From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi. Translated by W. J. F. Jenner.
by Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi.
Beijing, China: Foreign Languages Press, (1989). First Edition, thus. Octavo, slick brown boards (hardcover), gilt letters, ribbon marker, 496 pp. Former-owner bookplate; otherwise, Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with sunned spine. From dust jacket: From Emperor to Citizen is the autobiography of the man who was the last emperor of China and later, puppet emperor of “Manchukuo,” Japanese imperialism’s pseudo-state in China’s Northeast. The book begins with the author giving a vivid... Read More
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Pandemic: Beginnings. Book One, The Pandemic Series. A Novel by Bobby Akart.
by Akart, Bobby.
Bobby Akart, (2017). First Edition. Octavo, gray boards (hardcover), 372 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Dr. Mackenzie Hagan, CDC Epidemiologist has dedicated her life to chasing and stopping enemies that are one-billionth our size. Nathan Hunter, DOD specialist, is tracking a terrorist cell throughout Central America in an off-the-books operation. Terrorists wage the Final Jihad in a plot to kill millions of innocents around the... Read More
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The Poetical Manuscripts of Mark Akenside in the Ralph M. Williams Collection, Amherst College Library. Reproduced in Facsimile. With an Introduction by Robin C. Dix.
by Akenside, Mark.
Amherst, Massachusetts: Amherst College Press, 1988. Folio, paperbound (stiff blue printed wrappers), [29] pp. Near-Fine, with very slightly rubbed covers. From Introduction: The poetry of Mark Akenside (1721-1770) may not be widely read today, but in the eighteenth century and for much of the nineteenth his work was held in the very highest esteem, and writers as eminent as Wordsworth and Coleridge were considerably indebted to him...The Amherst Akenside holdings were originally mounted in Dyson’s... Read More
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Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron.
by Akin, Edward N.
University Press of Florida, (1991). Octavo, paperbound (stiff, slick, b&w photo. illus. blue & white wrappers). New, in original shrink wrap.
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La Coltivazione, Gli Epigrammi di Luigi Alamanni, e le Api di Giovanni Rucellai, Gentiluomini Fiorentini; Colle Annotazioni del Signor Dottor Giuseppe Bianchini da Prato sopra la Colivazione; e di Roberto Titi Sopra le Api.
by Alamanni, Luigi.
Venezia: Nella Stamperia Remondini, 1751. Duodecimo, original vellum, 100, 280 pp. Very Good.
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Confederate Faces: A Pictorial Review of the Individuals in the Confederate Armed Forces.
by Albaugh, William A., III.
Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, (1993). Quarto, tan cloth (hardcover), brown letters, xx, 229 pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From Foreword: During the Civil War years of 1861 - 1865, as millions marched away to answer the Union and Confederate “call to arms,” the demand for photographic likenesses of these valiant soldiers rose to theretofore unknown heights. The then recently introduced Melainotype (1856) or “tintype” or “ferrotype” and its relatively instantaneous... Read More
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More Confederate Faces, A Pictorial Review.
by Albaugh, William A., III.
Washington, D.C.: ABS Printers Inc., n.d. Quarto, gray textured cloth (hardcover), 233 pp. Very Good, with light rubbing to covers.
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Fine Cabinet Woods and Their Uses / Albert Constantine Jr. {cover title.]
by Albert Constantine and Son, Inc., Homecraft Department.
New York: Homecraft Department, Albert Constantine and Son, Inc., n.d. [ca. 1937.] Octavo, stiff printed wrappers, 40 pp. Photos, illus. Includes a selection of fine woods and veneers, inlays, cabinet woods, plywood, carved moulding, and other woodcraft aids. Very Good, with order sheet and envelope laid-in.
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The Book of Jasher, One of the Sacred Books of the Bible. Long Lost or Undiscovered. Now Offered in Photographic Reproduction of the Version by Alcuin.
by Alcuin.
San Jose, CA: The Rosicrucian Order, A.M.O.R.C., 1934. First Edition. Quarto, illustrated boards (hardcover), [72] pp. Good+, with wear to edges and spine. From Preliminary Explanation: The Book of Jasher is one of the long-lost, and long sought for, sacred books which should have been included among the other books of the Bible but which was not because the original manuscript could not be located. In addition to the two references to the Book... Read More
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New Dawn for the Kissimmee River: Orlando to Okeechobee by Kayak.
by Alderson, Doug.
Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, (2009). First Edition. Review copy, with Publisher’s release letter laid-in. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), xii + 151 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The Everglades. Few realize that the world’s most famous wetlands begins in Orlando. A tiny waterway known as Shingle Creek flows into an impressive chain of lakes that, in turn, empties into a river like no other -- the... Read More
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Love and the Luxembourg.
by Aldington, Richard.
New York: Covici, Friede, 1930. 1st edition. Of an edition of 475 copies designed by Frederic Warde and printed by William Edwin Rudge, this is No. 394. It is signed by the author and the designer. Octavo, cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, 53 pp. Very Good; spine dull.
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Seven Miles Out: The Story of Pasadena Community Church, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1924-1960.
by Aldrich, Guy V.
