January SALE! All books in Anthropology, Automotive, Aviation, Education, Equestrian, Games & Hobbies, Gardening, Geography, Humor, Hunting & Fishing, Journalism, Medicine, Nature, Political Science, Psychology, Railroads, Science & Technology, Sports, and Women's Studies sections priced at $125 and under are 50% off for the month of January.
This sale excludes artists' books, private press, lots, books on William Morris & the Pre-Raphaelites, items sold on consignment, and newly acquired items.
Many prints & manscripts including framed items are also on sale for 30% off.
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The Washington Post, 1977. Paper Wrappers. Folio. Stiff white paper wrappers with red title to front wrapper and to spine. Minor wear to edges of wrappers. Damp stain to bottom half of front wrapper but does not effect the interior. Clean interior with illustrations. Unpaginated. JOUR/050406. very Good-. More
San Francisco: San Francisco Press, 1987. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering to front board and to spine. Pristine interior with many illustrations throughout. 1017 pages. Science. SCI/5202. Very Good. More
San Francisco: San Francisco Press, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering to front board and to spine. Pristine interior with many illustrations throughout. 760 pages. Science. SCI/5202. Near Fine. More
Princeton, NJ: Automobile Quarterly in association with the Princeton Institute for Historic Research, 1981. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Near fine in orange cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Interior is clean and bright with full color photographic illustrations throughout. 333 pages. AUTO/070212. Near Fine. More
New York: Harper-Collins, 1991. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/SIGNED, PRESENTATION COPY Psychology. PSY110151. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
Portland, OR: Timber Press, 1991. Paperback. Bound in white paper covers with red title to spine and front cover. Dampstain to rear cover and to top margin of last few pages of text. Some pages are cockled as a result of dampness. Minor rubbing to covers. Otherwise, clean and bright. Size: quarto. 250 pages. GARD/122816. Very Good. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Education. EDU1/8231. Fine. More
Union (W.VA.): Published at the Old Hundred, 1965. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./illus./308 pp. Education. EDU1/4232. Very Good. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990. Hardcover. 4to. Fine in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt silhouette of tiger to front board and gilt title to spine. Pristine interior with full color photographic illustrations of endangered animals. In near fine illustrated white dust jacket with gilt title to front and spine panels. 144 pages. Nature. NAT/5093. Fine in Near Fine DJ. More
New York: Hoeber Medical Division, Harper & Row, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth covered boards with red and and black title to front board and black title to spine. Light soiling to front board and light bumping to spine ends and corners. Ex libris with stamp to front and rear free end page. Else is clean and bright. Illustrations throughout. Index, includes pages 897-1236. MED/102017. Very Good. More
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1950. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. 8vo. In gray cloth covered boards with red and black title print to spine and front cover. In tan paper DJ. Interior clean and bright. 255pp. POL/011007. Very Good in Very Good dj. More
Greenwich, Conn. Climax Molybdenum Company, No date. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in light blue cloth covered boards with white title to spine and illustration to front board. Pristine interior with photographic illustrations throughout. Dr. Janet Zaph Briggs was an american metallurgist and the first woman to earn a mining engineering degree from Stanford University. 197 pages. WOM/032317. Fine. More
Silver Spring: Silver Spring Press, 1983. Hardcover. First edition. SIGNED by the author / artist. Each page features a flying event for a different pilot with an illustration and a few brief facts. A good introduction to aviation for a child and an interesting interpretation for an enthusiast. Blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine. A few white spots to boards. Blue dust jacket with black title to spine and front panels. Includes several tipped-in illustrations. 205 pages. AVI/080508. Very Good in near fine jacket. More
New York: Outdoor Life Books, 1985. Linen Backed Paper Covered. 8vo. In green linen backed white paper covered boards with gilt title stamp to spine. In white and green illustrated slightly edgeworn DJ with brown title print to spine panel. Interior is clean and bright with many color illustrations. Index. 254pp. NAT/020305. Very Good in Very Good dj. More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1912. Hardcover. Tall, thin 8vo. Very good tan cloth backed and tan paper covered boards. Private library stamp on front endpapers and title page; another previous owner's name written on front free endpaper. Else is cleam and bright with illustations throughout. 95 pages. IN GERMAN. Science. HSCI1/4250. Very Good. More
