John H. LangbeinABAA
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1977006676Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1977. First Printing. Fine in a Near Fine very lightly rubbed dust jacket. Uncommon in dust jacket and in such lovely condition. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. University of Chicago Press Hardcover books
198536062Hillsdale:: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Fine. 1985. Hardcover. 0898593115 . Complete in two volumes. Both volumes are fine in tan cloth. No dust jackets. ISBN: 0898593115 0898593123. . Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, hardcover books
199530391Portsmouth: Peter E. Randall Publisher. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0914339532 . Illustrated. Introduction by Louise Heermance Tallman. First edition. About fine in like dust jacket. Typed letter signed to a reviewer by Louise H. Tallman laid in. . Peter E. Randall Publisher hardcover books
1967TB02252Garden City: Doubleday 1967. First Edition. First printing Near fine In a very good dust jacket 1/4" chip at spine bottom & wear at top of spine. Doubleday unknown books
1967TB02093Garden City: Doubleday 1967. First Edition. First printing Very good slight fading at spine ends. In a very good dust jacket 3/4' chip at spine hinge & ends worn. Doubleday unknown books
199121420Princeton: Princeton University Press. Fine. 1991. Paperback. 0691025118 . Illustrated. Seventh paperback printing. Fine in printed wraps. . Princeton University Press paperback books
19282221958<p>First edition. Octavo. Color frontispiece by Saul M. Arkin frontispiece etching by Levon West 2 color plates by Konrad Meindl about 10 b/w drawings by Chauncy Howard Peters 32 sepia-tone photographs 2 facsimiles. Original full red cloth stamped gilt and dark blue on spine and upper cover t.e.g. No dust jacket. Very good rubbing to spine of blue background. 298 pages.</p><p>Inscribed presentation copy signed and inscribed by Chapple to Guy Edward Murchand on front free endpaper: ".with sincere regards of the author and an appreciation of the 'new models'.The Attic Boston 1926 sic!." No other signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Author's travel in Egypt Palestine Lebanon Syria and Iraq. Notable for Levon West's etched portrait of Mohammed something which could never be accomplished by any Islamic true believer.</p> Chapple Publishing Company, Limited hardcover books
16792128667Amstelodami Amsterdam: Apud Danielem Elsevirium 1679. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First two volumes only of three volume set comprising books I-X and XXI-XXX XI-XX are lost. These volumes cover the following though parts are absent due to some portions being lost: The founding of Rome including the landing of Aeneas in Italy and the founding of the city by Romulus; the period of the kings and the early republic down to its conquest by the Gauls; The subjugation of Italy the Samnite Wars before the conflict with Carthage; The Punic Wars. The third volume discussing the Macedonian and other eastern wars down to 167 B.C. is not included. Rear joint of first volume splitting front joint of second volume just beginning to along top edge boards a bit soiled and slightly bowed minor ink marginalia owner name excised from front flyleaf of first volume. 1679 Hard Cover. xliv 922 72 62; 973 60 58 pp. 8vo. Bound in vellum. Engraved frontispiece and title page. Latin text two-column format. The Roman history of Titus Livius often referred to as Livy edited by J.F. Gronovius with extensive footnotes and an enormous index following the text of each volume with appendices by the Italian humanist Carolus Sigonius which continue the chronologies of Livy through the year 751 A.D. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Danielem Elsevirium hardcover books
41457Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office 1983. The interior is extremely clean and bright with many photos throughout the text. The binding is red gilt stamped cloth. Overall a near fine copy in a like dj. . Other hardcover books
198728617Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1987. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 222 pp. Subtitled "Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time". Review copy with publisher review slip laid in. A very good copy in dustwrapper. The wrapper is somewhat soiled and has a chip at the top of the front panel. This copy has been briefly INSCRIBED by Gould and is quite uncommon thus. Harvard University Press unknown books
1896004494New York: Harper & Brothers 1896. Association Copy. From the library of Will H. Hays his signature in ink top corner front pastedown. Will H. Hays managed Warren G. Hardings successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. Book is Very Good Plus cloth lightly soiled . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Association Copy. Harper & Brothers Hardcover books
