Samlinger til de danske Øers Laalands og Falsters Historie af P. Rhode. Med en deel Forandringer, Tillæg og Rettelser paany udgivne af Jacob Friis. by RHODE, Peder - 1859

Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1968, 1st . Hardcover . VG/VG-. Some edgewear; few light dings and few dog-eared pages. DJ w/ some rubbing/chipping; two 1/2in CTs plus crease lower front; in new Brodart protector.

xii+436+[6] pages. Octavo (9" x 6") issued in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and embossed decorative stamp to covers. Preface by W H Prescott. From the library of George M Foster. First British edition.She was— it is no exaggeration— Mexico's Tocqueville, but if that ploddingly perceptive Frenchman's Democracy in America is one great boiled sausage of seriousness, Calderón de la Barca's Life in Mexico is a confection as strange and marvelous as Mexico itself. Stranger still in matters of (if literary) haute cuisine: the author was Scottish, née Frances Erskine Inglis. She married the Spanish diplomat Angel Calderón de la Barca in 1838; one year later they sailed for Mexico, where he was to serve as Spain's first ambassador to its still very raw and violent ex-colony. Revolutions, earthquakes, exotic flowers and snow-capped volcanoes: rich ingredients for even the most burn-the-toast kind of chronicler. But Calderón de la Barca is shrewd and skilled as any novelist at stirring in the… Read More

RARE/SCARCE.USED. GOOD CONDITION. HARPER & BROTHERS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1870. MAN AND WIFE, a novel by WILKIE COLLINS, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White. Brown boards with ornate gold gilt titles on spine. Large octavo, original cloth, 239 pages [text printed in two columns] (followed by 4 pages of adverts). ILLUSTRATED with a frontispiece portrait and text vignettes. Signed and dated by former owners Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Wiswall of Newton Lake Falls, Mass. Sept. 1869.

1948 - Flophouse An Authentic Undercover Study of Flophouses, Cage Hotels, Including Missions, Shelters and Institutions Serving Unattached (Homeless) Men. A Sociological Study that Includes English Origins of Mass Relief -- Samples of American Mass Relief and a Modern Investigation of Public and Private Policies in Chicago. New Hampshire: Marshall Jones Company, 1948 First Edition.Signed by author ( see photograph )"In the role of a bona fide client, the author registered for relief, took the pauper's oath and received a relief card. At the shelters and flophouse he mixed with the shelter men, getting direct quotations from those interviewed...careful to make the quotations exact...joined in all shelter activities, games, discussions, and efforts to secure work...really became part of shelter life..." from the preface.An historical record of treatment of the homeless, presenting the localized techniques of relief, and detailed information on the policy of the shelters in Chicago from 1930-1938.… Read More

The Folio Society, 2015. Fifth Printing. Hardcover in slipcase. Used - fine condition. Slipcase has some shelf wear in the form of light scuffing on front and back and a slightly wrinkled corner at the top of the spine. Book itself is clean and tight with no wear. No markings inside the book. Book is heavy; shipping costs may increase. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

British-North American Committee, 1974. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SELLER'S NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL (NON CANADA OR USA) BUYERS: Additional shipping charges will be required and requested during the purchase process of this title. PUBLISHER: British-North American Committee. At the Committee's first meeting in New York City, December, 1969, the following statement of its aims was authorised: The British-North American committee has been established to study and comment upon the developing relationships between Britain, the United States and Canada. It seeks to promote clearer understanding of the economic opportunities and problems facing the three countries, to explore areas of co-operation and of possible friction, and to discover constructive responses. It believes that sound relations between these three countries in the context of an increasingly interrelated world are essential to future prosperity and seeks to… Read More

Princeton, ; London: Princeton University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1940. First edition. Hard cover. very good in very good price clipped dj; CLEAN, TIGHT, & ATTRACTIVE. DJ PROTECTED BY NEW MYLAR WRAP.. 8 vo; tan boards; 463 pgs.; introduction, v-vi; preface, vii-xi; note on the sources, xiii-xiv; index of persons; index of subjects. 8 b/w illust. Ilustrated dj. introduction by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker. Cockpit of the Revolution is the second volume of the Princeton History of New Jersey.

xii+436+[6] pages. Octavo (9" x 6") issued in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and embossed decorative stamp to covers. Preface by W H Prescott. From the library of George M Foster. First British edition.She was— it is no exaggeration— Mexico's Tocqueville, but if that ploddingly perceptive Frenchman's Democracy in America is one great boiled sausage of seriousness, Calderón de la Barca's Life in Mexico is a confection as strange and marvelous as Mexico itself. Stranger still in matters of (if literary) haute cuisine: the author was Scottish, née Frances Erskine Inglis. She married the Spanish diplomat Angel Calderón de la Barca in 1838; one year later they sailed for Mexico, where he was to serve as Spain's first ambassador to its still very raw and violent ex-colony. Revolutions, earthquakes, exotic flowers and snow-capped volcanoes: rich ingredients for even the most burn-the-toast kind of chronicler. But Calderón de la Barca is shrewd and skilled as any novelist at stirring in the… Read More

RARE/SCARCE.USED. GOOD CONDITION. HARPER & BROTHERS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1870. MAN AND WIFE, a novel by WILKIE COLLINS, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White. Brown boards with ornate gold gilt titles on spine. Large octavo, original cloth, 239 pages [text printed in two columns] (followed by 4 pages of adverts). ILLUSTRATED with a frontispiece portrait and text vignettes. Signed and dated by former owners Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Wiswall of Newton Lake Falls, Mass. Sept. 1869.

London UK, Oxford University Press, 1963, hardcover, xii-151 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Clean and firmly bound, slight spine-end and corner wear, lean to spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, wear to folds and head and heel of spine, in new Brodart sleeve. An historical and social study of the Creole society of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Illustrated with 4 black-&-white plates and 6 maps including a fold-out map of Sierra Leone showing Ethnic Boundaries. Appended; Handbill recruiting the black poor, Bibliography, Index.