Plato and His Contemporaries. A Study in Fourth Century Life and Thought de G. C. (15 January 1887 - 28 April 1955) Field - 1948

NY: Knopf, 1990. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1990. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in earth tones cloth and boards in copper colored wraps with tinted engraving of 'the meeting.' Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Beautifully done both in writing and presentation. Great read, great gift.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Houston, Texas: University of Houston, 1949. BO2 - A comb-bound in good condition that has some cracks on the plastic comb, significant scattered foxing and some stains, tanning and light shelf wear. Ezekiel W. Cullen: Knight Errant of Education by Ed Kilman; Hugh Roy Cullen: South's Foremost Philanthropist by Charles E. Gilbert, Jr. The Cullens: The Epic Story of Two Great Texans, one was a power in Texas in the days of the republic... the other became the south's foremost philanthropist... 9"x6.25", 82 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Comb-Bound. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Martin Secker, London, 1927, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 255 pages, 5" x 8", bumped corners, otherwise clean and tight. Allan Noble Monkhouse (1858 -1936) was an English playwright, critic, essayist and novelist.

New York, Harper and Row, 1971, hardcover, xiii-368 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Good in Good dustjacket, Signed by the Author on the front endpaper. Straight and firmly bound, dampstain to top edge affecting front board and top of first 50 pages, non-authorial gift inscription to previous owner to half-title page, light spine-end and corner wear. Dustjacket price-clipped, edge nicks, darkening to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The author of Our Crowd, The Right People, and Those Harper Women, presents an in-depth look at the tiny band of twenty-three Sephardim who arrived in the United States in 1654 from Spain, the rich and varied history of their descendants, and the impact they had on the development of the social, financial, and political landscape. Illustrated with 8 black-&-white plates. Appended: Sources, Index. An Abbreviated Genealogical Chart of America's Sephardic Elite attached inside rear cover. ISBN 9780060103378

New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1968. 8vo size pictorial hardcover with matching dust jacket - even the author photo and biography on the jacket appear on the hardcover; 189 pages plus two black and white maps. Back cover has black and white photo of author and full page biography. From jacket: "Ruthless, cynical, arrogant, brilliant, supremely dedicated to a rigid concept of duty and vast dream of grandeur, Otto von Bismarck guided Germany to greatness and stood guard over the peace of Europe - while planting seeds of future destruction... What came to be known as the Age of Bismarck was an era of sharp paradox. The man who had based his policy on "blood and iron" now designed a peace that last 40 years." Ex-library with typical treatments, fep is clipped, jacket is covered with mylar. Tape transfer marks on endpapers. Edgewear, bumped top corners and head and heel of spine, worn corners. Pages 155-165 have creases on the bottom and we noted at least four creased page top… Leer más

NY: Association Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed.. 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering stamped on spine. Foreword by Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Hughes. A biography of the short-lived (1873-1911) reverend and religious missionary in western India, written by many of his family members and friends, including Rev. Samuel H. Lee, Welling H. Tinker, Rev. Albert Parker Fitch, Rev. Alden H. Clark, Hannah Hume Lee (his widow) , Rev. Arthur Osborn Pritchard and Fred B. Smith. Many photos. Tipped in letter at front free endpaper written and signed by Hannah Hume Lee. xiv, 178 pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: W.H. Allen, 1977. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with no inscriptions which has dust marking to top edge and age toning to endpapers. Dustjacket by Val Biro is near Fine and is not price clipped. 192 pages. With, the twenty-fourth and final book in his autobiographical series, Rupert Croft-Cooke (1903-1979) completed the remarkable sequence which he called 'The Sensual World'. The subject is basically his return home after many years abroad. In 1974 Croft-Cooke suffered a stroke and found walking and writing difficult in his remaining years and no longer able to right in cursive script, he completed 'The Green, Green Grass', his last published work, by laboriously writing pages in block letters and having his long time companion Joseph type it. Very uncommon to find in such very good condition with a dustjacket. 11. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, Harper and Row, 1971, hardcover, xiii-368 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Good in Good dustjacket, Signed by the Author on the front endpaper. Straight and firmly bound, dampstain to top edge affecting front board and top of first 50 pages, non-authorial gift inscription to previous owner to half-title page, light spine-end and corner wear. Dustjacket price-clipped, edge nicks, darkening to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The author of Our Crowd, The Right People, and Those Harper Women, presents an in-depth look at the tiny band of twenty-three Sephardim who arrived in the United States in 1654 from Spain, the rich and varied history of their descendants, and the impact they had on the development of the social, financial, and political landscape. Illustrated with 8 black-&-white plates. Appended: Sources, Index. An Abbreviated Genealogical Chart of America's Sephardic Elite attached inside rear cover. ISBN 9780060103378

New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1968. 8vo size pictorial hardcover with matching dust jacket - even the author photo and biography on the jacket appear on the hardcover; 189 pages plus two black and white maps. Back cover has black and white photo of author and full page biography. From jacket: "Ruthless, cynical, arrogant, brilliant, supremely dedicated to a rigid concept of duty and vast dream of grandeur, Otto von Bismarck guided Germany to greatness and stood guard over the peace of Europe - while planting seeds of future destruction... What came to be known as the Age of Bismarck was an era of sharp paradox. The man who had based his policy on "blood and iron" now designed a peace that last 40 years." Ex-library with typical treatments, fep is clipped, jacket is covered with mylar. Tape transfer marks on endpapers. Edgewear, bumped top corners and head and heel of spine, worn corners. Pages 155-165 have creases on the bottom and we noted at least four creased page top… Leer más

Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1973. Edited and Introduction by A. Grove Day. [4] xlv,[1], 205pp, [3], 16 photographic plates inserted. Brown cloth covered boards with bright gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Map illustrative endpapers. Binding is tight, slight foxing on page edges. Dust jacket has faded spine, and a few small tears at bottom edge. Front of dust jacket showing shelf wear. Pages are unmarked. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.