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18963383New York: Burr Printing House 1896. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1896 1st edition. VG in its original maroon cloth with bright gilt-lettering to front panel and spine and decorative blindstamping to the panels. Very light limited soiling along the upper spine. Thick quarto 583 pgs. "the first written history of Danbury". Small neat former owner signature to front free endpaper. <br/><br/> Burr Printing House hardcover books
1864WRCAM19660Chicago 1864. 288pp. plus folding map. Woodcuts. Original full morocco stamped in blind. Some minor rubbing at extremities occasional light foxing. Overall very good. An account of the early settlement of the county along with a history of involvement in the Civil War with lists of the officers and recruits of several Indiana regiments. Contains interesting material pertaining to fugitive slaves Indians early state organizations wild animals of the region etc. HOWES M743. SABIN 50154. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 841. unknown books
200515582New York: Walker & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 0802789900 . nice clean copy slight bumping at base of spine; jacket shows very minor wear along top and bottom edges faint scuffing to rear panel. line drawings INSCRIBED generically "Keep 'em rolling!" and SIGNED by the authors on the half-title page. Story about a 15-year-old in Ancient Sumeria whose invention of the wheel "is received less than enthusiastically. And when their enemies the Assyrians try to use Hubert's wheel to flatten the Sumerians into the world's first roadkill it is up to Hubert to prevent history's greatest invention from ending civilization as he knows it!" Signed by All Authors . Walker & Company hardcover books
5892Phila. Amer. Historical-Genealogical Society n.d. Wraps; 39pp. 1. Very good. <br/><br/> paperback books
199820313Hollis: Hollis Publishing Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Hollis Publishing Company hardcover books
1966116904Wichita KS: Mertmont Publishing Company 1966. Pamphlet. 63p. wraps 5.25x8.25 inches very good condition. First published in 1963. Right wing fundamentalist viewpoint associated with Gerald Winrod and Defender Publications. Predicts one world government collapse of trade unions but the author did like unions China will dominate Russia but both will be destroyed followed by the revival of Jesus Christ. Mertmont Publishing Company unknown books
1984007519New York: Dover Publications Inc. 1984. Reproduction poster of James Montgomery Flagg's iconic WWI Army recruiting poster 22" w x 30" h. Near Fine faint creases. Well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Thus. Poster. Near Fine. 22" w x 30" h. Dover Publications, Inc. books
196541447San Francisco: Illuminations Press 1965. 1st printing. Leaves housed inside stiff printed folder Color illustrated printed paper title label to front cover. Sheets of blue and beige. Modest wear to folder and papers some rubbing to edges. Withal a VG example. 11 leaves printed recto only. Intratextual b/w illustrations and images. 17-1/2" x 11-1/2" <br/><br/>"Most of the writers and artists whose work fills out this inaugural edition of Illuminations would not be considered publishable by professional magazines that make up what has elsewhere been called the Establishment. Many have yet to reach thirty. Most do not I gather consider themselves Beat. Many are simply acquaintances with whom I read on the weekly series at the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse in San Francisco. Some of you may be dead not excluding established artists and editors. We are not. We are all growing. We are intensely alive as people and hopefully as artists." This the first publication of a 1960s poetry and art magazine of a post- "Beat Generation" San Francisco crowd. Illuminations Press unknown books
1988184254New York: St. Martin's Press 1988. Hardcover. VG-/VG- ex-library with labels and stamps on dj spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Several pages have pencil markings and underlining but are otherwise very clean and clear. Black boards with gilt spine lettering; red dust jacket with white red and black lettering bw illustration; xxii 567 pp; 16 unnumbered pages of plates; bw illustrations and maps. "In this important new study to Japanese imperialism Michael Montgomery focuses on the psychological factors which lay behind it; the sense of inferiority engendered by the wholesale adoption of Chinese culture the feeling of uniqueness encouraged by the long period of isolation and acceptance of authority conditioned by the rigidly hierarchical nature of Japanese society. These factors still apply today he believes and the recent attempt to sanitise school history textbooks revives uncomfortable echoes of the pre-war Bureau of Thought Control."- dust jacket. Includes bibliographical references pages 545-550 and index. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
190646500New York: Dutton. Very Good. 1906. Hardcover. NY: Dutton 1906. Third edition. 353 pages hardbound. Contents are clean and bright with minor foxing to endpapers only. Blue cloth binding is sound with light soil and a faded spine strip. Overall VG. . Dutton hardcover books
1901036672London: John Murray 1901. xvii 355p. b/w illus. one folded map deckled edges t.e.g. original blue cloth light foxing on the endpapers. John Murray unknown books
1901026206New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1901. Reprint of the 1901 first edition. xviii 355p. 49 b/w illus. folded map t.e.g. original blue cloth deckle edges. E. P. Dutton & Co unknown books
19751550041975. Hardcover. VG. Red leather boards gilt letters on spine 199 pp. The every-name index to Morton L. Montgomery's history of Berks County Pennsylvania. The one included in his original book was incomplete. This volume is marked as "Vol. 2" on the outer spine meant to accompany the original history. A crucial resource for historians and genealogists. Uncommon. hardcover books
1953135958Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1953. Original Spanish pressbook for the 1953 film<br/><br/>12 pages saddle-stapled 11 x 14 inches. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 202. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1988248462Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1988. 148p. wraps 6 x 9 inches lightly worn else very good condition. Articles on industrialization foreign workers in Soviet Russia workers in Weimar Germany and more. Cambridge University Press unknown books
149307hardcover. 293pp. 8vo cloth. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1961. Fine copy.<br/><br/> unknown books
1962040456Edinburgh: University Press 1962. xxiii 196p. dj Islamic surveys 1. University Press unknown books
198744746Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 1987. Paperback. Very good. 166pp index. Very good in publisher's wraps. <br/><br/> Edinburgh University Press paperback books
197067291Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A completely revised and enlarged version of Richard Bell's Introduction 1953 with a new index and an expanded bibliography. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding with gilt titles. Just a hint of edgewear; else near fine in like dust jacket. <br/><br/> Edinburgh University Press hardcover books
19702294930Edinburgh University Press 1970. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Ink stamp on front free endpaper. 1970 Hard Cover. xi 258 pp. "Surveying the life aims character and inspiration of Muhammad this classic introduction explains the history form and chronology of the Qur'an and gives the views of Muslim and Occidental scholars. Edinburgh University Press hardcover books
99626New York: Holt. hardcover. very good. ix 367pp. 8vo red cloth. New York: Henry Holt and Company n.d. A veyr good copy.<br/><br/> Holt unknown books
1970005618Fresno: Giligia Press 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 200 clothbound copies of this memoir by a friend of Jack Kerouac who appeared in several of his books including Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels. As new condition. Giligia Press hardcover books
197017289Fresno: Giligia Press 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 200 clothbound copies of this memoir by a friend of Jack Kerouac who appeared in several of his books including Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels. As new condition. Laid in to this copy is the folded one-page Prospectus for this title. <br/><br/> Giligia Press hardcover books
197075203Fresno:: Giligia Press. Fine. 1970. Paperback. 087791012X . First edition paperback - 2000 copies. Fine in a variant binding of sewn soft cloth wraps with gilt lettering on front cover. ; 16 pages . Giligia Press, paperback books
197075205Fresno:: Giligia Press. Near Fine. 1970. Hardcover. 087791012X . First edition 200 copies. About fine in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front board. No dust jacket as issued. ; 16 pages . Giligia Press, hardcover books