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199020163Paris: Fayard / Cercle de la Librairie 1990. Later printing. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Thick octavo over size. Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Some soiling to foredge of texblock. 909 p. w/maps chapter endnotes bibliography index. The second volume in this scholarly series on the history of French publishing focusingon one on the Enlightenment period perhaps the apogee of French printing. <br/><br/> Fayard / Cercle de la Librairie paperback
31434This U.S. admiral was commander of the U.S.S. Minnesota when she struck a German mine in September 1918 but he got his ship to port without loss of life and was decorated for it; commander-in-chief of the U.S. Fleet 1930-31. Handsome "J.V. Chase / Admiral U.S. Navy" in blue fountain pen 5 3/4" X 3 3/4" n.p. n.y. 1930-31. Very good. Faint age toning. On slip with printed "Flagship of the Commander in Chief / United States Fleet" and blue four-star flag insignia at top. unknown
22996One of the legends of modern dance principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre from 1940 to 1960 also a co-director from 1945 to 1980. Signature and "American Ballet Theatre" heavy stock 5" X 3" card Chicago IL 1969 April 20. Fine. With original envelope. Scarce. unknown
29111Heber City UT: North American Decoys. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers are a little faded and there is a smudge inside the front cover. Inscribed by both Lemuel & Stephen inside the front cover. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; Signed by Biographee . North American Decoys hardcover
2008455894Beijing: ChengXuan 2008. Paperback. Good condition. Catalogue No. 038. Text is in English and Chinese. One or two minor scores on covers. Spine ends are bumped. Pages are clean and the text and illustrations are clear. AF. Paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. ChengXuan Paperback
2013023557The Working Writer Discovery Group 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. F/F/1st ed.stated 1st pring/Signed. This copy looks brand new. No wear to jacket which has been covered with a mylar sleeve. No fade to jacket price intact Book is clean and unmarked binding tight corners sharp. First edition stated first printing with a complete number line starting with 0then moving on to 1. Boldly signed on title pagename only by author Chervis Isom. 359pp. endnotes acknowledgements. Book is sent to you in an acid free document bag for storage mailed boxed and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BRBC <br/> <br/> The Working Writer Discovery Group hardcover
1940A37791Akron OH: Chevrolet Motor Division. Very Good. 1940. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is an oblong booklet with illustrated paper covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The corners of the book covers have some beginning rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Soap Box Derby is a youth soapbox car racing program which has been run in the United States since 1934. World Championship finals are held each July at Derby Downs in Akron Ohio. Cars competing in this and related events are unpowered relying completely upon gravity to move." . Chevrolet Motor Division paperback
1999BOOKS003816319 pages with frontispiece figures illustrations plates appendixes and index. Oblong royal octavo 9" x 12" bound in original publisher pictorial wrappers. Appendix b: The Van den Bergh Collection by Edward de Bock. First edition.<br /><br />This study is the result of more than three decades of collaboration in the development of the Moche Archive at the University of California Los Angeles. The Archive contains more than 160000 photographs of Moche objects in museums and private collections throughout the world was created to facilitate the study of Moche civilization through a systematic analysis of what is depicted in Moche art. When this study began it concentrated on ceramic sculptures of plants animals people and objects. It became clear that fineline painted vessels were much more informative because they often portrayed objects in context and depict activities in which two or more figures participate. In drawing an analogy from Christian art an attempt to reconstruct the Nativity by studying individual sculptures of the Christ child Mary or the wise men would be fruitless until one had seen the entire nativity with figures animals stable and star portrayed together. It was the fineline painting of the Moche that provided the key to interpreting their art.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />A Near fine copy.<br /> UCLA Fowler Museum Press paperback
22101Popular and prolific English poet critic and novelist whose verse collections include "Flood of Life" 1917 and "Bells of Rye" 1960 with many in between. ANS 1p 5" X 8" Holborn England 1936 February 12. Addressed to "Sir." Very good. File hole at upper left; large blue pencilled checkmark in lower area. "I shall be glad to give a reading from my new collection of poems 'Twelve Noon' on Feb. 26th at 5.15 p.m." Attractively penned. unknown
