Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1885. First edition. Three quarter morocco over marbled boards all edges marbled. Extremities rubbed else a very good copy. 211 pp. 8vo. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1875. First edition. Three quarter morocco over marbled boards all edges marbled. Front joint very tender edgewear owner's name on title else leaves clean and bright about very good. 75 pp.; 26 pp. 8vo. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Washington D.C.: Blair and Rives printer 1835. First edition. Removed. Wrappers lacking else a very good copy minor pencil notations. 95 pp. 24mo. Printed by order of the Secretary of the Navy in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the United States of August 2 1813. Blair and Rives, printer unknown books
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1906. First edition. Rebound in blue-green buckram gilt spine titles. Top edge dusty else a near fine copy. 258 pp. 8vo. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1914. First edition. Rebound in blue-green buckram gilt spine titles. Top edge dusty else a near fine copy. 352 1 pp. 8vo. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1904. First edition. Rebound in blue-green buckram gilt spine titles. Top edge dusty else a near fine copy. 246 pp. 8vo. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1903. First edition. Rebound in blue-green buckram gilt spine titles. Top edge dusty title faintly soiled else a near fine copy. 222 pp. 8vo. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1863. First edition. Three quarter morocco over marbled boards all edges marbled. A good copy front board detached boards rubbed head and foot of spine chipped owner's name on first blank corners browned throughout otherwise clean. 248 pp. 8vo. Copy of the Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Navigation. Much enlarged from earlier editions with the war now well under way. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1862. First edition. Three quarter morocco over marbled paper-covered boards spine titled and ruled in gilt. Front board nearly detached and edgeworn chipped at head of spine owner's stamp on title annotations on two leaves else clean. A good copy. 110 pp. 8vo. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Washington D.C.: Printed by Robert Armstrong 1854. First edition. Red buckram with original blue wrappers bound in. Binding fine wrappers soiled small chips occasional small edge stains calls numbers on front wrapper institutional perforated stamp on two leaves book plate of 1st infantry veterans on first blank also signed F. E. Sweet Chicago in pencil overall about very good. 131 pp. 8vo. Printed by order of the Secretary of the Navy in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the United States of December 13 1815. Printed by Robert Armstrong hardcover books
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1865. First edition. Three quarter morocco over marbled paper-covered boards. A very good copy with wear to extremities owner's name on endpaper Treasury Department stamp on title small hole on first two blanks. 335 pp.; 20 pp. 8vo. Copy of William Mertz a clerk in the Treasury Department. With the military build-up now complete this would be the largest mid-century edition. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1887. First edition. Rebound in buckram. A near fine copy. 211 pp. 8vo. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1904. First edition. Three quarter morocco over marbled boards all edges marbled marbled endpapers. Front board detached extremities worn spine leather a bit dry and chipped overall a good solid copy leaves crisp. 149 pp. 8vo. Government Printing Office hardcover books
London: Marine Engineer and Naval Architect 1953. First edition. Blue-gray buckram with gilt titles. Boards lightly scuffed else fine. 576 pp. Illus. with b/w photos drawings and plans. Sm. 4to. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect hardcover books
London: Marine Engineer and Naval Architect 1955. First edition. Red buckram with gilt titles. Boards lightly scuffed else fine. 546 pp. Illus. with b/w photos drawings and plans. 4to. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect hardcover books
London: Marine Engineer and Naval Architect 1957. First edition. Red buckram with gilt titles. Boards lightly scuffed else fine. 534 pp. Illus. with b/w photos drawings and plans. 4to. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect hardcover books
London: Marine Engineer and Naval Architect 1952. First edition. Blue-gray buckram with gilt titles. Boards lightly scuffed one leaf with large chip along bottom edge else near fine. 562 pp. Illus. with b/w photos drawings and plans. Sm. 4to. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect hardcover books
London: Marine Engineer and Naval Architect 1950. First edition. Blue-gray buckram with gilt titles. Boards lightly scuffed else fine. 371-536 pp. Illus. with b/w photos drawings and plans. Sm. 4to. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect hardcover books
London: Marine Engineer and Naval Architect 1956. First edition. Red buckram with gilt titles. Boards lightly scuffed else fine. 504 pp. Illus. with b/w photos drawings and plans. 4to. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect hardcover books
