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Damas [Dimasq]: Institute Francais de Damas / al-Ma`had al-firansiya bi-Dimasq li-al-dirasat al-`arabiyya, 1953. 67 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers (paperback). First edition thus. A near fine unopened (uncut) copy. ¶ A classic work. In Arabic. Scarce. Bookseller reference : 29163 |
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275th Anniversary. Harwich, Massachusetts. A Sketch of the Years 1694-1969, in Text and Pictures. Harwich: 1969. 56 pp. 9.75 x 6.75 inches. Cream-colored stapled paper wrappers First edition. #56 of 300 copies. Illus. with 7 drawings, 46 photos, 2 facsimiles, and 1 two page map. Very good+ with light soiling to wrappers and inscription and partial genealogy of a leading citizen on copyright page and tissue. ¶ Includes facsimiles of original charter and purchase contract of land from Indians. Bookseller reference : 12397 |
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Johannesburg: C. van Rensburg Publications, [20], 250 pp., [45]. 4to. Cloth (hardback) in slipcase. First edition. De luxe edition. Illus. with color photos and maps. A near fine copy in a very good slipcase. ¶ Transkei was granted independence from South Africa in 1976. Bookseller reference : 24474 |
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Who's Who of American Women. 1964-1965. Chicago: A. N. Marquis, 1969. 1374 pp. 4to. Cloth (hardback). Third edition. Very good or better with light soiling. Bookseller reference : 10515 |
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Who's Who of American Women. 1968-1969. Chicago: A. N. Marquis, 1969. 1374 pp. 4to. Cloth (hardback). Fifth edition. Very good+ with light soiling. Bookseller reference : 10514 |
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Classical Studies in Honour of Henry Drisler. New York: Macmillan Company, 1894. ix, 310 pp. 8vo. Cloth (hardback). First edition. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. Front hinge just starting else a very good crisp copy. ¶ Twenty-one essays on Horace, Anaximander, Euripides, Equestrian Cursus Honorum, Zoraster in Syriac and Arabic Literature, Rig-Veda, Plato, Herodotus, Persian Armour, Aulus Gellius, Ovid, Geryon in Cyrus, Pusan, Medusa Ludovisi, Aristotle, Gargettus, and others. Bookseller reference : 24867 |
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Czechoslovakia: its Beauties and Features of Interest. Praha: V. Neubert A. Syndve, (ca 1920). [ii] 55 pp., [1]. Sq. 8vo.(19 x 27 cm.). String tied illustrated paper wrappers. n.ed. Illus. with 86 b/w photos + 3 colored maps [ 1 folding 17 x 29 inches).. A very good copy, soiling to wrappers with small tear, otherwise bright; map with tear along one fold. A nice copy. ¶ Beautiful and crisp photographs taken circa 1920, though there were later reprintings of this book. Beautiful cover art. Bookseller reference : 25682 
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New York: Imprime par D. Fanshaw aux Frais de La Societe Biblique Americaine, 1831. 207 pp. 12mo. Full calf with gilt rules to spine (hardback). Later printing. Wear to spine ends else a very good copy, endpapers toned, scattered foxing, tight in binding. ¶ In French. An export from the Bible Society to France. Bookseller reference : 24948 |
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Hopkinton, Mass.: A.E. Foss & Co., 1900. [2]-16, 16a-b, [17]-207 pp. including endpapers. 8vo (24 cm). Quarterbound cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards (hardback). First edition. A very good copy, boards mildly soiled, occasional wear to the edges, scattered foxing, mainly to the endpapers, binding solid, in a clear archival jacket. ¶ Errata slip laid in loose. Scarce RLIN and OCLC show only one copy. Bookseller reference : 27161 
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Sovetskaia Aziia: obshchestvenno-nauchnyi zhurnal. 1931. [Two Volumes]. Moskva: Tipo-lit. im. t. Vorovskogo, 1931. 328; 287; 296; 272; 237; 267 pp. 8vo. Red buckram. First edition. Illus. with b/w photos, figures, maps + one folding map, linen backed, in pocket. Very good or better crisp, clean copies, boards lightly rubbed, nicely bound by Weilin & Goos. ¶ Soviet Asia: a social and scientific journal. In Russian. Six double bimonthly issues. Ceased publication with these numbers. Bookseller reference : 29188 
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Architectural Beauty in Europe: Vol. 1: Germany. New York: Stephen Daye, 1946. 87 pp. 4to. Cloth. n.ed. Illus. with b/w photos. A very good+ copy. No dust jacket. Bookseller reference : 17247 |
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[Racine, Wis.]: Whitman Pub. Co., 1932. Unpaged [18pp.]. Folio (33 x 24 cm). Illustrated paper wrappers. Illus. with 24 color drawings (including wrappers). Wrappers separated with a few edge tears, top corner a bit rounded, but overall still a good solid copy. ¶ No. W 971. OCLC lists two copies, Univ of Chicago and one in the Jerome Cushman Collection of Children's literature at UCLA. Bookseller reference : 26756 
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New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, (1912). Unpaged (10 pp). Folio (31 cm). Illustrated paper wrappers. 12 color illus. and b/w animal alphabet inside wrappers. Disbound, front wrapper with a few creases and small chip to corner not affecting titles, small tears to some leaves not affecting images, some darkening along the top edge of a few leaves; a good, if separated, copy. ¶ # 600. A copy in linen (No. 700, 1913) is in the Emanuel D. Rudolph Children's Science collection Ohio State Univ. Bookseller reference : 26741 