London: Thornton Butterworth, (1921). Hardcover. Very good in orange cloth covered boards with black tilte to spine. Minor soiling to exterior as well as minor bumping to spine ends and corners. Owner stamp on front flyleaf. Else is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. Index, 253 pages. Nature. NAT3/01301. Very Good. More
Konigsberg: Grafe and Unser, 1935. Hardcover. Very good in grey cloth. Set in Fraktur style. 107 pages with many black and white photographs. Equestrian. EQU3/03271. Very Good. More
Paris: 1785. The Silver Striped Herring, The Herring Carp. Plate number 408 from the book Ichithyologi, Ou Histoire Naturelle, Generale Et Particuliere, Des Poissons. Printed in Paris and Berlin, 1785 – 1797. Size: 8 1/2 inches x 15 3/8 inches. Marcus Bloch, 1723 – 1799, was a German physician from Berlin who spent the earlier part of his career studying intestinal worms. At the age of 57, Bloch turned to the study of fish, and set the task of providing full descriptions and illustrations, in a splendid style, of the species known to him. One of the earliest students of fish, Bloch published a series of fish prints titled: Ichithyologi, Ou histoire naturelle generale et particuliere, Des Poissons, in which he described over 200 species for the first time. The prints remained a primary reference source for the next century. Bloch issued folio and octavo prints and each specimen was engraved on a copper plate and then hand-colored with watercolors. The plates contain the names of each fish in several languages. Framed. #34603. Near Fine. More
Paris: 1785. Snapper. Plate number 256 from the book Ichithyologi, Ou Histoire Naturelle, Generale Et Particuliere, Des Poissons. Printed in Paris and Berlin, 1785 – 1797. Size: 8 1/8 inches x 15 7/8 inches. Marcus Bloch, 1723 – 1799, was a German physician from Berlin who spent the earlier part of his career studying intestinal worms. At the age of 57, Bloch turned to the study of fish, and set the task of providing full descriptions and illustrations, in a splendid style, of the species known to him. One of the earliest students of fish, Bloch published a series of fish prints titled: Ichithyologi, Ou histoire naturelle generale et particuliere, Des Poissons, in which he described over 200 species for the first time. The prints remained a primary reference source for the next century. Bloch issued folio and octavo prints and each specimen was engraved on a copper plate and then hand-colored with watercolors. The plates contain the names of each fish in several languages. Framed. #34607. More
New York: Workers Book Shops. Pamphlet. very good in black and white side stapled paper wrappers with black title to front wrap. A few spots of foxing to wrappers and light dampstaining to inside corners throughout. 23 pages. Communism COM/072711. Very Good in Wraps. More
Wien: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1931. Paperback. First edition. Thin octavo. Very good in cream paper wrappers with black title to spine and front cover. Minor wear to edges of wrappers and light soiling to panels. Light and occasional pencil brackets throughout interior. Ink splotches to inner margins of pages 38 / 39. A few pages opened haphazardly and previous owner's pen signature to front end page. Overall, nice condition. 60 pages. PSYCH/022613. Very Good. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good+ in orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Few spots of light soiling to front board. Pristine interior. Index, 246 pages. Anthropology. ANTH104271. Very Good+. More
Berlin: Paul Parey, 1921. Hardcover. Very good in red cloth with gilt lettering and gilt emblam of horses on front board. Spine a bit faded, corners a bit rubbed. Equestrian. EQU6/03271. Very Good. More
New York: Doubleday, 1990. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in near fine illustrated dust jacket with yellow title to front and spine panels. 394 pages. Sports. SPO1/2112. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1928. Hardcover. General Series No. 141. Inscribed by the author "Prof T.M. Lowry from W.R.B." on the front free endpage. Thomas Martin Lowry (1874 - 1936) was an English physical chemist who developed the Bronsted-Lowry acid theory and was a founding member and president of the Faraday Society. He published a few hundred papers and several books. Red cloth spine with beige paper covered boards. Beige paper title label with red title to spine. Darkening and a few small chips to spine label. Browning and rubbing to covers and spine. Foxing to endpages and a few spots of foxing to interior pages. Previous owner's signature in pencil to front endpage. 132 pages plus 1 pages of ads. PSYCH/080912. Very Good. More