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Library of Freemasonry: Derived from official sources throughout the world comprising its history, antiquities, symbols, contitutions, customs and concordant orders (VOLUME ONE ONLY)


Gould, V.W. Bro Robert Freke

Hardcover. London, JOHN C. YORSTON PUBLISHING , 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 380 pages. VOLUME ONE ONLY. Hardcover with 3/4 leather binding. Heavy chipping on top spine and fraying, wear to edges. Split of leather from front top spine half way down spine side. Previous owner's letter pasted in front end paper, and name written in record of book in front.

Record # 2233306


Price: $75.00 

 

Library of Freemasonry: Derived from official sources throughout the world comprising its history, antiquities, symbols, contitutions, customs and concordant orders (VOLUME THREE ONLY)


Gould, V.W. Bro Robert Freke

Hardcover. London, JOHN C. YORSTON PUBLISHING , 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 449 pages. VOLUME THREE ONLY. Hardcover with 3/4 leather binding. Heavy chipping on top spine and fraying, wear to edges. Heavy chipping on top edge and corners. Corners bumped and scraping to rear cover. Split at spine on rear.

Record # 2233308


Price: $75.00 

 

Library of Freemasonry: Derived from official sources throughout the world comprising its history, antiquities, symbols, contitutions, customs and concordant orders (VOLUME TWO ONLY)


Gould, V.W. Bro Robert Freke

Hardcover. London, JOHN C. YORSTON PUBLISHING , 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 374 pages. VOLUME TWO ONLY. Hardcover with 3/4 leather binding. Heavy chipping on top spine and fraying, wear to edges. Heavy chipping on top edge and corners. Corners bumped and rubbing to rear cover.

Record # 2233307


Price: $75.00 

 

Life and Death of the Luftwaffe, The


Baumbach, Werner

Hardcover. New York, NY, Coward-McCann, Inc., First US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with tears to edges & small chips, sunfade to spine. Dime sized chip to page 125. 8 pages of illustrations in black & white to center. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670147


Price: $19.00 

 

Loneliest Continent, The - The Story of Antarctic Discovery


Chapman, Walker

London, Jarrolds, 1st English, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages, including index. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 175897


Price: $15.00 

 

Longmans' Atlas of Ancient Geography


Butler, Rev. George

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green, and Co., Reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Features 28 maps. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Light foxing to some pages, with heavier foxing to central fold-out map. Fraying to brown cloth at bottom of spine. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609928


Price: $50.00 

 

Lost Peace, The - Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945 - 1953


Dallek, Robert

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, First Edition, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 420 pages. Hardcover. Ivory cloth boards with silver titles to red cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750874


Price: $15.00 

Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory: How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age MarinersKoppel, Tom

Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory: How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners


Koppel, Tom

Hardcover. New York, Atria, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469806


Price: $13.00 

 

Manners and Morals in the Age of Optimism - 1848-1914


Laver, James

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st US, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Ex-lib with usual markings, stamping, but hardly read, black & white Illustrations, 272 pgs.

Record # 100980


Price: $6.00 

 

March of Folly, The - From Troy to Vietnam


Tuchman, Barbara W.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 56998


Price: $25.00 

 

Marriages and Families : Making Choices in a Diverse Society - with Portrait of Family


N/A

Softcover. 4th, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, New in shrink wrap, includes CD-ROM. Voluime I.

Record # 450728


Price: $15.00 

 

Mastering Christianity


Glasson, Travis

Hardcover. Oxford UK , Oxford University, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Missionary Anglicanism and slavery in the Atlantic world. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Moderate fading and rubbing to wraps. Light bumping to corners. Mild soiling to text block edges. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951863


Price: $38.00 

Men of Autumn, The: An Oral History of the 1949-53 World Champion New York YankeesForker, Dom

Men of Autumn, The: An Oral History of the 1949-53 World Champion New York Yankees


Forker, Dom

Hardcover. Dallas, TX, Taylor Pub, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Includes appendix of player statistics. Spine lightly cracked on 4 sections. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468451


Price: $19.00 

 

Men Who Killed the Luftwaffe, The - The U.S. Army Air Forces Against Germany in World War II


Stout, Jay A.

Softcover. Guilford, Stackpole Books, First Thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 420 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750873


Price: $15.00 

 

Micronesia - The Breadfruit Revolution


Wenkam, Robert/Byron Baker

Hardcover. Honolulu, East-West Center Press, First Edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. Light toning to edges. Marine cloth boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Previous owner's name to front flyleaf. Decorative maps to endpapers. Dust jacket with light toning & light wear to edges. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751198


Price: $15.00 

 

Middle Ages 395-1272, The


Munro, Dana Carleton

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., Rep., 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many fold-out maps. 446 pages.

Record # 63967


Price: $23.00 

 

Middle East, The - A History


Fisher, Sydney Nettleton

NY, Knopf , rep, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated end papers. Embossed cover. No dust jacket.

