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200224982Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0813120829 . Third printing. Near fine in a very good a few small spots of light soiling dust jacket. . University Press of Kentucky hardcover books
1671042306Amsterdam: Danielem Elsevirium Elsevir 1671. Second Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. The second edition of this important numismatic book by the scholar ambassador and tutor to Charles I Louis Elector Palatine. In text illustrations of coins throughout. Vellum cracked at joints and soiled but binding intact and firm. 46 917 51 index pp. Lacking the frontis. Size: Octavo 8vo. Slight foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 042306. <br/><br/> Danielem Elsevirium (Elsevir) hardcover books
1982202761New Haven: Yale University Press 1982. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. Previous owner's name stamped on front free endpaper. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards clean; binding sound. Green cloth gilt lettering. ~. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. Yale University Press unknown books
195523760Madrid Spain: Postales Alcala 1955. Two postcards divided backs with the Elsi Gumier signed artwork enhanced by the hand stitched fabric costumes; standard postcard 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" approx. size; not postally used; light wear; in very good condition. Postcard. Not Bound. Very Good. Postales Alcala Paperback books
18571313London: G. Routledge & Co. 1857. Hardcover. Rebound embossed red boards illustration in gilt. Good. 597 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Rebound. Book plate on front free end paper - "Margaret Allen Hall Memorial - The Finer Arts of Home Making Battle Creek College Presented by: Lenna F. Cooper". <br /> <br />Alexis Soyer was a chef and entrepreneur originally from France whose life was filled with some pretty extraordinary twists and turns. Soyer cooked in the French noble kitchens on the eve of the uprising then found his way to England cooked and designed kitchens and kitchen appliances wrote cookbooks and reorganized the cooking facilities in Crimea during the Crimean War; this book being the culmination of those endeavors. <br /> <br />Jump to America in the early 1900's and we find Lenna F. Cooper a dietitian who worked under Ella Kellogg at Battle Creek's Sanitarium was the dean of home economics at Battle Creek College and in 1930 became the food service director of Michigan State University also becoming the chief dietitian at Montefiore Hospital in New York City. Cooper wrote the book The New Cookery with her fellow Battle Creek Sanitarium dietitian Margaret Allen Hall. Inscription on verso of front cover in pen - "Presented by Lenna F. Cooper." <br/><br/> G. Routledge & Co. hardcover books
2221570<p>FINEST COPY EXTANT </p><p>Second edition so stated. Octavo. Original gilt and blind stamped green cloth pictorial spine with stag head seated woman with trout; yellow coated endpapers. Small ticket of book binder Josiah Westley London. Few small spots to cloth but an exceptionally tight clean fresh copy. Frontispiece portrait and illustrated title page; a few small vignettes in text. No dust jacket. Very good. 441 pages 14 pages of ads.</p><p>Printed by Savill and Edwards 4 Chandos Street Covent Garden.</p><p>Cagle 1004.</p><p>Oxford page 180.</p><p>Bitting page 443.</p> Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. hardcover books
19885Pierre SD: South Dakota Rural Credit Board. Feeling like a cog in the machine or a slave to industry South Dakota is the answer! This 1930s promotional piece seeks "real men and women" to settle on the state's homestead lands. "If you are dissatisfied with your lot in life if you are tired of the worries and uncertainties of city life if you are at present farming high priced land or paying a high rental if you have only become a cog in the machine.here is offered a golden opportunity to build a future as you would like to have it." Undated but 1930s. Four-panel brochure 3.5 x 8.5 inches when folded. Fine. Feeling like a cog in the machine or a slave to industry South Dakota is the answer! This 1930s promotional piece seeks "real men and women" to settle on the state's homestead lands. "If you are dissatisfied with your lot in life if you are tired of the worries and uncertainties of city life if you are at present farming high priced land or paying a high rental if you have only become a cog in the machine.here is offered a golden opportunity to build a future as you would like to have it." South Dakota Rural Credit Board unknown books
1923001797New York: League for Industrial Democracy 1923. Fine with small "Religious Workshop" stamp top edge front wrapper. 33 pages. Scarce. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. League for Industrial Democracy Paperback books
1976TB27246New York: McGraw-Hill 1976. First Edition. First printing Near fine in red and blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine shows very minor rubbing and with two faint coffee stains to the fore edge of the text block. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with shallow "v" shaped narrow chips from the ends of the spine area and nicks to the fore corners of the panels. The 14th volume in The American Trails Series and the most difficult title in the series to locate. 341 pages with index and bibliography. A very tight crisp and clean copy with no marks dates or prior owner's names or book plates. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1976TB18560New York: McGraw-Hill 1976. First Edition. First printing Near fine in red and blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. The cloth at the heel of the spine shows very minor rubbing; otherwise the book is in fine condition. In a very good dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap but with a 1/8" chip at the upper fore corner of the front panel and with two short 1/4" closed tears at the upper edge of the spine area with minor related creasing. The 14th volume in The American Trails Series and the most difficult title in the series to locate. 341 pages with index and bibliography. A very tight crisp and clean copy with no marks dates or prior owner's names or book plates. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
184821287London: Charles Gilpin 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 512 pp publisher's ads bound in original brown cloth. Old staining to boards. loss of cloth at head of spine mild spine slant. Internally clean but with a section of pages 283-317 that were opened roughly and have creasing and or chipping at the top margin. Text unaffected. Penciled ownership signature dated 1859 on front free endpaper binder's ticket Remnant & Edmonds London on rear pastedown. Somerville was a British radical journalist soldier and promoter of free trade. After being hired by the Anti-Corn-Law League in 1842 "travelled over the entire country for much of four years writing a prodigious number of articles for newspapers. In the spirit of a social anthropologist he described farming communities-work habits the condition of the soil crops prices rents wages the state of the roads diets dwellings crime discontents religious beliefs-all laced with arguments for free trade" ODNB. Much of his autobiography focuses on the political agitation he engaged in while in the Army and the fallout from his actions. Charles Gilpin hardcover books
