New York: M. Evans and Co., 1978. Hardcover. [10], 534 p., [16] p. of illustrations; 24 cm. Brown cloth spine with black and red spine title; light brown paper over boards. Maps on endpapers. Dust jacket. On August 13, 1961, East Germany started stretching barbed wire along the border between..... More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Paperback. xvi, 301 p.; 24 cm. Paperback. At the end of the 19th century in North Carolina, "Frustrated by decades of African American self-assertion and threatened by an interracial coalition advocating democratic reforms, white conservatives used violence, demagoguery, and fraud to..... More
Washington, D.C. A. & G. Way, printers, 1808. 4 p.; 21 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. "April 2, 1808. Printed by order of the house of representatives." "Translation of a letter from M. Champagny to General Armstrong, dated Paris, January 15, 1808."--p. [3]. Early American Imprints, Second series (Shaw..... More
New York: Charles Boni Paper Books, 1929. Paperback. "First published December, 1929." 188, [2] p.; 19 cm. Paperback with continuous cover design by Rockwell Kent; illustrated endpapers also designed by Kent. The Rockwell Kent-designed emblem of Charles Boni Paper Books on the title page. This title was the fifth in..... More
Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1840. Hardcover. "Seule Édition Complète." [2], lviii, [2], 332 p.; 18 cm. Modern leather with gilt-tooled spine title and blind-tooled decoration. Former owner's inscription on blank leaf following front endpapers: "Alex. Bliss 1849." French poet André Chénier (1762-1794) was a victim of the French Revolution. This volume..... More
London: Illustrated London News, 1933. Paperback. 2, [1], 518-548, 3-4 p.: illustrations (some in color); 37 cm. Stapled; pages 1-4 contain advertisements printed in red, blue, and black. First page contains full-page photograph of older Jewish man being harassed by German police in Berlin. Other photographs include the Japanese attack..... More
Boston: South End Press, 1979. Paperback. xvii, [1], 441 p.; 21 cm. Paperback. Diagram on front endpapers. A "brilliant, shattering, and convincing account of United States-backed suppression of political and human rights in the Third World." -- back cover. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; cover is lightly soiled; one..... More
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1975. Hardcover. [8], 133 p.: illustrations, tables; 22 cm. Blue cloth with black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the publisher's National University Publications Interdisciplinary Urban Series. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: upper edge..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Hardcover. xviii, 188, [2] p.; 21 cm. Grey cloth with gilt spine title. Blind-stamped publisher's emblem on front cover. Dust jacket with portrait of the author on the back section. Stated First Edition. Book is in Near Fine Condition: slightly cocked; clean and tight..... More
New York: Baker & Godwin, 1873. Paperback. 24 p.; 21 cm. Disbound from a larger volume; lacking wrapper. "Being a Method by Which the Independence of the Voter, and the Average Intelligence and Virtue of the Community will have Free Scope, and a Fair Representation in the Government of the..... More
Washington, D.C. Congressional Globe Office, 1850. Pamphlet. 8 p.; 22 cm. Disbound. Chauncey Fitch Cleveland (1799-1887) served as governor of Connecticut from 1842 to 1844 and represented that state in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1849 to 1853. This speech was Cleveland's contribution to the lengthy and heated debates..... More
Philadelphia, Pa. William Cobbett, 1796. Second Edition. viii, [1], 10-56 p.; 20 cm. Signatures: pi4 B-G4 (8vo). Disbound. Evans, 30213. William Cobbett complains about everyone, including Benjamin Franklin and various Philadelphia printers and booksellers, and defends himself against accusations that he was in the pay of the British while living..... More
Wilmington, Del. C. P. Johnson, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1877. Paperback. 34 p.; 21 cm. Grey wrapper with black wrapper title. John P. Cochran (1809-1898) served as governor of Delaware from 1875 to 1879. In this message to the state legislature he discusses state finances as well as other..... More
London: Methuen & Co., 1977. Paperback. xiv, 364 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes essays by J.H. Baker, J.S. Cockburn, A.D.J. Macfarlane, J.A. Sharpe, M.J. Ingram, T.C. Curtis, J.M. Beattie, R.W. Malcolmson, P.B. Munsche, W.J. Sheehan, and P. Linebaugh. Former owner's inscription on half title page: "Craig Horle..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Paperback. xviii, 526 p.: illustrations, tables; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes index. In Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; clean and tight. More
New York: Viking Press, 1974. Hardcover. viii, [2], 373 pages, [8] pages of illustrations; 22 cm. Black cloth with red spine title. Black endpapers. Dust jacket. A detailed account by two Washington Post reporters of the first American Vice president to resign in disgrace. Book is in Very Good+ Condition..... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1888. Paperback. 16 p.: tables; 23 cm. Stapled. R. Q. Mills reported from the Committee on Ways and Means to whom had been committed the President's annual message "calling the attention of Congress to the large surplus now in the Treasury." Among other things, the..... More
Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1985. Hardcover. X, 452, [2] p., 9 leaves of photographs: in-text tables, charts; 25 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. White dust jacket with front cover illustration. The proceedings of the conference Le Società in Transizione, held at the Balch Institute for..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. Hardcover. Volume 1 only. x, 424 p., frontispiece portrait; 23 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine title. The frontispiece portrait of Whitelaw Reid is from a photography by Ernest H. Mills. Stamped "Editorial Page Library" on title page. Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912) was editor..... More
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..... More
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..... 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
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009. Paperback. viii, 235 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Part of the series Debating Twentieth-Century America. "The authors describe how a small band of conservatives in the immediate aftermath of World War II launched a revolution that shifted American politics to the..... More
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..... More
London: William Innys, 1716. Hardcover. [16], 304, [16] p.; 20 cm. Contemporary calf boards; flax spine repair dyed to match boards, with gilt-tooled leather spine label. Publisher's advertisements on page following Contents and on final page after the end of the index. Title page within double-ruled border. Woodcut head-pieces, tailpieces..... More