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[Japan]: (Parade Inc.), 2006. Discussion of Cantor's theory, in Japanese. Hardcover, white covers, black titling. Light wear to book, jacket, and 'sub-jacket'; corners lightly bumped; near fine. Text clean; 232 pages, a little mathematical notation.. First Japanese Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5¼" by 7¾".

Dousman: Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of Wisconsin, 1996. Two volume set; volume one examines the appearance (in the 1820s) of Masons in Wisconsin and their spread, at one time over 360 lodges strong; volume two examines the attitudes and activities of the group. Hardcover, full blue cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to books & jackets, corners bumped. Text clean; [6], ii, 388; [6], 416 pages in all; each volume has its own index; volume two has a few small portraits.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 7" by 10¼". Set.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. Second paperback edition of this poetry collection, SIGNED by the autho on the half-title, dated 4/2/90. General wear, corners curled, smudges to half-title, minor gouges to rear cover; couple of pages dog-eared. Text clean; xvii, blank, 262 pages.. Later Printing. Paperback. Good. 5½" by 8¼".

Bremen: Wilhelm Schintz Very Good/Fair. Large Octavo. 400 pages. With photographs and illustrations. Off-white cloth with black lettering. Corners of boards lightly bumped, otherwise fine. Jacket has wear and chips at ends of hinges; head and tail of jacket spine repaired with clear tape; half-inch tear on upper rear jacket..

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co. 1938 Stapled. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Saalfield No. 2168. Title on front cover simply reads "Christopher Duck." Large staple-bound children's book with custom-cut top edge. Some wear to spine; minor insect damage on back cover; crease in lower corner of front cover; text a little brown around the edges..

Moscow: Megapolis, 1995. Study of Soviet preparation for radiation accidents, reaction to the Chernobyl accident, evacuation & protection of the population, decontamination and its effect on workers, politics of resettlement of evacuees, assessments of international experts. The author, Professor Leonid Ilyin, was a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, researching radiation biology & medicine, and was at Chernobyl as part of the clean-up team. 'Marble' grey/white covers, gilt titling. Light wear to book, jacket shows some rubbing, minor spots; yellow highlighting on page 10. Text otherwise clean; [398] pages + ad for a radiation protection firm; b/w photos.. First Edition in English. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974 Good/Very Good. First American Edition. Large Octavo. 448 pages with appendices, bibliography and index. With 16 pages of photos. Story of British civil servant hanged for his work on behalf of Irish independence. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Foxing on top and fore edges of text. Very light wear to ends of jacket hinges. Text is clean and binding is tight..

London: Gay & Hancock, 1913. Poem of monks troubled by a thieving bird, and his reformation; finely illustrated with twelve tipped-in plated mounted on grey sheets, with captioned guards. Recently rebound in full oatmeal cloth, paper spine labels. Light wear, pages tanned. Text clean; 17 leaves printed one side only, plus colophon; 12 color plates.. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Charles Folkard. Folio.

Halifax: Halifax Museums, 1959. Inventory of African, Indian, Asian, & one Santa Cruz loom from New Hebrides, with brief descriptions, including parts lists & notes on construction, a few comments on tools & cloth made, diagrams. Recently bound in hard covers, with original paper covers bound in. Light wear, original covers show some fading, light edgewear. Text clean; [8], 64 pages; glossary, many figures, 7 b/w plates as called for. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7½" by 10".

London: Victor Gollancz, 1959. Appleby finds himself investigating blackmail & spies. First edition (first printing). Red hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear, ink gift note on fee endsheet, page edges darked with minor spotting; jacket has a LONG tear to the rear panel, nearly severing it, also shows minor edgewear, light creasing, slightly darkened spine. Text clean; 192 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Duodecimo.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1964. Thriller about art fraud; Appleby is not involved, instead, we have Hildebert Braunkopf. First edition (first printing). Red hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear, ink gift note on fee endsheet; jacket shows minor edgewear, light creasing, slightly darkened spine. Text clean; 192 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Duodecimo.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1961. Psychological novel of isolation and love affairs, told from multiple viewpoints; with the author's debut, won the Akutagawa Prize. Translated from the Japanese by Sadamichi Yokoö & Sanford Goldstein. Apparently issued simultaneously in hardcover & paperback: we have the paperback, stated first edition. Blue wraps, red, white & black titling & decoration. Light general wear, spine dished. Text clean; 74 pages, two-color title page.. First American Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4¾" by 8¼".

