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Automobile Design: Twelve Great Designers and Their WorkBarker, Ronald

Automobile Design: Twelve Great Designers and Their Work


Barker, Ronald

Hardcover. Warrendale, PA, Society of Automotive Engineers, 2nd Revised edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 411 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471836


Price: $25.00 

 

Babylonians: Peoples of the Past (Vol. 1)


Saggs, H. W. F.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With 2 maps, 12 color and 84 black and white illustrations. The people of ancient Mesopotamia, who settled in the 'fertile crescent' between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before the fourth millennium BC, laid the foundations of Western civilization. Gave way to many fundamental developments in human society,

Record # 471177


Price: $15.00 

 

Back Home in Oneida - Hermon Clarke and His Letters


Jackson, Harry F./Thomas F. O'Donnell

Hardcover. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613477


Price: $15.00 

 

Badge of Gallantry, The - Recollections of Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Winners


Mitchell, Joseph B.

Hardcover. Shippensburg, PA, White Mane, Reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 194 pages. Orig. pub. in 1968. Damp wrinkle to rear dj panel - not affecting book.

Record # 61125


Price: $20.00 

 

Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky


Thomas, Jean

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 270 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610963


Price: $38.00 

 

Baltimore Furniture: The Work of Baltimore and Annapolis Cabinetmakers from 1760 to 1810


Breeskin, et. al., Adelyn D.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1947, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Catalogue for an exhibition featuring Baltimore furniture dating from the eighteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. 193 pages with 125 catalogue entries, each illustrated with multiple black/white photographs. Very slight bumping to the ends of the spine.

Record # 605566


Price: $96.00 

 

Bankers and Cattlemen - The Stocks and Bonds, Havana Cigar, Mahogany and Leather side of the Cowboy Era. Politics investors, and operators from 1870 to 1900


Gressley, Gene M.

NY, Knopf , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 201318


Price: $30.00 

 

Barbarians & Mandarins - Thirteen Centuries of Western Travelers in China


Cameron, Nigel

Hardcover. NY/Tokyo, Walker/Weatherhill, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 443 pages.

Record # 58494


Price: $15.00 

 

Barbary Coast, The : Algeria under the Turks


Wolf, John B.

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 364 pages, with black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457734


Price: $15.00 

 

Barcelona


Hughes, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 573 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white photographs and reproductions. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 510554


Price: $10.00 

 

Bargaining For Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876 - 1938


Bates, Barbara

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, Second Printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 435 pages. Softcover with illustration to cover & light, marginal wear to edges. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 5560145


Price: $19.00 

 

Barns of the Genesee Country, 1790-1915


Fink, Daniel

Hardcover. New York, James Brunner, 2nd printing, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 526 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Photographer and historian Daniel Fink illuminates the social, economic and architectural history of New York's Genesee country barns using contemporary records and original photographs. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Heavy age toning to top text block edge. Mild age toning to front endpapers and front flyleaf top edge. Hundreds of black-and-white illustrations and photographs throughout. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951737


Price: $63.00 

 

Barns of the Genesee Country, 1790-1915


Fink, Daniel

Hardcover. Geneseo, James Brunner, 2nd Printing, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. 1st edition/2nd printing. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610262


Price: $63.00 

 

Baroque & Rococo - Art & Culture


Minor, Vernon Hyde

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated in black & white and full color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611382


Price: $50.00 

 

Barre, Vermont - An Annotated Bibliography


Beauin et al., Daniel

Paperback. Barre, VT, Aldrich Public Library, 1st wraps, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 512 items catalogued. 80 Pages. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 54038


Price: $25.00 

 

Battered Stars, The - One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaign (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Coffin, Howard

Hardcover. Woodstock, The Countryman Press, First Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to half title page, with related ephemera. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with small tear top edge. Very clean, unmarked.

Record # 750867


Price: $25.00 

 

Battle for Korea - The Associated Press History of the Korean Conflict


Dvorchak, Robert J.

Hardcover. PA, Combined Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many black & white photos. 317 pages. Personal accounts by the writers and photographers of the AP.

Record # 63074


Price: $8.00 

 

Battle for Peace, The


Weizma, Ezer

Hardcover. NY, Bantam, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white Illustrations

Record # 101022


Price: $18.00 

Battle of Ball's Bluff, ThePatch, Joseph Dorst

Battle of Ball's Bluff, The


Patch, Joseph Dorst

Hardcover. Leesburg, Potomac Press, First Edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with maps to endpapers. Grey cloth covers with gilt titles & decoration to covers & spine. Toning to preliminary pages. Dust jacket with faint foxing, light wear small tear to edges. Light foxing to top edge. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750485


Price: $15.00 

 

Battle of Bosworth, The


Bennett, Michael

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1985, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. 75 black and white illustrations and three maps. Detailed reconstruction of the battle that claimed the life of Richard III and ended the Plantagenet line. Wrinkle in dust jacket laminate.

Record # 512292


Price: $8.00 

 

Battle of Cassino, The


Majdalany, Fred

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, First Edition, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with age toning, tears to edges & chipping to spine. Toning to edges throughout. Black & white illustrations. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751174


Price: $15.00 

 

Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877


Greene, Jerome A.

Hardcover. Norman, University of Oklahoma, 1st, 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 228 pages. Black & white illustrations. Book and jacket show standard wear.

Record # 608767


Price: $12.00 

 

Battles of the United States, by Sea and Land: Embracing Those of the Revolutionary and Indian Wars, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War: With Important Official Documents (vol. 1 & 2)


Dawson, Henry B.

Hardcover. New York, Johnson, Fry and Co., 1st, 1858, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 746 and 530 pages. Green cloth, half leather binding, raised bands, gilt. Heavy wear to spine and edges, pieces of spine missing. Shelf wear to cover. Illustrated with numerous black & white, tissue guarded, steel engravings by Alonzo Chappel. Ex-lib with usual markings.

Record # 220897


Price: $128.00 

Baudelaire's "Argot Plastique": Poetic Caricature and ModernismMcLees, Ainslie Armstrong

Baudelaire's "Argot Plastique": Poetic Caricature and Modernism


McLees, Ainslie Armstrong

Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some soiling to dust jacket. An otherwise clean copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471592


Price: $19.00 

 

Baudelaire's Voyages: The Poet and His Painters


Coven, Jeffrey/Dore Ashton (Contribution)

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Bulfinch Press Book, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Hardcover. Navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Profusely illustrated in full color and black & white throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670046


Price: $19.00 

BaudelaireTroyat, Henri

Baudelaire


Troyat, Henri

Softcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 399 pages. Softcover. Previous owners inscription to front edge. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 471591


Price: $15.00 

 

Beatrice Cenci - 2 Volumes


Ricci, Corrado

Hardcover. New York, Boni and Liveright, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 2 hardcover volumes. Volume 1 - 324 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket worn with rubbing, chipping - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 321 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket worn with rubbing, chipping - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612143


Price: $44.00 

 

Beauties


de Quincey, Thomas

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1862, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Slight crack to front gutter. Heavy foxing to frontis piece and tissue guard. Light edgewear and fraying to spine.

Record # 857111


Price: $38.00 

 

Beautiful Burlington


Smith, Margaret L. H.

Softcover. Burlington, Margaret L. H. Smith, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. Illustrated with 13 black & white photographs. Body of book loose from covers. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Light foxing to front and rear endpapers. Paper wraps cover worn and missing paper at top and bottom of spine.

Record # 606714


Price: $25.00 

 

Beautiful Iron - The Pursuit of Excellence


Whitaker, Francis

Hardcover. Washington, MO, Artist-Blacksmiths' Association of North America/National Endowment for the Arts, First Thus, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover spiral bound. Profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. Light marginal wear to covers. Very clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751444


Price: $75.00 

 

Before Lewis and Clark - The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier


Christian, Shirley

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs and reproductions. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 510814


Price: $9.00 

 

Beginnings of Washington - As Described in Books, Maps and Views, The


Phillips, P. Lee

Hardcover. Washington, P. Lee Phillips, 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners bookplate removed from inside front cover leaving minor abrasion. Line in ink along 2 paragraphs on page 27, otherwise unmarked text. Light wear to blue cloth covers.

Record # 612390


Price: $50.00 

 

Behind Closed Doors


Woolf, Bob.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean copy, unmarked with minor tears to top edge of dust jacket spine. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471062


Price: $19.00 

 

Beleaguered City, The


Bill, Alfred Hoyt

New York, Alfred Knopf, 2nd, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 331 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions and two fold - out maps. Dust jacket has minor chipping to edges - now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 509710


Price: $10.00 

 

Belle Grove Excavations - Middletown, Va. 1972-73


Rockwell, Tim O.

Softcover. Washington, D.C., National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and diagrams. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607442


Price: $20.00 

Bells & ManPrice, Percival

Bells & Man


Price, Percival

Hardcover. London, Oxford, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light foxing to top edge. Price clipped dust jacket has 3" tape repaired tear with chip missing on rear. Dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 603936


Price: $60.00 

 

Belorussia: Under the Soviet Rule, 1917-1957


Lubachko, Ivan S.

Hardcover. Lexington, KY, The University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 219 pages. Black-and-white tables and maps throughout. A little spotting on front dust jacket cover and rear dust jacket flap. Light soiling on rear dust jacket cover. Minor foxing on top edge. Tiny spot on front hinge. Faint finger print on front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856230


Price: $19.00 

 

Beloved Island - Franklin and Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobello


Klein, Jonas

Forest Dale, VT, Eriksson, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 201323


Price: $20.00 

 

Beneventan Chant, The (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Kelly, Thomas Forrest

Hardcover. London, England, Cambridge University Press, 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, some light agewear on back cover, gilt title on green on spine and front cover board. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright. In very good condition. '

Record # 32376


Price: $50.00 

 

Benjamin Franklin - The First Civilized American


Russell, Phillips

Hardcover. NY, Brentano's, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue-guard. Illustrated end papers.

Record # 202389


Price: $18.00 

 

Bennington: The Battles, 1777


Tyler, Rev. Albert

Hardcover. Worcester, Tyler & Seagrove, 1st, 1878, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, EX-LIBRARY: 24 pages Marbled boards with cloth spine cover. Age discoloration and staining. Black & white illustrations. Edgewear on boards.

Record # 408374


Price: $50.00 

 

Bering's Search for the Strait - The First Kamchatka Expedition 1725-1730


Kushnarev, Evgenii G. and E.A.P Crownhart-Vaughan (Ed)

Hardcover. Portland, Oregon Historical Society Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white maps.

Record # 106119


Price: $15.00 

 

Berlin Rising: Biography of a City


Read, Anthony, David Fisher

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Red cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title stamped on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. History of the German city, Berlin.

Record # 31650


Price: $15.00 

 

Best Families - The Town & Country Social Directory 1846-1996, The


Patterson, Jerry E./Anthony T. Mazzola/Frank Zachary

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612784


Price: $19.00 

 

Beyond the Atmosphere: The Early Years of Space Science


Newell, Homer E.

Paperback. Washington DC, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 497 pages, paperback. The early days of NASA. Moderate rubbing to wraps. Creasing to spine. Fading to text block edges. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and black-and-white photographs. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952247


Price: $15.00 

 

Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy (SIGNED)


Balkoski, Joseph

Softcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 2nd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white maps throughout. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF.

Record # 471191


Price: $25.00 

 

Beyond the Capes: Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger (1776-1877)


Dodge, Ernest S.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 429 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Illustrated in black and white.

Record # 2233359


Price: $15.00 

 

Beyond the Mississippi


Richardson, Albert D.

Hardcover. Hartford, American Publishing Company, Reprint, 1867, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 572 pages. Black & white illustrations. Pages 307-310 loose from spine. Front interior hinge with cracking to hinge paper approx. 2" at top and bottom - hinge still strong. Rear interior hinge weak, with 3" tear at bottom hinge paper. Light fraying at top and bottom of spine cloth. Rubbing to cover corners. Interior clean and unmarked.

Record # 608603


Price: $50.00 

Beyond the Stars, Part 1: The Boy from RigaEisenstein, Sergei

Beyond the Stars, Part 1: The Boy from Riga


Eisenstein, Sergei

Softcover. New York, Seagull Books, Reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 512 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898

Price: $23.00 

 

Beyond Valor - World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat


O'Donnell, Patrick K.

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 4th pr. , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound, 366 pages. Contains black & white photography. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 500894


Price: $15.00 

 

Bibliography of First Editions of Books by Walter Crane


Masse, Gertrude C. E.

Softcover. London, Carl Slienger, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 59 pages. Softcover. One of 250 copies. Illustrated wraps with tanning to spine margin & edges. Preface by Heywood Sumner. Frontis illustration, Walter Crane, from a painting by G. F. Watts, reproduced in black & white. Light toning to edges, otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751356


Price: $25.00 

Big Screen, The: The Story of the MoviesThomson, David

Big Screen, The: The Story of the Movies


Thomson, David

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 608 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Minor curling on top of dust jacket spine. Black & white images throughout.

Record # 470715


Price: $19.00 

 

Big Vote, The: Gender, Consumer Culture, and Politics of Exclusion, 1890s-1920s


Gidlow, Liette

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages. Black cover with gilt lettering on spine.

Record # 511230


Price: $10.00 

Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for American's Independent BusinessesMitchell, Stacy

Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for American's Independent Businesses


Mitchell, Stacy

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Yellow cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, and how a growing number of communities and independent business are effectively fighting back.

Record # 32913


Price: $19.00 

 

Bin Ladens, The: An Arabian Family in the American Century


Coll, Steve

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 671 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and decoration on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, has small tear (3/4") at top of spine, otherwise excellent shape (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Page and edges clean and bright. Meticulously researched, colorful, shocking, entertaining, and disturbing narrative of global integration and its limitations.

Record # 32335


Price: $15.00 

 

Birbhum Terracottas


Dey, Mukul

Hardcover. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 52 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears along edges, areas of fading. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611958


Price: $25.00 

Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson CaseMorrison, Toni

Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case


Morrison, Toni

Softcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 418 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 468234


Price: $10.00 

 

Birth of Western Economy, The - Economic Aspects of the Dark Ages


Latouche, Robert

Paperback. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint wraps, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1st published in English in hardcover in UK in 1961. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 106425


Price: $15.00 

 

Bismarck and the Creation of the Second Reich


Darmstaedter, F.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 426 pages. 4 black & white plates. Green cloth, no dust jacket present. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 57776


Price: $12.00 

Bitter Waters: America's Forgotten Naval Mission to the Dead SeaBain, David Haward

Bitter Waters: America's Forgotten Naval Mission to the Dead Sea


Bain, David Haward

Hardcover. New York, The Overlook Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471686


Price: $19.00 

Black America, A Photographic Journey: Past to PresentSmith, Marcia A.