Record # 202563


Price: $15.00 

 

Mightier Than the Sword: Cartoon, Caricature, Social Comment


Rogers, W.G.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, red title on spine. Dust jacket price-clipped, has a touch of agewear, wrapped and protected in clear, plastic brodart. In very good condition.

Record # 32237


Price: $15.00 

 

My Mystery Ships


Campbell, Gordon

NY, Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations. Black & white photos frontispiece. Spine faded. Light edgewear to covers. Corners a bit bumped.

Record # 202565


Price: $18.00 

 

Mycenaean World, The


Chadwick, John

Hardcover. London, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 201 pages.

Record # 63959


Price: $25.00 

 

Names on the Globe


Stewart, George S.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 411 pages. Blue pictorial cover. Blue boards with faded gilt title to spine. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850703


Price: $12.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XLII July - December 1922


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - Dec. 1922, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes two supplemental fold-out maps: Africa and the World. Very good, Clean.

Record # 415527


Price: $50.00 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXXIII  No. 6 June 1918National Geographic Society

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXXIII No. 6 June 1918


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps, advertisements. Original yellow and black wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Articles include: Cooties and Courage, A Battle Ground of Nature, Prussianism, Germany's Dream of World Domination, Aces Among Aces.

Record # 415569


Price: $25.00 

 

Nationalism Without Walls: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Canadian


Gwyn, Richard

Hardcover. Toronto, Ontario, McClelland & Stewart, First Edition, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean & unmarked inside and out. Dust jacket has faint wear to edges. Crisp & unmarked.

Record # 751563


Price: $13.00 

 

Nature's Engraver - A Life of Thomas Bewick


Uglow, Jenny

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages. Softcover. Black & white engraver's illustrations throughout. Clean, crisp & unmarked copy.

Record # 750924


Price: $19.00 

Nemo the Classic Comics Library #24, February 1987Marschall (Ed.) , Richard

Nemo the Classic Comics Library #24, February 1987


Marschall (Ed.) , Richard

Softcover. Agoura CA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format with stapled binding, color wraps, b&w illustrations, 66 pages. Articles on Rube Goldberg, His Life, Times, Comics, Inventions and Lunacy; Twelve Angry Men: The Violent World of Political Cartooning. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 411162


Price: $15.00 

 

New Perspectives in Modern Russian History: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990


McKean, Robert B. (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, October 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor shelf-wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458255


Price: $100.00 

 

New York Mid-Century: Post-War Capital of Culture, 1945-1965


Cohen-Solal, Annie and Paul Goldberger and Robert Gottlieb

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st UK, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. How New York City became the cultural capital of the post-war world in all fields of creative endeavor. With 447 illustrations, 159 in color. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951921


Price: $63.00 

 

Official Guide and Time Saving Trips Through the Fair


N/A

Hardcover. Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages, hardcover. The official exhibition guide-book of "A Century of Progress," Chicago's 1933 World's Fair. Light foxing to top text block. Rubbing to boards. Corners gently bumped/rubbed. Slight yellowing to endpapers. With b&w and color plates throughout. With tipped in maps and ads. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951366


Price: $55.00 

 

Old Age In The Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France


Troyansky, David G.

Hardcover. Ithaca, NEW YORK, Cornell University, 1st, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages explore a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged and the confrontation between changing demographics circumstances in a more secular world. 8vo. B/W illustrated plates. Gray cloth with red spine title label, gilt lettering. Burgundy endpapers. Near Fine. Pictorial dust jacket with minor marking. Very Good.

Record # 219956


Price: $10.00 

On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural HistoryRykwert, Joseph

On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History


Rykwert, Joseph

Softcover. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2nd, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Softcover. Shows wear and fading to covers and spine, creases along bottom of front cover. Slight cocking to upper spine. Otherwise clean copy.

Record # 2230973


Price: $15.00 

 

Options of Command


Dupuy, Colonel N.

NY, Hippocrene Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 10 crucial command decisions that could have altered World War II. 303 pages. In a nice dust jacket.

Record # 601698


Price: $6.00 

ORIG VINTAGE MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION - THE RETURN OF JED HENDERSAnderson (Illust.), Victor C., Illust. by: Victor  Anderson

ORIG VINTAGE MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION - THE RETURN OF JED HENDERS


Anderson (Illust.), Victor C., Illust. by: Victor Anderson

1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color art of welcome for a World War One hero by Victor Anderson. 13.5 x 10", horizontal format", very good. Slight crease in center.

Record # 414954


Price: $15.00 

 

Our More Perfect Union: From Eighteenth-century Principles to Twentieth-century Practice


Holcombe, Arthur N.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd printing, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 460 pages. Light gray boards, no dust jacket. Light smudge and wear to edges of spine, previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a neat, tight copy.

Record # 854611


Price: $10.00 

 

Peasant Uprisings - In 17th Century France, Russia and China


Mousnier, Roland

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 53818


Price: $18.00 

 

Perspective of the World, The - Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century (Vol. 3)


Braudel, Fernand

Paperback. New York, Harper & Row, Rep. wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 699 pages, B&W illustrations. Paperback.

