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1933ref. 29273HBDJ 1933 1st Edition THUS Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: VG DW with Foxing LITE SOIL & tiny Extremities chips . 1st Thus. Edges & Interior pgs LITELY browned. 252 Pgs NO ADS IN Back Rapscallion & Man of science where he invented a Method of Making Diamonds & for reasons Incised th eRecipe on Inside Wall of Minorcan Talayot Some People of Today Found & Used the Recipe story will appeal to Yacht ERNEST BENN, Limited GB Spine DJ has 3/6 NET, hardcover
90 pages. Features: Nice color Studebaker truck ad inside front cover; Photo of the NIM flying wing in flight; Nice Seabee airplane ad; There'll Come a Day (fiction); Atomic Age Navy - submarines may be the backbone of our future sea power; Escape at Noon (fiction); A Challenge to American Women - "American women are more cruel, more selfish and more material in outlook than American men"; Everything ShipShape (fiction); The Doctors Run the Show - the new Michigan plan offers veterans the best medical treatment in the world; You, Too, Can Drink Vodka (fiction); The Outraged Heart (fiction); Champagne Shower - Mitzi Green - article with many colour photos of ladies; Two of a Kind; Nice color one-page ad for the 1946 Ford Sedan Coupe; Running From Death - Charles Beaudry is America's greatest athlete; Nice one-page ad for the movid "Without Reservations" with photo of Claudette Colbert with John Wayne; Super color-photo centerfold ad for Schlitz beer shows hops being harvested; Nice one-page ad for movie "The Well Groomed Bride", starring Olivia De Havilland, Ray Milland and Sonny Tufts; The Happy Chance (fiction); Ad for movie "Her Kind of Man", starring Dane Clark, Zachary Scott and Janis Paige; Jungle Hoofer (fiction); Goodby, Berlin! - article with several color photos of war damage; Camel cigarette ad on back cover talks about how doctors enjoy their product; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
156 pages. Features: Cover photo of clinic for street people; Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Hubert Humphrey article; The Rediscovery of Elvis - photo-illustrated article; Free medical clinic for street people in Cambridge MA; Now Pistol Pete Maravich is up Against the Pros; Photo-illustrated article on Bombay, India - "Wealth, Shantytowns, Speakeasies, Movie Aristocrats, Intellectual Admen and Death on the Trains; Mr. Chips ad features photo of 16-year-old Jonathan Ashby holding hockey stick; Qiana tie ad; Swank ad for 'Credit Card Ejector' card holder and 'Key-jector' key holder; Unusual Pellon textile ad features color photo of meat inspector at workTalon zipper ad features laughing faces of people telling someone their zipper is open; Mississippi 'Black Home' - a black poet from the North journeys to Mississippi and discovers the quiet, daily striving of the black community a 'gathering of triumph' - with photo of civil-rights lawyer Mel Leventhal and his wife Alice, with daughter Rebecca - also included is a photo of Fannie Lou Hamer giving an outdoor speech; Sexy Fruit of the loom ad features lady with very skimpy yellow dress - or is it a long shirt?; Great Supp-hose Obstacle Course centerfold ad features photo of ladies in playground; Nice PBM fashion ad; Two-page Dymo labelmaker photo ad; Of Time and the Child; Photos of Glittery Fashions;Photos of the interior of designer David Laurance Roth's renovated townhouse; Steinway piano ad; Dewar's Whisy ad features photo and bio info. of Steve Trachtenberg; NAACP ad features large photo of old man with caption 'Call it Backbone'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1898ref. 100511898. HBNODJ 1898 1st edition Ivory Decorated Cloth Cover with Gold GiltF-/NF AS-IS NODJ Cover Minor Rub & light Stain Interior Nice Tight Clean with back blank free flyleaf crease . First Edition. Hard Cover. hardcover
