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19831336116Goleta CA: Goleta Valley Historical Society and the Institute for American Research 1983. 15/500. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-; pp 104; black spine with gilt text; no jacket; signed limited copies; this is 15 of 500; cloth has minor wear to exterior; strong boards; text block exterior edges show light wear; frontispiece; illustrated; tight binding; signed by Walker Tompkins. 1336116. FP New Rockville Stock. Goleta Valley Historical Society and the Institute for American Research hardcover books
193165656Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Co 1931. First edition. 8vo. viii 313 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates frontispiece portrait of the author illustrated endpaper. Howes D-39. Adams Six-Guns 549. Original decorated brown cloth top edge red others untrimmed. Very good. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Doran & Co hardcover books
1960175108London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1960. First British edition. Hardcover. 383 pages. Important examination of surrealist painting by Marcel Jean and Arpad Mezei translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor. Includes numerous black and white and some color illustrations. A clean and tight near fine copy in near fine price clipped dust jacket but lacking the acetate over jacket. Weidenfeld & Nicholson unknown books
19633200qsLondon: Macdonald 1963. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo black cloth hardcover 288 pp. Photos. Fine with bookplate in dust jacket. Macdonald, (1963). First Edition. hardcover books
1991253650Rabat: Royaume du Maroc Ministere de l'Habitat 1991. Paperback. 119p. profuse aerial photography contemporary b&w a number of line and plat maps many in tinted monochrome very pretty and numerous b&w sketches. The dust jacket supplies seven aerial shots in full color. Texts and imagery are all reproduced on coated alkaline paperstock and softbound in 12.5x9.5 inch plain printed wraps enclosed in a colorphoto-decorated dust jacket. Book itself is fine: entirely sound clean and unmarked really as new while the dj is mildly edgeworn has faint smudging near spine panel and a couple small areas of silverfishing. A very good copy. Ancient cities undercut by a receded watertable and. overtaken. Royaume du Maroc, Ministere de l'Habitat paperback books
197825762Fallbrook CA: Aero Publishers. Fine in Fine dj. c.1978. First Edition. Hardcover. a nice as-new copy with no significant wear to either book or jacket. B&W photographs "This is the true story of Hanns-Joachim Scharff who was the master interrogator of the Allied fighter pilots captured by the Germans in World War II. This Luftwaffe intelligence officer gained a reputation among his contemporaries superiors and with Reichmarschall Goring himself as the man who magically was able to get the answers he had to have from captured Allied fighter pilots. The magic spell used by Hanns Scharff made prisoners talk even though they were conditioned to remain silent. His methods broke down barriers to effectively that after the war the U.S. Air Force invited him to lecture senior officers at the Pentagon on POW interrogation." After settling in the U.S. he became a prominent creator and manufacturer of mosaic art and furniture. NOTE that additional shipping charges will be requested for international shipping of this moderately heavy book or for Priority Mail service to U.S. destinations. If this concerns you please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. . Aero Publishers hardcover books
198831248New York: Harry N Abrams 1988. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. A Fine copy in a similar jacket. 304 pp including Index. Illustrated with much in color. 4to. <br/><br/> Harry N Abrams hardcover books
195558882Paris: Crapouillot 1955. Magazine. 72p. 9.5x12.5 inches text in French illustrated with photos and artwork very good magazine in white pictorial wraps. French satirical magazine begun by Galtier-Boissiere in the trenches of WWI. The title is derived from trench warfare black humor meaning a combination of "the little toad" & "small trench mortar Crapouillot unknown books
1921427276E. P. Dutton & Company 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth. 265 pp. Light shelfwear. Slight fading to spine. Light soiling to covers and edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Upper fore-corners of pp. 259-265 torn away although no loss of text. Very good no jacket. E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover books
19991341929Bountiful UT: Family History Publishers 1999. Hardcover. Large Thick Octavo; VG-; dark blue spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth has slight soiling to exterior; ex-library sticker to spine; strong boards; text block exterior edges have minimal wear; ex-libris plate to front pastedown; text pages clean; ex-library pouch to rear endpaper; previous owner's stamp to front pastedown and rear endpaper; tight binding; pp 519; inscribed and signed by Lowell Hammer; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1341929. FP New Rockville Stock. Family History Publishers hardcover books
196061352Denver CO: Sage Books 1960. First edition. 8vo. 205 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates. Grizzlies in the American West British Columbia and Alaska. Biscotti p. 214. Very good. Green cloth illustrated dust jacket old tape shadow at base of rear panel. #7390. <br/><br/> Sage Books hardcover books
194273858New York and London: Whittlesey House 1942. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Second printing. Master locksmith Charles Courtney of Manhattan achieved international fame in the 1920s and '30s with daring feats that included unlocking the safes of the Egypt torpedoed during World War I with a cargo of gold and diamonds and the underwater recovery of gold from the wreck of the British cruiser Hampshire. Octavo: 335 p. with textual photographs. Original cloth binding with brown titles. A file copy with the label of the Music Corporation of America MCA to the front flyleaf. Small nick to the spine head which corresponds with a chip to the dust jacket which is a touch faded along the spine; otherwise very good. Whittlesey House hardcover books
196977476New York: Kraus Reprint Co 1969. Hardcover. Fine. xv 205p. Original buckram. 28cm. No jacket. Reprint of the 1950 edition. <br/><br/> Kraus Reprint Co hardcover books
20019008651New York: Thames & Hudson 2001. Hardcover. Fine/fine. With 510 illustrations over 300 in color. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with the spine stamped in red. <br/><br/> Thames & Hudson hardcover books
20039007107New York: Vendome 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. With more than 300 illustrations. Bound in publisher's original illustrated boards. <br/><br/> Vendome hardcover books
19641342173London: The Hogarth Press; The Institute of Psychoanalysis 1964. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/G; dark blue spine with gilt text; odd volume; volume XXIII; no jacket; cloth has some slight spots to exterior; mild wear to edges; strong boards; text block exterior fore and tail edges have mild tone; exterior head edge painted blue; frontispiece; tight binding; slight underlining and marginalia; pp 326. 1342173. FP New Rockville Stock. The Hogarth Press; The Institute of Psychoanalysis hardcover books
19153052bdLondon: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press n.d. ca. 1915. Octavo decorated red cloth with paper labels to upper cover and spine 283 pp. Frontis. portrait color plates photos diagrams. Very Good with former-ower bookplate and sunned spine. WWI aviation. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, n.d. [ca. 1915]. hardcover books
1960171226New York: Grove Press Inc 1960. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 383 pages. Important examination of surrealist painting by Marcel Jean and Arpad Mezei translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor. Includes numerous black and white and some color illustrations. A near fine copy in a very good die cut dust jacket that has some edge wear and in a very good mylar dust jacket that has some small chips and is rubbed. Grove Press, Inc unknown books
1950010293Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1950. First Edition. Octavo 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG/G Cloth. 372pp. A scholarly and loving treatise on Korea right before the Korean War. The author born on Pyongyang and having lived for half his life there provides a bird's eye view of a lovely country ravaged by the Japanese and poised between prosperity and war. Text with footnotes. Charts and tabular data. Bibliography. Index. Map endpapers. Printed dust jacket spine has browned from sunlight. Harvard University Press unknown books
1923615New York: The Century Co. 1923. First American Edition. On the struggle between industrial civilization and humanity. Small octavo 287 pages. A bit of edge wear pages lightly age-toned. No dust jacket. Still a nice copy. SCARCE. <br/><br/> The Century Co. unknown books
1954030708Toronto: MacMillan Company of Canada Limited 1954. Octavo. 401pp.Illustrated with maps. Front endpapers map of the Anglo-French Frontier 1605-1760. Back endpapers North-West Europe 1940-1945. This work helps fill the gap of Canadian History with began in 1939. It was supended during WWII and was not resumed until several years agter the cessation of histilities. A very good copy bound in red cloth spine lettering gilt two corners lightly bumped. MacMillan Company of Canada Limited unknown books
1972JC9495New York et al: Harper & Row 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Cloth-backed paper over boards; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. viii 2 149. Some light rubbing at spine tips and along edges of boards; postage stamp from Pakistan affixed to FFEP otherwise internally clean and unmarked. Dust jacket lightly chipped and torn along the edges; spine somewhat darkened. An excellent working copy with facing Chinese and English translations. <br/><br/> Harper & Row hardcover books
1914212373Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1914. Hardcover. xviii 103p. author's introduction scenes characters people Gibson-family genealogical bookplate on front pastedown endpaper generic inscription signed by Wiggin followed by a personal gift inscription to Helen Mears signed by Mrs. David Mears dated April 1926. Mild external wear and aging front hinge lightly cracked a good first edition of the play version in gray-green decorated boards and dark green cloth backing bright gilt titles on spine. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
19464450NY: Greenberg 1946. First printing of this ‘Newly Revised and Enlarged’ edition. 226 pp. Very good plus in like dust jacket darkened at spine and extrems. NY: Greenberg unknown books
195725715London: Secker & Warburg. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1957. 1st U.K. edition. Hardcover. a couple of tiny spots on top edge of text block no other significant wear; jacket just lightly rubbed. Novel about a young man in the Baltics who is caught up in the passions and events of the Russian Civil War between the White Russians and the Bolsheviks that broke out following the October Revolution of 1918. Originally published in French in 1939 it was filmed by German director Volker Schlöndorff in 1976 the film's title was "Der Fangschuß". . Secker & Warburg hardcover books