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New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., 1871. New Edition, Extensively Revised. Hardcover. Good plus. Octavo, 555 pages, green cloth, 2 inch split to top joint at head of spine, corners worn, head of spine frayed '... almost entirely rewritten"."The numerous figures added to this edition are wholly of an original character. ... A full Glossary or Dictionary… Read more about this item

New York & London: Macmillan, ( 1980 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo, 175 pages, clothbacked boards, inked name on endpaper Asks: "Does God exist? i.e., is there anything in reality which corresponds to the notion we have of God?" Adler not only headed the Encyclopedia Britannica Board, but also the Institute for Philosophical Research in… Read more about this item

Tucson, AR: Aztek, [ 1981? ]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo; 94 pages, pictorial white wrappers Five year-old Sidney Tyler played with two French tots who survived The Titanic catastrophe. Then they were separated for six decades, when curiousity and determination incited Tyler to track down the survivors. Here are their stories, told for the… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1944. First Printing. Hardcover. price-clipped dj. Octavo, 163 pages, cloth, "bargain" rubber stamp on rear pastedown; light tidal lines around the tear- repaired dust jacket, chipped at tips of spine. After a career in journalism, Duffus was on the Editorial Board of The New York Times. This is his memoir of life at Cedro… Read more about this item

London: Hesperus Press, 2005. First Collected Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Duodecimo, 114 pages, cloth Foreword by David Lodge to these two, prime Greene stories of spies, in the wake of his "The Third Man".

New York: Neale Publishing, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. Good orange cloth. Ex library w. book pocket, embossing. plates. Octavo, 410 pages, orange cloth; x-library, withdrawn, but with markings as expected. Chapter 13 is "Golf at the White". Chapter 10, "Their Pilgrimage" was taken from Charles Dudley Warner. Extensively illustrated.

New York: Wordsworth Editions, ( 1989 ). Hardcover. c/fine. Octavo, 804 pages, cloth Also of Tramps, Convicts, the Commercial Underworld, the Drug Traffic, White Slave Traffic, Spivs [i.e. petty crook]

New York: Hyperion, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, 219 pages, clothbacked boards This is the first collection of Ray's major writings to be published in America. Director Ray won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion PIctures. "Our Films" refers, of course, to Indian and Bollywood cinema; while "Their Films" explores the… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, ( 1839 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo; viii, viii, [i], 10-375 pages + Glossary, publisher's cloth splitting at spine, some waterstaining. Issued as No 178 in Harper's Family Library series: variant 1, without Errata on p. viii. Numerous woodcuts. Checklist of American Imprints, 40-3904.

New York: Orange Judd, 1875. Later. Octavo. VG brown embossed cloth, tips of spine worn, rear hing cracked. elegant cuts. Treatise on the causes, symptoms, and cure of all the diseases of the horse, including every disease peculiar to America. Also embracing full information on breeding, rearing, and management. Dadd was professor or… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton, 1885. Early printing. Hardcover. Good plus. Duodecimo, 399 pages, embossed publisher's cloth; inked name from 1886, some pencilled notes on rear blank The 3rd book in Appleton's Science Text-Books series. Le Conte was the Professor of Geology at UC Berkeley. "I have tried to make a book which shall interest the pupil, and… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Good plus. Octavo, 390 pages, cloth, inked name Lectures originally presented to the Westinghouse Company's Design School. For the practicing engineeer, or classroom

London: J. A. Vail, [ 1878 ]. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 16mo, 8 pages, cellophane taped. UNCLE: Unknown No Copy Located Elsewhere. WorldCat locates no example. UNIQUE McMullen was interred at Finchley Cemetery, November 25th, 1878. "As a brief epitaphic memoir, it may be here stated that seldom to any police constable as a… Read more about this item

London: Hesperus Press, 2005. First Collected Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Duodecimo, 114 pages, cloth Foreword by David Lodge to these two, prime Greene stories of spies, in the wake of his "The Third Man".

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. First Trade edition. Hardcover. Very Fine/very fine. photographs by Michael Kenna. 8vo, 201 pages, cloth Printed in three kinds of Baskerville type, most of the photos illustrating the text were made on Dartmoor: very atmospheric. This trade edition reproduces, in smaller format, the 400-copy limited edition designed and published by The… Read more about this item

New York: The Publishers' Weekly, 1927-1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Small quarto, hundreds of pages, collected in one volue bound in brown buckram Here are a series of essays on topics concerning rare books and some autographs, and rare bookshops collected from issues of Publishers' Weekly. Contributors include Morris H. Briggs, John T.Winterich, Thomas Madigan, William Dana Orcutt,… Read more about this item

New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1920. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 338 pages, black cloth, calendared paper, some foxing, inked name on endpaper Advance Review Copy, with slip tipped-in at title-page. 124 illlustrations. "In the two yers that have elapsed since this book made its appearance, powdered coal has taken its place as… Read more about this item

London: National Maritime Museum, 1997. Official Millenium Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Quarto, 199 pages, cloth This Revised Edition updates the history and technology toward the next millenium. Howse is the former Director of the Old Royal Observatory, and of Longitude 0 degrees at Greenwich. Replete with illustrations.

1945. Hardcover. Good plus/issued without dj. Square octavo; (i), 1-17, 17A-17B, 18-20 (printed on calendared paper),24 pages, [ii added typed pages], variant brown cloth, light rubber stamped name on pastedown. NOTE: printed on recto of leaves only, with illustrations likewise on calendared paper. A sincere, dedicated "fan" piece to the divine Anna Pavlova. The two mimeographed… Read more about this item

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. One-Volume edition. Hardcover. Good. 8 illustrations in facsimile. Thick 8vo, 1247 pages, green cloth in good publisher's slipcase. The fifty chapters organize Leonardo's notes by category, from anatomy to optics and sculpture, warfare, fables, colour etc. 8 illustrations in facsimile.