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Burton, Isabel & Wilkins, W. H.
THE ROMANCE OF ISABEL LADY BURTON [TWO VOLUME SET] The Story of Her Life
Imprint: London, Hutchinson & Co., 1897
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Both volumes show wear to extremities, spotting to boards, and less than completely tight bindings, volume one more than volume two; The life of the wife of the noted explorer, told by herself and W. H. Wilkins ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 778 (374,404) pages, Very Good
Stock number: 14887.
$US 192.79 |
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Busch, Noel F.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON OF ILLINOIS A Portrait
Imprint: New York, Farrar, Straus & Young, 1952
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; Second Printing
DJ a bit browned and with light chipping. Pages a bit browned; 8vo; 236 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 17823.
$US 40.00 |
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Busch, Noel F.
BRITON HADDEN A Biography of the Co-Founder of Time
Imprint: New York, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949
Binding: Hardcover
DJ spine sunned and with very light rubbing to extremities. Pages lightly browned; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 236 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 6171.
$US 20.00 |
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Busch, W[Ilhelm]
DIE FROMME HELENE
Imprint: New York, Frederick Ungar Publishing
Binding: Hardcover
Former owner's name on front free endpaper. ; One of Busch's stories with woodcuts by Sterling. An early version of Comics; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 113 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 18885.
$US 35.00 |
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Busch, Harald
NECKARLAND UND OBERE DONAU
Imprint: Frankfurt AM Main, Umschau Verlag
Binding: Hardcover
Die Deutschen Lande; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 104 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 18889.
$US 25.00 |
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Butcher, E. L.
THINGS SEEN IN EGYPT
Imprint: London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1926
Binding: Hardcover
Tiny spots on front board. Endpapers a bit browned. Small stamp on front free endpaper. ; B&W Photographs; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 157 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 17030.
$US 30.00 |
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Butler, Samuel
ALPS AND SANCTUARIES Of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.)
Imprint: London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1890
Binding: Hardcover; Third Printing
1" upper spine a bit faded. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; An unusually handsome copy with tight binding. Numerous b&w Illustrations. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 335 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 17907.
$US 150.00 |
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Butler, Samuel
EREWHON REVISITED Twenty Years Later
Imprint: London, Grant Richards, 1901
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Dark red boards with gilt lettering and spine lettering. Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by his Son. First Edition of Butler's "sequel" to Erewhon, in which Higgs returns to the unknown land to find that in his absence he has become the center of a religious cult. This satire was Butler's last book published in his lifetime; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 338 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 17912.
$US 300.00 |
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Butler, Elizabeth
FROM SKETCH BOOK AND DIARY
Imprint: London, A & C Black, 1909
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Small stamp to front free endpaper. Bookplate. First blank page missing. ; Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Front board with light blue lettering and linear design. 28 illustrations from watercolors and 21 smaller sketches; 8vo; 177 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 18053.
$US 225.00 |
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Butler, Elizabeth
LETTERS FROM THE HOLY LAND
Imprint: London, A & C Black, 1906
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with wear to extremities and with spine sunned. Browning to front endpaper. Binding cracked pg. 32 ; 16 tissue guarded plates from watercolors by the author; 8vo; 84 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 8196.
$US 40.00 |
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Butler, Ellis Parker
PIGS IS PIGS
Imprint: New York, A. L. Burt Company, 1906
Binding: Hardcover
Boards a bit browned. Spotting to last few pages. Rear hinge weakening ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 37 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 19404.
$US 35.00 |
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Butler, Robert Olen
THE ALLEYS OF EDEN
Imprint: New York, Horizon Press, 1981
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Light wear to DJ ; A novel set in Vietnam during the long-running conflict; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 11862. ISBN: 0818006315
$US 45.00 |
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Butler, Samuel
THE AUTHORESS OF THE ODYSSEY
Imprint: London, Jonathan Cape, 1925
Binding: Hardcover
Some pages uncut. Frontispiece tissue protector detached but present; Shrewsbury edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. In twenty volumes of which this is #12. Limited to seven hundred and fifty sets, numbers 1-375 for the UK and 376-750 for the US, of which this is number 377. Author Butler theorizes that the Odyssey was not written by the author of the Iliad, but by a young unmarried woman ; Works of Samuel Butler; Vol. 12; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 293 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 16281.