Record # 303708


Price: $20.00 

 

Peter Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos


Freuchen, Peter

Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, The World Publishing Company, First Edition, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 441 pages. Blue cloth covered boards with navy printed illustration to cover & silver printed titles to cover & spine. Light toning throughout. Section of black & white illustrations to center. Original dust jacket is bright, with shelfwear, small tears to edges, price clipped. Tight binding, tight signatures.

Record # 6670077


Price: $25.00 

 

Pfalz: The First Detailed Story of the Company and Its Famous Plane


Grosz, Peter and Egon Kruger

Softcover. West Roxbury MA, World War I Aero Publishers, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages, b&w illustrations, illustrated stapled wrappers. Clean.

Record # 406551


Price: $13.00 

 

Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano


Parakilas, James

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 461 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent, very little wear. Pages clean, binding tight. Looks nearly new. Piano Roles is a lively and up-to-date history of the piano that examines both its evolution in classical and popular musical cultures around the world, and its every-changing social roles over the past three centuries.

Record # 32041


Price: $19.00 

 

Pitcairn Island


Silverman, David

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, The World Publishing Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear and crease, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 854400


Price: $12.00 

 

Plagues in World History (Exploring World History Series)


Aberth, John

Hardcover. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., First Edition, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Grey boards with silver titles to spine. Bright dust jacket, clean with light, marginal wear to edges. Some illustrations in black & white. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 5560147


Price: $44.00 

 

Playships of the World: The Naval Diaries of Admiral Dan Gallery 1920-1924


Shenk, Robert (Ed.)

Hardcover. Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Small remainder mark on bottom edge. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Indicative of the adventurous, carefree, and relatively risk-free period between the world wars was the early career of a young navel office, Dan Gallery. He would eventually achieve the rank of admiral and garner international fame for capturing a German submarine during World War II.

Record # 32220


Price: $19.00 

 

Politics of Torch, The: The Allied Landings and the Algiers Putsch 1942


Funk, Arthur Layton

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 322 pages. No dust jacket issued. The Allied invasion and occupation of North Africa, one of the most important and complex operations in World War II, is described from a unique viewpoint in this volume. Clean copy.

Record # 411289


Price: $15.00 

 

Prince Of Pleasure and His Regency, The 1811-20


Priestley, J.B.

NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white and color illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 202577


Price: $30.00 

 

Progress of Nations, Volume IX


N/A

Hardcover. Chicago, Disable American Veterans of the World War, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 564 pages, with illustrations and gilt decorated green cloth cover. Light ex-library residue, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853785


Price: $10.00 

 

Progress of Nations, Volume VII


N/A

Hardcover. Chicago, Disable American Veterans of the World War, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 552 pages, with illustrations and gilt decorated green cloth cover. Light ex-library residue, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853784


Price: $10.00 

 

Progress of Nations, Volume X


N/A

Hardcover. Chicago, Disable American Veterans of the World War, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 635 pages, with illustrations and gilt decorated green cloth cover. Light ex-library residue, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853783


Price: $10.00 

 

Project Rand, War and the Soviet Union: Nuclear Weapons and the Revolution in Soviet Military and Political Thinking


Dinerstein, H. S.

Softcover. Santa Monica, CA, The Rand Corporation, First US, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Ivory softcover wraps with heavy toning, darkens to spine edge & navy titles. Light toning to pages throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 6670165


Price: $125.00 

 

Quebec Hydropolitics: The Peribonka Concessions of the Second World War (Studies on the History of Quebec/Etudes D'histoire Du Quebec)


Massell, David

Softcover. US, Mcgill Queens Univ Pr, 1st, 2011-01-27, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 466169


Price: $25.00 

Quest for Paradise: History of the World's GardensKing, Ronald

Quest for Paradise: History of the World's Gardens


King, Ronald

Hardcover. United Kingdom, Whittet Books Ltd, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Extensive color photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466586


Price: $15.00 

 

Railways Then and Now


Nock, O. S.

Hardcover. New York, Random House Value Publishing, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460122


Price: $19.00 

 

Razing of Romania's Past, The


Giurescu, Dinu C

Softcover. New York , World Monuments Fund , 1st, 1989 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 75 pages. Softcover. Photographs and one pull out map with key interspersed throughout. Some creasing around the spine. clean, tight copy.

Record # 857176


Price: $13.00 

 

Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History


Zunz, Olivier

Softcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855420


Price: $10.00 

 

Rembrandt's Eyes


Schama, Simon

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 750 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Super clean inside and out. In great shape. From the front flap: "...this book moves far beyond the bounds of conventional biography or art history. With extraordinary imaginative sympathy, Schama conjures up the world in which Rembrandt moved--its sounds, smells, and tastes as well as its politics; the influences on him of the wars of the Protestant United Provinces against Spain, of the extreme Calvanism of his native Leiden, of the demands of patrons and the ambitions of contemporaries; the importance of his beloved Saskia and, after her death (Rembrandt was later forced to sell her grave, so complete was his ruin), of his mistress Hendrickje Stoffels...".

