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1982287760Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society 1982. hardcover. near fine/very good. Black-and-white photographs and drawings including several folding plates. 181 pages 4to burgundy cloth d.w. Maidstone: Canterbury Archaeological Trust by the Kent Archaeological Society 1982. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> With contributions by several authors. Volume II: The Archaeology of Canterbury.<br/><br/> Kent Archaeological Society unknown books
1983287758Maidstone 1983. hardcover. near fine/very good. 37 black-and-white photographic plates more than 100 text illustrations. 368 pages 4to burgundy cloth d.w. Maidstone: Canterbury Achaeological Trust by the Kent Archaeological Society 1983<br/><br/> With contributions by several authors. VOLUME VII of The Archaeology of Canterbury.<br/><br/> unknown books
1923140939429New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1923. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Sheets printed in the UK so presumably following the Chatto & Windus edition that same year. viii 286 pp. with fold-out facsimile letter plate at rear. Original blue cloth with cream title stamping. Cloth head and upper tips slightly chewed else Near Fine with foxing to fore edge. In Very Good double-sided dust jacket some rubbing and soiling especially to spine panel small closed tear near foot pencil mark to front flap price intact $2.75. Verso of jacket lists Knopf titles. Rare in jacket. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
191230815Paris: Devambez 1912. 12 plates on stiff paper with tissue guards bearing identifications 15 pages text. In French. 1 vols. 4to. The text unopened plates loose in burgundy gilt portfolio case. Some fading of binding tear to head of spine else very good with a pencilled notation "F. L. France 16 Aout 1912. 12 plates on stiff paper with tissue guards bearing identifications 15 pages text. In French. 1 vols. 4to. An elaborate travel brochure/advertisement for the ship "S. S. France" with description and plates of the fine art and some rooms to encourage Americans to travel to France. Devambez unknown books
18752203169D. Appleton and Company 1875. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Loss from spine head and corner of rear board boards rubbed and soiled ink name and date on front endpaper. 1875 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author! 99 1 pp. Includes black and white engraved illustrations throughout as well as a number of maps hand-outlined in color. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
18642262494D. Appleton and Company 1864. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1864 printing. Boards toned and lightly rubbed ink named and town on front endpaper dated Jan 1st 1865 small newspaper clipping mounted on opposite endpaper endpapers lightly foxed cube sketched in pencil on rear endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 36 8 pp. A collection of hand-colored maps some of which are different from modern maps in interesting ways: e.g. a map of Canada labeling portions as Hudson Bay Company's Territory; a United States map labeling what is now Idaho Montana and Wyoming as Idaho only Oklahoma as 'Indian Territory' and showing no division between North and South Dakota. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
7215NY SCRIBNER 1934. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE. F. NY, SCRIBNER, 1934 unknown books
1980100609Oxford 1980. hardcover. 15 stills. 8vo d.w. Oxford UP 1980.<br/><br/> unknown books
1923226000001Boston: Marshall Jones Co 1923. Hardcover. Fair both sides of spine cloth worn through and threadbare. Contents tight and solid. Bears the inked name of S. Leslie Gill and Rhode Island artist of the mid 20th century. Cloth boards. xiv 165 pp. 41 bw repros. A terrific copy of this scarce edition limited to 1500 numbered copies this one #891 biographical work on this Boston artist. Includes 41 bw plates of his work. Marshall Jones Co hardcover books
1880160361880. 8pp. Disbound with some loosening. Else Very Good. unknown books
199966818New Delhi: Phulkari Publications 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first book on the subject of autographs in India. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Octavo. Original red buckram binding. Light wear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. Phulkari Publications hardcover books
1985712New York 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 305 illus. 180 in duotone. <br/><br/> hardcover books
19535248Honolulu: Matson Navigation Lines 1953. Bifolium 35 cm x 53 cm printed in full-color. Nice condition. Near fine. Laid in are small lunch and breakfast menus from the same date. Dinner menu from the S.S. Lurline for September 24 1953 that features cover art by Eugene Savage. There were four ocean liners christened S.S. Lurline by Matson Lines these menus were for the fourth ship with that name. The S.S. Lurline was a luxury ocean liner that would take passengers from the American West Coast to Hawaii and Australia. The Hawaiian port was Honolulu where most passengers would disembark the ship and make a beeline for Matson's renowned Waikiki hotel and resort the Royal Hawaiian.<br/><br/>Eugene Francis Savage 1883-1978 was a trained sculptor and artist who was primarily known for his large murals. Savage was commissioned by Matson Navigation Lines to paint nine large 4' x 8' Hawaiian themed murals that were intended to be displayed on Matson ocean liners. These murals were completed in 1940 but due to American involvement in World Ward II the ships were dedicated to the war effort and the murals were never installed. In 1948 the Murals were used as covers for the menus on the S.S. Lurline.<br/><br/>"When Captain James Cook British Royal Navy on January 20 1778 first came upon the Sandwich Islands later named Hawaii he was at the height of his fame as a navigator and explorer. But to the islanders Captain Cook was far more than that. He was an incarnation of their god Lono come in a floating temple to visit them from the great beyond. At his first landing on the island of Kauai the fell prostrate along the path and worshipped him as a deity. Matson Navigation Lines unknown books