Tampa, FL: Florida Grower Press, n.d. Octavo, cream marbled boards, (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, [ii], 220 pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine dust jacket. Illustrated with b&w photos.
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This Old Guitar: Making Music and Memories from Country to Jazz, Blues to Rock. With stories and photographs by Charles Shaar Murray, Dan Forte, Teisco Del Rey, Michael Wright, Douglas B. Green, Tommy Womack, Ward Meeker, Vintage Guitar magazine, and more.
by Aldrich, Margret and Michael Dregni; Editors.
Voyageur Press, A Town Square Book, (2003). Quarto, hardcover (slick, full-color photo. illus. boards), [160] pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The guitar. It is without doubt the musical instrument that played the soundtrack to the twentieth century. It is a symbol of youth, freedom, rebellion. Playing uitar -- however badly -- is as much a part of the American experience as that first crush or first car. ... Read More
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Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian Biological Survey of Dominica: The Crane Flies (Diptera: Tipulidae).
by Alexander, Charles P.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970. First Edition. Quarto, stiff printed wrappers, stapled, [i], 59 pp. Illus. Very Good.
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The Invisible China: The Overseas Chinese and the Politics of Southeast Asia.
by Alexander, Garth.
New York: Macmillan, [1974]. First American Edition. Octavo, cloth (hardcover), xiv, 264 pp. Photos. Former-owner signature; otherwise, Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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A Winning Hazard. [Appleton’s Town and Country Library, No. 192, May 15, 1896].
by Mrs. Alexander.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1896. Octavo, paperbound, 299 pp + 12 pp. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges.
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The Sculpture and Sculptors of Yazilikaya.
by Alexander, Robert L.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, (1986). Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 167 pp. Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket with light rubbing to edges. From dust jacket: Just outside the capital city of Hattusa, about one hundred miles east of the modern Turkish capital, Ankara, the Hittites of the middle and late Bronze Age created their largest surviving sanctuary. Within the group of huge, outcropping rocks known as Yazilikaya, this imperial chapel provided for... Read More
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Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Governors of English-speaking Caribbean and Puerto Rico: Conversations and Correspondence.
by Alexander, Robert J., ed.
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, (1997). First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), xi, 292 pp. Near-Fine.
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Starstuff: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Celebrate New Possibilities.
by Alexander, William and Wade Roush.
Somerville, Massachusetts: MIT Kids Press, 2025 First Edition, Stated. Octavo, dark turquoise boards (hardcover), gilt lettering, 275 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: What would you do if you were on a space elevator taking your whole town into geosynchronous orbit and you discovered a saboteur? Or if you had unwittingly duplicated yourself during a pilot-training mission above Jupiter? Or if you found out your... Read More
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Encyclopaedia of Cultivated Orchids: An illustrated, descriptive manual of the members of the Orchidaceae currently in cultivation.
by Alex D. Hawkes.
London: Faber And Faber Limited. (1978). Royal Octavo, Black textured board (hardcover), 602 pp. Full color Photographs and Plates throughout. Fine in a Fine full color dust jacket.
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Index of Plant Diseases in Florida.
by Alfieri, S. A., Jr.; Langdon, K. R.; Wehlburg, C.; Kimbrough, J. W.
Gainesvile, FL: Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services. Bulletin 11. Revised 1984. Quarto, paperbound (stiff, illus. grey wrappers), iv + 389 pp. Very Good+, with soiling to covers (interior clean & tight). From Preface: This publication represents the first revision of the Index of Plant Diseases in Florida, which was intitially published in July 1975. It hopefully reflects the most comprehensive compilation of diseases affecting the wide diversity... Read More
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Architectural Restoration at Uxmal, 1986 - 1987 / Restauracion Arquitectonica en Uxmal, 1986 - 1987.
by Alfredo Barrera Rubio, Jose Huchim Herrera, Centro Regional Yucatan INAH. English translation by Carlos A. Uribe.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology, 1990. University of Pittsburgh Latin American Archaeology Reports No. 1. Octavo, softbound (stiff, illus. brown wrappers), 97 pp. All text presented in both English and Spanish. From Introduction: In 1986, the INAH’s Yucatan Regional Center was funded by the State of Yucatan’s Regional Development Program and the Agreement of the Programming and Budget Secretariat to carry out two archaeological projects at Uxmal. The first project... Read More
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The Life of Jefferson Davis.
by Alfriend, Frank H.; Late Editor of The Southern Literary Messenger.
Cincinnati: Caxton Publishing House, 1868. Octavo, gray cloth (hardcover), 645 pp. Fair+, with sunned spine, edgewear, and related articles pasted to endpapers (five pages at start and six pages at rear covered in contemporary accounts of the president’s assassination); interior rag paper still bright.
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Thomas Pyles: Selected Essays on English Usage.
by Algeo, John; Editor.
Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1979. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv + 223 pp. Fine (As New) in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: The twenty-one essays by Thomas Pyles in this collection bear witness to the vitality of the English language and to its integrity in the midst of great variety in use. Published over a 34-year period by this distinguished scholar of English... Read More
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The New Life of Dante Aligheri. Translated by Charles Eliot Norton.
by Alighieri, Dante.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First Edition. Tall octavo, green cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, [ib], 149 pp. Very Good.
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