Thomas Pyles. Selected essays on English usage
Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1979. 8vo, pp. xiv, 223; very good in original blue cloth in lightly soiled dust jacket. More
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Jane's world railways 1990-91.
Surrey: Jane's Transport Data, [1990]. Thirty-second edition, thick 4to, pp. 53 (ads), 864; numerous black & white photographic illustrations, charts, graphs; near fine in original pictorial boards. More
Vietnam subject index catalog. Research files of the engineer agency for resources inventories and Vietnam research and evaluation information center bureau for Vietnam
[Washington D.C.]: Engineer Agency for Resources Inventories, 1970. 4to, pp. [14], 288; extremities a bit creased and soiled, 'CORDS information center' stamped on upper cover with a number in ink; very good in original grey printed wrappers. More
The eighteenth century. A current bibliography for 1973
Iowa City: The University of Iowa, 1974. 8vo, pp. 445-851; Philological Quarterly vol. 53, number 4; extremities lightly soiled, else a very good copy in original beige printed wrappers. More
Dictionary of technical terms for aerospace use.
Washington, D.C. NASA, 1965. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi-[xii], 314; folding chart; very good in original gray cloth, blue lettering on spine. More
Bookselling in America and the world. Some observations & recollections. In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the American Booksellers Association.
New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co.l, [1975]. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 214; illus., fine in original orange cloth, good jacket with tears at top of spine. With the bookplate of Jacob L. Chernofsky on the front pastedown. More
Epistolae academicae Oxon. (Registrum F). A collection of letters and other miscellaneous documents illustrative of academical life and studies at Oxford in the fifteenth century.
Oxford: Oxford Historical Society, 1898. First edition, 8vo, 2 vols., pp. xlix, [3], 336; [6], [337]-725, [1]; 15 facsimiles (some double-page) bound in at the back; fine set in orig. blue cloth. More
Jean Nouvel
[Barcelona]: teNeues, [2002]. Sm 4to, pp. 79; profusely illustrated in color, plans; A fine copy in black paper-covered boards, pictorial dust jacket. More
Renzo Piano
[Barcelona]: teNeues, [2002]. Sm 4to, pp. 79; profusely illustrated in color, plans; A fine copy in black paper-covered boards, pictorial dust jacket. More
Croniques de London, depuis l'an 44 Hen. III. jusqu'a l'an 17 Edw. III. Edited from a MS. in the Cottonian Library.
London: for the Camden Society by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1844. Small 4to, pp. [4], xxi, [3], 112; bound with, as issued: Report of the [Camden Society] Council, pp. 36, including a 24-p. list of Camden Society members printed in double column, among them W. Harrison Ainsworth, John Payne..... More
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Four Oaks Library. [Together with:] Four Oaks Farm.
Somerville, N.J. [privately printed at the Thistle Press], 1967. Editions limited to 1250 and 1000 copies respectively, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xxii, 135, [1]; [12], 113, [1]; frontispieces; fine set in matching black cloth shelf-back, gilt lettering on spines; both volumes extensively illustrated; fine set in original marbled slipcase. History..... More
Gifts and poison: the politics of reputation
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1971. 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 318; original green cloth in yellow printed price-clipped dust jacket (spine a bit soiled); 2 small tears to front bottom jacket edge, one affecting the "F" in "F.G."; previous bookseller's price tag on front pastedown, else interior fine. 13 papers on European..... More
Early modern English: additions and antedatings to the record of English vocabulary, 1475-1700
Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1978. 4to, pp. xv, [3], 367; text printed from typescript; original red cloth (a few faint smudges), upper cover lettered in gilt, black gilt-lettered spine label; near fine. More
Voyage: an anthology of selected stories.
London: Sylvan Press, 1945. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 162-[163]; frontispiece and illustrations throughout; slight foxing to front endpapers, vertical crease near gutter through most of text block, else very good in green dust jacket printed in brown with some soiling and tattering at edges. Contributions from 16 writers including..... More
Белый медведь и его охрана в советской арктике / Belyi medved i ego okhrana v sovetskoi Arktike [= The polar bear and its conserviation in the Soviet Arctic]
Leningrad: Gidrometeorologicheskoe Izdatelstvo, 1969. 8vo, pp. 185, [3]; text in Russian with English summaries; text illustrations; black cloth titled in silver; textblock starting to tone, else clean and sound, near fine. Contains articles on the polar bear's origin, phylogenetic links and evolution, geographical variability and population structure, former and present-day..... More
Brides and betrothals: Jewish wedding rituals in Afghanistan
Jerusalem: Israel Museum, [1998]. First English-language edition, 4to, pp. 136; plain and color text illustrations; original red pictorial wrappers; about fine. Originally published in Hebrew in 1997. More
The new century handbook of English literature... with the assistance of William D. Halsey
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1956]. First edition, 4to, pp. vii, [1], 1167; as new and virtually untouched in dustjacket and publisher's box. More
The new century handbook of English literature... with the assistance of William D. Halsey
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1956]. First edition, 4to, pp. vii, [1], 1167; as new and virtually untouched in dustjacket and publisher's box. More
New songs on ancient tunes. 19th-20th century Chinese paintings and calligraphy from the Richard Fabian Collection
[Honolulu]: Honolulu Academy of Arts, [2007]. 4to, pp. 639, [1]; color text illustrations throughout; pictorial paper wrappers; fine. Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name. More
A bibliography of the dance collection of Doris Niles & Serge Leslie. Annotated by Serge Leslie.
London: C.W. Beaumont, 1966. 2 vols., first edition, limited to 525 copies, of which 25 were not for sale, 8vo, pp. 279, [280]-594, [3]; light bumps and rubbing to cloth, else very good in original blue cloth gilt. With subject indexes. More
Sailor historian. The best of Samuel Eliot Morison.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First edition, 8vo, pp. xl, [2], 431; fine in original blue cloth lettered in silver, dust-jacket. Foreword by Walter Muir Whitehill. Some reflections on style by David McCord. More
The Christopher Columbus encyclopedia
Basingstoke, Hants: Macmillan, 1992. 2 volumes, large 4to, pp. xxii, [2], 400; v, [1], 400-787; text in double columns, black and white text illustrations and maps throughout, map endpapers; original green cloth stamped in blue and gilt; a fine set. More
A book of Christmas verse...With ten designs by Walter Crane
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1895. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 173, [1]; illustrated title page printed in red and black, plain text illustrations throughout; original brown pictorial cloth by Crane stamped in gilt, red and black, t.e.g.; spine a touch cocked, some minor offsetting to endpapers; contemporary..... More
Beeton's great book of poetry: from Cædmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson. Containing nearly two thousand of the best pieces of English language; with sketches of the history of the poetry of our country, and biographical notices of five hundred of the poets
London: Ward, Lock, & Tyler, 1871. First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo; text printed in double columns; contemporary three quarter red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-ruled and lettered spine in six compartments, raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; spines darkened, general shelf wear, light scuffing; contemporary ownership inscription on..... More
Elmer Adler in the world of books
New York: Grolier, 1964. Edition limited to 2100 copies, 12mo, pp. ix-[xi], 114-[118], illus. after photographs and facsimiles on rectos and versos of 12 plates; fine in orig. gray cloth-backed black cloth boards. More
