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Buck, Pearl S.
KINFOLK
Imprint: New York, John Day Company, 1949
Binding: Hardcover
Front hinge weakening. Boards a bit faded ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 406 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 7241.
$US 20.00 |
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Buckley, Edmund [editor-In-Chief]
THE FINE ARTS A University Course in Sculpture, Painting, Architecture, and Decoration
Imprint: Chicago, National Art Society, 1907
Binding: Paper wraps
Boards lightly worn. Small tears to spine cover; Detailed discussion on painting in Europe, mostly France ; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall, Very Good-
Stock number: 14884.
$US 30.00 |
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Budge, E. A Wallis (Sir)
COOK'S HANDBOOK FOR EGYPT AND THE SUDAN With Chapters on Egyptian Archaeology
Imprint: London, Thos. Cook & Son, 1921
Edition: Fourth Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Internally a nice and tight copy. Small pinhole to title page. ; Fold out maps in NF condition; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; xx, 955 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 18312.
$US 350.00 |
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Budge, E. A Wallis
THE PARADISE OF THE HOLY FATHERS [TWO VOLUME SET] Containing the Introduction: the Life of St Anthony, by Athanasius Archbp of Alexandria: Histories of the Fathers by Palladius B of Helenopolis: the Rule of Pachomius: St Jerome's History of the Fathers
Imprint: London, Chatto & Windus, 1907
Binding: Hardcover
Spine label, boards and edges browned. Light foxing and browning to first and last few pages ; Decorative buckram boards. ; 8vo; 381, 350 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 8532.
$US 250.00 |
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Buffett, Jimmy
A SALTY PIECE OF LAND
Imprint: New York, Little Brown & Company, 2004
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
INSCRIBED on half-title page to Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair magazine ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 462 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 12205.
$US 125.00 |
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Buffum, Edward Gould
SIGHTS AND SENSATIONS IN FRANCE, GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND; Or, Experiences of an American Journalist in Europe
Imprint: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1869
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Stamp on title page. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 310 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 1148.
$US 70.00 |
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Bullaty, Sonja & Lomeo, Angelo
CIRCLE OF SEASONS Central Park Celebrated
Imprint: New York, The Amaryllis Press, 1984
Binding: Hardcover
Slight wear to DJ; Central Park through the various seasons; Color Photographs; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 112 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 14789. ISBN: 0943276071
$US 16.58 |
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Bulwer, Sir E. L.
THE LAST OF THE BARONS
Imprint: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1843
Binding: Hardcover
Front board and first few pages hanging by a thread. Light foxing throughout. Occasional drawing and underlining. Bookplate to front pastedown. Wear to extremities; A look at 15th century England ; 8vo; 227 pages, Good+
Stock number: 12593.
$US 100.00 |
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Bumpus, T. Francis
THE CATHEDRALS AND CHURCHES OF BELGIUM
Imprint: London, T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1928
Edition: Second Revised Edition
Binding: Hardcover
DJ with light shelfwear. Light foxing to fore edge; Twenty tissue guarded watercolors; 8vo; 300 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 14599.
$US 50.00 |
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Bumpus, T. Francis
THE CATHEDRALS AND CHURCHES OF BELGIUM
Imprint: London, T. Werner Laurie
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light wear to extremities. Small stamp on front endpaper ; 49 photos of interiors and exteriors. No date, early 1920s. Some pages uncut; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 300 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 15738.
$US 35.00 |
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Bumpus, T. Francis
THE CATHEDRALS AND CHURCHES OF ROME AND SOUTHERN ITALY
Imprint: New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1908
Binding: Hardcover
Gilt lettering to spine and front boards faded and with light shelfwear. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; B&W Photographs; 8vo; viii, 296 pages, Good+
Stock number: 1047.
$US 35.00 |
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Bundy, C. Lynn
THE MARITIME ASSOCIATION OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK 1873-1923 Historical Review of the Past Fifty Years
Imprint: New York, The Maritime Association of the Port of New York, 1923
Binding: Hardcover
Wear to extremities. Corners bumped. Business card tipped into front free endpaper. Endpapers browned ; Without the Maritime association keeping up our ports, we'd all be sunk. (Get it? ) ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 143 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 13184.
$US 50.00 |
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Bunyan, John
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
Imprint: New York, The Century Co., 1898
Binding: Hardcover
Binding loose. Boards sunned & faded with dampstaining, not affecting text. Slight foxing to endpapers ; The classic allegory of the journey through life; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 184 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 14306.
$US 300.00 |
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Burch, Gladys & Ripperger, Helmut
THE JUNIOR MUSIC QUIZ
Imprint: New York, G. Schirmer, Inc., 1940
Binding: Hardcover
Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper ; Twenty-five different quizzes about music for young people, comprising five hundred questions, which not one in a thousand people today could answer; 8vo; 134 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 14351.
