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New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. First American Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Author Portrait. Bound in navy cloth with titles and decorations stamped in gilt. Dated 1915 on the title page, with no additional printings, the same year as the Martin Secker (London) edition. 208 pages. Top edge gilt; the others deckled. With the William Nicholson facsimile portrait of Kipling as the frontispiece, with the tissue guard intact. Front cover creased, although this is only noticeable on the pastedown, which also carries a former owner's name. The volume is otherwise unmarked. The cloth shows only very light edgewear. Hinges solid; binding square. A clean, tight copy. Uncommon in the Mitchell Kennerley edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: W.W. Norton, 1984. First Edition (stated). . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Photographs, Artwork and Map. Bound in red boards backed with burgundy cloth. Spine titles stamped in gilt. 317 pages with index. A history of the Gurkha regiments in British, Indian and Pakistani armies. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight, unmarked copy, with the jacket now in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: Expostion Press, 1951. First Edition (NAP). . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Saul Mandel. Bound in blue cloth with titles in red. No additional printings. Music by Paul C. Fidelman. Inscribed and signed by one of the authors (Gertrude Fidelman). The cloth shows only a touch of edgewear; the dust jacket shows a small 1/4 inch chip at lower front edge and 1/4" wear at spine ends. An oddity: please note that this book has been bound upside down. Titles appear on the rear cover rather than the front cover, and the author's inscription and signature is on the rear endpaper. Clean and tight, with the jacket in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003. First Edition (stated) . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jane Wheel. Full number line present. Book and dust wrapper show only very light edgewear - wrapper has no rips, chips or clips. Clean, tight and unmarked; jacket in mylar.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1951. First Edition (NAP). . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ben Helm. Bound in yellow cloth-covered boards with titles in black. 242 pages. No additional printings. Bumps to upper rear corner and both spine ends; no frays. Hinges solid; binding square. The yellow cloth show only very light soil. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Pennsauken: Pennsauken Bicentennial Commission, 1975. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Halber, Edmund J.; Photographs. Small quarto bound in slate-blue cloth with gilt lettering. Corresponding 1975 dates to the title and copyright pages; no additional printings. Map endpapers. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a hint of wear at upper corner of the front gutter. The jacket's spine lettering is a bit faint, but it seems to have been issued this way, as there is no sign of sunning. A clean, tight, unmarked copy, with the jacket now in mylar.

Weider Health and Fitness, 1972. Stapled Softcover. Photographs. Undated,so date is a guess. Loaded with early photos of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Tightly bound. Creases at corners of cover.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Barbour, H. S.. Bound In Red Cloth With Titles Stamped In Green Outlined In Black. Early Reprint (1927) Listing 14 Blakeley Titles On Both The Rear Panel Of The Dust Jacket And In The Ads At The Rear Of The Book. With A Frontispiece And Three Internal Illustrations On Coated Paper By H. S. Barbour. The Cloth Shows Only A Touch Of Edgewear. Hinges Solid; Binding Square. The Dust Wrapper Has Light Chipping At The Head Of The Spine (No Lettering Affected) And A 1" Square Chip To The Top Edge Of The Front Panel, Taking Out The "A" And Part Of The "K" In "Blakeley". A Clean, Tight, Unmarked Copy With The Jacket Now In Mylar. Mattson & Davis 51100.

Jefferson: McFarland & Co Inc Publishers, 1990. First Edition (NAP). . Hardcover. Near Fine/None Issued. Photographs. Near fine condition hardcover. Hinges tight.Text unmarked. Prior owner sticker for 'Harmony Court' at the lower corner of front free blank endpaper. Cover very clean and bright with no wear. What a great year for movies! This book has Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, Beau Geste, Dark Victory, Hound of the Baskervilles, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Gunga Din, Goodbye Mr. Chips.,etc. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Urbana Illinois: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 1912. Soft cover. Very Good. December 1912 issue Tightly bound, unmarked. The bookplate of Rasmus B. Anderson ( founder of the Department of Scandinavian Studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison) is affixed to the inside of the cover, over the contents list. Articles include: Gotthonic Names; The Drama in Iceland; The Scandinavian Languages in High Schools; Minutes of the Second Annual Meeting.

