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1 The Original Watercolor Paintings By John James
Lupetti and Co.

Milano, Italia 1992 First Printing Hardcover Near Fine Fine 
small folio approx 11.5" x 13" a minor bump along the for-edge of the block that has also slightly dinged the boards just in that spot, o/w fine. Exceptional copy of one of the scarcest and finest books on the history men's fashion. beautifully printed facsimiles of vintage colors advertisements from 2 centuries men's clothes. Beautifully produced coffee-table book. The dustwrapper is in afresh mylar sleeve. 230p 019032 
Price: 350.00 USD
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2 The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition Tractate Bava Metzia, Part IV
Random House Inc

New York 1991 0394588533 First Edition Hardcover Fine Near Fine Small Folio 
274pgs. beautifully printed and laid out. Full blue cloth. gilt edges, silk ribbon marker. DJ, with slight superficial wear, in a fresh mylar sleeve. 0304393 
Price: 95.00 USD
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3 TEREZIN.
Severoceske Nakladatelstv

Czechoslovakia 1988 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine Small Folio 
298pgs. Black and white, color illustrations. Light Gray boards, black lettering. light toning to edges. Unclipped illustrated jacket has closed tear on spine. photos, text of Terezin from past and present. 107055 
Price: 25.00 USD
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4 Illustrated Michelin Guides To The Battle Fields (1914-1918): Verdun and the Battles for its Possession
Michelin & Cie

Clermont-Ferrand France 1919 First Edition Hardcover Good No Jacket Octavo 
110pgs. Beige fabric cloth. soiling to extremities of covers. foxing to endpapers. profusely illustrated with photographs and maps. internally clean, unmarked. Detailed giude to the battlefield of Verdun, which documents and illustrates the destruction of the town. 0304297 
Price: 25.00 USD
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5 Lettre De Lucia
Haiti Solidarite Internationale

Haiti 1993 First Edition Softcvoer Very Good 
200pgs. photos. stiff wraps, light creasing to covers, internally fine. French Text. Haitian political dossier written after the miltiary coup of 1991 ousted Jean -Bertrand Aristide from his presidency. 0303251 
Price: 35.00 USD
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6 Science Fiction Quarterly Spring 1942 No.6
Science Fiction Quatrerly

New York 1942 First Edition Softcover Very Good Quarto 
146pgs. Issue #6, contains "The Shadow Girl" by Ray Cummins, also stories by Cecil Corwin and Paul Dennis Lavond. soling to extremities, pages browning. spine lightly chipped at the edges. Scarce Edition. 0304298 
Price: 25.00 USD
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7 Dieter Appelt
Sander Gallery

New York City 1994 First Edition Softcover Very Good 
stiff wraps, stapled. 14 black and white plates. waviness. limited Edition #299 of 500 copies. 0302853 
Price: 18.00 USD
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8 THE London Exhibtion of French Art 1200-1900
Alfred a Knopf Inc

New York 1932 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Fair Quato 
unpaginated. blue cloth. paper labels. light foxing to the endpapers., otherwise near fine. 23 black and white plates. Unclipped jacket very foxed, darkened around the extremities. chipped on upper and lower edges. in fresh mylar sleeve. 107503 
Price: 20.00 USD
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9 ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE - 49TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION 1934
Archtiectural League of New York

New Yok 1934 First Edition Spiral Bound Good Small Folio 
120pgs. black and white photographs throughout. Examples of architecture and domestic architecture of that year. Gilt and silver endpapers are mottled, offsetting to front cover, and moderate soling to covers, crease on corner of rear cover. internally clean, with light mustiness. Includes Walker and Gillette, Melvin Pratt Spalding, Isabella Pendleton, others. 0304526 
Price: 35.00 USD
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10 John Marin; Watercolors, Oil Paintings, Etchings
Museum of Modern Art

New York 1936 0302452 Liimited Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Good 
102pgs., 47 plates, 6 in color. red, tweed boards. gilt lettering.color fronitspiece. Unclipped jacket (great photo of John Marin on the front panel is very soiled. closed tear on upper edge of front panel, and small chips on rer panel. in fresh mylar sleeve, 0302452 
Price: 28.00 USD
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11 The Fourth Chime
National Broadcasting Company

New York 1944 Limited Edition Hard Cover Very good- No Jacket Large Quarto 
174pgs. Black Boards, Gilt lettering. black and whitte photographs throughout. light chips to spine edges, extremities. internatlly clean, unmarked copy. light mustiness. This is a limited Edition, #469 of 1,000 copies. 0304350 
Price: 25.00 USD
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12 The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition Volume III Part III, Tractate Bava Metzia
Random House Inc

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. 1990 0394582349 First Edition Hardcover Fine Fine Small Folio 
256pfs. beautifully printed and laid out. Full blue cloth gilt edges, silk ribbon marker DJ in a fresh mylar sleeve. 0304394 
Price: 25.00 USD
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13 Joan Baez Songbook
Ryerson Music Publishers

