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1979258641New York: Viking Press 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page. Previous owner sticker to frontispiece number penned to front pastedown otherwise no markings in text.Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page Dust jacket has small closed tear to top; dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Viking Press unknown books
19151272Oxford: Clarendon Press 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xxvi 428 pp 6 general appendix. Moderate general wear to boards light offsetting to endpapers; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Includes sections on Nationalism and National Identity in the Near East Byzantism Hellenism Panslavism the Macedonian Questions the Ottoman Revolution the War of the Coalition Turkish Greek and Balkan Militarism and the War of Partition. Clarendon Press hardcover books
198066251980. Softcover. VG previous owner stamps inside cover. Wraps. 58 pp. 21 color plates. Catalogue and short essay written by Mark Rosenthal. Also includes some isolated and I suppose important quotations by the artist arranged chronologically. Catalogue lists 34 works. Bibliography. Lovely color plates. unknown books
197411400Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1974. Soft cover. Near Fine. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis/Stockholm Studies in History Number 20. 336 pp with index and bibliography. Trade paperback with slight cover wear. Clean tight unmarked. Almqvist & Wiksell paperback books
19904384NY: Harmony Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0517581744 . Guided walks in England France and the United States. Author is the grandson of Vita Sackville-West and Horald Nicolson. First printing of the American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Harmony Books hardcover books
185327146Paris France.: Garnier Freres Libraires-Editeurs 1853. 480 pages. A 19th century French translation of the Niccolo Machiavelli classic of political philosophy and a discussion of the content. Previous owner small book-number ticket on front endpaper. Volume approx. 4 3/4" x 7" size; Bound in marbled paper covered boards dark green morocco leather spine gilt decorated & titled marbled endpapers. Some edge tips wear to the binding; title page with some spotting; in very good condition. Later Edition. Leather. Very Good. Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs books
1999257619Copenhagen: Cities of Copenhagen and Malmoe 1999. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Oblong Octavo; no markings of any kind. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket. Cities of Copenhagen and Malmoe unknown books
199821963NY: Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0192116959 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
1958252355London: MacGibbon & Kee 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. MacGibbon & Kee unknown books
18162221846<p>First edition. 4" x 2 1/4". Red straight-grain morocco gilt the upper cover with a crowned monogram of Louis XVIII wrought of gilded  metal affixed covers with gilt rolls with a fleur-de-lys motif spine with gilt vines all edges gilt. Enclosed in a slipcase of full red morocco similarly tooled the spine with two crowns and two fleurs-de-lys. Fine. 349 pages.</p><p>Illustrated with three engraved plates:</p><p>1. "Vue du Port Cette" depicting two sailing ships.</p><p>2. "Vue Interieure du Port de Brest"</p><p>3. "Vue de la Ville et du Port de Bayonne"</p><p>Printed by J. M. Eberhart rue du Foin-St. Jacques.</p><p>Book plate of the bookbinder and collector Leon Gruel.</p> Le Feuil hardcover books
17142Girls' Education Science Laboratory with 6 figures around a table filled with special equipment. c. 1920s. Real photo postcard. 3.5 x 5.5 in. From unknown European country. 4 girls in matching uniforms stand around a table engage in experiments and write observations in their notebooks. 1 uniformed young man stands nearby while an older student or teacher supervises. This dates from the 1920s after WWI had ended but a period in which militarization in Europe was considered of upmost national importance. The early 20th century was also a period of great development for women's education as more schools and programs opened to girls. Real photo postcard was never mailed and has no message written on verso. Creases in lower and upper right corners. In good condition. unknown books
1972198064Chicago: Solidarity Bookshop and Chicago Black Cross 1972. 16p. wraps 8.75x11.25 inches staples rusted else very good condition. On the case of Giuseppe Pinelli secretary of the Italian branch of the Anarchist Black Cross who died in police custody in 1969. Solidarity Bookshop and Chicago Black Cross unknown books
197286160Chicago: Solidarity Bookshop and Chicago Black Cross 1972. 16p. stapled wraps with a reproduction of an original block-print of the defenestration 8.75x11.25 inches wraps lightly toned along edges else very good condition. On the case of Giuseppe Pinelli secretary of the Italian branch of the Anarchist Black Cross who died in police custody in 1969. Solidarity Bookshop and Chicago Black Cross unknown books
197215687Tel Aviv: Hamenora for the Zaglembier Society and Pinkas-Zaglembier Committee Melbourne 1972. Hardcover. Very good/very good. pp. 613 82. Extensively illustrated with historic photographs b/w. Text in English Yiddish Hebrew. Corners bumped boards lightly edgeworn contents clean and sound. In original dust jacket which has some creasing and chipping to the spine ends. Holocaust memorial book for Zaglembie Poland. Oversized; shipping will be more than standard for priority or international orders. Hamenora for the Zaglembier Society and Pinkas-Zaglembier Committee, Melbourne hardcover books
