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1910List2847Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania; and others 1910. Eleven photographs approximately 7 x 9 ½ inch and smaller. With stamps for Brown Brothers Illustrations Bureau and E.J. Reily verso; most with captions verso. Most with chipping and wear at edges; overall good. Open-air schools became popular in the United States in the early 20th century in response to public health crises including tuberculosis.1 Conducting lessons in open-air classrooms reduced the transmission of diseases which allowed many children to attend school despite their often chronic illnesses. Offered here are eleven photographs of open-air schools three of which are identified as the Phebe Anna Thorne Model School at Bryn Mawr.<br /> <br /> The Phebe Anna Thorne Model School opened in 1913 under the direction of the College’s president Carey Thomas using funds donated by Samuel Thorne in memory of his sister Phebe Anna.2 The Thornes were an affluent New York Quaker family; Phebe Anna 1828–1909 was the only daughter to survive to adulthood and was a philanthropist and supporter of progressive social causes.3 <br /> <br /> The school was part of Bryn Mawr’s Department of Education which trained its students in teaching younger pupils rather than those of highschool or college age – the students in most of these photos are probably in about 4th or 5th grade.3 It also allowed testing of more cutting-edge pedagogical practices: the structure of the school was quite experimental including open-air classrooms outdoor naptime a flexible curriculum and less formal assessment. <br /> <br /> Of interest to scholars of the history of education especially experimental pedagogy.<br /> <br /> 1 Sherman C. Kingsley & F.B. Dresslar “Open-Air Schools†Department of the Interior Bureau of Education Bulletin 23 1916.<br /> 2 Cornelia Meigs What Makes a College A History of Bryn Mawr The MacMillan Company 1956.<br /> 3 Olive Floyd Phebe Anna Thorne: Quakeress Privately Printed in Rye New York 1958. unknown
1889List3035California Oregon Iowa and New York 1889. Sixty-five items: sixty-two letters mainly dating from 1887 eleven letters 1888 nineteen letters and 1889 fourteen letters; and three playbills from the CMA Dramatic Club. Overall excellent. William H. Sharp 1863–deceased was born in Washington and lived in The Dalles Oregon. He attended the California Military Academy in Oakland from 1880 to 1883 and then returned to The Dalles. There he worked as a commission merchant and ran for county clerk. <br /> <br /> Offered here is a collection of letters mainly to with some from William Sharp. The letters are from friends and family—Sharp had many cousins with whom he corresponded regularly—and cover his time at the California Military Academy CMA and back in The Dalles.<br /> <br /> The CMA was founded in 1865 by Rev. David McClure and combined college preparatory education with military drills including firearm training with the aim to “give the youth of the remote West an opportunity to acquire an education such as could not otherwise be obtained.â€1 His attendance put a financial strain on the family; his mother Mary Sharp reminds him that “we have to scrach hard to keep you at school†as she scolds him for his poor performance April 8 1882. Mary Sharp also worried about conditions at the Academy:<br /> <br /> “Willie I hope you will be kind to all new comers & comfort them all you can I read of two boys being killed by ill treatment at boarding schools one they took out of a warm bed & pumped cold water on him in a cold night untill he died the other they tied a & triped him so he fell hurt his head & killed him I hope the boys do not play such tricks at your schoolâ€. November 12 1880<br /> <br /> The CMA promised not to admit any boys who were “morally bad as the institution is not designed to reform vicious boysâ€.1 However a letter from C.W. Chapman Sharp’s friend and former roommate suggests that the school’s rigorous drilling was not necessarily successful. Chapman writes from Nevada City a mining town in central California:<br /> <br /> “I’m working hard as usual; but I expect you don’t care anything about that. I’m having lots of fun too if that interests you. You don’t know one half as many girls as I go to see every evening. And they are the kind of girls that you can have fun with too. . I am making up for lost time. . I haven’t had my fingers in anybody else’s pie yet and maybe I haven’t had them in anybody’s anything else either. But that’s some more trash. . How do you fellows treat the little dears now I hope you don’t deal with them as harshly as you did when I was down there.†January 10 1883<br /> <br /> Later letters are mainly between Sharp and his wife-to-be Jennie Booth. He mentions attending a temperance meeting updates her on business which is “not overly brisk†but “good enough†October 6 1888 and describes hiring a “mongolian†cook who is “a very fair specimen of the celestial race†October 5 1887. Booth describes Oregon City on a visit there as “very picturesque†but primitive: “it has only one street that is passable the rest are so rocky that you can’t get over them with a conveyance.