1971 Soft Cover Very Good 
Large format, 7th printing, some soiling and rubbing to and around spine and on top. A couple of marks on back. Soiling to front endpaper. Otherwise clean. 189p 021322 
Price: 15.00 USD
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14 The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition Volume VII Tractate Ketubot, Part 1
Random House Inc

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. 1991 0679407693 First Edition Hardcover Fine Near Fine Small Folio 
219pgs. . beautifully printed and laid out. Full blue cloth. Silk ribbon marker. gilt edges. jacket has superficial wear, otherwise fine. in fresh mylar sleeve. 0304392 
Price: 90.00 USD
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15 The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition Volume II Part II, Tractate Bava Metzia
Random House Inc

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. 1990 0394582330 First Edition Hardcover Fine Near Fine Large Quarto 
365pgs. Royal blue Cloth, gilt lettering. Silk ribbon marker.Top edge gilt As New. Price-clipped jacket has light edgewear, otherwise fine. in fresh mylar sleeve. 0304622 
Price: 25.00 USD
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16 1000 basic chinese character cards with Read Chinese and Speak Chinese
Far Eastern Publications/Yale

New Haven, CT First & Second Printing Before Pub. Good Box Stout Quarto 
1000 cards with one character on each card. Cards, which are clean, in two columns, housed in a white box. box has wear at hinges, waterstains on the edtges. Also included is "Read Chinese, Book One, by Fang-hyu Wang, edited by Pao-ch' Lee , 1967and Speak Chinese by M. Gardiner Tewksbury,1968. both have some stains and curling, but serviceable and readable copies. 0304124 
Price: 30.00 USD
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17 Shaman: The Paintings of Susan Seddon Boulet
Pomegranate

Petaluna, California, U.S.A. 1989 0876544332 Trade Paperback As New 
large 4to, illustrated throughout with stunning richly colored and symbolic paintings 118p 021624 
Price: 15.00 USD
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18 New York City Market Analysis


New Yok 1943 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Folio 
unpaginated. Red burlap cloth with silver lettering on front panel, black lettering on creased spine. plastic comb binding. color foldout maps of ecah borough. internally clean. musty odor. Hundreds of black and white photos of every nieghbordhood from all five boroughs, with accompanying maps. The book gives the breakdown of incomes and residential averages, which was useful for marketing. Wonderful look at New york neighborhoods 70 years ago. 0304270 
Price: 105.00 USD
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19 The First Historic Landscape Report for the Ravine Prospect Park Brooklyn, New York
Walmsley & Company, Inc.

New York 1986 First Edition Softcover very Good- Oblong Quarto 
376pgs. gray stiff wrappers. dampstains on front cover.otherwise fine, unmarked. A wondeful historic landscape report of Prospect park. History, design and construction of the ravine, vintage photographs. illustrations, maps. 107382 
Price: 75.00 USD
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20 Thomas Jefferson Monticello Virginia USA
Westvaco

1975 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Slipcase 
122pgs.red cloth. decorative endpapers. iilustrated. one corner lightly bumped, otherwise fine. Column designed slipcase a little spotted. 107338 
Price: 10.00 USD
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21 Lincoln's Gettysburg Oration and First and Second Inagural Addresses
Duffield

New York 1907 First Edition Hardcover Very Good no Jacket as Issued Small Octavo 
46pgs. tan boards with embossed red, black and gilt lettering. and intertwined "RS" backed in gilt on front panel. Laid paper with floral borders. light edgewear, small burr at right edge of front panel, otherwise fine, unmarked copy. 0304382 
Price: 45.00 USD
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22 The Handbook of Culture & Psychology
Oxford Univ Pr

2001 0195131819 First Edition Hard Cover As New As New 
8vo. 458p 107049 
Price: 60.00 USD
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23 Architectural Forum December 1939
Time Inc.

New York 1940 First Edition Spiral Bound Very Good+ Small Folio 
68pgs. Black and white illustrations throughout. Sitff wraps with spiral binding. Black cover, white lettering. slight rubbing to extremities, otherwise fine, unmarked copy. Fabulous examples of the architectural styles of that period, as well as ads for refrigerators, bathroom equipment. Includes articles, illustrations on Parkchester apartments, houses by Gropisu and Breuer, George Howe, others. 0304516 
Price: 75.00 USD
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24 The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition Volume I Tractate Bava Metzia, Part I
Random House Inc

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. 1989 0394576667 First Edition Hardcover As New As New Small Folio 
252pgs. Royal Blue cloth, gilt lettering, gilded page edges. silk ribbon markerJacket in fresh mylar sleeve. 0304395 
Price: 35.00 USD
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25 Munsey's Magazine Vol. 25 (XXV) April 1901
Frank A. Munsey

New York 1901 First Ediiton Leather Good Large Quarto 
916pgs. photos, illustrations throughout.Maroon-half leather, maroon boards, raised bands, gilt lruling, lettering on spine.corners are chipped, spine chipped rubbed. inner hinges are reinfroced with heavy archival tape. photos throughout. Chronicle of events at that time, this issue features King Edward VIII, Wall street, evolutionof photography, trip to Egypt, etc. 0304708 
Price: 30.00 USD
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26 The Eighth Wonder (The Holland Tunnel)
B.F. Sturtevant Co.