$US 50.00 |
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Butler, Ewan
THE HORIZON CONCISE HISTORY OF SCANDINAVIA
Imprint: New York, American Heritage Publishing Co, 1973
Binding: Hardcover
8vo; 215 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 17614.
$US 20.00 |
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Butler, William
THE LAND OF THE VEDA Being Personal Reminiscences of India; its People, Castes, Thugs, and Fakirs...
Imprint: New York, Nelson & Phillips, 1873
Binding: Hardcover
Minor rubbing to extremes ; Blue boards with gilt lettering and gilt decoration. Minor foxing to first and last pages ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 557 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 1355.
$US 125.00 |
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Butler, William
THE LAND OF THE VEDA
Imprint: New York, Hunt & Eaton, 1895
Binding: Hardcover
Light wear to extremities. Small open tear & previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper; A Reverend's look at India; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 575 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 11964.
$US 120.86 |
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Butler, Samuel
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
Imprint: New York, Literary Guild, 1944
Edition: Book Club Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Light wear and chipping to DJ. Bookplate; Originally written between 1872 and 1884, but published posthumously about 1904 ; Color Illustrations; 8vo; 429 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. Illustr: Illustrated by Durenceau, Andre
Stock number: 12388.
$US 25.00 |
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Butler, Samuel
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
Imprint: London, Grant Richards, 1903
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Light crease to spine. Hinges started. Former owner's name on front endpaper; Originally written between 1872 and 1884, but published posthumously. Dark red boards with gilt lettering and gilt spine lettering. In custom slipcase; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 424, 12 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 17913.
$US 750.00 |
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Butts, Mary
SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF CLEOPATRA
Imprint: New York, The Ecco Press, 1974
Binding: Hardcover
Light wear and chipping to DJ; Author Butts tackles the story of Cleopatra as seen through the eyes of her companions Charmian and Iras; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 14689.
$US 30.00 |
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[by The Author Of "the Martyrdom Of An Empress"]
A KEYSTONE OF AN EMPIRE: FRANCIS JOSEPH OF AUSTRIA
Imprint: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903
Binding: Hardcover
Light rubbing to spine heels. Bookplate. Former owner's name on front free endpaper ; Decorative blue boards with gilt lettering and gilt shield. Top edge gilt; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; viii, 322 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 1143.
$US 75.00 |
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Byne, Mildred Stapley
FORGOTTEN SHRINES OF SPAIN
Imprint: Philadelphia, J B Lippincott, 1926
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. ; Striking cover illustration of a Spanish woman at a monastery which is indicitave of the contents of the book which is a detailed discussion, with many pictures, of the monasteries and shrines of Spain ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 19782.
$US 90.00 |
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Byrd, Richard Evelyn
DISCOVERY The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition
Imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Slight wear to extremities; B&W Photographs; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 405 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 13748.
$US 30.00 |
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Byrd, Richard Evelyn
DISCOVERY The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition
Imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light wear to extremities. Spine sunned. Rear hinge started. Previous owner's name to title page ; Detailed account of Admiral Byrd's second trip to the South Pole in 1934. Dedicated to Edsel Ford; B&W Photographs; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 405 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 15569.
$US 35.00 |
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Byrd, Richard Evelyn
LITTLE AMERICA Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. The Flight to the South Pole
Imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Light chipping to spine ends ; Expedition to the South Pole; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 422 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 13729.