†August 17 1888.<br /> <br /> Around this time Sharp runs for county clerk as a Republican; a W.T. McPhire writes from Mosier:<br /> “I am glad to know you are in the field for the clerkship which as you state is a very desirable office. Now I can and will say this much although opposing you in politics that if you receive the nomination for this office against any one in my party that is not an honest sober and industrious man I will willingly do all in my power to help elect you to the office.†March 12 1888<br /> <br /> Despite this bipartisan support Sharp lost to a man named Thompson. Sharp and Booth married and lived together in The Dalles and Sharp remained in his career as a farmer and merchant.<br /> Of interest to scholars of Oregon history and of 19th-century military education.<br /> <br /> 1 “California Military Academy†Mariposa Gazette June 30 1887 4. unknown
183488467Boston: Carter Hendee and Co 1834-37. First Edition. Five octavo volumes. Uniform plum cloth; printed paper spine labels; 317;275;291;184;262pp. Bindings spine-sunned and slightly worn; volume for 1833 more so with some external damp rippling not affecting text and a small gouge at front joint. Internally very fresh with most pages unopened. Good and sound. <br /> <br /> The 3rd through 7th volumes of the Institute's proceedings each including transcriptions of lectures on public education by such writers as Joseph Story A.A. Gould C.T. Jackson Beriah Green Warren Burton Walter Channing William A. Alcott Samuel Howe and others. The Institute was founded in 1830 and was a direct progenitor of the National Education Association. Though the vast majority of the Institute's members were from New England it was the first meaningful interstate body of public school instructors and administrators and set standards for public education into the first decades of the 20th century when it was subsumed by the NEA; writing in 1847 the Institute's President Horace Mann wrote: "The Institute may justly be considered as the source of all the improvements in education which have since 1830 been made in New England and other Northern States and its influence is slowly diffusing itself through the uncongenial regions of the South." The lectures are a particular point of interest in this series as they cover a wide variety of topics of interest to historians of education ranging from "The Importance of a Knowledge of the Principles of Physiology to Parents and Teachers" Edward Reynolds 1833 to "The Comparative Merits of Private and Public Schools" Theodore Edson 1837. A key source for early pedagogical theory in America rarely seen in commerce. Carter, Hendee, and Co unknown
1588046064Paris: Lucas Breyel 1588. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Full contemporary calf heavily worn hinges cracked front board nearly detached and held by one cord rear by two rear bottom corner degraded and broken. Old names inked out on title light toning to title and early pages very clean internally otherwise. With lovely early papier dominoté endpapers and pastedowns stamped "paris chez les associé" with a hard to read number - lacking original blanks with these bound in relatively early on. 4 571 4 leaves.<br /> <br /> The second edition of Belleforest's 1572 work collecting military harangues - the exhortations of commanders given to the troops before a battle. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Military & Warfare. Inventory No: 046064. Lucas Breyel hardcover
1588046064Paris: Lucas Breyel 1588. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Full contemporary calf heavily worn hinges cracked front board nearly detached and held by one cord rear by two rear bottom corner degraded and broken. Old names inked out on title light toning to title and early pages very clean internally otherwise. With lovely early paste paper endpapers and pastedowns - very fine examples; lacking original blanks with these bound in relatively early on. The second edition of Belleforest's 1572 work collecting military harangues - the exhortations of commanders given to the troops before a battle Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Military & Warfare. Inventory No: 046064. <br/><br/> Lucas Breyel hardcover books
1965237c9274New York: Simon and Schuster and T.B. Harms Company 1965. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 849 pages including index and black and white photographic plates. ".Bernays is the pioneer who did more than anyone else to establish the principles practices and ethics of public relations. Here he describes the many national movements social beliefs trends fashions and fads that have been the result of his carefully planned public relations activities. Reveals the secrets the techniques the causes and consequences of his glamorous and crucial yet little understood profession. A fascinating inside account of the men the events and the ideas that have been at the center of America's history in the twentieth century." - from dust jacket. Unmarked. Binding sound. Average wear. A sound copy of this important work. Bibliographic references: Larson 3 Cole p.27. Simon and Schuster and T.B. Harms Company Hardcover
