Chicago: Ares Publishers, Inc., 1978. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo (standard siz). Slight wear to edges and corners. xcii, 128 p. w/ bibliography in the roman numbered pages, a few illus. More about Corpus der Griechisch Christlichen Inschriften Von Hellas. Inschrifen von Peloponnes. Band I :...
Chicago: Workers Party of America by the Daily Worker Publishing Co., circa 1925. First edition. Pamphlet. Small thick pamphlet. Slight wear at edges and corners. A few tiny spots to cover, a library withdrawn stamp at top of cover - no other library mark or residue. 55 [ 8 ]... More about Poems for Workers : An Anthology. Little Red Library No. 5
Atascadero, CA: Wagapaw Press, 1982. Limited edition. Paperback. Thin, small octavo (standard size). Slight war to edges and corners of covers, spine slightly lighter color than the covers. Main title in gilt on cover with sword end with hilt in scabbard, also in gilt. Abbreviated subtitle, author name, and ruled... More about The Last Bright Blades : a Study of the Development and Demise of Cavalry Saber from 1904 to 1934
California: George Hamilton & Dale Brown, 1975. First edition. Pamphlet. Small, thin pamphlet. Slight wear to edges and corners. Cover and title illustration by Jake Kirwan. 13 original primarily fantasy related poems by Howard, 12 of which are published here for the first time. The first one of this group... More about Verses in Ebony
[ New York ]: 90th Division Association, printed by the DeVinne Press, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (oversized). Dark brown cloth spine with light brown buckram on boards. Title and Division symbol on front board. Spine titles in gilt. Decorated endpapers. Some wear to edges and corners of boards. Corners... More about History of the 90th Division [ World War I
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 260 p. w/ index and extensive notes and bibliography. A study of the relationship between religious belief in an approching apocalypse and the drive for imperial conquest... More about The Apocalypse of Empire : Imperial Eschatology in Late Antiquity and Early Islam
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 251 p. w/ index and extensive notes and bibliography. An examination of How Julian used the Jewish models and practices as a source for his program to... More about The Specter of the Jews : Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethniciy in Syrian Antioch
Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellom Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Very small spot to front board. 249 p. w/ chapter endnotes, bibliography, short index. A history of the rifles and manufacturing firms, with detailed information from the businesses, including production... More about U. S. Rifles and Rifle-Muskets of the Civil War. Volume 1 U.S. and Confederate Arms and Armories...
New York, NY: Macmillan, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Dust jacket as closed tears at rear panel, with a small chip missing at lower right rear, near spine. First flap of dj clipped at to pand bottom, but $1.50... More about What Are Years
New York, NY: Library of America, 1995. Second printing. Hardcover. The uncommon leather bound edition. Slight wear to edges and corners. Brown leather with gilt lettering, green label on spine. 1036 p. w/ indexes. A nearly complete collection of the writings of this great American man of letters and poetry... More about Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays : Complete Poems 1949, In the Clearing, Uncollected Poems,...
Port Clinton, OH: BNR Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Quarto (oversize). Landscape format (long). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Slight spotting at top edge of text block. 400 p. w/ hundreds of b&w illus., price guide, fold out illustrations at front end rear endpapers..... More about American Automotive Stock Certificates : a Collector's Guide with Values
Detroit, MI: William Graham Company, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (smaller than standard). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Pages are somewhat browned. Embossed binding is in excellent condition on both front board and spine, with scrolling, sub-title, and architectural details from the Fair in black, and main... More about The City of Wonders : A Souvenir of the World's Fair
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 419 p. w/ illus., maps, index, further reading, and extensive endnotes. A look at the rise and fall of the Duth Atlantic Empire, with special attention to the Dutch in... More about The Dutch Moment : War, Trade and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 329 p. w/ illus., endnotes, bibliography, index. More about Lincoln's Mercenaries : Economic Motivation Among Union Soldiers During the Civil War
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Old Cambridge price sticker on dj flap. Name of former owner and date on flyleaf. 277 p. w/ maps (incl. one folding and one in pocket ar rear), footnotes, appendices, index... More about Settlement and Society : a Study of the Early Agrarian History of South Lincolnshire
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 292 p. w/illus., footnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the miracle of the Flying House of Loreto, and how it became an allegory for the expansion of the Catholic Church... More about The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto : Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World
Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2006. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges. Corners are bumped. xxxviii, 490 p. w/ b&w illus., 4 articles of appreciation and 37 scholarly essays (a few in French, most in English) on topics related to meaning, context, and space... More about Pictorial Languages and Their Meanings : Liber Amicorum in Honor of Nurith Kennan-Kedar [...
Forest, VA: TLC Publishing, 2009. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Quarto (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Heel of spine bumped. Line Drawings on endpapers. 128 p. w/many b&w illus., rosters, specs, and more. A history of N&W's Y-class 2-8-8-2 compound articulated (Mallet) steam locomotives..... More about Norfolk & Western's Y-Class Articulated Steam Locomotives
New York, NY: Philomel, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, and author's first novel. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, with a couple spots on the endpapers.Boards have some scuffing and spotting. Edges of textblock slightly soiled. "First Impression" noted on copyright page with no... More about Redwall
Boston: Burnham Brothers, 1856. 2nd printing. Hardcover in full cloth. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners, with bumping to head and heel of spine. Emboss of Wm. Ulman Binder, Boston on top corner of free endpaper. Light foxing on some pages, with some darker or larger spots... More about Hoffmann's Strange Stories. From the German
Kentville, Nova Scotia: Gaspereau Press, 2003. First edition. Softcover. Tall thin octavo (slightly oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Retains the creme colored paper band at rear describing the book and the author. Bringhurst creates here a polyphonic work about the great bear constellation, setting Native American... More about Ursa Major : a Polyphonic Masque for Speakers & Dancers
Newark, NJ: The Wildside Press, 1992. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners. SIGNED by McCaffrry and hand numbered, 240 of 250 copies, on a bookplate on the first pastedown. Includes green register attached at head. Faux leather bonding wih green foil design and title... More about Cooking Out of This World
London: Baily Brothers, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Rebacked in darker brown, with gilt titles, recornered in black, New endpapers, with old Westley's binding ticket replaced at rear pastedown along with a square of cloth from the original spine containing the title. Cloth on boards is original with light scuffing... More about Journal of a Tour in Unsettled Parts of North America in 1796 and 1797 ; with a Memoir of the Author
London: Heinemann, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Printed in black with some red details and illus., 264 p. w/ illus., bibliography, index, and appendices on cold and hot drinks and cooking with rum. A lovely and entertaining book about the... More about Rum : Yesterday and Today
Fresno, CA: Cambium Press, Bethel/Linden Publishing, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to dust jacket. 125 p. w/ illustrations, index of makers. Includes sections on Workmanship, Teaching, Wood, Creativity, and Fingerprints (personal details by the maker). An attractive... More about With Wakened Hands : Furniture by James Krenov and Students
