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1980009062New York: KTAV Publishing House Inc 1980. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xiv 266 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with minor sunning to spine and minimal shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with numerous black & white photographs. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. KTAV Publishing House, Inc Hardcover books
1973103528New York: Hawthorn Books 1973. Octavo cloth. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-33. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. Faint paper clip indents at top edge of front free endpaper and half title and title leaves with faint partial rust mark to latter else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. Business card of Hawthorn's Director of Subsidiary Rights & Permissions laid in. A very nice copy of an elusive book. #103528 Hawthorn Books unknown books
189227371Newark NY: by the Author 1892. First Edition. Octavo. Brown cloth boards blocked in gilt and black on spine and front cover; 414 2pp. Slight external wear including a small gouge to cloth on spine else a tight well-preserved volume easily Very Good. A social reform tract by the middling-prominent linguist and newspaper editor of Newark New York. Wilson 1821-1914 was according to his entry in The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography 1918 the editor and publisher of the Newark Courier from 1871 to 1906 and was reputed "one of the best general linguists in this country." He was the author of numerous volumes on grammar and linguistic reform including Errors in Grammar 1858 and Phrasis 1864; after the Civil War his attention appears to have fixed on social and moral topics culminating in a series of reform tracts of which the present title is the first. In it Wilson condemns "practices of modern social life that in the opinion of the author are wrong.he denounces war cruelty to animals capital punishment private ownership of land taking payment for the use of money disposing of property by will etc. with equal emphasis" from a contemporary review in Popular Science Apr 1892. An uncommon volume; OCLC gives six locations three in New York. by the Author unknown books
1967103744New York: De Capo Press 1967. Hardbound. VG/VG. Black cloth with illustrated dustjacket. 257 pp. profusely illustrated in bw. Includes an original lithograph as the frontispiece. Includes the errata slip at front. A very nice copy of a vital book relating to this artist's work. Lithograph is not signed in pencil. De Capo Press hardcover books
1959WRCLIT55843Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press 1959. 22713pp. Gilt blue cloth. First edition. Endsheets a bit tanned at gutters else a near fine copy in a lightly sunned printed dust jacket with modest wear to spine ends and a few short closed tears in the jacket edges. University of Michigan Press hardcover books
1989049426Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London and Rotonto Associated University Presses 1989. 168p. dj. Bucknell University Press; London and Rotonto, Associated University Presses unknown books
190261811Columbus Ohio: S. F. Harriman. Very Good. 1902. Hardcover. 224 pages green pictorial cloth. Covers show some scuffing and soiling with scuffed spine ends and cover corners."With compliments and Best Wishes of the Author" is written below previous owners penciled signature on front free endpaper. Contents show a light tone hinges starting pg 125-126 a black and white photograph is loose. Otherwise bright and complete. A Good copy. . S. F. Harriman 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
195035080London: Phaidon 1950. Small 8vo pp. 374. Includes notes and selected letters. Illustrated with 120 monochrome plates near the end with 22 in the text three of which are in color. VG. Phaidon unknown books
1859WRCLIT54236Paris: Adolphe Delahays 1859. 4xxxix4541pp. Handsomely bound in quarter black morocco and marbled boards spine decorated in gilt. Extreme lower fore-tips of title and half- title show a small tea-like stain occasional light foxing but a very good copy. First edition. A collection of six pieces each accompanied by an able introduction and annotations by Lacroix the whole preceded by an essay on "L'Ancien Théatre en France." VICAIRE I:672. BRUNET IV:1147. Adolphe Delahays hardcover books
194559445Montgomery PA 1945. Gouache on board 13 x 17 inches. Abbott 1895-1950 was a popular American illustrator of wildlife. A native of Brookline Massachusetts he studied at Harvard and was thereafter engaged in business in New York City. He moved to Altadena California in the early 1930s and then relocated to Montgomery Pennsylvania in 1935. He illustrated two ornithological works by Leion Augustus Hausman an "Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Birds" 1944 and a "Field Book of Eastern Birds" 1946. His illustrations also appeared in various books by Marguerite Henry Gertrude Howell Hildreth Sterner St. Paul Meek Rutherford George Montgomery Charles Anthony Stephens and others. A lovely rural image in vivid colors. Fine. #6842. <br/><br/> unknown books
18657419Gottingen: Dieterichschen 1865. First edition 8vo viii & 219pp. publisher's quarter black morocco over marbled boards pages browning; else fine. Comprehensive index to all four volumes of Grimm's groundbreaking Deutsch Grammatik. From the library of George Stephens. <br/><br/> Dieterichschen hardcover books
16903572Norimbergae: Sumptibus Johannis Andreae Endteri Filiorum 1690. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio engraved allegorical frontispiece by Johann Jacob Sandrart full-page plate of royal arms through the ages; plus three full-page plates of armorial achievements. Numerous genealogical tables throughout. 234 pp. - though last page reads 254. 6 pp. index follows. Full contemporary leather binding worn especially along spine. <br/><br/> Sumptibus Johannis Andreae Endteri Filiorum hardcover books
187333436Ottawa: Robertson 1873. First Edition. 30pp. dbd. Peel 650. Shantz was sent out to inspect land of the Russion Mennonites who subsequently settled in southern Manitoba. Peel 649 is the English version. Published by the Department of Agriculture Robertson unknown books