Hyde Park 1928 Second Ediition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 
68pgs. 40 black and white illustrations, maps. Brown Cloth, brown lettering,wear to corners, Clean, unmarked text. A very nice copy overall. A fascinating look at the Holland Tuinnel, its construction and completion. With many photos, showing the apparatus used to construct it. 0303301 
Price: 20.00 USD
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27 Writers at Work: Seventh Series
Viking Pr

New York, New York, U.S.A. 1986 0670808881 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fiine Near Fine 
8vo. Introduction by John Updike. Book has slight soiling to page block. DJ has minor edgewear. Otherwise fine, clean copy. Price is intact. DJ protected in fresh mylar. 331p 107044 
Price: 80.00 USD
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28 Yearbook of architectural league of new york 1933
Archtiectural League of New York

New York 1933 First Edition Softcvoer Fair Small Folio 
129pgs. Stiff Black boards, White deco lettering. Fabric spine, mottled and reinforced.rear panel has corner missing, staining to upper edges. waviness to pages. Laid in is a booklet containing an index of Exhbits for the 48th Annual Exhibition. Black and white illustrations throughout. musty odor. 0304511 
Price: 40.00 USD
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29 The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition Part Ii, Tractate Bava Metzia
Random House Inc

New York 1990 0394582330 First Edition Hardcover As New As New Small Folio 
365pgs. beautifully printed and laid out. Full blue cloth 252p DJ in a fresh mylar sleeve. gilt edges, silk ribbon marker. 0304391 
Price: 25.00 USD
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30 Catalogue of Magnificent Collection of Antique Carvings and Things Buddhistic from Temples and Places of Japan and China.
Mr Frank Leonard

9999 Softcover Very Good 
no date,, circa turn of the century exhibition catalogue in illustrated (wrap-arond) printed stapled wraps, b&w illustrations, deckle (uncut) edges., 78p some chinese characters written by hand on the past blank verso 021853 
Price: 40.00 USD
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31 The New Oxford Annotated Bible With the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books
Oxford Univ Pr

New York 1977 0195283481 Revised Expanded Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine 
1,564pgs. plus apocrypha and color maps. Brown Boards,gilt lettering. corners square. India Paper, very clean, unmarked copy. Very light soiling on top page edges, Unclipped Bright red-orange jacket has no chips or tears, toning to flaps. in fresh mylar sleeve. 0303288 
Price: 35.00 USD
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32 Webster's New International Unabridged Dictionary Second Edition(India Paper Edition)
G & C Merriam Company Publishers

1956 Second Edition Unabridged Hardcover Very Good- Stout Folio 
Tan cloth, Unabridged, has finger indexes along foreedge lightly rubbed, wear to the corners. Only last few pages are wrinkled. Internally, it is really clean without the usual wrinkling to the first few pages found on most copies. This copy still has it's bright gilt titling on the front cover and the spine, Several pages have a closed tear on the bottom edge, a few pages in the rear have closed tears at the corners, one page having a chip on the upper edge(No loss of text)Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Overall a very nice copy of the most sought after unabridged dictionary in the world. it has over 600,000 entries, the third edition would have substantially less! 022351 
Price: 160.00 USD
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33 Herbert Bayer. Painter, Designer, Architect.
Reinhold

New York 1967 First Ediiton Hardcover Very Good no Jacket Small Folio 
210pgs.illustrated throughout. Blue Cloth, fading to spine. School library stamps on bottom outer page edges, endpapers. a few pages have smudges, front panels evenly soiled. overall a tight, sturdy copy.Bayer, part of the Bauhaus movement, left Germany to live in the U.S.His lower case letter design is recognized as a well known style. 0304798 
Price: 40.00 USD
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34 Terminorum Musicae Index Septem Linguis Redactus
Akademiai Kiado

Budapest 1978 3761805535 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Stout Quarto 
798pgs. Red Cloth, gilt lettering. prev. owner signature Siegmund Levarie, renowned musicologist, on front endpaper. light wear to extremities, small spot onf ront panel, internally clean, unmarked copy. Musical terminology in English, French german, Italian, Russian, Hungarian. Polyglot Dictionary of Musical Terms 0303426 
Price: 50.00 USD
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35 Goya & Italy: Museo de Zaragoza, June 1st-September 15th, 2008
Turner

Spain 2008 8475068081 Softcover Near Fine 
large 4to in illustrated French wraps. A single spine crease otherwise as new. Beautifully and profusely illustrated throughout. 307p 201194 
Price: 30.00 USD
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36 American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution the the Civil War
Library of America

New York, New York, U.S.A. 2006 1931082979 First Edition Hard Cover New Slipcase Octavo 
810pg. Tan boards.White slipcase. in original shirnkwrap. as new. 0303990 
Price: 20.00 USD
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37 Interior Drama: Aaron Siskind's Photographs of the 1940s
Museum of Art

Rhode Island School of Design 2003 0911517766 First Edition Stiff Wraps Near Fine 
68pgs. black and white photographs thorughout. a touch of wear to very edges, otherwise as new. 0304688 
Price: 125.00 USD
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38 St Thomas Church
St Thomas Church

