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184810168716mo cloth spine and boards paper label on spine 4 illustrations including frontispiece 144 pp. Top cover almost detached back cover detached some extremity wear and slight staining internally slight foxing but generally bright and clean. Jacob Abbott 1803-1879 is considered one of the most prolific writers of children's books in the 19th century. He and his brothers produced a well received set of historical biographies which included stories on Xerxes Darius the Great and Alexander the Great. He also produced a few travel and adventure books. The current tile is about life along the Erie Canal in the mid 19th century. heritage-history website. Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., books
184510168916mo original cloth gilt lettering on spine 2 illustrations including frontispiece 144 pp. Top cover and front endpaper detached a little extremity wear ex-library with bookplate and embossed stamp normal aging and foxing; internally fairly bright and clean. Jacob Abbott 1803-1879 is considered one of the most prolific writers of children's books in the 19th century. He and his brothers produced a well received set of historical biographies which included stories on Xerxes Darius the Great and Alexander the Great. He also produced a few travel and adventure books. The current tile is about life along the Erie Canal in the mid 19th century. heritage-history website. Benjamin B. Mussey & Co. books
1993160480New York: Apeture 1993. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. 220 pages. Preface by Ansel Adams. A collection of black and white images from this important American photographer who often worked to document the ills of society. A tight near fine copy with some offsetting from the flaps to the front and rear endpapers in a very good dust plus jacket that has some sunning to the spine and along the front and rear panels near the spine. Apeture unknown books
1985165522Boston: Gregg Press 1985. Octavo cloth. First hardcover edition. "Four people set out on a voyage through both inner and outer space the cosmos and the psyche to discover the source of a signal which destroys the minds of those who attempt to use the macroscope a machine that sees through space and time" Survey. The four use the macroscope an alien artifact in Earth orbit to leave the Solar System and travel to the destroyer station an artificial planet which is actually one of the "guardian stations placed in space by an infinitely superior alien race to prevent any species from ruining themselves or others with advanced technology before they are mature enough morally to resist the temptations of galactic conquest . Although not an allegory in the strictest sense of the term MACROSCOPE is a novel constructed upon varied interpretations of the concept of unity . It is a novel with a vast sweep that combines ideas and epic action in a way that typifies the most ambitious and exhilarating science fiction . It is a complex exciting book to read ." Survey. 1970 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-32. Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 221. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III pp. 1308-11. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with two small areas of narrow loss to black background ink along top edge of rear panel. #165522 Gregg Press unknown books
1969147396London: Faber and Faber 1969. Octavo cloth. First British and first hardcover edition. First book of a trilogy followed by ORN 1971 and OX 1976. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 4-24. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV pp. 1596-1602. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of wear at spine ends and corner tips and mild dust soiling to rear panel. #147396 Faber and Faber unknown books
1965042589New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Pierpont Morgan Library 1965. 246p. 151 b/w illus. dj lightly chipped and slightly sunfaded on the spine Drawings from New York collections 1. Metropolitan Museum of Art; Pierpont Morgan Library unknown books
1982225484New York. : Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1982. 1st Edition. Maroon cloth. . A very good copy in a dustjacket with the spine sunned. . 4to. Metropolitan Museum of Art. hardcover books
1834EEG1023Tubingen:: Heinrich Laupp 1834. 1834. 8vo. x 398 pp. Index. Early quarter gilt-stamped calf German blue paste-paper over boards; spine worn. Title with ownership stamp of the Societe de Lecture de Geneve. Very good. Thirteenth annual. Reviews the contributions from the fields of physics chemistry minerology plant-chemistry biochemistry and geology. / From 1822 until 1841 annual reports were issued regarding articles and studies that advanced knowledge in chemistry minerology geology and other sciences. Berzelius is often credited as one of several founders of modern chemistry. He created a form of chemical notation that remains largely in force today as well as discovering and naming the elements silicon selenium thorium and cerium. He is credited with coining such terms as catalyst polymer and isomer. / "Periodically published bibliographies of chemistry that are of importance to historians include Jacob Berzelius' Jahres-Bericht uber die Fortschritte der physischen Wissenschaften in 20 volumes Tubingen 1822-41. . . " – Andrew Hunter Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books Libraries and Collectors. Heinrich Laupp, 1834. hardcover books