200535072Minneapolis: Compass Point Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0756508126 . Illustrated. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Compass Point Books hardcover books
2010Embry 158887Eagle Book Bindery 2010. First edition first printing. Fine. B&W photos Oblong glazed boards no dust jacket. Eagle Book Bindery, 2010. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
19581266Western Press 1958. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. xiv 147 pp illustrations bibliography index. Bookplate of noted Custer historian and collector John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Very light wear to edges; contents clean and sound. Dust jacket has some rubbing and one short tear. Number 17 of hand numbered edition of 2000. "This study of Calamity Jane will attempt to ascertain the facts of her career so far as they can be determined and to evaluate the various accounts left by her many chroniclers. The account should separate the folklore and legend of her life from the established facts" Preface. Western Press hardcover books
1684044178Madrid: Bernardo de Villa-Diego 1684. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Later tree calf light wear at the edges quite sound and attractive. Lacking the front blank and the frontispiece title torn with significant loss at the edges and laid back down. generally mild but pervasive soiling and foxing and a number of tears with loss and repairs to the fore edge of the pages: on page 301/2 with loss of a couple of words 135/6 287/8 221/2 and 269/70 touching a few letters 187/8 touching a few letters and additionally an unrepaired tear with no loss in the gutter page 11/12 with a long unrepaired tear touching a few letters and the gloss 5/6 touching a few letters and 543/4 with a tear on the bottom corner losing a word and a few letters; last two index pages with loss at edges old notes to rear blank. Some other minor loss at the edges which may obscure some glosses scattered stains small tears etc. Otherwise complete 32-548-15 p with pagination errors of 26-27 repeated 382-3 repeated and 399-400 absent. A flawed but essentially complete copy of the first edition the only edition printed in Solís's lifetime. Translated into French Italian English Danish and German the Historia was an enormously influential history of the Spanish conquest of Mexico as well as a much imitated piece of prose. Sabin 86446. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044178. <br/><br/> Bernardo de Villa-Diego hardcover books
198528561Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1985. First edition. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy with minor shelfwear. viii 256 pp. Illus. with b/w maps. Sm. 4to. Special Columbus issue with articles on the Caicos the Diario de Colon passage to Cuba a transcription of the Diario of Columbus' first voyage and much more. Wayne State University Press unknown books
19216699Brussels Belgium 1921. 8vo. 4 pp. <br><br>This "Easter greetings to all Americans" contains a brief description of the research interests of the Society and an appeal for support. Includes a duplicate and a handwritten letter dated 1921 from Louis Piers De Boer agent for the Society in America to the librarian of the New Jersey Historical Society. Broadsheet folded and printed on each side. Near fine. unknown books
1979M6355Casale Monferrato:: Societa Italiana di Storia della Medicina 1979. 1979. 240 x 163 mm. 8vo. vii 442 pp. Illus. Printed wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp on title. Very good. Societa Italiana di Storia della Medicina, 1979). unknown books
1923001889London: Herbert S. Oakley 1923. SCARCE. Very Good in orange printed wrappers. Some underlining and marginal notations. "Read both sides and judge for yourself." The lead debaters were Mr. Philip Snowden and Sir Alfred Mond. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Herbert S. Oakley Paperback books
1959006029No Place: Journal of Central European Affairs 1959. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front cover - "With best regards John Snell". Although not stated from the collection of Oscar Winther who was the long-time editor of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review and the Journal of American History. Reprinted from the Journal of Central European Affairs Vol. XVIII January 1959 No. 4. Paginated 382-395. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. Pamphlet. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. Journal of Central European Affairs Paperback books
1840008207London and Cambridge : William Pickering: J.& J.J. Deighton 1840. Three volumes finely bound in 20th century quarter crushed brown morocco over marbled boards morocco labels with gilt lettering and rules. A Fine and quite handsome set. . First Edition. Quarter Morocco. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William Pickering: J.& J.J. Deighton Hardcover books
19682452Albuquerque NM: University of New Mexico 1968. Softcover. Good. viii 52 pp with map selected references in original illustrated wrappers. Old dampstain visible on front cover and title page name stamped on title page; text clean. Division of Government Research Institute for Social Research and Development University of New Mexico 77. Based on interviews with Bureau of Indian Affairs Personnel superintendents principals counselors and teachers in public schools enrolling Indian students. University of New Mexico paperback books
200025349Willimantic:: Curbstone Press. Fine. 2000. Paperback. 1880684667 . First edition paperback. Fine in illustrated wraps. . Curbstone Press, paperback books
1919221244Humphrey Milford 1919. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. No pencil or ink markings in text. Previous tape repair to top corner area of title page. Previous scotch tape repair across page 7 near top. Text is affected but still readable. Some silverfish holes in text pages at bottom corner area. Green cloth binding with black lettering on spine. ; NOT Ex-Library. Very Good binding. Humphrey Milford unknown books
1941008910Raleigh NC: North Carolina Division United Daughters of the Confederacy 1941. SCARCE Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDITOR at front end page -"To Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt from his friend Blanch L. Smith Author". 131 2 pages with numerous black and white photographs. Very Good cloth boards lightly soiled light foxing associated with photographs. Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt 1870-1942 was a prominent North Carolina geologist conservationist and state and civic leader. In W.W I he was the colonel in command of the First Battalion of the 105th Engineers and was part of the famous Thirtieth "Old Hickory" Division the first to break the Hindenburg Line.NCpedia. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDITOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Association Copy. North Carolina Division United Daughters of the Confederacy Hardcover books
