New York: William Morrow & Co. 1971. First Edition. Very Good copy. Very Good DJ. Still relatively tight clean unmarked copy. Price intact. Light bumping of head and tail of spine of jacket. Moderate shelf rubbing. In new protective jacket cover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. William Morrow & Co. Hardcover
New York: Poseidon Press 1992. First Edition. Ex-library. Good copy. Good DJ. Clean pages. Back free endpaper has library envelope. Flaps of jacket are glued to boards. Moderate rubbingf in protective jacket cover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Poseidon Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000695 ISBN : 0671741535 9780671741532
Paris: La Veuve Estienne 1735. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 16mo 6-1/2" x 4". xxiii 5613pp. Brown leather cover gilt decorations and titles to spine. Binders thread exposed in upper/lower joints with pieces of leather missing but covers holding. PO name to verso of free endpaper title page missing rest of text block tight and unmarked. Numerous illustrations with many fold-outs. OCLC 493204121. <br/><br/> La Veuve Estienne hardcover
Lyons Press October 2011. Hardcover . Good/Very Good. Good Hardcover with Very Good Dustjacket. Light soiling and shelfwear to DJ. Light soiling and shelfwear to covers. Spine ends bumped. Remainder mark and mild soiling on textblock. A few pages very lightly soiled. Otherwise pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned independent book shop since 1984. Lyons Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 201093 ISBN : 0762770708 9780762770700
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co 1944. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with black spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. 155pp. Near fine/very good. Small inoffensive stain on rear endpaper; jacket lightly edgeworn with single edge chip. A tight and attractive first edition wartime travelogue by the British actor singer playwright and all-around wit as he traveled to entertain allied troops during World War Two and to cite front jacket panel "reports his impressions of the war in the Mediterranean." Very lovely and very uncommon in such a spiffy jacket whose front panel graphics show a stylized aerial view of the Mediterranean and Sicily Gibraltar Malta and Beirut. Doubleday, Doran & Co hardcover
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2001. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. x 357pp. Illustrations. Near fine. A tight and pristine third printing of this collection of essays about Oxford and Cambridge's legendary instructors. The University of Chicago Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 40995 ISBN : 0226021084 9780226021089
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1978. Narrow small 4to 4 3/4" X 10�". Six panels. Near fine. This lovely and colorful card was printed in a small quantity meant for distribution to top vendors suppliers and distributors. Printed in color on fine heavy stock it accordion folds opens to 28" X 10�" to a high-quality color facsimile of "The Earliest Surviving Manuscript Showing Drake's Voyages" a recently-discovered hand-drawn world map of circa 1587 on which Sir Francis Drake's 1577-80 circumnavigation has been drawn. Rand McNally & Company unknown
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1972. Collection of 14 company Christmas cards one each for the years 1972 through 1985 plus year three undated. Near fine overall. Printed in modest quantities and intended for distribution only to top vendors suppliers and distributors this delightful collection ranges in size from narrow 4to to wide 8vo some bigger and some smaller. All are handsomely and colorfully printed on fine heavy stock. Most are at least three panels and many are more and all open up to reveal superb reproductions of famed antiquarian maps from around the world. Some open up to small poster size and two contain separate folded maps that open to full poster size. Several have been signed by various company executives. Most unusual and attractive -- a collection that would be near-impossible to duplicate. Rand McNally & Company unknown
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1975. Wide 8vo. 4pp. Near fine. This handsome colorful card was printed in modest quantities and intended for distribution to top vendors suppliers and distributors. Printed on fine heavy stock in red white and blue it opens up to 19" X 25�" to reveal a beautifully reproduced color facsimile of the famed "A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia London: William Faden 1777 -- which map Rand McNally published in 1974 in their superb "Atlas of the American Revolution" edited by Kenneth Nebenzahl. Rand McNally & Company unknown
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company n.y. Small 4to. Three panel. Near fine. This lovely and colorful card was printed in a small quantity meant for distribution to top vendors suppliers and distributors. Printed in color on fine heavy stock it opens up to 24" X 18" to a wonderfully reproduced color facsimile of a two-page map spread "Frankfurt and Environs" from the third volume of Blaeu''s "Grand Atlas" -- likely from Rand McNally's 1977 "Grand Atlas and Picture Book of the World." A blank inner panel gives the history of this circa 1638 Amsterdam map. Rand McNally & Company unknown
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1979. 8vo 9" X 5�". Top-to-bottom four panel. Near fine. This attractive colorful card was printed in a small quantity meant for distribution to top vendors suppliers and distributors. Printed in color on fine heavy stock it opens up to 9" X 22�" to a high-quality color photographs of an "elegant sixteenth century scientific instrument. an astronomical compendium" a 1557 brass three-dimensional contraption featuring a world map and "thirteen leaves of scientific devices and table" -- sundials and other navigational tools. Rand McNally & Company unknown
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with silver lettering pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 352pp. Fine/near fine. Wonderfully tight and attractive first edition with fun front jacket graphics showing the bewigged statesman signing his you-know-what to the you-know-what. Doubleday & Company hardcover
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