Record # 30479


Price: $31.00 

 

Renaissance Architecture (History of World Architecture)


Murray, Peter

Softcover. US, Electa / Rizzoli, rep, 1990-03-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Yellow highlighting in text. Light shelf-wear to wrappers with slight crease to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463275


Price: $19.00 

 

Requirements Division During the World War (1917-1918), The


Salisbury, Lt. Philip and Lt. Charles Coyne

Hardcover. Washington DC, privately printed, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages, a memoir of the Division that was formed to expedite supplies to our forces in World War 1. Fold-out photo of personnel as frontispiece. Olive color cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt name of Marguerite Roselle imprinted on front cover, her copy (listed in personnel roster under stenographers in rear). Back cover has some color fade and small bumps. Internally very good.

Record # 406640


Price: $50.00 

 

Rescuing Da Vinci - Hitler and the Nazis Stole Europe's Great

Hardcover. Dalla, Laurel Publishing LLC, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with black printed titles to cover & spine. Coffee table sized and profusely illustrated in full page, full color & b/w. Frontis illustration, The Sower, 1888 by Vincent Van Gogh, 1888 and Lady With an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1483-88, both in full color. Bright dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750243


Price: $31.00 

 

Return to Malaya


Lockhart, R.H. Bruce

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Edition, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Previous owner's name stamped on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked throughout. Cover boards bound in green cloth, red title on spine and front cover board. Some fading to spine and edges from age. Deckled edges. Top edge dyed to match cover bindings. Light age-tanning to edges. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition for its age. The "British Agent" goes back to the scene of this youthful romance and adventure, and emerges with a shrewd appraisal of a changing world.

Record # 32246


Price: $19.00 

Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's FairArt, National Museum of American (U.S.)

Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair


Art, National Museum of American (U.S.)

Softcover. US, National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1993-03-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 408 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461262


Price: $63.00 

 

Revolutions of Our Time - 20th Century Nationalism


Barclay, Glen St. J.

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Back of dj with tape

Record # 57007


Price: $15.00 

 

Revolutions of Our Time - Capitalism


Vaizey, John

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with short closed tears in back, otherwise very good. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 106381


Price: $18.00 

 

Rocket Team, The


Ordway III, Frederick I. & Mitchell R. Sharpe

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The story of refugee scientists drawn from around the world in WW II who formed the nucleus of NASA. Black ^& white photos. 462 pages.

Record # 61151


Price: $30.00 

 

Rome and the Renaissance - The Pontificate of Julius II


Klaczko, Julian

Hardcover. NY, Putnams, 1st US, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 52 black & white illust. 386 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Tight, bright copy.

Record # 61362


Price: $40.00 

 

Royal Photograph Gallery


Ridpath, John Clark (Introduction)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Manufacturers Book Company, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 464 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations/plates throughout. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, gilt title on spine and design on front (slightly faded). A faint moisture stain to front cover but no warping. A bump or two to edges of covers and a touch of fraying to corners. Binding tight, spine straight. Some tanning from age to edges and pages. Incredible old photographs of the royalty of the world in the mid 1800's. In amazing shape for its age.

Record # 31726


Price: $50.00 

 

Rural Versus Urban: Their Conflict and Its Causes


Bookwalter, John W.

Hardcover. New York, Knickerbocker Press, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages, brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's inscription on blank page in front. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.

Record # 404703


Price: $15.00 

 

Russian Version of the Second World War, The : The History of the War As Taught to Soviet Schoolchildren


Lyons, Graham (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Facts on File, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear, rubbing to pictorial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453326


Price: $12.00 

 

Savoring Spain & Portugal (Williams-Sonoma)


Goldstein, Joyce

Hardcover. New York, Time-Life Books, 1st Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, yellow quarter cloth, white title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a 2" closed tear (patched) on top of back cover (see image), otherwise excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. In great shape. In her enlightening text, award-winning author Joyce Goldstein provides short lessons in history and geography and then guides readers through the intricate worlds of chorizos and cheese, paellas and gazpachos, tapas and custards.

Record # 32433


Price: $15.00 

 

Scandinavia Beckons


Oakley, Amy, Illust. by: Thornton Oakley

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton Century Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 540 pages w/ index. Dj very chipped, in mylar cover. Blue cloth, gilt. Map end papers.

Record # 803822


Price: $8.00 

 

Scenes & Characters of the Middle Ages


Cutts, Edward L.

Hardcover. London UK, Simpkin Marshall Ltd, 7th, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 illustrations in black & white. 552 pages. Hardcover in very good condition. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light fraying to crown & heel of spine. Deckled edge. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf, tight binding, toning throughout, small spots of soiling to a few pages, otherwise clean.

Record # 751486


Price: $25.00 

 

Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections


Drexler, Madeline

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Joseph Henry Press, First US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth covered boards with black printed titles to spine. Illustrations by Kathryn Born in black & white throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with light, marginal wear to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked text. A nice copy.

