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rif. 41250English Place-Name Society 1985; 1991; 1992; 1996; 1997; 2001; 2010. . Seven volumes 8vo. pp.xliii236;xix326; xxiii197;xv201;xix179;xviii228;xxv151 blue cloth gilt b/w figures; neat ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper all volumes a fine set all in unclipped dust-jackets with light loss at head and foot of spine of jacket to Volume II small nick to jacket for Volume I else very good indeed. English Place-Name Society, 1985; 1991; 1992; 1996; 1997; 2001; 2010. hardcover
2017rif. 2-1138306479Taylor & Francis 2017. Paperback. New. 418 pages. 9.50x6.75x1.00 inches. Taylor & Francis paperback
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1994rif. 9008778New York: Abbeville Press 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Preface by Jacques Thullier. Collaboration with Martherita Azzi-Visentini Michele Bimbenet-Privat Francesca Costantini-Lachat Marc-Henri Jordan and Robert Fohr. Translated from the French by John Goodman. Illustrated with 800 images of which 500 are in color. Abbeville Press hardcover
1962rif. 29404New York:: Viking Press 1962. Second Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear to the extremities. The African slave trade in the Americas officially began in 1518 with the landing in the West Indies of the first black cargo direct from Africa and was offically suppressed in the United States in 1865. It is estimated that approximately 15 million Africans had crossed the Atlantic during this period. This book attempts to tell where the slaves came from how they were enslaved in Africa how they were purchased by sea captains how they wre transported and how the trip survivors were sold in West Indian and American markets. Viking Press, unknown
1977rif. 41562Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner 1977. First edition. Softcover. vg to fine. Quarto 11 x 9". VIII 120pp Text LXVIIpp Plates 2pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on front cover and title page. Scholarly monograph on the small altar of The Temple of Jupiter Roman Heliopolis a colossal temple dedicated to the cult of Zeus located in Heliopolis of Roman Phoenicia Baalbeck of modern Lebanon. It was the main building in a huge "Great Court" or "Sanctuary" of a Roman pagan temple complex that still partially stands. The small altar built at the beginning of the first century CE was in the exact center of the court. This work is illustrated with 67 b/w photographic plates. Minor age-toning along edges of wrappers. Text in French. Wrappers in overall very good interior in fine condition. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner unknown
1944rif. 84936New York: D. Appleton-Century Company 1944. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 301pp; illus. Inscribed by author on half-title: "To Cornelia Cotton / With love from an old pal who wears the 'old shoe tie' / Maribelle Cormack". Soil and spotting to spine and covers with light tanning to spine ends and board edges and foxing to edges of textblock and interior; Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $2.50 spine-faded with 1" tear to upper spine fold and tiny tears and chips to extremities; Good. Cormack and Bytovetzski also collaborated on A Recruit for Abe Lincoln and both published non-fiction works. 84936. D. Appleton-Century Company unknown
1955rif. 90069New York: Exposition Press 1955. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. 172pp. Black boards in dust jacket. The is old tape repair/reinforcement on the inside of the jacket. Previous owner's name stamp on front paste-down. Obituary for Rear Admiral Draper Kauffman "the father of the US Navy's underwater demolition team" is taped to the front free endpaper. "Webfooted Warriors is the first complete account of the Navy's frogmen from their very inception in the dark days of the Pacific campaign on through their early training and war operations to V-J Day." Uncommon. Exposition Press hardcover
1918rif. BOOKS074219IManchester NH: Standard Book Company 1918. HC. good blue cloth hardcover. B&W illustrations. Different pagination as follows: THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON by Dr. William O. Stillman pages 173-211; REMINISCENCES OF GENERAL STARK an extract from the diary of Elder James Randall written in August 1807 page 212; GENERAL JOHN STARK by Robert R. Law page 213-222; THE TOMB OF STARK by Henry W. Herrick page 223; and GRAVE OF A REVOLUTIONARY HERO by Gray Fairlee B&W plate of grave on page 224 text pages 225-226. p173-p226. Standard Book Company unknown
1939rif. 13309Berlin Germany: Julius Springer 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Presentation from Hans von BerteleAustrian historian of technology. Stamp of the Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Wien with swastika-eagle emblem of the Third Reich. Light overall soil to cloth boards. Numerical gilt stamp of the Institute at heel of spine with the same numbers in ink 1455 on the title page. This volume a collaboration of Friedrich Hund and Ferdinand Trendelenburg electroacoustic pioneer. Articles reports on aspects of experimentation b J. Hopmann F. Kirchner G. Joos H. Verleger Stark-Effekt Ing. W. Walcher U. Hofmann R. Rompe and M. Steenbeck. With an index of articles for volumes I-XVIII. Hund worked with such prestigious physicists as Schrödinger Dirac Heisenberg Max Born and Walter Bothe. At that time he was Born's assistant working with quantum interpretation of band spectra of diatomic molecules. He stayed in Copenhagen 1926 with Niels Bohr and lectured on the atom at Harvard University 1928. He published more than 250 papers and essays in total. Hund made pivotal contributions to quantum theory - especially concerning the structure of the atom and of molecular spectra. Robert S. Mulliken who was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in chemistry for molecular orbital theory always proclaimed the great influence Hund's work had on his own and that he would have gladly shared the Nobel prize with Hund. Julius Springer hardcover
1945rif. 111651New Haven CT: Yale University Press 1945 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. English Translation. The collection compiles seven major works charting the socio-political tensions of pre-revolutionary and early-Soviet Russia: The Lower Depths 1902 - Gorky's masterpiece set in a bleak subterranean rooming house. Barbarians 1905 - Examining the disruption of a provincial town by incoming railway engineers. Enemies 1906 - Tracking the bitter class divides between factory owners and workers. Queer People 1910 - A sharp critique focusing on the detached lifestyle of the Russian intelligentsia. Vassa Zheleznova Mother 1910 - A tragic character study centered on a ruthless family matriarch. The Zykovs 1913 - Exploring the complex personal and financial dynamics of a merchant-class family. Yegor Bulychov and the Others 1932 - Focusing on a dying capitalist facing the dawn of the Russian Revolution. 396 pages. Book has typical age/use wear including scuffs light marks and minor age toning. Some dust jacket edge chipping. . Yale University Press hardcover
1944rif. 702Roger Conant Family Association Inc. Printed by; The Brookline Print 1944. Staplebound Softcover. Very Good. :: Two Booklets :: The early pioneers of the Dorchester Company and Roger Conant and his colleagues labored the settlement of a permanent colony a great extent unrecognized throughout three centuries. :: Staplebound softcovers each bearing the title upon the front cover. Octavo 9 3/16 x 6 inches; 233 x 152 millimeters. 18 pages. Supplementary volume Octavo 8 13/16 x 5 7/8 inches; 223 x 149 millimeters. 25 pages. Condition: Very Good. A bit weathered creases browning and stains. Roger Conant Family Association Inc. (Printed by); The Brookline Print unknown
1973rif. 49997Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky 1973. 1973. First edition. Oblong 8vo. Quarter cloth and pictorial paper over boards xiii blank 285 pp. 286 - 579 3 pp. foreword introduction double column illustrated index. Essays by travelers in the South. Chapters include observations of South Carolina Alabama Washington D.C. Louisiana Georgia Virginia Kentucky and Arkansas; gold mines of North Carolina; manufactories in D.C. and Kentucky; navigating the Mississippi Red and Atchafalaya Rivers; the Hot Springs of Arkansas; Cherokee Indians; wild horses of Virginia and Maryland etc. Both volumes fine bright and unused housed in the original pictorial slipcase also in fine condition. The University Press of Kentucky, [1973]. hardcover
1921rif. 435120London: Longmans Green and Co 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Scattered foxing on pages spine darkened spine ends and corners lightly bumped very good lacking the dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover
1937rif. H14031New York: Whittlesey House; McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1937. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. xii 301p. Pastedowns and endpapers toned cover corners bumped and rubbed. From the Foreword: A collection of articles by "buyers merchandise managers and research experts of some of America's great department stores" designed to give the shopper the "incisive information which can guide her to better shopping--to more economical shopping---. whether the object of her quest be a handkerchief or a handbag floor covering or furniture." Advice and information especially useful to a shopper during the Great Depression of the 20th century. 8-1/4"x5-3/4" Whittlesey House; McGraw-Hill Book Co. hardcover
1976rif. 2597Toronto ON: Griffin House 1976. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A stream of consciousness autobiography written by an imprisoned Inuit man convicted of manslaughter while he struggled to understand adapt and survive within modern western culture "The end product was a diary as touching and savage as any ever written by a Canadian." from the front flap. Bright blue cloth over boards title stamped in gilt onto spine 8vo 8-3/16 inches 28 cm tall pp. xi xii - map 1 - 164 author portrait frontis map. Volume with light soil to cloth and faint toning to eps. Price-intact DJ with some rubbing small tears and edge wear a bit of toning and modest foxing verso. A difficult book to find in collectible condition having never been reprinted and with a good number of copies still held by institutional libraries. ". the Eskimo people are like the sun spots which sometimes appear on the lens of an astronomer. We are in the way we blur the picture the white man has of the future of the North." A. A. Thrasher. Griffin House hardcover
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1934rif. 26961Thomas Nelson and Sons London 1934 HBDJ 1934 1st Edition UNDATED VG-/GOOD AS-IS Blue cloth Hardback titled & Decorated in blue. Book Condition: VG-. hardback with GOOD D/J medium size wear to edges hinges SLIGHTLY weak page edges foxed wear to head & tail of spine spine sunned & faded but Readable index DJ Protected lear Mylar DJ SPINE HAS SMALL CHIPS AT Ends REMOVING ING IN Gardening at Top 259 pgs Cultural Index Back DJ some soiling Rub Wear advertises Colour in Garden. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Thomas Nelson and Sons, London hardcover
rif. ria9780198566250_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Presentation of the most important discoveries by Galileo Galilei endorsed by his own lively writings. Includes simple explanations for the general reader comparative discussions about state of knowledge in Galileo's time and in today hardcover
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2010rif. 5843261Oxford University Press 2010. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Vol. 1 binding is loose but interior and exterior are otherwise clean and undamaged. Vol. 2 in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item3050grams ISBN:9780199253777 Oxford University Press hardcover
rif. 2049Quiller Press London 1983. 469pp 22p b/w plates with a few maps and charts in the text erratum. Boards little scuffed. Dust jacket edge worn and little marked and soiled. Page edges and contents little marked and fingered. Author inscriptions one dated 1983 on front free end paper. 24x16cms. Quiller Press, London, 1983. hardcover
rif. 009569London: Frank Cass and Co Limited 1939. A NEAR FINE NEAR NEW copy in a NEAR FINE NEAR NEW dustwrapper Definitely NOT Ex Library!.This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details . Not Inscribed or Signed. Second Impression 1965. Green Cloth. NEAR FINE NEAR NEW/NEAR FINE NEAR NEW. Illus. by 9 Illustrations. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Thick. HARDBACK. Frank Cass and Co Limited Hardcover
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