$US 35.00 |
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Byrd, Richard Evelyn
LITTLE AMERICA Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. the Flight to the South Pole
Imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Wear to extremities. Binding not tight. Previous owner's inscription to first blank page ; Instruction sheet for Admiral Byrd prize letter contest laid in. Extra map of the Bay of Whales laid in, torn from another copy, as this volume has all maps bound in as they should be ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 422 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 13730.
$US 60.00 |
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Byrd, Richard Evelyn
LITTLE AMERICA Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. the Flight to the South Pole
Imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with minor rubbing to extremities ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 422 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 769.
$US 40.00 |
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Byrd, Richard Evelyn
LITTLE AMERICA Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. The Flight to the South Pole
Imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Shelfwear to spine ends. Front hinge weak, back hinge started ; expedition to the South Pole; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 422 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 17172.
$US 30.00 |
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Byrd, Dennis; D'Orso, Michael
RISE & WALK The Trial & Triumph of Dennis Byrd
Imprint: New York, Harper, 1993
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Light shelf wear to DJ; Footballer Dennis Byrd was injured on the field and paralyzed. His inspirational recovery is told in detail here ; Color Photographs; 8vo; 258 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 5972. ISBN: 0060177837
$US 15.00 |
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Byrd, Dennis & D'Orso, Michael
RISE AND WALK The Trial and Triumph of Dennis Byrd
Imprint: New York, Harpercollins, 1993
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
B&W Photographs; 8vo; 258 pages, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Stock number: 17843. ISBN: 0060177837
$US 20.00 |
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Byrd, Richard Evelyn
SKYWARD
Imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards darkened toward edges and a bit more to spine. Light wear to extremities. 1/2" chip on top spine. Small hole on front free endpaper. Back hinge started ; Byrd's evolution as an airman, from his days as an academy cadet to prominence as an Admiral. Includes a section on the past and future of aviation. If he only knew! ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 359 pages, Very Good-
Stock number: 4103.
$US 30.00 |
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Byrd, Richard Evelyn
SKYWARD
Imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
DJ tattered with open tears. Two holes in front free endpaper. First few pages loose ; The story of the aviator who, with Floyd Bennett, circled the North Pole by air for the first time in May of 1926, among other feats ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 359 pages, Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Stock number: 15902.
$US 35.00 |
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Byrnes, James F.
SPEAKING FRANKLY
Imprint: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1947
Binding: Hardcover
Slight wear to top & bottom of spine. Binding not tight; An important advisor to President Roosevelt, later a Supreme Court Justice, still later Secretary of State under Truman, James Byrnes had a ringside seat for some of the most important events of the twentieth century. He witnessed the rise of Hitler in 1930s Germany, was present at Potsdam and Yalta, and represented the US during peace negotiations following World War II ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 324 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 6002.
$US 25.00 |
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Cabanne, Pierre
RUBENS His Life and Work
Imprint: New York, Tudor Publishing Company, 1967
Binding: Hardcover
Wear and one small closed tear to DJ; Peter Paul Rubens was the greatest of the baroque artists and was knighted by the kings of both England and Spain ; B&W and Color Illustrations; 8vo; 286 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 16580.
$US 20.00 |
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Cabell, Branch
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN A Parcel of Reconsiderations
Imprint: New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1934
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
DJ with moderate chipping and larger tear to front bottom ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages, Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 19410.
$US 50.00 |
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Cable, Mary
EL ESCORIAL
Imprint: New York, Newsweek, 1971
Binding: Hardcover
Wear and apparent sticker residue to DJ; The story of the grand palace built in Spain by King Philip II ; Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 172 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 12343.
$US 20.17 |
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Cable, Mary
THE AVENUE OF THE PRESIDENTS
Imprint: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
White DJ a bit darkened and with very small chips ; Profusely illustrated; 8vo; 248 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 9515.
$US 25.00 |
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Cacella, Joseph
JUNGLE CALL
Imprint: Private Printing, 1956
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
DJ yellowed. Boards along top edge lightly frayed; The years of a missionary in the deepest solitude of the Amazon in Brazil; Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 399 pages, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 10737.
