Florence, Italy: Edward Gordon Craig, 1925. Paperback. [6], 52, [8] p., frontispiece and 2 leaves of plates: illustrations, maps; 23 cm. Orange wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title: The Mask: An Illustrated Quarterly of the Art of the Theatre. Six unpaginated pages of advertisements precede text. Stamp of the North...
London, Eng. Routledge, 1993. First Edition. x, 268 p.: 12 pages of illustrations; 22 cm. Black cloth with white-printed spine title; illustrated dust jacket. Includes notes and index. First edition. Part of the publisher's Christianity and Society in the Modern World series. Patricia Crawford in this groundbreaking study argues that...
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1895. Hardcover. xviii, 411 p.: 42 leaves of plates (1 in color): plan, illustrations, many in-text drawings; 23 cm. Full calf with five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled red label in second compartment and black label in fourth. Blind-rolled border on boards. This is...
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. Hardcover. Volume 2 only. xii, 503, [1] p.; 22 cm. Modern leather rebacking with contemporary calf boards; gilt-tooled spine labels. All paged speckled red. Modern blue endpapers. This volume contains letters from 1787 to 1804 by James Currie (1756-1805), Scottish physician. He...
Norman, Okla. University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. Paperback. xviii, 283 p.: 1 double-page map, 5 full-page maps, 32 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with color illustrated front cover. New preface, third printing. No date of publication; year is based on library records. Volume 28 in The Civilization of...
Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, 1853. Hardcover. 4th edition "augmentée des critiques et observations de M. Tiepolo et de leur réfutation par M. le comte Daru." Volume 9 only: [4], 568 p.; 22 cm. Leather. All page edges red. Front free endpaper bears inscription: "Presented as a token of remembrance to.....
London, Eng. George Routledge and Sons, 188-. Hardcover. viii, 545, [5] p.: color frontispiece and 3 leaves of color illustrations; 20 cm. Publisher's red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and cover illustrations. No dust jacket. Final five, unnumbered pages contain publisher's advertisements for Morley's Universal Library, Routledge's Books for the...
Doylestown, Pa. Democrat Book and Job Office Print, 1876. Hardcover. First Edition. 875, [1], 54 p., frontispiece map and 8 leaves of maps, 3 double-leaf maps: in-text illustrations; 25 cm. Modern bonded leather spine with black cloth over boards; gilt-tooled spine title. Includes errata and index. Appendix contains: Flora: An...
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1895. Hardcover. 2 volumes (293 p., frontispiece and 20 additional leaves of plates; 292 p., frontispiece and 23 additional leaves of plates, 1 folded leaf of a map); 19 cm. Original white linen with gilt-stamped spine title and elaborate decoration on spine and front...
New York: Silas Newton, 1930. Hard Cover. x, [2], 146 p.; 22 cm. Modern white cloth; dark blue leather spine label with gilt-tooled spine title. Top page edges dark green. Endpapers are marbled blue, purple, and gilt. Former owners' bookplate on front fixed endpaper: William & Caroline Purcell. No dust...
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. Hard Cover. 2 volumes (4, [10], 280 p.; [6], 302 p.); 19 cm. Original brown ribbed publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; boards have blind-stamped center medallions and borders. Pale yellow endpapers. These are the 8th and 9th volumes in the publisher's series De...
Philadelphia, Pa. Temple University Press, 1975. xvi, 300 p.; 22 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Red, black, and white dust jacket. Includes notes, bibliography, and index. "The debate between Marxists and Christians has been viewed traditionally in terms of irreconcilable differences: divine grace versus human autonomy, the individual...
Gravenhage, Netherlands: Meyndert Uytwerf, 1701. Paperback. "Tweede deel. Door den auteur van het eerste. Uyt het Engels vertaald." 40 p.; 19 cm. Disbound. Woodcut title vignette. Signatures: A-E4 (4to). Knuttel, 14606. A translation of The Duke of Anjou's Succession Further Considered, which is sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe. In Very...
