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New York: Macfadden Book Co, 1935. Hardcover. Good-/None. Medium blue cloth boards with gilt titling on cover and spine, small 8vo. (5 1/4 x 7 3/4 ins.), edgewear has frayed the cloth in spots around the top and corner. Light rubbing to front board. INSIDE: If you ever thought a whole book could be written on the topic, here it is. Macfadden, author of several books on health, maintains that constipation can be corrected 80% of the time by a change in diet alone. He delves in to the depths of the body's workings, the nature and causes of constipation, its symptoms, results and effects, and finally its treatment, covering nearly the last half of the book, which details healthful diets-menus included-and practical advice, including B&W photos of useful exercises, pp. 194-236. Also illus. by B&W line drawings of the body's internal workings.

Boston: D Lothrop Co, 1860. Hardcover. Fair/None. Brown cloth boards, illustrated with stamped country scene of a fence with flowers and gilt figures; also gilt band and flowers on spine. Shelfwear especially to bottom edge. Corners are bumped. Spine slightly cocked. Undated, however, brief research finds 1860 as pub date. Unpaginated, 142 is a rough manual count. Pages are toned and some are chipped. Title page is extant but separated from binding. Publisher's book reviews at the end. Illustrated with B&W engravings. 16mo. AUTHOR INFO: Matilda Anne Mackarness (née Planché; 23 November 1825 ? 6 May 1881) was an English novelist of the 19th century, primarily writing children's literature. From an early age, she wrote novels and moral tales for children. As a novelist she took Dickens for her model and in 1845 she published Old Joliffe which was thought to be a satire of Dickens' 1844 Christmas story The Chimes. The following year she published A Sequel to Old Joliffe.… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1916. Apparent First Am. Edition. Good+/None. Dark green cloth boards with gilt titling on front and spine, lightly edgeworn and a bit rubbed. Rear board lightened. Darkened end papers. Front hinge starting. Sewn binding nonetheless sound and tight. Interior unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'The attempt to discover the man Shakespeare in what he has written is never a fruitless search, for the means by which it is prosecuted is a careful study and thorough understanding of his works. But if a definite result is to be attained there must be called in aid such information as may be obtained from the men among whom Shakespeare lived, moved and had his being. What has been collected in these pages may be no more, here and there, 'a light occasion, a word, or some sport,' but these things may serve to make the man's 'naturall dispositions and maners appeare more plaine than' his most famous achievements ; his Hamlet, his Lear, his Othello, and his As You Like… Read More

Paris, France: E. de Boccard, 1951. Deuxieme Edition. Paperback. Good/None. Cream colored softcover with red and black titling on front cover and spine; spine covering is cracking, though not heavily, and binding is sound. Worn ant spine ends and bottom front corner bent. Half the page edges are scored half way down the long edge, resulting in a closed 1/4-in. tear with a chip on the back cover. Interior is unmarked. Large 8vo. BOOK INFO: The origins and functioning of the Cistercian Order. The original emphasis of Cistercian life was on manual labour and self-sufficiency, and many abbeys have traditionally supported themselves through activities such as agriculture and brewing ales. Over the centuries, however, education and academic pursuits came to dominate the life of their monasteries. Cistercian Order; Medieval history; Trappists; OCist; SOCist; Citeaux

Hammersmith, London: HarperCollins UK, 2007. Hardcover. near fine/near fine. Signed. SIGNED by author on title page. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt titling on spine. Binding square and tight. Interior otherwise unmarked. Unpriceclipped DJ is bright with sharp edges. 8vo. BOOK INFO: The former Prime Minister examines the game of cricket from its origins up to the beginning of the 20th century. It is a story rich in anecdote and colourful characters, revealing that many of the most cherished and widely held beliefs about cricket?s origins are based on little more than myth; he also examines the social changes that affected both the game and the wider society. Color illustrations in three glossy 8-pg. sections. Cricket--History; Summer Games; Lawn Games; British Sports

US: Eastern Sierra Press, 1993. Paperback. Very Good+/None. Signed. SIGNED by author on fep. Bright orange-red softcover with black titling. Spine uncreased. Inside front cover bears a gift inscription in black ink. One page dogeared and cover corners softened. Otherwise tight, clean, and sharp. 12mo. BOOK INFO: '...brilliantly depicts the combination of male camaraderie and good times...tempered by the ever-present danger of living in a frontier town...which led Mark Twain to recall his Comstock days with such great affection. I recommend the book to anyone who enjoys an accurate and entertaining account of what was one of the most wide-open and dynamic towns of the west...and to those who want to learn more about the western spirit and attitude that make up so much of the American character today.' --Martin Lane, Comstock Chronicle. Virginia City, Nebraska; Comstock; Samuel Clemens

