New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Hardcover. viii, 892 p., 10 double-leaf plates: illustrations, music; 29 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; green, black, and gilt stamped decoration on spine and front cover. Dark brown endpapers. Contains issues from Nov. 5, 1889, through Oct. 28, 1890... More about Harper's Young People 1890
Paris: Boussod, Valadon et Cie. 1889. Hardcover. 2 volumes bound together: [2], 128, [4] p., frontispiece and 32 color plates; [4], 116, [8] p., frontispiece and 28 color plates: many in-text drawings; 49 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment and... More about Types et Uniformes: L'Armée Française par Édouard Detaille; texte par Jules Richard
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, 1952. Hardcover. 218 p.; 21 cm. Beige cover with black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Arthur Shilstone. "book Club Edition" -- on front dust jacket flap. Part of the Doubleday Science Fiction" series. Former owner's embossed stamp on front free endpaper. Cyril... More about Takeoff
New York: Ballantine Books, 1968. Hardcover. 191 p.; 22 cm. Grey cover with black spine title. No dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front free endpaper. John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (1803-1969) was an English science fiction author best known for The Day of the Triffids. Chocky first appeared... More about Chocky
New York: Ace Books, 2001. Hardcover. [10], 262 p.; 22 cm. Black cover with red spine title. Dust jacket with jacket art by Bob Warner. An Ace Science Fiction and Fantasy Book. The first team to Mars is stranded there! The author, Robert Zubrin, established the Mars Society in 1998... More about First Landing
London: Hutchinson, 1979. Hardcover. 271 p.; 21 cm. Blue cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket with photograph of John Mills as Professor Quatermass on the front. Stamp of former owner on front free endpaper. The fourth volume in the author's Quatermass series. British scheenwriter Nigel Kneale (1922-2006) was... More about Quatermass
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, 1955. Hardcover. 190 p.; 22 cm. Yellow cover with blue spine title. No dust jacket. Emblem of the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club on spine. Former owner's embossed stamp on blank leaf following front endpapers. First edition. Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923-1958) was an early... More about Not This August
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1948. Hardcover. Fifth Edition Revised and Enlarged by Carl L. Svensen. ix, [1], 437 p.: many illustrations; 24 cm. Grey cloth with black-on-red spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. Includes index. In Very Good+ Condition: cover is lightly rubbed and soiled; pages are clean and tight. More about Mechanical Drawing: A Text with Problem Layouts
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 290 p.: black-and-white photographs; 26 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Arlene Putterman. Borwqn speckled endpapers. Includes a list of sources for the photographs and an index. A wonderful collection of photographs of everyday life in... More about Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940
London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1895. Hardcover. [4], 867, [1], 36 p.; 28 cm. Publisher's? dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Yellow endpapers. Many pages not opened. Includes Catalogue (Revised to 1st February 1895) of English, Scotch, and... More about Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1670: With Addenda, 1660 to 1670; Preserved in the...
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1879. Hardcover. "Household Edition." Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. x, [2], 324 p.; 20 cm. Dark brown cloth with embossed spine and cover titles "Holmes's Poems" with ornate gilt-stamped decoration. Blind-stamped decoration on back cover. Boards have bevelled edges. Dark brown endpapers. Publisher's catalog... More about The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1916. Hardcover. First American Edition. vii, [1], 328 p.; 19 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. First published in 1916 by William Heinemann, London. Stamped on the front endpapers by the Little Art Shop, Ocean City, N.J., with a note of... More about Earth to Earth by Richard Dehan [Clotilde Graves
New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. Hardcover. 2 volumes in one: xvii, [1], 309, [1] p., frontispiece and 15 leaves of plates; [6], 287, [1] p., frontispiece and 15 leavs of plates; 20 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; gilt-stamped author's emblem on front cover. First... More about Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by the Sieur Louis de Conte (Her Page and Secretary);...
Saarbruckern, Ger. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011. Paperback. [4], 72, [10] p.; 22 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. In this masters thesis, the author examines and compares two approaches to teaching modern Greek to adults -- the translation approach and the total-immersion approach. In Very Good Condition: pencilled underlining on a few pages. More about Teaching Modern Greek As a Second-Foreign Language to Adults
Onyx Translations, 2015. Paperback. [approx. 150] p.; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Text is entirely in Greek, in the Greek alphabet. In Fine Condition: clean and tight. More about Aesop's Fables (Greek Edition
Paris: Éditions Bernard Grasset, 1939. Paperback. 15, [1] p.; 23 cm. Light brown wrapper with dark brown and green wrapper title. A speech given by the French playwright Jean Giraudoux on Nov. 11, 1939, as Commissaire Général à l'Information, during the so-called Phoney War between the defeat of Poland by... More about Le Futur Armistice
New York: Delacorte Press, 1997. Hardcover. [6], 150, [2] p.; 20 cm. Blue and white cover with gilt spine title. Blue dust jacket with white, embossed illustration on the front section. Signed by author on the title page. Book and dust jacket are in Fine Condition: clean and bright. More about What Child Is This?: A Christmas Story
New York: Orchard Books, 1995. Hardcover. First American Edition. [12], 143, [3] p.; 22 cm. Purple cloth spine with yellow spine title; blue paper over boards. Dust jacket with color illustration by Jessie Hartland. Signed by the author on half title page. "A Junior Library Guild selection" -- on dust... More about The Book of Changes: Stories by Tim Wynne-Jones
Louisville, Ky. Westminster Press, 1941. Paperback. [32] p.: music; 22 cm. Stapled yellow wrapper with red wrapper title, and red-and-green wrapper illustration. Contains 35 songs arranged for four parts. Includes Sucking Cider Through a Straw; The Omaha Tribal Prayer; Study War No More; Cielito Lindo; The Deaf Woman's Courtship; the... More about Fun and Folk Songs
Philadelphia: Uriah Hunt and Son, 1850. Hardcover. 234, 10 p., frontispiece: wood-cut illustrations; 15 cm. Black leather spine with gilt-tooled title: Jack Halyard. Blue paper over boards printed in black; title with illustration and decorative border on front and publisher's advertisement on back. Publisher's catalog on 10 pages following text... More about Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy; or, The Virtuous Family; Designed for American Children,...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Hardcover. [10], 295 p.; 17 cm. Publisher's full red calf with gilt-tooled spine and cover titles and publisher's emblem. Top page edges gilt. Brown endpapers with publisher's emblem in repeating pattern. Part of the Biographical Edition of Stevenson's Works. Contents: Across the Plains --... More about Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson
Paris: Pneu Michelin, 1964. Hardcover. 1000 p.: maps; 20 cm. Red cover printed in black. Pages 11-43 are printed in French, English, Italian, and German. The majority of the book is arranged alphabetically by location, with text in French. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; starting to separate at head... More about Michelin France 1964
New York: Century Co., 1930. Hardcover. x, 223 p., frontispiece and 14 pages of photographs; 19 cm. Blue cloth with yellow and red spine and cover titles and illustration. John Vanderveer Deuel (1899-1972) entered the Air Corps in 1924 as a second lieutenant. After his service, he wrote magazine articles... More about Speed Wings by Lieutenant John Vanderveer Deuel
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. Hardcover. Vol. 2 only. 654 p.; 20 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-stamped decorative border on both boards. The Swedish author, Fredrika Bremer (1801-1865), travelled through the United States and to Cuba from 1849 to 1851 and published an account of her... More about The Homes of the New World; Impressions of America by Fredrika Bremer; Translated by Mary Howitt...
Boston: National Federation of Financial Analysts Societies, 1959. Paperback. 12th Edition. 266, [6] p.; 21 cm. Orange wrapper printed in black. "1960 Directory" -- on front wrapper. In Very Good Condition: wrapper is slightly soiled; pages are clean and tight. More about The National Federation of Financial Analysts Societies (Founded June 11, 1947) 1960 Directory of...