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1928052576New York NY;: Century Co. 1928. First edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. In 1846 500 Mormon fighting men were enlisted by the US government. They marched from the Missouri River to California to take part in the Mexican War. This is the story of their remarkable pioneering trek as told in the diary of Henry Standage one of their number. 295 pages with illustrations. Map endpapers. Front flap of dust jacket tipped in. Rear panel of dust jacket laid in. Bound in original dark blue cloth with illustration in blind on front cover and lettering in gilt on spine. A near fine copy without dust jacket. A handsome copy. <br/> <br/> Century Co., hardcover
192520077New York: The Century Co. . 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Lettering and pictorial design slightly faded. Faint occasional foxing not affecting readability - a bit more apparent on first few pages; Green boards with ornate illustrations to front and spine. Author Alexander-Powell traverses Africa west to east from the northern tip of Angola through the Belgian Congo to Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 355 pages . The Century Co. hardcover
1987256093Guild 1987. hardcover. Good/Good Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall Octavo 8vo. . Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Guild hardcover
199025010Pretoria: University of Pretoria. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0869798022 . With Colour Plates by Dick Findlay 338 species described many in text line illustrations and small maps a very good copy in very good dustjacket this is a very heavy book and will require extra postage costs for international shipping. ; 310 x 220mm; xxxii 772 pages . University of Pretoria hardcover
2001103H1508Great Britain: Cambridge University Press 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 571 pages. Bibliography index and list of cases cited. "This revisionist analysis of the construction of South African legal culture illustrates the larger processes of legal colonisation while the consideration of the interaction between imported doctrine and legislative models with local contexts and approaches also provies a basis for understanding the re-fashioning of law under circumstances of post-colonialism and globalisation." - from dust jacket. Clean bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A superb copy. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
19741700Graz Austria: Akademische Druck 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 5 years experiences & adventures in Gilgit Hunza Nagar Chitral and the easter Hindu-Just mountains. 292 pp ill folding map. Fine in like jacket. Akademische Druck hardcover
1969241a7594London: C. Hurst & Company 1969. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 361 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Deals with the events that led from Nigerian independence to the secession of Biafra in 1967. The authors describe many of these events in greater detail than other author's have done with a wealth of documentation. Their's is the Biafran point of view - the exposition of which is an important object of the book. Ends with Col. Ojukwu's declaration of Biafran independence and does not attempt to deal with the war situation." - from dust jacket. Light wear to book. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Prior owner's name inside front board. Handwritten notes upon back endpaper. Occasional markings throughout contents. A sound clean copy. C. Hurst & Company Hardcover
197725435Silverton CO: Sundance Publications 1977. First edition first printing First printing. Hardcover. Fine. Inscribed by Crouter on the half-title page "Best wishes to the Kasch family. George Crouter 12/77. Crouter photographed all of the state's 53 peaks with elevations of 14000 feet or more commonly known as the Fourteeners. Stunning color photographs of the 53 peaks and other scenery. 144 pages. Fine in clear vinyl dust protector. <br/> <br/> Sundance Publications hardcover
1932055549New York Ny: The Macmillan Company 1932. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Mapsa Plates. Xiv 317 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt. First American Edition March 1932. Worn Spine Cloth Faded Gilt Present But Weak Endpapers Darkened. Ownership Signature Of Prominent U. S. Diplomat John Habib. The U. S. Failure To Develop Any Identifiable North African Policy Is Partly Explained By Churchill's Introduction Which Outlines The Close Official Links 1932 Of The Mahdi's Descendants With British Interests Despite Their Violent Conflicts In The Mahdi's Lifetime- The U. S. Considered British North Africa To Be A Wholly British Issue And Never Re-Adjusted As The British Withdrew Or Were Driven Out; Also Partly By Similar French Predominance In Western North Africa To Which The Us Has Never Developed Any Identifiable Policy As They Also Withdrew Or Were Driven Out. Of Course Nothing Is Ever Our Fault And Nothing Is Ever Our Responsibility Unless It Is An Achievement. It Is Not That We Are Or Have Been Unaware Of This "Other World" We Just Choose To Disengage Except As Vendors. When The Oil Producers Do The Same To Us We Are Somehow Surprised. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
19122124London: Macmillan 1912. First. Hardcover. VG. Clans that inhabit the Hill country of India. 250 pp ill index bibliography gloassary. Folklore religion laws customs etc. VG in original blue gilt stamped cloth. Minor wear at corners and spine tips. Macmillan hardcover
192961163London: Cassell & Company Limited 1929. First Edition. Octavo 22.5cm. Brown cloth titled in gilt on spine; cartographic endpapers; xiv288pp; 16 halftone plates. Bookseller's ticket of Foyles London to front pastedown. Ownership inscription of J. Wayne Fredericks 1957 to front flyleaf. Clean and straight but rear board heavily bumped with board and final two leaves crumpled: Good. Natural history and anthropology of South Africa. Cassell & Company Limited unknown
