New York: Methuen, 1980. Hardcover. 128 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Black cover with yellow spine and cover titles; photographs of the authors on the front cover. My Word! was a British radio quiz panel game that was broadcast of the BBC from 1956 to 1988. In Fine Condition: clean and..... More
London: Macdonald & Co., 1944. Hardcover. Third impression, May 1944. 95 p.; 22 cm. Dark green cloth with silver spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. Contents: The Battle of Britain -- The Battle of Greece -- The Battle of the Mediterranean -- Battles Long Ago -- The Battle of..... More
Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press, 1970. Hardcover. xxv, [3], 387 p., frontispiece and 3 leaves of illustrations; 22 cm. Green cloth with gilt spine title. First published in 1921. James Keir Hardie (1856-1915) was a Scottish trade unionist and a founder of the Labour Party. Because Hardie did not leave a...... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1950. Hardcover. 477 p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Black cloth spine with red spine title; grey boards with red cover illustrations. No dust jacket. Top page edges red. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly soiled and rubbed; pages are clean and tight... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1939. Hardcover. xii, 324 p.; 22 cm. Dark blue cover with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. "Book Club Edition" -- dust jacket flap. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; minor loss at head of..... More
Cincinnati, Ohio: Westwood Methodist Church, 1946. Pamphlet. 31 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Light blue wrapper, stapled; gilt wrapper title. Includes an honor roll of members of the church who served in the armed forces during World War II, as well as programs for various anniversary services, and a history of..... More
New York: Concord Books, 1932. Hardcover. 110 p.: full-page illustrations; 21 cm. Off-white cloth with gilt spine title and decoration and cover title. Blue endpapers and all page edges blue. Dust jacket in mylar cover; illustrated in blue and yellow. Publisher's catalog of the Arden Library on back section. Although..... More
Knowville, TN: S. B. Newman Printing Co., 1956. Paperback. 32 p.: illustrations, maps; 23 cm. Stapled cover with color illustrations. Scarce first edition. In Near Fine Condition: cover lightly soiled; edges rubbed; interior is clean and tight. More
Chicago: Wm. H. Wood & Co., 1945. Paperback. [60] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Stapled red, white, and blue cover. Cover illustration signed: Winn McCourt. Jokes and cartoons of the period. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: spine is rubbed; cover lightly soiled; fore-edges soiled; pages are clean and tight... More
New York: J. Fitzgerald, 1880. Hardcover. Approx. 715 pages: illustrations; 23 cm. Half calf with five spine compartments between raised bands; brown morocco-grain cloth over boards. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment. Bookbinder's label on front fixed endpaper: "Advocate-News Book Bindery Blank Book Manufactory & Printing House," Elgin, Ill. Former owner's..... More
London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1960. Hardcover. Third Edition. viii, 287 p.; 22 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title and gilt emblem on front cover. "The First Part of this book consists of a course in Latin, written by E. Hilton Jackson of the American Bar, in which legal maxims..... More
Leavenworth, KS: Ketcheson & Reeves, printers and binders, 1895. Hardcover. 368 p.: illustrations, tables; 21 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; black-stamped illustrations of two horse heads on front cover. Green floral endpapers. Front fixed endpaper and title page stamped: "Public Property, Q. M. Dep't." William H...... More
Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1991. Paperback. [10], 157, [1] p.; 22 cm. Paperback. In Near Fine Condition: edges slightly rubbed; clean and tight. More
Macon, GA: J. W. Burke & Co., 1882. Paperback. Imprint includes Burke & Anderson, Athens, Ga., and Yancey, Cranford & Gantt, printers, Athens, Ga. 120 p.; 22 cm. Side-stitched with no wrapper. The author, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb (1816-1890), was Chancellor of the University of Georgia from 1860 to 1874. Scarce..... More
Boston: Addison C. Getchell, 1888. Paperback. 83, [1], 58 p.; 23 cm. Red-brown wrapper with black wrapper title within double-ruled border. Inscribed on the first page: "With the compliments of Calvin W. Lewis." The author, Josiah Henry Benton (1843-1917), Jr., was a successful attorney in Massachusetts and president of the..... More
Chicago: Callaghan & Co., 1900. Paperback. "Reprinted from Original Pamphlet and Now Issued with Compliments of" Callaghan & Co. 52, [2] p., frontispiece portrait; 23 cm. Light green wrapper with black wrapper title. Inside of back wrapper printed in black: "In honor of 'John Marshall Day' this Eulogy was done..... More
Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1986. Paperback. 80 p.: color and black-and-white illustrations, map; 21 cm. White paperback with illustrated cover. Contains an introduction in German by Gunter Schade of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and one in English by Afif Bahnass, General Director of Antiquities and Museums. The remainder of..... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Co., 1910. Paperback. [6], 8, [2] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Brown card covers, stapled, with black cover title and green-and-black cover illustration. Three holes along spine, as issued. First page and last have full-page illustration in green of birds and insects in a tree. Story..... More
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Hardcover. [6], 365 p.; 19 cm. Brown cover with deep red spine and cover titles. Top page edges orange. Dust jacket with the Stockton Mulford illustration from the Harper & Brothers first edition, with "Romance and Adventure on a Mysterious Desert Range" superimposed below..... More
New York: Criterion Books, 1960. Hardcover. xxxiv, 603 p.; 22 cm. Gold and pink cloth with black spine title. No dust jacket. In Near Fine Condition: page edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. More
Washington, PA: Alfred Creigh, 1870. Hardcover. 386, 121 p.; 24 cm. Original dark brown pebble-grain cloth with gilt spine title. Triple blind-ruled border on each board. Dark brown endpapers. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: "Boyd E. Warne Atty at Law Dec 1 1896." Former owner's surname is also..... More
New York: Panurge Press, 1935. Hardcover. 277 p.; 24 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt spine title and blind-stamped cover title. No dust jacket. Top page edges red. Publisher's catalog on two pages preceding title page. Former owner's name on front and back fixed endpapers: Stuart W. Rose. In Very..... More
Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1945. Hardcover. Blue Ribbon Books Reprint Edition. 228 p.; 20 cm. Dark red cover with black spine and cover titles. Maps on endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket, with photograph of the author in the cockpit of a plane on the back section. Robert Lee Scott..... More
New York: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 2003. Hardcover. [12], 253, [7] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Blue cloth spine with gilt spine title; blue paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. First-hand account by actor Paul Newman and author A. E. Hotchner of their creation in 1982 and expansion of Newman's Own..... More
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New York: P. F. Collier, 1890. Hardcover. 5 volumes, separately paginated: 487 p., frontispiece and 15 leaves of plates; 447, frontispiece and 13 leaves of plates; 488 p., 14 leaves of plates (1 bound as a frontispiece); 437 p., frontispiece and 19 leaves of plates; 398 p., frontispiece and 5..... More