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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1943. 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 308 deckle edged pages with blue topstain. This is a wartime book. The back of dust jacket is a full page advertisement for War Bonds. From jacket: "The aim of the authors is not to reconstruct archaeology,… Read more

Exeter, NH: The Phillips Exeter Academy Press, 1970. 4to size red clothbound hardcover with gilt titles on spine; 109 pages with black and white photographs and document reproductions throughout. Different illustrations on front and back endpapers. Color frontispiece of founder John Phillips. Contents are divided into: The First Period 1781-1873 The Second Period 1874-1963 Founded by… Read more

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Signed by author on the half title page First Thus Edition with full number line. This is the first English language edition Translated from the Icelandic by Anna Yates. Original Icelandic title: Hans Jonatan, madurinn sem stal sjalfum ser Brand new, signed for us at a speaking engagement… Read more

1982. Probable First Edition 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with dust jacket which features a drawing of the school; 219 pages From jacket: "Charles Merrill, founder and first headmaster of the Commonwealth School of Boston, has told (in this book) the story of an urban school in the toughest of times, from 1958 to 1981. The… Read more

F. Watts, 1972. 8vo size pictorial hardcover; 80 pages illustrated with black and white photographs of southern Appalachia by Joyce Hoffman Contents are divided into three sections: The Appalachian Mountains Appalachia The Children of Appalachia Ex-library with typical treatments; fep clipped to remove bar code. Fingermarks or light stain in the far margins of pages 56-57. … Read more

New York: Knopf, 1999. Signed and inscribed by author on fep. Stated First Edition 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 188 deckle edged pages followed by a short section of notes. There is also a section of black and white photographs on glossy stock. From jacket: "Fifteen minute before five o'clock on Good Friday, 1998,… Read more

New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004. Signed and inscribed on half title page Stated First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 286 pages From jacket: "With the words, 'this Crusade, this war on terror,' President George W. Bush defined the purpose of his presidency... (this volume is) a comprehensive and tough-minded critique of… Read more

Charlottesville, Virginia: Howell Press, 2002. Folio size (coffee table book) hardcover with photo illustrated dust jacket; 255 glossy pages many with full-page, full color photographs, many two-page spreads Signed and inscribed by photographer Agostino von Hassell on fep. First Edition with full numberline From jacket: "Since its establishment in 1802, by order of President Thomas Jefferson,… Read more

New York: Marvel Comics, 2001. Volume 1 No. 1 December 2001 4to size stapled magazine binding; unpaginated - about 68 pages - with illustrated covers and pages, all on glossy stock. From back: "Comic book universes are populated by colorful characters that possess fantastic powers. But on September 11th, 2001, an untold number of real men… Read more

Canaan, New Hampshire: Phoenix Publishing, 1983. 4to size hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. Book underneath jacket has a gilt town seal on front cover. 350 pages with black and white photographs throughout. Illustrated endpapers on textured paper. Includes bibliography, detailed index and personal names index. From jacket: "The casual visitor to East Granby...might never… Read more

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. Life in America Series 8vo size hardcover; 182 pages with some black and white photographs Book sections include: From Slavery to Citizenship: 1619-1900 Toward Full Equality: Since 1900 Authors of the various articles include: Richard Wright Martin Luther King, Jr. James Baldwin Malcolm X Booker… Read more

New York: Crown, 2018. 8vo size trade paperback with illustrated front cover; 488 pages. Covers are unique to Proof. Back cover provides an overview of the book and the specifications for the finished book. From back: "When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague... he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the… Read more

Scarsdale, New York: Scarsdale Historical Society, 1988. 4to size staple bound softcover booklet with photo illustrated front cover; 18 pages illustrated with black and white photographs and maps and segments of reproduced wills. Prepared as a series of articles for the Scarsdale Inquirer, this volume tells the story of the house owned by the Cudner and Hyatt families in… Read more

Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1964. 8vo size trade paperback; 125 pages This is a continuation of the author's previous volume and includes Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out; covers have been laminated which has caused the ink on cover to blur; toned pages. The lamination film was put on… Read more

Boston: Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 1954. The History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society from March, 1929 by Edward T. Farrington 8vo size navy blue cloth bound hardcover with gilt titles on spine and front cover; 210 pages with black and white illustrations on glossy stock Private Press- Published by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society; Boston; 1954 Contents include: … Read more

New York: Harper Collins, 2010. Stated First Edition Signed by author on title page 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 355 pages From jacket: "Within seven weeks of the (death of President John F. Kennedy), Jacqueline Kennedy received more than 800,000 condolence letters. Two years later, the volume of correspondence would exceed 1.5 million letters...… Read more

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012. one of the Campus History Series Wide 8vo size trade paperback with pictorial cover; 127 pages with black and white photographs throughout From back of book: "The University of Wyoming was founded in 1886, four years prior to statehood... From a humble beginning in athletics, UW has excelled in football, basketball,… Read more

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. 230 pages with some black and white photographs and illustrations on glossy stock. From jacket: "The dramatic story of the struggle between Union and Confederate supports for control of the Southwest - the land that promised for the South a Western Confederacy, an outlet to the Pacific thorugh California, mineral-rich lands, military… Read more

2002. Signed and inscribed by author on fep 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 244 pages with some black and white photographs Julia Child's review of book is on back of jacket and is quoted below: "Here (is) a short tour through some fascinating insights that we would most probably never had known about were it not… Read more

George H Dean Co, 1979. Rare, Limited, Numbered Edition This is number 298 out of 1,000 copies Privately Printed: George H. Dean Co.; 1979 4to size red cloth bound hardcover with sewn binding and bright gilt titles on cover; 69 pages illustrated with black and white sepia toned photographs. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis was a… Read more