198323965np: Maine State Museum 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 11.3x8.8x0.7in. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>With 14 color and 16 black and white illustrations and 32 color plates. <br>117pp 2.13lb 11.3x8.8x0.7in Maine State Museum hardcover
197828761Munchen: Erst Battenberg. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 3870451213 . Text is all in German. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 327 pages . Erst Battenberg hardcover
24028Paperback. This American opera singer also appeared in the 1937 film "Make a Wish." Printed program of the Chicago Grand Opera Company 16pp 7" X 10" Chicago IL 1934 January 27. Very good. Slight bit of age toning to outer wrappers only. Program for a performance of Puccini's "Turandot" featuring Rosa Raisa as Princess Turandot. Claire who played the role of "Liu a Young Slave Girl" has signed large and bold in black fountain pen across the center spread pp. 8-9. Quite attractive. paperback
189438225London: Crosby Lockwood and Son. Very Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned boards rubbed slightly . shaken cup rings on front boards owner signature on half-title. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown decorated cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. xii 208 pp 64 pp of publishers ads at rear. Eight plates reproducing microscopic images of paper fibers. Index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Crosby Lockwood and Son hardcover
44260Univ. Oklahoma. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. 0806105240 . Exlibrary with usual library markings. Two volume set: 267 301 pages. . Univ. Oklahoma hardcover
1848033588Philadelphia PA: Lea and Blanchard 1848. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Dark brown cloth. 1848 printing early reprint of the Ninth English Edition first published in Philadelphia in 1844. Cloth mildly soiled with backstrip showing evidence of glue repair mended/remounted though lacking approx. 1/4" at head of spine with paper title label only partial due to silverfishing. Firm hinges fully intact binding clean and virtually unmarked interior showing mild foxing to endsheets only unusually clean and bright all text block edges uniform. Lea and Blanchard Hardcover
199358611<p>Sykesville MD: Greenberg Publishing. Good with no dust jacket; Lower edge of last fifteen pages damaged with no . text affected. 1993. First Printing. Hardcover. 0897782305 . Illustrated hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Hafner expert Paul A. Doyle. Acknowledgments black and white photos and illustrations and color photos. This volume presents the results of decades of collecting experience and research by eminent experts on Carlisle & Finch Hafner and Dorfan. from the rear cover ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 239 pages .</p> Greenberg Publishing hardcover
1947BOOKS020081INew York: Privately printed. Fine copy in slightly sunned slipcase. 1947. 1st. hardcover. 8vo 94 pp. plates Limited to 500 copies . Privately printed hardcover
200413037NY: Knopf. As New in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. Stated First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. 0375414576 . The volume is in perfect pristine condition. AS NEW. B&W Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 957 xlii pp . Knopf hardcover
201827372Cambridge MA: The MIT Press. New in New dust jacket. 2018. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0262037734 . Signed by the author on the title page. Publisher's full black cloth white lettering on spine. Illustrated with numerous B&W photographs. Includes extensive Notes Bibliography and Index. The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war natural disaster vandalism neglect and technical obsolescence.The monuments-movable immovable tangible and intangible-of the world's shared cultural heritage are at risk. War terrorism natural disaster vandalism and neglect make the work of preservation a greater challenge than it has been since World War II. Cloonan makes the case that at this critical juncture we must consider preservation in the broadest possible contexts. Preservation requires the efforts of an increasing number of stakeholders.In order to explore the cultural political technological economic and ethical dimensions of preservation Cloonan examines particular monuments and their preservation dilemmas. The massive Bamiyan Buddhas blown up by the Taliban in 2001 are still the subject of debates over how or whether to preserve what remains and the US National Park Service has undertaken the complex task of preserving the symbolic and often ephemeral objects that visitors leave at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial-to take just two of the many examples described in the book. Cloonan also considers the ongoing genocide and cultural genocide in Syria; the challenges of preserving our digital heritage; the dynamic between original and copy; efforts to preserve the papers and architectural fragments of the architect Louis Sullivan; and the possibility of sustainable preservation. In the end Cloonan suggests we are what we preserve-and don't preserve. Every day we make preservation decisions individually and collectively that have longer-term ramifications than we might expect. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect pristine condition; unread unmarked tight square and clean. NEW/NEW. B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 280 pp. Signed by Author . The MIT Press hardcover
