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190950414N.p.: Frank W. Williams 1909. 20" X 16". Very good. Minor edge tears archivally closed on verso. Composite photogravure showing left to right half-length portraits of Lincoln McKinley and Garfield. Printed on a thin glossy stock this image is scarce in such attractive condition. Clearly produced for the Lincoln centennial but with the most recently-assassinated president McKinley front and center and largest to play on popular interest. Frank W. Williams unknown
1947236530New Brunswick: Rutgers 1947. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarter red morocco and cloth. Almost fine. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> Rutgers hardcover
190943139New York: Internatsyonale bibliothek Verlag ko 1909. First edition. Original boards 8vo 347 pages 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Anarchism.â€<br> Translation of Paul Eltzbacher’s “Anarchism†into Yiddish. In it he covers seven anarchist figures: Godwin Proudhon Stirner Bakunin Kropotkin Tucker and Tolstoy. Includes bibliographical references.<br> “Jacob Abraham Maryson was a Jewish–American anarchist doctor essayist and Yiddish translator. Maryson was among the few Pioneers of Liberty who could write in English. He was among the Pioneers who launched the Varhayt in 1889 the first American anarchist periodical in Yiddish….Maryson contributed to a variety of other Yiddish publications and became known as ‘the Kropotkin of the Jewish anarchist movement’. During Fraye Arbeter Shtime's hiatus in the late 1890s Maryson assisted in the cultural and literary journal Di Fraye Gezelshaft. Beginning in 1911 he edited the anarchist periodical Dos Fraye Vort. Maryson organized the Kropotkin Literary Society to print Yiddish translations of European thinkers. Maryson handled some of the group's most challenging translations including Marx's Das Kapital Stirner's The Ego and His Own and Thoreau's Civil Disobedience. He also translated John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. Maryson later wrote The Principles of Anarchism in 1935.†Wikipedia.<br> SUBJECTS: Anarchism. OCLC: 19304220<br> Very Good Condition. YID-48-3-. New York: Internatsyonale bibliothek Verlag ko unknown
192435526Peoria Illinois: Edward J. Jacob Printer Peoria Illinois 1924. First Edition. Privately Printed. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 2 127 pages. 4. Illustrated with frontispiece photograph of Lincoln illustrations and folding facsimiles. Half leather binding with tan cloth covered boards. Tooled leather spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Marbled end papers. Leather spine rubbed. Front hinge is broken exposing the spine. Board is secure to the binding. Rear hinge cracked. Inscribed and signed by the printer on the limitations page. Limited to 100 copies printed. Fair. Edward J. Jacob, Printer Peoria, Illinois hardcover
1933016857NY: Dutton. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good owner's bookplate later printing Games knots tricks and more. . Dutton hardcover books
19984800<p>Stated First Edition/2nd Printing with the number line ending in a 2; SIGNED and inscribed to the title page by the author. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket with rubbing to both the board and jacket edges mild wrinkling to the pages and some age-spotting to the text block; a handsome copy of this story of friendship between the author and David Smith a former tennis player now Doctor under Verghese's tutelage. Not remaindered not price clipped not ex-library; in archival protection.<br />"The Tennis Partner" is a remarkable journey to the ends and the edges of friendship to its heights of intimacy and clarity and also to its hellish depths of deception and betrayal. It is above all an unforgettable illuminating story of how men live and how they survive. Book jacket</p> Harper hardcover
194541380Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications 1945. Very Good. Girard KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications 1945. First Edition. Quarto 28.7cm; bound in three-quarter leather and marbled paper boards with leather title card by Starr Bookworks; original blue-green paper wraps retained; 12pp20pp illus. Boards sturdy clean and square. Fading and toning along edges of original wraps. Scattered foxing to title page. Light flattened creasing to some interior pages. Binding sound and pages unmarked.<br /> <br /> Title page continues: "Included Are Dance Sequence Drawings of Ballet Agna Enters Martha Graham a Group of Pupils of Isador And Drawings Against War and Fascism by Walkowitz With an Introduction by Konrad Bercovici." Additional introductions by Maria-Theresa Carl Van Vechten Mary Fanton Roberts Shaemas O'Sheel and Arnold Genthe. Small collection of Walkowitz's drawings of the pioneer of modern contemporary dance he would go on to draw over 5000.<br /> <br /> Baker p. 398. Haldeman-Julius Publications unknown
