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1982réf. 287760Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society 1982. hardcover. near fine/very good. Black-and-white photographs and drawings including several folding plates. 181 pages 4to burgundy cloth d.w. Maidstone: Canterbury Archaeological Trust by the Kent Archaeological Society 1982. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. With contributions by several authors. Volume II: The Archaeology of Canterbury. Kent Archaeological Society unknown books
1864réf. 207493New York: D. Appleton & Co 1864. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 12.5" x 20.25". Beautiful double page map of the United States. Features railroad lines geographical and topographical details with relief shown in hachures. Many western states are still territories. "Principal Cities of the United States" and "New England or Eastern States" on verso. Small tears to left and bottom edges. Minor creasing to corners. D. Appleton & Co unknown books
1970réf. 205802Ann Arbor: University of Missouri Columbia 1970. paperback. near fine. 220pp. 12mo paper wrappers spine slightly faded and creased a few small white specks on back cover top corner on front cover very slightly bumped. Ann Arbor MI: University of Missouri 1970. A near fine copy. A facsimile copy of a doctoral thesis. University of Missouri, Columbia unknown books
1980réf. 100609Oxford 1980. hardcover. 15 stills. 8vo d.w. Oxford UP 1980. unknown books
1943réf. 184014Hannover: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag 1943. G text block is separating but intact. Map is good and color plates bright and clear. Black cloth covers with silver numerals to spine and silver SS runes to front cover. 2 days per day diary with additional 63 pages of text 24 full page coloured plates and a fold-out map of Europe and the World. Scarce item and in good condition. No slipcase for this title. Has pprtrait of Himmler on ffep. Pages are blank - never used. Adolf Sponholtz Verlag unknown books
1843réf. 2305840New York: Harper & Brothers 1843. Second Edition. Second Edition. Good/No Jacket. Second edition much enlarged. Presentation copy inscribed without signature by author on front flyleaf 'Revd Dr. McConaughy with the respects of the author.'. Boards rubbed front and end matter foxed a few text pages faintly foxed. 1843 Full-Leather. xii 329 6 pp. An early work on psychology by the Lutheran theologian who played an important role in the founding of the General Synod and was also an activist for the cause of abolition. Schmucker discusses free will; the philosophical thought of Thomas Reid Dugald Stewart Brown the German psychologists and Upham; cognition and the senses; emotions; voluntary and spontaneous actions; etc. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1933réf. 2283861Charles Scriber's Sons 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. No jacket a few faint stains to top page ridge ink gift note. 1933 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii 311 pp. The Dragon Murder Case first published in 1934 is a novel in a series by S. S. Van Dine about fictional detective Philo Vance. It was also adapted to a film version in 1934 starring Warren William as Vance. A guest at an estate in northern Manhattan Inwood Hill Park dives into the swimming pool and disappears. His murder brings up references to a mythological dragon which is said to prey on the imprudent but Philo Vance uses his knowledge of both dragons and criminals to demonstrate whodunit. The estate in the novel was based on Tryon Hall built in 1907 by C. K. G. Billings a retired president of the Chicago Coke and Gas Company. In 1917 he sold the mansion to John D. Rockefeller Jr. The mansion burned down in 1926 and Rockefeller developed the property and others into Fort Tryon Park which he then donated to New York City. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "S. S. Van Dine was the pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright October 15 1888 - April 11 1939 a U.S art critic and author. He created the once immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance who first appeared in books in the 1920s then in movies and on the radio." - Wikipedia Charles Scriber's Sons hardcover books
