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18913600101Leipzig: Ernst Bredt 1891. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Exlibrary marks. Ffep corner chipped. Pages clean tanned. Leather over boards is heavily shelf worn with scrapes and scuffs especially on front. Hebrew language. Torah plus additional books comprising what Christians would call the Old Testament. Ex-Library; 6.75" tall; 1036 pages. Ernst Bredt hardcover
1848000010981Fall River: Henry Pratt 1848 36 pages signed and inscribed: "Rev. Dr. Nichols with the respect of Saml. Longfellow. There is an old fading dampstain to two inches of the last 12 pages of the booklet. Samuel Longfellow was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's youngest brother. In the appendix is a hymm by H. W. Longfellow: Original Hymm Henry Pratt paperback
1972031933Jerusalem Tel Aviv Haifa: Steimatzky's Agency Ltd 1972. SEE OUR PHOTOS. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Menachem Begin directly on the title page. Begin served as prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. The inscription reads: "To Mrs and Mr Weinberger -- greetings from Jerusalem. signed M. Begin." NO proof but could this be a presentation copy to Casper Weinberger US Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan During the early 1980s Weinbeger and Begin famously clashed over Israeli military actions in Lebanon and U.S. arms sales to Arab nations. Very Good condition in a Good dust jacket. The jacket has small chips and tears at its extremities. SEE OUR PHOTOS. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve temporarily removed for photos to reduce glare. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. This is the 1972 "International Book Year" Fifth English Edition with a new chapter by the authior: "FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A GENERATION." We have only this one copy but it is available now and ready to ship today from Henderson Nevada. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of the author and 16 pages of photos. Translated from the Hebrew by Shmuel Katz Member of the Command of the Irgun. Edited with Notes by Ivan M. Greenberg. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped black cloth. Complete with dust jacket that has a portrait on its rear panel of a youthful Begin as Israel Sassover. From Wikipedia: "The book traces the development of the Irgun from its early days in the 1930s through its years of violent struggle in the Palestine Mandate against both British rule the 'revolt' of the title and Arab opposition to the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The book is also part autobiographical tracing Begin's own political development. The political scientist John Bowyer Bell who studied both the Irgun and the Irish Republican Army IRA recalled that many of the IRA men whom he interviewed in the 1960s had read The Revolt and admired it as a manual of guerrilla warfare. It was also studied by African National Congress Nelson Mandela after he went underground in 1960 and credited it as being among the books he used a guide in planning the ANC's guerrilla campaign against the apartheid government of South Africa.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Menachem Begin. Fifth English Edition with new chapter. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xiv 386pp. 16 plates. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Steimatzky's Agency Ltd Hardcover
189019397International Headquarters of the Salvation Army 1890. 8vo. First Edition with large folding coloured chart on japon as frontispiece wanting blank front free endpaper; original black cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt lemon endpapers small mark on upper board else a remarkably well-preserved bright clean crisp copy. With a copy of the original donation slip loosely inserted and 6pp Salvation Army catalogue at end. William Booth founded the Salvation Army in 1878. In 1890 the same year that Stanley published 'In Darkest Africa' he published his most important work with deliberate irony. Here he analyses the causes of the pauperism and vice of the period and proposes a remedy by ten expedients. These include land settlement emigration rescue work among prostitutes and at the prison-gate the poor man's bank and the poor man's lawyer. Booth's powerful arguments were convincing money was liberally subscribed and a large part of the scheme was carried through. Printing and the Mind of Man 560. International Headquarters of the Salvation Army, hardcover
035910Welwyn: Evangelical Press. Softcover. Very Good/No Cover. 8vo. Complete Seven Volume Set Evangelical Press paperback
8045London: for T. Bickerton 1719. . for collecting at the same time the alms of the congregation. At the Assizes held at Rochester on Wednesday July 15 1719. Offer'd to the consideration of the clergy of the Church of England. Engraved frontispiece showing the charity collection in progress. 8vo pp. 4:72 disbound. Very good. Anonymous. London: for T. Bickerton, 1719. unknown
1882g1684Paris: E Plon et Cie. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Rebacked with original spine. 1882. First Edition. Red decorated hardback cloth cover. 400mm x 290mm 16" x 11". 468pp plates. 22 b/w plates 214 b/w illustrations. Text in French. Heavy book - extra needed for overseas shipping. . E Plon et Cie hardcover
1864d2552aDublin: Royal Irish Academy. VG : in very good condition. Later rebind. A little sunning to boards. Heraldic bookplate on fep. Subsequent owners' inscriptions. 1864. First Edition. Half red leather hardback with orange cloth boards. 310mm x 250mm 12" x 10". 144pp. . Royal Irish Academy hardcover
20166San Carlos 7 San Angel Inn Mexico 20 D.F. 24 June 1963. Holland's obituary in the American Anthropologist vol. 67 issue 1 1967 pp.80-82 including bibliography accorded him high praise: 'The success with which he had applied himself during the greater part of the past six years to field work and the productivity he had shown in publishing his research results make his early death an incalculable loss to the field of Maya studies.' 1p. 4to. In fair condition lightly-aged and worn. In remains of Air Mail envelope addressed to 'Srta. Francoise Cabeaux 152 Chausee de Charleroi Bruxelles 6 Belgique'. He begins by thanking her for her letter adding 'The rainy season has started in Mexico and so things are quite similar to the way that you describe Belgium these days.' He thanks her again for her interest in his work and expresses his desire 'to publish in European newspapers and magazines with your help'. He will 'send along anything that might help you to interest a magazine in this work'. He is publishing 'another article in a Buffalo New York newspaper' with 'a larger number and variety of photographs' and 'will send it along as soon as possible'. His 'book' should be published 'within the next month or two' and he will send her a copy: 'You remember it will be published in Spanish and not in English. But if there is interest there I would certainly be in favor of publishing it in Europe.' He ends in the hope that he 'may get to Europe next summer for some scientific meetings in Madrid'. San Carlos 7, San Angel Inn, Mexico 20, D.F. 24 June 1963. unknown