Record # 5560155


Price: $13.00 

Secret Surrender, The: The Classic Insider's Account of the Secret Plot to Surrender Northern Italy During WWIIDulles, Allen W.

Secret Surrender, The: The Classic Insider's Account of the Secret Plot to Surrender Northern Italy During WWII


Dulles, Allen W.

Softcover. Connecticut, The Lyon's Press, Reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Clean inside and out. From back cover: "This is the classic and controversial inside story of Operation Sunrise, which brought about the surrender of a million Nazi and Fascist forces in World War II."

Record # 30188


Price: $19.00 

 

Secret War, The - Spies, Ciphers, and Guerillas - 1939 - 1945


Hastings, Mad

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, First US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 609 pages. Hardcover with bw photograph to cover boards & decorative endpapers. 32 pages of black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with creases to inside flap. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750868


Price: $19.00 

Secrets of the Water Rats, A Rhode Island Girlhood, 1930s-1940s (SIGNED)McCrosky, Jean C.

Secrets of the Water Rats, A Rhode Island Girlhood, 1930s-1940s (SIGNED)


McCrosky, Jean C.

Softcover. Massachusetts, Jean C. McCrosky, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 138 pages. Softcover. Signed by author with long inscription. B/w illustrations throughout. In good shape, clean inside. From the back cover: "Climb aboard for an exciting entertaining sail through the adventurous childhood escapades in the Pre-World War II coastal waters of Rhode island. It is a delightfully evocative journey. Take it from someone who was once aboard....and survived."

Record # 30252


Price: $31.00 

 

Skyscrapers: Reaching for the Sky


Wright, Herbert

Hardcover. Bath, England, Parragon, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Decorated cover boards, glossy. Decorated endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. In this wonderfully illustrated book, Herbert Wright provides a spectacular history of the world's greatest skyscrapers from the eighteenth century to present.

Record # 32290


Price: $23.00 

 

Smaller Classical Dictionary, A


Blakeney, E. H.

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent, rep., 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 552 pages + black & white plates in rear. Remnants of dj laid-in.

Record # 58667


Price: $12.00 

 

Social Life in Scotland from Early to Recent Times (2 Vols.)


Rogers, Rev. Charles

Port Washington, NY, Kennikat Press, Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol I: 416 pages. Vol II: 418 pages. No Dust jacket issued.

Record # 300893


Price: $40.00 

Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America (Folklore Studies in Multicultural World)Jacobson, Marion

Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America (Folklore Studies in Multicultural World)


Jacobson, Marion

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Illinois Press, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color pictures in center, black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470282


Price: $31.00 

 

Stalin's World: Dictating the Soviet Order


Davies, Sarah and James Harris

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages, hardcover. Drawing on recently declassified material from Stalin's personal archives, comes this analysis on the way Stalin interpreted and envisioned his world. Mild rubbing to boards. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951642


Price: $29.00 

 

STATE INSOLVENCY & FOR 2VL (The World economy)


Borchard

Hardcover. US, Dissertations-G, reprint, 1983-04-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volumes. 381 + 652 pages. Previous owner's stamp on front end papers. Slight stain to top edges, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jackets as issued.

Record # 464326


Price: $100.00 

 

Stewart Dynasty in Scotland, the - James IV


Macdougal, Norman

Hardcover. East Linton, Scotland, Tuckwell Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light wear to dust jacket. Black & white paintings, drawings, photos. Hardbound, 339 pgs.

Record # 109456


Price: $30.00 

 

Story of the Guard, The: A Chronicle of the War


Fremont, Jessie Benton

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Some foxing to front endpaper. Light wear to extremities.

Record # 603498


Price: $51.00 

 

Stranger at the Party


Lawrenson, Helen

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Deckled, untrimmed edges. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Note in marker to back page. Tan cover boards, blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine, author's initials in gilt on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. A touch of foxing to edges. In great condition. Lawrenson tells the story of her own life against the backdrop of the glamorous world of Vanity Fair, as well as against the atmosphere of the waterfront that she came to know through her husband's work with the National Maritime Union.

Record # 32327


Price: $23.00 

 

Studio: Asia: A Famous Artist-Correspondent Reports on the Korean War and the Turbulent East.


Groth, John, Illust. by: John Groth

Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, World Publishing Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Hardcover. Sepia illustrations by author throughout. Decorated endpapers. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, tan quarter cloth, gilt title on blue on spine and gilt title on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped, has some tanning from age, covered in protective plastic. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age.

Record # 32156


Price: $19.00 

 

Sun Stood Still, The


Mustarde, J. C.

London, Pilot Press, 1st, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. A British military doctor gives a first-hand account of his life in prison camps in North Africa and Italy during World War II. Rubbing along front cover hinge. Covers worn, soiled.

Record # 601098


Price: $51.00 

 

That Jefferson Boy


Miers, Earl Schenck, Illust. by: Kurt Werth

NY, World Publishing, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages, illustrated in b&w by Kurt Werth. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Small chunk gone from top spine of the dust jacket otherwise very good.

