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Best.-Nr. 81750Moscow. Gos. Izd-vo. Thirty weekly numbers issued from 1924-1926. Issues from 1924-25 tall quarto 30.5cm x 23cm; issues for 1926 in slightly smaller format 26cm x 18cm; all in stapled pictorial wrappers with inset portraits of prominent actors musicians and artists within a graphical border printed in red and black; most issues 32pp. Illustrated from photographs. A few with mild edge-staining to wrappers; text lightly tanned or covers tenuously attached on some issues; the majority Very Good overall complete and Good or better. Text in Russian cyrillic. Includes: 1924: No. 2 Dec. 9-16; no.3 Dec. 16-21 1925: No. 6 Jan 6-11; no. 7; 91822-2732-4144-485556 Dec 22 1926: No.16 Apr 20 17-18 double issue-and final issue-Apr 27 Together thirty of the seventy-five numbers issued between December 1924 and April 1926 when publication ceased. Iskusstvo Trudiaschimsia was a weekly review of revolutionary art and performance produced under the auspices of the Science and Art Section of the State Academic Council under the directorship of the important revolutionary apparatchik theorist and avant-garde playwright Anatoly Lunacharsky whose important theoretical essay "Is it Not Time to Organize the Glaviskusstvo" appears in the magazine's third issue. Perhaps not surprisingly given the Lunacharsky connection content is heavily focused on the performing arts including theater music and cinema: Lunacharsky believed that of all forms of artistic expression theater had the greatest potential for the education and radicalization of the proletariat. The plastic arts are considered as well but far less frequently. A good idea of the overall focus of Iskusstvo trudiaschimsia can be gotten by scanning the contents of the third issue: in addition to the aforementioned Lunacharsky essay on the establishment of a state arts directorate Glaviskusstvo would eventually be established in 1928 there appears a theoretical essay "Against Aestheticism" by Anatoly Glebov; a discussion by director Ivan Platon of the staging of Turgenev's "Fortune's Fool" at the Maly Theater; a review of V. Nikiforov's play "Airplane" at the State Children's Theatre; an illustrated article on traditional music of the Crimea by the noted musicologist Arkady Konchevsky; and numerous short articles and reviews some signed with initials or pseudonyms others by such figures as A.M. Granovsky Aleksei Rodionov Viktor Krasyn David Shterenberg and others. There are in addition extensive listings for theatrical and orchestral performances film screenings and art exhibitions in Moscow and environs. A significant if short-lived arts journal from the Proletkult period offering valuable insight to the development of revolutionary theatre in the years immediately following the Revolution. Somewhat uncommon in the West with scattered issues appearing on the market infrequently; cohesive runs are rarely offered outside of Russia. OCLC notes only four American institutions with physical holdings all incomplete. unknown books
1933Best.-Nr. 81752Moscow; New York; Leningrad: Various; Intourist 1933-1966. 90 with a few additional duplicates pieces of ephemeral material ranging from page copiously illustrated tour guides produced in the US on behalf of the USSR tourist initiatives to single sheet recital tickets and programs clearly produced to the lowest costs and standards many of which were not intended to last more than a single occasion. Condition is largely Very Good with a few of the pieces having some wear or damp staining a number of pieces have small "Book Sale" ink stamps presumably pieces that originated in the same collection and were then donated somewhere for sale. A fascinating and varied collection of theatrical and tourist ephemera with much of it originating in one of the most dynamic and experimental periods in Soviet performing arts. "Good intentions do not play a role in art. In art only achievements play a role." A.V. Lunacharski. Intourist was originally formed in 1929 as "Ð’ÑероÑÑийÑкое акционерное общеÑтво по приему иноÑтранных туриÑтов Ð’ÐО «ИнтуриÑт»" which more or less translates as the "All-Russian Joint-Stock Company for the Acceptance of Foreign Tourists". It was far more than a travel agency however controlling as it did almost all tourist access from the West into the USSR and operating on a number of levels to carefully control and curate the view of Soviet Russia that was presented to the rest of the world. The president of Intourist in 1933 Wilhelm Kurz of the Central Committee was the