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1968ref. 568158London: Faber and Faber 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing at the crown. Inscribed by the author. Faber and Faber hardcover books
1856ref. 006251New York: John S. Voorhies Law Bookseller and Publisher 1856. Fourth Edition Revised and Enlarged by John Townshend. "It is based upon the collection of overruled cases published by Professor Greenleaf and comprises all the cases to be found in his work and upwards of fifteen hundred cases added by the present compiler. The last edition of Professor Greenleaf's work was published so far back as 1840 and has long since been out of print." 548 pp. Leather covers with red and black title bars on spine. Covers in Fair condition as they are very dirty with rubbing and tears to faces corners are bent corners and edges are rubbed some places to boards spine ends are bent. Previous owners' names written on front inside cover and front free endpaper. Browning foxing and some light water stains throughout interior pages. Spine is tight. Book in Good condition. . Fourth Edition. Leather. Good. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Law. John S. Voorhies, Law Bookseller and Publisher Hardcover
1974ref. 500377Albany New York: Magi Books Inc 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Anthony Simon. Quarto. 64pp. Illustrated reproducing numerous photographs of Maritain by John Howard Griffin. Small stain on front board near fine in very good dust jacket sunned at the spine with a few small nicks and tears at the extremities. Inscribed by Griffin: "To Leo Don and family With friendship and gratitude/from the Griffins Love John Howard Griffin. Sept. 20 1977 Magi Books, Inc hardcover
1974ref. 500377Albany New York: Magi Books Inc 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Anthony Simon. Quarto. 64pp. Illustrated reproducing numerous photographs of Maritain by John Howard Griffin. Small stain on front board near fine in very good dust jacket sunned at the spine with a few small nicks and tears at the extremities. Inscribed by Griffin: "To Leo Don and family With friendship and gratitude/from the Griffins Love John Howard Griffin. Sept. 20 1977 Magi Books, Inc hardcover books
ref. 346058866387New book usa student edition hardcover
2000ref. bing743tma003Harper & Collins 2000. hardcover w/ DJ. very good. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes First edition signed copy. Very good hardcover in dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Diana Edkins otherwise clean pages. 4to. Harper & Collins hardcover
1996ref. COLLECTI011318IOXFORD: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. PUB 1996. THIRD EDITION. HARDCOVER. 1640 PAGES THE FIRST PRINTING OF THE 3RD EDITION WHICH IS 30 PERCENT LARGER THAN THE 1970 SECOND EDITION . BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN BRIGHT UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. THIS NEW AND LARGELY REWRITTEN EDITION GATHERS 6250 CONTRIBUTIONS WRITTEN BY AN INTERNATIONAL TEAM OF 364 SCHOLARS BETWEEN 1991 AND 1994. . OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS hardcover
2010ref. 181452Andover MA/New Haven: Addison Gallery of American Art/Yale University Press 2010. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 256p. An oversize hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. As new with only the mildest crinkling at the corners. Clean and tight. An excellent copy! Produced in conjunction with an exhibition. Measures approx. 12.25" x 10 Addison Gallery of American Art/Yale University Press hardcover
1972ref. 309756Bishop Museum Pr. Fine. 1972. Paperback. 498 pp; Book bears the bookplate of George Cunha noted book binder and paper restorer. Pages unmarked covers and spine with no creasing slightly cocked light corner wear color excellent. Bound in tan wraps. A nice clean tight and quite attractive book. . Bishop Museum Pr paperback
2003ref. 001853Hong Kong: Muwen Tang Fine Arts Publications 2003. Catalogue of a massive private collection of early Chinese gold ornamentation. Includes 400 objects all illustrated in colour and described in detail spanning from the late Shang to the Qing Dynasty a period of some three millennia. Text in Chinese with caption dating and dimensional details in both Chinese and English. Printed in 1000 copies only. Important reference on the subject now difficult to obtain. 571 pp. col. ill. throughout. . First. Hardbound. New/new. 31 x 21 cm. Muwen Tang Fine Arts Publications Hardcover
