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London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1936. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, 272 pages. Very good in a good plus dust jacket. Spine has a spot through cloth about the size of a watermelon seed near heel. Some light soiling to cloth on rear panel, shallow bumps to spine ends. Jacket has a triangular chip at top of upper joint fold to a depth of 3/4", edge chips at head of spine to a depth of 1/2", and other edge rubs, wear, and shallow chips. Jacket remains quite presentable. Overall an attractive copy.. Black and white photographic plates by Robert Byron. Biography of Wilhelm Wassmuss, a shadowy German agent, diplomat, and spy in the Persian Gulf region before and during World War I. <br /> <br /> Uncommon, particularly in the dust jacket.

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Eighteenmo. 219 pages. Near fine, with a few light extremity rubs. Spine a bit cocked. Green cloth over boards stamped in gilt and blind, tan endpapers, all textblock edges red.. Henry James's first novel, originally published serially in the Atlantic Monthly in 1871, and here for the first time in book form. <br /> <br /> The simple and melodramatic plot caused James to essentially disown this work, instead referring to the far more substantial "Roderick Hudson" as his first novel as his career took off. <br /> <br /> This is one of the 1,000 copies in the first printing of May 29, 1878, in bright green cloth (Edel, binding "a"). <br /> <br /> Ref. EDEL and LAWRENCE, A6.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1903. Limited edition, #44 of 100 copies on large paper. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall Octavo. x, 598 pages. Near fine. Some minor extremity rubs to exterior, small prior owner name stamped at top of half title and title pages. Leather spine and fore corners, marbled paper sides and endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine titled in gilt with 5 raised bands.. Photographic frontispiece plus 19 black and white plates, all with tissue guards. Handsome volume on the natural history and hunting of ducks, geese, swans, rail, and shore birds. This if copy #44 of just 100 in this large paper format. <br /> <br /> See HAND S45.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. Limited edition. Copy #362 of 950 sets. Cloth hardcovers Quartos. xviii, 200 pages and x, 192 pages. Near fine. Slight wear at extremities. Both volumes have a neat prior owner bookplate on front pastedown. Lacking the slipcase. Bound in red cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board titles, deckle edges. A solid, handsome set.. Color and black and white illustrations, fold-out map. Haig-Brown was an Englishman who spent most of his adult life on British Columbia's Campbell River. This fine Derrydale production is well illustrated with line drawings, plates from photographs, color plates of fish by E. B. S. Logier, etc. This copy has the foldout map facing page 3 in volume one, which is apparently absent from most of the edition. The text is well written and includes bibliographic references at the ends of chapters. <br /> <br /> Ref. HAND H44; SIEGEL et al #156.

Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, 1929. First edition. Octavo, full cloth, 66 pages. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket./One small chip to top edge of rear jacket panel.. Black and white frontispiece. A tribute to Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment of United States Colored Troops in the Civil War. The author, who was married to an officer in a U.S.C.T. regiment, identifies the introduction of African American soldiers into the fighting ranks as the turning point of the Civil War.

[Washington City]: [National Executive Committee], 1860. Folded but not bound or opened. Octavo. 8 pages. Very good, with some light soil, a few short edge tears, two old horizontal fold creases, and separation along spine fold of first and last leaves.. Campaign pamphlet for the candidacy of John C. Breckinridge and John Lane for President and Vice President in 1860. Breckinridge was then Vice President under James Buchanan. These were the nominees of a Southern, pro-slavery faction of the Democratic Party. <br /> <br /> This pamphlet uses quotes from speeches of these gentlemen and their opponents to argue that the election of any of the other three sets of candidates in 1860 would likely result in Civil War. The other tickets were: Stephen Douglas and Hershel V. Johnson (Democratic), John Bell and Edward Everett (Constitutional Union), and Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (Republican).

Easton, MD: The Easton Publishing Company, Inc, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 165 pages. Fine in a very good dust jacket.. Collection of Gilbert Byron's poems on themes of the Chesapeake Bay, sailing, and more. <br /> <br /> Inscribed and signed by Byron on front free endpaper, with an additional inscription by Byron on a laid in card. This latter card is signed twice by Byron. <br /> <br /> Ref. PRATT, EASTERN SHORE #1140.

San Francisco: The Wine Advisory Board, 1942. Singe sheet 31 1/2" x 41", professionally mounted on linen to 35" x 44 3/4. Near fine, with some insignificant edge wear and old creases rendered nearly imperceptible by the professional backing.. Pictorial map. One of the more famous of the colorful pictorial maps by brilliant artist of the genre, Ruth Taylor White. In this gorgeous map, commissioned by California's Wine Advisory Board, she depicts the bountiful vineyards, wine-drinking inhabitants, and natural wonders of California in sharp contrast to the barrenness of neighboring Nevada and Arizona. The map is bordered with frieze containing quotes about wine at top and bottom margins. There is a pictorial inset listing the "Wine-making Towns of California." <br /> <br /> Seven wine-making regions are noted on this large map, with appropriate caricatures for each: <br /> <br /> - Sonoma-Mendocino<br /> - Lodi-Sacramento<br /> - Napa… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Daniel Boone Edition, #138 of 200 sets. Full leather over boards. Quartos. Over 1,500 pages. Near fine. All spines somewhat browned, a few light scuffs, otherwise a fine, sturdy, set of this spectacular edition.. Black and white plates, maps, some folding.. Roosevelt's historical account of the exploration and settlement of the United States, from the Alleghanies to the Pacific Ocean. <br /> <br /> This is the coveted Daniel Boone Edition of this work, published in 1900 with an original sheet of Theodore Roosevelt's handwritten manuscript bound into the first volume. The volumes are stunningly bound in full green crushed morocco with floral ornaments in gilt to corners of boards. Inside covers inlaid with red suede with red suede doublures. Inside borders ruled and ornamented in gilt. Top edges gilt, other edges uncut. <br /> <br /> Ref. COLE A11l, binding A.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1920. First edition. Wraps. Duodecimo. xiv, 45 pages. Very good. Some light cover soil and a few shallow chips and nicks to cover edges.. Historically significant anti-Semitic and anti-Bolshevism "world conspiracy" pamphlet. Introduction by that paradoxical critic of Jews, Dr. Oscar Levy. <br /> <br /> George Pitt-Rivers was wounded at the first Battle of Ypres in World War I. An anthropologist and avid eugenicist, he was one of the wealthiest men in England between the World Wars. He was interned for 2 years in England during World War II as a Nazi sympathizer.