Reinsurance : Written By the Twenty-Three Authorities by Strain, Robert W - 1980

Calcutta, K.P. Bagchi & Company, 1979, hardcover, viii-289 pp, First edition, Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, name to front endpaper, spine-end and corner bumps, spine faded. Dustjacket, edge chips, rubs, a few spots to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The result of a collective study by the Council for Political Studies, Calcutta, includes 12 essays on the great Bengali intellectuals of the past 150 years, by the author and others. Each essay concludes with notes and references. Index appended.

Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1831. Hardcover. Very Good +. 976 p.; 25 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Purdon's Digest 1830. Formerly there was a second label in the fourth compartment. Blind-rolled chain border on each board. Former owner's name on title page and endpapers: J. Miles. Contains the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of Pennsylvania, and the laws of Pennsylvania arranged by topic. In Very Good+ Condition: lacking one original spine label; leather is rubbed, with several small scrapes; leather over spine is starting to crack; light foxing; pages are somewhat browned, but clean and tight. A solid copy.

Philadelphia: s.n., 1847. Pamphlet. Very Good. 16 p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "22" in ink at upper right-hand corner of first page. Caption title. At head of title: "Supreme Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. July 1847, No. 40." William M. Kennedy claimed that his property running from Maiden St. to the adjacent wharf in the Kensington District of the Northern Liberties (at the time not part of the city of Philadelphia) included half of the street and the wharf itself. Elihu Duplessis Tarr (d. 1851) and John Meredith Read (1797-1874) represented Samuel Tucker Bodine (1810-1879) and the commissioners and residents of Kensington, offering the history of the property back to the orignal 1689 grant to Michael Neilson and through its ownership by William Masters and his descendants to show that both the street and the wharf had been public property. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: disbound; light foxing, primarily on first… Read More

Woodbridge: Boydell Press 978-1-84383-216-4 [978-1-84383-216-4] 2006. (Hardcover) 242pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Map, notes, tables, bibliography, index. The corners are lightly bumped and there is a faint blue smudge on the spine. Time Period Medieval. Publisher series: Gender in the Middle Ages 2. Locale: England; Kent--England. (Law, Gender Issues, Law, Petty Crime).

xii + 580 pp. including alphabetical list of contents. Very clean and good condition throughout..

Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1831. Hardcover. Very Good +. 976 p.; 25 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Purdon's Digest 1830. Formerly there was a second label in the fourth compartment. Blind-rolled chain border on each board. Former owner's name on title page and endpapers: J. Miles. Contains the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of Pennsylvania, and the laws of Pennsylvania arranged by topic. In Very Good+ Condition: lacking one original spine label; leather is rubbed, with several small scrapes; leather over spine is starting to crack; light foxing; pages are somewhat browned, but clean and tight. A solid copy.

2 VOLUMES. Hughes, Rupert: Miss 318 AND Miss 318 And Mr. 37. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1911, 1912 1st Editions. Illustrated by Victor Semon Perard. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION. NO DUST JACKETS ARE INCLUDED. RARE Historical fiction based on actual events that occurred during the TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE: "One of the worst industrial disasters in the history of New York City, causing 146 deaths and an unknown number of injuries, took place on Saturday, March 25, 1911, at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company.

UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.

Murder on the Matterhorn (1951, F.A. Thorpe, Large Print Edition, for vision Impaired ) By Glyn Carr. ARTISAN HOUSE, ANSTEY, LEICESTERSHIRE.THIS LARGE PRINT EDITION HAS BEEN PUBLISHED BY KIND PERMISSION OF GEOFFREY BLES, LONDON. EXLIB. GOOD CONDITION /VERY GOOD ORIGINAL DUST JACKET PROTECTED BY MYLAR WRAP. Please see stock photo. Our jacket is VG with no library stickers on it. "This cleverly constructed story presents the neatest imaginable puzzle in detection". RARE/SCARCE.

[Texas][Law] Jewel Preston Lightfoot. Anti-trust laws of the State of Texas, with compilation of leading cases of state and federal courts. [Austin, Texas]: Attorney General. 1907. Flexible red leatherette with gilt titles. 23 cm. 75 pp. Interleaved with blank pages for notes. LOC surplus copy with stamp on front free end paper. Light wear to spine, else very good.
OCLC shows five holdings (Hou. Pub. Lib.; Texas St. Lib. & Arch.; Texas Tech.; UT-Austin [2]). Lightfoot was Attorney General of Texas; general counsel for Wilson and Company, Chicago meat packers and then was partner in the Ft. Worth firm Lightfoot, Robertson, Saunders, and Gano. He was a Mason and a member of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and is buried in the State Cemetery in Austin.