first USSR visitor to be formally accepted by the US when he visited immediately after the nation had been granted recognition. Higher officials in Intourist actually "иноÑтранный туриÑÑ‚" with the popular name simply being a contraction of the Russian language phrasing of "Foreign Tourist" or "Innostrannyy Turist" tended to be secure and solid party officials whose loyalty to the state was rarely questioned the main reason for this being that their interactions with foreign nations and nationals increased the possibility of defection; something Intourist learned early on when their UK representative in London Aron Sheinman declined to return to the Motherland when summoned and became a British citizen in 1939 which was probably rather good timing. Intourist in the 1930's midway through another Soviet Five Year Plan was given the brief to attract wealthy Western culture vultures and businesspeople to the USSR and display to them with astonishing attention to detail how much better the Soviet people were doing than their Western counterparts whilst also planting the seeds for future collaboration. The US was in the midst of the Depression not that the people paying $465 for their trip tickets in 1934 needed to worry much about that but being met from your luxurious "Soviet Ship" and ferried to your Moscow hotel by a fleet of brand new Lincoln town cars for two solid weeks of high culture and fine dining being escorted every step of the way by guides and assistants must have made quite an impression. The number of Americans who could afford a new Lincoln was pretty small at that point and the number who could travel even smaller so the Intourist agenda was aimed to within a minute of accuracy at the Westerners who could do them the most good; the rich the famous and the culturally influential. There's nothing accidental about the Intourist literature being filled with Margaret Bourke White's photographs and commentaries from notable Western culture critics and authorities. Tales abound from the Western tourists able to take advantage of Intourist's services of constant surveillance an absence of any freedom of movement usually disguised by the concept that there was so much to see in the Wonderland of the USSR that wandering off would just mean you missed the best parts and some very strict non-fraternisation policies that only eased off after 1953 when Stalin's strictures against marrying non-Soviet citizens were rolled back. At the height of the Cold War a period parts of this collection span Intourist was essentially an arm of the KGB rather than a tour company; hotels were bugged drivers recorded all conversations the guides reported even the most casual of disclosures to their superiors and no opportunity was lost to gather information on the one hand and disseminate pro-soviet propaganda on the other. Itineraries of Intourist tours for the period show very clearly that even the First Class tourists paying an eye-watering premium were not permitted anything other than the most token periods of 'freedom' with one Moscow-Leningrad tour timetabling only 8 hours of 'unsupervised' time spread across 10 days beginning at 8am and ending at around 11pm. All forms of Soviet culture from collective farm visits to mountain hikes to visits to the Bolshoi served a concrete purpose; to showcase the USSR's successes whilst concealing any of its blemishes. Impromptu hangouts with the actors at the Moscow State Theatre were in fact carefully scripted and choreographed encounters with no dissonant or dissident notes night life was restricted to a carefully chosen list of venues and wherever possible visitors were kept moving from one location to another in quick succession emphasizing the cavalcade of wonders whilst denying any insights that might be gathered by more leisurely viewing. Looking behind the scenery would only result in you seeing more scenery. "in the alternate universe that was the Soviet Union the 'giant squid' of the Soviet state would engulf the traveler. There were myriad ways in which the Soviet tourist monopoly Intourist both hindered the foreigner and shielded him from the vagaries of Soviet material life and above all the psychological costs of 'routine surveillance'. and the barriers the Soviets erected between foreigners and unvarnished and uncomfortable truths about the Soviet Union." Alex Hazanov "Porous Empire; Foreign Visitors and the Post-Stalin Soviet State" University of Pennsylvania 2019. Parts of this collection have some cursory presence in OCLC but the ephemeral nature of the majority of pieces means that their specific representation is largely invisible in US institutions. Various; Intourist unknown books
1840Best.-Nr. 82456Boston: Otis Broaders & Company 1840. First Edition. Octavo. 18cm. Publisher's original deep brown polished roan titled and embellished in rather lavish gilt to spine and boards. 304pp. Minor wear to corners and spine ends bright and sharp a very good copy indeed. Internally clean coated endpapers with some sort of chemical reaction causing significant discoloration apparently a hallmark of this volume. Foxing to some tissue guards and some scattered spotting to prelims . A rather beautifully produced little gift book immensely popular at the time of publication. This issue contains among other delights a short comedy sketch entitled "The Politician of Podunk" which is possibly the earliest usage of that term in such a context. Otis, Broaders, & Company unknown books
1840Best.-Nr. 82492Philadelphia: T.Ellwood Chapman 1840. First Edition. Octavo. 16cm. Full original tan calf titled in gilt to front board ruled in blind. 216pp. Some scuffing and rubbing to extremities strong and tight a very good copy with some mnor wear. Internally clean coated yellow endpapers with offsetting reaction minor foxing throughout largely limited to the the margins. A neat little collection of poetry inspirational aphorisms songs and a selection of improving and morally trustworthy literature. One of the rarer Gift Books of the period apparently having slipped off the radar away from the better known and more commonly connected titles. T.Ellwood Chapman unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 790311912. Various European Authors. A General Survey of Events Sources Persons and Movements in Continental Legal History. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1912. liii 754 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt stamped spine. Light shelfwear. Maps fold-out map. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Previous owner's signature George D. Ayers on front free endpaper. $85. The previous owner of this book was the Harvard-educated lawyer George David Ayers 1857-1933 of Boston. A biographical article on Ayers plus a photographic portrait can be found in Richard Herndon and Edwin M. Bacon Men of Progress Boston 1896 195. J.H. Wigmore chairman of the editorial committee for this series and editor of this volume. unknown books
1889Best.-Nr. 80946Boston: The New Ideal Publishing Company 1889. Eleven pamphlets bound in a single volume with spine title "Evolution Essays vol.I." 12mo 19cm; half-morocco over brown cloth; variously paginated. Marginal water-stain to first nine and final dozen leaves; externally rubbed and worn; complete and Good. Essays by prominent lecturers applying Darwinian concepts to a wide variety of subjects including biological evolution but also planetary science geology social systems etc. The first two pamphlets are biographies of Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin. OCLC cataloguing notes that fifteen pamphlets were issued in the series; the first eleven are here as follows: 1. THOMPSON Charles Greenleaf. Herbert Spencer. 2. CHADWICK John W. Charles Robert Darwin. 3. SERVISS Garrett P. Solar and Planetary Evolution. 4. JANES Lewis G. Evolution of the Earth. 5. POTTS William. Evolution of Vegetal Life. 6. RAYMOND Rossiter W. Evolution of Animal Life. 7. COPE E.D. The Descent of Man. 8. ECCLES Robert G. Evolution of the Mind. 9. SKILTON James A. Evolution of Society. 10. SAMPSON Z. Sidey. Evolution of Theology. 11. JANES Lewis G. Evolution of Morals. The New Ideal Publishing Company unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 66764New York: Library of America 1993. First Edition. Five volume set three first printings; Nineteenth Century Vol. 1 & Twentieth Century Vol.1 are third printings; blue cloth with ribbons in slipcases which were available to subscribers only. Fine copies in rubbed else Fine slip cases. Library of America unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 9029488New York: Rizzoli 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth with spine stamped in gilt and front cover stamped in blind. Translated from the French by Mary Vaudoyer. Photographs by Christian Crampton. Illustrations throughout many in color including a double foldout title page. 11 7/8 x 12 3/8 inches. 320 pages. Rizzoli hardcover books
