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1949ref. 302864New York Farrar Straus and Company 1949. 1949. First American edition from English sheets. Small 4to. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Very good. 264 pages. No dust jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949. hardcover books
1949ref. 21620New York: Farrar Straus 1949. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition. Fine lacking the dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Farrar, Straus hardcover books
1949ref. 4426New York: Farrar Straus and Company 1949. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards. Very good in good dust wrapper. 264 pages. From the former President of The Wine and Food Society of London - a comprehensive and valuable work with more than 260000 words of text on every conceivable topic in the realm of gastronomy is listed and fully described. Pages and boards lightly toned. Dust wrapper heavily chipped at edges. In protective mylar cover. Farrar, Straus and Company hardcover books
1865ref. 31618New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1865. First edition. Cloth. Thin split along top of front joint spine ends worn still a good or better copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown shelf sticker on foot of backstrip their stamp on title leaves clean binding solid. 222 adv. 6 pp. 12mo. Though known primarily as an astronomer the Canadian American Simon Newcomb 1835-1909 also amassed a sturdy reputation as a political economist praised for his originality by John Maynard Keynes. This was his first published book on economics. Sabin 54936. D. Appleton and Co. hardcover books
ref. 176910hardcover. illus. 462pp. 8vo cloth d.w.; d.w. slighly chipped otherwise very good. N.Y.: HarperCollins 2005. Presentation copy. unknown books
2005ref. UWINCRA00drpHarperCollins 2005. Very Good. Winchester Simon. A Crack In The Edge Of The World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906. NY: HarperCollins 2005. 462pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gentle bumping. In DJ protector. HarperCollins hardcover books
2005ref. 2347934New York: Harper Collins 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. Boards a bit smudged small sticker on rear jacket corner otherwise jacket is excellent. 2005 Hard Cover. xiv 462 pp. 8vo. Maps on endpapers showing North American tectonic plates past earthquakes and volcanoes and author's travel route black-and-white photographs and maps in text. "Unleashed by ancient geologic forces a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18 1906. Less than a minute later the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history and just as important what science has recently revealed about the fascinating subterranean processes that produced it - and almost certainly will cause it to strike again. Harper Collins hardcover books
2005ref. 230692New York: HarperCollins 2005. Hardcover. xiv 462p. endpaper maps glossary further reading index illustrations maps signed by the author on title page. A fine first edition in boards and unclipped dust jacket. The book is ingenously jacketed with a jaw-dropping color reproduction of a newspaper front-page ! EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA ! with three extensions; we have not fully extended it but it is obviously in perfect condition. Should the purchaser wish to examine it the creased flap-folds which are stiff could be first put under weight for an hour or two to allow an easier fold-down of this hidden image. HarperCollins hardcover books
1973ref. 157277London: Jarrolds 1973. First UK Edition preceding all others. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Book has a few faint splashes on the bottom page edges. Jacket rear panel lightly rubbed with a short closed tear on the bottom right corner. Jarrolds unknown books
1952ref. 24481New York: Harcourt Brace and Co 1952. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A gorgeous copy of the 1952 stated 1st American edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp very sharp easily Near Fine dustjacket. Thick octavo with decorations complementing the text by John Leigh-Pemberton. Truly a collector's copy. Harcourt, Brace and Co unknown books
1946ref. 4284New York: Bramhall House 1946. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards. Very good in good dust wrapper. 816 pages. 22 x 15 cm. This delightful volume combines the qualities of a practical cookbook with those of an urbane and comprehensive guide to food and drink the world over. Arranged in nine major sections which afford a fresh approach to menu-planning as well as new and exciting reading about food this volume stands as the epitome of a lifetime of gastronomic endeavor. With over 2000 international recipes and 3800 descriptions of foods this book should live in your kitchen. Interior and boards clean. Dust wrapper rubbed with some loss to corners. Covered in protective mylar. Bramhall House hardcover books
1938ref. 229207New York: Reprinted by Doubleday Distributing Co. 1938. Pamphlet. 14p. staplebound pamphlet 5x7.5 inches paper toned faint vertical crease. Publisher's address rubberstamped on rear cover; ownership stamp on front cover. Right-wing attack on the American Labor Party and the New Deal pretending to be from the Communist viewpoint. Uses third period rhetoric and calls for reading the Daily Worker. Not in Seidman. A curious example of a right wing hoax. Reprinted by Doubleday Distributing Co. unknown books
2007ref. 49900Malden: Blackwell Publishing 2007. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xvi 559pp index. Very good hardback bound in publisher's illustrated boards and issued without a jacket. Blackwell Publishing hardcover books
1979ref. 188996New York: Scribner 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good or better in very good dust jacket. Scribner hardcover books
1979ref. 251331New York: Scribners 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book has light rub of spine and corners of cover light yellowing pages dust jacket has slight rub of edges of panels light fading of panels. Scribners hardcover books
1940ref. 173886London: Oxford University Press 1940. Hardcover. VG only light wear to extremities and minor soiling to boards. Green cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering. 279 pp. Illustrations. "The personal seal in Chinese of Mrs. Moore reproduced on the title-page."--Introduction. Includes index of Chinese names words terms and seals. Includes bibliographical references. Bibliography in English and Chinese. Oxford University Press hardcover books
2007ref. 60582Clonmel: Coracle 2007. First edition. 4 pp. Some offsetting from inserted thread lacking to the center fold else fine in illustrated card covers in fine printed paper slipcase. Clonmel: Coracle unknown books
1960ref. 82968London: Cresta Books 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Two small stains on the front endpapers else about fine in price-clipped very good or better dust jacket. Ex-James Gabler. Gabler G23680. Cresta Books hardcover books
1815ref. 299403New York: Printed for the Author by Sherman & Pudney 1815. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Disbound. 176pp. Foxing on title page else very good or better. Bishop Henry Treadwell Onderdonk's copy with his ownership signature twice one of which is dated in 1816. Onderdonk was one of the most controversial figures in Episcopal history with his suspension by the Church for improper conduct with women but fueled at least in part for his supposed sympathy to Roman Catholicism still being debated to this day. Printed for the Author by Sherman & Pudney hardcover books
1941ref. 55209Meriden Connecticut: The Timothy Press. Very Good. 1941. Hardcover. Engraved by Simon Gribelin II in the Year MDCCIV and now partially reprinted in Collotype Facsimile with an Introduction by Philip Hofer and technical Comment by Rudolph Ruzicka. 1 of 310 copies Fine copy. Oblong format 8 x 10" Near Fine condition. . The Timothy Press hardcover books
1920ref. 202635Philadelphia: W.J. Campbell 1920. VG: Wear to the edges and coloring on the book's cover. The pages all remain tightly bound but there is a gap in between the spine and the first pasted end page. A textured blue casebound book with the title in debossed lettering on the spine. The pages' edges are deckled and several pages are uncut. The edges of the pages are also with gilting. Pages: 16 14-394. Contains several black-and-white illustrations protected by onion skin paper. Copy 457 of 500. W.J. Campbell unknown books
2001ref. 354058New York: Stage & Screen 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Stage & Screen hardcover books
1965ref. 188778New York: Miller Music Corp 1965. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Ink notations in text torn at spine. Miller Music Corp unknown books
2007ref. 80191Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press 2007. First edition. 8 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 104 copies printed on the occasion of Valga Krusa Day in Northampton MA. Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press unknown books
1986ref. 28517NY: Scribner's. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0684187086 . First printing. Fine in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Scribner's hardcover books
