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1964réf. 005512Bloomington IN: Indiana University Publications 1964. Near Fine spine a bit faded. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Indiana University Publications Paperback books
1825réf. 005284Newcastle on Tyne : T. & J. Hodgson for E. Charnley 1825. Engraved armorial dedication lacking the engraved portrait frontispiece. One of 600 copies printed for subscription. . List of subscribers. In 19th century card boards with modern cloth backstrip and paper title label. Very Good boards rubbed and soiled one page has marginal tear top edge. 244 pp. . First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. T. & J. Hodgson, for E. Charnley Hardcover books
1950réf. 005068Saint Michaels AZ: St. Michaels Press 1950. 372 pages. Book in English and Navajo with two beautiful fold-out color reproductions of sandpaintings. SCARCE especially so in such lovely condition. Near Fine small date in ink front endpage spine a bit bowed. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. St. Michaels Press Paperback books
1912réf. 004661Washington D.C.: The Carnegie Institute of Washington 1912. Very Good 1/2 leather 1/2 marbled clot with red leather title labels and gilt lettering gilt rules marbled endpages edges of page block with red speckles. Leather rubbed prior owner name stamps front endpage. Contents are clean tight and free of markings. Tight binding. SCARCE in the hardcover and in collectable condition. . First Edition. Cloth and Leather. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Carnegie Institute of Washington Hardcover books
1962réf. 004121Oxford England: Oxford Univ Press 1962. Near Fine scant wear to cloth prior owner name front endpage. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. . 4th Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Oxford Univ Press Hardcover books
1980réf. 003830Helsinki Finland: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia 1980. From the collection of noted sociologist Allen Grimshaw with his name stamp front endpage and top edge of page block. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page -" To the Grimshaws Affectionately Roger". Additionally laid in is a single page handwritten letter from the author to Allen Grimshaw requesting his help with a reference he was using in the book. The book is Fine in Wrappers As Issued. A nice Association Copy. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. Association Copy. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia Paperback books
1957réf. 002734Madrid Spain: Real Academia Espanola 1957. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page- "A su distinguido colega y erudito amigo Agapito Rey como testimonio de gran aprecio John M. Hill 27-1x--57". Near Fine tips of boards a bit rubbed. Faux-marbled leather boards marbleized pastedowns and endpages a quite lovely production. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Buckram. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Real Academia Espanola Hardcover books
1990réf. 002739Bloomington IN: Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study 1990. Distinguished Lecturer Series 1. Stapled wrappers with gilt lettering front wrapper. 16 pages2. Near Fine tiny spot faded front wrapper book appears to be unread. A lecture given by Eco while he was a Fellow at the Indiana University Institute of Advanced Studies from July 10-24 1989. No limitation given but purportedly fewer than 300 copies printed and one of Eco's scarcer A items. Contursi A029. First Edition First Printing. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study Paperback books
1964réf. 002311London: The Early English Text Society /Oxford Univ. Press 1964. Fine in brown cloth with gilt lettering. Prior owner name in ink front endpage. Early English Text Society Original Series No.65 1876 reprinted 1964 this copy being the reprinted edition. Reprint. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. The Early English Text Society /Oxford Univ. Press Hardcover books
1945réf. 008507New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1945. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on presentation bookplate "This book is especially Autographed by the Author signed H.L. Mencken in ink Kroch's Bookstores Chicago". Near Fine small corner bumps toning from bookplate glue at front end pages in a Very Good dust jacket small chips at spine ends and corners. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover books
1860réf. 008436London; Piccadilly: John Camden Hotten 1860. Second Edition Revised 1860 with two thousand additional words. xvi 300 pp including frontis titled A Canter's Map of a Begging District. Bound in publisher's original pebbled brown cloth gilt lettering at spine blind tooled rules and publisher's blind tooled initials center of front and rear covers dark brown end papers. Very Good contemporary ownership signature of R.N. Payne Sheffield 1860 top of title page later owners inked notations top of title page and verso of front end page pencil note bottom verso front end page 2" closed tear fore edge frontis map 1" fore edge tear p. 169 internally clean and bright. SCARCE in today's market in either the 1859 1st or 1860 2nd Editions. One of the most important works on English slang. . Second Edition Revised. Pebbled Cloth . Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. John Camden Hotten Hardcover books
1949réf. 008338New York: Rand McNally & Co. 1949. RARE lithograph wall chart for the device called the "Structural Differential" which Alfred Korzybski patented in 1925 as a means to aid in visualizing the process he called "abstracting". This was to be used as a training device in general semantics a field of study Korzybski is credited with founding. The chart is Near Fine rubbed lower right mounted on two stained wooden dowels with ribbon hanger 18" wide by 38" high. Korzybski's work in semantics heavily influenced science fiction authors such as A.E. Van Vogt Robert A. Heinlein Poul Anderson and H. Beam Piper as well as L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph W. Campbell. His most famous quote "The map is not the territory" comes from this longer quote "A map is not the territory it represents but if correct it has a similar structure to the territory which accounts for its usefulness." Science and Sanity Korzybski 1931. OCLC locates no copies; no sales records at RBH. . First Printing. Banner. Near Fine. 18"w x 38"h. Rand McNally & Co. books
