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1888449281888. Maine Sir Henry Sumner 1822-1888. Lectures on the Early History of Institutions. New York: Henry Holt and Company 1888. viii 412 pp. Octavo 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". Original cloth blind frames to boards gilt titles to spine. Light rubbing to boards spine ends and corners bumped and lightly worn hinges starting internally clean. $95. First American edition. This work on historical jurisprudence is a sequel to Maine's important Ancient Law 1861. unknown books
1977SKU1018250Liberty Fund Inc 1977-07-01. Hardcover. New. 0913966142 New in shrink wrap. From our shop to your shelf! Liberty Fund Inc hardcover books
187630688NY: Henry Holt and Co. 1876. Enlarged Third ed. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket. Six Lectures Delivered at Oxford to Which are Added Other Lectures Addresses and Essays. NY: Henry Holt and Co. 1876. Enlarged Third ed. 413 ads pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Extremities bumped and rubbed. Pressure points worn and chipped. Spine sunned and shaken. Boards lightly scuffed and soiled. Top edge dust-soiled. Pages toned with light scattered soiling and chipping. Endpapers creased. Several signatures uneven a few cracked. Text block clean and bright. Good/No dust jacket. Henry Holt and Co. hardcover books
195762473London: Thames & Hudson 1957. hardcover. very good/very good. Translated from French by Rita Eldon and B.W. Robinson. 261pp. 8vo burgundy cloth d.w. London: Thames and Hudson 1957. Very good .<br/><br/> Thames & Hudson unknown books
195740451London: Thames and Hudson 1957. First Edition. 8vo pp. viii 261. Translated from the French by Rita Eldon and B. W. Robinson. Illustrated with diagrams. VG in somewhat chipped and browned dj. Thames and Hudson unknown books
192061861On a lake in northern New England 1920. Photographs. Small snapshots 3 x 4 1/2 inches nice images. The vintage outboard motor being used is especially interesting. Very good. 8871. <br/><br/> unknown books
190540168Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1905. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Grey cloth. Printed in green and gold t.e.g. Fine. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Houghton, Mifflin and Company unknown books
188517873New York: Century Magazine 1885. 1 vols. 4 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches. On stiff paper. Light wear. 1 vols. 4 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches. Early illustration of Mt. Desert. An early illustration of this island resort in Maine. From the well-known collection of American Artists' letters manuscripts and rare printed items formed by Professor E. Maurice Bloch. Century Magazine unknown books
185925184Rockville CT: Press of the Tolland County Republican 1859. 8pp untrimmed. Folded fold splitting pinned. Tanned with some spotting. Good. <br/><br/> The author writes humorous poetry to express his distress at new and excessive tax laws. A complete list of taxable property would take "Methuselah's hours.Although I have little that now commands cash; I've plenty in 'ruins' all broken to smash; A fine dish of 'all-sorts' to publish in form; Would make out a list thrice as long as my arm. So I must abbreviate and name them in groups; then let our great ASSES-ors examine to boot."<br/>OCLC 15328280 9. Press of the Tolland County Republican unknown books
1982273789Birmingham: Legal Classics Library 1982. Reprint. hardcover. fine. viii 415 pages 32 pages of ads. Thick 8vo full burgundy leather with ornate gilt decorations. Birmingham: Legal Classics Library 1982. A fine copy.<br/><br/> A facsimile of the original 1861 London edition.<br/><br/> Legal Classics Library unknown books
1986236461New York: Dorset Press 1986. hardcover. fine/very good. 8vo 1/2 black cloth d.w. New York: Dorset Press 1986. Very good<br/><br/> Dorset Press unknown books
188363670New York: Henry Holt and Company 1883. First edition. 23cm. 402pp. Rust colored cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Spine ends with wear some rubbing. Pencil marks in margins of some pages few pencil notes on blank page in the back. <br/><br/> Henry Holt and Company hardcover books
188661544New York: Henry Holt and Company 1886. First American. 8vo. xii 261 pp. Rust brown cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Very good. <br/><br/> Henry Holt and Company hardcover books
187663671New York: Henry Holt and Company 1876. Third enlarged edition. 23cm. xii 413pp. 6 ads. Rust colored cloth with gilt stamped spine. Spine ends worn front joint with small area rubbed through. Front hinge repaired. Slightly soiled. A few pencil marks in page margins some pencil notes on blank page in rear. <br/><br/> Henry Holt and Company hardcover books
2005Embry 195792St. Martin's Press 2005. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. St. Martin's Press, 2005. First edition, first printing. unknown books