1835EEG1024Tubingen:: Heinrich Laupp 1835. 1835. 8vo. 2 206 pp. Early German blue paste-paper over boards manuscript spine label with original brown printed paper wrappers bound in. Title with ownership stamp of the Societe de Lecture de Geneve. Very good. Fourteenth annual. Translated from the Swedish by F. Wohler. From 1822 until 1841 annual reports were issued regarding articles and studies that advanced knowledge in chemistry minerology geology and other sciences. Berzelius is often credited as one of several founders of modern chemistry. He created a form of chemical notation that remains largely in force today as well as discovering and naming the elements silicon selenium thorium and cerium. He is credited with coining such terms as catalyst polymer and isomer. / "Periodically published bibliographies of chemistry that are of importance to historians include Jacob Berzelius' Jahres-Bericht uber die Fortschritte der physischen Wissenschaften in 20 volumes Tubingen 1822-41. . . " – Andrew Hunter Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books Libraries and Collectors. Heinrich Laupp, 1835. hardcover books
1972140434Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. <br/><br/>Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern costar in this understated film about estranged brothers the more grounded of which is surprisingly played by Nicholson. It is a unique chance to see Nicholson play the straightman reeling in his erratic irresponsible brother all set to the backdrop of Atlantic City's waning "classic era." Many of the iconic hotels featured were demolished in the proceeding years to facilitate hotel-casinos. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Holograph ink notation to the verso else Near Fine. <br/><br/><br/>Criterion Collection 550. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1962032523Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1962. xvii 319p. b/w illus. original blue cloth His Gesammelte Werke 2. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft unknown books
1904043149Stuttgart: Paul Neff Verlag Carl Büchle 1904. 4e Auflage. xvi 419p. b/w illus. red buckram ex libris Geschichte der neueren Baukunst 1. Paul Neff Verlag (Carl Büchle) unknown books
200594726London:: Folio Society. Near Fine. 2005. Hardcover. B002NJLOW4 . Translated from the German by S. G. C. Middlemore. Introduction by Anthony Grafton. Second printing. Some light foxing on fore and bottom edges else near fine in a near fine slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover books
194556396Philadelphia: Workmen's Circle 1945. 557p. hardcover title and spine panel faded otherwise generally very good. Text in Yiddish except for English title. Jubilee issue of the Radical Library Branch 273 Workmen's Circle. Workmen's Circle unknown books
1990Embry 156945The Arthur H. Clark Company 1990. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Volume XVI of the American Trails series. The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1990. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1881WRCAM36827Chicago 1881. 246pp. Original cloth stamped in gilt. Cloth a bit sunned and slightly rubbed 1/4-inch stain on spine else fine. First American edition after the London edition of the same year. Holyoake was a Chartist and Owenite in early life. He visited America for four months with a view to investigate social and political conditions in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada. Chapters include "The Republican Convention at Saratoga" "City of Holyoke - Discourses in Free Churches" "State Socialism in America" "Co-operative Emigration - Visits to the Premier of Canada and President of America" and "Manners and Opinions in America." hardcover books
2002226847Garland TX: Tangelwuld Press 2002. Paperback. xvi 370p. preface appendixes index footnotes illustrated throughout with political cartoons very good first edition trade paperback in red wraps. Tangelwuld Press paperback books
19791242014Belgium: Le Musee Royal De L'Afrique Centrale 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; VG/G; Red spine with white lettering; Jacket has some wear along the edges tearing near corners and especially at the upper spine edges; Boards are straight with some wear to the edges and corners; Text block is bright and clean; 81 pages. #LR; Shelved in Room X. 1242014. FP New Rockville Stock. Le Musee Royal De L'Afrique Centrale hardcover books
1983S13009Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press 1983. 1983. 8vo. viii 222 pp. Index. Brown gilt-stamped cloth dust-jacket. Near fine. ISBN 10: 0521248760 Cambridge University Press, 1983. hardcover books
199820917Boston: Photographic Resource Center at Boston University 1998. First Edition. Wraps. As new. 4to. Perfect-bound photographic wraps. As new in original shrinkwrap. <br/><br/>Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at BU collecting photos from the German Democratic Republic's state archives forming "a study of the political and economic pressures on the visual arts of the . GDR." Photographic Resource Center at Boston University paperback books
197336628Oak Park: Cat's Pajamas Press 1973. First edition. 8 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 70 of 90 copies. Dated 6/75 and INSCRIBED by Jacob "For D.r. / This shows how strange / we sometimes get - / John. Oak Park: Cat's Pajamas Press unknown books
1976S11149Ithaca:: Cornell University Press 1976. 1976. 8vo. 228 pp. Bibliography index. Orange cloth blue-stamped spine dust-jacket. Bookplate. Fine in near fine jacket. ISBN: 0801409810 Cornell University Press, (1976). hardcover books
1975039723Mortemart: Rougerie 1975. Textes recueillis établis et présentés par Lawrence A. Joseph. 155 2p. original stiff printed wrappers with the glassine. No. 92 of 150 numbered copies "sur offset afnor 7" unopened. Rougerie unknown books
1983039721Mortemart: Rougerie 1983. Notes de Christine Andréucci et Maria Green. 124 1p. original stiff printed wrappers with the glassine unopened. No. 47 of 150 numbered copies "sur vélin de Lana. Rougerie unknown books
1978039722Mortemart: Rougerie 1978. Préface et notes de Yannick Pelletier. 124 1p. original stiff printed wrappers with the glassine. No. 17 of 150 numbered copies "sur bouffant afnor 7" unopened. Rougerie unknown books