[Washington D. C.]: Navy Department - USGPO, 1943. Supplement 1 only to the main manual for British Naval vessel identification, ONI 201; intended to be divided & inserted in the proper sections. Includes printed band with brief instructions, one erratum. Issued without covers as loose sheets perforated for inclusion with similar materials in a case or binder. INCLUDES THE HARDCOVER CASE for ONI 201. Case worn & rubbed, corners frayed. Light wear to supplement, minor creasing, corners slightly curled. Text clean; 52 pages, b/w photos, line drawings, schematics, statistics.. First Edition. Unbound. Very Good. 10" by 6".

Washington D.C.: Merkle Press, 1976. History of the Teamsters union, published for its 21st convention, and celebrating the US Bicentennial. In the rather scarcer full cloth binding (rather than padded 'leather'), with jacket; as pictured. Light wear to book, corners bumped; jacket rubbed & a bit edgeworn. Text clean; [16], 308 pages; index, tinted, color, & b/w photos & illustrations on almost every page - a panoply of mid-70s graphic design as well as a lot of pictures of trucks, warehouses, burly men, & historic documents. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Quarto.

Denver, CO: Mimosa Education, 1999 84 pgs; index. Cover shows only light wear along edges. Interior is clean and text unmarked. Instructors' guide to a text on ethnomathematics. Level F.. Staple Bound Softcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone, 1945. A "general picture of the neuro-psychiatric approach to the psychological problems of aircrew arising from the hazards of their occupation", based on the authors' own field experiences as medical officers. Hardcover, full blue-grey cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book, corners lightly bumped & rubbed; minor foxing to pages & endsheets; no jacket. Text clean; viii, 167 pages; index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968. Controversial account of a catastrophic supply mission to the USSR in 1942. In 1970, Irving and his British publisher were successfully sued by the officer on whom Irving pinned much of the blame for the failure; the book was withdrawn, but later reissued with revisions. The author, once a respected historian, went on to further controversy. First American edition, stated; hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket, but with a waterstain affecting the lower boards, mostly the rear, staining the jacket, but having little effect on the book. Text clean & unmarked; xiv, [2], 337 pages; appendixes, notes on sources, index, b/w photos, maps. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

New York: Random House, 2001. Irving's tenth novel, involving the loss of a hand, its replacement, and the Green Bay Packers. Mostly the hands. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page. Stated first edition (first printing). Hardcover, burgundy spine over tan boards, gilt titling. Light wear, corners rubbed; jacket light rubbed with a little edgewear; minor spotting to edges. Text clean; xii, 316, [3] pages.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6½" by 9½".

New York: G. P. Putnam, 1860. Collection of satiric essays & verse, originally published pseudonymously in 1807-1808; collected here in a form designded to be "worthy to accompany the collected volumes of the writings of one of its distiguished authors"; preface & notes by Evert A. Duyckinck. According to an early dealer's note, this is the scarce first issue with the engraved title page by Hoppin; we cannot confirm this, though it does apperar to be the first Putnam edition. Hardcover, full textured brown calf, gilt titling & decoration. Shows some wear, hinges rubbed & scuffed, spine lightly creased; smudge/tape stain on front cover; ink note on flyleaf: "J Duffus Harris from his Uncle Willie Xmas 1864"; engraved title page & frontispiece foxed; a few pages creased. Text clean; 412 pages.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by W. A. Whitehead, Hoppin. 6½" by 8¾".

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986. Third of Irving's popular accounts, blending fact & romance, of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, with an introduction discussing his sometimes under-acknowledged sources & the book's publication history. Volume 12 of this scholarly edition of Irving's works. Stout hardcover, full black cloth, gilt & red titling, as pictured. Light general wear, corners a bit rubbed, top edge foxed/spotted, no jacket as issued. Text clean; lv, [3], 577 pages; introduction, notes, textual commentaries, map, 3 b/w plates.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo.