The American Oaks by Trelease, William - 1969

London, United Kingdom: Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1895. 2nd revised and enlarged edition. Subtitle continued "embracing framework building, field magnet and armature winding and grouping, compounding, etc.. with examples of leading English, American, and Continental Dynamos and Motors." CONDITION Brown bds with bright Gilt title, Black publishers device and borders to front (mild shelf wear, sl damp mark top front cnr) pp xvi 368 with 114 figural illus, publishers list and advertising to rear. Copy is Near Fine with very bright interior, name in Blue pencil partially erased to verso of title page.. 2nd Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Boston: The Barta Press, 1908. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 141p. Plates (some colorded), diagrams. A pristine copy in original suede with front cover showing full title in gilt over brown leather label. Color representations of the playing cards with their symbolism, the swastika, the belted globe surmounted by the Patriarchial Cross, the Keystone and many other esoteric symbols.

A Geneve [i.e. Paris]: Cazin, 1782. Hardcover. Fair +. Volumes 2 and 3 of 4 ([4], 347, [1] p.; [4], 276 p.); 13 cm. Contemporary speckled calf with six spine compartments. Leather labels in second and third compartments with gilt-tooled title and volume number; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Triple gilt-ruled borders on boards. All page edges gilt. Gilt-tooled turn-ins. Marbled endpapers. Blue ribbon bookmarks. Floral title vignette or printer's emblem. Woodcut head-pieces. Engraved bookplate on front fixed endpaper with motto "Mihi Aperies Iter" and handwritten note: "The Property of W.W. Watson." In Fair+ Condition: leather is cracked along both spines with some loss at spine ends; vol. 2 lacking spine labels; joints are cracked; both text blocks are solid.

Each entry includes the person's occupation, biographical history, family, memberships, residences, etc. Most also include a picture.234 pages on sale exclusively at Long's College Book Store, book # 138

P. F. Volland Company, Chicago, IL, 1919. Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good- hardcover, stated sixteenth edition. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket. Binding solid and pages clean throughout Pictorial end papers uncracked and very attractive. No writing Covers have wear at edges, corners, and edges of spine cover.Overall, a very attractive copy of a relatively early edition of this beautifully illustrated children's book. One in Volland's "Happy Children Books".

Michael Joseph, London, 1981, first edtion. 206 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0718120396 Charming b&w illustrations. "There is a growing need for the 'quiet fields' in this noisy, restless world. Mercifully, they can still be found by the country-lover and naturalist. This book tells of a year spent deep in the countryside, beginning when the year is young, when trees and hedges are bare to the winter winds, and on through the spring, summer and autumn, to winter once again. Whatever the season of the year there is always something to see in the countryside, even when the 'quiet fields' are sheeted with snow. There are the winter migrants - the wildfowl of the wet places, the delicate fieldfares and redwings - who come to Britain to escape the bitter temperatures of their native lands. 'BB' also describes the advent of the spring migrants, which bring such intense joy to the naturalist that he even had to surrender his studio to a swallow… Read More

London, John Hamilton, 1935.. 1st edition. Boards and spine showing some wear, with a small triangle missing from top of spine, otherwise V.G. No dustwrapper.

New York: New York Book Company, 1870. First Thus . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 650pp. 42 plates of engravings. illus. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine titles. Hinges broken, front end paper missing, old masking tape connecting front paste down and frontispiece verso, mostly mild/ some moderate foxing to interior, light wear to board edges and spine ends, spine mildly cocked. This is an apparent reissue with a twist of original title by the publisher of the 1869 Women of New York or the Under-world of a Great City by Ellington - a pseudonym according to OCLC, possibly for James Dabney McCabe in the opinion of one scholar (citation on request). The contents: Women of Fashion, Women of Pleasure, Married Women, Wicked Women, Female Artistes, Life in a Female Seminary, Other Women, Female institutions. The last paragraph of the preface sums up the book's general premise: " There are doubtless many true and noble women among the fashion and… Read More

London: Printed for W. Bristow in St Paul's Churchyard and T. Slack in Newcastle, 1764 Book. Good. Full leather. [viii], 13-262 pages + 2 pages of adverts at the rear. ESTC T203962 where the pagination matches - also another entry at N32423 which seems very similar. Staining to the margins throughout. Ink owner's name to the front free end paper and also the second page of text. Another name scribbled out in ink to the ffep. The outer tip of page 113/4 has been torn away and this affects a couple of lines of numbers. Light browning throughout, some spotting. Ink and pencil writing to the rear end papers. In old unlettered full leather which has some wear..

New York: Liveright, 1942. Good solid book. Dust jacket in poor condition tape repairs and missing spine. Book itself is in very good condition. Bumping to corners. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. Illus. by Alice K. Snyder.