodcuts at top. The same text as Evans 49645 with similar woodcuts but with A Virtuous Life appended - the AAS gives a date of between 1790 and 1810. The ESTC shows only the AAS copy. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 045663. <br/><br/> sn unknown books