18889179<p>First edition. Octavo. 12 illustrations and portraits by Richard Doyle Julius Hubner and Edward Lear. 3/4 dark maroon morocco over matching cloth spines with raised bands and gilt floral tooling within gilt-ruled compartments covers ruled in gilt t.e.g. marbled endpapers spines faded to a rich brown. Fine. 2 volumes. No signatures or bookplates.</p> John Murray hardcover books
1966TB30753New York: Prentice Hall 1966. Second Printing. Fine in 1/4 black and turquoise cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and map end sheets. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". In a very good price clipped dust jacket with wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and to the fore corners of the panels and two short closed tears to the upper edge of the front panel. The 4th volume in the American Forts series describing the Forts of Makinac. 218 pages including an index and a bibliography. Illustrated with a section of black and white images from photographs. Prentice Hall hardcover books
183414918Boston: Marsh Capen & Lyon 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4.75" x 7.5" 133 pp errata slip. Original blue cloth with paper spine label. Extremities rubbed spine cloth chipped shadow of bookplate removed from front free endpaper; very good. Caldwell 1772-1853 was a student and at times a critic of Benjamin Rush and founder of the Louisville Medical Institute. He was one of several American physicians of the early nineteenth century who popularized the term "physical education" by which they meant the instruction of children in all matters relating to the body and its overall health. In this work which achieved national recognition Caldwell argues that physical education is an essential companion to moral and intellectual education for without it "man cannot attain the perfection of his nature." It should include "every thing that by bearing in any way on the human body might injure or benefit in its health vigor or fitness for action" including "diet cleanliness clothing atmospherical temperature respiration muscular exercise sleep and animal passions. Marsh, Capen, & Lyon hardcover books
19831278149San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1983. Limited Edition 518 copies. small 4to. 58pp.; VG; spine off-white; dust jacket off-white protected with a mylar covering; very mild shelfwear; interior clean; with an original leaf from the first edition 1818 of The Fables of Aesop and a new impression from one of Bewick's original wood engravings both present this copy has page 51/52 The Fox and the Vizor Mask; JS consignment; shelved case 7. 1278149. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Book Club of California unknown books
197024869Schuylerville New York: The Artisan Press Barry Targan Prop. 1970. Artists' book with this traditional nursery rhyme illustrated printed in two colors with 12 accordion-fold panels. Approx. 4 1/2" x 6 3/4" size; bound in patterned-paper covered boards; light wear binding a little darkened; little bit of off-setting to the colors; in very good condition and a charming rendition of this story in pictures & prose. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Arleen Targan. The Artisan Press, Barry Targan, Prop. hardcover books
1938004264Philadelphia: Poor Richard Club 1938. Original plastic Plastacele comb binder with stiff gold wraps. "Lights Camera Action" and "Advance with Advertising" stamped front wrapper along with the image of a Hollywood - cameraman. Near Fine light soil to gold wrappers corner curl bottom corner of rear plastic wrapper Personal copy of Will H. Hays with his name stamped front wrapper. Hays was the honoree of that year's banquet awarded the 1938 Gold Medal Award of Achievement for " . a spirit inseparably connected with the development of the industry to the high position it enjoys today" and "as the representative of this great industry"motion picture industry. Hays was most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. When the Catholic Church formed its Legion of Decency and threatened nationwide boycotts of movies Hays installed a more formal production code called the Hays Code later simply "The Code" which became the virtual law of Hollywood until the 1960s. The Poor Richard Club was privately-founded in Philadelphia in 1906 and comprised mainly of persons in the advertising industry. Seated at the "Gold Table" with Hays were several heads of the major Hollywood studios. A delightful and unique piece of Hollywood history ! . First Edition. Plastic Comb Binder. Near Fine/Near Fine. Association Copy. Poor Richard Club Paperback books
19986009NY: Harcourt Brace & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0151003645 . The author's first book. First printing of the American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Harcourt Brace & Company hardcover books