1909réf. 007965N. Wales: Llanbedrog: Issued to Subscribers only 1909. Near Fine in original beige publisher's cloth Series of Welsh Texts emblem stamped in black front cover small bottom corner bump the bookplate of noted Celtic language and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down. Colophon states " Six hundred copies of this work were printed at the Private Press of the Editor in 1900-03; Nos. 1-110 on Japanese Vellum paper; 111-285 on toned linen-made paper; 286-600 on deckle-edge paper." This copy unnumbered on toned linen-made paper unnumbered and copy right page date of MDCCCCix 1909. Volume xi of the Series of Old Welsh Texts. . Limited Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Llanbedrog: Issued to Subscribers only Hardcover books
1910réf. 007966N.Wales: Llanbedrog: Issued to Subscribers only 1910. Bound in half vellum over dark blue buckram gilt rules and lettering top edge gilt marbled end papers the bookplate of noted Celtic language and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down. Near Fine corners bumped small tear to buckram top edge rear cover. An unnumbered copy on Japanese Vellum Paper. . Limited Edition. Half Vellum. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Llanbedrog: Issued to Subscribers only Hardcover books
1860réf. 007992London: William Tegg 1860. liv 2 739 1 pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Finely bound in contemporary full polished calf the back intricately tooled in gilt with black morocco label gilt end papers and page edges marbled Near Fine slight rubs to calf shadow of engraving to title page. " With numerous additions from the copy prepared by the author for republication: to which is annexed his letter to John Dunning esq. Rev. and cor. with additional notes by Richard Taylor." A quite handsome copy of this rather uncommon edition of Tooke's great philological work. . Later Edition. Full Polished Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William Tegg Hardcover books
1877réf. 007997Oxonii: E Typographeo Clarendoniano 1877. RARE edition not found at WorldCat. Text entirely in greek. 562 with 2 pp. publisher's ads. Book measures 9 1/2" x 7 1/2". Bound in contemporary crushed red morocco five raised bands and gilt lettering gilt leaf decorations to covers top edge gilt marble end papers binding stamped in gilt J.R. Gray & Son Cambridge. Near Fine spine faded to brown. . First Edition. Crushed Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Wide 8vo . E Typographeo Clarendoniano Hardcover books
1737réf. 007894London: Printed by J. Hughs / Printed for J. Torbuck O. Payne and T. Woodman. 1737. Two volumes bound as one both Third Editions 1737 viii 317 150 1 pp ads. Sturdily rebound in 20th c. brown cloth gilt lettering and rules at spine the bookplate of noted Celtic language and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down Near Fine occasional light toning a pencil note at title page indicating the first edition published in 1672. Third Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed by J. Hughs / Printed for J. Torbuck, O. Payne, and T. Woodman. Hardcover books
1857réf. 007901Paris: V. Baudry's European Library 1857. Title page states "thirty-first edition revised corrected and improved". ix 428 pages. Bound in full contemporary vellum back with red morocco label lettered in gilt on a field of repeating gilt stamped decorations ribbon marker. Near Fine light soiling to boards period inscription at half-title page. A SCARCE edition handsomely bound. . Revised Edition Corrected and Improved . Vellum. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. V. Baudry's European Library Hardcover books
1804réf. 007922London: Printed for the Author and Sold By J. Booth 1804. In period James Toovey signed fine binding of gold crushed morocco the back with ornate floral gilt tooled designs and gilt lettering triple gilt rules to covers marbled end papers all edges gilt the armorial bookplate of Johannis Naylor Leightonensis front paste down. Near Fine slight shelf rubs scant toning at end pages a quite handsome book with distinguished provenance. . First Edition. Crushed Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo. Printed for the Author and Sold By J. Booth Hardcover books
1807réf. 007942London: J. Johnson R. Baldwin W.J.E.J. Richardson et al. 1807. In two volumes contemporary full calf later expertly rebacked with gilt lettering. Very Good small prior owner label even browning light scattered toning boards rubbed later corner repairs. A solid and well-bound set . 4th Edition. Full Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J. Johnson, R. Baldwin, W.J.E.J. Richardson et al., Hardcover books
1831réf. 007941London: Longman Brown and Co.; T. Cadell; J. M. Richardson Whittaker and Co. Etc. 1831. SCARCE< the 8th Edition 1831. In two volumes Vol. I Spanish and English; Vol. II Ingles y Espanol. "Thoroughly revised greatly improved enlarged by the addition of many thousand words and the two parts most carefully collated by M. Seoane M.D.". Finely bound in signed Riviere contemporary binding of full calf the backs ornately tooled in gilt with gilt lettering on red and brown morocco labels marbled end papers all edges gilt. Very Good Plus early expert repair rear cover Vol. II covers lightly rubbed moderate toning to end papers only. A quite handsome set. . 8th Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Longman, Brown and Co.; T. Cadell; J. M. Richardson, Whittaker and Co., Etc. Hardcover books
1831réf. 007946Paris: Crapelet 1831. SCARCE. In full contemporary red morocco signed "Lebrun Relieur" the back covered with repeating gilt decoration the covers with triple gilt rule outer border and triple gilt rule inner border around gilt tooled floral band and with gilt decorations at corners all edges gilt marbled end papers a lovely example of early 19th century fine French binding. Very Good mInus old dampstain mostly to margins and where in text not affecting legibility rear end page edge chipped small chip to morocco at head of spine. With two fold-out facsimiles at rear one in color. First Edition. Morocco. Very Good Minus/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Crapelet Hardcover books
1937réf. 006795London: The Viking Society for Northern Research Univ. Of London 1937. RARE. Reprinted from Saga-Book Vol. XII. Fine in stapled wrappers small inked notations top edge front cover. 18 pp. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Viking Society for Northern Research, Univ. Of London Paperback books
1909réf. 006662London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1909. SCARCE. Handsomely bound in half-leather and orange cloth gilt lettering and rules at spine 624 pp. Near Fine a few spots light soiling to edges of page block. . Fourth Impression. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. Hardcover books
1937réf. 006651Baltimore Maryland: The American Oriental Society 1937. From the collection of noted linguist and semiotician Thomas A. Sebeok Near Fine his name stamp front cover and his extensive and informed notes and underlining throughout. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The American Oriental Society Paperback books