1986063583London: Bloomsbury Books 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Black cloth-effect boards lettered in gold foil. As issued. 1st thus 1986 reprinting the 9th edition revised and enlarged. Black pictorial dust jacket shows just a hint of surface rubbing price-clipped front flap now in mylar. xxxviii700 pp. illus. Bloomsbury Books Hardcover
28272West Virginia's greatest unofficial representative and cheerleader ever a revered newspaperman famed for founding "The West Virginia Hillbilly" in 1957 legendary for preserving and publishing the history and folklore of this state; he published authored and edited numerous regional history volumes such as "The West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia" "Ma and Pa and Mister Kennedy" 1965 "West Virginia Songbook" 1974 "West Virginia Picture Book" 1978 and others. TLS 1p 8½" X 11" Richwood WV 1971 July 8. Addressed to noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar ARNOLD F. GATES 1914-93. Very good. On "West Virginia Hillbilly" letterhead Comstock replies graciously to a request for information about renowned John Brown scholar and West Virginian Boyd Stutler and his well-known Brown collection: "I wish I could tell you more about Boyd Stutler. Only recently we had such an inquiry and my staff spent hours going over my unindexed paper to find my Comstock Load Comments on his passing. Nobody even found it. Now as to the collection: It is shrouded in mystery. There was a drive here. to see that it stayed in the state. But rumor has it that the son sold it to parties unknown. I wish I could tell you more. I wish I knew more. Enclosed not present is a book of my own a bit of a sleeper which surprisingly to me sold 200000 copies last year. Note too if you will my ambitious plans regarding a 50-volume encyclopedia for my state of West Virginia." Boldly signed in red ballpoint. Great and varied contents! unknown
1910011889Philadelphia PA: John C. Winston Co. 1910. Ex-Library. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum library nominally marked/stamped little actual wear with hand-written call number on lower portion. Red cloth elaborately decorated in gilt top edges in gilt red silk marks bound in. Modestly rubbed at corners and spine extremities. Complete in two volumes. vii609 v648 pp. illus. w/ sepia-toned plates each with separate guard scattered through both volumes. Vol. I inner hinge very slightly starting Vol. II showing slight fore-edge bruising to several early leaves interiors otherwise intact and clean. This set does not retain the original cloth jackets in which it was issued. John C. Winston Co. Hardcover
198013235New York: Rizzoli 1980. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. 10.0x7.7x0.9in. Profusely illustrated. <br>182pp 1.80lb 10.0x7.7x0.9in Rizzoli hardcover
196031163New York: Columbia Recording Corporation 1960. 4to. Black buckram spine and glossy pictorial paper over boards folder housing two heavy stock manila sleeves each bearing a thick 33 1/3 rpm record album. Fine/Very good. Both records appear mint and unused while the large folder shows mild edgewear. Columbia Masterworks Set MX-266 of Copland's 1942 masterpiece conducted by Artur Rodzinski and with Kenneth Spencer narrating. A superb set. Columbia Recording Corporation unknown
19948634NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. As New in As New dust jacket. 1994. Second Edition. 1. Hard Cover. 0684195976 . Signed by the Patricia Cornwell. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth of cream cloth boards orange gilt lettering on spine. Cornwell Body of Evidence ; All That Remains casts a wider surer narrative net in the latest case set for her increasingly complex heroine Kay Scarpetta Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia. As an FBI consultant Scarpetta investigates the North Carolina murder of 11-year-old Emily Steiner whose mutilation suggests the M.O. of an escaped killer met previously in Cruel and Unusual. Forensic clues from the body's second autopsy prompt Scarpetta to request that certain experiments be made at the University of Tennessee's Decay Research Facility known as the Body Farm. Meanwhile she Pete Marino of the Richmond Va. police and her new love interest FBI Unit Chief Benton Wesley investigate the apparent suicide from autoerotic asphyxiation of the local FBI agent in charge of the case. Then Scarpetta's computer-whiz niece Lucy working at FBI headquarters at Quantico is charged with violating security. During her travels between North Carolina and Virginia Scarpetta worries about both the less-than-forthcoming Lucy and Marino who becomes emotionally entangled with Emily's beautiful stricken mother. Results at the Body Farm lead her to a convincing if abrupt resolution. Deeper characterization and a more intricate plot mark this fifth in a consistently compelling series. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW. Kay Scarpetta Mysteries Series. Vol. 5. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 320 pp. Signed by Author . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover