Search Results: Authors starting with U from Rulon-Miller Books

Paris: Librairie Jose Corti, 1974. 8vo, pp. 686, [2]; printed paper wrappers; unopened; spine and top edge a little spotted, near fine.

Tokyo: Daigaku Nanko, 1870. Oblong fukurotoji, 5" x 7; 5, 32 leaves; 4 pages with hand-colored flags of 26 nations and states; original blue wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover; very good. Based on The Statesman's Year-Book, and other reference books. Library of Congress and National Diet Library only in OCLC.

Tōkyō: Kangibunka Kenkyukai / Society for Reaearch Concening the Han and Wei Period, 1964. 8vo, pp. [2], ii, 17, [1], 487, 16, ii; 1 plate and a portrait; near fine in original black cloth, gilt-stamped spine, publisher's slipcase. Text in Japanese with summaries in English. Twenty-seven essays in honor of Kumaichiro Uchino (1904-2002) regarding Chinese literature.

New York: Scribner, Armstong Co, 1872. 2 vols., 8vo, xvi, 487; viii & 561pp., extremities rubbed, spines chipped, else good and reasonable sound in orig. maroon cloth; ex-MHS; largely unopened.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942. American edition of the Daijiten, being a facsimile of the thirteenth printing of 1919; thick 8vo, pp. [6], 73, [5], 2596, [2], 80, 10, 110; full limp black cloth; covers creased, shallow dampstain to corner, text otherwise clean and sound good. A facsimile of the Japanese edition, with Japanese - Japanese entries, and no English apart from the introduction, which states that this issue was printed due to the demands and restrictions of the war. The original Daijiten is was the oldest modern Japanese dictionary.

[Tokyo: Midori Shobo Co., Ltd, 2019. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 151, [1]; text in Japanese; illustrated throughout; original pictorial wrappers in pictorial dust jacket; bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on inner cover; fine. OCLC notes the NOAA, Princeton, Smithsonian, and LC copies only.

[Minneapolis], 1967. 4to, pp. [2], 501; printed from typescript; presumably original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover; generally fine. The biography of the writer's mother, a women's suffrage leader and the first President of the League of Women Voters of Minnesota. OCLC locates the MHS and the Mpls. Public Library copies only.

New York: Philosophical Society, 1951. Small 8vo, pp. v, 108, [2]; original cloth in green dust jacket; spine a bit darkened, shallow chips and tears along jacket edges, else a very good copy. 2 pp. of recommended books in rear. Forms part of the Man and Society Series.

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1969. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [3], 91; illustrated throughout with images from Alcott's works; original tan pictorial wrappers printed in brown; the wrappers very lightly soiled and with a couple tiny snags at spine ends, but all else is very good to near fine.

Kyōto: Benridō, 1959. 4to, pp. [4], 23, [1]; text in Japanese; text illustrations, including 4 full-page and in color, 25 plates including three folding and 14 in color; original full red cloth, gilt title on spine; light speckling to upper cover, else fine.

Tokyo: Shinbunsha, 1964. 4to, pp. [4], 21, [1], 114, [2], 16, [4]; text in Japanese with 16-page English summary; 2 frontispieces and 158 plates, 56 text illustrations; original full red cloth, gilt title on spine; text clean and bright, touch of soiling to boards, very good. Yin Hsu was the source of discovery of the Oracle Bone script. This book is an account of the excavation efforts and a description of the discoveries therein.

Kyoto: Senoku Hakkokan, 1971. New and revised edition, large 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. [6], 2, 10, [2], 289, [3], 36, [6]; [2], 17, [3]; 132 illustrations in the first volume including composite plates, and 105 plates in the second volume, including 35 in color; text largely in Japanese, with English preface and list of objects; full blue cloth, gilt title on cover and spine, fine in fine original slipcase. A catalog released on the tenth anniversary of the incorporation of the Sumitomo collection. Catalogs of the collection had previously been published in the early 20th century, and this new edition incorporates the improved understanding of Chinese bronzes developed over the following 50 years. The Sumitomo collection is one of the most important collections of Chinese bronzes outside of China.

Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1977. First edition; 8vo, pp. 278, [2]; original white, orange, and black printed wrappers, minor shelf wear, mostly fine. Facsimile reprints of Ungeheuer's pieces from various journals and congresses, including "Phonetica," the Fifth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, and le 5e Congrès International d'Acoustic. From the series Forschungsberichte des Instituts für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik der Universität Bonn ; Bd. 40 : Reihe 2, Phonetik und Phonologie.

London: printed by Darling & Son, 31, Leadenhall Street, 1840. 16mo, pp. 24; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; else very good. Includes a list of subscribers, and 18 extracts from reports of other Sunday-Schools. Not in OCLC.

Walworth: printed by J. Packer, Albion Place, 1835. 16mo, pp. 22, [2]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; else very good. Includes a list of subscribers and donors. Not in OCLC.

Providentiæ: typis H. H. Brown, 1830. 8vo, pp. 30; original drab wrappers; lightly toned; very good. "Republica Insulæ Rhodensis" appears on cancel slip affixed to title page. Ownership signature at the top of the front wrapper of J. L. Tilllinghast. American Imprints 669; Bartlett, p. 61; not found in Sabin.

[Cambridge]: June, 1861. Wright, J. Edward, class secretary. To Members of the Class of Sixty-one. Cambridge, March 25, 1861. Bifolium, 8vo, pp. [3]; a printed letter to the class regarding their submissions for the class year book ("Pedigree on your father's side, tracing back the origin of your family as far as possible ... Various places of residence before coming to college ... What are your plans in life?"); not found in OCLC. Harvard College. Class Day, June 21, 1861. Bifolium, 8vo, pp. [3]; order of exercises for graduation day, printing on p. 3 an "Ode" by William Franklin Snow in four octets, beginning "Brother Classmates, since first that we met in these halls / Full of pleasure the bright years have flown..." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the class poet, is listed on the program as delivering a "Poem." Brown, AAS and Boston Public in OCLC. Anon. Song for the Class of '61, [Cambridge, 1861]. Broadside, approx. 8" x 5", four octets sung to the tune of the Austrian National Hymn; not found in… Read More

Providence: Jones & Wheeler, printer, 1808. Broadside, approx. 17¼" x 10½", text within a medley of type ornamental border; the lower half rather stained, previous folds with neat, professional repair on verso. Program of day's events with names of participants and titles of orations, poems and disputes: Salutary Addresses in Latin, by Bradford Summer, Oration on the Patronage of American Literature by Jeremiah Mayhew, An Essay on Mathematics, by Abiel Bolles, An Oration on Bigoted Cruelty, the Product of Monkish Ignorance, lots of music, the conferring of degrees, and An Oration on Science, with the Valedictory Addresses, by John B. Wight. Not in American Imprints; AAS and Brown only in OCLC.

Providence: H. H. Brown, printer, Market Square, 1829. 8vo, pp. 15, [1]; original drab wrappers; lightly toned; very good. American Imprints 37968; Bartlett, p. 63.

[Providence, 1876. Heavy folio, with a title leaf, contents leaf, and 97 mounted salt and albumen photographs of administrators, faculty, and the graduating class, all but three with signatures affixed; original heavy brown morocco, gilt-stamped covers with panel enclosing the title, gilt-lettered direct on gilt decorated spine, a.e.g.; some of the salt prints a bit spotted, the covers moderately rubbed, but the binding is sound.