1997597395New York: Vantage Press 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. 599pp. Light foxing on the topedge small tear at the foot of the spine very good in a good only dust jacket with an owner gift inscription on the front panel chips and tears foxing and ink markings on the rear panel. Laid in is the author's business card for this book. Inscribed by the author on the front fly: "To Donald: The young and adults of our wonderful nation must know the truth that went on in the disastrous Philippine campaign - 1941-42. Best wish. Abie Abraham. 3 Nov 1997." Beneath this is an owner inscription addressed to "James" stating that it was accidentally autographed to Donald instead of him. James appears to have been an acquaintance of the author and is mentioned on three pages in the text along with inked notations. Vantage Press hardcover
1908003219London: Longmans Green and Co. 1908. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1908 FIRST EDITION. Rebound in dark orange cloeht with black title patch on spine lettered in gilt fanciful abstract mountain illustration debossed and painted on front cover. Text block edges likely slightly trimmed. LACKING THE LARGE FOLDING MAP now supplied in b/w photocopy on several sheets. The book is in near fine condition with clean covers significant foxing on the first and last several pages tiny light foxing in outside margin of several pages many pages completely free of foxing and some occasional foxing on the tissues guarding the photo plates no writing or owner marks on any pages solid binding lacking the folding map otherwise complete with all plates and pages. The book measures 227m tall x 155mm and has 330 pages 1 page of ads at end 30 b/w photo plates 1 b/w photo portrait of John Mackenzie 9 route diagrams index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. <br/> <br/> Longmans, Green and Co. hardcover
195476848London: Faber & Faber 1954. Second UK edition first printing. 252 pp. Top edge lightly soiled else near fine in very good plus price-clipped dust jacket. London: Faber & Faber unknown
197688892Berkeley & London: Tree/Trigram 1976. First edition. 73 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine illustrated dust jacket. Translations and adaptations by Bruria Finkel Jack Hirschman David Meltzer and Gershom Scholem. One of the least common books from the press. Tree Texts 4. Berkeley & London: Tree/Trigram, unknown
1959365181Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press 1959. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Foreword by Thomas Nickerson. Oblong 12mo. 12pp. Stapled decorated wrappers. Fine. Attractive printing of this sermon preached upon Hawaii's induction into statehood. OCLC locates five copies; four in Hawaii the other in California. University of Hawaii Press unknown
1909165R86Pratt & Co. for Robt. Rivire & Son London . 1909 37 p. Title and chapter initials highlighted rubricated in red. Very slim square 24mo. 4 x 5" Original full polished calf binding by Riviere; raised bands; gilt lettered. Some scuffing but still nice. Top edge gold gilt. Bookplate of . Squire; with the motto: Foy pour Devoir. Ink gift inscription across front flyleaf 1919. This little gift book was prepared by the famed Riviere firm to demonstrate their typographic and binding specialities. Very rare. PRICE JUST REDUCED! PLANTS W131. Hardcover. (Pratt & Co. for) Robt. Rivire & Son, London . hardcover
1981004033New York: Harper & Row 1981. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 285pp. Black cloth silver lettering. SIGNED. Book is clean inside and out rear panel of dust jacket has a crease and 2 short clean tears along top otherwise in very good condition. Author has written and signed a warm and lenghty inscription to a friend and colleague on the front free endpaper. Briloff was a ;highly respected accountant and critic of the industry. <br/> <br/> Harper & Row hardcover
1965000019083New York: John F. Rider Publisher inc. c. 1965. first edition. Very good/very good. Octavo red flexible covers vii 1 360 pages. Many black and white illustrations diagrams. Dust jacket lightly rubbed a couple of small tears still very good. No. 176 . 120506A Audio High Fidelity. <br /> John F. Rider Publisher, inc.
