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Price: $249.94
Publisher: Providence, RI, Snow & Franham Company: 1925
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 41516
Autograph; 318 pages; Warmly inscribed by the author, "With best wishes for your/ future happiness/ Sarah M. Algeo. / Somamset. Barrington, R.I./ Oct. 14, 1929" Maroon cloth stamped in gilt with title and facsimile of author's signature on front panel. Illustrated with 91 half-tones after photographs of those women and men active in the suffrage movement in Rhode Island as well as nationally. In this autobiography she described her long struggle for the ca... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $84.94
Publisher: London, Cassell and Company: 1915
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39513
viii, 256 pages; Clean and tight in original navy blue cloth with gilt lettering and gilt image of crescent moon and star. Clean and tight in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and the image of a crescent moon and star; cloth mildly rubbed at spine ends. Frontispiece photograph of Peter I of Servia, 12 addition photogravure portraits of various leaders in Servia, Eypt; Roumania; Greece, Bulgaria, etc. Chapter headings include: Sultan Abdul Hamid; Life in ... View more info
Price: $34.94
Publisher: Paris, Henri Veyrier: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 41437
Monographie des hôtels particuliers et édifices publics; 307 pages; French text. Clean and tight in original bright red silk binding with extensive gilt lettering and decoration at spine and front cover, former owner's inscription on ffep. Binding has 4 faint marks on front cover, otherwise bright and beautiful. A wonderful architectural and social history of these areas of Paris; beautifully produced and profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings, architectural ... View more info
![Image for An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth [in Four Parts]](/assets/images/product/39594.jpg "An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth [in Four Parts]")
By: Baylies, Francis
Price: $299.94
Publisher: Boston, Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins: 1830
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39594
All four parts bound together in mid-20th century binding of burgundy leather with marbled boards, large thick book. Green and white title labels with gilt lettering at spine, rubbed along hinges, light foxing to a few pages. Early owner's signature at top of first title page - "Wm. B. Groat" otherwise clean and tight. Part the First, From 1620 to 1641; Part II, From 1641 to 1675; Part III- A Narrative of the Indian War in 1675 and 1676; Part IV- 1677 to 1691.... View more info
![Image for CELEBRATED TRIALS AND REMARKABLE CASES OF CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE, From The Earliest Records To The Year 1825 [Six Volume Set]](/assets/images/product/39173.jpg "CELEBRATED TRIALS AND REMARKABLE CASES OF CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE, From The Earliest Records To The Year 1825 [Six Volume Set]")
Price: $1,249.94
Publisher: London, Knight And Lacey: 1825
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39173
Clean and tight in lovely 19th century bindings of tan calf over marbled boards with leather title labels at spines in red and green with gilt lettering; raised bands and extensive gilt decoration at spines with armorial bookplate with coat of arms of John Croft Deverell to paste downs. Quite scarce as a complete set, particularly in this condition. George H. Borrow's first published work. Illustrations include portraits, courtroom scenes and a plan of a murder scene.... View more info
Price: $34.94
Publisher: Alliance, OH, Bradshaw Printing Company: 1939
Seller ID: 40324
268, +120 photos pages; Clean and tight in original black cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and gilt image of a ship at sea in gilt on front cover. Very good pictorial dustjacket presenting a collage of several images from the author's photographs with a cutout revealing the title of the book at the spine. The book has never been read as indicated by the fact that the text pages are unopened and untrimmed. On the copyright page it states "First Printing Ju... View more info
By: Cave, Henry W.
Price: $29.94
Publisher: London Paris New York, Cassell and Company: 1908
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38818
[xv] & pp. 201-526 pages; Publisher's green cloth, title lettered in gilt on the spine and, within a gilt decorative border, on the front cover. Date is not printed in the book, but approx. 1908. Minor damage to the covers, with a short split along the hinge, wear at the spine ends and a break and tear to the fore-edge of the front cover. Internally sound and very good. This is section II of the version of Henry W. Cave's 1908 'Book of Ceylon' which was divided into th... View more info
By: Cave, Henry W.