1965 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good + No dust Jacket 
Paper covered boards with red cloth spine, Boards has remnant of sticker on front and mild soiling. Slight edgewear and bumped bottom corners. Last page is a bit loose. Otherwise tight. Nice copy. 106919 
Price: 15.00 USD
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39 CESAR DOMELA 1900-1992: Paintings, Sculpture, Reliefs, and Gouaches
Leonard Hutton Galleries

2002 Soft Cover As New No dust Jacket 
Exhibition catalog with invite laid in. 24 color plates withblack-and-white photos. 64 pages, 9.5x10 inches. 106938 
Price: 18.00 USD
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40 Ecole D'art Volume 10
Greenwich Art Syndicate

New York First Edition Softcover Very Good Quarto 
unpaginated.Nude woman in color on cover. approx. 50 pages of black and white photographs of nude women, one color centerfold. light soiling to covers, internally clean. Designed as a "School of Art for the artist as well as the novice. 0304527 
Price: 25.00 USD
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41 The Chicago Manual of Style
Univ of Chicago Pr

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. 1993 0226103897 sixth Printing Hard Cover Near Fine No Jacket 
921pgs. Red cloth, gilt lettering. one corner lightly bumped, otherwise as new, unmarked copy. 107003 
Price: 15.00 USD
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42 Adachi, Kenji, Director, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo rt, Tokyo
National Museum of Modern Art

Tokyo 1995 Softcover Near Fine 
8vo, and pamphlet with some color plates are in printed slipcase. 221p 021741 
Price: 20.00 USD
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43 A brief story of the Gevaert. Companyand its place in the photographic world of today.
Country Life Press

Garden City, NY 1939 First Edition Softcover Good Small Quarto 
unpaginated, previous owner stamp on title page. beige wraps with orange Trylon and Perisphere.Sepia toned photographs of photography production in the Gevaert Factory in Belgium. Covers are darkened along the edge, foxed with dampstain on rear panel, inside rear cover. several pages in the rear are rippled, musty odor. Published on the occasion of the Gevaert Exhibition in the Belgian pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939. 0304408 
Price: 25.00 USD
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44 The Holy See and the War in Europe March 1939-August 1940
Herder

Dublin 1968 First English Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good 
495pgs. Burgundy Cloth. Bright Gilt lettering. Liftoff on front endpapers, otherwise fine copy. corners square Appears unread. foldouts with facsimile letters. Price-clipped jacket has superficial wear to exteremtiies. in fresh mylar sleeve. This is Volume One of Records and Documents of the Holy See relating to the Second World War. 0303761 
Price: 45.00 USD
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45 Picturesque Word Origins from Webster's from Webster's New International Dictionary
C&G Merriam

Springfield, Mass 1933 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good Oblong 
134pgs. 45 illustrative drawings. Green cloth, with gilt lettering tree design on front panel. bowing of covers. spine leans. otherwise fine internally.with words printed in red. . Entertaining book for young readers which reveal origins of English words.Scarce, unclipped jacket has chips and creases along the extremities and spine. in fresh mylar sleeve 107272 
Price: 25.00 USD
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46 New English Bible With Apocrypha (Corrected Edition) India Paper
Oxford

New York 1972 0195294173 Corrected Edition Hardcover Near Fine Very Good- 
1166, 275, 336 pgs. Burgundy Cloth with gilt lettering. Corners square, text (thin India Paper) is clean, unmarked. Spine is creased light wear to front panel. Price-clipped purple jacket shows some waviness. in fresh mylar sleeve. Scarce in this Edition. 0303870 
Price: 55.00 USD
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47 ukiyoe-from matsukata Collection


Japan First Edition Soft Cover Near Fine Large Quarto 
Stiff wraps, color covers. 244 wonderfully reproduced color prints of the Ukiyoe style of art. front panel is creased otherwise fine, unmarked copy. 107389 
Price: 125.00 USD
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48 American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton
Library of America

New York, New York, U.S.A. 2006 1931082987 First Edition Slipcase Very Good Octavo 
872pgs. light borwn cloth, gilt lettering. Silk ribbon marker.in slipcase the unabridged texts of 83 eloquent and dramatic speeches delivered by 45 American public figures between 1865 and 1997, beginning with Abraham Lincoln's last speech on Reconstruction and ending with Bill Clinton's heartfelt tribute to the Little Rock Nine. 0303951 
Price: 12.00 USD
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49 (Ann-Margret) Peters & Amith, Neal & David Pooh's Library-Winnie-The Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six 4 Books in Slipcase
E.P Dutton & Co.

