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New York: Harper & Brothers. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. ca. 1876. 4 issues of Franklin Square Library bound together in a single volume. Number 24: W. Clark Russell, "Auld Lang Syne", 40pp. Number 30: Charlotte M. Yonge, "The Story of The Christians and Moors of Spain", 41pp. Number 31: Katharine S. MacQuoid, "Elinor Dryden", 77pp. Number 32: J. Roderick O'Flanagan, "The Irish Bar: Anecdotes, Bon-Mots, and Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of Ireland"... more information

Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.: University of California. 1958. Paperback. Fine. The Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 70. Facsimile reprint of 1703 edition. 32 pp of text + introduction and publication index. A fine staple-bound soft cover copy. Contents of booklet very clean with bright, unmarked text. ... more information

Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.: Nixon-Jones Printing, 1889. Very Good. First edition. With original cloth gilt-decorated boards but re- backed with maroon leather, clean unmarked text, illustrated, 749 pp., very good copy with slightest rubbing to edges/tips, library stamps on dedication page. Binding is Leather-backed Boards. ... more information

London: Faber and Faber LTD.. 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine. Published in 1951 by Faber and Faber LTD.. Near fine hard back book with a very good dust jacket. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. All pages clean, crisp and unmarked. Dust jacket lightly bumped with minor tearing to edges, elsefine. Creasing to endpapers. Tight binding. Clean boards. Very nice copy. 332 pp. Ocatvo. ... more information

New York: Gold Label Books. 1930. Eight Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 329 pps. Very good blue cloth hardcover. Minor shelfwear. Good dust jacket. Minor shelfwear, rubbing, and darkening at top edge. Textblock tight, small spots on top edge. No marks on text. 8vo. ... more information

New Haven: Yale University Press. 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 24 only, 1921, hardcover, octavo, 273pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with toning to spine and edges of boards, leather on spine starting to dry, light rubbing to outer spine hinges and boards, binding tight, light toning to edges of endpapers, text clean and unmarked, with some foxing to top edges of text. No DJ. ... more information

New York: D. Appleton. 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. 1855 edition, 2 volumes in one, bound with Appleton's Southern and Western Guide (1855). 8vo, original red cloth pictorial gilt, 303 + 140 pp., illustrated and with many folding maps. VG copy; has been tastefully respined in matching red cloth, contents VG, slight straining to original yellow endpapers, map of Philadelphia has some wear and tear but is complete, map of the North-Western States has slight edgewear to one outer margin not affecting text. ... more information

New York: Typophiles. 1949. Hardcover. Very Good+. Limited, Typophile chapbook. 152 pp. Hardcover. Very Good+ copy: ex-lib bookplate at pastedown, o/w insides clean w/ bright and unmarked text. Boards show light rubbing and edgewear. Glassine dust jacket shows small tears; yellowed. Small 8vo. ... more information

Hartford, CT: Ezra Strong. 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. Early perhaps first American edition, 1836 after the UK edition of 1834. 8vo, original full brown calf, old amateur's leather reinforcement to spine, leaving an opening for the single word "Highwaymen" on spine, a charming old farm-style homespun repair, 288 pp., illustrated with crude woodcuts. Good to very good in all, minor wear to spine head, hinges strong, text good to very good, minor foxing, one or two signatures slightly sprung, bu... more information

1905. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 3 pp. Off-printed from Science, July 1905. Pamphlet. Signed by the author with a namestamp at front cover. Light soil and edgewear; unmarked text. ... more information

NairobiNairobi: Busara, 1968. First issue. Paper covers, 37 pp, ads. Very good. ... more information

Oslo: I kommisjon hos J. Dybwad. 1931. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Softbound, 78 pp., clean unmarked text, Good copy only, some soiling/discoloration to the text, significant wear to the covers including creasing, tearing, and loss at the spine, uncut pages. Text in German. Uncommon book. ... more information

London: Phaidon. 1968. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1968 Red cloth 4to, 145pp. Copiously illustrated in b&w. Near fine in VG+ dustjacket with mild tanning and gentle bumping to corners and edges. Previous owner's signature to front pastedown, else clean and unmarked. ... more information

HeidelbergHeidelberg: Springer Verlag, 1995. Fine. Paperback, fine copy, clean unmarked text, 268 pp. Binding is Soft Cover. ... more information

HeidelbergHeidelberg: Springer Verlag, 1998. Fine. Paperback, clean unmarked text, 308 pp., fine. Binding is Soft Cover. ... more information

Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.Springer Verlag. Mint. Soft cover. Sitll in shrink wrap plastic. Like new. Binding is Soft Cover. ... more information

NY: Russell Sage Foundation. 1990. Hardcover. Fine. Cloth hardbound in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, 210 pp., fine copy in near fine dust jacket. ... more information

NYNY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. Very Good. Cloth with gilt-decorations, illustrated (color fold-out map at rear), 634 pp., owner's signature to title-page, else clean unmarked copy, bookplate to front pastedown, else very good copy with slight soil and rubbing to covers especially to tips. Binding is Decorative Cloth. ... more information

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg. 1986. Paperback. Near Fine. 311 pp. Softcover. Near Fine copy: wraps show slight waving and edgewear; wraps and page edges show faint soil. Insides clean; text is unmarked. Pages have tanned. LNCS 221. 8vo. ... more information

London: The Reprint Society. 1950. Hardcover. Very Good +. 282 pp. A very good+ copy in red cloth binding. Corners gently bumped. Minor shelf wear to extremities and edge of spine. Dust jacket is good+ with some discoloration and soiling to back cover. Superficial tear to back cover, minimal text affected. Contents very clean with bright, unmarked text. ... more information