258 pages. "On the adbication of Nicholas II Russia's new rulers found themselves confronted by a host of problems, two of which were particularly urgent. What was to be the new government's relationship to its rival in power, the Petrograd Soviet, and what was to be its position on the war and on the aims for which Russia was fighting? To a large degree the answer to the first question depended on the Provisional Government's response to the second. This in turn depended on a third: how did the Tsar's successors conceive of Russia's role and place in Europe? Expressed in the terms of 1917, should the nation still struggle for Constantinople and the reassertion of Russian preponderance in the Balkans? Or should the Russian people fight now only in defense of the revolution and for the democratic principles it proclaimed?" - from Abstract. A dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Average wear. Green boards with gilt lettering upon spine. Binding intact. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of Army Nurse at work; Unituq ad inside from cover for American Export Line shows teen girl holding record and caption 'The Japs Were Hard on Jive' - explaining that war meant the shellac needed to make records was hard to import; Fantastic one-page colour photo ad for Rheingold beer features Miss Rheingold 1945, Pat Boyd on a ski hill; We Must Face Europe with Realism; Ad for Fairchild's Packet air cargo aircraft; Photos from the Battle of the Bulge; Plane's-Eye View of the Pacific War - an air voyage reveals what distance means and how brutal is the struggle; Photos of a Pacific beachhead landing; Four Fateful Inauguration Days - The atmosphere of crisis has surrounded Mr. Roosevelt on each historic occasion - article with photos; Backbone of China's Resistance - it is the enduring peasant, who supplies the rice and the soldiers, hates and thwarts the Japanese; Nice one-page color ad by De Beers; Hollywood's latest box office 'name' is Barry Fitzgerald - article with photos; Classy one-page color ad for Benson & Hedges Virginia Rounds cigarettes; Percy Pratt - Poet Laureate of Freeport, Maine's GI's; One page ad for movie 'A Song to Remember' starring Paul Muni and Merle Oberon; Photos and write-up of America's State Department Team - Joseph C. Grew, Edward R. Stettinius Jr., James Clement Dunn, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Archibald MacLeish, Dean Acheson and William L. Clayton; Half-page ad for Admiral fridges features two classy dames; Nice ad for Rameses "the aristocrat of cigarettes"; Soldier Souvenirs - mementos from Germany; Nostalgic one-page color ad for Florida Oranges/Orange Juice; Meals for the Family of One; A Lift from Lighting; Teen-age daughters; Two pages of lovely fashion photos featuring ladies' attire for the outdoor play season; Half-page color ad for Marlboro cigarettes features very fashionably-dressed lady; GIs bring daily news to the Pacific; Nostalgic color ad on back cover for Decca records states they insist their vocalists pronounce every word carefully, and that dance records must be thoroughly danceable - without fancy overtures or interruptions. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage wartime issue. Book
192 pages including index and an appendix listing contemporary personalities in Japan and Japanese-Occupied Asia. "The present study falls into two sections which are complementary. The first deals with machinery and methods and endeavours to give as full and detailed a survey as is possible of the various government organs directing and controlling political warfare, the structure of the Japanese press, the organisation of Japanese broadcasting, the functioning of censorship, and the extent to which education, science, literature, the arts and the cinema are being employed for purposes of propaganda, both in the Japanese homeland and in the wider area of the conquered empire... The second part deals... with the aims and policies of Japanese propaganda, and attempts to give an outline of the way in which the machinery, sketched in the first part, is being operated." - from introduction. Prior owner's name and pencil erasure atop front endpaper else unmarked. Minor adhesive residue upon back endpaper, possibly from bookplate or pocket removal. Evidence of small sticker removal at base of front board. No library markings per se. Above average wear and soiling to red cloth boards. Spine sunned but its gilt lettering remains legible. Bit of foxing to endpapers. Binding intact. Good working copy. Book
133 pages. "There has always existed a basic body of Truth for those who had some desire to know more than what the herd knew. But this Truth was never shown in the Churches or religions, Christian or otherwise. It was always way off by itself somewhere and had to be "found" by digging persons. We Occult students do, however, apparently owe a debt to a religion - the religion of Islam - which did collect and protect some bacis Occult concepts which we now have in the form of the Qabalah system, and which system I have tried to give some Knowledge of in this book..." - from Introduction. Above-average wear to black boards. Partial lean to spine. Two inch brown stain to each endpaper at top of spine. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper else minimal markings. Back hinge partially open. Two inch tear to bottom edge of page 1. Well-travelled copy of this uncommon work. Book