$US 30.00 |
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Burchard, John Ely
MID-CENTURY The Social Implications of Scientific Progress
Imprint: Cambridge, The Technology Press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1950
Binding: Hardcover
Former owner's name on front free endpaper; "Verbatim account of the discussions held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the occasion of its Mid-Century Convocation, March 31, April 1 and April 2, 1949; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 547 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 19112.
$US 40.00 |
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Burchard, Sue
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY Birth to Rebirth
Imprint: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985
Binding: Hardcover
About the statue's history on the occasion of its renovation ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 199 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 13162. ISBN: 0152799699
$US 20.00 |
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Burchett, Wilfred G.
PACIFIC TREASURE ISLAND NEW CALEDONIA Voyage through its Land and Wealth the Story of its People and Past
Imprint: Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire Pty. Ltd., 1941
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing and minor soiling to extremities. Former owner's neat notes on half title page. Front hinge weakening ; An island off the coast of Australia, New Caledonia is an area rarely written about. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 230 pages, Very Good-
Stock number: 7441.
$US 20.00 |
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Burchett, Wilfred G.
PACIFIC TREASURE ISLAND NEW CALEDONIA Voyage through its Land and Wealth the Story of its People and Past
Imprint: Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire Pty. Ltd., 1941
Binding: Hardcover
Slight fraying to bottom spine. Boards with light rubbing and bumping to extremities; An island off the coast of Australia, New Caledonia is an area rarely written about. Dust jacket, in two pieces, laid in. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 230 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 7442.
$US 30.00 |
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Burdett, F. D. ; King, Percy J.
THE ODYSSEY OF A PEARL HUNTER
Imprint: London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1931
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Board with rubbing and light discoloration. Edges browned. Former owner's name on front endpaper. Half title page browned. Small hole to bookblock; Pearl poaching in the Dutch Indies ; 8vo; 320 pages, Very Good-
Stock number: 17159.
$US 225.00 |
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Burgess, Perry
WHO WALK ALONE
Imprint: New York, Henry Holt, 1947
Binding: Hardcover; Twenty-Ninth Printing
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
DJ browned & chipped with open tears. Wear to extremities; The story of an American GI who contracts Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy. SIGNED by author on tipped-in dedication note. Special edition ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 308 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Stock number: 14449.
$US 48.94 |
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Burglon, Nora; Glazer, Thelma; Goetz, Delia; & Phillips, E. Mark
DIEGO WINS And Other Caribbean Stories
Imprint: New York, Random House, 1942
Binding: Hardcover
Slight wear & browning to DJ. Bookplate residue to front pastedown; Meet Diego from Cuba, Pedro from Colombia, Pepito from El Salvador, and Dick and Alfredo from Guatelmala. Appreciating the life and times of those from other cultures; Children of the Americas; Color Illustrations; 8vo; 64 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 16556.
$US 35.00 |
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Burke, Edmund
A LETTER FROM MR. BURKE IN ANSWER TO A MEMBER OF THE (FRENCH) NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN ANSWER TO SOME OBJECTIONS TO HIS BOOK ON FRENCH AFFAIRS
Imprint: Paris, J. Dodsley, 1791
Edition: Fifth Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Rebound in contemporary cloth. Ex-lib with inkstamps to front endpaper and first and last pages. Residue of checkout slip to rear endpaper. Tear to title page repaired; Back and forth on the role of government in revolutionary France ; 8vo; 74 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 15358.
$US 318.65 |
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Burke, Edmund
ON TASTE [ETC.]
Imprint: Danbury, Grolier Enterprises Corp., 1980
Binding: Hardcover
Slight damage to upper part of spine covering; The musings of the one and only Edmund Burke. Includes also On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution, and A Letter to a Noble Lord ; The Harvard Classics; 8vo; 421 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 6549.
$US 30.00 |
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Burl, Aubrey
PREHISTORIC AVEBURY
Imprint: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1979
Binding: Hardcover
Of the many British stone circles, Avebury is by far the largest, standing on the Marlborough Downs. Author Burl sifts the evidence of the monuments and their builders ; B&W & Color Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 275 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 16343. ISBN: 0300023685
$US 25.00 |
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Burman, Ben Lucien
THE GENERALS WORE CORK HATS
Imprint: New York, Taplinger Publishing Company, 1963
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
DJ with light chipping and DJ spine a bit faded ; SIGNED by author. Author Burman, along with his wife Alice Caddy, whose illustrations are in this book, journeyed to Africa to discover the story of the Free France government in exile under De Gaulle while the Vichy regime was in power in Paris ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 257 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 11853.