1988 First Thus Hardcover As New As New 
as new in fine new dustwrapper, in as new slipcase - all dustwrapper in fresh mylar sleeves. 019316 
Price: 95.00 USD
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50 (Ann-Margret) Peters & Amith, Neal & David Matthew Arnold (the Oxford Authors)
Oxford University Press

1986 0192541870 First Edition Hard Cover As New As New 
as new, with bright dustwrapper in a feresh mylar sleeve, 616p - the Oxford Authors 020478 
Price: 25.00 USD
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51 (Churchill, W) Gilbert, Martin Great German Short Novels and Stories
The Modern Library

1933 Hardcover No Jacket 
blue cloth over flexible boards, spine evenly spinted - previous owners name o n 014645 
Price: 6.00 USD
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52 A Clockwork Orange A WOMAN CALLED FANCY
Odhams Press

London: 9999 Hardcover No Jacket 
nd,. Book Club, some spotting along outer spine strip. 001440 
Price: 10.00 USD
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53 A E Johnson The Russian Ballet
Constable & Company Ltd

London 1913 First Edition Hardcover Very Good 
Large 4to in original gilt illustrated tan cloth with a large double-headed eagle embossed in gilt on the cover. This copy has been expertly restored by having had it re-cased and re-backed (in beautiful tan goat skin with raised bands and gilt title and small gilt devices in each panel. With 'London 1913' on the lowest panel. Beautifully illustrated throughout with color and black and white illustrations, by Rene Bull, with the wonderfully executed & printed, tissue-guarded color plates. The tissue-guard on the frontispiece has some creasing. Titlepage printed in red & black. Top edge gilt; others uncut. Silk ribbon page marker. Occasionally only, -and moreso at the prelims there are minor smudges, stains, and/or (occasional) scattered foxing. Anna Pavlova has her own chapter; being the last one in the book. 240 pages. A hard to find classic on Russian Ballet with chapters on the greatest luminaries in Russian ballerinas. 201679 
Price: 850.00 USD
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54 A Gentleman with a Duster The Mirrors of Downing Street : Some Political Reflections
G.P. Putnam's Sons

1921 Hardcover Good No Jacket 
missing fron endpaper. internals clean,. covers worn. hinges firm./ 014202 
Price: 5.00 USD
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55 A Henry Savage Landor Across Coveted Lands or, A Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, Overland. 2 Vols
Charles Scribner's Sons

1903 First American Edition Hardcover Very Good + No Jacket 
Two large 8vo in red cloth, Top eddge gilt, others uncut, Gilt cover and spine titles. Illustrated throughout. The 2nd volume remains unopened. The spine on volume one has alittle more rubbing than the 2nd volume. Contemporary bookplate on the front pastedown and small contemporary inscriptionon the front endpaper. Otherwise internals generally fresh throughout. 201722 
Price: 150.00 USD
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56 A Kippis; Captain James Cook A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook
Bickers and Son

London 1883 Hardcover Very Good No Jacket (as Issued) 
8vo, in original decorative gray cloth with all edges gilt and tipped on photo frontispeice ('Shooting Sea-Horses" -actually walruses) illustrations - exceedingly scarce 404p Internals fresh and backing tight. Light even spine toning and only moderate soiling to the covers. 022235 
Price: 150.00 USD
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57 A Mother Always Happy! Or Anecdotes of Felix and His Sister Serena
Stanford and Swords

New York 1850 First American Edition Hardcover Very Good No dust Jacket 
171pgs.previous owner inscription on front endpaper. frontispiece Pale green cloth. embossed design on covers. illustrated w. steel engravings.Faded covers and spine, some foxing to pages, but overall this is an unusually well preserved copy of an early american novel. 103453 
Price: 20.00 USD
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58 A Wood, Anthony / Intro By Llewelyn Powys The Life and Times of Anthony a Wood
Oxford University Press - World's Classics

1961 First Thus Hardcover Near Fine Very Good + 
Unclipped dustwrapper has light general wear (a little dusty to outer edges) and a little even tining to the spine strip, neat name on endpaper otherwise as new. 372 020382 
Price: 16.00 USD
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59 A.E Waite (Grand Orient) The Complete Manual of Occult Divination Vol. 2 - The Book of Destiny
University Books

1978 Hardcover Near Fine Near Fine 
8vo, full light green cloth, 2 closed tears on the dj have healed nicely in a fresh mylar sleeve, -Unclipped dj looks nf in the sleeve but rated vg because of the tears and some surface rubbing ad a touch of soiling. Internals unmarked with some age toning to the edge of the text block. Exceptional and exceedingly scarce 277p 200992 
Price: 45.00 USD
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60 A.F. Mummery My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus
Barrows Mussey

NY 1937 Hardcover Very Good Very Good 
16 photo plates. beige cloth 8vo in yellow illustrated unclipped dustwrapper. Light generall dustiness, some marks on endpapers otherwise generally clean and tight. Some even toning to the spine strip of the unclipped dustwrapper (and very minor loss, wear along the top edge of the spine strip) and a little edge toning at the edge of the inner flaps. Looks near fine now in a fresh mylar sleeve. Some light spotting to the foredge of the book. o/w clean and tight. 256pp 201350 
Price: 95.00 USD
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61 A.J. Ayer Metaphysics and Common Sense
Macmillan

London 1967 First Printing Hardcover Near Fine Very Good + 
unclipped dustwrapper has British price, 267p light soiling to the dustwrapper spine strip, otherwise nearly fine. 020481 
Price: 18.00 USD
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62 Abbe, James James Abbe Photographer
Chrysler Museum of Art

