NY:: Putnam,, 1927. Collector bookplate; spine ends lightly worn; cover tips bumped; top edges gilt; fore edge untrimmed; otherwise good.. source authorities + index. With frontispiece of 1860 House of Commons + 15 full-pg. b&w reproductions of paintings & political caricatures. Biography of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865). In various Government offices, he gained Hong Kong for Britain; supported Italian Revolution; approved Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat. As Prime Minister... (more information)

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London:: Stead's Publishing,, [1910]. Cloth-covered flexible boards; printed & gilt-stamped front cover; spine faded; otherwise good.. including ad pp. With b&w photos of tableaux, scenes, & individual players. Official German text pp. facing English translations. ||| Descriptions of Ober Ammergau village; the Theatre; photos, names, year-round occupations of village's amateur performers; etc. ||| The 8-hr. Play is given every tenth year, fulfilling their 17th-century vow of perpetual perf... (more information)

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NY:: Harper,, nd.. Hardcover; spine ends worn; contents condition good.. + index. 3rd edn. of 1938 first issue. ||| Rev. Bonnell, Pastor of N.Y.C. 5th Avenue Presbyterian Church, was trained from boyhood to serve mental patients--at the Falconwood Hospital, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada--where his father had charge of the hospital. ||| On becoming a clergyman, Rev. Bonnell used his Falconwood experience to help people with their mental & emotional problems. ... (more information)

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NY:: Harper & Row,, 1967. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; rear endpaper renewed; otherwise good.. First American edn. ||| Englishman's 10-year observation of life & habits of the peregrine falcon, `bird of nobility,' favorite of kings. Peregrines are expert hunters, zooming down on their prey at speeds up to 180 m.p.h. ... (more information)

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Mountain Lake Pk., Md.:: National Publishing Society,, 1930. Hardcover; dust jacket frayed at edges & corners; nickel-size red ink spot on rear panel of jacket. Book: contents untrimmed; otherwise, clean, binding tight, condition good.. bibliography + painter's terms glossary. With 4 full-pg. color plates. Physiology Prof / chemist-researcher in colloidal chemistry, Martin Henry Fischer M.D. (avocation: landscape oil painter) chemically studied why paintings of Rembrandt & Gainsborough kept c... (more information)

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NY:: Scribner,, 1944.. Hardcover; shabby dust jacket. Book: good.. + index. With b&w Santayana portrait. Santayana (1863-1952), Spanish-born American philosopher, poet, essayist, critic; taught philosophy at Harvard to--among others--Conrad Aiken, Robert Benchley, Supreme Court Judge Felix Frankfurter, Walter Lippmann, & T.S. Eliot ||| Santayana's memoirs, `Persons & Places,' were published in 3 vols. over 9 years--`The Background of My Life' (1944); `Middle Span' (1945); `My Host the Worl... (more information)

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Akron, Ohio:: Enterprise Manufacturing,, [1938]. Wrappers lightly age-soiled; front has several 1/4- to 3/4-inch edge tears; spine worn away 3/4-inch at head; contents clean; otherwise good. 6x9 inches.. 1938 Copyright Edn. Color-pictorial wrappers; front--fish strike at baits + Phila. Sesqui- Centennial Medal; rear--largest Atlantic marlin swordfish taken with rod & reel. Profusely-illus. dealer catalogue of rods, reels, baits, leaders, floats, sinkers, lines, spoons, trout flies, hooks, repair pa... (more information)

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North Adams, Mass.:: Walden & Crawley Printers,, 1900. Hardcover; worn spine ends & cover tips; ink name (`F. C. Ferry') + date rubberstamp (`Feb 25 1907') on title pg.; otherwise, condition rather good.. 32pp. pamphlet laid in loose. FIRST GENERAL CATALOGUE ISSUED. ||| Constitution; By-Laws; `Early Days'; `The Hundred Years, 1781-1881'; `United Chapters'; lists of Officers / Members of The Fifty United Chapters; `Customs & Statistics'; PBK Key (history & official supplier). ||| ACCO... (more information)

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Washington, D.C.:: Jenness Miller Publications,, 1897. Hardcover; spine ends worn; ink name on front endpaper; otherwise good.. With b&w frontispiece photo of Mrs. Miller. Annie Jenness Miller says to those familiar with her work in physical culture & dress improvement that writing novels had always been her goal `when time favored.' ||| Publishing records show she wrote three novels, then returned to more familiar topics. ... (more information)