Oxford; New York: Blackwell Pub, 1989. Paperback. Very Good/None. Pictorial softcover with charcoal profile portrait of Wittgenstein; red block titling on front and spine. Upper page edges and tiny bit of front cover's top edge are a little toned. Spine is uncreased. Text is unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: British Library Cataloguing in Publication: Northing is hidden : Wittgenstein's criticism of his early thought. 'Some writers have doubted both the accuracy and the validity of Wittgenstein's criticism of his earlier thinking. It has been said that when he wrote the Investigations he no longer understood the Tractatus; that he had lost interest in it; that what he criticizes are crude caricatures of its positions; that, in particular, he did not definitely reject what is perhaps the most basic thesis of the Tractatus -- the picture theory of propositions; that apparently he had only a vague recollection of this theory; that, in short, his idea that his later thoughts could best be… Read More

Pigotts, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: Rene Hague and Eric Gill, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Gilt and black decorated light blue paper boards with black titling on a white label on the front. Lovely hand made paper with rough-cut page edges. Binding is tight. Illustrated with B&W and some red woodblocks. Interior is unmarked. 4 1/2 x 6 1/8 ins. Photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: 1 of 200 privately printed. Engravings by Joan Hassall. Chapters 8-20 of the 18th book of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. In Old English(?). 'The text of this edition follows exactly that printed by William Caxton in 1485, as given in the edition of H. Oskar Sommer (London, 1889). Caxton's misprints have not been corrected.' According to Sequitur Books, the press didn't finish this book run and 'only 20-25 copies were bound'.

Prague: Academia, Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences; Springer, Berlin, 1968. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good-/None. Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenchaften in Einzeldarstellungen mit besonderer Beru?cksichtigung der Anwendungsgebiete, Yellow boards with black titling on front and spine, lightly soiled and with adhesive residue to upper left front corner and spine heel. Adhesive residue to pastedowns. Date stamped on ffep. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. BOOK INFO: 'The book is devoted to one-dimensional random processes of the Markovian type, homogeneous and with continuous time parameter, which, under additional assumptions concerning the continuity of the trajectories, are also called diffusion processes.' (-from the preface). See photos for complete table of contents. Bibliography: p. [188]-190. Includes subject index. xx, 192 p. 24 cm. Markov processes

New York, Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer, 1976. Hardcover. Good-/None. Graduate Texts in Mathematics Yellow and white cloth boards, toned along upper front board and spine. Upper page edges darkened. Pastedowns scarred where bookplates removed. Numbers stamped on preface page. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'In the past decade, category theory has widened its scope and now interacts with many areas of mathematics. This book develops some of the interactions between universal algebra and category theory as well as some of the resulting applications. We begin with an exposition of equationally defineable classes from the point of view of algebraic theories, but without the use of category theory. This serves to motivate the general treatment of algebraic theories in a category, which is the central concern of the book. (No category theory is presumed; rather, an independent treatment is provided by the second chapter.) Applications abound throughout the text and exercises and… Read More

Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company. Hardcover. Good/None. The Lake German Classics Rare copy of this German text book in a font with a lovely flourish. Green pictorial cloth boards with black titling, edgeworn and with small tears to spine ends. Ffep torn out. Binding is sound. Not a reprint or print-on-demand. 8vo. BOOK INFO: A second-year German Reader, illustrated with B&W photographs and at least one map. Undated, copyright 1912. Ships from US.

US: Wiley Law Pubns / John Wiley & Sons, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Trial practice library 1989 Textured red boards with gilt titling on front and spine, with a single light bump along upper rear board. The rear pastedown bears a vertical cut which appears intentionally made by the printer. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. No dustjacket. Quarto. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for summary and detailed Tables of Contents. 'Preparation should not have a bad name, but some prosecutors may see it as an admission of weakness--an inability to think quickly on one's feet--or as a sedative to the spontaneity or spark that makes trials exciting. Flashes of brilliance, however, are more likely to be based upon pre-thought and planning than spur-of-the-moment sparks of intellect.... Your goal in preparing your case is to have it in such a posture before trial that nothing… Read More

Paris, France: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1965. Paperback. Good+/None. De Petrarque a Descartes, IX Former owner's name on front end paper. Uncut pages. Small quarto, 6.5 x 9.75 ins. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: Illustrated in stunning B&W pen and ink drawings. Jean-Claude Margolin, Professeur au Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance de Tours. Includes index of names.