1940Best.-Nr. 60221New York: Plimpton Press 1940. First Edition. Small octavo. Original green cloth with printed paper spine and cover labels; frontispiece portrait; 6521pp. Spine slightly faded else a Near Fine copy in the original unprinted acetate jacket and publisher's slipcase mildly toned on edges but still Near Fine. A finely-printed keepsake in honor of Alfred A. Knopf "as a tribute of affection and congratulation from his fellow members of the Book Table." Includes contributions by Carl Van Vechten Carl Van Doren Willa Cather H.M. Lydenberg H.L. Mencken Thomas Mann Henry Seidel Canby B.W. Huebsch and Adolf Kroch. Five of these contributors -- Van Vechten Van Doren Lydenberg Mencken and Huebsch -- have signed the volume on the rear flyleaves as have twenty-six others all presumably members of the Book Table including Elmer Adler Donald Brace Bertram Wolff Frederic G. Melcher Whitney Darrow and numerous others. Plimpton Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. 9028822London: Religious Tract Society. Hardcover. Very good. Publisher's original green cloth with spine and front and rear covers stamped in gilt. Yellow end papers. Presentation to a previous owner by a third party. Inscribed "C.E.B. Monroe" on recto of first color plate. Shaken with several leaves or signatures loose and front inner hinge starting. Includes eight beautiful color plates of birds and landscapes with tissue guards. 4.25 in. x 6 in. 252 pages. Religious Tract Society hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 43954Folio with some images full page and most somewhat smaller on the page. Collection of 56 hand-colored satirical French lithogra . Folio with some images full page and most somewhat smaller on the page. Collection of 56 hand-colored satirical French lithographs and engravings. Most but not all published by Chez Martinet early 19th century. Some of the series from which these humorous prints were selected are "Musee Grotesque" "Compensations" and "Tableaux de Paris." Waterstains and foxing on margins of many pages rarely intruding on print area. Some pages showing paper repair. Bound in half morocco over boards corners and joints worn. hardcover books
1967Best.-Nr. 58277New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1967. First English Language Edition. Octavo. Maroon cloth hardcover; 387pp. Front endpaper slightly darkened from a laid-in clipping else tight and fine in a crisp and unfaded dustwrapper unclipped priced $7.50 on front flap; Near Fine. The first English-language publication of this selection of the German-Jewish poet's work following her Nobel Prize in 1966. Farrar, Straus, Giroux unknown books
Best.-Nr. 47618Various publishers & dates. Extensive photographic archive documenting events on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico Border during the Mexican Revolution focused primarily on the Border Wars in Texas and the Veracruz Incident of 1914 comprised entirely of contemporary images all but a few of which are original vintage prints. The collection includes: • Sixty-one commercially-produced real-photo postcards ca. 14cm x 9cm or the reverse; • Six commercially-printed postcards using non-photographic processes same dimensions; • Three carte-de-visite portraits ca 9cm x 6cm mounted to cards; • Eight small-format photographs ranging from 14cm x 8cm to 11cm x 16cm of which three appear to be commercial images; • Three 8x10 20cm x 25cm photographic prints printed at some later date from original plates but apparently not contemporary; • One vintage 4x6 10cm x 16cm photograph mounted on board. All but a dozen or so images are captioned in the negative and most are additionally captioned in pencil in a later hand on verso. Approximately half the images include no photo credit; of those that do we have identified the following photographers: W.H. Horne D.W. Hoffman Walter P. Hadsell Van Zile & Chalk and L.O. She. Condition is generally Very Good. Two of the photo postcards are damaged with abrasions to significant portions of image area; the remainder show various degrees of edge wear aging and creasing but by and large image quality remains excellent. None of the postcards are postally used though a few include brief contemporary notes on verso. The refusal of Mexican President Porfirio Dîaz to cede power to his rival Francisco Madero in the elections of 1910 resulted in a violent large-scale revolt by campesinos and leftists setting off the thirty-year long Mexican Revolution. American involvement in the conflict began in 1911 when President William H. Taft under the guise of heightening border security moved to back Díaz against the rebels. The resulting mobilization - Taft sent more than 20000 American troops nearly a quarter of