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186000009931Madison: James Ross 1860 248 pages somehow a few pages have been torn in the middle of the book pages 175 to 196. James Ross hardcover
18925135Chicago: Excelsior Printing Company 1892. First edition. Hardcover. fair. 8vo; xvi 134 pages half calf lacks spine. <br/><br/>Laid in is a form presenting this copy to W. H. Newman 3d V.P. of the Chicago & Northwestern RR in 1892. Excelsior Printing Company hardcover
190013732Manchester: The Co-Operative Wholesale Society Limited. Very Good. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Appears to be "fine" or better but the inner hinges have been reglued. Lots of pictures charts etc. Discussed the United States as well as the UK. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 534 pages . The Co-Operative Wholesale Society Limited hardcover
187726792Brooklyn: R.M. Whiting & Co. 1877. 1877. Very good. - sc Octavo. Disbound lacking the covers. 326 pages plus appendices consisting of 266 pages comprising The Charter of 1854; plus 15 pages; and 36 pages. The title page is detached and chipped at the edges and the first and last signatures are loose though present. There is a short tear and creasing to the bottom edge of the last few leaves. A complete copy of this rare book which would be well-worth rebinding. Brooklyn: R.M. Whiting & Co., 1877. unknown
180326581Albany NY: D. & S. Whiting 1803. 1803. Good. - hardcover Octavo bound in vintage tan calf. The covers are bumped rubbed & scuffed. There are small pieces out of the head & tail of the spine and damage to the bottom edge of the rear cover and to the bottom edges of the last part of the book with no loss of text. Pages i-xv & 16-479 plus errata page. As issued pages 290 to 295 are repeated in their numbering. There are previous owner's names penned in ink on the front endpaper. and a few ink notes. There is scattered foxing & light staining throughout with some creases. Good only. <p>The alphabetically arranged material which includes sections on bastardy bigamy dogs "it is not a felony to steal dogs which are of a base nature" the poor rape slaves women and wrecks gives quite a comprehensive view of society at the time. Albany [NY]: D. & S. Whiting, 1803. hardcover
189999818<p>Edinburgh and London: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier 1899. 1899. Very good. - Small octavo 7-3/4 inches high by 5 inches wide. Hardcover bound in red cloth titled in gilt with decorations in gilt on the spine and with decorations & a vignette in gilt on the front cover. The top edge is gilt. The covers are lightly bumped and the spine is somewhat faded. 160 pages with a decorated title page printed in red & black. Very good.</p><p>First edition. A title in the "Famous Scots Series".</p><p>Inscribed and signed by the author Hector MacPherson to the radical English politician Leonard Courtney 1832-1918 and his wife Catherine on the front endpaper. There is a later ownership signature of R.H. Murray Grove House Goring at the top of the page.</p> Edinburgh and London: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, (1899). hardcover
183629892P. Potter. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1836. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. Calf covered boards. Hinge leather split on front partially on rear cords maintain attachment. Edge and corner wear commensurate with book's age not defacing the book's appeal and attractiveness. OUter layer of leather on spine gone. Paper is typical 18th century fare foxing at extremities. A beautiful book! Read descriptions carefully. Avoid GLASSFROGBOOKS ERGODOBOOKS MORE BOOKS IRISH BOOKSELLERS PRO QUO/BAYSIDE BOOKS BOOKSPLEASE RIA CHRISTIE DISCOVER BOOKS BOOKS2ANYWHERE BOOKS EXPRESS CHIRON MEDIA! These "Booksellers" have no books of their own. they buy honest booksellers' books upcharge you and have no idea what the book is really like. Support your local and small bookstore owners! . P. Potter hardcover
1883900290Philadelphia: Philadelphia Carpet Manufacturers Association 1883. Wraps. Good . 52 pages. Softcover. Monthly trade publication with numerous articles illustrations and many full-page advertisements. Factory scientist; smuggling; machinery; labor; trade; business climate and relatede politics; designs and patents; longer article showing examples of ornament; a page of personal notes of the doings of various trade association members; carpets some actors and actresses buy; obituaries. More. About 11" x 17" Good condition with some edge wear and a few small edge tears. <br /> Philadelphia Carpet Manufacturers Association paperback
1855164387Quebec: Stewart Derbishire & George Desbarats 1855. Hardcover. Good-/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Several pages unopened. Unpaginated. One folding table "A Return of the Business of the WELLAND ST. LAWRENCE CHAMBLY AND BURLINGTON BAY CANALS ST. OURS and ST. ANN'S LOCKS.". The lower 6 inches of the exterior of the 1/2 leather binding has split but the binding is secure; there is moderate wear to the extremities but this uis otherwise a good copy. Due to the size/weight of this book an extra shipping charge will apply. <br/> <br/> Stewart Derbishire & George Desbarats hardcover
1899w150519262Columbus Ohio: Fred J. Heer 1899. 192pp black cloth index slight rubbing at spine ends and corner tips VG rules regarding duties and office of Commioner Railroads and Telegraphs Powers of Commissioner laws for the operation and duties of railroad companies . Hard Cover. Very Good. Columbus, Ohio: Fred J. Heer Hardcover
187011756Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Good. ca 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth decorated with gilt & black. Modest shelf wear. Spine gilt somewhat faded. Pictorial frontispiece & half title page. Text tight & intact. Pages printed within a ruled border. Endpapers with narrow damp stain on fore-edge. Prior owners inscription dated 1872. Law ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 154 pages . J. B. Lippincott & Co. hardcover
189199580<p>Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1891. 1891. Very good. - Octavo 8-7/8 inches high by 5-7/8 inches wide. Softcover bound in printed self-wraps. The pamphlet is lightly creased along the left edge. 8 pages numbered 2 through 9. Ex-library de-acqusitioned by the Baker Library with their "Canceled" stamp and the date at top left of the second page. There are brief annotations in pencil at the top and bottom of that page. Very good.</p><p>First separate edition. "Reprinted Dec. 10 1891 from Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. Vol. xxix".</p><p>The pamphlet is laid into plain tan wraps titled and identified in ink on the front.</p> [Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society], 1891. paperback
183621174Philadelphia: John S. Littell 1836. 1836. Good. - Octavo contemporary tan calf with gilt-lettered leather labels on the spine. The joints are split & the covers are detached. The spine & extremities are darkened. The leather of the spine & the front edges of the covers is dried out & cracking & there is a piece out of one of the labels not affecting the titling. vi & 238 pages; xiii i & 132 pages; ix i &132 pages; and iv & 24 pages. Poynter's work is illustrated with a folding chart. The pastedowns endpapers & front & rear blanks are foxed with their edges darkened & there is occasional foxing & staining to the rest of the contents. There are 2 owner's ink names with dates on the front endpaper one of them a contemporary owner. Good working copy. <p>The Wigram and Gibbons works are first American editions based on the London editions. The Poynter work is a first American edition based on the second London edition.<p>A volume in the Law Library series. Philadelphia: John S. Littell, 1836. hardcover
1889057415New York and Albany NY: Banks & Brothers Law Publishers for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York 1889. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Burgundy pebbled cloth lettered in gilt decorated in blind beveled edges author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on lower front cover. A notably well-preserved copy virtually as issued showing minor foxing along text block edges and to the three frontis. portrait plates. iii100 pp. Scarce virtually unimprovable. Banks & Brothers, Law Publishers, for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York Hardcover
181016384New-York: Printed and published by I. Riley 1810. 1810. Good. - Octavo contemporary tan calf with gilt-lettered leather labels on the spines. The bindings are scuffed. The spines & the edges of the covers are darkened with the leather dried out & cracking. There are pieces out of the head & tail of the spine of Vol. 1 & the lower half of the front joint is split. The head of the spine of Vol. 2 is torn & the rear joint & the top of the front joint are split. x ii & 592 pages; and x & 688 pages. There is scattered foxing & soiling with staining to some pages in each volume. The top corners of the Vol. 1 pages are damaged & there are pieces out of the bottom corner & front edge of 2 rear blanks in Vol. 2. Good only. <p>From the library of a 19th-century lawyer who has penned his name several times in each volume and has made extensive notes on the rear blanks and on a few additional sheets tipped in. He has also made a few annotations in the text. The signature of a later owner is also penned in each volume. New-York: Printed and published by I. Riley, 1810. hardcover
19000006965Chicago: Civic Federation of Chicago 1900. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo; x 626 pages printed wrappers. Scarce. <br/><br/>The speaker include Franklin H. Head Edward W. Bemis Bureau of Economic Research of New York City William Jennings Bryan John Graham Brooks Samuel Gompers Stuyvesant Fish William Dudley Foulke William Wirt Howe James W. Ellsworth Jefferson Davis of Arkansas M. L. Lockwood J. Sterling Morton Henry W. Peabody Louis F. Post Single Tax League of the United States Edward P. Ripley Clem Studebaker Benjamin R. Tucker etc. Illustrated with photographs of the participants. Civic Federation of Chicago 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