1930234181930. African American family photo album documenting Black education childhood and family life likely Cleveland Ohio from 1930 through the early 1940s. During the 1930s Cleveland's Black population grew with families who had come north through the Great Migration seeking industrial work schools churches and opportunities unavailable or highly restricted in much of the South. In northern cities Black children often entered public schools that were not segregated by state law but were still subject to housing discrimination neighborhood boundaries and unequal municipal investment. This album records a Black family's schooling as a visible marker of progress respectability and aspiration during the Depression and early wartime years.<br /> <br /> Album of 55 silver gelatin photographs ranging from small portrait prints to larger mounted school class photos. Cleveland Ohio and surrounding area 1930s-early 1940s. Children and teenagers appear in formal school portraits with printed or handwritten "School Days" captions including a boy seated at a desk behind a 1930 marker young men in ties and suit jackets dated 1936 and girls in patterned dresses with white collars dated 1939-40 and 1940-41. A large class portrait gathers several dozen Black schoolchildren against a brick wall with boys in suits and ties standing beside girls in dresses blouses and school stockings. Family and community scenes expand the educational record into domestic life: siblings pose close together in a studio portrait children stand in yards and fields women pose near houses and fences young men appear in sharp double-breasted suits and brimmed hats and an adult man leans against a polished 1930s automobile. Outdoor scenes include well-dressed family members at rocky overlooks roadside paths and residential yards suggesting weekend travel neighborhood visiting and leisure alongside the formal school record.<br /> <br /> The album presents school portraits as part of a larger Black family chronology that follows children from infancy through adolescence and early adulthood. The repeated school-year dating gives the album unusual clarity as a record of Black educational aspiration in Depression-era Cleveland where families used dress portraiture and school milestones to mark social mobility despite employment discrimination and redlining. Album leaves show chipping adhesive staining losses where prints have been removed fading toning and handling wear; mounted images generally remain legible with several strong portraits. Overall in good condition. A strong collection of images documenting African American education Great Migration family life childhood and Black urban experience in Ohio. unknown
1940103G3571New York: Columbia University Press 1940. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1148 833 pages. Index. "Extremely interesting story of the origins of reparations leaving the impression that the French were unreasonable and the Americans unrealistic in their hopes." - Edward N. Peterson from bibliography of his work 'Hjalmar Schacht - For And Against Hitler". Moderate quantity of neat ink underlining in each volume. Usual library markings. Above-average but not excessive wear. Quarter-inch opening in binding at half-title page of volume I. A worthy reference copy of this important work. Columbia University Press Hardcover
2007165h2060Canada: Trafford Publishing. Good. 2007. First Edition. Paperback. 1425150136 . "Following the hypothesis proffered in God Star the prequel to this work Flare Star sets out to show that Earth's last Ice Age came suddenly to an end due to the cosmic catastrophe that was caused by the proto-Saturnian system's entry into the present Sun's domain of influence." - back cover. Dwardu Cardona 1937-2016 "dedicated his life to discovering the role of Saturn and the Saturnian configuration of planets and the effect these had upon our ancestors and the residual influence we live under to this day." - Ken Moss. "Cardona can be credited in large part along with Velikovsky for the Electric Universe - a paradign shift that dwarfs the Copernican revolution." - Wal Thornhill. xii 547 pp. Index. Illustrated in color and black in white. Unmarked with average wear. A sound first edition copy of this glowingly reviewed work.; Cover Art; Sm4to . Trafford Publishing paperback