200441324NY:: St. Martin's. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0312328478 . The author's first book. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . St. Martin's, hardcover books
200431114NY: St. Martin's. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0312328478 . First printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . St. Martin's hardcover books
195988054New York: Ballantine Books 1959. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Ballantine Books 360K. Issued earlier in Britain as Count-Down 1959. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 3-269. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 116. Reginald 09560A. A fine copy. #88054 Ballantine Books unknown books
1961105070London: Hodder and Stoughton 1961. Octavo boards. First edition. Slight spine lean some foxing to top and fore-edges of text block bruise to lower right corner of front cover a very good copy in good dust jacket with some wear wear foxing and soiling and clipped price. #105070 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
1958139759London: Hodder and Stoughton 1958. Octavo boards. First edition. "Nuclear tests cause the oceans to drain away under the Earth's crust. A stiff-upper-lipped British disaster novel of the old school and one of Maine's better books. Following the drought of 1976 it was revised and reissued in the UK as THIRST!" - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition. p. 373. Brians. Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984 p. 369. Small book label of Dr. Anthony R. Michaelis editor of Discovery affixed to front free endpaper. Top edge of pages a bit dusty and foxed else a fine copy in very good dust jacket with soiling and age-darkening to spine panel shelf wear at edges small chips from front corner tips and 15 mm closed tear at lower rear spine fold. A scarce book seldom found in jacket. #139759 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
1955158323New York: Rinehart & Company 1955. Octavo boards. First U.S. edition. A novel of time travel about a "murdered" scientist lost in a chain of endless futures trying to get back to his own time. Based on the author's radio play "The Einstein Highway" broadcast by the BBC. 21 February 1954. Early owners signature at top edge of front free endpaper. Age-darkening to text block common to this book a nearly fine copy in good plus dust jacket with wear and shallow chipping at edges and age tanning to rear panel. #158323 Rinehart & Company unknown books
1956143881New York: Bantam Books 1956. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam Books A1470. A novel of time travel about a "murdered" scientist lost in a chain of endless futures trying to get back to his own time. Based on the author's radio play "The Einstein Highway" broadcast by the BBC. 21 February 1954. Light wear to cover edges a very good copy. #143881 Bantam Books unknown books
1955105071New York: Rinehart & Company 1955. Octavo boards. First U.S. edition. A novel of time travel about a "murdered" scientist lost in a chain of endless futures trying to get back to his own time. Based on the author's radio play "The Einstein Highway" broadcast by the BBC. 21 February 1954. Mild age-darkening to text block common to this book a nearly fine copy in very good plus dust jacket with light wear mostly along top edges rubbing along rear spine fold and dust soiling to rear panel. #105071 Rinehart & Company unknown books
1955117568London: Hodder and Stoughton 1955. Octavo boards. First edition. A novel of time travel about a "murdered" scientist lost in a chain of endless futures trying to get back to his own time. Based on the author's radio play "The Einstein Highway" broadcast by the BBC. 21 February 1954. A fine copy in very good jacket with clipped price and general staining mostly to rear panel. Still presents well. Scarce. #117568 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
196126558London: Hodder and Stoughton. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped nice tight clean copy just the teensiest bumping to the lower front corner; the jacket is virtually flawless downgraded from Fine only because of the price-clipping and a touch of soiling to the rear panel. "John Soames is thirty years old and physiologically speaking alive. But by some trick of fate he has never become conscious. He is awoken and brought to full consciousness by a surgeon's knife a newborn baby with the body of a healthy young man." Basis for the 1970 British-American film of the same name starring Terence Stamp and Robert Vaughn; a critical and box-office disappointment on its original release the film has gained a bit of a retrospective cult reputation with one online critic calling it "a dark gem and a worthy pretender to the British horror hall of fame." Uncommon in the first edition all the more so in such outstanding condition. . Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books