329 pages. "I suppose there is really never any justification for yet another autobiography, particularly when the writer would be among the first to acknowledge his inability to commit himself adequately to paper or, so obviously, lacks the talent of setting down even in something like chronological order the relatively uneventful happenings of a life-time spent in the humdrum business of banking." - from author's preface. Includes black and white photographs. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Minor lean to spine. Solid copy. Book
327 pages. Includes a historical sketch of the origin and progress of Free Masonry and a collection of Masonic songs, Funeral Service, etc. Contents include: On Opening and Closing Lodges; Entered Apprentice's Degree; Fellow-Craft's Degree; Master Mason's Degree; Mark Master's Degree; Past Master's Degree; Most Excellent Master's Degree; Royal Arch Degree; Royal Master's Degree; Select Master's Degree; Order of High Priesthood; Constitution of the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons for the United States of America; List of Grand Lodges and Grand Chapters in the United States. Gorgeous gilt illustration upon decorated front board. Bright gilt lettering upon spine. Includes numerous attractive and intriguing black and white diagrams. Light wear to greenish-blue cloth boards. Front fixed endpaper bears small bookplate with name peeled off. Prior owner's details written upon front free endpaper else unmarked. Half inch opening to central portion of back hinge. Excellent attractive copy of this most revealing work. Book
1996ref. ABE317267012W B Saunders Co Philadelphia PA 1996. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. As New. new two volume set Quantity Available: 1. Category: Medicine & Health; ISBN: 072164953X. ISBN/EAN: 9780721649535. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: ABE317267012. . 9780721649535 W B Saunders Co hardcover
1949ref. 30249HBDJ 1949 1ST EDITION 1st printing DJ is from Lutterworth edition PRE TEXT LISTS THRU THIS TITLE VG/GOOD A lite tan to the page edges/pages. Minor wear. The dust jacket has some tears.Tight and Square Gently Read CREASES TO DJ EDGES NOT BOMC NOT Ex Library --- DUST JACKET GOOD With a couple of small WEARSPOTTING FRONT & SPINE & some rubbing and white paper binders tape on top inside edge for reinforcement. 423 PGS Black cloth titled in gold Gilt LITE Scuff & edge chipping to DJ extremities FRNT STILL HAS GOOD COLOR WITH A FEW FOXING SPOTS IN WHITE LETTERS As Prince of Egypt comes to the Exodus leaving Palace of Pharaoh awesome Temples of Amon-Re Harem Garden where Nefretiti fell in love with Young Prince Learn how Moses Dared to enter forbidden Ruins of deserted City of Akhetaton Westminster Press, Philadelphia ,DJ is from Lutterworth UK Edition hardcover
1953ref. 28571J. P. Lippincott NY 1953. HBDJ 1953 First Edition STATED FIRST PRINTING . BLUE TURQUOISE ILLUSTRATED CVR CLOTH Hardcover. Fine-/GOOD-. in Color Dustjacket 2 Kids a Girl with Yellow Bonnet & Blonde Boy in Blue Dotted WHITE Shirt ROWING in White Rowboat with Yellow Oars in Water Waving to 2 People on Land Rock in Distance .Clean tight and unmarked text with light PAGE Toning Due to Age. DJ has closed tears edge Scuffing and some creasing to edges Lower Portion of DJ Spine is MISSING LEAVING ONLY HILL & JUDY Printed at Top Dust jacket now protected in a new archival grade mylar sleeve Back DJ Lists Author's 12 Titles Ending with JackOLantern for Judy Jo LITE STAIN BACK DJ & TINY CHIPPED EDGES DJ. Summer Adventures of a Favorite Heroine TRIP TO BOSTON includes CornRoast Strawberry Festival & Warm Sunny Beach. Little Green Isle O' Pines could be reached Only By A Sandy Road from the Mainland at Low Tide. ONCE WHEN GRANDPA WAS A LITTLE BOY. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by MABEL BESTSY HILL. J. P. Lippincott NY hardcover
393 pages. "The first attempt to give a complete and comprehensive study of the Jew of Newport, picturing from the religious, economic, social and political points of view the entire colonial background with which the Jew identified himself." - From Preface. Includes 36 black and white illustrations, 11 appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography and index. Chapters include: The Dim Beginnings; Dawn; Progress; From Inquisition to Freedom; The Synagogue; A Glimpse of Jewish Life; Visitors; The Jew in the Community; Uproar, Dispersion and Decline; Evacuation and Revival; The Close of a Colorful Chapter; Noble Memories; Reconsecration; Adjustment; Immorality. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear to blue boards. Lettering worn from spine. Both hinges almost fully open. Tape protects top and bottom of spine. A fragile yet worthy copy of this excellent reference. Book
122 pages plus 16 pages of advertisements. Gives an outline of the present position of Banking in the United Kingdom, with as complete an estimate as is possible of the amount of capital engaged in it. Traces some of the changes which transpired during the past quarter century, the vast development of the sums deposited, the great increase in the rapidity of the circulation of money; as well as the importance of these alterations, and the influence which they may exert in any time of pressure. A complete description of the Banking system in Sweden, Denmark, and Hamburg is included, with details which have hitherto never been published in this country. Spine missing. Maroon coloured boards well-worn and soiled. Both hinges gone. Binding fragile. Minor quantity of markings to contents. Prior owner's name atop title page. Some foxing and soiling to contents. Rough copy but the information is all here. Book
546 pages. Black and white frontis of George Vancouver plus twenty black and white photographic reproductions. Author was well-equiped for this work. By disposition a student, he became greatly engrossed in his researches, and secured copies of all the old records of voyages to the coast of British Columbia and knew their contents intimately. His duties in command of the Quadra took him to every portion of the British Columbia coast, including a great many waters that were practically unsurveyed, and so he acquired a thorough knowledge not only of the charts in existence, but also of the unwritten lore of Indians and traders experienced in the intricacies of that most magnificent coast. Major damage and closed tears to pages 527-530 with two chunks missing from page 529. Fortunately all text remains and is legible. Once inch tear to interior of page 546. Map at page 547 removed. Back hinge open. Front hinge going. Prior owner's small initial rubber stamp upon front endpaper and bottom edge else unmarked. Average soiling. Moderate yellowing. Gilt lettering upon spine remains clearly legible. Above average wear to dark green cloth spine and boards. A good first edition reading copy of this comprehensive reference. Book
ref. BN370081Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging Vol. II: Brain; Head and Neck; Spine Unknown Binding Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging Vol. II: Brain; Head and Neck; Spine Unknown Binding Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging Vol. II: Brain; Head and Neck; Spine Unknown Binding unknown
1748ref. Alibris5141Chez Prault pere Quai de Gevres au Paradis 1748. First edition. Full leather. Very Good. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Binding rubbed at edges but otherwise in very good condition. In original binding. Marbled leather boards with raised bands gilt decorations and leather label on spine. Endpapers and edges marbled in the free French style. 205 pages. Chez Prault pere, Quai de Gevres, au Paradis hardcover
288 pages including index. Illustrated with line drawings. Chapters include: Introductory; Different Ends for Which Pictures Have Been Used; The Different Kinds of Pictures; Stereographs and the Stereoscope; Experiences of Travel with Stereographs; The Importance of Environment; The Limitations of Language; The Wide Environment The Stereograph Travel System Gives. Part II includes the following chapters: What are the Necessities of Life; Life is the Purpose of Our Existence; What is the Life We Are Here to Develop?; Happiness vs. Pleasure; The Different Needs of Our Life; The Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Intellect; The Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Aesthetic Nature; Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Moral Nature; Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Religious Life; Summary and Conclusion. Small dab of liquid paper upon front endpaper. Minimal markings to text. Some pencil markings have been erased. Lettering worn from spine. Above average wear to boards. Hinges intact. Minor lean to spine. Average soiling. Moderate yellowing to contents. Book