1941006475New York: Roosevelt Memorial Association 1941. RARE especially in collectible condition and with dust jacket. Introduction by William Allen White. v-xiii 674 pp. with 4 pp afterword on the Roosevelt Memorial Association. Near Fine slight soiling to edges of page block in a Very Good dust jacket corners of flaps clipped small chips and edge wear mainly at spine ends brown jacket toned to green from sunning. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Large 8vo. Roosevelt Memorial Association Hardcover books
1952CA0250Description:<br />2 volumes. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 3/4" bound in facsimile velum with title printed in red and black on covers and horizontally ink lettered. Introduction by Francisco Gonzalez de Cossio. From the library of George M Foster. Second edition limited to 500 copies of which this is number 13.José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez was an 18th-century geographer historian and mathematician in New Spain. He was born in San Luis Potosà México and studied at San Ildefonso in Mexico City. He became an accountant and later official cosmographer geographer of New Spain. By order of Philip V the viceroy of New Spain Conde de Fuenclara was commanded in 1740 to have a report prepared on the true condition of the provinces of his jurisdiction. He commissioned José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez to prepare the report. Villaseñor occupied a number of important posts: official mayor of the Contaduria de Reales Tributos contador general de la azogues and cosmographer of New Spain. He wrote a number of works of mathematical and astronomical interest. The outcome of this commission by Fuenclara was the Theatro Americano descripción general de los reinos y provincias de la Nueva España y sus jurisdicciones. It appered in two volume in 1746 and 1748. The first volume contains introductory chapters on pre-Spanish and Spanish history of Mexico followed by a jurisdiction-by jurisdiction description of the archdiocese of Mexico and diocese of Puebla. The second volume continues the description for the diocese of Puebla. The second volume continues the description for the diocese of Michoacán Oaxaca Guadalajara and Durango. The work comprehends a great mass of data regarding the ethnology and population of the Mexican provinces in the mid-18th century. Handbook of Middle American Indians.George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.Condition:<br />Foster's stamp to front limited page some wear to edges small linear tear at spine head of volume 2 else a very good copy. Editora Nacional paperback books
192926298New York NY: The New York Magazine Program 1929. 16 pages; color cover & endpaper illustrations; black and white illustrated within. Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" size; stapled paper wraps some darkening wear to covers covers creaed; in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. The New York Magazine Program paperback books
188743295Budapest: M. Deutsch Artistic Etablishement 1887. 1st printing. Printed buff paper wrappers. Advert to rear wrapper. Age toning to paper. Paper repair along spine. Very Good. 16 pp. Text partially unopened. Illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6-3/8" <br/><br/>No copies found on OCLC. M. Deutsch, Artistic Etablishement unknown books
1825009908Np: Published for Methodist Episcopal Church printer not identified 1825. First Editions. Half Leather. Good. Six monthly issues July 1825 to December 1825 Volume 3 Numbers 7 - 12 pp 217 - 428 429-432 contents issued by the Methodist Episcopal Church bound in one volume 12mo half-leather over marbelized paper-covered boards. Worn but firmlly bound with scattered foxing. Contemporary bookplate of the Sunday School Library of the Methodist Episcopal Church with very specfic instructions to borrowers about how to read and care for books in their loaned possession. Published for Methodist Episcopal Church (printer not identified) unknown books
200116185Council Bluffs Iowa: Yellow Barn Press 2001. Fine in fine slipcase. Number 43 of 175 copies. Quarter bound in black morocco with pattern paper covered sides by John DePol leather spine label fabric covered clamshell box with paper spine label. Designed and printed by Neil Shaver on Zerkall paper bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery calligraphy by Jerry Kelly type set by Winifred and Michael Bixler. Large quarto. 122 pages. Prospectus and extra box label laid in. Yellow Barn Press hardcover books
19502221736<p>ONE OF 30 SIGNED COPIES</p><p>First edition. 10 1/4" x 8". Illustrated with wood engravings by John Worsley. Eight page introduction by H. M. Tomlinson. Dust jacket price clipped; short tears small chips. Bound in full blue morocco t.e.g. Binding is fine jacket as described. 105 pages. No bookplates or other signatures.</p><p>Number 15 of 30 copies signed on colophon by Worsley and Tomlinson.</p> The Dropmore Press hardcover books