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London:: Methuen,, 1958. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; cover tips lightly bumped; otherwise, condition good.. addendum + appendix + references + indexes. With in-text graphs, charts, chemical formulas. Corrected edn. of 1957 first issue. ||| `Brief account of biochemistry & physiology of photosynthesis' by Hill & Whittingham, biochemist & botanist, respectively. ||| Covers: Plant Structure in relation to Photosynthesis; Chemistry of Pigmen... (more information)

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NY:: Longmans Green,, 1927. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends worn; otherwise good.. + index + 8pp. publisher's book ads. With in-text graphs + charts. Fellow of Christ's College gives `some account of the application of modern theories of physical chemistry to geological problems ...not intended for beginners...[assumes] some knowledge of mineralogy.' ||| Covers--States of Matter & Principle of Equilibrium in Geology; Fusion & Solidificat... (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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Np:: Veterans Hist. Book Service,, 1954.. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise, condition good.. + index. Profuse b&w photos (+ 8 pages in full color) of personnel, operations, battle scenes, etc. V.F.W. Memorial Edition of the Generals Ridgway & Clark Report on the so-called `Peacekeeping Action' that was in fact an undeclared full-scale war against North Korean & Chinese troops. ... (more information)

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New Haven:: Yale Univ.,, 1986. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; College stamp on top & bottom edges of book block; no card pocket or spine marks/label; otherwise rather good.. index. With color + b&w photos. First Edn., First Prtg. ||| Goffen (1944-2004) influential Art historian. ||| Here she `combined [Italian Renaissance] social & economic forces with the painters' individual methods to establish herself as an historian of the New Art History.' ||| Quite uncommon in this hardco... (more information)

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London:: Rich & Cowan,, 1936.. Hardcover; pictorial endpapers; condition quite good.. index. With 8 full-pg. b&w photos of battle scenes & military personnel. 1936 prtg. of 1935 first issue. ||| British Army Officer recounts visit to French & Belgian bloody battlefields where British soldiers died in WW-1. /// With--Northcliffe. LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S WAR BOOK. 283pp. Hardcover; PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK in surprisingly good condition; no card pocket or spine mark/label. NY: Doran, 1917 prt... (more information)

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NY:: Scribner,, 1935. Hardcover; spine faded & age-soiled; otherwise good.. Illus. in b&w. The author--Archibald Stansfield Belaney--alias `Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin,' alias `Grey Owl'--was born 1888 in Hastings, England. From childhood he dreamt of being a North American Indian; emigrated to northern Canada in 1905; said he was--& was accepted as--`Grey Owl, son of a Scot & an Apache'; learned wilderness ways from Ojibway Indians; married a young Iroquois woman; became much interested in Conser... (more information)

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NY:: Knopf,, 1969. Price-clipped dust jacket worn at spine ends with 1/4-inch edge tears + a one-inch tear at head of jacket spine. Book: condition good.. With 9 b&w drawings by Adrian Hoover. True story of Adrian & Helen Hoover who lived & worked in Chicago--but dreamed of leaving the city for the simple, more peaceful life in the country. ||| They bought a log cabin in northern Minnesota forest; learned to deal with black bears; roof snow so deep & heavy it had to be shoveled before ... (more information)

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NY:: Rinehart,, 1950. Hardcover; name & date inside front cover; otherwise good.. Illus. in b&w. 19 stories, including `9 Ways to Get a Cat' (M. Gay); `Cat that Walked by Himself' (Kipling); `Charles--Story of a Friendship' (M. Joseph); `The Abandoned' (Gallico); `Dick Baker's Cat' (Twain); `Mehitabel' (Marquis). ... (more information)

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London:: Faber & Faber,, 1952. Hardcover; spine ends & cover tips lightly worn; front cover tip bumped; Hayden Planetarium Book Corner label inside front cover; remnant of erased ink number `7' on front endpaper; otherwise good.. index. With 5 full-pg. b&w photos + one full-pg. b&w drawing (`Principal Details of Martian Topography'). 2nd edn. ||| De Vaucouleurs, French astronomer noted for redetermining magnitudes of brighter southern galaxies. He proposed local supergalaxy model (incl... (more information)

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NY:: W.B. Ketcham,, [1899]. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; gilt-stamped pictorial green cloth cover lightly faded at edges; spine faded to tan.. index. With frontispiece of `A Reading at Diderot's House' by Meisonnier. `EDITION LIMITED to 250 copies, printed in November 1899; No. 46.' ||| Brief extracts praising the value of books from writings of Addison, Bacon, Beaconsfield, Carlyle, Channing, Coleridge, D'Israeli, Emerson, Horace, Lamb, Locke, Ruskin,... (more information)

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