Record # 600941


Price: $12.00 

 

The Battle of the Casbah - Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria 1955-1957


Aussaresses, General Paul

New York, Enigma, 1st Eng trans, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages. Black & white photography.

Record # 205885


Price: $18.00 

The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British EnlightenmentPorter, Roy

The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment


Porter, Roy

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 728 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light age wear, fading to jacket and one small chip to upper back spine. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 2231076


Price: $19.00 

 

The Dragon Strikes - China and the Korean War: June-December 1950


Roe, Patrick C.

Novato, CA, Presidio, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 466 pages. Black & white maps.

Record # 206732


Price: $20.00 

The Federalization of SpainMoreno, Luis

The Federalization of Spain


Moreno, Luis

Softcover. London ; Portland, OR, Routledge, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 454817


Price: $40.00 

 

The Fossil Collection - World Pre-History in the Palm of Your Hand


Parker, Steve

Softcover. New York, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 page paperback with text and full color photographs. Slides into a cardboard case that opens like a book and houses 3 ammonite fossils.

Record # 501648


Price: $8.00 

 

The Scottish Highlands - A Short History


Kermack, W.R.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Johnston & Bacon, reprint , 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, light wear to cover of dust jacket. back cover lightly soiled. internal pgs are clean. previous price sticker on front flap. 6 black & white maps. 160 pgs.

Record # 108628


Price: $15.00 

 

The Wheels Of Commerce - Civilization And Capitalism 15th-18th Century Vol. 2


Braudel, Fernand

NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear to covers. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 202578


Price: $25.00 

 

Third Millennium Equipoise


Saighal, Vinod

New Delhi, Lancer Pub., 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. Previous owner's inscription on front endpage with author's card taped to front pastedown.

Record # 501042


Price: $19.00 

 

This January Tale


Bryher

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Light chipping, staining to dust jacket. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 851759


Price: $15.00 

 

Tour Around the World


Grant, General

Hardcover. Cincinnati, OH, Jones Brothers & Co., 1st, 1879?, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 810 pages plus 6 pages of ads. Green decorated cloth, gilt. Hinge cracked. Many b&w engraved plates. Previous owner's signature. Believed to be 1879 edition although title page is missing. Preface date 1879.

Record # 803761


Price: $32.00 

 

Tramp - Sagas of High Adventure in the Vanishing World of the Old Tramp Freighters


Krieger, Michael J.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. Minor darkening to edges of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610012


Price: $18.00 

 

Tropics of Empire, The: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies


Wey Gomez, Nicolas

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 592 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A recreation of the complex and and now forgotten world of cosmological and geographical learning within which Columbus planned his voyage to Asia. Many color illustrations and maps throughout. Slant to spine; binding unaffected. Light soiling to top edge text block. Mild bumping to corners, light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. A bright copy.

Record # 951583


Price: $48.00 

 

Turks in World History, The


Vaughn Findley, Carter

Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 2nd, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 30034


Price: $15.00 

 

Twenty-six Centuries of Agrarian Reform: A Comparative Analysis


Tuma, Elias H.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 309 pages. Light tanning, wear, and some spotting along spine of dust jacket. Chipping, including closed tear in rear, along top edge of dust jacket covers. Dust jacket price clipped. Minor foxing on top edge. Underlining in pen throughout. Good reading copy.

Record # 856233


Price: $15.00 

U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II - Combat Chronology - 1941-1945Carter (Editor), Kit C./Robert Mueller

U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II - Combat Chronology - 1941-1945


Carter (Editor), Kit C./Robert Mueller

Softcover. Washington D. C. , Center for Air Force History, Reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 991 pages. Softcover World War II Anniversary Edition. Creases to spine. Light wear to covers & edges, marker to top edge of title page. Otherwise clean copy.

Record # 750481


Price: $19.00 

Veteran's War Stories - 1933 - 1993Utter (Editor), George H.

Veteran's War Stories - 1933 - 1993


Utter (Editor), George H.

Hardcover. Westerly, Sungraphics, First Thus, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 235 pages. Hardcover limited to 500. Tan cloth covers with blue printed decoration and titles to cover. Blue titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 750487


Price: $31.00 

 

Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 (The Penguin History of Britain)


Cannadine, David

Hardcover. US, Viking, First Edition, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 601 pages. Hardcover. Crisp, clean & unmarked with illustrated dust jacket, also in very good condition. 16 pages of illustrations & photographs in full color. Tight binding. A very nice copy.

Record # 2230281


Price: $23.00 

 

View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages


Hallam, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, rep, 1854, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, From the 6th London Ed. Complete in one volume. Covers loose, spine missing. reading copy

Record # 70664


Price: $15.00 

Village Blacksmith, TheWatson, Aldren A., Illust. by: A.A. Watson

Village Blacksmith, The


Watson, Aldren A., Illust. by: A.A. Watson

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 2nd, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 125 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Light brown fabric covered boards in good shape, clean inside. Dust cover age worn, in protective plastic. Pages and edges lightly yellowed with age. From the front flap: "The now extinct world of the blacksmith is recreated here in more than a hundred superbly detailed drawings and colorful text. Unlike many nostalgic accounts based on myth and romance, this book presents a historically accurate picture of the late-nineteenth-century New England smith, who daily performed the miracle of transforming lumps of re-hot iron into objects of utilitarian function."