$US 40.00 |
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Burn, A. R.
A TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF GREECE
Imprint: New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1965
Binding: Hardcover
DJ faded with small open tears ; For centuries people have gravitated to Greece. Author Burt examines this phenomonon; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 332 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Stock number: 11358.
$US 20.00 |
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Burnes, Alex[Ander] Lieut.
TRAVELS INTO BOKHARA [VOLUME 1 ONLY] Being the Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia. Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, from the Sea to Lahore
Imprint: Philadelphia, E. L. Carey & A. Hart., 1835
Binding: Hardcover
Boards worn and lightly dampstained. Spine label worn off. Rear hinge started ; Volume I contains the voyage on the Indus, Memoir of the Indus and a Journey to Cabool. The adventure on the Indus was sponsered by the British and Indian government. "The author is the first European of modern times who has navigated the Indus..." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 239 pages, Good+
Stock number: 19045.
$US 200.00 |
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson
LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY
Imprint: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887
Binding: Hardcover
Boards a bit worn. Front hinge started. Binding not tight. Spine slanted; Brown cloth boards with pictorial design in gilt, red and black ; Ex-Lib; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 209 pages, Very Good-
Stock number: 3540.
$US 125.00 |
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson
LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY
Imprint: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886
Binding: Hardcover
Boards a bit worn. Marginal dampstaining ; Brown cloth boards with pictorial design in gilt, red and black. Nice early edition; Ex-Lib; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 209 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 3615.
$US 225.00 |
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Burnett, Laurence & Janet
THE PICTURE FRAMER'S HANDBOOK The Other Artist
Imprint: New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1973
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Gift inscription in front free endpaper. Price clipped DJ shows light wear and small closed tears; Detailed examination on how to create a picture frame, with 64 photos; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 146 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 8368. ISBN: 0517501252
$US 20.00 |
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Burnham, Alan
NEW YORK LANDMARKS A Study & Index of Architectually Notable Structures in Greater New York
Imprint: Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 1963
Binding: Hardcover
DJ darkened and with light chipping along edges; Each double page with plate of one building, description and small location map. ; 4to; 430 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Stock number: 19018.
$US 80.00 |
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Burnham, Alan
NEW YORK LANDMARKS A Study & Index of Architectually Notable Structures in Greater New York
Imprint: Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 1963
Binding: Hardcover
DJ darkened and with light chipping along edges; Each double page with plate of one building, description and small location map. ; 4to; 430 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Stock number: 19343.
$US 70.00 |
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[Burroughs Wellcome & Co. ]
THE ROMANCE OF EXPLORATION AND EMERGENCY FIRST-AID FROM STANLEY TO BYRD
Imprint: London, Burroughs Wellcome & Co., 1934
Binding: Hardcover
An examination of the expeditions of various pioneers of exploration, including Park, Byrd, Stanley, Hedin, Theodore Roosevelt and others, and interestingly, the various techniques for medicine and first aid in the field as well as at the time of publication ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 160 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 10186.
$US 174.81 |
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[Burroughs Wellcome & Co. ]
THE ROMANCE OF EXPLORATION AND EMERGENCY FIRST-AID FROM STANLEY TO BYRD
Imprint: London, Burroughs Wellcome & Co., 1934
Binding: Hardcover
Small glue residue to front free end paper. ; An examination of the expeditions of various pioneers of exploration, including Park, Byrd, Stanley, Hedin, Theodore Roosevelt and others, and interestingly, the various techniques for medicine and first aid in the field as well as at the time of publication. Printed for the Chicago's World Fair. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 160 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 16830.
$US 149.00 |
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Burt, Struthers
PHILADELPHIA Holy Experiment
Imprint: London, Rich & Cowan, Ltd.
Binding: Hardcover
Light wear to boards. ; Nd [1947]. The detailed history of the City Of Brotherly Love ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 299 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 18599.
$US 40.00 |
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Burt, Struthers
PHILADELPHIA Holy Experiment
Imprint: London, Rich & Cowan, Ltd.
Binding: Hardcover
DJ with light chipping, price clipped and tape repaired. Minor spotting to boards; Nd [1947]. The detailed history of the City Of Brotherly Love ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 299 pages, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 19666.
$US 50.00 |
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Burt, Kendal; Leasor, James
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
Imprint: New York, Random House, 1956
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
DJ with very light rubbing to extremities ; Novel set during WWII; 8vo; 292 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 7244.
$US 30.00 |
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Burton, A R E
CAPE COLONY TO-DAY
Imprint: Cape Town, Townshend, Taylor, & Snashall, 1907
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light shelfwear. ; Still under British rule, South Africa as of 1907 is examined here. Numerous statistics, photos, and maps ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 316 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 4557.