all American forces to the Mexican border with especially heavy concentrations in Texas and New Mexico - was to that date the largest mobilization of American military forces in peacetime. At the same time many Americans whose sympathies were not aligned with the Díaz dictatorship including anarchists wobblies Native Americans and more than a few soldiers of fortune went south to fight on the side of the rebels. The resulting border conflict which took place over nearly a decade occasionally pitting American insurrectos against American Federal troops resulted in thousands of Mexican and hundreds of American deaths. The Border Wars reached their climax around the period 1912-1914 which happened to coincide with a near-hysterical vogue for postcards among the American public. The result is that the Mexican Revolution is perhaps the first major armed conflict to have been extensively photo-documented in real time and certainly the first to have had a significant mass audience for that documentation. At least three hundred commercial photographers have been identified in association with the Mexican Revolution and they produced tens of thousands of images ranging from the relatively innocuous e.g. peaceful street and harbor scenes in Veracruz to the horrific lynchings and sidewalk cremations. This entire range of content is represented in the current collection along with portraits of most of the key players on the Mexican side including El Presidente Porfirio Díaz; his primary rival and successor Francisco Madero; Madero's successor by coup Victoriano Huerta; and various military figures including General Juan Navarro Felipe Angeles Ramírez and numerous others. Many of these semi-professional images though produced with commercial intent "professional" remains a guarded term in the context of what was essentially battlefield exploitation photography are valuable for their almost off-hand depictions of violent day-to-day life on the contested border including the casual destruction and acceptance of death from both sides that seemed to define this conflict. Of particular note are numerous of photographs of African-American troops the so-called "Buffalo Soldiers" as well as at least one image depicting Native American soldiers in uniform. Locales represented include Camp Grossmont in California; El Paso and Laredo in Texas and their cross-border sister cities Juarez and Nuevo Laredo; Veracruz site of the American incursion of 1914 known as the "Veracruz Incident"; and various unidentified encampments and battle sites in both Texas and Mexico. A wide-ranging and compelling photographic collection documenting not only a key period in U.S. military diplomacy - one which for better or worse set the tone for American-Mexican relations for the succeeding century - but also a tangible manifestation of the first widespread public incarnation in America of the picture-postcard as a vehicle for both propaganda and photojournalism. unknown books
1995Best.-Nr. 1091411995. London: See separate list 1995 - 2015. Various articles generally by art critics relating to Blake Exhibitions or literary critics reviewing books about Blake. Generally non-scholarly authors though some e.g. Phillip Pullman Peter Ackroyd with some detailed knowledge of Blake. See separate list for details. §. unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 26800San Francisco: Mother Lode 1971-1972. First Edition. 5 issues various formats. First three numbers issued as single broadsheet folded twice to measure 28.5x22.cm; nos. 4 & 5 issued in tabloid format 44-45cm. No. 4 printed on newsprint with usual toning else a Fine collection. All issues save the first themed including "Women in Prison" "It's All in the Family" the medical issue and the lesbian mothers issue. Among the founding contributors were Judy Syfers and Sandy Boucher. Mother Lode unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 26799Boston: Second Wave 1971-1972. First Edition. Six issues; quarto 28cm.; all bound in pictorial staplebound wrappers with publication sequence running as follows: Vol. 1 nos. 1-4 1971/2; Vol. 2 nos. 1-2 1972. Fine. First issue published through funds donated by various Boston University organizations. Includes contributions by Jo Freeman also known as Joreen author of the "Bitch Manifesto"; Fania Jordan Davis Angela's sister; Myrna Lamb; Anais Nin; Flora Crater founder of NOW; Marge Piercy; and Adrienne Rich. Second Wave unknown books
