Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 378 pages; No date given. [1886] 1st edition. P. Larousse. Snugly bound in 1/4 green morocco leather backed spine and pebbled green cloth boards with extra gilt designs and ruling to spine with 5 raised bands. Boards with ruling in blind and decorative emblem in gilt to upper board. Handsome marbled endsheets. Binding snug and neat with handsome shelf presence. Mild shelf rubbing to cloth at corner tips. Scattered light to moderate foxing to page stock. Illustrated with 360 "gravures" - woodcuts in text of military dress, arms. Insignia and naval ve... View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 98 pages; Hardcover in original cloth backed title lettered, paper covered boards. 4th edition. Sound, solid copy with the publisher's trade binding. Brown cloth spine with 4 horizontal rules in gilt; unlettered, as issued. Light general toning and light soiling to decorative title lettered boards. Short, mild scrapes to board edges; corners lightly bumped. A small gouge to the lower edge of the rear board. Missing the front free endpage, the book opens to the title page. Some foxing scattered in text; generally light but heavier to the first 10 or so leaves. Three ... View More...
B&W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 364 pages; [Inscribed by Capt. Patrick Irving O'Hay, inspiration for the Character of Burke] 1897 Charles Scribner's Sons. HC 1st edition. With b&w plates on glossy stock from drawings by Charles Dana Gibson. Snugly bound and neat in original light mustard yellow cloth with pictorial cover by Gibson in blue and decorative titles and tuling in gilt and blue. On the recto of the pictorial frontis, Capt. Patrick Irving O'Hay, a Rough Rider and close friend of Davis, has penned a lengthy inscription, dated 1925, in which he describes his being the self-same "Burke" t... View More...
B&W Figures; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages; 2007 Dover Publications. Trade size paperback in glossy color pictorial covers. Bright, tight and fresh; feels and appears unread with just a hint of shelf evidence to externals. About as new. NF View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 393 pages; 1978 Oxford University Press. HC/DJ. Soundly bound in original color pictorial dust jacket. Prior ownership of Cold War scholr. Robert J Bresler. His underlining and marginalia lightly scattered through most of the text but heavy and sustained in the final 40-50 pages. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed and toned. G/VG View More...
Drawings and Photographs; Square Small 8vo 7½" - 8; 192 pages; HC in publisher's faux leather-style cloth over boards; evokes appearance of the original journal. Title lettering in gilt to spine. Bright, sound and clean; no marks. A hint of fading to gilt. Binding slightly shelf cocked. Illustrated with period photographs and modern drawings illustrating sections of text. A handsome copy. VG+ View More...
Drawings and Photographs; Square Small 8vo 7" - 8; 192 pages; HC in publisher's faux leather-style cloth over boards; evokes appearance of the original journal. Title lettering in much faded gilt to spine. Bright, sound and clean; no marks. Usual fading to gilt at spine. Illustrated with period photographs and modern drawings illustrating sections of text. A handsome copy. VG View More...
Drawings and Photographs; Square Small 8vo 7" - 8; 192 pages; 1973 Franklin and Marshall College. HC in publisher's faux leather-style cloth over boards; evokes appearance of the original journal. Title lettering in gilt to spine, a little faded as usually seen. Bright, sound and clean; gift inscription penned to balnk verso of front flyleaf. Illustrated with period photographs and modern drawings illustrating sections of text. Solid copy. VG View More...
Drawings and Photographs; Square Small 8vo 7½" - 8; 192 pages; 1973 Franklin and Marshall College. HC in publisher's faux leather-style cloth over boards; evokes appearance of the original journal. Title lettering in gilt to spine, a little faded as usually seen. Bright, sound and clean. Illustrated with period photographs and modern drawings illustrating sections of text. Solid copy. VG+ View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 467 pages; 1982 U. S. Government Printing Office. Volume 5, Parts I & II "Studies in Communist Affairs." 2 volumes, 252; 225 pp. Paperbacks tightly bound in original title lettered wraps. Contents solid and clean. Ex-library ownership with expected attachments and indications, including a heavy laminate cover over the bindings. Contents clean and bindings solid. Ex-library thus G+ only View More...
