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1999264084Cambridge University Press 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. A pristine copy of the First Edition printing with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket is protected with a new mylar cover. This copy appears to be unread unmarked and unopened. Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket. Cambridge University Press unknown 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
18821511New York: E. Wells Sackett & Rankin 1882. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Pamphlet 32 pp. Original printed wappers but with cloth tape at spine where this was probably once bound into a larger volume. Light handling wear including a few spots of discoloration to wrappers; contents clean. A review of the issues involved in determining whether sparkling mineral water is natural or manufactured and thus subject to import tariffs. The author was the founder the the American Mineral Water Company. E. Wells Sackett & Rankin paperback books
1881047104New York: Richard K. Fox Proprietor Police Gazette 1881. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Browned cover and first blank lacking bottom right corner rear cover and last few pages with loss at bottom edge few bfore that with small tape repair. - minor edge chips and creasing. Scarce in libraries and commerce even though later editions claimed 95000 copies sold. 23 illustrations not including ads. 76pp with 6 pages of ads at rear.<br/><br/>A cautionary volume of sirens muggings honey pots and the myriad vagaries of street life. No doubt like many similar volumes used as a guide as well as for titillation. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 047104. Richard K. Fox, Proprietor Police Gazette unknown books
1929007053New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1929. One of an edition of 900 copies this set handsomely bound in dark green cloth gilt lettering at spine and prior owner name in gilt John Douglas Briddell at bottom of both front covers tissue guards over plates. Very Good Plus small spot of white front cover Daggers volume light rubbing to boards both volumes. Binding solid contents are clean tight and unmarked. This over-size and heavy 2 volume set will require additional postage charges- please inquire before ordering. . Limited Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Hardcover books
1834005318New York: B. Waugh and B. Mason 1834. Very Good in contemporary calf with black and red labels at spine gilt bands. End pages foxed light foxing throughout offsetting from tissue guards one each for the portrait of a preacher before each quarter. Included are articles on Webster's Dictionary Astronomy Church Property in the American Episcopal Church Unoriginated Decrees and the American Colonization Society among many others. . First Edition. Contemporary Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. B. Waugh and B. Mason Hardcover books
1833005319New York: B. Waugh and B. Mason 1833. Contents are Very Good foxing and offsetting from tissue guards in Good only contemporary calf boards boards worn and dogged at bottom corners leather starting to peel from rear board see photos. Articles include those On Temperance African Colonization Society Our National Affairs The Progress of Liberal Principles among many others. SCARCE. First Edition. Contemporary Calf. Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. B. Waugh and B. Mason Hardcover books
1938001812Norman OK: Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 1938. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "With the compliments of Lewis E. Atherton" on the front wrapper. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. Printed Wrappers. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. Southwestern Social Science Quarterly Paperback books
49562Stillwater MN: Lowell Inn n. d. Ca 1960s. Self-wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest signs of use VG to Nr Fine. Unpaginated though 24 pp including wrappers. Illustrated with drawings throughout. 5-1/2" x 4" <br/><br/>"The Matterhorn Room of the Lowell Inn represents beauty and excellence in both the carving and culinary arts but is primarily dedicated to the 'lost art' of Swiss wood carving. . The Matterhorn Room also honors the swiss ancestry of Nelle Obrecht Palmer who guided the Lowell Inn for forty years and it reflects the heritage of the Palmer family which serves you today." Lowell Inn unknown books
188343182n. p. Atlanta 1883. 1st printing presumed. Printed self-wrappers. Age-toning & light wear to wrappers which have a paper repair along the spine. Very Good. 14 pp. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>Not found on OCLC. unknown books
19631126London: MacDonald 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. 343 pp illustrations with bibliography index. Slight rubbing to extremities else fine. Dust jacket show very light shelf wear with a few short chips and tears. From the dust jacketL "Lloyd George achieved more absolute power than even Sir Winston Churchill secured in World War II. He was it has been argued 'the maker of Europe'. The theme of this book is how power corrupts. Lloyd George's pecadilloes which more than once threatened his career his intrigues with Zaharoff and the building up of his political fund with which to hold the main parties to ransom are shown as influences in the process of corruption." MacDonald hardcover books
198550484New York: Schocken Books 1985. xxx 271p. cloth boards in dj shows mild wear. Vol. 2 only. Volume II of the Marx-Engels cyclopedia. Schocken Books unknown books
1985216291New York: Schocken Books 1985. xxx 271p. very good hardcover in edgeworn dj with old price label. Marx-Engels cyclopedia vol. 2. Schocken Books unknown books
1985117033New York: Schocken Books 1985. xxx 271p. very good hardcover in dj. Marx-Engels cyclopedia vol. 2. Schocken Books unknown books
1932252294Edinburgh: Edinburgh Public Libraries 1932. Second Edition Revised. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Backed in black cloth with marbled paper over boards; deckled edges; contents clean and binding sound. Very Good binding. Edinburgh Public Libraries unknown books
