NY:: Harper/Society for Biblical Lit.,, 1989. Hardcover; dust jacket: quite good. Book: condition rather good.. Guidance for pronouncing every proper name in the English Bible including the Apocrypha, & words used for festivals, weights, coins, etc. ... (more information)

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Tucson:: Univ. of Arizona,, 1986. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; edge-stamped book block head & foot; otherwise rather good.. index. Several b&w sketched maps of uprising areas. Anne Walthall, authority on Japan & Asian Studies, reviews social conditions & peasant uprisings during the 1780s Tenmei period--marked by crop failure, natural disasters, famine, scarcity, rich ruling class arrogance & official corruption. The inevitable peasant riots were vivid memories, even 5... (more information)

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Halle:: Max Niemeyer,, 1921. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) & donor's bookplates, no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends worn; otherwise good.. + dictionary. 5th edn. of 1881 first issue. ||| Walther von der Vogelweide (ca. 1170-1230)--possibly a pseudonym--is considered the greatest German lyric poet of Middle Ages. Facts of his life are obscure: thought to be of knightly birth, formally educated at a monastery school, a Minnesinger for more than 40 years. ||| In last days of 12th c... (more information)

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1892. Hardcover; spine ends + both covers bookcloth worn; internally good.. + 8pp. book ads. Mary Augustus (Mrs. Humphry) Ward (1851-1920), English novelist, wrote 28 books; `The History of David Grieve' is considered one of her best. She also worked tirelessly for social settlements, children's play centers, & founded The Invalid Children's School. Curiously, she opposed women's suffrage & founded the Anti-Suffrage League in England (1908). ... (more information)

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Leek [England]:: Robert Nall, Bookseller,, 1863. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends worn; cover tips bumped; endpapers renewed; bookplate preserved; otherwise, contents condition good.. 5 plates. With one b&w folding plate (lightly foxed) of strata sections + 4 b&w full-pg. plates of fossils. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION on title page; `To Nelson Dale Esqr [Prof at Hamilton] / with the author's kind regards / May 1st 1867.' ||| Here, Wardle repri... (more information)

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NY:: Hoeber,, 1929. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; dull gilt-stamped purple cloth spine faded to gray; spine ends lightly worn; fore edge shows crudely-opened fold; otherwise good.. index. With full-pg. b&w photos + in-text charts & diagrams. Dr. Warthin (1866-1931), Pathology Prof at Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor; enlarges on his 1928 N.Y. Academy of Medicine Carpenter Lecture--`Pathology of the Aging Process'--presenting `a rational workable p... (more information)

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NY:: McGraw-Hill,, 1943. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; prtd. on wartime-grade paper; otherwise good.. + appendix + index. With b&w photos, schematics, & drawings. Later printing of 1940 first issue. ||| Fundamental theory + `how to' for building / operating sets & apparatus, with explanation of why & how they work. ||| Radio waves / wave travel; vacuum tube principles; tuning; DC tube receiving sets; phones & speakers; AC tube receiving sets; short-wave sets; oscillators &... (more information)

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Albany, NY:: Websters & Skinners,, 1812. Full calf; 3 small wormholes in joints; 1845 ink ownership on front & rear endpapers; light foxing; 9 or 10 leaves with old dog-ears; otherwise good.. 9pp. book ads. 4th edn. of `Agreements...Covenants...Letters of Attorney...Writs, &c...a judicious collection of [business & legal] forms...' ||| Includes: Constitution of the U.S. (ratified Sept. 17, 1787 by 12 of the 13 States, not including Vermont); N.Y. State Constitution (April 20, 1777--... (more information)

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NY:: Random House,, 1961.. Hardcover; dust jacket chipped. Book: cover tips bumped; otherwise good.. 49 of Weidman's best short stories about N.Y.C.'s Lower East Side immigrants--marriage brokers, the nouveau riche, secretaries, tie salesmen, bus drivers, et al. ||| His first novel, `I Can Get It For You Wholesale,' (1937) was adapted into the 1962 musical play. ||| His `Fiorello,' written in collaboration with George Abbott, won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize. ... (more information)

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Washington, D.C.:: Government Printing Office,, 1864. Collector bookplate; 1/4 leather; cover tips repaired; three 16-pp. sections lightly waterstained at top corner; paper color varies from white to light tan; several small ink blots affect text; otherwise, condition generally good.. With in-text & full-pg. charts / full-pg. drawings + full-pg. & fold-out maps. Monitor-Merrimack fight destroyed--in one day--all world navies' `Wooden Walls of Ships.' ||| Official documents from Welles, Ericss... (more information)

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NY:: Scribner,, 1906. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; top edges gilt, others untrimmed; otherwise good.. Wendell (1855-1921) Harvard Prof, also lectured at the Sorbonne during 1904-05. He discusses: `The National Character of America'; `Liberty'; `Union'; `Democracy.' ||| 40-some years after the American Civil War, Europeans saw America as the brash polyglot immigrant upstart in its recent encounter with Spain. World Wars I, II + subsequent events show... (more information)

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St. Paul, Minn.:: Weschcke,, 1953. Hardcover; lettering faded on spine & cover; otherwise quite good.. Illus. with photos + b&w drawings. 33-year record by Minnesota man who planted, grafted, & hybridized walnut, hazel, pecan, hickory, filbert, & butternut trees--his disappointments, failures, & eventual successes. ||| Located at Harvard, Cornell, & Library of Congress. ... (more information)

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NY:: Lane & Tippett,, 1848. Hardcover; 32mo; leather covers & spine ends worn; chip at foot of spine apparently glued earlier; light to moderate foxing.. + table + index. `Revised & Corrected, with a Supplement.' ||| `Measures have been adopted to prepare a revised edition...as should exclude the defects & retain the excellences of the one heretofore published. This revised edition we now present to you...signed with the names of your bishops.' ||| Replaced in the following year by anoth... (more information)

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Philadelphia:: Univ. of Pennsylvania,, 1903. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends & cover tips lightly worn; otherwise good.. 2nd ed. with in-text bibliographies / biographies. ||| Extracts from works & letters. I--Italian Renaissance: Dante; Petrarcha; Boccaccio; Sachetti; Bracciolini; L.B. Alberti; Sylvius; Platina; Bisticci; L. de'Medici; Machiavelli; Castiglione; Bandello; Cellini. ||| II--German Renaissance; R. Agricola; Wimphe... (more information)

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Albuquerque:: Univ. of New Mexico,, 1952. Hardcover; foil-stamped front cover & spine; condition good.. appendix + plates + index. With charts, formulas; color frontispiece (titled `Plate I') + b&w Plates II thru XLVI. Proceedings of Symposium, November 1951. ||| 42 presentations presaging manned rocket flight from Earth: possible toxicology of aeropause travel; The Chemosphere; biological & genetic effects of cosmic, laboratory, power plant, upper atmosphere, & extra-terrestrial radiat... (more information)

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NY:: Harper,, 1954.. Hardcover; spine faded; nick in front cover cloth; two nicks + .75-inch-long light scrape on rear cover; otherwise good.. Elwyn Brooks White (1899-1985); mainstay at New Yorker magazine starting in the 1920s, with colleague James Thurber. White also wrote poems & the children's classic, `Charlotte's Web.' ||| `The Second Tree...' gathered his work from The New Yorker, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, etc. ... (more information)

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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1888. Hardcover; 4.5x6.5 inches; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate `Presented by Frederick W. Putnam'; ink name/date inside front cover: `F. W. Putnam / Nov. 19 - 1909'; spine ends worn; cover tips quite bumped; contents clean; binding tight; otherwise condition good.. index + 2pp. book ads. Hopeful, forward-looking aphorisms, short passages from essays, & bits of poetry, contemplate the onset of old age (65)--by Browning, Lydia Child, Cicero, George Eliot, Holmes, W.S... (more information)

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1936. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; cover tips bumped, worn; gift label inside front cover; from a library--signs of card pocket removal inside rear cover; location(?) number on title page; otherwise clean.. With 8 full-pg. white-on-black linoleum engravings by the author + various in-text drawings. First prtg. ||| `God keep my soul & England have my bones'--the March 1934-March 1935 diary of Terence Hanbury White (1906-64), English novelist / satirist, here records his pleas... (more information)

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1946.. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. + index. With 16 monochrome photos. White (1868-1944), publisher-editor of the `Emporia [Kansas] Gazette,' admired Teddy Roosevelt; helped found the National Progressive Republican League (1911); supported Woodrow Wilson's progressivism & League of Nations; opposed the KKK; backed supplying Britain & France with war materiel in WW-2. ||| `For nearly a half-century the sage of Emporia was nationally recognized as a spokes... (more information)

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1927. Hardcover; spine gilt lettering rubbed; otherwise, condition good.. Whitehead (1861-1947), mathematician / philosopher, delivered his views in the Barbour-Page Lectures, Univ. of Virginia, 1927. ||| An edition of those lectures was also printed at Cambridge in 1928. ... (more information)

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