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New York: Harper Collins, 1991 Hard cover in blue publisher's cloth with author's facsimile signature in silver to front board and titles in same to spine, in a d/j. 713pp. First edition Thus, first printing. Omnibus edition of the second trilogy of the Tales of the City series, set in San Francisco, by the author and gay activist Armistead Jones Maupin (1944 - ). Condition: Remainder mark to bottom of text block. Dust jacket shows some shelfwear and light marks to the back. Includes the "hilarious and heartbreaking" short stories first published in the San Francisco Chronicle, "Baby Cakes," "Significant Others," and " Sure of You," among other works describing the burgeoning AIDS crisis in that city beginning in the 1980's.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus.

New York: Rinehart & Company, 1956 245pp. Scarce hardcover, with light blue cloth-covered boards, yellow and white titling, and dust jacket cover art by Pat Feder. JOHN ALFRED "JACK" WEBB (1916-2008) wrote a number of noir murder mysteries set in Los Angeles, California of the 1950's and 60's, this volume being the fifth featuring the dynamic detecting duo of Father Joseph Shanley and LAPD's Sammy Golden of the Homicide Squad. "A wanton blonde's clandestine romance sets police detective Sammy Golden and his crime-busting partner Father Joseph Shanley on the trail of a ruthless mobster who deals in dope and death. This is a fast, taut thriller. Condition: Very Good+ in a like dust jacket. Slight edgewear to corners and tail of spine of book, as well as the age- toning to be expected. Otherwise, tight and clean. Dustjacket is just about immaculate for its age, showing only remnants of small corner folds on two turn-ins, and the merest edge abrasion. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+.

14 St. James Place, London: Collins, 1948 Early printing. Hard cover, 8vo, in green cloth, titles blocked in gold to spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket now in mylar, "First printed in 1948," color frontispiece, 158pp. Condition: Very Good in a Very Good D/j. One corner clipped on ffep. With the bookplate of a noted American naturalist and mammalogist, and pencilled note as to the purchase and reading of the book in dated 1970 on the front pastedown. The five monographs advertised on the back of d/j describe them as a more detailed study of select species the amateur naturalist, meant to accompany the popular "New Naturalist Series," which began publishing in 1945, and continued to at least 2015. Dates on rear of dust jacket suggest this is at least an early printing, as it advertises other books in the series to be released 1948 and 1949. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis (cover design).

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1892 Printed at the Chiswick Press, London. First Edition, 2nd impression. Hard cover, crown 8 vo., in publisher's original ruby red cloth with gilt pictorial decoration, beveled edged boards, 89 pp., No dust jacket present. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Condition: Very Good+ overall. The exterior looks Near Fine, with minimal rubbing or shelf wear, remaining bright and fresh. The Interior is about Very Good, with the usual light scattered foxing, affecting some plate margins, the tissue guard on frontispiece and to pastedowns. However, most pages are bright and binding is tight. A pictorial bookplate of an Oxford academic appears on the front pastedown. Literature: Francis Edwin Murray (1900) No. X, p14.. First Edition, 2nd Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good+.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.,Ltd., 1892 Hard cover, Crown 8vo., in publisher's original "electric blue" cloth with gilt pictorial decoration, 89 pp., No dust jacket present. All edges gilt. Printed at the Chiswick Press, London. **CONDITION: Very Good overall. The exterior maintains a very pleasant feel, with the extensive gilt design remaining bright. Spine slightly darkened, with head and tail pressed. Very light shelf wear to corners and edges. The Interior with light scattered foxing, affecting some plate margins. Tissue guard on frontispiece lacking. Most pages are bright. Both hinges slightly cracked but holding firm. Gift inscription in old ink from Christmas 1892 on half-title. Pictorial bookplate front pastedown of an Oxford academic. **This would have been an early display of the illustrator Hugh Thomson's "Cranford School" of lavishly gilt, gift book design, beginning with MacMillan's reissue of Mrs. Gaskell's "Cranford" the year prior. Literature: Francis Edwin Murray (1900)… Leer más

New York: Scribner, 2016 Hard cover, 8vo, (measuring 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches) in cream paper-covered boards, black cloth spine with gold titles, in original dust jacket, now in mylar protector, 717 pp. Condition: Fine, as new. In mylar protector. Much celebrated American author Annie Proulx (b. 1937) tells an epic saga of the descendants of two French immigrants to the wilds of Canada. The book tells the story of the hardships faced by two indentured woodcutters in seventeenth century Canada, or "New France." (It was adapted for television in 2020, with two seasons on Hulu.) The author is winner of the Pulitzer prize for Fiction in 1994 for "The Shipping News, among other literary prizes. . First Scribner hard cover edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Boston: C.M. Clark Publishing Company, 1905 Hard cover, in dark green publisher's cloth with pictorial design in yellow, light green and black, 261 pp plus 13 pp. publisher's adverts. The color frontispiece and nine black and white illustrations by C.H. Richert and Griswold Tyng. A "Story of Love and Adventure," set in a small Cornish fishing village, replete with shipwreck, a hidden identity and baronial estates. **The publisher, C.M. Clark, was noteworthy at the time as the only known female book publisher. Miss Carro Morrell Clark (1867-1950) kept her maiden name professionally, beginning her career as a bookkeeper and later dry-goods merchant. A head for business, and the willingness to do the hard work of bringing wares into stores and setting them up, ensured her success. Her profile is found in several newspapers of the early 1900's, including this item from the Daily Press of Newport News, VA, Aug. 11, 1907: "I had little money of my own and decided to go in for book publishing. Several… Leer más

Cincinnati: Robert Clark & Co., Publishers, 1859 Hard cover, 8vo., in full calf with a blind-stamped border. The title is in gilt upon a red leather label to the flat spine. The owner's name is inscribed on the spine in old ink. Also, owner's signature to front end paper: " H.S.K. Morrison." Collation: [3], 16, 6, 273, [4]. A classic of the British legal author Charles Barton(1768-1843), first published 1847. The revised edition includes a Preface, Analytical Table, Introduction to the History and Jurisdiction of the Court in Chancery, Rules of Practice in the Circuit Courts of the United States, and the English Orders in Chancery. CONDITION: Good: loss to head and foot of spine, some marks and dust soiling to exterior. Three defective outside joints. Generally foxed and blotted with old ink. A well-used item once belonging to the Virginia jurist, H.S.K. Morison. After serving in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, Morison would go on to study law at the Univ. of Virginia, where… Leer más

Seoul: Korea Institute for National Unification, 2012 Trade paperback, 8vo., 255pp. Condition: Near Fine. ** A study by the Korea Institute for National Unification on the political and economic situation on the Korean peninsula, as regards a potential re-unification. OCLC 858966114.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London: Country Life, 1950 175pp + geneological chart pullout. Illustrated history of the country manor near Swindon, England. Condition: Light marks to covers. Newspaper clipping pasted to back pastedown. Foxing/stains to edges of plates.. Hard Cover. Very Good-.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. Publishers, 1985 Hardcover, 4to with colorful pictorial dust jacket in Broadart cover, 240 pp. Purple cloth with gilt titles and map-illustrated end papers. A colorful, lushly photographed history of batik, as researched and written by the founder of a batik designer fabric company in the United States. It includes discussions of the religious, cultural and geographic influences on this southeast asian artform. Condition: Very Good Plus, with a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Some spotting to half title page, otherwise clean and sound. Jacket shows slight wear to corners, one closed tear at rear.. First Edition. Hardcover . Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus.

Calcutta: Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, 1970 Hard cover, 8vo., 50pp. Condition: Very Good. Covers dust-spiled. Owner's signature to front endpapers. Tiny tear in title page. ** Techniques on the creation of Batik, from the treatment of silk, applying wax, and dyeing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech Press, 1985 Hard cover, 8vo, in illustrated brown cloth, titles blocked in brown, in the original dust jacket, 102 pp., First Edition. Condition : Fine in a Fine d/j. Former owner's notation in neat pencil to top of front paste down. A study of the zoogeography and ecology of bats in Egypt, significant in that the landmass connections between Asia and Africa occur in this region, inviting comparison between the Palearctic and Ethiopian faunas. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London/ Annapolis: Batsford/ United States Naval Institute, 1977 Hard cover, 8vo. (measuring 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches), in blue cloth, titles in gold, in a pictorial dustjacket, now in mylar. Top of textblock is in a grayish stain, other edges uncolored. Printed label applied to title page over English publisher's name says published and distributed in the United States by the Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland. Condition: Very Good with one chipped corner, in a Very Good dust/jacket (price-clipped). This compendium of original source material relating to the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) includes many maps and other black and white illustrations of the famous naval battle pitting the British, under Lord Nelson, against the combined might of the French and Spanish fleets in the conduct of the Napoleonic War. English Author Capt. Geoffrey Martin Bennet, DSC FRHS (1908-1983), wrote a number of well-regarded naval histories in retirement. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: G. Kearsley, 1783 Hard cover, 12 mo., (measuring x x x inches), in full tree calf gilt, with a red leather label with title applied to the elaborately gilt spine, marbled end papers with a former owner's pencilled signature on the pastedown dating from 1794. Other pencil and old ink dated signatures to both endpapers. Seventh Edition, (2) 284pp. which includes three pages of publisher's adverts at the rear. Printed by C. Etherington, at No. 3 Peter-borough Court, Fleet-Street. Condition: Good. Covers worn, especially the at corners, with small losses at head and tail of spine. Hinges are cracked but holding firmly, the front hinge having been previously reinforced with white tape. A modern collector's blind stamp is also upon the ffep. Text is moderately toned throughout. However, this item remains handsome and entertaining. Irish-born author Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768) was a novelist and clergyman, famously known as the author of "The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy." This volume… Leer más

