Des Moines, Iowa: Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1976. Pamphlet. 15 p.: tables; 24 cm. Stapled, wrappers included in pagination. The price guide to marbles published by famous marble expert Paul Baumann, whose personal collection was auctioned in 2011. In Near Fine Condition: wrappers are slightly soiled; pages are clean and tight..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Paperback. xii, 327 p.: illustrations, tables; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes index. The author examines the reasons that, in the ten years following the U.S. Senate's passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, only 35 of the required 38 states ratified it. In..... More
Jackson, Miss. University Press of Mississippi, 2003. Paperback. xviii, 322 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes index. The author looks at mass media and the women's movement in the United States from the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique to the tennis match between Billie Jean King..... More
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Paperback. xxv, [1], 244 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contains articles by Warren I. Susman, David Culbert, Marica Landy, Susan Courtney, Robert Sklar, David Eldridge, Mark W. Roche, Vittorio Hosle, Nicholas J. Cull, J. E. Smyth, Robert Rosenstone, Ian Scott, and Vera..... More
Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 1985. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 188 p., [38] leaves of illustrations: in-text illustrations, tables; 24 cm. Light blue cloth with black spine title. Pink endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. An interesting study of the ways in which General Electric used photography to create and control its corporate image..... More
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1950. Hardcover. x, 323 p., 4 leaves of color plates: in-text illustrations, tables; 22 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. Blue dust jacket printed in red. Publisher's advertisement on back section of dust jacket. Circular stamp of one of the authors, W. N. Mann..... More
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1950. Hardcover. vii, [1], 300, [2] p., frontispiece portrait; 22 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. Dust jacket (in mylar cover) with illustration; publisher's advertisements on back flap. Includes indices. Gift inscription on front free endpaper from one of the authors, W. N. Mann, to..... More
Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1961. Hardcover. 13th edition. xvi, 989 p., 20 unpaginated pages of x-ray images: in-text illustrations, tables; 24 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine title. Printed on endpapers are: physiological normals; names of proprietary drugs; and tables of approximate equivalents of doses. Attached..... More
Philadelphia: Philadelphia City Planning Commission, 1948. Paperback. iv, [2], 22 p., 9 folded leaves of maps: map, tables; 28 cm. Stapled with card covers. The proposed East Poplar Redevelopment Area was bounded by Girard Ave. on the north, 5th St. on the east, Spring Garden St. on the south, and..... More
Philadelphia: City of Philadelphia, 1956. Paperback. xx, 123, [1] p., 1 leaf of a folded map: illustrations, tables; 28 cm. White comb binding with card covers; color illustration on front cover. Prominent among proposals to address traffic problems in the central business district was an expressway loop around it. By..... More
New York: Russell F. Whitehead, 1928. viii, [288 p. in various pagings]: photographs, plans; 27 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Blue-grey endpaper. Running title: The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs. Former owner's on blank page following front endpapers and on title page. Contents: New..... More
London, Glasgow, Dublin and Bombay: Blackie and Son, 1905. Hardcover. [13] leaves: color illustrations; 28 cm. Dark green cloth spine; grey paper over boards with black cover title and color front cover illustration. No date of publcation; advertised by the publisher in 1905. The first book by Australian artist Florence..... More
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Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1901. Hardcover. [96] p.: color illustrations; 28 cm. Blue cloth spine with blue paper over boards; black cover title and color illustrations on front and back cover. Cover title. A publisher's dummy: no title page and over half of the pages are blank. Publication information..... More
Prague: B. Koci, 1921. Hardcover. [48] p.: color illustrations and line drawings; 30 cm. Red cloth spine; white paper over boards with black cover title and color illustration on front cover. Pink endpapers. Publisher's advertisements on final 2 pages. Contents: A Tale Without End -- The Little Cock and the..... More
Albany, N.Y. University of the State of New York State Museum, 1921. Hardcover. 262 color plates (of 264 called for); 30 cm. Green cloth portfolio with red title and ties. Index to the common names with plate number on the inside of the front of the portfolio. A heavy work;..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1937. Paperback. 226, [44] p.: black-and-white and color photographs; 30 cm. Spiral-bound with red, white, and blue card covers. Former owner's inscription on first (blank) page indicating that he purchased this in 1952 at The Seven Bookhunters, New York. Bookseller's label on inside of..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943. Hardcover. 271 p.: black-and-white photographs; 33 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Sheets of detachable postcards for photography businesses are attached before the back endpapers. The front, spine, and part of the back of the dust jacket housed inside the..... More
Munich: Max Ravizza, 1869. Hardcover. [12] leaves of chromolithographed plates; 38 cm. Light green wrapper printed in black, with publisher's catalog Technische Werke & Zeichnungs-Vorlager, on back wrapper. Wrapper title. Running title: Leichte Holzbauten. A 19th-century owner had it bound with black cloth spine and corners and black paper over..... More
New York: Brooklyn Fire Department, 1890. Hardcover. 400 p.; 36 cm. Half calf with morocco-grain cloth over boards. The handwritten daily record book of Engine Co. No. 12 of the Brooklyn Fire Department. The list of members, with street addresses, attached to the front free endpaper names Stephen Allen as..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Kredel, Fritz. Printed at the Officina Bodoni in Verona. viii, [4], 301, [3] p.: illustrations; 34 cm. Off-white linen with grey pattern of the Florentine lily and a lion rampant. Gilt-stamped spine title on a dark blue cloth spine label. Black slipcase with gilt..... More
London: Methuen & Co., 1905. Hardcover. "And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never before Printed in Folio." [22] 877, [1], 20, 100 p., frontispiece portrait; 37 cm. Original off-white linen spine with printed paper spine label and grey paper over boards. Additional publisher's paper spine label bound in..... More
Philadelphia: Sol Mednick and Arthur Williams, 1946. [104] p.: 19 full-page and 5 half-page illustrations; 36 cm. Loose signatures housed in card portfolio with black cover title. This is an unnumbered copy out of a limited edition of 100 copies, set in Airport Black Type by Typographic Service; the plates..... More
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1944. Hardcover. Consists of 1 ledger (39 cm.) sold by Schiff Bros., Philadelphia. Red cloth spine and corners with gilt-stamped border; black morrocco-grain cloth over boards. After original use as a business ledger, the first 13 pages were used as a scrapbook for newspaper clippings from 1937 about the beginning..... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1937. Hardcover. xxiv, 44, [4] p., frontispiece and 4 leaves of plates: music; 39 cm. Off-white paper over boards (faux vellum) with gilt-tooled spine title and blind-tooled decoration on both boards. Fore-edges have yapp edges. Linoleum cut title vignette. Slipcase covered in grey paper with color linoleum-cut..... More
Jamaica Plain, Mass. YMAA Publication Center, 1996. Paperback. xiv, 363, [7] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Publisher's catalog on final 2 unpaginated pages. In Very Good- Condition: cover slightly soiled; ink underlining on a few pages; otherwise, clean and tight. More