Softcover. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Researched history and analysis of the "interactive fiction" genre. Black covers with color illustration, perfect binding. Very slight rubbing to covers, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; an extremely clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. US, William Morrow, 1st, 2001-03-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 356 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Junior Literary Guild Inc., 2nd, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 489 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A unique travel history of Europe. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page. Red toning to top text block. Heavy chipping and rubbing to dust jacket. Mild rubbing to boards. Profusely illustrated. Unmarked. A tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Putnam Adult, 1st, 1996-09-24, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 265 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st Edition, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear (see image). Decorated endpapers. Decorated cover boards, some chipping on edges. Pages clean. A colorful, artistic celebration of the entire Constitution, including the Bill of Rights and all the amendments.
Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1st Illustrated Edition, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 489 pages, with 16 colored plates by E. A. Cox. Gilt decorated cover and spine. Slight corner and edge wear, foxing on edges and front and rear fly leaf. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Otherwise, very clean pages and tight binding.
Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, Rep, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of a young boy's letters to his grandmother with commentary. Whether fictionalized or not, an interesting account of growing up in the early to mid 1800's 1st pub. in 1870 with crude drawing supposedly by the boy. Hinge cracked. 275 bapes VF, internally. Original green cloth with gilt decoration on spine
Hardcover. London, Ward Lock and Co., 8th Ed., nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with color label on cover, 256 pages. illustrated with 8 color, 250 b&w illustrations. Light soil to covers,
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston , 1st, 1930, Dust Jacket: Fair, 384 pages, color maps on endpapers, color frontispiece, illustrated color plate on front cover, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, front hinge loose. Acetate-protected dust jacket. Some wear and chipping under acetate.
Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, Revised Edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 456 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book is a vividly rendered history of the circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire. No other book in any language links the history of this colonized non-Russian people to the full sweep of Russian intellectual and cultural history. Slezkine reconstructs from a vast range of sources the successive official policies and prevailing attitudes toward the northern peoples, interweaving the resonant narratives of Russian and indigenous contemporaries with the extravagant images of popular Russian fiction. Clean copy. Record # 34026
Hardcover. Jerusalem, Israel, Reubeni Foundation, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Unpaginated, hardcover. Dust jacket is in poor condition with multiple open tears concentrated near the spine. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This volume covers the period from the First Crusade to the First Zionist Congress, a span of 800 years. It is a fictional newspaper designed to look like a real one, covering historical events from this time period in a unique format. Folds out to A3 size. This is a large format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34077
Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages, a collection of lectures on children's literature and publishing. Blue cloth covers, clean and tight. Record # 405846
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 463 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations and photography throughout. This book is a biography of Christopher Wren, who was the 17th Century architect and scientist that designed St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Clean copy. Record # 34703
Hardcover. Sarasota, FL, Carnival Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 528 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some chips and wear. Covers underneath are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. An excellent history of the Circus in America, presented around a central fictional character, and written by a well known historian of the circus. "Every person, except Dick Dale and his families, was an actual living person. Every show actually existed and played the towns mentioned on the dates recorded. Every event actually happened at the time and place documented. Whether Dick Dale was there, or not, you may decide for yourself." Clean copy. Record # 33704
Hardcover. Sutton Publishing Ltd, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. B&W illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A fictional biography chronicling the rise of Horatio Hornblower from a midshipman in 1794 to a revered admiral of the fleet in 1847. Record # 454864
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Inc., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages volume 1, 152 pages volume 2, 155 pages volume 3, and 173 pages volume 4, hardcovers. Slipcase is in very good condition with minor edge wear. Pictorial boards and interior pages are clean and bright in all 4 volumes. Bindings are solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This set of historical fiction targeted towards a younger audience uses fictional characters to approximate diary entries of people who might have lived during these major historical events. Due to the weight of the package, this set is available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copies. Record # 34285
Hardcover. New York, Barnes & Noble, Reprint, 1986, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. White boards and natural color cloth spine with gilt lettering. Minor wear to edges and top of spine. White and off-white pictorial dust jacket with black lettering. Some scuffing and marking on back. Light edgewear and minor browning along top edge. Sticker residue at front bottom right corner. Record # 803122
Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. Saint Paul, MI, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Orange cloth, gilt title to spine. Light edge wear to pictorial dust jacket. Very nice, tight copy. Record # 607646
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages. Illustrated by Armstrong Sperry with 10 b/w plates and a color frontispiece of Sacagawea with one of the explorers. Black, orange, and white color pictorial end papers of Indian totems, tepees, buffalo, more. Double page color map. Introduction by Christopher B. Coleman. Four page glossary of Indian and French names at pages 225 to 228. 8vo. Orange pictorial cloth with black lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. Minor marking and smudging to cover. Light edgewear. Very Good. Record # 219852