189813394NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. All the usual xlib marks. Inner hinges reinforced. A very good reading copy. ; Ex-Library; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 514 pages . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
181512251New York: Isaac Riley. Good. 1815. Hardcover. Clean brown leather with gilt lettering on spine. Text tight. Some pages age darkened. Missing last Addenda leaf pages 475 & 476. Rear endpaper appears to have been replaced. A Compilation of the law to the duties of justices. Law; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 476 pages . Isaac Riley hardcover
181094816Hartford: printed by Hudson and Goodwin 1810. 1810. Fair. - Octavo contemporary tan calf with a gilt-lettered leather label on the spine. The binding is rubbed & scuffed. The bottom corner of the rear cover is bumped & the edges of the cover are darkened. The spine is darkened with the leather dried out & cracking & the gilt lettering is partially rubbed away. xii & 274 pages and iv & 241 pages plus index. The front hinge is just starting. The pastedown endpapers & rear blanks are foxed with occasional light foxing to the rest of the volume. There are small scraps of paper adhering to the pastedowns.There is a small black stain to the front endpaper & fore-edge with tiny stains to the front edges of a few pages. Good working copy. <p>"A New Edition with Improvements. By Thomas Day."<p>From the library of Dutchess County NY lawyer Stephen Eno with his signature dated 1811 and a notation on the front endpaper additional signatures on the flyleaf & title and his notes in the text and on the rear blanks & rear endpaper. Hartford: printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1810. hardcover
1885230239Philadelphia: George G. Evans 1885. New Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo; vi 162 pages 3/4 leather bevelled marbled boards lacks most of spine inked name of G. C. Burnham Kalamazoo MI. The portrait of Daniel M. Fox which became the frontispiece for the 1886 edition here appears facing page 105 not p.8. This 1885 edition appears to be much scarcer than the subsequent editions. <br/><br/>Illustrated with phototypes steel plate engravings including by Samuel Sartain wood engravings with numerous plates of photographic reproductions of rare American Coins and a price list of their numismatic value. With a frontispiece a circular portrait of George Washington with it likeness taken from a plaster cast of Washington taken at Mount Vernon October 1785 phototype by Frederick Gutekunst. Other portraits by steel-plate engravings of Benjamin Rush Elias Boudinot David Rittenhouse Robert Morris Thomas Jefferson Alexander Hamilton John Jay Knox. George G. Evans hardcover
1892024783Raleigh NC: Edwards & Broughton 1892. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Decorated cloth gold and black lettering and design author's gift inscription on front free end-paper there is no other writing in the book 136pp. with Publisher's ads quite a nice copy. Full refund if not satisfied. Rare. Edwards & Broughton hardcover
1844BOOKS013387IN-Y: Greeley & McElrath Tribune 1844. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 16pp double columns; Some scattered foxing. 9" x 5.75" Greeley rails against changes in the tariff law as proposed by General McKay of North Carolina. He calls McKay's bill "full of absurdities and inconsistencies . fraught with deadly hostility to your the American people's interests and welfare." American Imprints 44-2775. Greeley & McElrath, Tribune unknown
1831061330Norristown PA: David Sower Jr. 1831. Book. Good. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Full brown leather black title label lettered in gilt mounted on upper spine panel. Leather is somewhat soiled and scuffed with several areas of staining. Firm binding. Front flyleaf lacking approx. 25% upper portion pencil doodles to flyleaf front blank and rear pastedown. Former owner's 1833 inscription inked on rear flyleaf. Dampstaining to some early and late leaves with foxing to interior ranging light to moderate. David Sower, Jr. Hardcover
18285943Philadelphia: W. F. Geddes. Very Good. 1828. Hardcover. Clean brown leather red spine label with gilt lettering. Spine ends neatly reinforced: covers firmly attached. Light corner wear & light endpaper foxing. Text tight clean & intact. Devoted to the preservation of facts documents & useful information. Dams Canals Elections Philadelphia Pittsburg etc. Pennsylvania; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 386 pages . W. F. Geddes hardcover