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19372341Peiping China: Herni Vetch 1937. 6" x 9" pp. xii 3 2-78; 103 black and white plates. Hardcover quarter-bound in light blue cloth and tan paper boards. Boards are bent at the corners with light wrinkling at the edges of the spine. Paper boards are toned. Cracked gutter at page xii though intact. A few spots of foxing throughout text but otherwise sound. Plates are bright and clean. Good to very good. <br /> <br /> A detailed study of Chinese dynastic bronze mirrors by age style and typography. Herni Vetch unknown
1924016717Cardiff Wales: Business Statistics Co 1924. Octavo. 303p Very scarce published for investors and owners of the coal and coke mines. NYPL has a copy of the 1924. Cambridge and Oxford report copies also. The first 200 pages list in detail the histories of coal mining in Great Britain as well as the details of each of the firms. The remainder gives statistics of the reserves of coals the coal prices wages accidental deaths. P. 292-295 called diary gives the events in the industry throughout the year beginning with railway rates reduced strikes settlements minimum wage bill introduced in Parliament the owers resistance the Tub train disaster and the rumination of the labor agreement at the end of the year. An indepth look at coal and coke mining in terms of the owner's interest and the miner's appeals for a fair wage. Bound in brown cloth lettered in gilt spine gilt but fading some rubbing to edges. Business Statistics Co unknown books
1997__1859960367Bios Scientific Pub Ltd 1997. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 258 pages. 9.49x6.34x0.79 inches. Bios Scientific Pub Ltd hardcover
1937263819Peiping: H. Vetch 1937. xii 2 78 p. interspersed with black and white photo plates; green cloth boards with gilt title on spine; very good with minor shelfwear; 1949 ownership signature of Lietenant Colonel S.W. Bogan on half-title page front endpaper has smaller signature of David B. Burnham. Swallow the Ningbo-born son of missionary parents was a teacher and businessman with a wide-ranging career at one time tutoring the sons of President Yuan Shih-kai. H. Vetch unknown books
1946521447Prairie City Illinois: The Press of James A. Decker 1946. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slim 16mo. Cloth and papercovered boards with spine and cover titled in gilt. Trifle worn with a tiny stain on the lower board and rear fly just about fine in a toned about very good dust jacket with loss at the folds and spine ends and the rear panel soiled. Advance copy with a stamp completed in manuscript on the front pastedown and "Editorial Copy" stamped on the rear fly. First book by the poet and founder of the Alan Swallow Press. A relatively uncommon Decker Press book. The Press of James A. Decker hardcover
1930001713Peking: The French Bookstore 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to 135 pgs. plus map of Peking and 1 page of Errata's. This is the reissue of the 1st edition in 1927. Illustrated bound in red cloth black lettering on front cover and spine. Some spot staining on front cover and a few creases in cloth at lower edge of spine. A good copy. <br/> <br/> The French Bookstore hardcover
1921007562D. Co. 10th Regiment Infantry Massachusetts State Guard 1921 58 pages. A rare book. Only one copy in OCLC at the Library of Congress. SIGNED by 26 members of the Guard who served on Corey Hill during the Spanish Influenza epidemic caring for men of the United States Merchant Marine and at South Boston during the stike of the Boston Police. Size: 8vo. Illus. by Illustrated. Signed. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Very Good. D. Co., 10th Regiment Infantry, Massachusetts State Guard hardcover
1944572890Boston: Bruce Humphries Inc 1944. Softcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Edited by Alan Swallow. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with tiny nicks at the crown. Advance Review Copy with publisher's printed slip laid in. Contributors include Eudora Welty Wallace Stevens Kenneth Patchen Kay Boyle Weldon Kees Robert Penn Warren Owen Dodson and many others. This copy Inscribed by Eudora Welty at her contribution A Still Moment. Bruce Humphries, Inc unknown
1946053209Prairie City IL: Press of James A. Decker 1946. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 51pp.; HB quarter-bound; green&gilt w/brwn.&gilt; slight rub w/lt.wear on corners; lt.bleed-thru on pastedwns.; stainforedge&tp.cornersotherwise cleantight pgs. DJ green w/blk.&white-pic.cover; rubbed w/wear on edges&cornes; spine sunned w/sm.chip on top; some sun. "This first book-length collection of his verse will we believe establish him as a fine and authentic poet in his own right." inscribed by Swallow <br/> <br/> Press of James A. Decker hardcover
1937024400Peiping: Henri Vetch 1937. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. A clean & unmarked copy of an authoritative and scarce work. This book is tightly bound with over 100 black and white plates of fine Chinese bronze mirrors. It appears to have been rebound in thick red library binding. Spine has good strong gilting on title and library number. Front has a small oval insignia of the S.F. Public Library. The front pocket has been removed leaving some paper remnants. Title page has old perforated library stamp. The pages have faded to a deep ivory with slightly darker edges that have a touch of foxing. Page ends are speckled from the original marbly paper design. Red covers have good strong even color. Cover edges have moderate light usage some soil spots along spine gutter and a small old pen dash but looking well-preserved for their vintage. A nice working copy. <br/> <br/> Henri Vetch hardcover
194650397Prairie City: James A. Decker 1946. First edition. 51 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to crown of spine. Swallow’s first book of poems. The rear cover advertises new books from Decker by Niedecker and Zukofsky. Prairie City: James A. Decker unknown books
194650397Prairie City: James A. Decker 1946. First edition. 51 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to crown of spine. Swallow’s first book of poems. The rear cover advertises new books from Decker by Niedecker and Zukofsky. Prairie City: James A. Decker unknown
1927029933Peking 1927 China booksellers Limited Hardcover 1st Edition
199060601Musuem. New. 1990. Paperback. 1851770224 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 240 pp. With 207 ills. 188 col. . 28 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Musuem paperback