Price: $299.99
Publisher: London, Samson Low Marston & Company: 1900
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 41472
xii, 474 & [1, ad] pages; Publisher's cream cloth, blocked and stamped in gilt in an elaborate all-over pattern of leaves, slate grey endpapers, all edges gilt. A wonderful copy of the first edition of a handsome book -- of interest both for its subject: tea and its plantations, and the setting: Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka. A particularly well-preserved copy, with an inscription in ink on the verso of the front free endpaper: "For Annie G. Mawle / a present from... View more info
Price: $39.94
Publisher: Cincinnati, Press of Jennings and Graham: 1906
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 38854
Pictorial red cloth binding, lettered in white with silohuettes in black against a white background. White has flaked from lettering at spine. Fabulous photographs of sites and scenes from cotton pickers in Mississippi to the corner market in Havana, with dozens of Mexican and Cuban images in between. Clean, tight attractive book. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a charact... View more info
By: Eklin, Salomon
Price: $99.94
Publisher: Upsaliæ [Uppsala, Sweden], apud Joh. Edman: 1779
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39769
[2], 20 & [1, engraved plate] pages; Instrumenta Graecorum rustica ex Hesiodo illustrata, adprob. ampl. ord. philos. in reg. academ. Upsal. praeside mag. Johanne Flodero ... pro gradu publico examini tradit Salomon Eklin, stip. reg. Wexionia-Smolandus, in audit. Gustav. maj. d. V. Maji MDCCLXXIX. Horis ante meridiem solitis. Small 4to. A rare dissertation, stiched and sewn as issued, never bound. With the engraved plate depicting Greek farm implements, with a printed ... View more info
By: Friendly, Fred W. ; & Martha J.H. Elliott ; [Inscribed to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart ]
Price: $174.94
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39385
Autograph; 339 pages; Inscribed by Friendly and Signed by both authors on the titlepage to Justice Potter Stewart (to whom the book is dedicated) and Mrs. Potter Stewart. The printed dedication reads: "To Potter Stewart, who has taught us / '...what the British Crown had feared -- / and what the American Founders decided to risk.'" Clean and tight in original binding in very good dustjacket, slight lean to binding. From the collection of Justice Potter Stewart... View more info
By: Gordon, Thomas F
Price: $49.94
Publisher: Philadelphia:, T. Belknap: 1832
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38923
508 pages; Clean and tight in original full sheepskin binding with gilt lettering and decoration at spine; rubbed at extremeties. Lacks the map referred to on the titlepage. An attractive example of this early historical reference for Pennsylvania in a nice period binding. Part I contains a general description of the state, its situation and extent, general geological construction, canals and rail-roads, bridges, revenues, expenditures, public debt, etc. Part II em... View more info
Price: $449.94
Publisher: Leipzig, Bernard Tauchnitz: 1860
Seller ID: 39160
60 mounted albumen photographs; xii, 292; xi, 280 & [1] pages; Two volumes bound in one. Contemporary full vellum, with elaborate gilt-stamped decorations, title stamped in gilt: "THE MARBLE FAUN" (using the American title of Hawthorne's novel, rather than the British title "Transformation" which had also been adopted for this Tauchnitz edition. Pattern printed mounted silk endpapers, edges of the leaves decoratively stained red. The vellum and its gil... View more info
By: Hedin, Sven
Price: $49.94
Publisher: Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus: 1909
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 41203
xviii & 405; x & 406 pages; Publisher's bindings: tan canvas-like cloth, spines and front covers boldly lettered in black, with color pictorial paper decorative onlays mounted to the front covers, medium brown endpapers with a Tibetan text. Each rear paste-down endpaper has a folding map tipped to the gutter edge. Too heavy for overseas shipping. This attractive two volume set represents the first German edition of this classic of modern exploration. Volumes I and II... View more info
By: Jefferson, Thomas ; Lynd Ward ; Saul K. Padover
Price: $12.94
Publisher: New York, Heritage Press: 1967
Seller ID: 40945
xii, 362 pages; Dine in Near Fine slipcase. Clean and tight in original binding of blue cloth over marbled boards with gilt lettering at spine. Former owner's name faintly on ffep. Selected and edited by Saul K. Padover. Illustrated with wonderful lithographs by Lynd Ward. View more info
Price: $249.94
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam: 1849
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38319
Clean and tight in original green cloth bindings with gilt lettering at spines and gilt images of an archeological relic on front boards (similar images in blind on rear boards). Original owner's name on ffep "Mrs. Elizabeth Tweedy / Jan'y 1850", light scattered foxing, otherwise clean and tight; minor rubbing at corners and spine ends; very nice condition. All plates and maps present EXCEPTing the final folding map in Volume 1 -- "Map to Illustrate the ... View more info
By: Lynam, Edward
Price: $24.94
Publisher: London, The Batchworth Press: 1953
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38651
140 pages; Inscription on ffep to Hope Patterson "HP / from Marianne Wilson / Woodbury / July 1958" otherwise clean and tight in original blue cloth binding in worn torn dustjacket (now in mylar cover). A wonderful book on the history of mapmakers and engravers. View more info
By: Maguire, Jack ; [SIGNED by Lady Bird Johnson ]
Price: $149.94
Publisher: Austin, Alcalde Press: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39112
Autograph; 80 pages; Warmly inscribed and Signed by Lady Bird Johnson on the halftitle. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Related; 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: Morse, Jedidiah
Price: $399.94
Publisher: Charlestown, Samuel Etheridge; Thomas and Andrews: 1804
Seller ID: 41529
vi, 628 pages; Printed by and for Samuel Etheridge, and for Thomas and Andrews. Original leather boards (rubbed, scraped, esp. at corners) rebacked in 20th century - leather spine, red leather spine label with gilt lettering. Some toning, otherwise clean and tight, lacks front free endpaper (blank). OCLC: 684247 ALL SIX FOLDING MAPS present, including North America, South America, the northern U.S. west to Illinois, the Southwest to the Mississippi, the Caribbean, and t... View more info
By: Multiple Authors
Price: $149.94
Publisher: Baltimore, National Biographical Pub. Co.: 1879
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39367
Clean and tight in original full leather binding with bevelled edges, gilt lettering at spine and decorative stamping in blind. Some rubbing to binding, an attractive example of this excellent reference for history and genealogy of the Maryland and District of Columbia region. 97 full page engraved portraits. OCLC: 2053381 Extremely large heavy book requires additional charge for Piority or international shipping. View more info
