Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1940s-1950s. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. "Published by Walter Rutherford and A. J. Gorham, Bermuda" printed on back. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact overall except for slight surface wear on front and back, slight corner wear, and a minuscule spot on part of the image. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows a bucolic scene in Smith's Parish, Bermuda. A man rides on a horse-drawn cart headed down a dirt road. A quaint cottage is in the foreground. Smith's Parish is named after ... View More...
222 pages, 11 plates, orange cloth stamped in navy, 9 x 6 1/2". Nice copy, clean and bright, in dust jacket which is edge worn and has a couple of small spots, protected by a mylar jacket. The inspiring story of a young man with one leg who travelled the world and met Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, Von Hindenburg and other great men. View More...
Original publisher's blue cloth binding. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4." 322 pages, complete. Thirty-four black and white plates and illustrations, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. A nice, clean, unworn copy. A Fine book. A young woman named Yvonne writes back home while touring France with her eccentric uncle. View More...
Illustrated cloth. Gilt and black decoration on front cover. Illustrations. Page tops are gilt. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. Library envelope, with library card, affixed to rear end paper, from the Library of the California School for the Deaf, and the Blind, Berkeley. 481 pages. Pages 471-474 have jagged edges from improper opening, does not affect text. In the Preface the author notes: "The Revolution made Napoleon. He was its embodiment, its natural sequence; it culminated in him; he stood between its chaos and a Bourbon restoration and although a usurper and a despot he saved the sali... View More...
Original publisher's beige paper wrappers with string binding. 6" x 9 3/4." Twenty-seven pages, complete. On title page: "Portsmouth N.H., Printed at the Oracle Press, by William Treadwell." Pages are fragile but mostly clean and intact. Chipping throughout publication, mostly limited to the edges with the only loss of text at the top of Pages 15 and 16. Pages darkened and foxed. A Good copy. Daniel Webster (1782-1952) was an American politician who served as the 14th and 19th Secretary of State, a United States Senator from Massachusetts, and a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, ... View More...
Original publisher's maroon cloth binding with gilt illustration on front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4." 457 pages, complete. Many black and white illustrations, complete. One illustration, the frontispiece, is in color. 112 illustrations are listed but some overlap on the same page. Printed in the back: "Oxford: Horace Hart, Printer to the University." Former owner's card laid in from the Recorder Guild. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Slight edge and corner wear. Some wear to the tail of the spine. Endpapers slightly browned. A Near Fine copy.... View More...
Fifth edition. viii, 493 pages, portrait, attractively bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards, 4 raised bands, gilt tooling and lettering on spine, gilt top edge, 9.5 x 6.5". Very nice copy. Appears to be an exhaustive study of Napoleon. View More...
336 pages; folding map; blue cloth binding with dust jacket under mylar. Some fading to the spine of the dust jacket. An account of a Polar Czech who spent thirty years living along the Siberian Arctic coast trading with the natives, whalers, and gold seekers. He lived in a large cave operating out of it selling coal and goods for trade. Makes for an interesting read. Very good clean copy. View More...
Volume Two Only. Volume II: vi, 391 pages; 13 illustrations (complete), tables; appendix; bound in original publisher's green cloth with title label pasted on the spine. Signed in pencil "J.L.B.". Contains chapters XVIII through XXXIII, plus appendix. View More...
22 pages. Small title label front cover. Loose covers, some chipping along spine edges. Contents intact. Two tears rear cover, repaired. Light foxing last two pages. Printed in Copenhagen. Contributions to the History of the University of Copenhagen from the time of its founding to the Reformation. The author: 1781-1871; Danish historian. View More...
Circa 1890. Two volume set, blue cloth binding with lovely gilt and silver illustration on front of three feathers with ribbon. Rubbing, cloth has been pieced in to repair spine. Volume 1 - 451 pages with 8 portrait plates, complete. Volume 2 - 439 pages with 10 portrait plates, complete. Grace Wharton was the pseudonym of Katherine Thomson (1797-1862), an English novelist and historian. This work is a collection of anecdotal biographies of prominent women in English and French society from the 16th to the early 19th century. It was written with her son, John Cockburn Thomson. These copies are... View More...
"American Series, 153". 332 pages; ads in back section; paper wrapper (4 3/4 x 6 7/8 inch). Some chipping to corners, minor hole (paper defect) in title page not effecting text. Very good copy. View More...
Inscribed by the author "'With fond remembrances' to Wilhalmina, from Maxine W. Whiteside" on the title page in ink. 31 pages; illustrations; dark orange paper covers with title and author on the cover. Account of the 50th annual excursion of the California Press Association lead by former Governor Friend Richardson to Guatemala. Clean copy inside and outside. View More...
Cloth. Illustrated dust wrapper; slight chipping to top of spine. This is one book in a series called "World Problems of To-day", written by several authors. From the dust wrapper: "The whole course of political events since the Great War and perhap s most of all the recent monetary crisis have compelled all thinking people to realise how closely the interests of this country are interwoven both politically and financially with those of other nations and especially of the other States of Europe ". "Herein lies a very real danger to the future of the country, for even those of our leaders who h... View More...
A beautiful, original hand-colored copperplate engraving that shows a view of Pont Neuf over the River Seine. People are shown walking or riding in horse-drawn carriages. Statue of Henry IV is featured in the center. Paper measures 19 1/2" x 13 1/8"; printed area measures 5 1/2" x 8 3/4." The local points of interest within the scene have numbers next to them, which correspond to a key below that lists the names of said places or monuments. This print is also a "vue d'optique," which were very popular in the latter half of the eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth century. ... View More...
xi, 345 pages; illustrations; green cloth binding with paper label on spine. Kate Wiggin was a leading author of children's books and founded the first Kindergarten class in San Francisco during the 1880s before moving to Maine where she wrote and lived the rest of her life. Very good clean copy. View More...
xii, 155 pages, engraved portrait, original cloth, 7 1/2 x 5". Spine a bit faded, ends chipped, light stain in upper corner of later leaves, oval blindstamp on title page, clean and tight, a sound copy with scattered light foxing. View More...
Limited edition. One of 996 copies printed. Original publisher's maroon cloth binding with brown dust wrapper. Gilt lettering on spine of the book. Top edge gilt. 6 3/4" x 9 3/4." 303 pages, complete. Index in back. Pages and covers of book and dust wrapper are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped and has no remainder marks. Fine copy in fine dust wrapper. Referenced in the Clark Bibliography, no. 175: "Dark red cloth, Covenant paper, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. 996 copies. Published at $6.00. In 1940 Barnes and Noble purchased 461... View More...
First French Edition. Limited Edition, no. 1005 of 1200 copies. Text in French. Contemporary green paper-covered boards backed with light brown leather. Boards faded to mostly light brown. Gilt lettering on spine. Beautiful green and white marbled endpapers. Original paper spine tipped in on a front flyleaf. 5 3/4" x 8," 338 pages, complete. Table of Contents in back. Front colophon: "It a ete tire de cet ouvrage douze cents exemplaires sur papier velin du Marais tous numerotes. No. 1,005." Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for the occasional small mark, minuscule ag... View More...
Original publisher's dark blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Black border decorations on top and bottom of front cover and spine. 5 3/4" x 8." 366 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Former owner's pencil inscription dated 1879 on front free endpaper. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Binding is tight. Pages have slight age toning and a few stains on Pages 18-21 (text is still readable). There is moderate wear along the edges and at the corners and head and tail of spine. Slight rubbing to front and back with a few... View More...