1873WRCAM35566Ottawa: Imprimé par Robertson Roger & Cie. 1873. 302pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine chipped. Overall very good. First French edition. In 1872 Shantz visited Manitoba with an eye toward the establishment of a Russian Mennonite settlement there. He was impressed with what he saw describing the suitability of the lands in this pamphlet. This work led to the first Mennonite settlement in the West. SABIN 79770. PEEL 376 English ed. Imprimé par Robertson, Roger & Cie. unknown books
1989S13030New York & Oxford:: Oxford University Press 1989. 1989. 8vo. xii 294 pp. Index. Purple silver-stamped cloth dust-jacket. Fine. ISBN 10: 0195056035 Oxford University Press, 1989. hardcover books
20071322435New York: Russell Sage Foundation 2007. First Printing. Softcover. Octavo; pp 810; Good/paperback; orange peach spine with black and white text; covers show mild wear to exterior; lightly sunned spine; minor edge wear; intact panels; text block has slight ink to few pages as is; illustrated; previous owner's name to half title page;. 1322435. FP New Rockville Stock. Russell Sage Foundation unknown books
1893123915Baltimore Maryland: Maryland Book Concern 1893. Hardcover. Good Some wear to cloth at extremities; Boards pulling away from binding but still attached. Dark burgundy cloth over boards with black and gilt titling and decoration; 468 pp.; 32 bw figures. A collection of writings about the city of Baltimore including notes about the city in the forties the Wharton-Ketchum Case Baltimore's press theatre the harbor public buildings and much more. Maryland Book Concern hardcover books
1866239719Charleston: Joseph Walker Agt. Stationer and Printer 129 Meeting-st 1866. First edition. 144 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Lightly worn chipped at extremities. Very good. First edition. 144 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. A resident of Charleston from 1796 onward he became editor of the Southern Patriot and later its publisher. A Sephardic Jew both he and his brother Isaac were influential among the Reformed Society of Israelites in Charleston.<br/> <br/>The present work published just after the Civil War is a series of articles on Charleston's commerce education system press railroads charitable and medical organizations etc. An Appendix provides material concerning the outset of the Civil War at Forts Moultrie and Sumter as well as Fort Wagner and other Charleston-area sites. Howes C131; Singerman 1930 Joseph Walker, Agt., Stationer and Printer, 129 Meeting-st unknown books
186635454Charleston: Joseph Walker 1866. 144pp old rubberstamp on blank portion of title page. Bottom blank tear to title page expertly reinforced. Bound in modern grey wrappers. Good. <br/><br/> A Sephardic Jew Cardozo was born in 1786 in Savannah. Self-educated he was an outstanding economist editor of the Southern Patriot in Charleston and later its publisher. He published 'Notes on Political Economy' and 'The Economic Mind in American History'. An advocate of free trade he wrote many papers on the subject. See Brody 'Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America from Colonial Times to 1900: A Judaica Collection Exhibit' FL Atlantic U. Libraries. "Jacob Cardozo's forays into econometric analysis were outstanding by the standards of his day." Eugene Genovese 'Journal of the Historical Society' Volume I Number 2 March 2000. "This book is VERY SCARCE" Eberstadt quoting from Bradford. <br/> "Cardozo was a resident of Charleston from 1796 onward and editor of the Southern Patriot from 1817" Id. The book is a series of articles on Charleston's agriculture commerce education and free school system chamber of commerce insurance companies fire department the press bench and bar hotels banks libraries railroads charitable and medical organizations cemeteries. An Appendix provides material on the beginning of the Civil War at Forts Moultrie and Sumter as well as the action at Fort Wagner and other Charleston-area sites. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Howes C131. Singerman 1930. 115 Eberstadt 906. III Turnbull 409. Joseph Walker unknown books
1910WRCAM22977Kansas City 1910. 103pp. Portrait frontispiece plus plates. Original cloth. Very good. Memoirs of a man who got "Kansas fever" in the late 1860s eventually becoming a prosperous farmer and merchant based in Ft. Scott. hardcover books
186335178San Francisco: Bell & Lampman 1863. 111pp. Disbound with a bit of loosening last leaf detached. Good. <br/><br/> Bishop Colenso's work is an amalgam of "blunders of the grossest description" but is nevertheless "important and dangerous" for its "attack upon the veracity of the Bible" particularly because the source of the assault is "a high dignitary in the Christian Church." <br/> Thus the Hebrew Wood Chopper defends the Pentateuch against Bishop Colenso's calumnies. He uses the remarkable sudden and unpredicted growth of California in the preceding fifteen years to refute Colenso's attack on the Pentateuch for implausible chronology. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Singerman 1802. Cowan 618. Not in Stern CA Jewish History. Bell & Lampman unknown books
1966820341966. Neusner Jacob editor. Report of the 1965-1966 Seminar on Religions in Antiquity. Hanover: Dartmouth College Comparative Studies Center September 1966. 183p. Softcover in original stapled covers. 28cm. This copy stapled along right rather than left side. Covers browned with a little chipping. Good. "For private circulation only" on cover and title-page. <br/><br/> paperback books
1826199927London. : James Ridgway. 1826. Contemporary quarter bound tan over blue boards paper spine label. . Good front hinge split but board still attached spine worn very little foxing contents very good. 8vo. 23.5x14.5 cm. . weight: 0.9 lb. James Ridgway. hardcover books
1825227004New York: Published by Gould and Banks 1825. First editions. Volumes One & Three. viii 583; viii 596 pp. 8vo. Lawyer's cloth. Very good foxing. First editions. Volumes One & Three. viii 583; viii 596 pp. 8vo. Published by Gould and Banks unknown books