1938Best.-Nr. 18999Berlin: Nationalsozialistiche Volkswohlfahrt 1938. Lithograph printed in black and brown on cream stock 42cm X 30cm ca.16.5" X 11.75". Folded vertically at center with marginal toning to extremities and a few small corner creases; Near Fine. Original advertising poster for the Winterhilfswerk or WHW a social relief program designed to provide food clothing coal and other items to needy German citizens during the winter months October-March. The program was instituted under the government of Heinrich Bruning in 1931 though Hitler would ultimately claim sole credit for the idea. Depending on whether an individual was single or married and how many children he or she had recipients were entitled to a weekly/monthly stipend and rations of food and coal to ensure they and their families would neither starve nor freeze. Indeed the program's motto was "None shall starve or freeze." Under Nazi rule all German citizens were required to give to the program - one of Hitler's ingenious ways of uniting the nation. Large donations to the fund were also a means of establishing ones loyalty to the Nazi Party without the commitment of joining it. The present example explains how to donate to the fund and provides a detailed chart showing exactly how much individual or family recipients could benefit from the program. An attractive survival showing the dynamics of German social welfare. [Nationalsozialistiche Volkswohlfahrt] unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 16656Munich: Edition Text Kritik 1983-2010. Together 28 octavo volumes. Original printed card wrappers. Condition uniformly fine - free of markings or significant wear. Texts entirely in German. A complete run through 2010 of this important annual publication devoted to German Exile Literature primarily of the Thirties and Forties. Each yearbook is an edited volume of essays on a particular theme as follows: 1- Stalin und die Intellektuellen :: 2- Erinnerungen ans Exil kritische Lektüre der Autobiographien nach 1933 :: 3- Gedanken an Deutschland im Exil :: 4- Das jüdische Exil :: 5- Fluchtpunkte des Exils :: 6- Vertreibung der Wissenschaften :: 7- Publizistik im Exil :: 8- Politische Aspekte des Exils :: 9- Exil und Remigration :: 10- Künste im Exil :: 11- Frauen und Exil. Zwischen Anpassung und Selbstbehauptung :: 12- Aspekte der künstlerischen inneren Emigration :: 13- Kulturtransfer im Exil :: 14- Rückblick und Perspektiven :: 15- Exil und Widerstand :: 16- Exil und Avantgarden :: 17- Sprache - Identität - Kultur :: 18- Exile im 20. Jahrhundert :: 19- Jüdische Emigration zwischen Assimilation und Verfolgung Akkulturation und jüdischer Identität :: 20- Metropolen des Exils :: 21- Film und Fotografie :: 22- Bucher Verlage Medien :: 23- Autobiografie und Wissenschaftliche Biografik :: 24- Kindheit und Jugend im Exil - Ein Generationenthema :: 25- Ubersetzung als transkultureller Prozess :: 26- Kulturelle Räume und asthetische Universalität :: 27- Exil Entwürzelung Hybridität :: 28- Gedachtnis des Exils Formen der Erinnerung. Edition Text + Kritik unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 1042831916. London Paris New York: "The Studio" Ltd. 1916. 8vo x 182pp. Original decorated brown cloth-covered boards with paper label to backstrip; illustrated throughout from photographs drawings and paintings 8 in full-color. Damage to paper label some marks to backstrip bumping to corners uniformly browned two bookplates affixed to rear pastedown bottom right corners fraying slightly. Good. § A look at the decorative artwork of the time from architecture to furniture textiles and painting from Canada Great Britain British East Africa South Africa New Zealand and the US. From the top cover: "A review of the latest developments in the artistic construction decoration and furnishing of the house." Several floor plans are included in addition to decorative works. Includes designs by British architects Castle and Warren Wood Sarvis and Muir and Unsworth and Triggs. American architects include D. Knickerbacker Boyd and W. W. Bosworth. unknown books
1982Best.-Nr. 1043971982. London: The Bibliographical Society 1982. 4to vii 316pp. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt to backstrip. Some very light rubbing and shelf wear else near fine. § First edition. Includes a brief introduction. As Oak Knoll states in their description "This is an essential book to help the scholar find the appropriate article on book history published during this period.". unknown books
