Hardcover. US, William Morrow Cookbooks, reprint, 1996-04-19, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Extensive color photography throughout. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, J. B. Lippincott, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 210 pages. 12 black & white plate illustrations plus 220 text drawings, all by Maurice Leloir. Dark brown covers with red and gold decoration. Gilt top edge. Beveled edges. First few pages loose. Both hinges cracking. Soiling to covers. Wear to corners, spine. Spine faded.
Softcover. Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 450 pages. Features fold-out maps. Notes in ink on rear endpaper. Rubbing to cloth cover along spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, George Allen, 1st, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 598 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Brown cloth covers with title and decoration in gilt. Fraying to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. London, George Allen, 1st, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 518 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Brown cloth covers with title and decoration in gilt. Some loss of cloth (approx. 1/8th inch) at top and bottom of spine. Spine slightly cocked. Rear hinge paper with some very narrow cracks. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Frank-Maurice, Inc., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 379 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some chipping and wear to edges of jacket and fading to spine. Residue from sticker on bottom front of jacket. Previous owner's name in front end papers, and old catalogue number.
Softcover. Great Barrington, MA, The Berkshire Courier Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 25 pages. Softcover pamphlet. Green construction paper wrapper (spot on front cover bottom where label was removed-see image), gilt title on front cover. Previously exhibited at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, proprietor label and stamp on front endpapers and flyleaf. Pages clean. Binding (staple) tight, no pages missing. Frances Barker recalls her journey by boat and covered wagon, in 1835 from Vermont to Chicago, at the age of 5 yrs., to start a new life with her family. Book later compiled by a descendant: "In 1835 my father became infected with the 'Western fever,' as it was then called, and resolved to try his fortune with others in the then far West." A true tale of adventure. RARE.
Softcover. Paris, Horizons de France, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages, sepia tone photos throughout. Paper wrappers with light soil.
Softcover. Paris, Horizons de France, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages, sepia tone photos throughout. Paper wrappers with light soil.
Softcover. Paris, Horizons de France, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages, sepia tone photos throughout. Paper wrappers with light soil.
Softcover. Paris, Horizons de France, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages, sepia tone photos throughout. Paper wrappers with light soil.Paper spine chipped, pieces missing. Internally very good.
Los Angeles, Craig Printing & Graphics, 1st, 1982, Promotional poster for a Los Angeles printer featuring a lovely photograph of a seacoast village in France. Measures 18" X 24", small pin holes in corners otherwise very good. Rolled and shipped in a sturdy cardboard mailing tube.
Hardcover. US, Grove Pr, 1st US, 1987-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462901
Hardcover. Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 5th Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 maps, 55 plans, 454 pages. Limp red cloth with gilt lettering. Previous owner's signature on title-page and front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Collins & Co., rep, 1824, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 374 pp Hardbound some wear to the extremities and spine leather gone from top and bottom, exposing signatures. Front board is nearly separated and back board on the way. Foxing throughout. Some insect damage to back 30 pages, but only barely reaching text. Reading copy only.
Hardcover. Chicago IL, University of Chicago, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 378 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, First Edition, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 364 pages. Hardcover with maps to endpapers. Frontis illustration, Chateau of Beynac, on the Dordogne, in black & white, over 190 photographs throughout, beautifully presented to accompany text. Publisher's navy cloth boards with gilt illustration & gilt titles to cover & spine. Gilt is faded to spine edge. Tight copy, clean & unmarked with light, natural toning to edges as would be expected for its age. A nice copy.
Hardcover. Springfield MA, Hampden Publishing Company, reprint, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 602 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are in fair condition, with some minor dings, fading near the spine, and a few droplets of white paint. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is beginning to separate at the bottom, but is still contiguous. B&W photography throughout. A unique story told by one of the travelers. What they saw and how they lived while traveling among the half-civilized people of Morocco, the Peasants of Italy and France, as well as the educated classes of Spain, Greece, and other countries. Clean copy. Record # 33663
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1930, in a green pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Mexico's west coast; 3 articles on the conquest of Antarctica; Unmapped areas of China, Unexplored areas of the Philippines; Chateau country of France; Yugoslavia; Virgil's Aeneid and Roman Geography; Strange tribes in the Shan States of Burma; The Yukon trail of 1898; Viking life in the Faeroes; and much more. Clean, bright volume.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Adult, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owners inscription to front flyleaf. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white images throughout.
Hardcover. Hartford, A.D. Worthington & Co., 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 641 pages. Cloth boards. Spine and cover illustrated in gilt. Cover quite worn and hanging by a thread. Interior solid. Illustrated with black & white etchings. 1 fold out map.
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