199124384Westview Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1991. Reprint. Softcover. 0813313295 . A crisp clean 3 Volume Set showing light shelf and edge wear and slight rubbing to card covers. . Westview Press paperback
1923100305Soho: Nonesuch Press 1923. First Nonesuch Press limited edition of the Odes of Anacreon. Octavo bound in three quarters vellum over gold paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine illustrated with four full-page tissue-guarded copperplate engravings of Cupid Bathyllus Europa & Venus headpieces and tailpieces by Stephen Gooden. One of only 725 copies produced this is number 680. In very good condition. Founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell his second wife Vera Mendel and their mutual friend David Garnett The Nonesuch Press was established in the basement of Garnett's bookshop in Soho. Nonesuch was unusual among private presses in that it used a small hand press to design books and then had them printed by commercial printers. Among the press's best-known editions were the collected works of William Congreve and William Wycherley and translations of Cervantes and Dante. Originally published in 1686 Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle's Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds is considered to be one of the first major works of the Age of Enlightenment offering an explanation for the heliocentric model of the Universe suggested by Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543. Nonesuch Press hardcover books
19231401458Soho: The Nonesuch Press 1923. Limited reprint edition #260 of 725. Hardcover. Tall narrow thin octavo 52 pages. In Very Good condition. In gold hardcovers with white spine and gilt text. Moderate shelf wear to boards. Rubbing wear and light bumping along edges. Text block is lightly age toned throughout with untrimmed edges. Shelved in Case #0. 1401458. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1959605188Arco Publishing Company January 1959. Hardcover. Good - Cash. Minor wear to cover and pages. Great condition. P/O name inside. Unmarked text secure binding. Rubbing on edges. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. Arco Publishing Company hardcover
1928480341928. EPSTEIN Abraham. THE CHALLENGE OF THE AGED. With an Introduction by Jane Addams. NY: Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press 1928. 8vo. grey cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. Signed presentation by Epstein on front endpaper to a well-known financier & banker: "To Frank A. Vanderlip with high esteem and warmest regards Abraham Epstein March 21 1929." Good. $125.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
192848034The Vanguard Press 1928. EPSTEIN Abraham. THE CHALLENGE OF THE AGED. With an Introduction by Jane Addams. NY: Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press 1928. 8vo. grey cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. Signed presentation by Epstein on front endpaper to a well-known financier & banker: "To Frank A. Vanderlip with high esteem and warmest regards Abraham Epstein March 21 1929." Good. $125.00. The Vanguard Press unknown
1916282668New York: General Education Board 1916. Paperback. xviii 176p. graphs b&w plates tables wrappers slightly toned with minor soil on bottom-edge of text block. Pictures show the condition of public schools in Maryland including obsolete rural schools unhygienic and neglected outhouses African-American students using "ancient" desks and images of "colored schools" among many other unkempt schools and proposals to fix them. Flexner was an American educator who pioneered medical and higher education reform in the early 20th century. General Education Board paperback
194132003imprimerle iusnutabiat 1941 hardback book in fair to good condition2 volumes bound into oneoriginal books appear to be soft cover given a cheap library like bindinggalante was professor at university of istanbul. Hardcover. Fair. imprimerle iusnutabiat hardcover
1929700627London: 125 1929 London: 125 1929 216 pp with a map frontis. "Based on materials collected in Torwal by Sir Aurel Stein with a note by Sir Aurel Stein on Torwal and its people." Text is clean tight and unmarked. Red cloth boards are clean and undamaged. The Dardic languages also Dardu or Pisaca are a sub-group of the Indo-Aryan languages natively spoken in northern Pakistan's Gilgit Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa northern India's Jammu and Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan. Torwali is a Dardic settlement in northern Afganistan. Presumed First. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presumed First. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 125 hardcover
192624672Austria: Menorah 1926. First edition. Hardcover. fair. Octavo. XXXIX 352pp. 8. Original half cloth over paper boards. Authoritative commentary with preface by Leopold Fleischer. Abraham Ibn-Ezra 1089-1164 was a Spanish Jewish scholar poet grammarian biblical commentator philosopher astronomer and physician. His commentary on Exodus was first published only in 1840 and his commentaries were the most widely studied next to Rashi's. Leopold Fleischer was Chazzan of the Habonim Jewish Center of San Francisco until his passing. Agewear throughout. Agetoning along edges of binding. Head of spine bumped. Rear board chipped at top edge. Front board chipped at top edge but piece is present and held in place with tape. Overall fair. Menorah hardcover