Menasha, Wisconsin: Society For the Advancement of Scandinavia Study, 1919. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 4 issues, complete year 1919. Softcovers, very good condition, clean and unmarked, tightly Bound. Articles include 'American Ideals Among Women Writers of Sweden', 'Shakespeare in Denmark'. 'Romantic Elements in Tegner's Religious Philosophy', 'Tunama lWords - Dialect of Stora Tuna Parish, South Dalarne, Sweden', " Maalstraev in Norway', more. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Menasha, Wisconsin: Society For the Advancement of Scandinavia Study, 1918. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover in very good condition, clean and unmarked, tightly bound. Articles include The English Element in Swedish Romanticism, The Norwegian Parts of the Old Icelandic MS, The Story of the Publication of Iben's Brand'. more

Urbana Illinois: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 1913. Soft cover. Very Good. November 1913 issue ( Vol 1, No 4), The cover has a gift inscription from one of the authors in this issue to 'President VanHise Compliments of Julius E.Olson' President Van Hise was president of the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1903 to 1918. Julius Olson was a professor of Scandinavian Language at that school. Tightly bound, unmarked issue. Articles include:Scientific Knowledge in the North in the Thirteenth Century by Laurence Larson; Present Aspects of the Vinland Controversy by Julius E. Olson; On The Forms of the the Landsmaal in Norway (with a bibliogrpahy of Landsmaal literature) by Ingebrigt Lillehei; Swedish Place Names in Denmark by Gudmund Schutte, more.

Menasha, Wisconsin: Society For the Advancement of Scandinavia Study, 1918. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover in very good condition, clean and unmarked, tightly bound. Articles include The Northland Editions of the Works of Selma Lagerlof, Some Icelandic and Swedish Publications, Courses of Study in Scandinavian (in Minneapolis High Schools), more

Menasha, Wisconsin: Society For the Advancement of Scandinavia Study, 1919. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. November 1919, Vol 5, No 8 issue. Articles include Tunamal Words. Dialect of Stora Tuna Parish, South Dalarne, Sweden; Maalstraev in Norway, more

Chicago: John Anderson & Co., 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. 1905 date on title page and copyright page. Introduction in English; rest of text in Norwegian. Bookplate of Herman Gimmestad on inside of the front cover. Bound in black cloth with gill cover and spine lettering. Lower corners of cover are bumped. Light rubbing to cover. Frontis illustration of Bjornstjerne Bjornson. Text is unmarked.

Urbana Illinois: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 1916. Soft cover. Very Good. March 1916 issue, ( Vol II, No. 4). Softcover, tightly bound, unmarked. Articles include: Modern Name Giving in Sogn Norway and the Pagan Belief in Soul Transmigration; The Lygisogur; Haraldssaga Hringsbana and the Tristan and Svanhild Romances; more.

Urbana Illinois: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 1915. Soft cover. Very Good. March 1915 issue ( Vol II, No 2). Softcover, tightly bound, unmarked. (Found laid in this issue, is the smaller 3 pages notice for the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society, to be held April 23-24, 1915, at the Northwestern University Building, along with the program for the meeting including speakers, subjects, where to take lunch, etc. ) Articles in the issue include: Helgi Haddingjaskati and His Place in the Old Norse Hero Legends; Note on the Sigrdrifumal; On the Earliest History of Latin Script in Eastern Norway; The Voygages to Vinland the Good; Notes on Some German Translations of Scandinavian Authors

Urbana Illinois: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 1916. Soft cover. Very Good. July 1916 ( Vol III, No 2 issue) Articles include: Notes of Nornagestpattr; The Language and Main Ideas of Arne Garborg; Icelandic-American Journals; The Scandinavian Languagesin Modern Language Study, more.

Urbana Illinois: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 1916. Soft cover. Very Good. November 1916 issue ( Vol III, No 3). Softcover, tightly bound, unmarked. Articles include: Knud Hamsun article b y M.B. Rund; Semological Notes on Old Norse Heim- in Compunds by A. M. Sturtevant, Henrik Ibsen's 'Brand' translated into English; The Teaching of Scandinavian Languages in America, more