Black America, A Photographic Journey: Past to Present


Smith, Marcia A.

Hardcover. San Diego, Calif., Thunder Bay Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight wear on edges of cover but very tight and clean copy.

Record # 2230552


Price: $38.00 

Black Baptist Secondary Schools in Virginia, 1887-1957: a Study in Black History (SIGNED COPY)Russell, Lester F.

Black Baptist Secondary Schools in Virginia, 1887-1957: a Study in Black History (SIGNED COPY)


Russell, Lester F.

Hardcover. Metuchen NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 200 pages, brown cloth with white lettering, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY RUSSELL on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 411551


Price: $50.00 

 

Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia


Jordan, Jr., Ervin L.

Softcover. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 447 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609199


Price: $12.00 

 

Black Douglases, the - War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455


Brown, Michael

Hardcover. Scotland, Tuckwell Press, reprint , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Beautifully clean and new-looking condition. Some black & white maps. Hardbound, dust jacket, 358 pgs.

Record # 109459


Price: $35.00 

 

Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism


Thomas, Dominic

Softcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2nd, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to wrappers.

Record # 2233708


Price: $19.00 

Black Ivory: A History of British SlaveryWalvin, James

Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery


Walvin, James

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Howard University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages, with illustrations. Minor soiling on edges, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 455992


Price: $15.00 

 

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail


Bolster, W. Jeffrey

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Previous owners inscription on front fly leaf. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471192


Price: $13.00 

 

Black Odyssey - The Afro-American Ordeal in Slavery


Huggins, Nathan Irvin

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1st UK, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON DEDICATION PAGE. Foxing to top edge, with spots to foredge. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612479


Price: $75.00 

Black Saga: The African American ExperienceChristian, Charles M.

Black Saga: The African American Experience


Christian, Charles M.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 608 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Slight fading to spine. Some shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468236


Price: $23.00 

 

Black-man of Zinacantan, The


Blaffer, Sarah C..

Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, First Edition, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth boards with gilt decoration, gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with light sunfade to edges & spine, now protected with a plastic cover. Faint erase marks of pencil to half title page. Faint foxing top edge. Features black & white drawings from Maya and Mexican codices, considered adaptations of original sources, among other illustrations. Tight binding, sharp corners, otherwise clean.

Record # 750974


Price: $15.00 

 

Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865-1915: A Social History.


Cox, Thomas C.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 236 pages. Gray cloth cover with very little wear. Dust jacket has minor smudges and wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852619


Price: $18.00 

 

Blacksmiths' and Farriers' Tools at Shelburne Museum - A History of their Development from Forge to Factory - Museum Pamphlet Series, Number 7


Smith, H. R. Bradley

Softcover. Shelburne, Shelburne Museum, Inc., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages plus 10 page supplement. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on inside front cover. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings relating to the blacksmith/farrier trade. Slight sun fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 603665


Price: $45.00 

 

Blind Horn's Hate, The


Hough, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontis, black & white illus.

Record # 53803


Price: $18.00 

Bliss' Magazine - Volume VI - July, 1900 - Number 1 - Guide to Pensacola - Facts for Tourists, Pleasure Seekers, Sportsmen, Home Seekers and Investors Bliss, Chas. H.

Bliss' Magazine - Volume VI - July, 1900 - Number 1 - Guide to Pensacola - Facts for Tourists, Pleasure Seekers, Sportsmen, Home Seekers and Investors


Bliss, Chas. H.

Softcover. Pensacola, Chas. H. Bliss, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Small format magazine measures: 6.5" H X 5" W. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Scarce.

Record # 614176


Price: $188.00 

Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan StanleyBeard, Patricia

Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley


Beard, Patricia

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards with gilt lettering, black and white photographs in center pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom page block.

Record # 468441


Price: $11.00 

 

Blue Jackets of '76


Abbot, Willis J.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1888, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 301 pages. Black & white illustrations. Light foxing to endpapers. Rear hinge cracked and back cover is holding with binders twine. Spine cloth faded with fraying at top and bottom. Text and illustrations clean and unmarked.

Record # 608833


Price: $30.00 

 

Bonaparte in Egypt


Herold, J. Christopher

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages, with black & white illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854862


Price: $15.00 

 

Book of Acts in History, The


Cadbury, Henry J.

Hardcover. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 170 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A few pages with underlining. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Moderate fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Mild bumping to corners. A tight copy.

Record # 101000


Price: $30.00 

 

Book of Balloons, The


Norgaard, Erik

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st English, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Balloon history and developments. 400 illustrations in color and black-and-white. Fading, as well as rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Bumping to fore edges. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952548


Price: $19.00 

 

Book Of Indian Crafts And Indian Lore, The


Salomon, Julian Harris

NY, Harper and Bros. , rep., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations by author and others. Illustrated end papers. Black & white photo frontispiece. Light edgewear to covers.

Record # 202551


Price: $30.00 

 

Book of Samplers, The


Fawdry, Marguerite & Deborah Brown

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 157 pages illustrated throughout with plates in color and b&w. History of the sampler from 16th century to present day. Each historical chapter is followed by a practical section explaining, with necessary diagrams, the stitches and motifs found on the samplers and includes full directions on how to work them. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Minor wear to edges of spine, else like new.

Record # 805449


Price: $16.00 

 

BOOK OF THE AMERICAN WEST


Monaghan, Jay, editor.

Hardcover. New York, Julian Messner, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 608 pages. Illustrated with color and black and white plates. 4to. Gray cloth. Red color illustration of Indian buffalo hunt on front and back covers. Red spine title label with gilt titles. Gilt line decorations. Color pictorial spine panels. Neat name (pen) on front endpaper. Light wear to spine edges. Very Good. Color pictorial dust jacket. Some wear and tear along edges. Good.

Record # 219859


Price: $16.00 

 

Book of the White Mountains, The


Anderson, John and Stearns Morse

NY, Minton, Balch & Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY MORSE front flyleaf. Previous owner's bookplate front endpaper. Black & white photos. 300 pages. Maps front and back pastedown and flyleaf. Small water stain top edge. Browning to pages.

Record # 500236


Price: $60.00 

Borders, Exiles, DiasporasShelton, Marie-Denise (Editor)

Borders, Exiles, Diasporas


Shelton, Marie-Denise (Editor)

Softcover. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages. Softcover. Circular cup stains to back wrapper. Some shelfwear. An otherwise clean copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471422


Price: $15.00 

 

Boss Platt and His New York Machine: A Study of the Political Leadership of Thomas J. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Others


Gosnell, Harold F.