192443924New York and London: D. Appleton & Company 1924. First edition. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Gentle shelfwear; p.o. name and mark to fpd; small bookseller label to rpd. Else clean and bright binding tight. VG. xii 2 151 3. B/w plates and facsimile. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/> D. Appleton & Company hardcover books
1921004229New York: Henry Holt 1921. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage "ToThe Honorable Will H. Hays Postmaster General with the compliments of the author." Brig. General Edward Munson M.D. as an assistant to the Surgeon General was one of the surgeons who attended President William McKinley after he was wounded by an assassin. While Professor of Military Hygiene at the Army Service School in Washington in 1912 Dr. Munson designed the military field shoe the boon to infantrymen variously known as the "Munson Last" the "hobnail brogan" of World War I and the "G.I. shoe" of World War II. General Munson wrote several books on Army hygiene including the authoritative treatise The Soldier's Foot and the Military Shoe.In 1917 he was promoted to Colonel and thereafter developed the system of field training for medical troops. In 1919 he returned to the general staff in Washington and was assigned to organize the Morale Section a branch unprecedented in the United States Army. During World War II this branch became the Army Information Branch. For this work he received the Distinguished Service Medal and the Companion Order of the Bath of the British Army. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. 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. A unique Association Copy. Near Fine top edge of page block dusty. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Presentation Copy. Henry Holt Hardcover books
1986222589Oxford Univ Pr 1986. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. occassional pencil marginalia; DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Oxford Univ Pr unknown books
20532Germantown PA: Germantown Print Works. Textile. Good. An appealing illustrated broadside on cloth bearing a very early appearance of the famous "I cannot tell a lie" cherry tree story. Collins Threads of History says it was printed by the Germantown Print Works in Pennsylvania ca. 1806. The story itself which was invented by Washington's biographer Mason Locke Weems first appeared in print that same year in the fifth edition of Weems' Life of Washington. Aspiring to present George Washington as an ideal role model for young Americans Weems embellished and invented biographical details to help demonstrate the founding father's honesty and other virtues. Measures approximately 11 x 11.75 inches. Typical staining some fraying at the right edge but entire printed border often found compromised is present. A nice example. [Germantown Print Works] unknown books
1938004076Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill 1938. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on a sheet tipped in between front endpage and half-title page and SCARCE THUS. Very Good Plus prior owner name and address front pastedown hidden by front flap and a bit of browning to pastedowns in a SCARCE Very Good dustjacket rear panel lightly soiled a 1" closed tear at head of spine and small edge chips and tears. Great jacket drawing by Lieut. Col. John W. Thomason. Epic story of the defense by units of the 77th Division of the American Expeditionary Force against overwhelming German assaults in the Argonne Forest during World War I. SIGNED BY AUTHORS. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Bobbs-Merrill Hardcover books
190115552New York: Fleming H. Revell 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 480 pp with 12 photographic plates. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Lightly dust soiling ownership stamps on front endpapers else unmarked and sound. William Alexander Parsons Martin was an American Presbyterian missionary to China as well as a noted translator of western texts into Chinese. He describes this book as a discussion of Chinese intellectual life based on "many years of intimate association with Chinese scholars and of identification with Chinese education." Among the topics he addresses are Chinese science alchemy literature philosophy science law and diplomacy. Fleming H. Revell hardcover 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
1783046804London: R. Baldwin 1783. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Original leather backed boards quite worn hinges cracked shaken binding still more or less sound; scattered mostly modest foxing and browing. Originally the whole year but lacking the first 16 pages of January. July was the switch-over to being called The London Magazine Enlarged and Improved. Page 603 of the appendix prints The Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War - a very early appearance of the treaty which was signed September 3 1783. It also contains a section of American Papers with news from the colonies a list of the debts of the 13 states Washington's farewell address to the armed forces etc. Paginated continuously 17-640 a few plates. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Politics & Government. Inventory No: 046804. R. Baldwin hardcover books
1819228266London: Effingham Wilson 1819. First Edition. Half Leather. near Very Good binding. Backed in sheep with corners this copy has been tastefully rebacked in japanese tissue with original backstrip laid down; the paper that once covered the boards is oddly lost so that bare board is visible . which is not as bad as it sounds; general shelf wear with some soiling to the endpapers. First Edition of Anderson's London Commercial Dictionary and Sea-Port Gazetteer and assesses the relative quality of various products coming from different places or regions. It contains over 2900 entries some on places others on products and often on the processes of commercial transactions -- weights currencies regulations import and export restrictions and the like. With handsome frontispiece elevation of the South Front of the New Custom House. Bound together with Anderson's Consolidated Duties 1819. Duties of Excise and Customs. Digital images available upon request. near Very Good binding. Effingham Wilson unknown books