2001ref. 000414Hong Kong: Chinese University of HK 2001. A massive and definitive work on the art and technology of ancient glass in China. While glass was also imported into early China from the Middle East Chinese glass technology seems to have developed independently and domestic products are significantly different in design function and chemical composition. Objects discussed and illustrated date from the Warring States period to the Qing a range of some 2000 years in total. Early Chinese beads are particularly spectacular; other production included ritual and burial objects adornments such as pendants belts and ear ornaments seals and vessels. Essays and descriptions in Chinese with two important essays on chemical and EDXRF analysis of glass samples in English. All captions bilingual English/Chinese. 518 pp. over 480 colour photos and hundreds of b&w drawings chronology map bibliography. Light tape residue marks on endpapers; slight spotting on top fore-edges otherwise a clean unread copy. Heavy and oversize book - orders outside of Canada may require additional postage. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near fine/Fine. 29 x 22 cm. Chinese University of HK Hardcover
1920ref. 3336Bridgeport CT 1920. Fine includes Certificate of Authenticity from the Simon B. Lake archives signed by his Great-grandson Jeffrey B. Lake. Simon Lake Signed Check. Partially-Printed Document Bank Check measuring 2-5/8" x 6.5" Signed "Simon Lake" as the Payer of $8.25 on check from The Argonaut Salvage Company payable to Bridgeport Cornice Works Ink drawn on the Bridgeport Trust Company. SIMON LAKE 1866-1945: Lake built the first Submarines for the U.S. Navy and is considered the "Father of the Modern Submarine" February 23 1910-Dated Choice Extremely Fine. Punch-cancelled "PAID 11021" at the center. Lake's signature is in black ink and countersigned by the company Treasurer. Includes ephemera from the "Simmon Lake Project" signed by his grandson Jeff Lake a biography of Lake and a photo. Simon Lake was an American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design. He competed with John Holland to build the first submarines for the United States Navy. He was inspired by Jules Verne's "20000 Leagues Under The Sea" and brought his visions to life. He was a Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval engineer and became known as the "Gentle Genius" and is considered the "Father of the Modern Submarine" “Jules Verne was in a sense the director-general of my life. When I was not more than ten or eleven years old I read his Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and my young imagination was fired.But with the impudence which is a part of the equipment of the totally inexperienced I found fault with some features of Jules Verne’s Nautilus and set about improving on them.” - Simon Lake. unknown
1973ref. 140944418New York: Atheneum 1973. First American edition. First American edition. 288 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight sunning to spine panel light wear. The French Nobel laureate's fifth novel first published in French in 1970. Atheneum unknown
1973ref. 140944418New York: Atheneum 1973. First American edition. First American edition. 288 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight sunning to spine panel light wear. The French Nobel laureate's fifth novel first published in French in 1970. Atheneum unknown books
1762ref. NS0180A Amsterdam M.DCC. LXII 1762. Biography of Alexander the Great and a history of Greece before and during his reign. Hard Cover. xvi 341 pages; 16.5 cm. Bound in contemporary full leather; Vg/ some wear to leather binding. stock#NS0180. A Amsterdam, M.DCC. LXII. hardcover
1776ref. 609141776. Disbarred by the Parlement of Paris Linguet Simon Nicolas Henri 1736-1794. Requete au Conseil de Roi Pour M. Linguet Avocat. Contre les Arrets du Parlement de Paris Des 29 Mars & 4 Fevrier 1775. Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey 1776. 12mo. ii 260 pp. 12mo 6-1/2" x 4". Contemporary mottled sheep gilt spine marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities. Some toning to text internally clean. A nice copy. $200. First edition. Also issued the same year in Geneva. This book concerns the sanctioning of Linguet's disbarment by the Order of Barristers by the Parlement. The complicated circumstances had to do with competition within the Order of Barristers and tensions between the Order and the Parlement. Linguet admitted to the bar in 1764 was a formidable advocate. The immediate cause of his disbarment was "a tirade in which the author seems to have lost his temper and denounced the Order. This convoluted affair is described in Michael P. Fitzsimmons The Parisian Order of Barristers and the French Revolution 24ff. OCLC locates 4 copies in North America 1 in a law library UC-Berkeley. Another copy located at George Washington University Law School. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. unknown
1776ref. 609141776. Disbarred by the Parlement of Paris Linguet Simon Nicolas Henri 1736-1794. Requete au Conseil de Roi Pour M. Linguet Avocat. Contre les Arrets du Parlement de Paris Des 29 Mars & 4 Fevrier 1775. Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey 1776. 12mo. ii 260 pp. 12mo 6-1/2" x 4". Contemporary mottled sheep gilt spine marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities. Some toning to text internally clean. A nice copy. $200. First edition. Also issued the same year in Geneva. This book concerns the sanctioning of Linguet's disbarment by the Order of Barristers by the Parlement. The complicated circumstances had to do with competition within the Order of Barristers and tensions between the Order and the Parlement. Linguet admitted to the bar in 1764 was a formidable advocate. The immediate cause of his disbarment was "a tirade in which the author seems to have lost his temper and denounced the Order. This convoluted affair is described in Michael P. Fitzsimmons The Parisian Order of Barristers and the French Revolution 24ff. OCLC locates 4 copies in North America 1 in a law library UC-Berkeley. Another copy located at George Washington University Law School. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. unknown books