Hardcover. Chicago IL, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 370 pages, hardcover. Blue boards with gilt titling to spine. A study and history of the New York political machine under Thomas J. Platt. Light underlining to pages 350-351. Faint rubbing and soiling to front panel. Age toning to top text block. Light bumping to corners. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 952138


Price: $50.00 

 

Boston - A Brief Description of the Principal Facts About the City


Walsh, Richard J.

Boston, Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1st , 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many black & white photos of Boston circa 1910. 78 pages. Fold-out map of city in rear. Marbled end papers, previous owner's gilt name on cover.

Record # 66494


Price: $31.00 

 

Boston and the Parker House


Spring, James W.

Softcover. Boston, J.R. Whipple Corp., 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A chronicle of those who have lived on that historic spot where the new Parker House now stands in Boston. A hotel history. Black & white photos. 230 pages. Cardboard spine detached, laid-in book.

Record # 58878


Price: $15.00 

 

Boston in the Age of Neo-Classicism, 1810-1840


Feld, Stuart P.

Softcover. New York, NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Exhibition catalog. Mostly color illustrations, with a few black-and-white illustrations. A little wear around corners and spine. Some scratches on covers. Bottom corner of pages lightly creased. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856449


Price: $31.00 

 

Bottle Collector's Book, A


Ferraro, Pat & Bob

Softcover. Sparks, Nevada, Western Printing & Publishing Company, Sixth, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Sixth printing. Guide to collecting bottles. 110 pages with several essays on historical aspects and particular elements of bottle-making. Also includes glossary of terms. 37 black/white plates. Very good condition, slight wear to the spine, previous owner's name, date, and location written in ink inside the cover.

Record # 805541


Price: $8.00 

 

Bound to Exile - The Victorians in India


Edwardes, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white plates. 283 pages. Dj with repaired shor ttears, soil

Record # 56832


Price: $18.00 

 

Bounty Ships of France


Villiers, Alan/Henri Picard

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows light wear, with some wrinkling along top edge of front cover.. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609776


Price: $15.00 

 

Boys Book of Border Battles


Sabin, Edwin L.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 349 Pages. Black & white illustrations. Front hinge cracked with cloth holding. Gilt titles on cover and spine still bright with full color paste down intact. Majority of dust jacket sealed within a clear plastic Brodart cover. Text clean, and unmarked.

Record # 608748


Price: $35.00 

 

Boys with Old Hickory, The


Tomlinson, Everett T.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Black & white illustrations by A. Burnham Shute. Part of the "War of 1812 Series". Previous owners note on front endpaper. Darkening to spine cloth. Light rubbing along cover edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609290


Price: $20.00 

 

Brandon, VT: A History of the Town 1761-1961


Selectmen of Brandon, VT

Paperback. Vermont, Town of Brandon, reprint, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. bright red paper wrappers with black print. light rubbing, Binding cracked in center. Foxing on fore and top edge. Black & white photographs in center, some paper separation from binding.

Record # 408626


Price: $23.00 

 

Brantford Pottery, The


Webster, D. B.

Softcover. Ontario, Canada, Royal Ontario Museum, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Royal Ontario Museum Art and Archaeology Occasional Paper 13. Black and light pink wrappers, perfect binding, 78 b&w plates, sections titled "History of the Pottery," "Excavations," "Excavation Recoveries," and others. Very slight rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a clean, tight copy.

Record # 807853


Price: $26.00 

 

Bread, or Bullets! - Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898


Casanovas, Joan

Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 203810


Price: $20.00 

 

Breakfast, Dinner & Supper: How, What and When.


White, J.E., Mrs. M.L. Wanless

Hardcover. Battle Creek, MI, J.e. White Pub. Co., 1s Edition, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 445 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (engravings) throughout. Red-dyed edges. Brown cloth cover boards, black/gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover board. Damage to top of spine (see image). Decorated endpapers. A touch of tanning from age throughout. In impressive condition for its age. "In Five Parts: 1. Ethics of eating. 2. Etiquette of the Home. 3. Hygiene of the Home. 4. Hints to Housekeepers. 5. How to Cook.

Record # 32889


Price: $63.00 

 

Breaking the Maya Code


Coe, Michael D.

Softcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, Reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings and photographs. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper.

Record # 609004


Price: $10.00 

 

Brearley Book, The - Volume V


Wood (Editor), Edith S.

Hardcover. New York, NY, The Brearley School, First Edition, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages followed by 12 pages of ads. Hardcover "published by three upper classes of the Brearley School." Frontis illustration of Constance Allington, in black & white & the 1924 yearbook is dedicated to her memory. Faint tone to edges throughout. Black boards with gilt stamped coat of arms & gilt numbers to front cover. Else clean & unmarked.

Record # 751566


Price: $25.00 

 

Brearley Book, The - Volume X, Class of 1929


Houston (Editor), Helen

Hardcover. New York, NY, The Brearley School, First Edition, 2029, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Hardcover with classmate autographs covering one of the final pages. Frontis illustration of Elizabeth D. Littell, in black & white to whom the yearbook is dedicated. Minor tone to edges throughout and a couple small spots of soiling to endpapers. Blue boards with gilt stamped coat of arms & gilt numbers to front cover board. Else clean & unmarked.

Record # 751565


Price: $31.00 

Bridging Two Oceans & Linking Four ContinentsCanadian Pacific Railway

Bridging Two Oceans & Linking Four Continents


Canadian Pacific Railway

Softcover. Montreal, Canadian Pacific Railway, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Softcover booklet. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings and fold-out illustration of the "Quadruple Screw Turbine Steamship Empress of France" in rear of booklet. Center 2 pages loose from booklet. Heavy foxing to covers, and to edges of front and rear preliminary pages. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613943


Price: $235.00 

Brief History of the Universalist Society of Hartland, Vermont - 1802-1902  - During its First Century with Biographical Sketches - Illustrated with Views and PortraitsDarling, Nancy

Brief History of the Universalist Society of Hartland, Vermont - 1802-1902 - During its First Century with Biographical Sketches - Illustrated with Views and Portraits


Darling, Nancy

Softcover. Castleton, Nancy Darling, 1st, 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover. Faint foxing to preliminary pages. Clean, unmarked.

Record # 613928


Price: $75.00 

 

British Aeroplanes 1914-18


Bruce, J. M.

Hardcover. London, Putnam, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 742 pages, b&w illustrations and specifications for all of England's WW1 aircraft, Black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 406620


Price: $150.00 

 

British Atlantic, American Frontier - Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America


Hornsby, Stephen J.

Hardcover. Lebanon, University Press of New England, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Single black line on each edge - similar to remainder marks. Clean, unmarked text. Light wear.

Record # 611792


Price: $75.00 

Brother, The - The untold story of atomic spy David Greenglass and how he sent his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the electric chairRoberts, Sam

Brother, The - The untold story of atomic spy David Greenglass and how he sent his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the electric chair


Roberts, Sam

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 543 pages. Half-cloth boards. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket with minor edgewear.

Record # 602096


Price: $13.00 

 

Bruneval Raid, The - The First Account of a Dramatic World War II Raid to Steal a Secret German Radio Station in Occupied France


Millar, George

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, 221 pgs.

Record # 101074


Price: $9.00 

Brussels: Fin DesiecleRoberts-Jones, Philippe

Brussels: Fin Desiecle


Roberts-Jones, Philippe

Hardcover. New York, Taschen International USA, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. 309 illustrations in color and black & white.

