BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW: Volume XVIII - Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of PLYMOUTH COUNTY Massachusetts

Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 638pp. Rare; copiously illustrated with black and white photos of prominent citizens; no pencil or ink markings evident in text; black leather binding, light edge wear to extremities; re-backed;. near Very Good binding.

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[AMERICANA] NEW YORK DAY AND NIGHT

New York: Harry D. Copp, 1939. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. A pocket guide book for New York and the World’s Fair, in 1939. With a folding map of the World’s Fair. Housed in the publisher’s paper sleeve. Very Good binding.

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[SCRAPBOOK] CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC EPHEMERA, ADVERTISING CARDS | INFANT MYSTICS, 1880

A substantial scrapbook from the late 19th century, packed with chromolithographed advertising cards, die-cuts, and other pretty Victorian items. There are about 26 leaves -- measuring 13 12 x 10 12” -- with each side covered with cards. There are many “lift the flap” friendship cards, with printed names underneath. One of the nicest of its kind we’ve seen, with many of the die-cuts filling the pages.

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[NATURE] A SYSTEM OF NATURAL HISTORY; CONTAINING SCIENTIFIC AND POPULAR DESCRIPTIONS OF MAN, QUADRUPEDS, BIRDS, FISHES, REPTILES AND INSECTS

by A. A. Gould, M.D.

Brattleboro: Fessenden & Co., & Peck & Wood, 1834. Hard Cover. Good binding/no dust jacket. Large 8vo; in full mottled calf, rebacked and retaining the original spine; xxi, [23], 24-879 pages; with many illustrations -- as well as foxing -- throughout; the rear board is loose but holding.~~Augustus Addison Gould was an naturalist, with a specialization in conchology.~~. Good binding / no dust jacket.

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[MILITARY] REPORT UPON EXPERIMENTS AND INVESTIGATIONS TO DEVELOP A SYSTEM OF SUBMARINE MINES FOR DEFENDING THE HARBORS OF THE UNITED STATES. [PROFESSIONAL PAPERS OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U. S. ARMY; NO. 23]

by Henry L. Abbot

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Quarto; in sturdy brown cloth with titling in gilt; 444 pages followed by 15 ruled leaves which are blank; with many charts and 27 numbered plates; penned call number on the margin of the table of contents; rubber stamp on page 50 says “Library Engineering School” (what or where we do not know). There are no external marks. Near Fine binding.

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HARPER’S STORY BOOKS. [4 BOOKS BOUND TOGETHER] A SERIES OF NARRATIVES, DIALOGUES, BIOGRAPHIES, AND TALES ... EMBELLISHED WITH NUMEROUS AND BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS

by Jacob Abbott

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1857. Half Leather. Very Good binding. In quarter morocco marbled boards, with raised bands and titling to the spine; the Volume number “2” is stamped on the spine. Consisting of four books bound together as one, each book containing 160 pages. Separately paginated with separate title pages. (1) Aunt Margaret; or How John True Kept His Resolutions; (2) Vernon; or, Conversations About Old Times in England; (3) Carl and Jocko; or The Adventures... Read More

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THE FIRST REGIMENT NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS IN THE GREAT REBELLION. CONTAINING THE STORY OF THE CAMPAIGN; AN ACCOUNT OF THE “GREAT UPRISING OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE,” AND OTHER ARTICLES UPON SUBJECTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE EARLY WAR PERIOD

by Stephen G. Abbott

Keene: Sentinel Printing Company, 1890. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. From Nevin’s description: “Abbott relied too heavily on secondary sources; only one of the fourteen chapters treats of the regiment in battle.” Portrait frontispiece and additional portrait plates throughout. Also with in text illustrations. Foxing to the plates, tissue guards, and opposite pages. Japanese tissue repairs to the hinges by a conservator. Shelfwear to the spine and minor staining to the binding; cocked. Publisher’s blue cloth with... Read More

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THE LETTER BOOK OF JAMES ABERCROMBY COLONIAL AGENT, 1751-1773

by Abercromby, James;Van Horne, John C.;Reese, George

Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.: Library of Virginia, 1991. First edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Signed. Signed by John C. Van Horne with a warm personal inscription of the front free end paper A trace of smudging on the bottom edge of the text block otherwise a clean tight copy without any markings. The dust jacket is protected in a new archival mylar cover. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.

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ECCLESIASTICAL MNEMONIKA, OR AID TO THE MEMORY IN STORING A CORRECT KNOWLEDGE OF ECCLESIASTICAL DATES. TOGETHER WITH SUCH OTHER AID TO THE MEMORY AS MAY BE SERVED BY A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING FACTS. ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED AND ESTABLISHED BY THE BEST AUTHORITIES

by R. M. Abercrombie

New York: Spalding & Shepard, 1848. Quarter Leather. Good binding. R. M. Abercrombie’s Ecclesiastical Mnemonika. Contemporary owner’s name on the title page, and namestamp on the front pastedown. Minor foxing. Rebacked in later leather. Spots of surface loss to the front board. Quarter green leather over embossed brown cloth boards. Good. Five unique institutional holdings noted on OCLC. Good binding.

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SERMONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. VOL. III. (ONE VOLUME ONLY)

by John Abernethy

London: Printed for D. Browne, C. Davis, and A. Millar, 1751. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Vol. III only. John Abernethy was an Irish Presbyterian minister who proved ahead of his time for his public struggles for religious freedoms, and the notion that those of a different religious persuasion could still have integrity and ability. Armorial bookplate of literary scholar, Ashby Bland Crowder. Toning to pp. 160-161, and to the perimeter of the endpapers and preliminaries.... Read More

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[RELIGION] THE TIJANIYYA A SUFI ORDER IN THE MODERN WORLD

by Jamil M. Abun-Nasr

London: Oxford University Press, 1965. near Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo; in the publisher’s green cloth binding; xi, 204 pages including the Index; in a price clipped jacket; the jacket is a bit soiled, there is some edge wear; a few small chips; a bookseller’s plate on the front end paper; some pencil notes to the margins. near Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

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[ART] A SURVEY OF PERSIAN ART FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES TO THE PRESENT. (6 VOLUMES; COMPLETE SET) PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR IRANIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

by Arthur Upham Pope; Phyllis Ackerman

Oxford University Press, 1938. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Folio; in publisher’s blue cloth; with gilt tilting on the spine; this first edition set is complete in six volumes. Each volume measurers 15”h x 12” w. Volumes I, II and III are text totaling 2815 pages with in-text drawing and sketches, a folded map, diagram and plans. Volumes IV, V and VI are full page plates totaling 1482 pages, with occasional plates in color. ~~The pages are clean... Read More

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[SIGNED] [LITERATURE] STEPPENWOLF

by Hermann Hesse | Basil Creighton (Translator) ; Illustrated by Helmut Ackermann

Westport: The Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Helmut Ackermann. Signed. Quarto; quarter bound in black morocco over grey cloth covered boards; ix [2] 3-181 pages; housed in the publisher’s slipcase; with woodcut illustrations by Helmut Ackermann throughout; a few small spots to the slipcase. ~~This is the Basil Creighton translation revised by Joseph Mileck and Horst Frenz.~~Limited to 1600 copies signed by Helmut Ackermann on the colophon.~~. Near Fine binding.

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[History latin America] Natural and Moral History of the Indies

by Jose De Acosta

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/no dust jacket. 8vo in publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration; Near Fine with no markings in the entire book; 535 pages including Index. Near Fine binding / no dust jacket.

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[LITERATURE] [SIGNED] [POETRY] POEMS. A SELECTION

by Leonie Adams

New York: The Noonday Press, 1959. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. 8vo.; in printed pink wrappers; [6], 7-128 pages, including the Index of Poems and First Lines; this copy with a personal inscription on the half-title, as well as with a autograph postcard with a lengthy message (for a postcard) signed L. Adams.~~Ms. Adams was born in Brooklyn at the end of 1899.. Her upbringing was quite strict. She showed an independence by the... Read More

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INVENTORY OF CHURCH ARCHIVES OF VIRGINIA: THREE VOLUME SET

by The Historical Records Survey of Virginia Division of Community Service Programs Work Projects Administration

Richmond: Historical Records Survey of Virginia, 1941. Soft Cover. Fair binding. Two Volumes plus Supplement. Bindings holding well. First and third volumes missing back wrappers; chipping to front wrapper vol. i, minor loss to wrappers of vol. ii, chipping to spines; tape marks to volumes. previous owner writing and tape mark to first blank page; light staining to edge of text block; no markings in text. Binding sound. Fair binding.