New York: Liberty Publishing Co., 1933. Wistehuff, Revere F. Paperback. 53, [1] p.: illustrations; 29 cm. Paperback with color cover illustration by Revere F. Wistehuff. Contents include: Struggles to the Death in the Prize Ring by Edward Doherty and Noll Gurney -- Pretty Sadie McKee: The Story of Another "Bad...
Paris: Baudouin Frères, 1825. Hardcover. Title continued: "Précis historique inédit des événements de la soirée du 9 Thermidor an II, par C.A. Méda, Gendarme, Chargé de Réduire la Commune de Paris et les conventionnels insurgés; avec une notice sur la vie de l'auteur, mort géneral de brigade et Baron." [4].....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917. Paperback. [4], 87, [1] p.; 22 cm. Green paper wrappers printed in black. Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper. The authors describe the various fighting troops of Italy and their battles in the First World War up to 1917. In Very Good Condition: wrapper slightly soiled;...
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1926. Hardcover. [2], 350 p.; 19 cm. Dark blue cloth with red spine and cover titles. Dust jacket with illustrated front section; publisher's advertising on back section. Originally published in 1906. An anti-socialist novel, which may have been an attack on socialist minister George...
Pacific Grove, Cal. Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1991. Hardcover. With Jorgen S. Rasmussen and Joel C. Moses. xxiii, 673 p.: 63 in-text and full-page figures, 17 in-text tables; 24 cm. Brown and green illustrated paper over spine and boards. No dust jacket (as issued). Includes Index. Eighth Edition. A major study...
Hague: Adriani Vlacq, 1652. First Edition. Hardcover. [16], 148 p.; 13 cm. Signatures: [fleuron]8 A-F12 G2 (12mo). Original vellum with title written on spine in an old hand. First edition. Published anonymously, but written by Pierre Du Moulin. See J. Shawcross, Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700, p. 285;...
Welland, Canada: Baskerville Press, 1928. Hardcover. 60 p.: illustrations; 29 cm. White cloth spine and corners with gilt-stamped spine title; white paper over boards. Scarce maroon dust jacket with black-and-gilt title and illustration on front section. Matching maroon endpapers. A Baskerville Press Quarto: No. V. Crowland. This is no. 60...
Mâcon, France: Protat Frères, 1925. Pamphlet. 10 p.; 23 cm. Stapled. Part of the series Classification des Céramiques Antiques published by the Union Académique Internationale. No date of publication; probably published in the 1920s. Stamped at lower edge of first page and on last page: "Department of Classical and Near.....
Mâcon, France: Protat Frères, 1928. Pamphlet. 7 p.; 23 cm. Part of the series Classification des Céramiques Antiques published by the Union Académique Internationale. Stamped at lower edge of first page and on last page: "Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College." Former owner's name at upper.....
New York: J. & H. G. Langley, 1841. Hardcover. iv, [[5], 14-376 p.; 19 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spie title: Democracy in France. Blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Yellow endpapers. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: Grayson. Bookplate on back fixed endpaper indicating that this was given...
Hartford: Case, Tiffany & Burnham, 1841. Hardcover. Title continued: "To which is added a Chronological View of Memorable Events, as Earthquakes, Volcanic Eruptions, Storms, Conflagrations, Diseases, Famines, Inventions, Discoveries, Battles, Treaties, Settlements, Origins of Religious Sects, Etc." [2], 717, [1] p., 28 leaves of plates; 23 cm. Original calf boards;...
Wisconsin: 1862. Paperback. 8 p.; 22 cm. Pamphlet without wrapper. Caption title. "Printed for private circulation." Daniel Steele Durrie (1819-1892) was librarian of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from 1856 until his death in 1892. Pencilled marginal notations. In Very Good- Condition: lightly soiled; chipping of lower page edges;...
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