186018974Edinburgh: William Tait 1860. Softcover. Good. 7 x 10.25 in pp 5 179 with frontis portrait of the author. Wrappers chipped at the corners with some dust soilng and foxing dampstain to portrait leaf only presumably occurred prior to being bound in some dogeared corners; contents clean binding sound. Elliott 1781-1849 was an English poet and merchant. In his youth he wrote pastoral poems but by the early 1830s he had begun to infuse poltiics into his work "by denouncing the 'bread tax' the exploitation of child and adult labour and the low wages of the working classes and by advocating free trade. In 1830 Elliott helped to found the short-lived Sheffield Mechanics Anti-Bread Tax Society and formed the Sheffield Anti-Corn Law Society in 1834.it was his protest verse favourably reviewed by Thomas Carlyle Bulwer-Lytton the Howitts W. J. Fox and Geraldine Jewsbury which bolstered his reputation as poet of the poor even after he had accumulated substantial wealth" DNB. This volume collects both his early worth and his Corn-Law Rhymes. William Tait paperback books
200033583Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 081172901X . First American printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Stackpole Books hardcover books
200540193NY:: Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0521770904 . First edition. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down else fine in a very near fine short closed edge tear at the crown of the spine dust jacket. . Cambridge University Press, hardcover books
1921316New York: William Edwin Rudge 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 36 pp with illustrations in the text. Original paper covered boards with spine label. Edgeworn backstrip rubbed chipped and loosening at head of spine. Small bookplate of W. Van R. Whitall on front pastedown; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by Rudge at Mount Vernon NY in December 1921. One of five hundred copies printed on antique wove paper. William Edwin Rudge hardcover books
1956250914Strasbourg: Council of Europe 1956. 318p. wraps 5.25 x 8.25 inches lightly worn front wrap dampstained along top edge else good condition. Council of Europe unknown books
199724237Amsterdam Holland: Fund for Central and East European Book Projects 1997. 125 pages; laid-in is a postcard inscribed and signed from the editor Vera Ebels-Dolonova; preface by Timothy Garton Ash; the 'portraits' include: Jelenkor Kiado- Gabor Csordas - Pecs Hungary by Renee Postma; Zeszyty Lierackie - Barbara Torunczyk - Warsaw Poland by Michel Maas; Savremennik - Vladimir Zarev - Sofia Bulgaria by Olaf Tempelman; Baltos Lankos - Saulius Zukas -Vilnius Lithuania by Felix Kaplan; Odjek - Nermina Kurspahic -Sarajevo Bosnia by Postma; Apostrof - Marta Petreu - Cluj Romania by Tempelman; Erasmus Guild - Vesna Pusic - Zagreb Croatia by Postma; Kritica & Kontext - Samuel Abraham - Bratislava Slovakia by Maas; Mlada Fronta - Vladimir Pistorius - Prague Czech Republic by Vera Ebels-Dolonova; also with an report on publishing in Central and Eastern Europe 'State of Affairs' by Ebels-Dolonova; also "The Book Continent" Reflections on the Trias Libraria" by Laurens van Krevelen and list of activities of the Fund list of supported publications funding contributors; approx. 6 1/2" x 8 3/4" size; bound in illustrated stiff cardstock softcovers; light wear; in very good condition interesting intimate details on the lives and struggles of these Central and Eastern European publishers to continue their literary and productive work. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Fund for Central and East European Book Projects Paperback books
1874221821Philadelphia; Chicago: National Publishing Company 1874. Hard Cover. Good binding. Previous owner's name written at top of title page. No pencil or ink markings in text. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering. Good binding. National Publishing Company unknown books
1900309837V.p. in Europe chiefly Germany France Switzerland & Italy 1900. 92 vintage albumen and gelatin silver prints many hand-colored mounted to album leaves photos measure from approximately 6-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches to 10-1/2 x 8 inches. 4to. Full contemporary padded morocco with brass clasp a.e.g. Fine. 92 vintage albumen and gelatin silver prints many hand-colored mounted to album leaves photos measure from approximately 6-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches to 10-1/2 x 8 inches. 4to. Album of professional photographs of European travel destinations including the Midi Monte Carlo Stockholm Brussels London Capri Innsbruck Jena Paris Venice and St. Moritz. Many of the images are hand-colored; a few of the photographers are named including C. Hertel Sommer Naples and C. Naya Venice. The front cover title translates to "Memories of Travel unknown books
1901001091Paris: Combet & Cie. Ancienne Librairie Furne 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Leloir Maurice. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. iv 84 pp. Lavish color illustrations many full page others underlaying the text as was a winsome feature of this series of young adult biographies of French heroes and leaders from the early twentieth century. The Maurice Leloir illustrations for this biography of Cardinal Richelieu are arguably the finest of this series. A few tiny blisters on the decorated boards. Top corner with bumping. A very good copy or better. <br/><br/> Combet & Cie. (Ancienne Librairie Furne) hardcover books
530London: Phaidon. Hardcover. Very Good /Good. 117 pp with 70 b/w and color illustrated plates. Very light wear including light offsetting to rear endpapers; else fine; clean and sound. Dust jacket shows shelf wear with some tape repairs and reinforcements. Undated. "The pictures in this book speak for themselves: we turn the pages and are led through Roman arches past ancient monuments and stones we are brought face to face with the Romans portrayed in stone and in mosaics we overlook vistas of Colosseum and Forum we walk by the fallen ruins of the glory of ancient Rome" dust jacket. Due to size shipping charges may be more than standard for priority or international orders. Phaidon hardcover books
199922373NY: Continuum. As New in As New dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 082641205X . First edition. As new in like dust jacket. . Continuum hardcover books