Norfolk, VA 1995 0940744694 First Edition Hardcover New New 
in original puiblisher's shrinkwrap 021763 
Price: 75.00 USD
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63 Abbe, James James Abbe Photographer [Softcover edition]
Chrysler Museum of Art

1995 0940744694 Soft Cover Near Fine 
4to pictorial wraps, illustrated throughout. This book has the same ISBN as the hardcover edition but this is the scarcer softbound edition. 144pp 201190 
Price: 40.00 USD
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64 Abbott, Frank Frost Roman Politics
Marshall Jones

Boston 1923 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine No Jacket 
177pgs. Bibliography. Black Cloth, gilt lettering(lightly dulled on spine). Tight square, barely read copy.Unmarked. 300741 
Price: 40.00 USD
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65 Abbott, Frank Frost Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book
Meredith Publishing Co.

1931 Fifth Edition Hardcover very Good 
Silver covers, black lettering , Green spine with silver lettering. Three ring binder, Divided into seventeen sections with tabs still present. pages are clean. Front cover is bowed, edges are worn, but art deco lettering is boldly present. Table of Contenst is curled(from three ring format) A great period piece. 300857 
Price: 28.00 USD
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66 Abbott, Frank Frost American War Medals & Decorations
Viking Press

New York 1964 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near Fine 
149pgs. 4 pages of full color plates. 140 illustrations throughout. Bold red and blue boards with gilt border and lettering. Excellent copy. Unclipped jacket has minor edgewear,otherwise fine. in fresh mylar sleeve. 0301418 
Price: 24.00 USD
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67 Abbott, Frank Frost The Torah: The Five Books of Moses
Jewish Publication Society

New York 1967 Second Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good- 
393pgs. Blue Cloth, gilt lettering. Clean, unmarked copy. Unclipped jacket has chips, closed tears along the extremities. 0301484 
Price: 12.00 USD
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68 Abbott, Frank Frost Nine One-Act Plays From Yiddish
John W. Luce and Company

Boston 1932 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine Very Good 
235pgs. Cocoa brown cloth. Gilt lettering. prev. owner stamp on rear endpaper, otherwise fine, unmarked copy Price clipped jacket has chips across the edges. in fresh mylar sleeve. 0301522 
Price: 28.00 USD
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69 Abbott, Frank Frost English One-Act Plays of Today
Oxford University Press

London 1962 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good 
255pgs. light orange cloth, red spine label, gilt lettering. light spots, faint coffe ring, otherwise fine, unmarked copy. Price-clipped jacket has minor edgewear. in fresh mylar sleeve.Includes "The Browning Version" by Rattigan; "A Phoenix too Frequent" by Fry; "The Bespoke Overcoat" by Mankowitz; "The Pen of my Aunt" by Daviot; "Mother's Day" by Priestley; "Trifles" by Glaspell; "The Dock Brief" by Mortimer; and "Lord Byron's Love Letter" by Tennessee Williams. 0301559 
Price: 16.00 USD
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70 Abbott, George & Merrill, Bob New Girl in Town
Random House

New York 1958 First Edition Hardcover Fine Near Fine 
146gs.photos. Appears unread. photo embossed in cover. Jacket is bright with minor rubbing, a 1/4" chip on upper spine. in fresh mylar sleeve. Musical adaptation of Anna Christie. 103964 
Price: 45.00 USD
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71 Abbott, George and Richard Bissell The Pajama Game
Random House

NY 1954 First Printing Hardcover Near Fine Very Good + 
8vo, tweed cloth with photo still of the actors was tipped onto the front cover. Unclipped dustwrapper has a stain on the back panel, and the spine strip is evenly toned, therwise an exceptional copy in near fine codnition. 180p 020103 
Price: 125.00 USD
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72 Abbott, George Music and Lyrics By Bob Merrill New Girl in Town
Random House

NY 1958 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine Near Fine 
slight toning to covers edges, bright dustwrapper is unclipped, in afresh mylar sleeve - no tears chips or marks of any kind, exceptional copy. 020099 
Price: 60.00 USD
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73 Abbott, R. Tucker American Seashells
Van Nostrand Company Inc.

New York 1954 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ Very Good- 
541pgs.illustrated endpapers. Green Cloth, gilt lettering.color, black and white illustrations throughout. tight, clean copy a touch of mustiness, otherwise near fine. Unlcipped jacket has triangular chip on rear panel, smaller chips along extremities. More than 1,500 mollusk varieties are described and identified. in fresh mylar sleeve. 0302225 
Price: 30.00 USD
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74 Abe, Kobe The Box Man
Alfred A. Knopf

New York 1975 0394491068 2nd printing Hardcover Very Good very Good 
178pgs. light green boards, with embossed circular design on front panel.gilt lettering. toning to edges,otherwise square corners,light offsettng to endpapers internally fine. Unclipped jacket a bit worn, with closed tear along edges of rear panel,.in fresh mylar sleeve. Described as a philosophical thriller. 0304413 
Price: 25.00 USD
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75 Abe, Kobo The Box Man
Random House Inc