1976TB27246New York: McGraw-Hill 1976. First Edition. First printing Near fine in red and blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine shows very minor rubbing and with two faint coffee stains to the fore edge of the text block. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with shallow "v" shaped narrow chips from the ends of the spine area and nicks to the fore corners of the panels. The 14th volume in The American Trails Series and the most difficult title in the series to locate. 341 pages with index and bibliography. A very tight crisp and clean copy with no marks dates or prior owner's names or book plates. McGraw-Hill hardcover
2004052863Hillsboro OR: TimberTimes/Timber Times 2004. Revised edition Second printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Revised from the Sundance first edition. In its prime the Boise Payette was the big mills big stumpage big company towns big camps and railroad empire that typified the Weyerhaeuser name. It operated its own common carrier and in addition it fostered two more and dominated yet a fourth. These railroads the Boise Payette's logging lines and that of competitor Hallack and Howard Lumber embody the whole of logging railroad history in Southern Idaho. 192 pages with photographs maps rosters and index. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. A new unread copy. <br/> <br/> TimberTimes/Timber Times hardcover
198925275Denver CO: Sundance Publications 1989. First edition first printing . Hardcover. Fine. The railroads and logging of Boise Payette Lumber. 192 pages with photographs maps and rosters. Fine and bright in fitted clear vinyl dust protector as issued. <br/> <br/> Sundance Publications hardcover
198925016Denver CO: Sundance Publications 1989. First edition first printing . Hardcover. Fine. Copy number 41 signed by Witherell. The railroads and logging of Boise Payette Lumber. 192 pages with photographs maps and rosters. Fine and bright in fitted clear vinyl dust protector as issued. <br/> <br/> Sundance Publications hardcover
42950GLASGOW BROWN SON AND FERGUSON LTD. 1928. THIRD EDITION. QUARTER LEATHER A VERY GOOD COPY IN PRIZE BINDING FROM PANGBORNE NAUTICAL COLLEGE. PRESENTED TO N.N. ADAMS - TOGETHER WITH A PRINTED SHEET GIVING SOME BIOGRAPHICAL DETAIL AND NEWS OF HIS DEATH ON H.M.S.HOOD. ALSO RELEVANT INSCRIPTION ON INSIDE FRONT BOARD AND BOOKPLATE. BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS. GLASGOW, BROWN, SON AND FERGUSON LTD., 1928 hardcover
1881005514Boston MA: De Wolfe Fiske 1881. 761pp/illus. "From the most authentic sources: Livingstone's two large volumes South Africa and The Zambesi Expedition; his Last Journals the Reports of the London Geographical Society the works of their cotemporaries and various other writings." Beautiful decorative cover and spine. Minimal markings spine and title page. Hinges cracked. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. De Wolfe, Fiske hardcover
1935031343Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing. 336 pp. including index plus 8 pages of illustrations. Very light shelf wear. The boards are soiled and stained in spots. The spine is slightly faded. Otherwise fine: unmarked and in a square sound binding with hinges intact. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
197025431Chicago: Sage Books/Swallow Press 1970. First edition thus . Hardcover. Fine. Vallez Jerry. Number 99 of 250 copies signed by the editor snell and the artist Vallez. Said to be an authentic reprint of the long suppressed 1882 edition published J.H.Chambers & Co. See Howes; USiana T-355a. See Adam; Six-Guns 2245. 344 pages with photographs illustrations bibliography and index. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket in fine publisher's slipcase. <br/> <br/> Sage Books/Swallow Press hardcover
189023228London: Richard Bentley and Son. Very Good. 1890. Second Edition. Hardcover. Half Title is "Major Barttelot's Diary on the Congo". With portrait frontispiece and 3 other illustrations 2 fold out maps at rear of book original covers have some discolouration marks decorative endpapers a very good copy. ; 230 x 150mm; xiv 414 pages . Richard Bentley and Son hardcover
18311724London: Oriental Translation Fund 1831. First in English. Hardcover. VG. written by his son. Abridged and translated from the Persia. Interesting biography of an important Indian resident with much information compiled from other nawabs. Scarce. VG in original cloth with a small amount of wormholing. Oriental Translation Fund hardcover
1830025804London: John Murray 1830. First Edition . Original Printed Cloth. Very Good. Frontispiece; Large Folding Map At Rear. 16 Pp Catalogue; Frontispiece With Blue-Tinted Tissue Guard; Vii With Instructions To Binder On Verso Of Vii; 535 With Map Facing P 43; Large Folding Map Tipped Onto Rear Pastedown. Title Page And Front Cover Dated 1830. Wear With Splits At Top And Bottom Spine Edges. Contents Clean No Names Oir Marks <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
19283993London: Oxford University Press 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. VG. 216 pp ill. folding map. Biography of the great Arabian traveler. VG in original cloth. Oxford University Press hardcover
1923300595Constable 1923. hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall Octavo 8vo. . Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item. Constable hardcover
185831352Philadelphia PA: John E. Potter and Company 1858. Early reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. Originally published by G.G. Evans Philadelphia in 1858. 406 pages with 10 pages of ads in the rear. Bound in original brown cloth with lettering and border design stamped in black. Several book plates on front endpapers one with the name Warren Cheney with an Alaska moteef and a small date of 1905. Repaired tear to cloth at head of spine. A very good copy. <br/> <br/> John E. Potter and Company hardcover
