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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.
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1936). First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Green cloth covered boards with orange title and illustration to front board and orange title to spine. Light bumping to spine ends and light rubbing to cloth on exterior hinge. Interior is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpages. White illustrated dust jacket with green title to front and spine panels. Wear to dust jacket includes 3 closed tears to top edge, 2 small open tears to bottom edge, and minor soiling. Index, 210 pages. CHILD/071718. Very Good+ / Very Good. More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903. Hardcover. Henry F. Burt's copy with his name inked to the front free endpage. Henry F. Burt (1897 - 1996) was a noted social worker who was commited to helping the poor and less fortunate. He became involved in the settlement house movement and worked on the staff of Graham Taylor's Chicago Commons Settlement House [University of Rhode Island Library: Guide to the Burt / Bock family papers 1831 - 1996]. Very good in dark green cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front cover. Fraying to spine ends with small loss to book cloth, light fraying to corners, and light rubbing to joints. Interior is clean overall with a few marginal ticks lightly penciled on about ten pages. Two pages have been opened haphazardly leaving a small chip along the edge of the page. A nice, clean copy of this scarce work. 159 pages. PSYCH/022613. Very Good. More
Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, (1983). Paperback. Fine in fine maroon illustrated paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper and white title to spine. Pristine interior. Index, 344 pages. WOM/032817. Fine. More
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Item #31066
ISBN: 0819561096
New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good hardcover with Very Good white dustjacket. Some wear to edges of dj. Political Science. POL/7102. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
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Item #1325
ISBN: 0393029085
Otto Wilhelm Barth. 1966. Hardcover. This book was created to commemorate the 70th birthday of Karlfried Graf Dürckheim (1896 - 1988), German psychotherapist and Zen Master. Fine in black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt emblem to front cover. In original mylar jacket with white title printed on panel. Chipping to edges of jacket. Frontis photograph and a few black and white illustrations. Clean interior overall with a few pencil markings and ownership stamp from previous owner to front endpaper. 514 pages. In German. GER/4283. Fine / Very Good. More
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, (1990). Paperback. 8vo. Light blue and brown illustrated paper wrappers with white title to front wrapper and black title to blue spine. Minor wear to wrappers include a few creases to edges and one very small closed tear to edge of rear wrapper. Writing in pen to top corner of half title page. Else is clean and bright. 446 pages. EDU/040817. Very Good. More
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Item #30995
ISBN: 0878405011
Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., (1903). Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in maroon cloth covered boards with white title to front board and to spine. Inscription to previous owner has been exed out on front paste down. Else is clean and bright. Index, 149 pages. MED/091817. Very Good. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1900. Hardcover. First Edition, Second Impression. Presentation Copy, inscribed: For Dear Rosie with EVB's Love Huntercombe May 1901." Further presented from the recipient's daughter: "To Cousin Jill In memory of my Mother Dec. 12th 1944 Rosemary Kerr." Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825-1906) was a well regarded artist and author. She was from an aristocratic family and used the initials EVB to mask her identity. She was particularly well known as a children's book illustrator. She was also greatly interested in gardening, and this book is about her garden at Huntercombe Manor, Buckinghamshire. The recipient, Rose Kerr (1882-1944) was one of the founders of the Girl Guide movement in Britain. With her bookplate on front pastedown. Bound in original purple cloth. Slightly rubbed, endpapers brown but in very good condition. With black and white illustrations. 190 pages plus 2 pages of ads. Very Good. More
Geneva: Economic Commission for Europe, 1959. Paperback. Very good in blue paper wrappers with white spine panel and blue title to spine. Minor wear and crease to wrappers, but clean overall. 176 pages. SCI/090315. Very Good. More
New York: Basic Books, 1992. Hardcover. Mint in mint pictorial dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. selected readings.Index, 280 pages. Science/Neurology. SCI/1163. Fine / Fine. More
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Item #3180
ISBN: 0465052452
Munchen: Druck von C. R. Schurich, 1872. Pamphlet. Very good minus pamphlet w/some soiling to outer pages, no wrappers. 17 pp. of German text + 3 fold-out plates. In wraps. Science. SCI/10153. Very Good -. More
New York: Dick and Fitzgerald Publishers, (1883). Pamphlet. Good+ softcover. Front wrapper is missing. Rear wrapper appears to be a replacement. Interior is clean and bright. 172 Etiquette. ETI/6122. Very Good. More
Edlich, Richard F., George T. Rodeheaver, John G. Thacker, Milton T. Edgerton
South Plainfield, NJ: chirurgecom, 1977. Paperback. 8vo. Very good in pale green paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper and to spine. Minor fading to spine. Interior is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. 185 pages. MED/100317. Very Good+. More