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. 1974 0394491068 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine Near Fine 
178pgs. Pale blue cloth with shiny embossed circle design. fading to edges of panels. Spine is bright!!!internally book is unread. Jacket has vertical rubs, otherwise no tears or chips. in fresh mylar sleeve. 104184 
Price: 20.00 USD
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76 Abe, Kobo Jazz Giants A Visual Retrospective
Billboard Publications

New York 1988 1st Printing Hardcover Fine Near Fine/price-clipped 
280pgs.1986. A GREAT COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS of all the Jazz Greats since the beginning. Black and White, and full color photos. Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Miles Davis, Many photos by Well known photographers, including William Claxton. Dark Blue Cloth: Book itself is like new, unmarked, unread. jacket has a trace of wear at extremities. in fresh mylar. 010479 
Price: 75.00 USD
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77 Abelow, Samuel F. History of Brooklyn Jewry
Scheba Publishing Company

Broolyn, NY 1937 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ No dust Jacket Signed by Author
344pgs photos, map. . Dark Red Cloth, gilt lettering. spine edges have a hint of fraying, small ding on upper spine, corners lightly bumped. Autor signature, date on front endpaper. internally fine copy. A wonderful account of the evolution of the Brooklyn Jewish community. Scarce volume, especially in this condition. 0302263 
Price: 195.00 USD
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78 Abercrombie, Lascelles An Essay Towards a Theory of Art
Martin Secker

London 1922 First Edition Hard Cover very Good No Jacket 
114pgs. Brown Boards, Yellow Spine. bottom corners are worn.toning to endpapers. spine darkened, with wear to extremiites. Tight copy with clean text block A collection of lectures by the author in the twenties. 300897 
Price: 22.00 USD
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79 Abish, Walter; Sorrentino, Gilbert; Messerli, Douglas (editor) The Contemporary American Fiction
Sun & Moon Press

Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. 1983 0940650223 First Edition Hardcover Fine Very Good+ 
343pgs. Black boards. clean, unmarked copy. jacket has trace of wear on edges. 101964 
Price: 8.00 USD
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80 Abrahams, Roger D. The Man-Of-Words in the West Indies: Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture
Johns Hopkins University Press

1983 0801828392 First Paperback Edition Softcover Very Good 
201pgs. stiff wraps. two pages of the introduction have yellow highliighting, otherwise text is clean. faded spine, overall unmarked copy. Verbal performances of Caribbean culture surch as family occasions and carnival. 0303240 
Price: 25.00 USD
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81 Abrahamsen, David. M.D. The Murdering Mind
Harper & Row

NY 1973 0060100222 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine Very Good+ 
245pgs., in mylar 002534 
Price: 12.00 USD
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82 Abramowitz, Molly Elie Wiesel : A Bibliography (Author Bibliographies Ser., No. 22)
Scarecrow Press, Incorporated

Metuchen, NJ 1974 0810807319 Facsimile Edition Hardcover Fine No Jacket 
194pgs.Grey boards.over 900 entries. Books, periodicals, ephemera. 100105 
Price: 15.00 USD
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83 Abrams, Meyer Palestine As I Saw It
Leonard Company

Chicago 1936 First American Edition Hardcover Very Good No Jacket 
112pgs.photo frontispiece. 11 photos.. Blue Cloth Gilt lettering. Tight clean copy, some rippling to rear panel. Inscribed by author on front endpaper. Author tells of his experience travelling to Palestine in the 1930's. 103028 
Price: 22.50 USD
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84 Abrikosov, A.A.; Gorkov, L.P.; Dzyaloshinkski, I.E ; Richard A Silverman, (tr) Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics
Prentice Hall

NY 1963 Hardcover Near Fine Very Good -- 
dustwrapper has some edge rubbing, surface rubbing moderate soiling, some edge tears, mostly small closed tears. Dustwrapper in a fresh mylar sleeve. index, 352p 018038 
Price: 150.00 USD
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85 Achille Bonito Oliva Tonio Trzebinski
Fondazione Orestiadi

1996 Softcover Fine 
4to, illustrated pictorial wraps, 111pp *Intro is in Engliah & Italian 201171 
Price: 50.00 USD
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86 Ackerley, J.R. My Father & Myself
Coward-McCann

1969 First American Edition Hardcover Near Fine Very Good + 
Some related ephemera laid in. jacket price-clipped, w/a little tape reinforcement at the extremities. Initialed and dated on endpaper - 219p 018608 
Price: 8.00 USD
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87 Ackroyd, Joyce (Translated and with an introduction and notes by) Told Round a Brushwood Fire. The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki
Princeton University Press

1979 0680082482 Hardcover Near Fine Near Fine 
Wonderful unmarked, coppy, just a hint of fading at top and bottom of board edges - there is some light uneven fading to the dustwrapper which is otherwise unclipped and very near fine, dustwrapper is unclipped and in a freh mylar sleeve, 347p 018716 
Price: 35.00 USD
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88 Ackroyd, Peter The House of Doctor Dee
Hamish Hamilton

London 1993 0241133718 First Printing Trade Paperback Fine 
British edition large format paperback, illustrated and decorative cover. 276p 200611 
Price: 15.00 USD
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89 Acocella, Joan Mark Morris
Farrar Straus & Giroux

