Daily Life through History. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-century Europe
by Atkin, Nicholas (editor)
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in glossy paper covered boards with brown spine panel and white title to spine. Pristine interior with tight binding. Includes several illustrations. 231 pages. MIL/091508.
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Progress of the Anglican Church. A Sermon Preached in St. Peter's Chuch, Baltimore, on the First Sunday After Trinity, June 22, 1851, in Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
by Atkinson, Rev. Thomas
Baltimore: D. Brunner, 1851. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. Lacks wrappers. Black title to first page. Light wear with chip to top margin of last page. Clean. 14 pages. REL/060722.
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La Mascotte in Three Acts (Comic Opera)
by Audran, Edmond
New York: Cowdery and Prescott, 1881. Pamphlet. Very Good -. Pamphlet. SCARCE. Very good- in pink paper wraps with black title to front wrapper. Sheet music. Soiling and chipping to wraps. Interior is clean and bright. Music. MUS1/2012.
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Audubon's America. The Narratives and experiences of John James Audubon
by Audubon, John James, Donald C. Peattie [editor]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. LIMITED EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dj. LIMITED EDITION. Hardcover. SIGNED BUT THE EDITOR. 4to. 1 of 3025 copies. Beige cloth boards with black and gilt title to spine and front board. Browing to top portion of front board. Pristine interior with tight binding. Includes several illustrations. Glassine dust jacket with several large open tears and wear to edges. Housed in a good black paper slipcase with minor wear. 327 pages. NAT/070305.... Read More
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Dreams
by Austin, Alice
Philadelphia: Alice Austin, 2008. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. Number 13 of 30 copies, signed by the artist. A book about dreams, memories, the loss of a friend, the loss of the past, and the loss of the possibility of connecting again. It concludes with acceptance and a hopeful look to the future. Bound in painted fushia Tyvek covered boards with navy cloth spine and fushia paper title label. The interior is letterpress printed with hand set type on Zerkall... Read More
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Box of Happiness
by Austin, Alice, book artist
Philadelphia: Alice Austin, 2009. Fine. Number 36 of 40 copies signed and numbered by the book artist on its box. This inventive work from Alice Austin has an unusual structure that is described on her website as having a construction that is reminiscent of the children's toy {called a buzzer or buzz saw) in which twine or cord passes through something like a button so that the suspended button can be picked up by the tails of twin... Read More
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Die Bibel, oder die ganze Heilige Schrift des alten und neuen Testamentes, nach der Deutschen Ueberfezung D. Martin Luthers
by no author
Anstalt: 1816. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. Rebound in modern black & gilt boards. Interior heavily browned, some bookworm damage to early and rear pages. In German script, double column text. Religion. REL/3043.
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Early Days; or, the Wesleyan Scholar's Guide. March, 1860. Volume XV
by no author
London: John Mason, 1860. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Very good in original green wrappers. 24mo. Two engravings; clean w/bright text. In wraps. Religion. REL/4283.
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Souvenir de Genes: 30 Vues
by [no author]
Genova, 1900. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. Good plus red cloth backed red decorative paper covered boards with glit and black stamped designs and title on front board. Wear to edges of exterior includes chipping. Rubbing to boards. 30 tourist sites, pages connected with descriptions in 4 languages (including English) on back. Travel. TRA/4233.
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Early Days; or, the Wesleyan Scholar's Guide. April, 1860. Volume XV
by no author
London: John Mason, 1860. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Very good in original green wrappers. 24mo. Two engraved images; clean w/bright text. In wraps. Religion. REL/4283.
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Useful Tables from Bowditch's Practical Navigator. A New Edition, with Additional Tables. Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department
by No Author
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. SCARCE. Good 3/4 leather bound marbled boards. Leather very worn, scuffing & rubbing to boards. Front board detached but present. Interior is very brown with age, but otherwise pretty clean. Faint dampstain to bottom right corner. Contains mathematical tables. Maritime/Navigation MARI/5023.
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The Biographical Magazine; Containing Portraits of Eminent and Ingenious Persons of Every Age and Nation, with Their Lives and Characters. Two Volumes
by no author
London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange; and Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1820. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Each featured person (all men) has a full page biography and an engraved portrait. Each volume includes approximately 100 persons. Very good in green full leather with intricate gilt decoration on boards and spines. Raised bands, gilt titles, volume numbers, and decorations to spine. Slight sunning to spines, some light wear to edges and corners, and minor rubbing to spine and... Read More
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Early Days; or, the Wesleyan Scholar's Guide. October, 1860. Volume XV
by No Author
London: John Mason, 1860. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Very good in original green wrappers. 24mo. Two engravings inside; clean w/bright text. In wraps. Religion. REL/4283.
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The Colonial Court House at Queenstown Circa 1708. Restored 1979
by No Author
Queenstown, MD: The Queen Anne Press, 1979. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. Fine in original brown, pictorial, side-stapled wrappers. Interior pristine, crisp, no markings. Diagrams, illustrations. 36 pages. Maryland. MD/3013.