Record # 30471


Price: $38.00 

 

Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, The


Skelton, R.A., Thomas E. Marston, & George D. Painter

New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 5th pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 68681


Price: $18.00 

 

Vintage: The Story of Wine


Johnson, Hugh

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, First Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Hardcover with gold ribbon marker. Red boards with gilt titles to spine. Profusely illustrated in full color & bw throughout. Dust jacket with light wear to edges. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751302


Price: $25.00 

 

Voices From the Dark Years: The Truth About Occupied France 1940 - 1945


Boyd, Douglas

Hardcover. Gloucestershire, UK, Sutton Publishing, First Edition, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright, illustrated dust jacket in very good condition. Clean & unmarked copy with black & white illustrations.

Record # 6670050


Price: $19.00 

 

Voices of History - 1945- 1946: Speeches and Papers of Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill, Attlee, Stalin, De Gaulle, Chiang and Other Leaders Delivered during 1944


Ausubel (Editor), Nathan

Hardcover. New York, NY, Gramercy Publishing Company, First Edition, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 660 pages. Hardcover. Light toning to edges throughout. Fold to p. 5 - 11. Foxing to top & right edge. Black boards with gilt titles to spine, some soilig to cover boards. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751512


Price: $19.00 

 

Voyages and Discoveries


Dampier, William & Clennell Wilkinson (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York , Da Capo Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages, fold-out maps. Light shelf-wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857033


Price: $38.00 

 

War Fact Tests for Every American


Allen, William H.

Softcover. Yonkers-on-Hudson, World Book Company, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 97 pages. Black & white illustrations. Covers with light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610569


Price: $25.00 

 

War Hitler Won, The: The Fall of Poland, September, 1939


Bethell, Nicholas

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 472 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. World War 2 history.Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Fading to rear dust jacket panel. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 4450042


Price: $15.00 

 

War Maps: World War II From September 1939 to August 1945, Air, Sea, And Land, Battle by Battle


Goodenough, Simon

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st USA, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tanning from age, very good. Binding tight, pages clean. In great shape. A comprehensive and visually exciting guide to the major actions of the Second World War. Perfect for any WWII collector or enthusiast.

Record # 31438


Price: $19.00 

 

WARTIME. WITH TITO AND TWO PARTNERS


Djilas, Milovan

Softcover. London, Secker & Warburg Ltd., 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 470 pages. Illustrated captioned plates. Double page map at front. Color pictorial wrappers of Tito, the author, others. The author was Vice President of Yugoslavia until his expulsion from the Communist Party in 1954. Translated by Michael B. Petrovitch.

Record # 220757


Price: $10.00 

 

Washington in Maps: 1606-2000


Miller, Iris

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations. Gilt title on spine. Decorated endpapers. In great shape, clean inside and out. From the front flap: "Washington in Maps features, in full color, over 100 glorious maps, dating from the seventeenth century to the present, featuring the most splendid antique maps of Washington--to hte extraordinary, otherworldly staellite imagery of today. Included are maps by Thomas Jefferson and pierre Charles L'Enfant, the man upon whose design modern Washington now stands; a map by Captain John Smith from 1608; and maps by the Senate Park (McMillan) Commission, among many others."

Record # 30448


Price: $50.00 

 

Western Europe in the Middle Ages - A Short History


Strayer, Joseph R.

NY, Appleton-Century Crofts, Rep., 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. About 30 pages with ink marking.

Record # 65399


Price: $12.00 

 

Westralia Gold Mining Opportunities


N/A

Hardcover. London, Mining World & Engineering Record, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A guide to gold mining in Western Australia, 111 pages with b&w illustrations, folding color map of The Golden Mile with various mining companies activity. Color illustrated boards with black cloth spine, light soil.

Record # 405927


Price: $19.00 

 

What Did You Do in WWII Grandpa?


Gabler, Clyde W.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Gateway Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 91 pages, b&w illustrations, in blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration. Author was a staff officer with the air force in North Africa, Sicily and Italy during World War II.

Record # 405310


Price: $25.00 

 

What Good Are Bugs: Insects in the Web of Life


Waldbauer, Gilbert

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Green cover boards with black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. In great shape, binding tight, clean inside. Has a small drip of soil to top edge, but otherwise excellent. "...combines anecdotes from entomological history with insights into the intimate workings of the natural world, describing the intriguing and sometimes amazing behavior of these tiny creatures."

Record # 31411


Price: $15.00 

 

Wheels of Commerce, The - Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century (Vol. 2)


Braudel, Fernand

Softcover. New York, Harper & Row, Rep., 1982 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 670 pages, B&W illustrations. Paperback.

Record # 303707


Price: $20.00 

 

Who's Who in the Middle Ages (2 Vol.)


Emmerson, Richard K. (Editor), Sandra Clayton-Emmerson (Asso. Editor)

Hardcover. London, England, Routledge, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 1037 pages (two volume set). Hardcovers. Books are in beautiful like-new condition. Red cover boards, silver gilt title on spines. Dust jackets unclipped. Pages bright and clean. Spines straight, bindings tight. From Emperors and queens to artists and world travelers, from popes and scholars to saints and heretics, Who's Who in the Middle Ages brings together the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500 AD.

Record # 33432


Price: $63.00 

 

Wild Geese of the World: Their Life History and Ecology


Owen, Myrfyn, Illust. by: Joe Blossom

Hardcover. London, B T Batsford Ltd, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages, with illustrations by Joe Blossom and a foreword by Sir Peter Scott. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854193


Price: $15.00 

 

Wilhelmsen Fleet, The: for Speed and Service- 1861-1961


Bland, A.L. and Michael Crowdy

Softcover. Kendal, England, World Ship Society, 1st, 1961, Dust Jacket: None, 75 pages. Black and white photographs along with ships' histories.

Record # 512337


Price: $8.00 

Winston S. Churchill: The Stricken World, 1916-1922Gilbert, Martin

Winston S. Churchill: The Stricken World, 1916-1922


Gilbert, Martin

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 967 pages. Hardcover with faded dust jacket. VOLUME 4. Clean, unmarked copy with light foxing and wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469559


Price: $63.00 

 

World Architecture: An Illustrated History


Copplestone (Ed), Trewin and others

London, Paul Hamlyn , 2nd ed, revised, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 348 pages. Oversize book. Contains numerous color, black & white photography of architecture. Plastic protective covering taped to dust jacket, endpapers. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription front end paper.

Record # 503829


Price: $13.00 

 

World at Arms, A - A Global History of World War II


Weinberg, Gerhard L.

London, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1178 pages. Huge volume in like new condition.

Record # 601682


Price: $18.00 

World at Arms. A : A Global History of WORLD WAR IIWeinberg, Gerhard L.

World at Arms. A : A Global History of WORLD WAR II


Weinberg, Gerhard L.

Hardcover. Cambridge University Press , reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1178 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with small tear to upper edge of spine. otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463661


Price: $15.00 

 

World Communism - The Disintegration of a Secular Faith


Lowenthal, Richard

Hardcover. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, First US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover with white printed titles to cover & spine. Dust jacket with age toning, chips and light wear to edges., now protected with a plastic cover. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751490


Price: $13.00 

 

World Furniture - An illustrated history


Hayward (Editor), Helena

Hardcover. London, Hamlyn, 4th printing, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with color and black & white photographs and reproductions. Dust jacket shows light wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511448


Price: $21.00 

 

World on Wheels, The: An Illustrated History of the Bicycle and Its Relatives


Calif, Ruth

Hardcover. New York, Cornwall Books, 1st, 1983, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Profusely illustrated with b/w photos and and drawings. Bright red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. One small chip in front cover. Very light edgewear. Bottom right corner of back cover is bumped. Some foxing on top edge. Pages are in beautiful, clean condition. Color pictorial dust jacket, lightly age toned with some very minor marking on back.

Record # 803088


Price: $10.00 

 

World Prehistory: In New Perspective


Clark, Grahame

Hardcover. US, Cambridge University Press, reprint , 1977-12-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 554 pages. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465972


Price: $25.00 

 

World Until Yesterday, The: What We Can Learn From Traditional Societies?


Diamond, Jared

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 499 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A look into the heart of traditional societies and the timely lessons they can offer us. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951701


Price: $19.00 

 

World's Fastest Man, The: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Mayor Taylor, American's First Black Sports Hero


Kranish, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 365 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of moisture damage to the top of the back cover. Cover boards tan with red quarter cloth, excellent. Pages clean and bright, binding tight. In very good condition. In this book, investigative journalist, Michael Kranish brilliantly chronicles Major Taylor's astonishing rise to world prominence in bicycle racing, twelve years before the ascension of boxer Jack Johnson on the global stage and fifty years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League baseball.

Record # 31424


Price: $19.00 

 

Writer's Brush, The : Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers


Friedmn, Donald

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Mid-List Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. With essays by William H. Gass and John Updike. Over 400 reproductions by more than 200 of the world's writers, arranged alphabetically. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Fading to dust jacket front. Light soling to bottom copy edge. Edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Corners lightly bumped. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951287


Price: $63.00 

 

Yellow Magic: The Story of Penicillin


Ratcliff, J. D.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Random House, First Edition, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 173 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with ivory & yellow textblock & black printed titles to cover & spine. Thin line of sunfade to board edges. Light toning throughout, some tanning to gutter at endpapers. Clean illustrations in black & white. Original dust jacket with age toning, small tears & chips to edges, now protected with a plastic cover. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 5560149


Price: $25.00 


  

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