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19949008778New York: Abbeville Press 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Preface by Jacques Thullier. Collaboration with Martherita Azzi-Visentini Michele Bimbenet-Privat Francesca Costantini-Lachat Marc-Henri Jordan and Robert Fohr. Translated from the French by John Goodman. Illustrated with 800 images of which 500 are in color. <br/><br/> Abbeville Press hardcover books
1974048281London: Enitharmon Press 1974. The Congress" original Spanish title: "El Congreso" is a 1971 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story is on a utopic universal congress and is seen by some critics as a political essay. First Limited and Numbered Edition this being No. 188 of 250 copies on Glastonbury Book Antique paper. Clean tan coloured cloth on boards with gilt title. Edges: few only foxings. Eps: very faint and just a few foxings; ffep with short inscribed '77. Fronts: glossy print of illustrated drawing of Jorge Luis Borges by Hugo Manning. Clean contents. Binding is As New. 17p Dj: very faint touches of a little smudges. Spine: faintly sunned; head & foot with thin wear head with a 2 cm split to frontside edge couple of teeny holes to centre. Head & foot of flaps spines with small wear and small split. First Limited & Numbered Edition. Hb. VG/VG. Enitharmon Press Hardcover
1998PMV406104EParis: Flammarion 1998. Hardcover. Good/Good. 257 x 257 x 20 cm. Hardcover • Illustrations en noir et en couleurs jaquette illustrée en couleurs • <b><i>French text original</i></b>. Flammarion hardcover
196229404<p>New York:: Viking Press 1962. Second Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear to the extremities. The African slave trade in the Americas officially began in 1518 with the landing in the West Indies of the first black cargo direct from Africa and was offically suppressed in the United States in 1865. It is estimated that approximately 15 million Africans had crossed the Atlantic during this period. This book attempts to tell where the slaves came from how they were enslaved in Africa how they were purchased by sea captains how they wre transported and how the trip survivors were sold in West Indian and American markets.</p> Viking Press, hardcover
197741562Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner 1977. First edition. Softcover. vg to fine. Quarto 11 x 9". VIII 120pp Text LXVIIpp Plates 2pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on front cover and title page. <br /> <br /> Scholarly monograph on the small altar of The Temple of Jupiter Roman Heliopolis a colossal temple dedicated to the cult of Zeus located in Heliopolis of Roman Phoenicia Baalbeck of modern Lebanon. It was the main building in a huge "Great Court" or "Sanctuary" of a Roman pagan temple complex that still partially stands. The small altar built at the beginning of the first century CE was in the exact center of the court. <br /> <br /> This work is illustrated with 67 b/w photographic plates.<br /> <br /> Minor age-toning along edges of wrappers. Text in French. Wrappers in overall very good interior in fine condition. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner unknown
194484936New York: D. Appleton-Century Company 1944. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 301pp; illus. Inscribed by author on half-title: "To Cornelia Cotton / With love from an old pal who wears the 'old shoe tie' / Maribelle Cormack". Soil and spotting to spine and covers with light tanning to spine ends and board edges and foxing to edges of textblock and interior; Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $2.50 spine-faded with 1" tear to upper spine fold and tiny tears and chips to extremities; Good. Cormack and Bytovetzski also collaborated on A Recruit for Abe Lincoln and both published non-fiction works. 84936. D. Appleton-Century Company unknown
195590069New York: Exposition Press 1955. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. 172pp. Black boards in dust jacket. The is old tape repair/reinforcement on the inside of the jacket. Previous owner's name stamp on front paste-down. Obituary for Rear Admiral Draper Kauffman "the father of the US Navy's underwater demolition team" is taped to the front free endpaper. "Webfooted Warriors is the first complete account of the Navy's frogmen from their very inception in the dark days of the Pacific campaign on through their early training and war operations to V-J Day." Uncommon. Exposition Press hardcover