$US 40.00 |
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Cagney, James
CAGNEY BY CAGNEY
Imprint: Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
DJ darkened. Boards with light rubbing to extremities; SIGNED by Cagney on page facing title page. Cagney signed this book when he was older. Extremely rare! ; 8vo; 202 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 7597. ISBN: 0385045875
$US 450.00 |
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Cahn, Lenore L. [editor]
CONFRONTING INJUSTICE
Imprint: Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1966
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Slight wear to DJ; The legal philosophies of the eminent attorney and law professor. Stated first edition ; 8vo; 428 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 13669.
$US 30.00 |
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Cain, James M.
SERENADE
Imprint: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1937
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Wear to spine ends and extremities. Spine slightly cocked. Binding loose in spots; Stated first edition; 8vo; 314 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 12582.
$US 100.00 |
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Cain, James M.
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
Imprint: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1935
Binding: Softcover
Chipping and some wear to DJ. Previous owner's name in front endpaper; Softcover with dust jacket, unusually. The classic story, twice filmed ; 8vo; 188 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 12074.
$US 75.00 |
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Cain, James M.
THREE OF A KIND Three Short Novels
Imprint: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1943
Binding: Hardcover; Second Printing
DJ browned with chipping and small open tears; Includes the Embezzler, Career in C Major, and Double Indemnity, the latter of which was a well known film; 8vo; 327 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 12585.
$US 325.00 |
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Caird, James
INDIA: THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE
Imprint: London, Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1883
Binding: Hardcover
Minor rubbing to boards and some rubbing to top and bottom spine. Edges a bit darkening. Previous owner's name to fep. Front map with very light foxing and a bit torn; 8vo; 216 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 1370.
$US 85.00 |
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Calder, Ritchie
MEN AGAINST THE JUNGLE
Imprint: London, George Allen & Unwin, 1954
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Slight wear to DJ with faded spine; A trek through much of Central Asia at the behest of the United Nations; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 231 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 13505.
$US 50.00 |
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Caldwell, Erskine
AFTERNOONS IN MID-AMERICA Observations and Impressions
Imprint: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Small closed tear on rear DJ ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 19407.
$US 50.00 |
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Caldwell, Erskine
A HOUSE IN THE UPLANDS
Imprint: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
DJ price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 238 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 19406.
$US 45.00 |
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Caldwell, Elsie Noble
SATIN SKIRTS OF COMMERCE
Imprint: New York, Richard R. Smith, 1945
Binding: Hardcover
Wear to extremities and spine ends; Through the traditional Far Eastern trade routes; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 204 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 14692.
$US 25.00 |
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Caldwell, Erskine; Bourke-White, Margaret
SAY, IS THIS THE U.S.A.
Imprint: New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Wear to extremities. Spine ends frayed; A coffee table book that looks like it could be part of the WPA series. A slice of life of a vanished America just before entry into WWII, perhaps the last vestige of innocence. Photos by the noted Margaret Bourke-White; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 182 pages, Very Good-
Stock number: 14252.
$US 60.00 |
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Calthrop, Dion Clayton
ENGLISH COSTUME [4 VOLUME SET]
Imprint: London, A & C Black, 1906
Binding: Hardcover
Minor fraying to top and bottom spine and with rubbing to extremities. Endpapers a bit browning and frail. Bookplate; Top edge gilt. 18, 15, 19, 19 tissue guarded color illustrations. Vol I: Early English. Vol II: Middle Ages. Vol III: Tudor and Stuart. Vol IV: Georgian. An extremely rare set; 8vo; 80, 142, 142, 99 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 1648.
$US 745.00 |
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Calvert, Albert F.
MADRID An Historical Description and Handbook of the Spanish Capital
Imprint: London, John Lane, the Bodley Head
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Book gapping in one spot (but binding holding together) ; Nd [1908]. Profusely illustrated with 453 photos. Decorative red boards with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt; The Spanish Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 169, 453, 16 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 19049.
$US 200.00 |
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