Copper Plate Engraving by George Edwards, with original hand coloring on laid paper. Edwards spent most of his life observing and depicting indigenous and non-indigenous species of birds. Many of his drawings were done on commission for the Royal Society and Royal College of Physicians. Edwards is credited with collaborating on the scientific naming and description of about 300 species of birds. The framed print measures 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. #49238. Very Good. More
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Item #27125
1750. A leaf from A Natural History of Birds. Edward's friend and mentor Mark Catesby taught him the technique of engraving, which made it possible for him to engrave his own drawings, the results of which can be found in his natural historical works. He added to the hand colored compositions of his illustration engravings by including insects, especiallly butterflies. Print method is Engraving by Copper Plate with original hand coloring on laid paper, measuring 290 x 220 mm. or approximately 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted. #49247. Very Good. More
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Item #27252
1751. A leaf from A Natural History of Birds. Edward's friend and mentor Mark Catesby taught him the technique of engraving, which made it possible for him to engrave his own drawings, the results of which can be found in his natural historical works. He added to the hand colored compositions of his illustration engravings by including insects, especiallly butterflies. Print method is Engraving by Copper Plate with original hand coloring on laid paper, measuring 290 x 220 mm. or approximately 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted. #49274. Very Good. More
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Item #27249
1743. A leaf from A Natural History of Birds. Edward's friend and mentor Mark Catesby taught him the technique of engraving, which made it possible for him to engrave his own drawings, the results of which can be found in his natural historical works. He added to the hand colored compositions of his illustration engravings by including insects, especiallly butterflies. Print method is Engraving by Copper Plate with original hand coloring on laid paper, measuring 290 x 220 mm. or approximately 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted. #49188. More
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Item #27254
Copper Plate Engraving by George Edwards, with original hand coloring on laid paper. Edwards spent most of his life observing and depicting indigenous and non-indigenous species of birds. Many of his drawings were done on commission for the Royal Society and Royal College of Physicians. Edwards is credited with collaborating on the scientific naming and description of about 300 species of birds.The print measures 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted. #49204. Very Good. More
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Item #27134
1743. A leaf from A Natural History of Birds. Edward's friend and mentor Mark Catesby taught him the technique of engraving, which made it possible for him to engrave his own drawings, the results of which can be found in his natural historical works. He added to the hand colored compositions of his illustration engravings by including insects, especiallly butterflies. Print method is Engraving by Copper Plate with original hand coloring on laid paper, measuring 290 x 220 mm. or approximately 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted. #49123. Very Good. More
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Item #27253
DK Publishing, Inc., 1999. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. Green and white paper wrappers with illustration to front panel. Clean, tight interior filled with color photographic illustrations. 80 pp. GAR/012105. Very Good Plus. More
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Item #15509
ISBN: 0789441519
Notre Dame, IN: The University Press, 1947. Paperback. Very good+ in blue side stapled paper wrappers with blue title to front wrapper. Minor fading to edges. Previous owner's writing to top corner of front wrapper. Else is clean and bright. Italian History. ITA/031418. Very Good+. More
(Sporosky)? 1958. Flexible Covers. Flexible green cloth boards with gilt title (in Japanese) to spine. Creasing to covers and spine. Housed in a beige cardboard slipcase with Japanese titling to spine and front panels. Wear and browning to case. All text in Japanese, with one page in Russian. Includes several photographic illustrations, many equations, and a few diagrams. Foxing to fore-edge of textblock. Clean interior overall; however, some passages have been underlined in pen. 339 pages. SCI/010220. Very Good. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Owner name to front flyleaf; dustjacket is tanned along top edge of flaps. Education. EDU1/4042. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. More
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Item #13356
ISBN: 0801829887
Dorset Press, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo. Minor fading to edges. Clean, tight interior. Grey dust jacket with blue title to spine. 310 pages. PSYCH/033106. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. More
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Item #17596
ISBN: 0880290307
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922. Hardcover. SCARCE. 8vo. Ex Libris. Maroon cloth covered boards with black title to the spine. Call number to foot of spine. Bumping to spine ends and corners. Soiling and minor discoloration to exterior. Light soiling throughout though text remains bright. . Library punch stamp to title page. Stamp to table of contents. 272 pages. Psychology. PSYCH/111312. Very Good. More
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