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New York: Lamplight Publishing, 1975. 91 pp. 4to. Illustrated cloth. Reprint. Illus. with 60 full page color plates & 16 b/w photos. A very good copy with faint stain to front board otherwise very crisp and clean with bright photos. ¶ The Lamplight Collection of Modern Art Series. First published in Italy in 1967 by Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milan. Bookseller reference : 14698 |
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n.p. n.p. ca. 1916 32 pp. 8vo. Center stapled green paper wrappers. Good+ or better with wrappers a bit soiled and edges with a few tiny nicks and chips; crease to rear wrapper, otherwise quite clean. Uncommon. ¶ Propaganda pamphlet with reprints of editorials from July 1916 in support of the Railroads against the Brotherhood of Train Service Employees. Bookseller reference : 14948 |
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Souvenir of the Mohawk Trail. Massachusetts. Mechanicville, NY: C. W. Hughes, n.d. (ca. 1930). Unpaged [16 pp.]. 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. Paper wrappers. n.ed. Photos and drawings. Annotations written in margins of pictures otherwise very good. ¶ Complete in original stamped matching envelope addressed to sailor on the U. S. S. Lexington which was heavily damaged in the Battle of the Coral Sea and was sunk becoming the first U. S. carrier lost in World War II. Bookseller reference : 12583 |
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Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1924. 233 pp. 8vo. First printing. Illus. Near fine in a good- but edgeworn stripped glassine dust wrapper. ¶ Ten lectures on all aspects of engineering by ten guest lecturers. Bookseller reference : 12478 |
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Concord, NH. Stearns, Morrills & Silsby 1840. 852 pp.; 259 pp. 32mo. (11 cm). Full morocco with leather tongue and clasp (hardback). All edges gilt. Illus. with two engravings with tissue guards. Clasp worn, boards rubbed, upper joints split but tight, beautiful period inscription to first blank, overall a very good copy. ¶ Added title page, engraved. OCLC lists no copies of the 1840 edition or earlier. There are two copies of a 1841 edition under the imprint of Morrill & Silsby at Harvard Divinity School and the NH Historical Society. A Polyglot Bible in 1843 was published by Stearns. The name Edward Fornis in gilt on one board. Scarce New Hampshire imprint. Bookseller reference : 25730 
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New York: Printed for the American Bible Society, by D. Fanshaw : Stereotyped by T. Rutt, London, 1831. 746, [8], [747]-968 pp. 8vo. Full calf (hardback). Stereotype edition. Boards and spine scuffed, chip to heel of spine, split at joints still solid, foxing especially to endpapers; a good copy. ¶ New Testament has separate title page. Bookseller reference : 24947 |
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The Yale Literary Magazine. Centennial Number. 1936. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1936. Trade format. Paper wrappers. 100th edition. About very good with a bit of soiling and wear at the extremities otherwise clean. ¶ Includes work by Thorton Wilder, Archibald MacLeish, Brendan Gill, and others. Bookseller reference : 13935 |
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Amsterdam: Kalanka, 1953. Unpaged [66 pp.]. Folio. Pictorial paper-covered boards. n.ed. 132 b/w photos and 4 drawings. Very good or better with soiling to rear board, wear to edges, nick to spine, with a bright, colorful front board. ¶ Wonderful b/w photos and drawings covering most of Holland from Amsterdam to Zwolle. Bookseller reference : 12018 |
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Views of the White Mountains with Descriptive Text. Portland, ME: Chisholm Brothers, (1921). 32 pp. 8 x 10 in. Paper wrappers. 25th ed. improved with new plates. Illus. with 32 b/w photos by Henry G. Peabody. Near fine with a bit of darkening of wraps. Bookseller reference : 12586 |
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Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1905. 31 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First printing. U. S. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Forestry. Circular No. 31. Very good or better with tiny scrape to bottom corner else tight, fresh, and clean, Bookseller reference : 14822 |
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World's Great Romances. One Volume Edition. (Collected Romances of the World). New York: Black, 1929. 724 pp. 8vo. Illustrated stamped cloth (hardback). n.ed. A very good+ copy. Bookseller reference : 16535 |
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Interesting Houses of New England from Original Photographs. Boston: Burroughs & Co., 1915. 77 pp. Obl. 4to. Cloth (hardback). First edition. 77 b/w photos. Very good+ with a bit of darkening to spine and boards, otherwise crisp. ¶ Despite the fact that the title is a bit misleading, since all but eight of the houses are in Massachusetts, this book presents excellent photographs of many historical properties some of which are now gone. Bookseller reference : 12458 |
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