1993 0374202958 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good + Inscribed by Author(s)
Signed and inscribed 'To Liz, W/Love, mark' by Morris on the half-title page, some corner bumping. otherwise near fine. 305p 017553 
Price: 35.00 USD
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90 Acocella, Joan Mark Morris
Farrar Straus & Giroux

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. 1993 0374202958 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good Quarto Signed and Inscribed By Author
305pgs. black and white photos throughout. Black Boards, white spine w/copper lettering. As new.. Inscribed by author and subject(Mark Morris) on half-title page. Unclipped pictorial jacket wrinkled on upper edge of rear panel. in fresh mylar sleeve 0303949 
Price: 75.00 USD
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91 Aconcagua Ichcateopan La Tumbe De Cuauhtemoc: Heroe Supremo De La Historia De Mexico
Aconcagua

9999 Soft Cover Near Fine 
scare, thin softcover, illustrated throughout, Article laid in has caused some light toing on the endpaper where it is laid in, former owner name and date written on the first page of the book, 103524 
Price: 30.00 USD
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92 Acosta, Jorge R Teotihuacan : Official Guide
Instituto Nacional de Antropologia

1968 Softcover Very Good 
purple illustrated wraps, illustrated with photos. three A few annotations by the former owner in pen, some rubbing at the extrm's otherwise clean and tight 62p 021982 
Price: 4.95 USD
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93 Acton, Harold Memoirs of An Aesthete
Viking Press

New York 1970 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good- 
388pgs. previous owner name, address on front endpaper, 12 black and white illustrations.ofsetting to front endpaper. lean to the spine, text is clean, unmarked. Unclipped jacket has closed tear on upper edge of front panel and spine extremities. in fresh mylar sleeve. classic autiobiography from this renowned British writer. Laid in are several articles about Harold Acton, as well as a New York Times obituary. 0304893 
Price: 65.00 USD
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94 Acton, Harold Prince Isidore
Methuen
Feliks Topolski
Great Britain 1950 First English Edition Hardcover Near Fine Very Good 
172pgs. marble paper over boards. orange spine, gilt lettering. Beautifully made book about an important figure in Italian history. slight corner wear, otherwise fine copy. Atractive illustrations by Feliks Topolski throughout the book. Unclipped jacket has closed tear on rear panel. otherwise near fine. in fresh mylar sleeve. 105972 
Price: 35.00 USD
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95 Acton, Harold More Memoirs of an Aesthete
Hamish Hamilton

United Kingdom 1987 0241118972 First Paperback Edition Soft Cover Near Fine 
388pgs. color photo on front cover.photos. a hint of edgewear, otherwise excellent condition. Continuation of Memoirs of An Aesthete, from 1939 on. His friendships with Evelyn Waugh, the Sitwells, and other members of English literatry society. 0302429 
Price: 44.00 USD
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96 Acton, Harold Memoirs of An Aesthete
Methuen

Great Britain 1970 2nd Impression Hard Cover Near Fine No Jacket 
415pgs.small sticker ghost on, neat bookplate on front endpaper. frontispiece. Dark Green Cloth, black spine label, gilt lettering. Corners square, 17 black and white illustrations. exceptionally bright copy of this classic autiobiography from this renowned British writer. 0303582 
Price: 45.00 USD
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97 Acton, Lord Essays on Church and State
Hollis and Carter

London 1952 First English Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good 
518pgs.Blue Cloth, black lettering. Paint spot on edge of spine, otherwise a fine, unmarked copy.Price-clipped jacket has edgewear along upper extremity. . in fresh mylar sleeve.Lord Acton fought for the independence of the state from the Church in the mid 1800's. . " Liberal self-governance will fortify the Church, not weaken Her, as She conducts Her spiritual battles. For Her "own everlasting". foundation," 106256 
Price: 35.00 USD
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98 Acton, Lord (Dalberg - Acton, John Emerich Edward ) Lectures on the French Revolution
MacMillan & Co.

London 1910 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ No Jacket 
379ps. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettering. edges lightly frayed. corners lightly bumped. internally bright. 300731 
Price: 25.00 USD
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99 Adam, Alexander ROMAN ANTIQUITIES or an account of the manners and customs of the Romans
E Duyckinck, G Long. Collins & Hannay

New York 1826 Hardcover Good 
revised, corrected and illustrated with notes and additions by P. Wilson. contemporary leather with taped over (brown tape with titles handwritten in white letters) spine, toning to pages, some foxed, still a serviceable, good reading copy. 496p 014662 
Price: 28.00 USD
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100 Adam, George and Pearl A Book About Paris
Harcourt Brace

New York First Edition Hardcover Very good- No dust Jacket Large Quarto 
192pgs color frontispiece. 15 black and white, sepia tone illustrations thorughout. .Burgundy Cloth laid paper. Paper spine and front panel labels. Wear to spine edges, corners.internally clean, unmarked circa 1920's. A traveller's look at Paris. The drawings reflect the quiet beauty of the city in a different era. 0303723 
Price: 25.00 USD
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