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Early Days; or, the Wesleyan Scholar's Guide. February, 1860. Volume XV
by No Author
London: John Mason, 1860. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Very good in original green wrappers. 24mo. Two engraved images; clean w/bright text. In wraps. Religion. REL/4283.
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The Eli Berman Company Incorporated. Architectural Woodwork, Plain & Decorative Painting, Special Furniture, Period Interiors
by No Author
The Eli Berman Company, No date. Paperback. Very Good +. Paperback. Very good+ small booklet in original side-stapled wrappers. Contains black and white photographic illustrations and lists of contracts accomplished by the company. In wraps. Americana. AME/3073.
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Regulation of Railway Rates. Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, In Special Session, Pursuant to Senate Resolution No. 288, Fifty-Eighth Congress, Third Session. April 17, 1905-May 6, 1905. Volume II. (Pages 773-175
by No Author
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. Good+ full brown leather covered boards. Black, brown, and red labels w/gilt to spine. Both hinges are cracked through and loose, though boards are still attached. Peeling to leather at head and foot of spine. leather has been treated and polished. Interior is in lovely condition, tightly bound and clean w/bright text. Ex libris. American Railroad History. RAIL/4253.
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Een Rumoerige Soiree: Dada in de Residentie
by [Carlinapers Press] Various authors
Haarlem: Carlinapers, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 104 of 110 copies. "Met uitzondering van bladzij 7 - wij meenden te handelen in de geest van Schwitters en Van Doesburg door op deze pagina de lezer te stimuleren tot een eigen creatieve bijdrage - is de tekst van een artikel in het dagblad De Telegraaf van 11 januari 1923." Purple cloth boards with paper title label reading "Dada in de Residentie" in green to spine. Clean and bright. Printed... Read More
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Harrison's British Classicks Eight Volumes
by [Various authors]
London: Harrison and Co, 1787. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition of James Harrison's eight volume compendium of important eighteenth century periodicals with essays by such figures as Samuel Johnson, Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, George Lord Lyttelton, Launcelot Temple, Isaac Bickerstaff, and Adam Fitz-Adam among others. As is evident in the reprinting of these essays, letters, and newspaper issues, the eighteenth century was a time of great knowledge, exploration, rapidly growing technology and expanding archives of information made... Read More
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Oxford Slavonic Papers: New Series, Volume VII
by Auty, Robert and Fennell, J.L.I. (editors)
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/Library of Congress surplus/thin tape stain to front flyleaf, no other markings/8vo./123 pp. Russian History. RUS3/2132.
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Examen
by Aveline, Claude
La Haye: A.A.M. Stols, 1925. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Number 23 of 100 copies. Signed by the author and printer. This was the 7th book printed by A.A.M. Stols for his friends. This copy was printed for Eugene Keuchenius. Claude Aveline was the pen name of Evgen Avtsine (1901 - 1992). He was a French author, publisher, and member of the French Resistance. Bound in light grayish paper wrappers with black title to front panel. Browning to spine... Read More
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A catalogue of the Maxwell Anderson collection at The University of Texas
by Avery, Laurence G., compiler
Ausstin: University of texas, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. This renowned collection includes manuscripts of Anderson's plays, poems, and essays, both published and unpublished works, as well as letters and diaries. It is the largest assemblage of his papers preserved in one place. Bound in brown cloth with gilt title to spine. In near fine condition in very good dust jacket with light bumping and nicks. 175 pages. BOB/111616.
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The Mechanic's Friend; A Collection of Receipts and Practical Suggestions relating to Aquaria, Bronzing, Cements, Drawing, Dyes, Electricity, Gilding, Glass Working, Glues, Horology, Lacquers, Locomotives, Magnetism, Metal-Working, Modellling, Photography, Pyrotehny, Railways, Solders, Steam-engine, Telegraphy, Taxidermy, Varnishes, Waterproofing, and Miscellaneous Tools, Instruments, Machines, and Processes Connected with the Chemical and Mechanical Arts
by Axon, William E. A. (editor)
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1875. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Includes numerous diagrams and woodcuts. Very good in purple cloth boards with gilt title to front board and spine. The spine and edges of the boards have faded to light brown. Minor wear to spine ends and edges of boards. There are a few small dark spots to spine and bottom edge of text block. There are a few spots of foxing to the interior and two facing... Read More
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The Inaugural Address of Andrew J. Bacon, Mayor of Chelsea, to the City Council, January 5, 1880
by Bacon, Andrew J.
Chelsea: H. Mason and Son, 1880. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. SCARCE. Very good in beige paper wraps with black title to front wrapper. Minor chipped and creasing to corners. Text is clean and bright. 34 pages. American History. Massachusetts. MA309251.
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Siam: The Land of the White Elephant as it was and is
by Bacon, George B. compiler and arranger; Frederick Wells Williams, revisions
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. This interesting book was issued as part of the publisher's Illustrated Library of Travel. Wiilliams writes in his reviser's note that he aimed to revise this little volume leaving untouched, so far as possible, Bacon's compilation, omitting only such portions as were inaccurate or obsolete, and addingrather sparingly from the narratives of a few recent travellers. The book starts with a chapter on early intercourse with Siam, followed... Read More
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