London: Marine Engineer and Naval Architect 1954. First edition. Red buckram with gilt titles. Boards lightly scuffed else fine. 502 pp. Illus. with b/w photos drawings and plans. 4to. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect hardcover books
London: Marine Engineer and Naval Architect 1951. First edition. Blue-gray buckram with gilt titles. Boards lightly scuffed else fine. 556 pp. Illus. with b/w photos drawings and plans. Sm. 4to. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect hardcover books
Lederer Street and Zeus Printers; Berkeley California; 1946. Oblong Quarto. Construction battalion detachment was the one assigned to the Solomon Islands where they performed major tasks to create a major docking facility while fighting malaria and insects. This remarkable volume has hundreds of photographs that document the 1008th which was one of the larger battalions some on smaller islands had as few as sixty men. Laid in are papers of how the Association funds were spent on the printing engravings editing and other task in producing one of the most thorough Seabee volumes at the cost of $9480.50 in 1946. Only two copies are found on OCLC. Also laid in is a mimeographed list of the men and where they were located in the photographs of the entire battalion. A handsome copy near fine bound in brown and blue cloth lettered in brown and blue Owner's subscriber name stamped in gilt to upper board. [Lederer, Street and Zeus, Printers; Berkeley, California; 1946] unknown books
Washingon DC: U.S. Department of the Navy 1943. Quarto. 218p. Fold-out plates of mounts. Over a thousand pictures of the most minute parts. Cross-index. Essential for mechanics aboard ship on repair and for the homefront to send the exact replacements. A very nice copy bound in gray stiff paper wraps printed in black light soiling on rear cover. U.S. Department of the Navy unknown books
Letchworth: Prideaux Press 1979. Original Wraps. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprint of the 1922 edition. 53p. Facsimile of original title page of back cover. Prideaux Press unknown books
Richmond VA: Marsh Art Gallery 2002. Quarto. 71p. checklist of the artists' works at the exhibition with biographical sketches of each artist. The theme is of course the way in which the Russian artists broke free from the prescriptions of the ancien regimes views of art. A very nice item that is already scarce. Text in English and Russian. Bound in decorative stiff paper wraps near fine. Marsh Art Gallery unknown books
Torino: Tipografia torinese editrice 1961. cloth dust jacket. 4to. cloth dust jacket. 5491 pages. First edition printed in an edition limited to 990 numbered copies. Includes bibliographies with copious facsimile reproductions of 16th century book illustrations woodcuts and engravings. One volume of a three volume set this volume being dedicated to books printed in the city of Torino Italy. Tipografia torinese editrice unknown books
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013-01-17. Paperback. Good. 1978 edition. Minor cover wear. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform paperback books
Référence libraire : 186916 ISBN : 1481999141 9781481999144
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013-01-17. Paperback. Good. Original 1987 edition. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform paperback books
Référence libraire : 186923 ISBN : 1481998447 9781481998444
Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno Editores SA 1988. Paperback. 382p. softbound trade-size wraps illus. very good. Originally published by Stanford in English 1985. NOTE: This book was published using an ISBN that was re-used on a completely different title Take care when ordering to be sure you are getting the title you want. Siglo Veintiuno Editores SA paperback books
Menlo Park: Sunset Publishing House 1910. Pamphlet. Unpaginated about thirty-two pages profuse captioned period photography on coated alkaline paperstock decorated with skyblue spot-color; a program of the conference mugshots of participants brief characterizations of Pacific coast cities to be affected promotional material prepping the PPIE to come five years later with a nod to war preparedness. Softbound a 10x7.5 inch pamphlet in stapled color wraps. Somewhat edgeworn crimping and soil especially along spinefold staples rusted with minute migrations clean and unmarked within; a good copy. Trade congress co-sponsored by the Commercial Organization of California "to discuss the urgency of merchant marine legislation the maintenance of a strong battleship fleet on the Pacific Coast the permanent organization of an annual Pacific Coast Congress and the consideration of the Pacific Coast Expositions." Held at the Palace Hotel. Sunset Publishing House unknown books
San Francisco: Versus magazine 1989. Magazine. 36p includes covers 10.75x14.25 inches articles reports events services and resources opinion illustrations photos local ads very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Stories on Nuclear Testing AIDS and AIDS in Prison Butoh and the art space Creativity Explored. Versus magazine unknown books
