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By: Smith Jr, William ; Robert Anderson (illustrator)
Price: $34.94
Publisher: London, Adam and Charles Black: 1911
Seller ID: 40191
Condition: Near Fine
ix, 174 pages; Illustrated with Folding map, 20 colour plates after paintings by Robert Anderson. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration in brown, white and gilt. Toning to endpapers, else a very nice copy of this beautiful book. ; 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. View more info
By: Solloway, J
Price: $5.94
Publisher: London, SPCK: 1927
Seller ID: 40301
Condition: Very Good
York Minster Historical Tracts, 11; 12 pages; 12 page essay bound in original printed stiff wrappers. Archbishop Gray. OCLC: 28668329; 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. View more info
![Image for Storia Della Universita Di Bologna Vol I: Il Medioevo (Secc. XI-XV) [by Albano Sorbelli] & Vol. II: L'Eta Moderna (1500-1888) [by Luigi Simeoni]](/assets/images/product/40052.jpg)
By: Sorbelli, Albano, & Luigi Simeoni
Price: $99.99
Publisher: Bologna [Italy], Nicola Zanichelli: 1940
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 40052
Condition: Very Good
327; viii, 304 pages; Two volumes, bound in Library of Congress full tobacco-brown buckram, with original printed wrappers and pictorial jackets bound in. The standard history of the world's first (and continuing) University-- the Università di Bologna, founded in about 1088 AD. Very gently marked ex library set, with Library of Congress bookplates in each volume, and the Surplus-Duplicate stamp in rek ink on facing front endpapers. Faint evidence of the removal at some point of spine labels. (No card pockets or perforations). A clean and sound set; each volume is from the 1940 first edi... View more info
By: Sorbets, Jacques
Price: $19.94
Publisher: Milan, Art Grafiche Pezzini / Turismo de Imperia: 1951
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39392
Condition: Very Good
Clean and tight in original pictorial wrapper with colourful image of a porter with luggage and a golf bag. A wonderful large format publication to promote the Italian Riviera, includes articles in Italian, English, and French; wonderful black and white photographs, four fabulous full page colour lithographs with colour transparency guards. Contributors include: Jacques Sorbets, Arnaldo Fraccaroli, Allan Beer, Nino Bobba, Francesco Brondo, etc. Photographs by Ceresani, Moreschi, Martini, etc. View more info
By: Special Mission for Economic Cooperation
Price: $14.94
Publisher: Vienna, Special Mission for Economic Cooperation: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 37022
Condition: Very Good
34 pages; Clean and tight in original wrappers. An interesting practical guide to post-World War II Vienna prepared by the United States Special Commission for Economic Cooperation -- "For European Recovery supplied by the United States of America." Not found in OCLC.; 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. View more info
By: Stevens, Frank ; Heywood Sumner
Price: $5.94
Publisher: London, H.M. Stationery Office: 1936
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 38442
Condition: Very Good+
94 pages; Clean and secure in original printed green wrappers. The history and meaning of Stonehenge by the Curator of the Salisbury Museum with plans and illustrations by Heywood Sumner. View more info
By: Stubbs, William ; [Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.]
Price: $14.94
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1926
Seller ID: 42301
Condition: Very Good+
Epochs of Modern History; Autograph; 284 pages; Clean and secure in original brick cloth with black lettering. Two folding colour maps. Former owner's signature on ffep - "Kermit Roosevelt, Jr." Laid in printed card from Bayrouth Aeroport. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh admi... View more info
By: Sturmheim, E. ; [pseudonym of Emil Müller-Sturmheim]
Price: $84.94
Publisher: Wien [Vienna], Anzengruber: 1918
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 39782
Condition: Very Good
100 pages; Publisher's binding: boards with a marble-like vein pattern, front cover is printed on a label with a vivid design in green, gold and black, lettering at the center in white against a black background. The pages are set in a bold, modern Roman typeface, with large initial letters throughout in bright green, which matches the green decorative frames which surround each page's text-block. [The design is by Josef Böhm and shows influence of Jugenstil and the Wiener Werkstätte; the printing was done by the Hermes Buch-und-Kunst-druckerei in Vienna]. This is the first book from Emi... View more info
By: Swiridoff, Paul
Price: $34.94
Publisher: Pfullingen, Germany, Gunther Neske: 1966
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 40827
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Publisher's original white cloth, with dust jacket and original plain card slipcase. This copy is an unusual survival in strictly original condition and state -- the original semi-translucent glassine protective overlay which was intended to preserve the binding and dust jacket has remained sealed. The publisher's four original short lengths of old cellophane tape remain undisturbed on the portion of the glassine protecting the rear panel -- (the cello-tape has yellowed slightly, but this will not affect the pristine dust jacket kept below. Paul Swiridoff [1914-2002] became particularly fa... View more info
By: Tahon, General Mathias-Jules-Pierre
Price: $9.94
Publisher: Paris, Bernard Grasset: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38626
Condition: Very Good+
Clean and tight in original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with several fascinating sepia photographs. General Tahon traveled broadly in colonial service with the French Foreign Legion. He was stationed in Tonkin in the Far East in 1887. In the 1890s he was transferred to Algeria, Dahomey and Madagascar. In the first years of the twentieth century her served in the Sahara and Morocco. "Le general Tahon a fait une honorable carriere. Ses carnets de route n'apportent aucune revelation. On y cueille un vivant portrait de Dugenne..." View more info
Price: $9.94
Publisher: American Journal of International Law: 1937
Seller ID: 41692
Condition: Very Good
12 pages; Reprinted from The American Journal of International Law, Volume 31, Number 1, January 1937. Clean and tight in original printed gray wrappers. ; 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. View more info
By: Tempels, Pierre
Price: $99.94
Publisher: Bruxelles - Brussels, Librairie Européenne C. Muquardt: 1888
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 39154
Condition: Very Good
62 & [1] pages; Bound in black half crushed levant morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, edges untrimmed. Publisher's original yellow printed wrappers bound in. Scarce first edition, published anonymously, of this important contribution to the literature of Belgian free masonry. The long-lived author, Pierre Tempels [1825-1923] was Auditeur général militaire de l'armée Belge. There is handsome graphic evidence of his Masonic contributions in the form of a portrait medallion, issued in 1921. Binding handsome and clean, the wrappers have minor edge wear and small tears (particula... View more info
By: Tempels, Pierre
Price: $84.94
Publisher: Bruxelles - Brussels, Office de Publicité (Imprimerie J. Janssens): 1900
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 39155
Condition: Very Good+
102 & [1] pages; Bound in black crushed levant morocco, marbled endpapers, edges trimmed rough. The handsome binding has the binder's stamp "Rel. D. Robyn" in tiny letters on the blank recto of the rear free endpaper. Publisher's original pale yellow printed wrappers bound in. Frontispiece portrait of Pierre Tempels (depicting a sculpted plaque). Scarce second edition of this important contribution to the literature of Belgian free masonry. The long-lived author, Pierre Tempels [1825-1923] was Auditeur général militaire de l'armée Belge. There is handsome graphic evidence of hi... View more info
Price: $5.94
Publisher: London, SPCK: 1927
Seller ID: 40298
Condition: Very Good
York Minster Historical Tracts, 12; 16 pages; 16 page essay bound in original printed stiff wrappers. OCLC: 28667172; 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. View more info
![Image for A History of Hayes in the County of Kent [with dustwrapper] Illustrated with various collotype reproductions of manuscripts & prints in the author's possession](/assets/images/product/39933.jpg)
Price: $24.94
Publisher: London, Lovat Dickson & Thompson: 1935
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 39933
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket
5 p.l. & 93 pages; Publisher's dark blue cloth, spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Brief, neatly written ink inscription dated 1936 on the front free endpaper (in Welsh), otherwise a fine, clean, tight copy of the first edition -- in the elusive original pictorial dust jacket -- worn, but integral. The spine of the jacket is toned, with moderate damage and irregular chips missing at the ends, the front panel shows a small chip missing at the upper gutter but is otherwise clean and pleasant; the rear panel has shallow tears along the edges and a few small faults. Handsomely p... View more info
By: Tootel, Hugh ; a.k.a. Charles Dodd (1672-1743)
Price: $299.94
Publisher: London, Printed in the Year MDCCXXI: 1721
Seller ID: 41581
Condition: Good+
4 p.l., 3-144 pages; Disbound, small octavo, gathered in fours. Untrimmed edges. This anonymous volume makes an appearance in Halkett and Laing (IV, 315) -- attributed as "[Thomas Fulford?]" The English Short Title Catalogue repeats this, watered down a bit to "Sometimes attributed to Thomas Fulford." Fortunately, the DNB steers us in a different direction. Under the long article about one "Charles Dodd" we learn that the man who wrote under that name was really born as Hugh Tootel. As an English Catholic, he had ample reason to be evasive of easy identification. ... View more info
By: UNRRA ; [Spurgeon M. Keeny 's copy]
Price: $24.94
Publisher: Rome, UNRRA - Italy Mission: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 42320
Condition: Very Good-
55 pages; Contents clean and secure in original blue wrappers with image of three ships on front. Wrappers toned at two edges, some chipping at ipper right corner, former owner's name written three times on wrappers: "S.M. Keeny", the chief of the UNRRA Mission in Italy at the time of publication. Spurgeon M. Keeny worked for more than 60 years in humanitarian relief which took him through much of Asia and Europe, starting in World War I, when he served as a Y.M.C.A. volunteer with the British Army, looking after Indian troops. He served with the American Relief Administration in Rus... View more info
Price: $9.94
Publisher: George Washington Law Review: 1933
Seller ID: 41715
Condition: Very Good
22 pages; Contents clean, disbound from George Washington Law Review, May 1933.; 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. View more info
By: Valenti, Jack ; [SIGNED to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart ]
Price: $24.94
Publisher: New York, The World Publishing Company, Inc.: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 38887
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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 maj... View more info
Price: $149.94
Publisher: Lausanne, Henri Mignot Editeur: 1896
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38637
Condition: Near Fine
502, 510, 544 pages; Three volume set beautifully bound in warm brown leather spines and corners over marbled boards. Five raised bands at spine, gilt lettering and gilt dentelles at top and bottom of spines. 502, 510, 544 pp. Berthold Van Muyden (1852-1912) was an important 19th century Swiss historian, particularly of the Lausanne region. He was also president of the "Société d'histoire de la Suisse Romande." Contents include: I. 1. Les origines; 2. Période héroique; II. 3. Période de la réformation; 4. Dix-septième et dix-huitième siècles; III. 5. La Révolution helvéti... View more info