1918BOOKS074219IManchester NH: Standard Book Company 1918. HC. good blue cloth hardcover. B&W illustrations. Different pagination as follows: THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON by Dr. William O. Stillman pages 173-211; REMINISCENCES OF GENERAL STARK an extract from the diary of Elder James Randall written in August 1807 page 212; GENERAL JOHN STARK by Robert R. Law page 213-222; THE TOMB OF STARK by Henry W. Herrick page 223; and GRAVE OF A REVOLUTIONARY HERO by Gray Fairlee B&W plate of grave on page 224 text pages 225-226. p173-p226. Standard Book Company unknown
197517367New York: Macmillan 1975 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vos. Publisher's cloth in original dust jackets. Jackets mildly toned and edgeworn with short closed tears. Laminate lifting on jacket of SYNERGETICS 2. Ineriors bright and clean. Very good. <br/><br/>Fuller's world view is systematically presented here in SYNERGETICS a culmination of his long career. Includes numerous illustrations with a preface to the first volume by Arthur L. Loeb. Macmillan hardcover books
201914409New York: Dey St 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in pictorial boards with "Signed First Edition" sticker to front cover issued without dust jacket. This signed first edition has been specially bound and produced by the publisher. Filled with never-before-seen photos and art throughout the much-anticipated autobiography from rock icon and lead singer of Blondie Debbie Harry BRAVE BEAUTIFUL AND BORN TO BE PUNK Musician actor activist and the iconic face of New York City cool Debbie Harry is the frontwoman of Blondie a band that forged a new sound that brought together the worlds of rock punk disco reggae and hip-hop to create some of the most beloved pop songs of all time. As a muse she collaborated with some of the boldest artists of the past four decades. The scope of Debbie Harry's impact on our culture has been matched only by her reticence to reveal her rich inner life-until now. In an arresting mix of visceral soulful storytelling and stunning visuals Face It upends the standard music memoir while delivering a truly prismatic portrait. With all the grit grime and glory recounted in intimate detail Face It re-creates the downtown scene of 1970s New York City where Blondie played alongside the Ramones Television Talking Heads Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Aesthetically dazzling and including never-before-seen photographs bespoke illustrations and fan art installations Face It brings Debbie Harry's world and artistic sensibilities to life. Following her path from glorious commercial success to heroin addiction the near-death of partner Chris Stein a heart-wrenching bankruptcy and Blondie's breakup as a band to her multifaceted acting career in more than thirty films a stunning solo career and the triumphant return of her band and her tireless advocacy for the environment and LGBTQ rights Face It is a cinematic story of a woman who made her own path and set the standard for a generation of artists who followed in her footsteps-a memoir as dynamic as its subject. <br/><br/> Dey St hardcover books
1943005488Princeton N.J.: Princeton Univ Press 1943. Near Fine in stiff orange paper wrappers faint creases light soiling to wrappers. Prior owner name front end page. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. Uncommon in the 1st Edition. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Princeton Univ Press Paperback books
193913309Berlin Germany: Julius Springer 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Presentation from Hans von BerteleAustrian historian of technology. Stamp of the Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Wien with swastika-eagle emblem of the Third Reich. Light overall soil to cloth boards. Numerical gilt stamp of the Institute at heel of spine with the same numbers in ink 1455 on the title page. This volume a collaboration of Friedrich Hund and Ferdinand Trendelenburg electroacoustic pioneer. Articles reports on aspects of experimentation b J. Hopmann F. Kirchner G. Joos H. Verleger Stark-Effekt Ing. W. Walcher U. Hofmann R. Rompe and M. Steenbeck. With an index of articles for volumes I-XVIII. Hund worked with such prestigious physicists as Schrödinger Dirac Heisenberg Max Born and Walter Bothe. At that time he was Born's assistant working with quantum interpretation of band spectra of diatomic molecules. He stayed in Copenhagen 1926 with Niels Bohr and lectured on the atom at Harvard University 1928. He published more than 250 papers and essays in total. Hund made pivotal contributions to quantum theory - especially concerning the structure of the atom and of molecular spectra. Robert S. Mulliken who was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in chemistry for molecular orbital theory always proclaimed the great influence Hund's work had on his own and that he would have gladly shared the Nobel prize with Hund. Julius Springer hardcover