B&W Photographs; maps endsheets; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 351 pages; Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket is worn and tatty with heavy old tape repairs on the reverse surface of the jacket to long tears. Small tape remnants where prior owner anchored dust jacket to map illustrated endpapers. Binding a little shaken but sound. G+/G View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; Handsomely bound in ribbed blue cloth with borders and patterned design blind stamped with rope, shell and star designs. Titles brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Dust jacket with identical desing to boards patterned and lettered in blue to a white background. Jacket is well worn at edges and has separated at spine edge and one flap fold. We have preserved the jacket by reattaching the joints with application of archival paper tape to the reverse surface and then placed a fresh mylar cover over the dust cover. Illustrated with tissue guarded portraits, p... View More...
Steel engraved plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1922 pages; 3 volumes complete. 1st edition thus. 620; 660; 642 pp. Uniformly and handsomely bound in 3/4 burgundy colored morocco over pebbled red cloth boards. Titles and ruling brightly in gilt to spines; tooled decorative ruling to leather and cloth seams. Decorative pictorial seals to cover boards in gilt. Bindings sound, though there are partial splits to the endpapers in the inner hinges of Vols II & III. Mild shelf scuffing to leather at corners; light silverfish patchiness to cloth of board surfaces. Profusely illustrated with tissue... View More...
Historical photos on glossy stock; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 320 pages; 1st printing. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright color pictorial dust jacket. Feels and appears unread; just a whisper of shelf evidence to jacket edges. Illustrated with 2 sections of photographs, color and b&w, printed on glossy stock. About as new. NF/NF View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 35 pages; 1922 Macmillan. Map volume only. In original red cloth covered box; a portfolio of 34 maps and plate, all folded and of varying sized. This copy prior ownership of the US Army Military History Library at Carlisle PA. Card pcoket attached inside the box. Each map has OCLC and and Dewey catalog info penciled and corrected in several successive hands to the front balnk surface. Also attached are small, numbered linen tabs to the front edge of the maps "cover." Missing maps # 15 & 20; All else present and in generally VG condition. A serviceable collections of the maps... View More...
B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; [SIGNED] 1929 The Literary Guild. HC early reprinting. Inscribed and signed boldly by Ellsberg on the blanck recto of the frontis plate, dated Mar 24, 1938. Soundly bound and generally neat in original black cloth with pictorial title design in green and giilt to cover and spine. Cloth lightly crimped and a little thin at spine ends, tiny fleck of cloth lost bottom edge of cover board. Light shelf soiling to bottom edge, front corner of page block. Illustrated with pictorial diagram endpages and b&w photos on glossy stock. VG-; Signed by Author View More...
B&W Photographs, Diagrams and Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages; 1919 Govternment Printing Office. Washington DC. Volume 2 only (of 3) . HC in original black cloth lettered in gilt. Ex-library copy with expected ownership attachments and indications. Gilt lettering at spine alomost entirely rubbed away. Fromt endpages split in the hinge have been archivally mended with japanese kozo. Binding shaken with mild splitting between signatures. Illustrated throughout with b&w photos, diagrams and drawings. Good only View More...
B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 235 pages; Larger trade size paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Tightly bound, bright and neat; feels and appears unread. Just a whisper of shelf evidence to cover edges. Illustrated with some historical b&w photos printed on glossy stock. NF View More...
B&W Figures; Musical Notation; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 156 pages; 1912 William Reeves. HC 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in original red cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine; ruling and decorative flourish to cover in blind. Mild shelf tapping to boards at corner tips; mild crimping to cloth at spine ends. Illustrated with b&w figures and some musical notation. 48 page publisher catalogue appended at rear. VG++ View More...