1906Best.-Nr. 1037731906. London: Editorial Publishing Offices Pall Mall Magazine 1906 Thick 8vo 2-768pp. Blue buckram with gilt lettering stamped to top board and backstrip decoration stamped in black to top and bottom boards; illustrated in black & white throughout with reproductions from paintings drawings and photographs; includes a list of contributors and an index at the front. Some browning to edges some bumping to top and bottom of backstrip darkening of backstrip binding very slightly loose internally bright. Very good. § Periodical. Rebound with a useful index and fewer advertisements. A profusely illustrated piece of historical interest. Illustrators include Max Cowper William Hyde author-illustrator Harry H. Johnston Russell Flint G. W. Lambert and others. unknown books
1913Best.-Nr. 114781913. London: Blackie 1913. 8vo 88 pp. with color illustrations in the collation. Original pictorial boards red cloth backstrip covers a bit soiled and worn internally very good. § Later edition of this much reprinted book with plates by Rackham and Cecil Aldin and text from various authors. Collations and descriptions vary in library catalogues and online copies for sale. Some of the plates are dated 1901. In this copy illustrations rendered as half-tones in the earlier edition are now line blocks and some of the color illustrations have been printed in fewer colors. unknown books
1998Best.-Nr. 215321998. ISBN-13: 9781886363472; ISBN-10: 1886363471. Maitland Frederic William. A General Survey of Events Sources Persons & Movements in Continental Legal History. By Various European Authors. With an introduction by Albert Kocourek. Boston: Little Brown 1912. liii 754 pp. Reprinted 1998 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363472. ISBN-10: 1886363471. Cloth bound smythe sewn hardcover. New. $21.95 Published as part of The Continental Legal History Series under the auspices of the Association of American Law Schools. A survey of legal history in Western Europe from medieval to modern times the work includes translations into English from leading authorities on European legal history such as Carlo Calisse Jean Brissaud Heinrich Brunner Richard Schroeder Rafael Altimara and Frederic W. Maitland. unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 431991973 - 1980. Faux Leather. Near fine. Quarto 27.3 cm. Decoratively tooled faux leather boards with gilt titling and color illustrated oval labels. Lavishly illustrated throughout each volume with historical photos drawings and paintings including numerous pieces by famed Western artists Frederick Remington Charles M. Russell Edward S. Curtiss L.A. Huffman etc. Volumes range from fine to very good plus condition with light bumping to some spine ends. Volume 1 has a gift inscription from 1976 and sticker residue on front free endpaper. Volume 2 has two pencil-tip sized punctures on and near spine. No jackets as issued. Will require extra postage.Volumes included: 1 The Cowboys 1st printing gift inscription from 1976 on front free endpaper 2 The Indians 4th printing two small punctures spine 3 The Trailblazers 3rd printing 4 The Soldiers 4th printing 5 The Railroaders 2nd printing 6 The Forty-Niners 4th printing 7 The Pioneers 3rd printing 8 The Gunfighters 5th printing 9 The Expressmen 2nd printing 10 The Townsmen 3rd printing 11 The Great Chiefs 3rd printing 12 The Rivermen 2nd printing 13 The Texans 1st printing 14 The Loggers 3rd printing 15 The Chronicles 2nd printing 16 The Spanish West 2nd printing 19 The Frontiersman 2nd printing 20 The Alaskans 1st printing 21 The Ranchers 1st printing 23 The Women 2nd printing and 24 The Scouts 2nd printing. Missing volumes: 17 The Miners 18 The Canadians 22 The Mexican War 25 The Gamblers 26 The End of the Myth and 27 Master Index. Will require extra postage. hardcover books
1903Best.-Nr. 40622Roslyn NY: Walter J. Black / Black's Reader Services Co. 1903-1937. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo 18.5 cm. Red cloth with gilt titling and decorations. All in very good condition with bookplates on front pastedowns: "This Book is a part of the Library of Betty Harris and Jerry Harris." Most with bumped corners some light edge wear. Several undated.Titles include Bacon Chekov Dumas Daudet Zola Flaubert Emerson Franklin Doyle Gilbert & Sullivan Harte Balzac Dickens Hugo Cellini Hawthorne Browning Haggard Poe Schopenhauer Kipling Longfellow Tennyson Gautier Wilde Rousseau Swift Ibsen De Maupassant Louis-Stevenson Shakespear Voltaire Lamb Tolsoi The World's Great Romances The World's Great Detective Stories and the World's Great Adventure Stories.Complete set rumored to have contained 57 total titles. Will require extra postage. Walter J. Black / Black's Reader Services Co. hardcover books