1875réf. 2203169D. Appleton and Company 1875. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Loss from spine head and corner of rear board boards rubbed and soiled ink name and date on front endpaper. 1875 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author! 99 1 pp. Includes black and white engraved illustrations throughout as well as a number of maps hand-outlined in color. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1978réf. 157643Gulf Breeze Florida: Academic International Press 1978. Hardcover. Good ex-library with labels and stamps on spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light soiling to boards and block. Pages are clean and clear. All volumes: Sky blue cloth/boards. Black lettering. Bw frontis and bw map of the Russian Empire and occasional additional bw illustrations. Vol. I: xxxi 228 pp.; Vol. 2: 315 pp.; Vol. 3: 224 pp.; Vol. 4: 356 pp. Contents cover 1: The autocracy 1894-1900 with Searching for the last Tsar by Patrick J. Rollins.; 2: Years of change 1900-1907; 3: The Duma monarchy 1907-1914; 4: The World War 1914-1918. Translated from the original Russian T S arstvovanie Imperatora Nikolai a II. The set is Volume 25 from the Russian Series published by Academic International Press. Academic International Press hardcover books
1975réf. 1336589New York: Wiley Interscience; John Wiley & Sons 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/G; pp 329; sunned beige spine with ivory text; first printing; dust jacket shows modest wear to exterior; some chips to edges; cloth has minor wear to corners; exterior clean; strong boards; text block has very light tone to exterior edges; interior clean; tight binding; illustrated. 1336589. FP New Rockville Stock. Wiley Interscience; John Wiley & Sons hardcover books
1927réf. 1335393New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers 1927. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine white with black print; DJ in mylar small tears at spine ends and flap corners creasing to edges light age-toning; Boards in black cloth with green print light wear to spine caps and corners crease along spine slight shelfwear; Text block has light age-toning to paper else clean and tight; x 343 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w. 1335393. FP New Rockville Stock. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers hardcover books
1980réf. 1308850Boston: Gregg Press 1980. Hardcover. Octavo; First printing; "Complete photographic reprint of a work first published in New York by Grosset & Dunlap in 1927"; VG/VG; Hardcover with DJ; Spine grey with purple print; DJ in mylar clean and bright; Boards in grey cloth with purple print clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Includes stills from the film version Paramount 1929; xii x 343 pages frontispiece illustrated. 1308850. FP New Rockville Stock. Gregg Press hardcover books
1935réf. 1330955New York: P.F. Collier & Con Corporation 1935. Hardcover. 10mo; pp 332; Good; gray and burgundy pictorial spine with gilt text; no jacket; a Philo Vance story; cloth has modest wear to exterior; minor wear to corners; strong boards; text block has slight toning to exterior edges; tight binding. 1330955. FP New Rockville Stock. P.F. Collier & Con Corporation hardcover books
1980réf. 1308851Boston: Gregg Press 1980. Hardcover. Octavo; First printing; "Complete photographic reprint of a work first published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1929"; VG/VG; Hardcover with DJ; Spine grey with purple print; DJ in mylar clean and bright; Boards in grey cloth with purple print clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Includes stills from the film version MGM 1930; xi viii 349 pages frontispiece illustrated. 1308851. FP New Rockville Stock. Gregg Press hardcover books
1953réf. 2379New York: Farrar Straus & Young 1953. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Rose boards gilt illustrations. Near fine in good dust wrapper. 282 pages. 26 x 19 cm. An elegant informative composition devoted to the history and practice of drinking in America. Chapters include: Taverns Tankards and Tallow; The Best-Cellar Book on Wines; A Quicker Liquor Curriculum on Spirits and Beer; The Complete Bartender and The 100 Greatest American Drinks; Now Your Cooking with Liquor. Illustrated throughout. Interior and boards clean and crisp dust wrapper rubbed. Farrar, Straus & Young hardcover books
1971réf. Embry 167755Tom Stacey 1971. Reprint. Fine in edgeworn dust jacket in mylar cover. Tom Stacey, 1971. Reprint. unknown books
réf. 21294New York: Beadle & Adams Publishers Nd. Wraps. Orig. illustrated stapled wrappers. Fine. 28 pages. 28 x 21 .5 cm. Beadle's Dime New York Library. Vol. I. No.3. Illustrated. Clean fresh copy. 20th century facsimile. Beadle & Adams, Publishers unknown books
1875réf. 63830Raleigh NC: Edwards & Broughton & Co. Printers and Binders for the Medical Society and Academy of Medicine 1875. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. McKee 1814-1874 a Raleigh native received his medical degree from Pennsylvania in 1839 returning to Raleigh in 1840 to establish a practice that continued to his death; he was a founder of the N.C. Medical Society and a member of the first N.C. State Medical Examining Board the first in the country. Thornton 12197. OCLC locates eight copies New York Historical Society College of Physicians of Philadelphia Duke High Pont Public State Library of N.C. North Carolina North Carolina-Health Sciences Wake Forest. Very good. Original decorated silver-stamped black glossy wrappers. 10240. Edwards & Broughton & Co., Printers and Binders, for the Medical Society and Academy of Medicine unknown books
1906réf. 59301Roanoke AL: Mrs. S.S. Smith Birmingham AL: Press of Roberts & Son 1906. First edition of one in a series probably issued annually. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated 15 pp. Illustrated from black & white photographs. Leaves facing wrappers lightly foxed; light offset from illustrations. A very good copy of a very scarce catalogue. Original gray wrappers printed in brown on the front cover and stapled; moderately soiled and lightly edgeworn. A priced catalogue illustrated with pictures of the dolls grouped and numbered of the creator and producer Mrs. Smith of her staff of twelve women doll-makers of their work room with dolls in process and of a child probably her daughter with her collection of the dolls including "the colored 'Mammy' nurse." Customers could choose from seven sizes and 47 styles with further options e.g. they could be "painted to represent any race of people"; her black dolls are thought to be the first manufactured in the South. Prices ranged from $1 for the most basic to $10 for an elaborately dressed model. The Alabama Indestructible Rag Doll also Ella Smith Doll and Alabama Baby had a considerable success in the region. This catalogue gives meticulous detail and instructions firmly warns against patent infringement refers to hygienic concerns and shows a small manufacturing company founded and run by a woman employing women to produce products for women and their daughters. None listed in the NUC or OCLC. #660. Mrs. S.S. Smith (Birmingham, AL: Press of Roberts & Son) unknown books
1969réf. 259754Moscow: Progress Publishers 1969. Paperback. 239p. paperback 7.5x5 inches wraps worn and faded old price in marker on front wrap else good first printing. Progress Publishers paperback books
1963réf. 9871New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co 1963. cloth dust jacket. 8vo. cloth dust jacket. xxiv 266 pages. Introduction by Louis Filler. Second edition the introduction being an addition to this printing. The classic story of a rise from rags to riches in the publishing business. Frederick Ungar Publishing Co unknown books
1855réf. 44581New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1855. A good copy marginal damp stain some soiling mainly in the margins. 1 sheet. Hand colored map. 9.5 x 12 inches. Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1855 by S.S. Cornell in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Verso contains portion of map of "Western Division of the United States". Map taken from "Cornell's companion atlas to Cornell's high school geography: comprising a complete set of maps designed for the student to memorize together with numerous maps for reference etc." D. Appleton & Co. unknown books
réf. 38557Framed in mahogany and matted. A fine model beautifully framed and matted. Framed size: 8 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches; image size: 5 1/2 x 19 inches. Laser cut relief. Manufactured by RC Models San Pedro California. The S.S. Norway began life in 1960 as the SS France built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique; later purchased and refitted by the Norwegian Cruise Line she was decommissioned in 2004 and scrapped in 2008. unknown books
1969réf. 232620Moscow: Progress Publishers 1969. Paperback. 239p. paperback 7.5x5 inches old price label on cover. Progress Publishers paperback books
réf. 9413Boston: 1868. 6th edn. 8vo Pp. 141. Bookplate. VG copy. Interesting drama of the new woman. 1868 unknown books