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25 unpaginated typescript pages with table and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. (Lusis: 1550) First edition. Taimanov is a comfortable winner in Beverwijk, at the annual Hoogoven tournament, with 12/15. He finishes ahead of Hort (10½/15) and Ivkov (10/15). Condition: Corners bumped some age toning, previous owner's name on front wrapper verso else a very good copy.

825-838 pages with tables, figures, maps and cited references. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 65, number 5 Part 1 complete issue. First edition.

By the use of another formula it is possible also to arrive at the range of variation from the date obtained by the above means. In applying the glottochronological technique to the Eskimo family of languages some special problems were involved. Except for a few language pairs, there were not enough vocabulary items available to adequately fill in the original basic vocabulary. Due to this limitation, it was necessary to supplement the vocabulary. However, in making this change, it was no longer possible to rely on the dates obtained as absolute dates. The constant for the rate of drift was worked out on the basis of the original list and there is no way to demonstrate that the same constant would work for the new list other than going through all the labor involved in obtaining the original constant. However,… Read More

xvi+110 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Specialist chess openings. First edition.
This rarely seen move has some logical basis. The pawn on e5 prevents Black playing Nf6 and so the Black Kingside is cramped for a while. White can support the e5 pawn with Nf3. The drawback for White of 2.e5 is no added pressure is brought to the center, especially on d4 or d5 and the extra tempo allows Black various options, the main one is play Nc6 which hinders White's d4 move as well as attacking the as yet undefended e5 pawn.
Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped else very good.

24 pages with maps and figures. Octavo. A very good to fine copy.. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good to Fine. Octavo.

581 pages with facsimile imprints and index. Quarto (11" x 8 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. This edition edited by A Millares Carlo. Limited to 2000 copies this is a reprint of the 1886 edition.The pride of Hispanic American scholars and collectors in the work of the sixteenth-century press of Mexico has found its reflection in a group of special bibliographies and bibliographical monographs of which one customarily speaks in superlatives. Without in any sense lessening the degree of praise accorded the other, it can be said that the greatest among them all is the Bibliografiamexicana del siglo XVIof Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta, first published in a splendid volume in 1886. That book declared itself on every page to be one of the most distinguished bibliographical works of the century, a noble tribute to the press whose work it recorded. Its historical discussion of the origins of the press in Mexico move the whole question into the… Read More

12 leaves Folio (12 1/4" x 8 1/2") hand written on both recto and verso with string binding. Housed in a handmade enclosure.
Criminal case promoted by Joseph Lucas Zecoal, an Indian from San Pedro Tlaltenango, against Miguel Colin, a mestizo, Juan Díaz, a black slave who belonged to Bartolomé Díaz and others.
While Joseph Lucas was at mass, the priest called him to his office where they accused him of being a snitch and among several men they tied him up, and they returned him to hear mass tied up; the wife of Joseph Lucas loosened the ropes. A man named Blas, seeing this, kicked him and took him out of the church, where the accused men that attacked him, tied a rope around his neck and dragged him with it. To defend himself, Joseph Lucas took out a knife that he used for plants and cut Miguel Colín, the mestizo, twice. The prosecutor arrived at that moment and took them prisoner. The trial favors Joseph Lucas.
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Some edge wear, occasionally affecting text else very good in a fine enclosure.

23 pages with plates. Quarto (11 1/4" 7") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition.

The Gold Museum has 34,000 gold pieces, each of which has its own incomparable beauty and historic value. Many of these items were used in the daily life or sacred rituals of indigenous peoples like the muisca and tayrona. Among the museum's many gold pieces, you'll find the iconic poporo quimbaya, a vessel used by indigenous cultures to store lime for their ritualistic chewing of coca leaves.Condition: Edges and spine rubbed, corners bumped. else very good.

9 folio leaves with a small flap leaf to the front. Folio (12 1/2" x 8 1/2") threaded at the right side with hand written /text to recto and verso. This document is an inquiry ordered to be made by the Bishop of Guadalajara.
An Englishman named Juan Ignacio, who had lived in Laguna de Términos (Isla del Carmen) with other Englishmen and under no law extracted palo de tinta" to send to England - he was a pirate; but later change sides - it is noted that he had joined the fleet de Barlovento for a period of 7 years (was a military formation that consisted of 50 ships created by the Spanish Empire to protect its overseas American territories from attacks from its European enemies, as well as attacks from pirates and privateers).
When traveling from Zacatecas to the mines he got into a field of Nopales to eat some tunas. As he was doing this, a young girl appeared in front of him, very beautiful, dressed in green with a white cloth on her head. She asked him where he was going. He was surprised, as he… Read More

129 pages with errata laid in, facsimiles, reproductions and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with brown lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. This text is a comprehensive survey of the rampage of accusations made against Kurt Waldheim, about Nazi connections and involvement in war crimes. The author explores how despite there being no truth in these allegations, Waldheim had his reputation destroyed by the media. Condition: Fine in like jacket.

xii+289 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine in original jacket. Second printing. This is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of Black English, this volume contains descriptions of more than eighteen hundred books and other publications on Am,erican Black English. The bibliography lists theses, dissertations, research studies, historical analyses, articles in magazines and newspapers, slave narratives, folklore, literature, and other sources. The entries deal with Black English and Creole and Pidgin languages. Condition: Jacket rubbed at head edge else better than very good in like jacket.

94 pages with 22 color illustrations including frontispiece. Duodecimo (5 3/4" x 4 1/4") issued in original purple with red cloth spine and black lettering, color pictorial to front cover. Illustrations by John Rea Neill. Early reprint. In 1904 Altemus published the first six books of a series of fairy tale books that would prove to be an extremely popular and a very long running series. "An entirely new series of books for children, especially adapted for Christmas or birthday gifts" Altemus Catalogue 1904-1905. These books had three different formats. The first is the scarest while the third is more common. As time went on, Altemus discontinued most of its other fairy tale books to concentrate on this group of books. New books were added year and spin-off series combined into one large umbrella listing. (Later, after Henry Altemus went out of business, Platt and Munk reprinted many of the books.) This work is from the format III series. The earliest format III books (1918-21) had blank endpapers. In… Read More

[8]+240+[1, blank]+[1, imprint] pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's light brown cloth stamped in purple in original pictorial jacket. with a contract between CBS Television and Raymond Chandler signed laid in. (Bruccoli A3.1.a. From the Gary Munson Collection) First edition.
Contract between CBS Television and Raymond Chandler, regarding "an adaptation and dramatization" of the work entitled "THE KING IN YELLOW." Signed at the conclusion in ink by Chandler, who also adds his initials to two corrections on the first page. Two pages, 8.5 x 11, July 10, 1953.
It is his third novel featuring the Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe. Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the '40s and '50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In The High Window, Marlowe starts… Read More

346 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's pea-green cloth stamped in dark green in original illustrated jacket. $2 price on jacket spine. Letter signed by author laid in. (McIlvaine A35b) First American edition.Letter dated January 30, 1931 from his printed letterhead, 1005 Benedict Canyon Drive, Beverly Hills to the recipient Miss Wynne-Roberts, offering here his autograph to the recipient
Sam the Sudden is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 15 October 1925 by Methuen, London, and in the United States on 6 November 1925 by George H. Doran, New York, under the title Sam in the Suburbs. The story had previously been serialized under that title in the Saturday Evening Post from 13 June to 18 July 1925.
The cast includes the recurring character Lord Tilbury, publishing magnate and founder of the Mammoth Publishing Company, who had appeared in Wodehouse's novel of the previous year, Bill the Conqueror, and who would later visit Blandings Castle… Read More