1975288490Benziger Verlag Einsiedeln 1975. Hardcover Leder blau 8 Lesebändchen Nur Teil II: Großausgabe. Das Messbuch Deutsch für alle Tage des Jahres außer der Karwoche. Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. Benziger Verlag, Einsiedeln, hardcover
1949099061The Limited Editions Club 1949 Book. Illus. by Arthur Szyk. Very Good . Hardcover. Signed and numbered presentation copy from editor Jean Hersholt to Shawne Mayo Rorke numbered 1779. Rorke's name is written in ball point along top edge of front paste down. Dime sized smudge in brown cloth upper right front board - else very good condition. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
1933097516Portland Maine: The Southworth Press 1933 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Fifth Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY on the flyleaf. Biography of John Edwards Adams by his son who "endeavored to portray the life of my father with his Scotch ancestry and religious background. . . through four years at Bowdoin his religious studies and ministry his service in the U.S. Christian Commission in 1863" including his experiences at the Battle of Gettysburg "his noble service for Congregationalism in Maine. . ." Rare to find a first edition every RARER to find a SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY!!! 164 pages illustrated. Bookplate on front pastedown. The Southworth Press hardcover
109636N.Y. Bollingen 1964. 3 vols: XV237;XI251;XV p. ills. 21 col. pls. 354 figs. on 152 pls. Cl. 31 cm In slipcase Bollingen Series 37 Heavy book may require extra shipping costs unknown
16586This Unitarian minister about whom little is known was an intimate of Emerson having served as best man at his wedding and friend of Thoreau and the Transcendentalists and for a time in the 1840s lived at their famed utopian community Brook Farm; one scholar describes him as "teacher thinker and friend of literary men." AQS 1p 10½" X 6 3/4" n.p. 1872 June 9. Very good. Very mild age toning and a few light spots of foxing. Handsomely penned in brown signed and dated at the close this unattributed stanza reads in full: "If once we knew his fertile gift could lend / With worthy verses I this page might fill / But since alas! no muse will me befriend / Instead of deed kindly accept the will." On heavy stock paper presumably from an autograph album. Most unusual and quite attractive. unknown
22683Noted Presbyterian preacher and author affiliated with the Lafayette Avenue Church in Brooklyn New York. ALS 2pp 1st and 3rd leaves 5" X 8" Brooklyn NY 1865 November 27. Addressed to George May Powell. Very good. Powell a photographer had sent Cuyler a print of a large photo montage he was marketing "Being a group of Portraits of all those members of Congress who voted for the AMENDMENT of the CONSTITUTION PROHIBITING SLAVERY with those of President LINCOLN and Vice-President HAMLIN added." Cuyler's response is the "blurb" Powell had requested for use in a leaflet he was preparing advertising this photograph: "The likenesses are excellent; the idea is happy -- and the engraving ought to be on every loyal citizens' wall. 'Honor to whom honor is due'. And on that roll who deserve better from a grateful country than the Congress which put slavery into its charnel-house. It deserves a place beside my 'Emancipation Proclamation' of dear departed Lincoln." On the blank fourth leaf Cuyler adds and initials a sentiment: "Our temperance cause brightens. Lay hold & help. unknown
057647Theosophical Center Books Book. Good. Softcover. Stated "First Bound Edition" as this work was originally made available in five successively published brochures now in a single in a single volume. Faint evidence of erased colored pencil on a handful of pages mild corner wear. . Theosophical Center Books Paperback
006290Berlin Germany: B Harz. 343pp. undated German text. Brown cloth binding. Hinges cracked otherwise tight and clean. 8th Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. B Harz hardcover
1866053184Boston: The American Tract Society 1866 Ex-Library. Fair. Hardcover. Only 7 copies located in libraries worldwide. Exterior is fair due to scrapes edge chips warping some discolorations and other scuffs and edge wear - interior is very good with only light normal aging; typical end paper library marks. Plates include 1 color and 4 black and white illustrations. A rare study in Conchology tying in religious belief of God creating all the world and existence. 352 pages. The American Tract Society hardcover
1961060108Vantage Press 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 176pp. Open tears to price-clipped dust jacket now in protective mylar. Owner blindseal on fly. Vantage Press Hardcover
1903131218-J79Atlanta GA: Franklin Printing & Publishing 1903. Very Good Hardcover . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Franklin Printing & Publishing hardcover
2001050949Dianthus Publishing 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Undated edition 2107. Clean tight unread copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. Oversized will exceed standard shipping rates for international options. 752pp. Dianthus Publishing Hardcover
19726411NY: Holt Rinehart and Winston. As New in As New dust jacket. 1972. Stated First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. 0030037166 . Publisher's full burgundy cloth gilt lettering on spine author's initials gilt on cover t.e.g. red. This is an unmarked unread copy. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect pristine condition. AS NEW/AS NEW. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 78 1 pp . Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
1957060391Denver: Shrine of the Healing Presence 1957. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Finger smudges to exterior page edges. 171pp Gray cloth with red lettering. Scarce. Shrine of the Healing Presence Hardcover
1957061238Shrine of the Healing Presence 1957. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Petite gray cloth with red lettering. Owner bookplate inside cover gift inscription and scuff on fly Unity Church stamp on title page otherwise sharp copy. 171pp. Scarce. Shrine of the Healing Presence Hardcover
1981052586N. Spearman 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Tight copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. 285pp. N. Spearman Hardcover