Record # 471556


Price: $25.00 

 

Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City & Its Culture


Lukacs, John

Hardcover. New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white picture in center. Clean tight copy.

Record # 2233544


Price: $19.00 

 

Buffalo Bill's Wild West - Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History


Kasson, Joy S.

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Biography of Buffalo Bill and history and analysis of his show. Really great condition. dust jacket and internal pgs are all clean and look unread. Many black & white photos and illustrations. hardbound, 319 pgs.

Record # 108809


Price: $20.00 

 

Buffalo Public Library, The: Commemorating Its First Century of Service to the Citizens of Buffalo, 1836 - 1936


Goldberg, Arthur

Hardcover. Buffalo, NY, Privately Printed, First Edition, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth boards with light wear to edges. Limited first edition, total of 1800 copies printed. Deckled edge, some pages unopened. Black & white illustrations, tight binding clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 6670086


Price: $25.00 

 

Building of Boats, The


Phillips-Birt, Douglas

Hardcover. Partridge Green, UK, Maurice Michael, 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 287 pages. Mostly black-and-white illustrations, with a few color illustrations. Light shelf- and edge-wear to dust jacket, with slight de-lamination along top edge. Flaps a little tanned around edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856613


Price: $25.00 

 

Building Portsmouth - The Neighborhoods Architecture of New Hampshire's Oldest City


Candee, Richard M.

Softcover. Portsmouth, NH, Portsmouth Advocates, Inc., First Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Bright illustrated wraps with light, marginal wear to edges. Profusely illustrated in black & white, including numerous architectural plans, diagrams. Tight binding, clean inside and out.

Record # 751481


Price: $15.00 

 

Building the Escorial


Kubler, George

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st. edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages plus plates and fold-out floor plan. B/w illustrations. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on black, on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, wrapped in protective clear, plastic brodart. In beautiful condition. Using previously unavailable archival collections, Professor Kubler enables us to "relive" the Escorial's "entire gestation and construction" as he connects building history with architectural criticism.

Record # 32326


Price: $38.00 

 

Bullentin of Champlain Valley Archaeological Society


Bailey, John H.

Paperback. Fort Ticonderoga, BY, Archaeological Society, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 29 pages. Small rip on page 29 in middle of page. Laid in "Archeology in Vermont in 1938" June 1939 Volume 1 and Number 2. Black & white photographs.

Record # 408559


Price: $11.00 

 

Bulletin de la Societe de l'Histoire de l'Art Francais


N/A

Softcover. Paris, Societe de l'Histoire de l'Art Francais, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 361 + pages. For the year 1998. Contains some black & white photographs. Light shelfwear. A small area of brown specs on fore-edge, otherwise very good. French text.

Record # 220984


Price: $30.00 

 

Bunker, The


O' Donnell, James Pau.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 202554


Price: $15.00 

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin WallMohr, Tim

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall


Mohr, Tim

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471844


Price: $19.00 

 

Burning Tigris, The: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response. A History of the International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes


Balakian, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 5th, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 475 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 2233784


Price: $19.00 

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's SlavesHochschild, Adam

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves


Hochschild, Adam

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 468 pages, b&w illustrations. Minor wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453215


Price: $12.00 

 

Byzantine Art and the West - The Wrightsman Lectures


Demus, Otto

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Faint foxing to edges. Includes Errata slip. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611855


Price: $25.00 

 

Cairo


Raymond, Andre/Willard Wood (Translation)

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, First Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Crisp, clean dust jacket. Clean text, unmarked copy.

Record # 751540


Price: $15.00 

 

CALABASHES AND KINGS: An Introduction To Hawaii


Porteus, Stanley D.

Hardcover. Palo Alto, Pacific Books, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Illustrated plates. Blue and black pictorial cloth cover. A bit edge worn but in very good condition.

Record # 219821


Price: $8.00 

 

Californian Trails, Intimate Guide to the Old Missions: The Story of the California Missions


Hall, Trowbridge

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue cloth covers with moderate wear. stamped lettering on front. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Black and white pictures throughout. Light soil on text block.

Record # 2233638


Price: $31.00 

 

Calvin Coolidge - The Man Who is President


White, William Allen

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Cloth covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609228


Price: $20.00 

 

Calvin Coolidge: A Biography in Picture Postcards


Greene, J. R.

Softcover. Athol, J. R. Greene, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 101 pages. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of postcards related to the life of Calvin Coolidge. Paperback with wrap around paper cover - light foxing to paper cover. Bottom of spine bumped with tears to the paper -approx. 1/4". Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609224


Price: $15.00 

 

Cambridge


Grant, Michael

Hardcover. London, Reynal & Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Pictorial end papers. 192 pages. Illustrated color and black & white plates. 4to. Beige buckram. Price clipped, color pictorial dust jacket with minor edge wear.

Record # 809187


Price: $12.00 

 

Campanile of Florence Cathedral - "Giotto's Tower"


Trachtenberg, Marvin

Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages of text followed by large section of full color and black & white photographic illustrations. Hardcover. Fading to cloth spine, and along top edge of covers. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611918


Price: $44.00 

 

Canned Goods as Caviar: American Film Comedy of the 1930s


Weales, Gerald

Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, First Edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 386 pages. Softcover. Bright wraps with light wear to edges, creases to front lower right corner. Previous owner's name to front half title page. Frontis illustration, The Final Close Up, Charlie Chaplin, City Lights, in black & white. Black & white illustrations throughout. Light (erasable) pencil to first chapter. Else clean, tight copy.

Record # 751604


Price: $15.00 

 

Cannoneer, The: Recollections Of Service In The Army Of The Potomac (1890)


Buell, Augustus

Softcover. Washington, DC, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, Reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 404 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471193


Price: $15.00 

 

Cape Ann Through the Seasons - A Photographic Sketchbook


Chamberlain, Samuel

NY, Hastings House, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 36 black & white photos in gravure by Chamberlain. Pencil sketch on rear end papers. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 69256


Price: $15.00 

 

Capital Elites - High Society in Washington, D.C. after the Civil War


Jacob, Kathryn Allamong

Hardcover. Wash. D.C., Smithsonian, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white illust.

Record # 51322


Price: $20.00 

Capitalist Romance, A: Singer and the Sewing MachineBrandon, Ruth

Capitalist Romance, A: Singer and the Sewing Machine


Brandon, Ruth

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Purple cover boards, light fading along the top and bottom, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of agewear. Pages clean and unmarked. Some slight tanning to edges. Looks great for its age. Biography and social history tells of the rags-to-riches story of a self-made man who epitomized the great American dream while rambunctiously flouting its conventions.

Record # 32909


Price: $15.00 

 

CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT: The Last of the New England Highwaymen


Waldo, Frederick W.

Hardcover. Topsfield, MA, Wayside Press, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 162 pages. A narrative of his life and adventures, with some account of the notorious captain thunderbolt. First book published by The Wayside Press. Illustrated with 13 b/w plates, including frontisportrait. Light foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's gift inscription on front flyleaf. 8vo. Red and black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Light rubbing on back. Minor edgewear. Red/black pictorial dust jacket. Edgewear, water marks along left front edge, chips at top and bottom of spine, spine and top edge toned.

Record # 220608


Price: $19.00 

 

Capture of Fort William and Mary, The


Parsons, Charles L.

Softcover. New Hampshire , New Hampshire American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reprint of paper delivered at the 77th Annual Meeting of the New Hampshire Historical Society. White stapled covers with small monotone illustration and black titles, introductory notes by Joseph P. Copley, illustrated with b&w plates throughout. Mild rubbing to covers, light water mark to bottom right corner of catalogue.

Record # 806666


Price: $18.00 

 

Cardiff: From the Coming of the Romans to the Dominance of Cromwell, With a Supplementary Chapter on the Transition Which Took Place in the 19th Century When Cardiff Ceased to Be a Small Country Town


Thompson, Herbert M.

Cardiff, William Lewis Limited, 2nd, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 213 pages plus fold-out in rear of book. Contains numerous black & white plat illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Front corners slightly bumped. Small chip to front cover. Small tear to fold-out in rear.

Record # 508050


Price: $36.00 

Carroll S. Page - Calf-Skin Merchant and Banker - Hyde Park, Vermont, U. S. A.Gile, E. S.

Carroll S. Page - Calf-Skin Merchant and Banker - Hyde Park, Vermont, U. S. A.


Gile, E. S.

Softcover. Boston, E. S. Gile, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover booklet. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Some moderate creasing to page edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613927


Price: $38.00 

 

Cartoon Connection - The Art of Pictorial Humour as seen by William Hewison


Hewison, William

Hardcover. London, Elm Tree Books, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613861


Price: $15.00 

 

Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture 1810 - 1940


Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

Softcover. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries. , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Black pictorial wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, sharp copy.

Record # 805617


Price: $11.00 

 

Catalog of Concord, Vt Cemeteries


Colburn, Sr., Richard A.

Softcover. East Charleston, Charleston Historical Society, Inc., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Black & white illustrations. Spiral bound. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609312


Price: $50.00 

 

Catalogue of Paintings (14th and 15th Centuries) in The Collection of The Hispanic Society of America


Du Gue Trapier, Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, HSA, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Black & white illustrations. Front hinge paper cracked. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608458


Price: $25.00 

 

Catalogue of Paintings (16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries)


Du Gue Trapier, Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, The Hispanic Society of America, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Eighty-Six black & white Illustrations. Light rubbing to top and bottom corners of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608404


Price: $18.00 

 

Catalogue of Paintings (19th and 20th Centuries) in The Collection of The Hispanic Society of America - 2 Volumes


Du Gue Trapier, Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, HSA, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1 - 516 pages. Black & white illustrations. Front and rear hinges cracked but holding. Volume 2 - 446 pages. Black & white illustrations. Hinges cracked but holding.

Record # 608459


Price: $40.00 

Catalogue of the Bristol High and Graded School 1914-1915 - Bristol, VermontBaxendale (Principle), John O./Bristol High School

Catalogue of the Bristol High and Graded School 1914-1915 - Bristol, Vermont


Baxendale (Principle), John O./Bristol High School

Softcover. Bristol, Bristol High School, 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Softcover. Catalogue of the Bristol High and Graded School - 1914-1915 - Bristol, Vermont. Covers with areas of staining, previous owners notes in pencil, chipping to paper along edges. Moisture stains to preliminary pages and to upper right edge of first 15 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Wrinkling to bottom right corner of first 17 pages. Lists graduates and awards of 1914. Unmarked text. Scarce.

Record # 614077


Price: $125.00 

 

Cathedrals and Abbey Churches of The Rhine


Gall, Ernst

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 78 pages of text followed by large section of black & white photographs illustrating cathedrals and churches of the Rhine region. Front endpaper missing. Dust jacket shows standard wear with slight age darkening along top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609152


Price: $35.00 

 

Catherine de'Medici


Willisamson, Hugh Ross

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. in color, black & white. 288 pages

Record # 53750


Price: $28.00 

 

Catholic Colonization on the Western Frontier


Shannon, James P.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 302 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR JAMES P. SHANNON TO CATHERINE O'MEARA ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chunk of paper missing at top rear edge. Some brief pencil notes in margins.

Record # 610316


Price: $38.00 

 

Catholic Memoirs of Vermont and New Hampshire, with Sketches of the Lives of Rev. Wm. Henry Hoyt, and Fanny Allen.


deGoesbriand, Louis

Softcover. Burlington, deGoesbriand, 1st, 1886, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Black & white illustrations. Staining to bottom of pages 62-67, this does not reach last line of text on any of these pages. Spine repaired with tape from top to bottom. Covers worn, with chipping to corners and along edges.

Record # 609759


Price: $30.00 

 

Catholics, Peasants and Chewa Resistance in Nyasaland


Linden, Ian

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 223 pages. Light edgewear to dj. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 60088


Price: $10.00 

 

Cavalry at Appomattox: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations during the Civil War's Climactic Campaign, March 27-April 9, 1865, The


Longacre, Edward G.

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. 10+ pages of black-and-white illustrations in middle of book. Very light shelf-wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856417


Price: $13.00 

 

Celebrate Cincinnati Art: In Honor of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Cincinnati Art Museum, 1881-1981


Trapp, ed., Kenneth R.

Softcover. Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1st, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Selected works from the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum. 89 pages. Includes 4 critical essays accompanied by 50 black/white illustrations. Near fine condition, very slight wear to the bottom corners of the covers.

Record # 805555


Price: $8.00 

 

Cellular Basis of the Immune Response, The - An Approach to Immunobiology (Second Edition)


Goleb, Edward S.

Softcover. Sunderland, MA, Sinauer Associates, Second Edition, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages. Softcover with light, marginal wear to edges, light moisture stain to cover margins. Profusely illustrated in black & white, including tables, figures & experiment detail. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 5560146


Price: $13.00 

 

Central American Holiday - A Guide to the Railroads of El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico


Best, Gerald M.

Softcover. Redwood City, Pacific Coast Chapter Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. Ex-museum library copy with sticker at bottom left corner of front cover and dry tape residue with some paper loss along spine. Illustrated with many black & white photographs. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613923


Price: $188.00 

 

Central Park, The


Seltzer, Thomas

Hardcover. New York, Central Park Association, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white engravings. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Corners bumped, boards worn at edges. Small hole in front cover hinge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 509646


Price: $40.00 

Century of Arts & Letters, AUpdike (Editor), John/R.W.B Lewis/Louis Auchincloss/Cynthia Ozick/Richard Lippold/Wolf Kahn/Norman Mailer/Jack Beeson/Ada Louise Huxtable/Hortense Calisher

Century of Arts & Letters, A


Updike (Editor), John/R.W.B Lewis/Louis Auchincloss/Cynthia Ozick/Richard Lippold/Wolf Kahn/Norman Mailer/Jack Beeson/Ada Louise Huxtable/Hortense Calisher

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 346 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613839


Price: $23.00 

 

Century of Travels in China, A - Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s


Kerr (Editors), Douglas/Julia Kuehn

Hardcover. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 1st Edition, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Hardcover. Black cover boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Full color & black & white illustrations following page 74. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 750231


Price: $31.00 

 

Ceramic Art of Great Britain, The: From Prehistoric Times Down to the Present Day, Being a History of the Ancient and Modern Pottery and Porcelain Works of the Kingdom and of their Productions of Every Class (2 vols.)