London: The "Pall Mall" Press, 1907 Hard cover, 16mo, (measuring 5 x 7 1/2 inches), in apricot colored cloth, titles in gilt to front board and spine, 64pp. Condition: Very Good Minus. Slight soiling to covers, one dent at bottom edge. Mild foxing throughout. Blindstamped London bookshop stamp to ffep. Signs of reglueing at back hinge. **Considered a classic work on beekeeping by the multi-talented vicar, naturalist and author, Tickner Edwardes (1865-1944) of Burpham, West Sussex, England. He was also a Fellow of the Entomological Society, London. The book contains a series of essays, ripe with lyrical descriptions, on the art of bee-keeping in the persona of "The Bee-Master" of Warrilow, a quaint English village on the Sussex Downs. This was the first of this material in book form, having been adapted from items previously printed in the Pall Mall Gazette. The photographs look like something out of a Merchant Ivory production. Edwardes also wrote a novel, Tansy, which became a silent film. The… Leer más

New York: Viking Penguin, 1999 First Edition. Hard cover, 8vo., (measuring 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches), in cream-colored half cloth with blue paper-covered boards, the titles in gilt to spine, and the pictorial dust jacket with clipper ships and portrait illustrations, 270 pp. Condition: Very Good Plus; d/j is Near Fine. (A remainder mark, black, marks bottom edge near spine.) Newburyport-born, and related to one of the big Boston merchant traders of the day, Charles Tyng (1801-1879) sails to China at thirteen years of age as a greenhorn ship's mate. His subsequent career took him "across the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Carribbean, visiting Cuba, China, Europe and Indonesia, among other ports of call." The memoir document was discovered among in the family papers, discovered and published by the subject's great-great granddaughter. From a review: " Charles Tyng takes us on a series of fascinating and often dangerous voyages around the world, as he observes everything from mutinies to mermaids, from… Leer más

Zürich: Universität Zürich, 1980 Soft cover, 8vo, in pictorial printed wraps, 156pp. In Swiss German. "Contributions to the Behavior of Snow Leopards in Zoological Gardens (Schreber, 1775)." The Inaugural Doctoral Dissertation of Herr Dr. Rieger von Fischenthal (ZH) presented to the faculty of the University of Zürich.** Condition: Very Good Plus. Light foxing to top and fore-edge of textblock, and to title page. Otherwise, clean and tight and with Ownership stamp to title page.** The German naturalist Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber described the snow leopard in the current Linnean classification in his seminal work begun in 1774 entitled, Die Säugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen, (Mammals in Illustrations According to Nature, with Descriptions) Prof. Rieger has gone on to publish numerous zoological articles on subjects ranging from bats, glow worms and Swiss beetles, amongst others. This copy belonged to Mammalogist Duane A. Schlitter, Curator of Mammals at the… Leer más

Hartford, Connecticut: S. Andrus & Son, 1845 228pp; 191pp. Hard cover, 24mo (3 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches) in mismatched olive and brown original publisher's cloth, with covers blindstamped, and matching titles in gilt to spine. Originally published as part of the work "Illustrations of Political Economy" (1834), the novel portrays the free-market economics of Adam Smith as it affects the lives of ordinary people. The British author, Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), was forced to learn about finance from the age of 27, when her family's textile business failed, and she had to, in her words, "truly live instead of vegetate". She was a pioneering female sociologist, and an atheist - surely she was the Ayn Rand of her time? *** Fun fact: Harriet's sister, Rachel, ran her own Unitarian Academy, which had as one of its students the artist Hilary Bonham Carter, an ancestor of the actress Helena Bonham Carter. *** Condition: Mixed set. Vol. I is from dated 1845 and Vol. II is dated 1843 and is ex-library. Both… Leer más

Cleveland, Ohio: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1888 Hard cover, 12mo., in green cloth with pictorial title design in the art nouveau style lettered to front and spine in black, 267 pp. A quaint romance set around Chicago. Condition: Good. Some rubbing to exterior edges, and a dent across front board. Small closed tear to half title. Contents age toned. Otherwise, it appears clean and fresh.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.