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The Bruce Publishing Company, 1947 Book. Good +. Hardcover. Some splotches/soil on exterior; overall general use wear..

NY: The Macmillan Co., 1941 Ex-Library. Very Good -. Hardcover. Reissue. Light edgewear, minor exterior marks, usual library markings. The biography of the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, as abridged from The Life of Florence Nightingale, "with additional matter". Illustrated. Appendices; index..

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Thomas Yoseloff, New York, January 1963. Hardcover Hardcover. Good/Fair. Good Hardcover with Fair Dustjacket. Heavy soiling and shelfwear to DJ, including tearing; one tear taped. Moderate soiling and shelfwear to covers. Spine ends mildly bumped. Textblock and FFEP lightly soiled. One page moderately soiled. A few pages lightly soiled. Otherwise, pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): between 6" - 9" tall . S.A. Summit, Inc. (Jacket Design). 164 pp. Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. DJ shows wear in some places.

London: Museum Press Limited. Good -. 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover. 6" By 8.75" Tall Light blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Upper cover & top of spine soiled and stained. slight shelfwear to corners and edges. No inscriptions. Black and white photographic frontispiece of The Comtesse de Boigne. 255 pages, clean bright and tightly bound. .

London: Scott, Webster, & Geary, 1841 Green/gilt boards slight soiled, Engraved frontises by H. Corbould, F. Bacon, publisher ads, 496 pgs. spine slight bumped.. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Owner's Name. First Thus.. Decorative Cloth. Good.

London: G. Bell and Sons, 1963. 570 pp, 7 1/2" H, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Map endpapers, 60 b&w illustrations."Pepy's Diary is one of the world's great books. For general interest few Diaries can compare with it, while as a record of nature at work in man it is unique. Yet, because it is a formidable-looking book of over a million words, the majority of people hesitate to tackle it. It is with the idea of enabling everyone, old and young, to enjoy the human comedy it contains, without being detained by the wider interests of the Diary as a whole, that 'Everybody's Pepys' has been prepared. It is not a book of unconnected selections, but a condensation which, as a result of repeated and careful pruning of the complete copyright text, brings the story, with its main sidelights, within the compass of a single volume." There are two previous owner's names in ink on the half-title page, very light browning to the edges of the text block, several… Read More

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good. 1970. Early printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; This book in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This copy includes the pictorial pastedown hologram. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and edge wear, along with some beginning nicking to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. ; Vol. 769 .

London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1923 Book. Good. Wrappers (softcover). 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Some edge wear and discoloring to covers. Head and tail of spine are a bit worn, and front hinge is a little tender. Otherwise the text block is solid and pages are clean and unmarked. 3 b/w plates. 96 pp..

LA SALLE, IL.: LIBRARY PRESS. VG/VG DJ SMALL CHIP, LIGHTLY WORN/SOILED, IN MYLAR WRAP. Pages: 384. . 1975. 1ST US EDITION. HARDCOVER..

London: Golden Pleasure Books, 1963. First Separate . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Illustrated by Sergio Loene. Illustrated board covers with cloth spine. Tightly bound edition with scuffed edges pertaining to shelf wear. Age tanned closed edges. Corners bumped but internally very good.

NEW YORK: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1926 Book. Illus. by Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Fair (+). Hardcover. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Blue cover with a gilt spine title and map illustrated endpapers. Slightly shaken with a center binding crack and a few other places. Darkened sun to two open pages where something was left in (newspaper undoubtedly), otherwise clean with clear text pages. Sunned spine and lightly to cover edge with a mild vertical spine crease and light wear to extremities (bumped top corner tips). Bottom corner chip (no loss of text) to pp. 335-338..

NY: HARCOURT, BRACE & C0. MENDED DJ, CLEAN TEXT. . VG. Hardcover. THIRD PRINTING. 1928.

Heinemann, London - first English edition 1959 hardcover, 8" x 5.25", & dust jacket The early Christian world. Jacket edges have small nicks, wear. Stain to rear of jacket & rear board. VERY GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket Black cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine, map. Distinguished Polish writer's novel following St. Paul on visit to Jerusalem where extraordinary adventures befall him, and finally his assault on the citadel of paganism, Nero's Rome.

(New York: McLoughlin: no date) Suggest about 1910. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 112 (245 x 205 mm). With colored illustrations (frontispiece and five coloured plates). A very good copy.

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1990. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed maroon linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; price-clipped (likely by publisher); light edge wear w/rubs to back leading edge & fine abrasion (sensed by the hand) to back surface. Trace smudge to fEP. First published in Spanish under the title: Frida: El Pincel de Angustía; this is both a translation and an abridgement of the original text. An initimate biography of talented Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1910-1954), illustrated with historical photographs and 75 reproductions of Kahlo's works.

London: Bickers & Son, 1889 First Printing of this abridgment of Napier's History of the Peninsular War, published by Bickers & Son in their own signed binding of full gilt-ruled polished calf with 6 elaborately tooled spine compartments separated by 5 raised bands, marbled page block edges & endpapers, all 10 plate illustrations "in permanent photography" present & perfect, pages unfoxed, no markings, NOT ex-lib, handsome contemporary school prize bookplate to front endpaper, light scuffed wear & mild foxing to front board, an attractively bound clean tight copy of this popular condensation; 8vo; x + 408pp. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good.

London: John Murray, 1909 Abridged from 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' by Edward Gibbon, with b/w illustrations and fold-out maps. Vol one of two only. Red cloth a little marked and sunned, no inscriptions, clean and sound, good, no DJ.