222 pages including index and glossary. Fold-out map at page 15. Black and white photographic plates. "This book is the outcome of forty years residence amongst the Haidas, and is an accurate description of what I have seen and heard in the villages and homes. Through my knowledge of their language I have been enabled to get all my information regarding their customs, traditions and social organization direct from the principal chiefs, men who at that time were from sixty to eighty years old." - from Preface. Chapters include: Queen Charlotte Islands; Early History; The Haidas; Haida Customs; Births, Marriages, Divorce, Death and Burial Ceremonies; Tools, Ornaments and Ceremonial Masks; Industries and Medicines; The Sa-ag-ga or Shaman; The Haida Pantheon; Haida Legends; The Haida Traditions of Creation; Chief Edenshaw; The Natural History of the Islands; Geology of the Islands and Natural Resources. Appendix lists cranial measurements. Average wear. Binding intact. Red cloth-covered boards. Black lettering and decoration legible upon spine. Prior owner's stamp to bottom edge, front fixed and free endpapers, and title page. Faint bookseller's stamp to back fixed endpaper. A sound copy. Edwards & Lort 1668, Thibault 2,231. Book
1870ref. ABE-1558953051969Chapman & Hall London 1870 First edition of Dickens' final novel. Octavo contemporary quarter bound calf with hand marbled boards. Five raised bands gilt titles and tooling to the spine with a slight loss to the base. Interesting hinged extra calf flap to the top of the text block to allow the book to be shelved end on. This is titled in gilt too and the author's name mis-spelled 'DICKINS'. Spine title is correctly spelled! It is double gilt ruled raised gilt bands. Brilliant engraved frontispiece portrait of Dickens with tissue guard a superb clean first printing. 12 engraved plates by Luke Fildes also clean first prints. In collectable condition with light rubbing and some toning to the pages. Charles Dickens' novels regularly revolved around masks dual identities and other secrets. The Mystery of Edwin Drood however "enlarged and strengthened such matters in the pursuit of a larger vision a vision which depicts the 'lanes of light' between the dark pillars of a crypt and which reflects upon 'that mysterious fire which lurks in everything" Ackroyd 1056. Unfortunately at the time of his death on June 9 1870 Dickens had written only six parts of the book three of which had been published. The remaining three were published posthumously. Dickens had so closely guarded the plot's outlines even from his closest friends that to this day the identity of Drood's killer remains a topic for speculation discussion and debate. "There are few of Dickens' stories which are superior in the matter of composition. one of the best unfinished mystery stories in literature" - This is a fascinating copy with the hinged extra flap to the text block as a possibly unique detail. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Chapman & Hall London hardcover
1936ref. 29297HBDJ Chips & Wear Extremities DJ & SPINE DJ ENDS December 1936 1ST EDITION THUS EARLY ISSUE VG/VG- AS-IS In Illustrated Beige Dustjacket BOY SITTING ON GOAT Approx 7 X 4 3/4 IN. Red Brown cloth with gold Gilt Boy Figure on Front 118 Pgs LITE RUB & WEAR DJ HAS CHIPS SPINE DJ ENDS Red Topstain LONDON William HEINEMANN Windmill Library #27 UK DJ SPINE 3s.6d NET PRICE . hardcover
1901ref. 56112Boston MA: L. C. Page & Company. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 370 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1901. L. C. Page & Company hardcover
