New York: President Press, 1937, 1937. Hardcover. Hard Cover. Good. three volume set. 367pp., 373pp., and 370pp. red cloth covered boards. 58 stories. previous owner's bookplate inside front cover of volume two. covers lightly worn, endpapers yellowed. text clean. Year: 1937.
Max Hesses Verlag. Hardcover. Eighteen volumes in six books; green cloth-covered boards. German text in Gothic script. All have some edgewear, especially on corners and spine. Book 6 has 1-inch tear in the cloth along front hinge. All have clean pages throughout. Book 1 has a cracked hinge inside the.....
Rod and Staff Publishers, 1995. Hardcover. three volumes: 1 textbook and 2 volume teacher's manual. all volumes clean, bright, unmarked. bindings tight. Year: 1995.
The Delphian Society, 1945. Hardcover. Three volumes. Boards very good, lightly edgeworn with lightly bumped spine tips. Spines square. Bindings sound. No dust jackets, if issued. Pages clean, toned, free of markings.
International Missionary Council, 1928. Hardcover. Eight volumes, complete. Red cloth with paper title plates at spines. Cloth has light shelf-wear and edgewear, with the paper title plates showing scraping, soiling, and/or wear to the edges. Spines square. Bindings sound. Stain to textblock edges of volumes 1-3, with internal dampstaining and.....
Shuman & Co., 1914. Hardcover. 10 volumes in maroon cloth with leather corners and spines. gilt spine titling. includes staplebound handbook on how to use the set. volume 5 has small chip at bottom of spine. else, there is some minor rubbing at the edges and corners. bindings are tight.....
Asprs, 1991. Paperback. Volume 1 (Surveying): 300 pages, several B&W illustrations, tight binding, clean. Volume 2 (Cartography and GIS/LIS): 353 pages, several B&W illustrations, tight binding, clean. Volume 3 (Remote Sensing): 522 pages, several B&W illustrations, tight binding, clean. Volume 4 (GIS): 263 pages, several B&W illustrations, tight binding, clean.....
Horace Liveright, 1928. Hardcover. #1,025 of a limited edition; the limitation page sets the count to 2,050 copies, but the front cover states the limitation as 2,000. Two volumes, complete. Black cloth with gilt titles and decoration, in black dust jackets with gilt titles and decoration. Cloth good to very.....
George Barrie & Son, 1896. Hardcover. Eleven-volume set of Honore de Balzac's 'Scenes from Parisian Life,' one of the interlinked collections of his 'La Comedie Humaine.' Published from 1896-1897. Contents include: (1-2) Splendors and Miseries [of Courtesans] - The Way That Girls Love (Esther heureuse) / How Much Love Costs.....
George Barrie & Son, 1898. Hardcover. Three-volume set of Honore de Balzac's 'Country Life,' from the interlinked collections of his 'La Comedie Humaine.' Published 1898-1899. Contents include: (1) The Country Doctor, (2) The Village Cure [Rector], and (3) The Peasants. Each numbered #315 from an edition limited to 1,000 copies.....
George Barrie & Son, 1898. Hardcover. Five-volume set of Honore de Balzac's Military and Political Life, from the interlinked collections of his 'La Comedie Humaine.' Year: 1898. Contents include: (1) The Chouans; (2) A Passion in the Desert / An Episode Under the Reign of Terror / A Dark Affair;.....
George Barrie & Son, 1897. Hardcover. Ten-volume set of Honore de Balzac's 'Scenes from Provincial Life,' one of the interlinked collections of his 'La Comedie Humaine.' Published from 1897-1898. Contents include: (1) Ursule Mirouet, (2) Pierette / Le Cure de Tours, (3) La Rabouilleuse, (4) Eugenie Grandet, (5) The Lily.....
Allyn & Bacon, 1974. Hardcover. 2 volumes, hardbacks in cream cloth with foil stamping, volume 1 in gold, volume 2 in blue. Edges and corners are lightly bumped, some dust soil from handling (heavier on volume 2). On the lower edge of the page block (both volumes), there is a......
The International Association of Historians of Asia, 1962. Hardcover. Fifty-five volumes, complete. Including numerous maps, portraits, and other illustrations. The history is contained within the first 52 volumes, the bibliography in volume 53, and the index across two volumes (54-55). Edited and annotated by Blair and Robertson, with historical introduction.....
Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in slipcase. First editions with no additional printings mentioned. Red cloth hardcovers with black title plate and silver lettering at spine. Boards good with age wear and gentle edge wear. Cloth sunned, stained and scuffed over spines. Corners scraped. Spines.....
Vernon Law Book Company, 1914. Hardcover. Two volumes, complete. Formerly in the library of the Oregon State Game Commission, with expected library stamps at textblock edges and endsheets, but otherwise relatively minor library wear. Red boards with light edgewear, rubbing to corners. Spines square. Bindings sound. Pages toned. Interiors are.....
The Caxton Publishing Company, 1951. Hardcover. Three volumes, complete: 263 pages (1), 289 pages (2), and 306 pages, plus index (3). Blue cloth with gilt titling and decoration at spines, decoration in blind to front panels. Some rubbing, edgewear on boards. Sound bindings. No jackets, if issued. Pages foxed and.....
G. C. Nauk, Berolini [Berlin], 1797. Hardcover. The work that established binomial nomenclature and the naming of plants, by Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778). This edition in four volumes produced under the direction of Karl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812), German botanist, taxonomist, and the director of the Berlin Botanical.....
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1927. Hardcover. Three volumes, complete. Black cloth with gilt spine titles, decoration blind-stamped to front panels. Heavy edgewear, with corners frayed, additional spots of fraying along edges. Volume one has minor loss at spine foot, and peeling form the bottom raised band at spine.....
Cambridge University Press / The Hakluyt Society, 1955. Hardcover. Five books and one folio of maps/charts, published 1955-1974. Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavor, 1768-1771 (1954). Volume II: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775 (1961). Volume III: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780; in two.....
Francis P. Harper, 1895. Hardcover. Three volume set, complete. #168 of 1,150 numbered limited edition copies. Green cloth with gilt spine titles, gilt sharp and bright, cloth very good with light edgewear. Tiny closed tear at center of volume one spine head; all three volumes lightly bumped to spine foot.....
American Tract Society, 1847. Hardcover. 4 volume set. Each volume has p/o markings on front end page, foxing/discoloration and bookworm damage (minor). Volume 1 has some notation inside. Volume 4 suffers from more foxing that prior volumes. Size: 12mo - over 6 3/4 in - 7 3/4 in tall. Year.....
The Swallow Press, 1980. Hardcover. Individual printing dates between 1980-1985. Black cloth in blue dust jackets; cloth very good to near fine with minor shelf-wear, jackets very good with light rubbing edgewear, volume three a little faded. Spines square. Bindings sound. Pages bright, texts unmarked. This is a multiple-volume set.....
E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, Imprimeurs-Editeurs, 1895. Hardcover. 1895. Seven volumes in French. Second edition. Marbled paper and brown leather boards with gilt spine titling. Boards show moderate age-wear, including rubbing to the edges, bumping at corners and spine ends, fading and light flaking to spine, mild discoloration and soiling.....
1776. Hardcover. 4 volumes, full calf, raised bands. 'translated into English verse from the original French by Mark Anthony Meilan, professor of languages and the mathematicks, and master of the academy in Charles-Square, Hoxton.' printed for the translator and sold by J. Almon in Piccadilly, B. White in Fleet Street.....