1962ref. 445416Cambridge: The Golden Head Press 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 23 3 14 plates. Illustrated from photographs. Quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards with printed paper labels. Moderate overall wear on the boards small chip on the spine label some scattered foxing about very good. Copy number 151 of 250 numbered copies. Warmly Inscribed by designer Simon Lissim. The Golden Head Press hardcover
1962ref. 445416Cambridge: The Golden Head Press 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 23 3 14 plates. Illustrated from photographs. Quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards with printed paper labels. Moderate overall wear on the boards small chip on the spine label some scattered foxing about very good. Copy number 151 of 250 numbered copies. Warmly Inscribed by designer Simon Lissim. The Golden Head Press hardcover books
1797ref. 68731797. LOVAT SIMON FRASER Lord. Memoirs of the Life of Simon Lord Lovat; written by himself in the French Language; and now first Translated . London: George Nicol 1797. 6 468 p. Later half morocco. Small old library blindstamp on title else very good. Translated by William Godwin. Memoirs of the notorious Jacobite and the last man beheaded in the Tower. unknown books
2000ref. 35642Chicago: Bad Press Books 2000. Very Good . Chicago: Bad Press Books 2000. Stated First Edition; published in a run of 5000. Folio 31cm; 152pp. Without dust jacket as issued. Publisher's illustrated boards; cream endsheets with publisher's blindstamp. Color illustrations throughout. Boards bumped at spine ends and corners. Binding sound. Textblock endsheets and interior pages clean. Very Good or better. Signed without inscription by both authors at ffep. Collection of comical postage stamps designed by the same-named artist-publisher pair. Many stamps were used to successfully transmit mail to the delight of their designers and dismay of the US Postal Service. Bad Press Books unknown
2000ref. 35642Chicago: Bad Press Books 2000. Very Good . Chicago: Bad Press Books 2000. Stated First Edition; published in a run of 5000. Folio 31cm; 152pp. Without dust jacket as issued. Publisher's illustrated boards; cream endsheets with publisher's blindstamp. Color illustrations throughout. Boards bumped at spine ends and corners. Binding sound. Textblock endsheets and interior pages clean. Very Good or better. Signed without inscription by both authors at ffep. Collection of comical postage stamps designed by the same-named artist-publisher pair. Many stamps were used to successfully transmit mail to the delight of their designers and dismay of the US Postal Service. Bad Press Books unknown books
ref. 59-2060Walker Art Center 1994. Illustrated wraps stapled exhibition catalog 67 items with black & white photographs intro essay. Very good condition no internal marks clean and crisp. 8.5x11 inches. Walker Art Center, 1994. paperback
ref. 59-2059Los Angeles Calif.: Gemini G.E.L. 1995. Textured wraps stapled exhibition catalog 24 pages very good condition no internal marks clean and crisp artist's photograph black & white reproductions and 3 fold-out color reproductions. Essays by Joan Simon James Reid Claudio Stickar. 3 original price sheets laid in. 6 x 8 inches. Los Angeles, Calif.: Gemini G.E.L., 1995. paperback
1900ref. 254070Harper & Bros 1900-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Signed by Author. Harper & Brothers 1900; no additional printings indicated; first and only work of fiction by Newcomb a famous astronomer mathematician and polymath; inscription on front end page reads "To the presiding genius of the Anita Company / From the Author / 1900 October 12"--presumably inscribed by Newcomb possibly to his daughter Anita Newcomb McGee a doctor and early leader of the Army Nurse Corps who left her position in the Army around the time of this book's publication. viii 329pp. ads; red cloth binding with black/silver text/design on front board silver text on spine. Binding is sturdy and intact; text is very good throughout; titling and design on front board remains bold and bright titling on spine is readable though dull color of cloth has faded; small spot roughly the size of two dimes on front board; faint liquid staining to bottom/front corner of page block and rear board; light shelfwear to edges of boards. From a private collection. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis Minnesota. Harper & Bros hardcover