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THE ARMENIANS IN MASSACHUSETTS. AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES

by Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration

Boston: The Armenian Historical Society, 1937. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. An unusual title of the ‘American Guide Series.’ A history and cultural study on the Armenians, written by the Federal Writers Project for the Armenian Historical Society, and Armenians in Massachusetts. Chapters on the Armenian countryside, Church, Press, Literature, Customs, and others. Numerous plates. Slight musty odor. Some shelfwear. Small loss to the extremities of the spine. Textured blue cloth with gilt lettering, and... Read More

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[MINIATURE] [FOREIGN LANGUAGES] MIEDZYNARODOWKA | L'INTERNATIONALE | THE INTERNATIONALE | LA INTERNACIONAL | DIE INTERNATIONALE

by [Ruth E. Adomeit]

Ksiazka i Wiedza: Warszawa, 1975. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Miniature; in the publisher's red leather binding, with titling stamped to the upper board in white and a red gilt, with a single silver star stamped on the spine; 2 7/8" x 2 1/4"; 58 pages, [59] [4]; with frontispiece; pages 8-11 have the International set to music; printed in black and red, and with illustrations in black and red; there are no marks in the book; there... Read More

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[CHILDREN] MOROZKO [FATHER FROST]

by P. S. Afanasyev

Moskva: Knebel’, 1909. Good binding. 4to.; in worn pictorial stapled wrappers printed in red, blue, white and green; 10 pages including the verso of the front wrapper and recto of the rear; the wrappers are separating but still holding. ~~A charmingly illustrated Russian imprint, relating the fairy tale “Father Frost”. The text is in cyrillic; at the head of the title is “Skazka” or “Fairy Tale”. Good binding.

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THE JIG OF FORSLIN: A SYMPHONY

by Conrad Aiken

Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed and inscribed by Aiken on the front free endpaper. 127pp. Bound in publisher’s maroon cloth titled in gold on the front cover and the spine, though the spine title is a bit faded; bit of softening to the spine ends and some light shelfwear; previous owner name on the top corner of the front free endpaper, directly above “from Conrad Aiken” in a different... Read More

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KING COFFIN (Variant Binding)

by Conrad Aiken

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A clean First Edition copy, with no marks of any kind. In a yellow binding, an uncommon variant from the usual blue cloth. Lacking the dustjacket. Very Good binding.

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[SIGNED] [MYSTERY] HENRIETTA WHO

by Catherine Aird

Garden City: Crime Club | Doubleday & Company, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. 8vo.; in the publisher’s black cloth binding, with dustjacket; [8], 9-188 pages; there are no ownership of other marks in the book; tipped in is a previous owner bookplate which has been Signed by Catherine Aird.~~Overall a nice copy of Ms. Aird’s third mystery novel, following The Religious Body in 1966 and A Most Contagious Game in 1967.... Read More

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CIRCLES CYCLES IN THE AIR

by Turgut A. Akter

New York: Vantage Press, 1992. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing of Turgut Akter’s book of poetry, Circles Cycles In The Air. Previous owner’s name and rust stain from a staple on the front endpapers. Else no marks. Very Good dustjacket, with minor shelfwear. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

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[COLLECTIBLES] HISTORY OF CURRENCY IN THE STATE OF BAHRAIN

by Muassasat Naqd al-Bahrayn

[London]: Bahrain Monetary Agency, 1996. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Quarto; a gorgeous book in crimson velvet binding with elaborate gilt lettering in Arabic and English; 174 pages; all edges gilt; with Arabic and English text; illustrated throughout with full-page photographic illustrations in color. ~~Housed in a matching cloth-covered slipcase with decorative border in gilt. There are no marks of any kind in the book. Fine binding.

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HAI TOU ANAKREONTOS ODAI, KAI, TA TES SAPPHOUS, KAI TA TOU ALKAIOU LEIPSANA

by Anacreon; Sappho; Alcaeus

Philadelphiae: T. Barton Zantzinger et Soc, 1810. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Selections, with the text in Greek and in Latin. In sheep; spine with very minor loss and gilt rules. Printed by Fry and Kammerer for the Thos. B. Zantzinger Company. 123 pages; [2,] publisher’s ad. (Shaw & Shoemaker, 19363). Very Good binding.

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