Culver City, CA: Dennis B Marquand, 2003. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Red pictorial stapled softcover. Light shelfwear. Interior unmarked. Small quarto. Hard to find and out of print Oriental rugs and textile books: Dyes and Oriental, European, Belouch, Persian, Caucasion, Armenian, Turkish, Tibetan, Indian, North African, Greek, Coptic, Islamic and archaeological rugs and textiles. Dyes and Oriental, European, Belouch, Persian, Caucasion, Armenian, Turkish, Tibetan, Indian, North African, Greek, Coptic, Islamic and archaeological rugs and textiles.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1889. Hardcover. Poor+/None. Light blue cloth boards with black titling and gilt decoration, darkened at edges and spine, with gilt titling worn off of spine, and three red stains on front. Front board and spine covering detached from binding and rear board detached. Dampstaining along 1/8-in. of top edges to pg. 197. Prelim pages chipped at edges. Despite all this, the pages are square and lovely, if a little toned in the margins only. Unmarked and binding is holding, though boards obviously need repair. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 21 chapters of escapades from tramp life in Chicago, hard luck in the Sierras and desert of California, to Mexico, South America, Australia, Japan and China, India, Jerusalem and Egypt. With B&W engraving and this spirited dedication: 'To you, Reader, who enjoy a simple straightforward story, this Book is dedicated. It will teach you nothing. It conceals no new theories. If it can help you to while away pleasantly a few idle hours, or… Read More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Paperback. Good+/None. Tan softcover with yellow-outlined letters for titling on front, lightly edgeworn and rubbed. Text is unmarked. Binding is sound. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'Perhaps the most significant source of renewed interest in historical and comparative s ociology has been the emergence of a body of inquiry which, lacking a better label, has been called the sociology of development. This term refers to interest in the processes that ffect changes within total societies and nations.... Many of T. H. Marshall's writings have been concerned with the emergence of a modern class structure based on the divisions inherent in industrial society in his native Britain.... The key concept in Marshall's thinking on these matters is citizenship.' -from the Introduction. First published in London in 1963 under title: Sociology at the crossroads. Includes index. Sociology

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Light brown cloth boards, octavo. A little rubbing to ends of spine. Binding is square and sound. Interior clean and unmarked. Book plate on ffep. Unpriceclipped dustjacket is chipped and toned on spine. NOT ex-library. Overall, very good clean copy in a slightly worn cover. Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973

Hampshire, Great Britain & Brookfield, VT: Routledge/Variorium, 1997. Hardcover. Good+/None. Variorum collected studies series ; CS488 Light blue cloth boards with gilt titling on front and spine. Binding is tight. Book is slightly bowed--not very noticeable. Owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Interior is unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 'The studies collected in this volume are concerned with the activity and attitudes of the secular aristocracy between the Carolingian era and the late twelfth century. Because the production of the written word during these centuries was largely the responsibility of the clergy, the world of those men and women is today often chiefly viewed through the eys of churchmen.... As a region, Aquitaine used either to be relatively neglected by historians, or dismissed as peripheral: a number of these papers were written specifically to correct what seemed to me to be a lack of balance resulting from such assumptions.... All the papers… Read More

Milan: Editrice Ancora Milano, 1984. Paperback. Good+/None. Cream pictorial softcover, moderately soiled on front and upper page edges, with 5 small dings to cover edges and some rubbing to spine head. Interior clean and unmarked. Half title page bears blindstamp of former owner. Binding sound and tight. 12mo. The evangelizer in San Luca. Carlo Maria Martini, S.J., was an Italian Jesuit and cardinal of the Catholic Church. A towering intellectual figure of the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Martini was the liberal contender for the Papacy in the 2005 conclave, but the conservative Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI. Martini died in 2012. Includes 3-pg. index. Roman Catholic Church; Pope Benedict XVI

Milan: Editrice Ancora Milano, 1983. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Cream pictorial softcover, with some light soiling on front and upper page edges. Interior clean and unmarked. Half title page bears blindstamp of former owner. Binding sound and tight. 12mo. People who walk: end condition and stages of a missionary church. Carlo Maria Martini, S.J., was an Italian Jesuit and cardinal of the Catholic Church. A towering intellectual figure of the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Martini was the liberal contender for the Papacy in the 2005 conclave, but the conservative Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI. Martini died in 2012. Includes 3-pg. index. Carlo Maria Martini Foundation; Archdiocese of Milan; Pope Benedict XVI