B&W Photographs/ Ads; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages; Tan 1/4 cloth, illustrated paper over boards. Bright and attractive example of this Dauphin county directory, one of the harder to find of the Farm Journal PA county directories. Lacking the road map but other wise snug and neat with just mild rub at board tips. Aside from missing map, a VG++ example. Includes numerous local ads and an exhaustive directory of farms and businesses for Dauphin View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 472 pages; Issues 1 -12; all that were published. Bound together in a mid/late 19th century 1/2 leather over marbled paper. Includes numbers 1 - 12 of this short lived monthly devoted to the concerns of the early American frontiersman. Much on brewing, cider making, horse and mule keeping, clearing and planting etc. Extensive and regular content devoted to education. Leather rubbed lightly over spine edges and at corner tips. Binding snug. Expected general toning to page stock. Damp line visible to front and bottom edges but with only a mild tide line visible among the firs... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 365 pages; Hardcover, 1st edition. Soundly bound in original dark green cloth with title-lettering in gilt to spine panel. Light shelf rub and tiny and nicks to cloth at spine ends and corners. Tenderness and partial splits in the gutters of the coated lining sheets. Light foxing to front endpapers and slight scattered soiling in the text. 20 page publisher's catalog added at rear. Begins with the virtues of eating horses and fungi, goes on to fish culture and ends with the growing of silkworms in your yars to clothe your family. Earnest humor? Now timely. Chapters o... View More...
Technical bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 90 pages; Paperback in matte title lettered covers. Solid clean copy with light to moderate toning of covers. Mild handling/shelf evidence at edges. Spine unlettered, as issued. Sound clean copy; illustrated. VG View More...
French Language Edition; Photographs; draeings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 198 pages; 1976 G E P; Paris. Softcover in typographic wraps. Sound copy with moderate shelf soiling to covers. Solidly bound and with clean contents. Numerouis photographs and illustrations. VG- View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 548 pages; 1953 The Twentieth Century Fund. Stout HC/DJ 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in original pictorial dust jacket with $5.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket lightly tone to spine and panel edges; light shelf rubbing and a pair of short closed tears at edgesd. Contents clean and neat; no marks. VG+/VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 189 pages; 1974 Kennikat Press. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket. Prior owner's pencil bracketing in margins to a very few number of pages and penciled notes on the rear endpage. Just mild shelf wear to jacket edges. VG-/VG+ View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 503 pages; 10th edition, improved. Text block soundly bound and generally clean. 3 parts separately paged; 164; 164; 175 pp. Cloth splitting over the lower joint but with spine cloth intact and complete. Fresh mylar overlay keeps the binding material in place. Corners bumped with light rub through and rupture to cloth. Light fraying at spine ends. Just mild toning to page stock with occasional mild staining and spotting. Good to G+ thus View More...
B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 164 pages; Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with 3.40 publisher price on unclipped front flap. Dust jacket just slightly shelf rubbed edges and surfaces with mild sunning to spine panel. Illustrated with two sections of b&w photos on glossy stock. Superficial binder's flaw has left one signature starting just slightly at front edge. Nice copy. VG/VG View More...
B&W Photographs and Diagrams; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 396 pages; HC in original navy cloth with title lettering brightly in gilt to the spine and stamped in blind to the front cover. Soundly bound and neat. Light shelf/handling wear to boards at edges. Spine ends lightly crimped and corners mildly bumped. Moderately shaken in the spine. Superficial toning to endpages and page edges. Prior owner's name penned to front endpage. Illustrated with b&w photographs and diagrams. Solid unmarked copy. VG View More...
Graphs & Figures; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 301 pages; 1999 Wageningen University. Larger octavo paperback in glosst title lettered covers. Tightly bound and fresh; no marks. Just trace shelf evidence to cover edges. Feels and appears unread. Some fraphs and figures illustrate the text. NF View More...
32mo 4" - 5" tall; 119 pages; Original thatched paper wraps with titles and illustration to cover and titles to spine. Ads on inside covers. Scarce polemic by prominent early vegetarian, animal rights and anti-vivisectionist, Charles Forward. Sound and generally neat, with a bit of mild soiling to covers and some light foxing to the front and rear end matter. Tiny chip off the rear cover lower corner. A few cursory pen marks in the preliminary pages. A solid and neat copy of this very uncommon vegetarian manifesto. VG- View More...
Tables; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 204 pages; Trade paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Square sound and clean copy has light shelf rub at cover edges and a small nick to the front edge of the over and the first few leaves. Expected mild toning to page stock. VG View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 1316 pages; Caspar Fritsch, Leipzig. Handsomely bound in contemporary full vellum with brown morocco title labels to spine. Folding frontis copperplate and 4 folding copperplate engraved plates. Vol I: [10], LVI, 858 p. ; Vol II : [10], p. 859-1316, 159 p.. Mounted to the front pastedown is the armorial bookplate of Thomas Falconer with four lozenges below the shield indicating earlier Falconer lineage; below this is mounted a later bookplate of Joseph M. Gleason. Snugly bound in bright clean vellum with just mild shelf rub to extremities. Almost imperceptible to t... View More...
B&W Photographs; tables and graphs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 674 pages; 1st English language edition from the 4th Russian revised ed. Stout paperback in matte title lettered wraps. Soundly bound with neat contents. Light ex-library indications including stamp and serial number to front cover but no other attachments or labels. Light. Handling wear to wraps at edges. Moderate foxing and light soiling to wraps at spine and edges. Illustrated with b&w photographs, graphs and tables. Solid unmarked copy. G++ to VG- View More...
Photographs & diagrams; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 175 pages; Chester Goss, compiler and editor. Gathering detailed writings on the practical dairying that had appeared in the magazine. Original thatched green cloth with title lettering in gilt to cover. Spine unlettered, as issued. Binding sound; complete contents. Scattered toning and foxing, moderate. Short tear in the gutter of the front, half-title page. Sound decent copy. Illustrated with photographs. Selection of Stock, Breeding, Feeding, Marketing etc. G++ View More...
Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 80 pages; [SIGNED] 1989 Little Brown & Co. HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket, price clipped front flap. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. A small personal note card with written note by the author is laid in at front. Solid bright copy; jacket lightly shelf rubbed at edges with a shallow diagonal scratch across the top front corner of the cover. VG++/VG; Signed by Author View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 1851 without printer or place given. In self-wraps with title page cover and a plain blue paper spine, as published. Light soiling to cover; blue paper over spine partially split but largely intact. Contents complete, clean and well sewn. Devotes on page per year to forecasts for weather, planting and harvesting conditions, vermin and illness etc. Scarce mid 19th century almanac; only one copy found among institutional holdingings, a copy at Harvard. VG View More...
A. S. & A. B. Dairy Extension Bulletin #105; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 66 pages; 1987 Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Delaware. Oversize paperback in pictorial title lettered covers in a plastic comb binding. Light toning to covers. Contents clean and neat. VG View More...