Pittsburgh: Dorrance 2007. Paperback. 66p. very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Colombian American living in California. Dorrance paperback books
Référence libraire : 242247 ISBN : 0805975543 9780805975543
Tucson AZ: Grilled Flowers 1977. 24p 5.75x8.5 inches texts in Spanish and English very good poetry chapbook edgeworn sewn pictorial tan wraps. Grilled Flowers Special issue #2. Poet's first book. Grilled Flowers unknown books
Moscow: Serebrianyi bor 1992. 302p. very good hardcover; text in Russian. Collection of Silver Age Russian erotica including work by the gay author Mikhail Kuzmin. Serebrianyi bor unknown books
Référence libraire : 231712 ISBN : 5845000076 9785845000071
San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña 1976. Paperback. Two volumes 90p. each illustrated with photos of the poets text in Spanish one of 3000 copies lightly-worn first edition small trade paperback in rubbed stained green pictorial wraps. Serie Literatura Hoy. Eighteen poets represented in these volumes. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña paperback books
New York: The Propeller Club of the United States sponsoring agency 1959. 200 188p. coated paperstock with numerous portrait site and equipment photos softbound in 11x7.7 inch glossy wraps. Slight edgewear free of any markings both copies very good. Two items together. Conferences held respectively in Detroit 32nd Annual and San Francisco 33rd Annual. The Propeller Club of the United States, sponsoring agency unknown books
Quantico VA: United States Marine Corps 2008. Paperback. viii 74 2p. plentiful color photos line map in colors; softbound in 7x5 inch colorphoto wraps entirely clean and sound a very good copy. "Designed to provide deploying military personnel an overview of Sudan's cultural terrain. synopsized to capture the more significant aspects of the Sudan culture.contains practical sections on lifestyle customs and habits." Also the tendency of the Sudan military to torture and summarily execute prisoners of war. DSN : 278-6167 DOD-2634-SDN-005-09. Unclassified but: "the use of this publication is restricted to authorized U.S. and coalition military and government personnel. Further dissemination is strictly prohibited;" this prohibition reflects a fairly uninhibited critique of ruling praxis and the inhuman military training of government recruits. United States Marine Corps paperback books
San Francisco: author 1994. 60p. printed dark blue on pale grey stock first book edition staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch wraps. A clean sound very good copy inscribed and signed by Marina Lazzara the year following publication. Laid in is a curious bookmark black ink on acetate looks like it belongs with the booklet. Title page text continues seguing into dedications and acknowledgements. Of particular interest: "Special thanks to the Processed World collective and the Poetics Department at new College of California." Thanks magazines in which poems made a first appearance including PW where also some of Swanson's illustrations first gurgled. One of the prose pieces here is 5p. on tending bar in SF another longer one on "thrifting" which is not exclusively concerned with purchases. author unknown books
Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology 2010. 212p. wraps very good but for a rubberstamp indicating it was rejected as a duplicate by Harvard's Tozzer Library. Text in Russian; illustrated with black and white photos. Senri Ethnological Reports 92. National Museum of Ethnology unknown books
Référence libraire : 160056 ISBN : 490190678x 9784901906784
New York: Global City Press 1995. 245p. very good first edition of author's debut novel in original pictorial wraps. Paperback original from a small NYC press. Based on an actual event the story of a marriage between a Jewish New Yorker and an Indo-Caribbean man. Global City Press unknown books
Référence libraire : 114456 ISBN : 0964129221 9780964129221
Santurce PR: Editorial Guajana 1992. Paperback. xxxiii 485p. text in Spanish illustrations previous owner's gift inscription otherwise a very good copy of the first edition trade paperback original in blue pictorial wraps. Three decades of Puerto Rican literature. Editorial Guajana paperback books
San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña 1976. Paperback. 90p. illustrated with photos of the poets text in Spanish one of 3000 copies lightly-worn first edition small trade paperback in rubbed stained green pictorial wraps. Serie Literatura Hoy. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña paperback books
San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña 1976. Paperback. 90p. texts in Spanish photos of poets very good first edition small paperback in green pictorial wraps. Literatura hoy #10. Contributions from 10 poets. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña paperback books
New York: Philosophical Library 1964. Hardcover. xviii 535p. introduction epilogue notes references and bibliography very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj with small chip at top. This novel by a Puerto Rican psychiatrist and a professor of social philosophy at the University of Puerto Rico uses psychoanalytic techniques to discover universal human truths. Philosophical Library hardcover books