1936121011-CarnaubaSelf Published 1936-01-01. Paperback. Good. 9x6x1. Softcover in original slipcase. Unnumbered limited edition of 1000. Good condition. Clean pages. Good binding. Carefully packaged to avoid damage in shipping. Self Published paperback
1944702Roger Conant Family Association Inc. Printed by; The Brookline Print 1944. Staplebound Softcover. Very Good. :: Two Booklets :: The early pioneers of the Dorchester Company and Roger Conant and his colleagues labored the settlement of a permanent colony a great extent unrecognized throughout three centuries. ::<br /> <br /> Staplebound softcovers each bearing the title upon the front cover. Octavo 9 3/16 x 6 inches; 233 x 152 millimeters. 18 pages. Supplementary volume Octavo 8 13/16 x 5 7/8 inches; 223 x 149 millimeters. 25 pages.<br /> <br /> Condition: Very Good. A bit weathered creases browning and stains. Roger Conant Family Association Inc. (Printed by); The Brookline Print unknown
197349997Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky 1973. 1973. First edition. Oblong 8vo. Quarter cloth and pictorial paper over boards xiii blank 285 pp. 286 - 579 3 pp. foreword introduction double column illustrated index. Essays by travelers in the South. Chapters include observations of South Carolina Alabama Washington D.C. Louisiana Georgia Virginia Kentucky and Arkansas; gold mines of North Carolina; manufactories in D.C. and Kentucky; navigating the Mississippi Red and Atchafalaya Rivers; the Hot Springs of Arkansas; Cherokee Indians; wild horses of Virginia and Maryland etc. Both volumes fine bright and unused housed in the original pictorial slipcase also in fine condition. The University Press of Kentucky, [1973]. hardcover
1921435120London: Longmans Green and Co 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Scattered foxing on pages spine darkened spine ends and corners lightly bumped very good lacking the dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover
1937H14031<p>New York: Whittlesey House; McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1937. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. xii 301p. Pastedowns and endpapers toned cover corners bumped and rubbed. From the Foreword: A collection of articles by "buyers merchandise managers and research experts of some of America's great department stores" designed to give the shopper the "incisive information which can guide her to better shopping--to more economical shopping---. whether the object of her quest be a handkerchief or a handbag floor covering or furniture." Advice and information especially useful to a shopper during the Great Depression of the 20th century. 8-1/4"x5-3/4" <br /><br /></p> Whittlesey House; McGraw-Hill Book Co. hardcover
1998024978Berlin Germany: Springer Verlag 1998. Minimal library marks. 511 pages with b/w illustrations and line drawings. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. Springer Verlag Hardcover
76743Fondo de Cultura Económica 1951 México. Primera edición. 17x10. Cartoné editorial 177 pgs. K2038 Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1951, México. Primera edición. unknown
19949008778New York: Abbeville Press 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Preface by Jacques Thullier. Collaboration with Martherita Azzi-Visentini Michele Bimbenet-Privat Francesca Costantini-Lachat Marc-Henri Jordan and Robert Fohr. Translated from the French by John Goodman. Illustrated with 800 images of which 500 are in color. <br/><br/> Abbeville Press hardcover
2017PMV213103QMilano: SilvanaEditoriale 2017. Hardcover. Good/Not issued. 28 x 24 cm. Hardcover • Illustrations en couleurs • <b><i>French text original</i></b>. SilvanaEditoriale hardcover
2014PMV218707EParis: Paris musées 2014. Hardcover. Good/Good. 245 x 298 x 40 cm. Hardcover • Illustrations en noir et en couleurs couverture et jaquette illustrées • <b><i>French text original</i></b> • Printed 2014. Paris musées hardcover
20172-1138306479Taylor & Francis 2017. Paperback. New. 418 pages. 9.50x6.75x1.00 inches. Taylor & Francis paperback
41250English Place-Name Society 1985; 1991; 1992; 1996; 1997; 2001; 2010. . Seven volumes 8vo. pp.xliii236;xix326; xxiii197;xv201;xix179;xviii228;xxv151 blue cloth gilt b/w figures; neat ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper all volumes a fine set all in unclipped dust-jackets with light loss at head and foot of spine of jacket to Volume II small nick to jacket for Volume I else very good indeed. English Place-Name Society, 1985; 1991; 1992; 1996; 1997; 2001; 2010. hardcover