1918143h5680London: The Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd. 1918. Magazine. Illus. by Begg S. Good. Stapled. First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Features: Cover photo of the submarine that breached Zeebrugge Mole being towed behind a destroyer; The St. George's Day Raids - article by Archibald Hurd which includes map showing where the block-ships were sunk and the viaduct was breached; Page of photos of the heroes who led the naval raid at Zeebrugge includes Commander R.S. Sneyd Capt. H.C. Halahan Lieut. R. Bourke Lieut. Stuart Bonham-carter Wing-Commander Frank A. Brock Leiut R.D. Sandford Commander Hamilton Benn Vice-Admiral Sir roger Keyes Capt. A.F.B. Carpenter and Admiral Sir R. Y. Tyrwhitt; Two pages of illustrations show how fog screens and star-shells were used at Zeebrugge; Superb two-page aerial photo of Zeebrugge with an inset diagram of the harbour indicates the positions of the sunk ships; G.K. Chesterton article includes two photos of the military funeral for celebrated German Airman Captain Baron Von Richthofen; One-page photo of the heavily damaged funnels of H.M.S. "Vindictive" after the Zeebrugge mole attack; Two pages of illustrations and text explain the objectives and results of the naval raid - Zeebrugge mole and harbour - and the submarine explosion; Half-page photo looking aft from the forecastle of H.M.S. "Vindictive" shows mantleted bridge etc.; Great half-page photo shows dozens of the cheering crew of H.M.S. "Vindictive" cheering as their ship returns safely to port with Captain Carpenter visible with his arm in a sling; Two more half-page photos of the heavily-damaged H.M.S. "Vindictive" back in port; Six photos crew members of the H.M.S. "Vindictive" and their damaged vessel; Centrefold illustration of landing on the mole from "Vindictive"; Two-page illustration of Marines from the "Vindictive" charging along the mole; Page of photos of "Vindictive" "Iris" and "Daffodil" after the Zeebrugge attack; One-page illustration of the wounded being rescued under fire on Zeebrugge mole; Five photos of last honours for the Zeebrugge heroes - The Dover Funeral; Wonderful illustrated back cover ad for Gentlemen's Spring Suits offered by Chas. Baker & Co's; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. The Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd. Paperback
192934333Paris November 1929. 1929. Fair. - A 7-1/2 inch high by 4-7/8 inch wide color portrait of Georges Clemenceau mounted into an 11 inch high by 7-1/8 inch wide mat. The portrait depicts the French Prime Minister from the shoulders up a period hat above his heavy white eyebrows and mustache. Signed "Clemenceau" in ink on the mat below the image. The portrait mounted with glue from the verso is scratched heavily creased and subsequently waxed to protect it. The crude mat's backing is stained and the keyhole mat itself is cracked at the bottom and top edges. <p>An autograph letter accompanying the signed portrait attests that Clemenceau signed the portrait on his deathbed. The letter dated November 29 1929 reads as follows: "Monsieur Monsieur Clemenceau ayant signe cette photographie que vous lui avez envoyee la veille de sa mort je me fais le devoir de vous l'envoyer. Bien respectueusement." Clemenceau died 5 days earlier on November 24th. This letter has been folded for mailing.<p>The leader of the Radical Party Georges Clemenceau played a central role during France's Third Republic serving as it's Prime Minister from 1906 to 1909 and subsequently leading the nation in the First World War. He again served as his nation's Prime Minister from 1917 to 1920. One of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles he pushed for the restitution of Alsace-Lorraine to France.<p>Provenance: From the autograph collection of Seymour Halpern.<p>The Queens New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern 1913-1997 started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law including measures on schools housing civil rights nutrition and mental health. A Liberal he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits including painting and collecting autographs he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. Paris, November, 1929. unknown
1985643H4765Stanford CA USA: Hoover Institution Press 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by Robert Conquest upon front free endpaper to Walter Jajko Brig Gen USAF Ret. "Essentially a work of investigation into the internal struggle within an organisation some of whose deeds were conducted in a blaze of publicity but others kept as secret as was compatible with mass terror. The secrecy was indeed such that for many years important circles in the West and particularly intellectual circles specially concerned with presenting the truth about the Soviet Union were either grossly deceived or were to one degree or another accomplices in that gross deception." - Preface. vi vii-ix 1 222 pages. Index bibliography and footnotes. Margaret Thatcher described Conquest as "our greatest living historian." - online reference. Clean bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket preserved in mylar. An excellent copy. Hoover Institution Press Hardcover
1889739H2716Rochester NY: W.H. Stewart 1889. Book. Illus. by Cram Geo. F. Good. Map. First Edition Thus. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Vintage map with states individually colored. Of interest modern day Oklohoma indicated as Indian Territory and names such as Miami Los Angeles and Seattle do not appear. Outer dimensions: 21.75" x 14.5". Unmarked with moderate wear. Center fold. 5" opening along top edge mended with archival tape. W.H. Stewart unknown
1673045461Helmstedt: Henningum Mullerum 1673. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum a bit soiled but sound and attractive. Light browning internally but a clean crisp copy; lacking the front blanks. 2 volumes in 1. 16 824 104 43pp.<br /> <br /> First edition of Clasen's work on the Sibylline oracles which also adds Sébastien Castellion and Onofrio Panvino's important 16th century works on the same topic. Clasen had a Lutheran but nebulous view of the oracles - he desired to retain the religiosity of the oracles in order to retain the force of spirituality in general without acting as if they were true. He maintained that after Christ the oracles gradually disappeared. Size: Quarto 4to. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 045461. Henningum Mullerum hardcover
1591CAT0004521591. Good Condition. Hand colored engraving modest foxing and soiling paper thinned in upper margin from prior mounting small tape marks. <br/><br/>A famous plate depicting the cannibals Staden described in Brazil. In the foreground a butcher is working on a partially butchered body a tribesman is dragged off to be bludgeoned a small child works cleaning a head and arms and legs are barbecuing on a traditional stick barbecue. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; History. Inventory No: CAT000452. unknown books
17063144N.P. London 1706 The octavo edition WITH the engraved frontispiece portrait and with no gap in pagination in Book III. "By the Author of the True-Born-Englishman" Daniel Defoe. No printer/publisher listed on title page. Contemporary full leather five raised spine bands. 7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches 8 i-xxviii xxviii xxx-xlii 2 i-ii i-v 1 1-8 7-23 1 1-24 1-19 68-93 1-26 1-15 135-278. Good moderate wear boards; binding sound; modest browning/foxing. "To The Most Serene Most Invincible and Most Illustrious Lady / Reason: First Monarch of the World".3214030. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. N.P., London hardcover
1960223h1745England: Navy Records Society. Fair with no dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. "Sir John Fisher 1841-1920 commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher was a British Admiral of the Fleet. With more than sixty years in the Royal Navy his efforts to reform the service helped to usher in an era of modernisation which saw the supersession of wooden sailing ships armed with muzzle-loading cannon by steel-hulled battlecruisers submarines and the first aircraft carriers. He had a reputation as an innovator strategist and developer of the navy rather than as a seagoing admiral involved in major battles although in his career he experienced all these things." - Wikipedia. "Fisher's papers which form the subject matter of these volumes are official papers written by or at the instigation of Fisher in his capacity as First Sea Lord and submitted by him to the Board as declarations of naval policy." - Introduction. p. xxvi 1-413 7 ads; xii 1-472 6 ads. Index in each volume. Diagrams. Volume II was published four years after the first. Former library copy with usual markings. Average wear and soiling to original cream gilt-trimmed cloth which is blue along spines. Bindings intact. A sound reference set.; Publications of the Navy Records Society Volumes CII and CVI . Navy Records Society hardcover
1979441j1346London: Croom Helm Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. 1979. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. 0064921042 . "My belief in the moral justification and historical necessity of Zionism remains unaffected by my critical reappraisal of the Zionist leadership. Israel's problem today is its intoxication with military success and the belief that military superiority is a substitute for peace. Unless the liberal and progressive values of Zionism are restored and Palestinian rights to self-determination within a framework of peaceful coesistence are recognized Israel's search for peace is doomed to failure." - Preface. "Simha Flapan 1911-1987 was an Israeli historian and politician." - Wikipedia. 10-361 pp. Footnotes. Index. Map. Former library copy with usual markings. Recently rebound in red buckram. No dust jacket. Tight and unmarked with light wear. ; 8vo . Croom Helm Ltd. hardcover
1662045440London: James Cottrel 1662. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Small folio. 18th century full calf worn and dry corners heavily rubbed and rounded spine dry rehinged in white cloth front endpaper cracked. Modest browning and foxing top of title excised and replaced but otherwise clean internally. With neat and expertly drawn nativities of the Esson family early on dating from the early 18th century. Neat marginal notes and manicules scattered throughout and a few corrections to the text. An intersting early English work of astrology and the science of nativities. Lacking the portrait. 16 219 1 pp. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Science & Technology; History. Inventory No: 045440. <br/><br/> James Cottrel hardcover books
1993545H4030USA: Institute for Historical Review. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0939482401 . Signed Joe and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. iv 337 pages. Footnotes. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Halow 1927-2014 " Worked as a court reporter during the U.S. Army's courts-martial at Dachau where he witnessed some of the most gripping testimony from some of the most sensational trials of the postwar years. He soon saw the flaws and abuses of these trials: reliance upon ex post facto law and broad conspiracy theories; abuse of prisoners during interrogation; and the encouragement of perjured testimony by concentration camp survivors. Four decades later he reviewed the long-classified records of these trials and found astounding confirmation of his misgivings about them." - dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear tape repair and touch-ups to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Joseph Halow U.S. Army War Crimes Trials - Dachau Buchenwald Mauthausen Nordhausen Concentration Camps Rudolf Merkel Spanish Kapos Danuta Drbuszenska Jupp Mueller Dora/Nordhausen Gernsbach Flyer Case Ilse Koch Alex Bernhard Piorkowski Revisi . Institute for Historical Review hardcover
1792046094York: E. Hargrove 1792. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary leather backed marbled boards type offset onto rear cover very clearly spine dry and rubbed edges worn offsetting from frontis onto title tear to corner of page 11 not touching text scattered foxing - still a very good copy. 1044pp 2 plates and a folding table the fallacious "Pedigree of Robin Hood". Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Sports & Pastimes. Inventory No: 046094. <br/><br/> E. Hargrove hardcover
1792046094York: E. Hargrove 1792. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary leather backed marbled boards type offset onto rear cover very clearly spine dry and rubbed edges worn offsetting from frontis onto title tear to corner of page 11 not touching text scattered foxing - still a very good copy. 1044pp 2 plates and a folding table the fallacious "Pedigree of Robin Hood". Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Sports & Pastimes. Inventory No: 046094. <br/><br/> E. Hargrove hardcover books
1937745j0088New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Good in Good dust jacket. 1937. First American Edition. Hardcover. "On the New Hebrides archipelago lives one of the most primitive peoples in the world still practicing cannibalism. In the summer fo 1933 the author arrived there as part of an Oxford University expedition. Fascinated by what he saw he remained behind to learn more about the technique of savage living. He penetrated the chaos of savagery and civililzation lived freely amongh the natives and went through the first steps of initiation into chieftainship. This book is the result of that fantastic and unique experience. It is a study of Malekula's culture - its economic and domestic life its sexual customs diversions religion dances and art. At the same time it is a history of the impact of white civilization on black savagery." - dust jacket. "A book of real and permanent value. Sometimes the surge of events and of lurid development passes almost beyond words but our author is never at a loss." - Sir Arthur Keith. 561 pages. Extensive bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Fold-out map at back in excellent condition. Book clean tight and unmarked with moderate wear to green cloth decorated in red. Average wear to colorfully illustrated dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this truly fascinating account.; 8vo . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1974843H2837England: The Furniture History Society 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x 54 449 plates pages. Index of proper names. "A very important contribution to the history of early European furniture." - Foreword. "The printed furniture designs illustrated here constitute perhaps the most accessible cohesive and valuable body of visual evidence for the aspirations and achievements of both furniture designer and cabinet-maker during the period which begins with the sixteenth century and ends in England with the execution of Charles I in France with the Fronde and in Germany with the Peace of Westphalia." - Introduction. Minor soiling to top edge otherwise clean bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this treasured reference. Please note: isbn on copyright page 0901286052 is apparently incorrect. The Furniture History Society Hardcover
1988169H4710Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1988. Book. Good. Paperback. Signed by Authors. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed without inscription by John Kenneth Galbraith 1908-2006 upon first blank leaf. xx 5 2-206 pages. Index. Includes a new introduction which comments on the crash of 1987. First published in 1955 this work is a "skilled chronicle and analysis of the causes of that most memorable year in our economic history 1929. A trenchant and timely re-examination of the most spectatular boom-and-bust period in American history." - back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Houghton Mifflin Company Paperback