ref. 7261Written in three legible hands of the second half of the 17th cent. & the first quarter of the 18th. Paper: watermarks of a stag within a crown and "FV" apparently not found in the usual watermark reference books. Section I: 169 numbered pp. final two pp. blank 3 blank pp. 40 leaves; Section II: 100 numbered pp. lacking one leaf pp. 49-50 6 leaves final two blank; Section III: 16 leaves; Section IV: 12 leaves final leaf blank; Section V: 12 leaves; Section VI: 13 leaves. Small folio 325 x 204 mm. cont. vellum over boards spine lettered at head with title "Chymia Manuscripta" characteristic Chorinsky shelf mark "F.7." at foot. Germany: 1655-1725. An important Paracelsian chemical alchemical and pharmaceutical manuscript completely unstudied from the famous Chorinsky private library which was formed in the 18th century and remained intact until the 1930s. Our manuscript contains six different texts with a series of hundreds of alchemical chemical and pharmaceutical experiments and preparations as well as commentaries on published chemical and alchemical texts. It was compiled between 1655 and 1725. Clearly it is a "sister" manuscript to the one we offered in 2015 see below also from the Chorinsky library. Section I: The first text 126 leaves in total and written in a legible hand of the second half of the 17th century consists of comments on and summaries of many experiments of a chemical and alchemical nature. The beginning of the text is entitled "Notata.fein geschriben buch welches mir Hr baron Andrisch aus sonderbarer freundschafft communicirt hat" "Notata.nicely written book communicated to me in a gesture of special friendship by Baron Andrisch ". The text is rich in chemical and alchemical symbols for metals notably gold phosphorus and platinum other substances and processes especially distillation and sublimation. There are many references to Paracelsus Theophrastus and his various alchemical and chemical writings notably his Thesaurus Thesaurum Alchimi and Isaac Hollandus the mysterious early 17th-century writer on alchemy and chemistry see Ferguson. Also discussed are a "universal medicament" the macro- and microcosms mineral and vegetable substances a "panacea vegetabilis" chemical processes using feces a balsam of nature that can cure all terrible illnesses otherwise incurable in Galenic medicine niter the close relationship between the harmony of music and astronomy Hermetic philosophy etc. etc. It is signed on the final page by "Thomas Grünberger Med. Doctoris" dated 25 August 1655. We have been unable to learn anything about him. Section II: The text is written in the same hand and therefore presumably by Grünberger. Greek is often used. We find discussions of Paracelsus's concepts in alchemy and chemistry "metalla minora" putrefaction Rosicrucian ideas in alchemy fermentation Roger Bacon Arnald of Villanova the "saccharum saturni" mortification compounds including arsenic many pharmaceutical recipes etc. etc. Pages 49-50 have been removed at an early date. Section III: The third text perhaps also written by Grünberger is entitled "Notata.instructione.cujus opus est in . Theo. Paracelsus Chymiae Vol. VI p. 163." It is a discussion of Paracelsian theories and processes of alchemy and chemistry. Section IV: The fourth text dated 1721 and entitled "Arcana Specialia" is signed by Johann Gottman "Ord. Ros. Cruc." This is concerned with alchemical and chemical theories. Section V: This text written in an early 18th-century hand contains a series of "operations" or laboratory procedures to manufacture various oils used in the making of pharmaceutical products. Section VI: The sixth and final text is entitled "Descriptio de Lapide Philosophorum. Von 15 Martii 1725 von Monsr Nusdorff Communicirt.Dieser Kunst." The Wellcome Library also has two manuscripts with this text both dated 15 March 1722. This section of our manuscript is clearly written in the same - unidentified - handsome German baroque script as the first part of another alchemical manuscript from the Chorinsky library which we offered in our Cat. 213 item 66 in 2015. PROVENANCE: Our manuscript comes from the famous library of Ignatz Dominik Graf Chorinsky von Ledske 1729-92 with his armorial bookplate. The large Chorinsky library was sold at auction in 1930 by Antiquariat Hans Götz in Hamburg. Many of the books and manuscripts from the Bibliothek Chorinsky were identically bound in ivory vellum with the painted red compartment at the top of the spine and shelf mark written in red at the bottom. First leaf of text with the stamp of the antiquarian bookseller Rosicrucian and theosophist Heinrich Tränker 1880-1956. We have given only the merest suggestion of the contents of these texts and their research possibilities. In fine condition. A few ink splatterings and some ink show-through. hardcover books