Jewitt, Llewel

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, Welford Armstrong , 1st US?, 1878, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 531, 569 pages. Green cloth, spine label with gilt lettering. Foxing to end papers of both volumes. Half title page in volume 2 torn in half. Black & white illustrations throughout both. Top edge gilt. Spines cracked.

Record # 804335


Price: $64.00 

 

Chained Library - A Survey of Four Centuries in the Evolution of the English Library, The


Streeter, Burnett Hillman

Hardcover. New York, Burt Franklin, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. Hardcover. 93 black & white illustrations and plans. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612819


Price: $63.00 

 

Champlain - The Birth of French America


Litalien, Raymonde/Denis Vaugeois/Kathe Roth

Hardcover. Quebec, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 398 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light edge wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612184


Price: $63.00 

 

Charles C. Caffin: A Voice for Modernism, 1897-1918


Underwood., Sandra Lee

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, UMI Research Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. UMI Research Press Studies in the Fine Arts: Criticism. Light gray leatherette, Black lettering to spine. No dust jacket as issued. Looks brand new.

Record # 605136


Price: $13.00 

 

Charles W. Morgan, The - The Last Wooden Whaleship


Stackpole, Edouard A.

Hardcover. New York, Meredith Press, First Edition, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Hardcover. Gray cloth covered boards with silver titles to cover & spine. Decorative endpapers with detail of the the Inboard Perspective of the Charles W. Morgan. Sunfade to board edges. Bright black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket in full color with toning and edgewear. Related ephemera. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751190


Price: $25.00 

 

Charles W. Morgan, The


Leavitt, John F.

Hardcover. Mystic , CT, Mystic Seaport/, First Edition, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 131 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine & decorative endpapers. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, small tears & price clipped. Inscribed by previous owner to preliminary page. Profusely illustrated in bw throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751231


Price: $19.00 

 

Charleston - Photographic Studies by F. S. Lincoln


Lincoln, F. S./E. Milby Burton

Hardcover. New York, Corinthian Publications, Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs by F. S. Lincoln. Dust jacket shows standard wear. jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610817


Price: $25.00 

 

Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counterintelligence but Promoted the Politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War Years


Theoharis, Athan

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Ivan R. Dee, First Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Grey boards with gilt titles to black cloth spine. Dust jacket with light scuffing & light wear to edges. Very clean inside. A nice copy.

Record # 751562


Price: $19.00 

 

Chats on Japanese Prints


Ficke, Arthur Davison

Hardcover. Rutland, Charles E. Tuttle, 1st US, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 456 pages. Hardcover. Full color frontis. Black & white illustrations. Price clipped dust jacket with short tape repaired tears at edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613698


Price: $19.00 

 

Chaucer: His Life, His Work, His World


Howard, Donald R.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 636 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Masterly biography on the man and the poet. Black-and-white illustrations. Fading to dust jacket spine. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket as well. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952073


Price: $23.00 

 

Chaudet's Belisarius: An Example of Virtue - Exhibition September 15-November 7, 2003


Janoray, Charles

Softcover. New York, Charles Janoray, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages. Exhibition catalog. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Minor wear.

Record # 610741


Price: $13.00 

 

Chelsea and other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection


Hackenbroch, Yvonne

Hardcover. Cambridge, MOMA/Harvard University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 30 page Introduction followed by 146 full color and black & white plates and 285 pages of descriptions and commentaries. Hardcover. Foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with 2 chunks of paper missing near to of spine, wrinkling along top edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613590


Price: $100.00 

 

Chess - The Story of Chesspieces from Antiquity to Modern Times


Wichmann, Hans/Siegfried Wichmann

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st US, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 328 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Ex-museum library copy. Stamp embossed at top right corner of title page. Dust jacket worn, with tape residue at bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610383`


Price: $38.00 

 

Chicago Ceramics & Glass: An Illustrated History from 1871 to 1933


Darling, Sharon S., Illust. by: Walter W. Krutz

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Chicago Historical Society, 1st, 1979, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, History of the art of glass and ceramics in Chicago. Focuses on both small-scale, decorative works and larger, architectural pieces. Illustrated with 221 photographs (mostly black/white, few color). Dust jacket in very good condition, shows slight rubbing on the back, but cloth bound book in near fine condition with virtually no flaws.

Record # 804749


Price: $64.00 

 

Chicago's North Michigan Avenue: Planning and Development, 1900-1930


Stamper, John W.

Hardcover. Chicago IL, The University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. New insight into the history of Chicago. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Many black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 4450068


Price: $25.00 

ChicagoTerkel, Studs

Chicago


Terkel, Studs

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 148 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photos. Remainder line top edge. Dust jacket with large tear repaired with tape, edgewear. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 61749


Price: $9.00 

Chieftain to Knight: Tibbott Bourke 1567-1629, First Viscount MayoChambers, Anne

Chieftain to Knight: Tibbott Bourke 1567-1629, First Viscount Mayo


Chambers, Anne

Hardcover. DUBLIN IR, Wolfhound Press, 1ST, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470555


Price: $25.00 

Chinese Jades - Colloquies on Art & Archaeology in Asia No. 18Scott, Rosemary E.

Chinese Jades - Colloquies on Art & Archaeology in Asia No. 18


Scott, Rosemary E.

Softcover. London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art/School of Oriental and African Studies/University of London, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613308


Price: $75.00 

 

Chinese Journey: A Remarkable Picture, in Photographs and Words, of China as it Really is Today


Kessle, Gun (Photography), Jan Myrdal (Text)

Hardcover. New York, NY, Pantheon Books/Random House, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, good condition. Cover boards bound in red cloth, Front cover board has black trim along right edge, gilt title on spine and gilt Chinese characters on front cover. Front flyleaf is almost completely detached from gutter. Binding tight, spine straight. A beautiful old book, beautifully photo-illustrated, wonderful look at China in the mid-twentieth century.

Record # 32158


Price: $25.00 

 

Chinese Pioneer Family, A - The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan 1729-1895


Meskill, Johanna Menzel

NJ, Princeton Univ., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 375 pages.

Record # 65624


Price: $31.00 

 

Chinese Silk: A Cultural History


Vainker, Shelagh

Hardcover. Rutgers University Press, 1st U.S., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Black cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Many color illustrations throughout. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 455647


Price: $20.00 

 

Chittenden County, Vermont, Look Around


Carlisle, Lilian Baker/Samuel J. Hatfield

Hardcover. Burlington, Chittenden County Historical Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 494 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612951


Price: $75.00 

 

Christ Alone Exalted: In the Perfection and Encouragements of the Saints, Notwithstanding Sins and Trials - Being the Complete Works of Tobias Crisp Containing Fifty-Two Sermons - Volume 1


Crisp, Tobias

Hardcover. London, John Bennett, reprint, 1832, Book: Very Good, 366 pages photocopied from the 1832 Seventh Edition, xeroxed two leafs per page with the reverse side blank. Bound in oblong black cloth covers. Volume 1 only (of 2).