$US 150.00 |
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Burton, William L.
DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CIVIL WAR MANUSCRIPTS IN ILLINOIS
Imprint: Northwestern University Press, 1966
Binding: Hardcover
Boards lightly rubbed; 8vo; 393 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 8899.
$US 16.58 |
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Burton, Neil
ENGLISH HISTORIC HOUSES HANDBOOK
Imprint: New York, Facts On File, Inc., 1981
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Light wear to DJ. Sticker to front free endpaper; Details on location, visiting hours, history, etc. , on England's most noteworthy and venerable homes that are open to the public; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 639 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 16100. ISBN: 0871965380
$US 25.00 |
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Burton, Richard F.
IL PENTAMERONE; OR, THE TALE OF TALES [TWO VOLUMES] Being a Translation by the Late Sir Richard Burton of IL Pentamerone; Overo Lo Cunto De LI Cunte, Tratenemiento De LI Peccerille, of Giovanni Battista Basile, Count of Torone
Imprint: London, Henry and Co., 1893
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Small spot on top edge. Minor rubbing to boards and spine ends with light chips. Outer hinge covering weak. Boards with extremely light bubbling. Endpapers with light foxing. Hinges not tight ; Large, limited edition # 165 ; 8vo; 562 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 194.
$US 945.00 |
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Burton, Richard F.
LACERDA'S JOURNEY TO CAZEMBE IN 1798
Imprint: London, John Murray, 1873
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Wear to extremities. Front hinge started with ffep slightly loose. Archival tape repair to fold-out front map. Binding loose in spots; The story of the Portugese expeditions through central Africa, translated and annotated by Sir Richard Burton; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 271 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 15949.
$US 500.00 |
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Burton, Richard F.
A NEW SYSTEM OF SWORD EXERCISE FOR INFANTRY
Imprint: London, William Clowes and Sons, 1876
Binding: Hardcover
Boards lightly worn and with light waterstains. Front hinge started and with binding not tight. Small stamp on title page ; The rarest Burton! ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 59 pages, Very Good-
Stock number: 10264.
$US 9,000.00 |
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Burton, Richard F.
SCINDE; OR, THE UNHAPPY VALLEY [TWO VOLUMES]
Imprint: London, Richard Bentley, 1851
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Very light foxing to first few pages vol. 1; This is Burtons' first book written while on active duty in modern-day India and Pakistan. Rebound in attractive blue full leather boards with gilt spine lettering and three raised bands. Marbled endpapers. ; 12mo; 297, 309 pages, Near Fine
Stock number: 103.
$US 3,000.00 |
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Burton, Jean
SIR RICHARD BURTON'S WIFE
Imprint: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1941
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Spine lettering faded. Binding not tight; Biography of Isabel Burton, the wife of the great explorer ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 378,xiii pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 6490.
$US 30.00 |
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Burton, Richard F. & Smithers, Leonard C.
THE CARMINA OF CATULLUS
Imprint: London, Privately Printed, 1894
Binding: Hardcover
Wear to extremities. Endpapers browned. Tissue guard to frontispiece shows small closed tear; Translator Burton was working on this epic poem when he died. Co-worker Smithers handled the prose portions and annotations. Privately printed edition for the translators limited to 1000 copies. Translated using the Latin text of Mueller from 1885, among others ; 8vo; 313 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 15952.
$US 500.00 |
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Burton, Richard F.
THE CITY OF THE SAINTS And Across the Rocky Mountains to California
Imprint: London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Light rubbing to extremities. Hinges weakening. Small stamp to half title page and dedication page. First and last few pages a bit yellowed. ; Green cloth with gilt vignette and gilt spine lettering. Numerous illustrations and one fold-out map; 8vo; 707 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 166.
$US 1,795.00 |
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Burton, Katherine
THE DREAM LIVES FOREVER The Story of Saint Patrick's Cathedral
Imprint: New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1960
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Wear & foxing to DJ. Very slight browning to endpapers; Foreword by Francis Cardinal Spellman. Stated first edition; 8vo; 238 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 13010.
$US 30.00 |
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Burton, Richard F.
THE KASIDAH OF HAJI ABDU EL-YEZDI
Imprint: London, Philipp Allan & Co., 1925
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Light chipping to top spine. Light bumping to boards ; Nicely illustrated by John Kettelwell. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 169 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 19744.
$US 50.00 |
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Burton, Elizabeth
THE PAGEANT OF ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
Imprint: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958
Binding: Hardcover
Light wear to price clipped DJ; How did the Elizabethans really live? Find out here, with over seventy illustrations by Felix Kelly; 8vo; 276 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 11248.
$US 25.00 |
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