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London: Hutchinson. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 144 pages; Clean and secure in original bluecloth binding in very good dustjacket (some foxing). Former owner's name on ffep - "Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr." Leonard Slater Cottrell (1899 -1985) was an American sociologist and 40th President of the American Sociological Association. Cotrell studied at Vanderbilt University after the First World War to master's degree in sociology. Then he moved to the University of Chicago, where he continued to study, in addition to working as a probation officer. In 1935 he went to Cornell University as a sociology professor. During the Second World War Cotrell worked with with Samuel Andrew Stouffer in military sociological research. After the war, he returned to Cornell University. In 1951 he became a researcher at the Russell Sage Foundation for 17 years and at the end of his academic career moved to Chapel Hill and taught at the University of… Read More

Wien: Bundesministerium für Unterricht. Very Good-. 1965. First Edition. Paperback. 510 pages; 1. Juni bis 15. Oktober 1965 Schauräume der Hofburg -- Kaiserappartements Wien. Contents clean and unmarked, wrappers creased and curled at corner. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries,… Read More

Nottingham: Corporation of Nottingham. Very Good. 1955. Paperback. 20 pages; Newstead Abbey Publications No. 2. Photo illustrations, map. A visitors brochure for the Abbey Grounds. OCLC: 505077873; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Aberdeen: Lewis Smith. Very Good. 1868. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 129 pages; along with Wood Engravings of Some of the Wells, etc. Brown cloth over pictorial boards showing the Gateway to the Old Trades Hall (repeating the engraved titlepage inside). All engraved plates and maps present, lightly age toned. Boards lightly soiled, rubbed and bumped at edges. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Paris: Flammarion. Very Good. 1981. Paperback. From the collection of Susan Mary Alsop, with her manuscript notes laid-in keyed to some ink markings in the text, particularly in the chapter on Le Congres de Vienne. This was a reference source for Alsop's book The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes… Read More

Madrid: Editorial Maestre. Very Good. 1954. Paperback. 109 pages; Contents clean and secure in original printed wrappers; wrappers dust toned, corners creased, owner's name. Discurso leido el dia 10 de Enero de 1954, en la recepción pública de D. Leopoldo Torres Balbás y contestación de D. Emilio Garcia Gomez. .

Madrid: Patronato de Investigación cientifica y Tecnica. Fine. 1964. Fine in original wrappers. Traducción de Mario Bueno Heimerle ; revisión del texto por Martín Almagro Basch.; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Frankfurt am Main: Friedrich Wilmans. Very Good. 1822. First Edition. Hardcover. x, (2) 538 pages; Former owner's name, otherwise clean and tight in contemporary quarter black leather over marbled boards, wear at spine ends and rubbed a bit at extremeties. Illustrated with 16 beautiful full page copperplate engravings of various scenes in this beautiful port city. OCLC: 246165965 Heinrich Christian Zietz (*1769- 1834 ) was an evangelical pastor and topographer. This comprehensive description of Lübeck in 1820 under the title Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its surroundings with 16 engravings after designs by Anton Radl is still one of the major sources of information on the state of Lübeck in the first quarter of the 19th century. TEMPORARY PRICE REDUCTION!; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Karlsruhe: Badisches Landesmuseum. Near Fine. 1995. Paperback. 170 pages; Clean and tight in original pictorial wrappers. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Text in German. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. xv, (1), 368 pages; Owner's signature on ffep - "Susan Jay [Alsop] / March 1936" otherwise clean and secure in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front cover; faded spot at lower corner of front board. With a Foreword by J.M.Barrie. Frontispiece portrait and 15 b/w illustrations from photographs. Edward Antony James Bulwer-Lytton, Viscount Knebworth (1903 – 1933) was a British pilot and Conservative politician. Knebworth was the eldest son of Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, and his wife Pamela, daughter of Sir Trevor Chichele-Plowden. Lady Hermione Lytton was his sister. He was educated at Eton and Oxford University. He worked briefly as a stockbroker in London before taking up a post in the Education Department of the Central Conservative Office. Knebworth was returned to Parliament for Hitchin in 1931. The latter year he also joined the Royal… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Very Good. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 302 pages; Note on ffep in Susan Mary Alsop's handwriting "158 Menu of banquet" referring to the paragraph from which she took the title of her book "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Otherwise contents clean and secure in original cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris"… Read More

New York: The World Publishing Company, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; 170 pages; Clean and tight in original binding in very good dustjacket. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author to Justice Potter Stewart. Justice Potter Stewart served on the U.S. Supreme Court for nearly 24 years. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Potter Stewart to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Harold Hitz Burton, who was retiring. Stewart served on the Supreme Court until he announced his retirement from the Court on June 18, 1981 at the age of 66. During his tenure (1958-1981) as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Potter Stewart made major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Stewart leaned toward moderate, pragmatic positions, but was often in the position of dissenting during his time on the Warren Court. Stewart's philosophy might be… Read More

Hannover-Doehren: Hanno von Hirschheydt. Very Good. 1965-77. First Edition. wrappers. German text. Publisher's printed wrappers. German text. The final 11 volumes of this interesting periodcal concerning many aspects of Baltendeutsch life in the Baltic region -- Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The final three volumes are in a smaller 8vo format; the last volume is dated 1975-1977 and has the heralldic bookplate of Constantin Baron Stackelberg tipped to the verso of the front wrapper. The editor, Harro von Hirschheydt (1925–2017), was a Baltic German publisher, bookseller and translator of Latvian literature. Some of the various contents of this periodical trace histories of many family names in the German-speaking Baltic regions. Constantine Stackelberg, former owner of this set, was a retired economist with the Economic Development Administration in the Department of Commerce, who died in 1989 in Washington, aged 90. Baron Stackelberg was born in St. Petersburg, Russia,… Read More

London: J. M. Dent & Co.. Very Good. 1926. Hardcover. Autograph; Ownership signature of "Susan Mary Jay" [later Alsop] / "Florence April 15, 1937" Contents clean and secure in original cloth binding withgilt lettering at spine. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries,… Read More

Biberach an der Riss [Germany]: Güntter-Staib Verlag. Very Good. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. viii & 61 pages; Publisher's tan cloth, front cover and spine lettered in white (in Roman letters). A clean copy. There is a typewritten slip mounted with clear tape to the front free endpaper: "This Book is Evidence in the Case Entitled / Rudolf Weiler, WAS / ESPIONAGE* G / BUREAU FILE 100-41401 / Do not damage or destroy." The same free endpaper is signed "Rudolf Weiler" in ink at the head. Also stamped across this leaf, partially affecting the typewritten slip is the red ink Library of Congress Surplus-Duplicate stamp. [Printed books and pamphlets from various Government properties and agencies was routed through the Library of Congress for de-accessioning. We cannot explain why this standard volume on the sulfite process for turning wood into pulp for papermaking might have been evidence in an espionage case. The chemical sulfite process was… Read More

Napoli [Naples, Italy]: Raffaele Miranda. Very Good. 1831. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 246 & [2, blank] pages; TWO interesting contemporary accounts of Napoleon Bonaparte (both first editions - one published in 1820; the other in 1831) bound together in a handsome octavo volume. The binding is in the Romantique style: quarter black calf over marbled paper covered boards, flat spine richly decoratively stamped in gilt, plain laid endpapers, edges decoratively sprinkled blue. Ad I: 'Biografia istorica del prigioniere di S. Elena : con una descrizione topografica di quest'isola / estratta dalla Galleria de' contemporanei di Luigi Jullian ; prima versione italiana eseguita sull'ultima edizione francese da Domenico Solito.' Napoli : Raffaele Miranda, 1831. This copy is signed in ink by Domenico Solito, the Italian translator, on the verso of the half title page, underneath a printed notice to the effect that purchasers should consider copies offered for sale… Read More

Saint-Petersburg: Tovarishestvo „Prosveshenie“. Good+. 1904. First Edition. Hard Cover. Vol. 14; Publisher's dark brown gilt-stamped half morocco over blue-gray linen. Volume 14 only (of 22) of the reknowned "big encyclopedia" published in St. Petersburg, Russia between 1900 and 1909 -- under the editorship of Sergei Nikolayevich Yuzhakov (1849-1910). Handsome illustrations throughout including several double-page chromolithographs. Russian text throughout. Apart from a peculiar closed tear to the front cover (now neatly repaired) and two paper labels on the spine, this volume is internally clean and impressive -- all of which is beside the point, which is that this volume bears evidence of its role in the crime of the millenium: the extermination of the Jews of Europe by the Nazi regime in the German Third Reich. There are two official ruberstamps indicating ownership of this volume by the Nazi Party's "Institute for Research into the Jewish… Read More

Los Angeles: University of Southern California. Very Good-. 1976. Paperback. Studies in Comparative Communism; Vol IX, Nos 1 & 2 -Sping/Summer 1976; 22 pages; Article reprinted from Studies in Comparative Communism; Vol IX, Nos 1 & 2 -Sping/Summer 1976; bound in orange staples wrappers, toned at edges. OCLC 9110290136 William Eldridge Odom (1932 – 2008) was a United States Army lieutenant general who served as Director of the National Security Agency under President Ronald Reagan, which culminated a 31-year career in military intelligence, mainly specializing in matters relating to the Soviet Union. After his retirement from the military, he became a think tank policy expert and a university professor and became known for his outspoken criticism of the Iraq War and warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. .

London: Country Life Ltd. Very Good. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. xxiii, [3], 299, [1] pages; Contents clean and secure in original red cloth binding with gilt lettering at front board and spine; fading at spine; cloth rubbed at lower corenera and chipped at spine ends. Inscriptions on ffep: "For Uncle Bob & Aunt Mammie / fondest love / from / Elizabeth / May 1937", and below that "Aug 4 / Liela McKnight / from / Anna [?] Hill / Xmas 1950" A nice example of this massive and important history of this iconic palace. Illustrated throughout with three colour plates, and more than three hundred and fifty monochrome illustrations printed on 100 double-sided leaves. With introductory chapters on the building and site by Christopher Hussey. The house was originally intended as a private retreat, in particular for Queen Charlotte, and was known as The Queen's House; fourteen of their fifteen children were born there. St. James's Palace remained the… Read More

London: National Liberal Club Political and Economic Circle. Near Fine. 1914. First Edition. Paperback. 36 pages; Publisher's orange-brown wrappers, printed, with decorative device in black on the rear wrapper, verso, and a wood-engraved view of the National Liberal Club's London headquarters on the recto of this rear wrapper. An excellent copy, with one tiny v-shaped snag (without loss) at the fore-edge of the front cover. First edition of a significant address by George Bernard Shaw, delivered to The National Liberal Club at their 85th dinner on May 1, 1913. Laurence A 127. OCLC: 624578005 Quite scarce; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .