NY:: Mitchell Kennerley,, 1912. Hardcover; collector bookplate; gilt-stamped cover; spine gilt dull; untrimmed; otherwise good.. Frontispiece portrait of Synge by Jack B. Yeats. John Millington Synge (1871-1909), Irish dramatist, poet, playwright, known for memorable telling of Irish peasant life. `The Playboy of the Western World' (1907) is considered his masterpiece in the Irish Renaissance. ... (more information)

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Le Roy, N.Y.:: Genesee Pure Foods Co.,, ca. 1922.. 7x12.25-inch sheet folded into 8pp. of 6.125x3.5 inches; condition good.. With color + b&w photos of the factory; packing machinery; fruit flavor sources; how they are used; etc. Extolls caloric, metabolic, food values of gelatin, & of Jell-o, made with `purest vegetable colors...true fruit flavors.' Describes ingredients in Jell-o; where obtained; how processed; lauds therapeutic value as a pre-surgery food; etc. ||| 1899--Genesee Pure Food C... (more information)

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NY:: Scribner,, 1936. Hardcover; several marginal ink notes in a small hand; name inside front cover; otherwise good.. + bibliography + index. Profs of New Testament Exegesis at Hartford Theological Seminary show New Testament's Jewish & Hellenistic background. ... (more information)

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NY:: American Jewish Committee,, 1916. Hardcover; light foxing on first few, & last few pages; spine wrinkled; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. Status of Jews after first year of WW-1, vis-a-vis governments & populations in Russia, Austria-Hungary, Roumania, Palestine. ||| Restrictions in residence, property ownership, & education, despite decorated army combat service; etc. Asks financial support for forcibly displaced persons. ||| AJC was founded 1906; this book lists Louis Mar... (more information)

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Chicago:: Board of Directors,, 1911. In wrappers; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/labels; light gray wrappers with 1.5x2-inch mild discoloration at head of front cover + spine & back cover from old tape; otherwise good.. index. Crerar Library came from bequest of John Crerar (1827-89), an incorporator of Pullman Palace Car Co., & manufacturer of railroad supplies in Chicago. Library comprises some 1,000,000 volumes on physical, natural, & medical sciences. |||... (more information)

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Chicago:: Board of Directors,, 1917. Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; remains of shelf labels on front wrapper; no card pocket or spine marks/label; otherwise good.. index. Crerar Library published its first `Books on the History of Science' in 1911, a catalogue of some 1,500 books. Acquiring nearly 800 works since then made this Supplement necessary. ||| Covers--Philosophy; Social Science; Physical Sciences; Natural Sciences; Medicine. ||| Crerar Library was bequest of John Crerar (1827-89), an incor... (more information)

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NY:: Albert & Charles Boni,, 1938. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; fore & bottom edges untrimmed; spine faded; otherwise, condition good.. bibliography. With frontispiece portrait + 13 full-pg. b&w facsimiles, maps & portrait reproductions. In pencil on half title: `10/7/41 / J. Bruce Kremer estate / Donor.' ||| Kremer (1878-1940), Montana lawyer (represented mining interests at U.S. Supreme Court) now owned `Mulberry Grove,' the home of... (more information)

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NY:: Stokes,, 1941. Hardcover; covers & spine lightly age-soiled; otherwise, contents clean, binding tight, condition good.. With b&w full-pg. + in-text drawings by Clotilde Embree Funk; color pictorial endpapers. Indianapolis librarian Mabel Leigh Hunt (1892-1971) wrote over 30 children's books based largely on her Quaker upbringing & values. ||| An `it-could-have-happened' tale about Boston's printer Thomas Fleet, his mother-in-law Elizabeth Vergoose--known as Grandmother Goose--& you... (more information)

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Edinburgh:: Oliver & Boyd,, 1927. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; green bookcloth faded to brown on spine + covers; owner rubberstamp on title page & inside back cover; some light foxing; otherwise good.. With frontispiece portrait + 8 full-pg. b&w photos. Sir Joseph Lister (1827-1912), English surgeon, opened modern era of surgery by pioneering antiseptic surgery; introduced catgut ligature to tie arteries; insisted on aseptic operating rooms... (more information)

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NY:: Doubleday Page,, 1902. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; brightly gilt-stamped decorated cover; age-soiled spine ends lightly worn, spine gilt dull; contents lightly age-toned; otherwise good.. Chapter head- & tail-pieces in b&w by Chas. E. Hooper. First issued 1901. ||| Andrew C. Wheeler (1835-1903), writing as `Mowbray,' tells of a young Wall Street denizen devoted to making money, who so fears his possible death that he heeds doctor's advice & lives a year in the country... (more information)

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NY:: Penuel Press,, 1927. Hardcover; spine & cover tips worn.. SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION, number 1119 of 1285, curiously signed `A.H. Shoenfuls.' ||| A 1927 `sent in plain wrapper' novel; though by today's standards as bland as cottage cheese, it, with similar others, was considered so shocking in 1927 that it had to be privately printed by a (pseudonymous?) author whose signature was at odds with the title-page name; was sold only by subscription to those `in the know,' & was universally snubbed... (more information)

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London:: Constable,, [1918]. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine gilt-stamped; spine ends lightly worn; front hinge & cover tips repaired; fore & bottom edges untrimmed; otherwise good.. 4pp. publisher ads. 1918 First English trans. of 1898 second Russian edn. ||| Vladimir Solovyof, (also transliterated `Soloviev') 1853-1900; Russian philosopher & theologian `of vast & conscientious learning, familiar with patristic & gnostic liter... (more information)

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