Record # 405541


Price: $50.00 

 

Christ Alone Exalted: In the Perfection and Encouragements of the Saints, Notwithstanding Sins and Trials - Being the Complete Works of Tobias Crisp Containing Fifty-Two Sermons - Volume 2


Crisp, Tobias

Hardcover. London, John Bennett, reprint, 1832, Book: Very Good, 412 pages photocopied from the 1832 Seventh Edition, xeroxed two leafs per page with the reverse side blank. Bound in oblong black cloth covers. Volume 2 only (of 2).

Record # 405542


Price: $50.00 

 

Christian Parlor Book, The - Devoted to Literature, Morals and Religion - Vol. V


N/A

Hardcover. NY, George Pratt, 1st, 1849, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 b&w engraved plates, 1 hand-colored floral plate. 380 pages. Light foxing to pages. Black leather spine with 3 inch tear to one edge.

Record # 601595


Price: $41.00 

 

Christian Parlor Book, The - Devoted to Science, Literature, and Religion - Vol. VI


Thomas Cole, Jenny Lind, Walter Savage Landor

Hardcover. NY, George Pratt, 1st, 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 b&w engraved plates. Articles on the Character of Thomas Cole (with a portrait and a sketch), Jenny Lind (with portrait), Danish sculptor Albert Thorvalsden (portrait), author Walter Savage Landor(portrait). 380 pages. Light foxing to pages. Black leather spine, cloth on rear board coming loose, minor tears.

Record # 601596


Price: $30.00 

 

Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries (2 vols.)


Froissart, Sir John

Hardcover. London, William Smith, Rep., 1848, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, transl. by Thomas Johnes. 116 black & white engravings. Illuminated title page in color. 768, 733 pages. All edges gilt. 3/4 leather, spine with raised bands & gilt lettering. Previous owner's small name stamp on front paste-down. Pages slightly wavy.

Record # 64152


Price: $193.00 

 

Chronicles of London, The


Saint, Andrew and Gillian Darby

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color and black & white illust. Light edgewear. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 54684


Price: $8.00 

 

Church and the Fine Arts, The - An Anthology of Pictures, Poetry, Music & Stories Portraying the Growth and Develoment of the Church Through the Centuries


Maus, Cynthia Pear

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., unknown, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 902 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations throughout, color frontispiece. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Age toning to text block edges. A tight copy.

Record # 68001


Price: $15.00 

 

Church of Pentacost, The


Thoburn, Bishop J. M.

Hardcover. Calcutta, Methodist Publishing House, First Edition, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 424 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth boards with gilt titles to spine & black printed titles to cover. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Tanning to preliminary and end pages. Light toning throughout, crack to p. 419. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 751290


Price: $25.00 

 

Churchill and America


Gilbert, Martin

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 503 pages. Hardcover. 30 pages of illustrations in black & white. Dust jacket price clipped & in very good condition. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750979


Price: $15.00 

 

Churchill's Generals


Keegan, John

Hardcover. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, First Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, now protected with a plastic cover. Illustrated in black & white, tight bindng, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750947


Price: $15.00 

 

Cincinnati Reds - An Informal History, The


Allen, Lee

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 302 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 15 pages of black & white photographs. Moisture wrinkling to top half inch of spine cloth. A few pages with light moisture staining to very top edges. Dust jacket with chipping along edges, staining, previous owners repair with paper at top of spine. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614199


Price: $38.00 

Cine Goes to Town, The - French Cinema 1896-1914Abel, Richard

Cine Goes to Town, The - French Cinema 1896-1914


Abel, Richard

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif., 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 568 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photos throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Includes extensive bibliography. Some shelf wear to mylar dust jacket protector. Otherwise Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 51024


Price: $35.00 

 

Cinema Journal - Fall 1971 - Volume XI - No. 1


Cinema Journal

Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 68 pages. Softcover. Features: Walter Korte: Marxism and Formalism in Visconti's Films, John Schultheiss: The 'Eastern' Writer in Hollywood, Symposium on Published Scripts. Black smudges on back cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 611311


Price: $10.00 

 

Cinema Journal - Fall 1998 - Volume 37 - No. 2


Cinema Journal

Softcover. Champaign, University of Illinois, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages plus ads. Softcover. Features: Karen Hollinger on the Popular Lesbian Film, Jenny Kwok Wah Lau on Hong Kong Comedy of the 1980's, Kenneth Chan on Black Action Films of the 1990's, Asuman Suner on M. Butterfly, Carl Plantinga on Unforgiven, David Bordwell, Stuart Minnis and Peter Lehman on Pluralism in Film Studies. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 611335


Price: $10.00 

 

Cinema Journal - Spring 1977 - Volume XVI - No. 2


Cinema Journal

Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Softcover. Features: Charles F. Altman: Towards a Historiography of American Film, Burnes Hollyman: Alexander Black's Picture Plays 1893-1894, Lucy Fischer: Rene Clair, Le Million, and the Coming of Sound, James Damico: News Marches in Place - Kane's Newsreel as a Cutting Critique, William Goetz: The Canadian wartime Documentary - Canada Carries On and The World in Action. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 611328


Price: $10.00 

 

Cinema Journal - Winter 1992 - Volume 31 - No. 2


Cinema Journal

Softcover. Champaign, University of Illinois, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages plus ads. Softcover. Features: Stephen Prince and Wayne Hensley on Kuleshov, Gregory Waller on Black Moviegoing, Chris Berry on Chinese Film, Yosefa Loshitzky and raya Meyuhas on The Last Emperor. Clean unmarked text.

Record # 611345


Price: $10.00 

 

Cinema of Paradox - French Filmmaking Under the German Occupation


Ehrlich, Evelyn

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 235 pages. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white film stills. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608008


Price: $50.00 

 

CIRCUS: CINDERS TO SAWDUST


O'Brien, Esse Forrester

Hardcover. San Antonio, TX, Naylor Company, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, A History of the Circus in America. Pictorial end papers. Color frontis. Red and black printed title page. 269 pages. Illustrated color and black and white plates. 8vo. Red pictorial cloth. Very colorful pictorial dust jacket, edge chipped, splits taped.

Record # 220642


Price: $16.00 

 

Cities & People - A Social and Architectural History


Giroyard, Mark

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 397 pages, color, black & white photos

Record # 52615


Price: $30.00 

 

City - A Story Of Roman Planning and Construction


Maculay, David

Softcover. NY, Collins, reprint pbk, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 112 pages. Black & white illustrations by the author.

Record # 202927


Price: $18.00 

City in Literature, The: An Intellectual and Cultural HistoryLehan, Richard

City in Literature, The: An Intellectual and Cultural History


Lehan, Richard

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages. Softcover. Corner folds to multiple pages. Pen markings to multiple pages. An otherwise clean copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471491


Price: $15.00 

 

CIVIL RIGHTS AND WRONGS: A Memoir of Race and Politics, 1944-1994


Ashmore, Harry S.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 441 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards with silver colored lettering on spine. Light scuffing to page block otherwise Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468245


Price: $13.00 

 

Civil War in South Russia, 1918


Kenez, Peter

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 351 pages. A few black-and-white photos. Light spotting on dust jacket, including flaps. Minor chipping along top edge of dust jacket. Some creasing on dust jacket spine and bottom of front cover. Small closed tear along edge of dust jacket front cover. Dust jacket price clipped. A little foxing on top edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856242


Price: $25.00 


  

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