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Chicago: A. Warner & Co.. Very Good. 1889. Print. 1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of Jenry I. Gourley extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. Henry Irvin Gourley was born in Juniata County, Pennsylvania in 1838 to a peasant family. In 1876 he was elected to the City Council. Mayor Gourley took office in 1890 and his reputation for hard and honest work served him well in city hall. His term was noted for the trust it engendered in Pittsburgh residents. After he left office he served as city controller before his death in 1899. .

New Haven: Yale University Press. Near Fine. 1997. Original Pictorial Wrappers. x, (2), 392 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. Extensively illustrated A description and interpretation of the great Villa built by Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli, as it existed in Roman times, together with a description of how the Villa has influenced artists and architects in history, from the Renaissance through to the present day."This lavishly illustrated book ... is the most ample and informed work on the villa, its figurative decoration and sculpture collection, and the first study of its reception over the past 500 years. ... An essential source of information on one of the glories of Western architecture." [Ackerman, TLS] .

Washington: Mage Publishers. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. On ffep - "Given to K.R. by / Nadim Reforger (sp?) / 23 May 1988" ; some finger prints and offsetting to gilt endpapers, otherwise clean and secure in original cloth binding in very nice dustjacket. Text in English and Persian (Arabic script and roman transliteration); 107 pages, frontispiece, illustrated (color). Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel… Read More

Troy, NY: Prescott & Wilson. Very Good-. 1847. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 163 pages; Lacks ffep, "S. 2" written on first blank, otherwise unmarked and complete in original brown cloth binding with decorative blindstamping to both boards. Cloth chipped along spine, corners rubbed through. Pages toned, some light scattered foxing. OCLC 1255871190 Anthony Hamilton was a sergeant in the 43rd Light Infantry, part of the famous British Light Division. During his time with the regiment, he participated in most of the major battles and sieges of the Peninsular War. He was there at Vimiero, Corunna, and Oporto; he was wounded at Talavera and the siege of Badajoz and eventually was captured by the French at San Sebastian during the battles of the Pyrenees in 1813. He was there at Fuentes d'Orno, when the Light Division made its famous retreat across the plains, surrounded by hordes of French cavalry. Sergeant Hamilton was also part of the "forlorn hope" at the… Read More

St. Paul: West Publishing Co.. Very Good. 1970. Second Edition. Hardcover. Some light scattered foxing, otherwise clean and tight in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering and the ownership name of "Potter Stewart" embossed in gilt on front cover. From the collection of Justice Potter Stewart who served as a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court for nearly 24 years. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Potter Stewart to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Harold Hitz Burton, who was retiring. Stewart served on the Supreme Court until he announced his retirement from the Court on June 18, 1981 at the age of 66. During his tenure (1958-1981) as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Potter Stewart made major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Stewart leaned toward moderate, pragmatic positions, but was often in the position of dissenting during his time on the… Read More

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. Near Fine. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Manual No. 4 for U.S. Signal Corps; 106 pages; Clean and secure in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front cover. Includes a folding plate and numerous additional illustrations. Insert bound in of four page 1906 essay On Efficient Morse Working on short Submarine Cables plus folding plate. OCLC 458824303 Prior to 1898 the duties of installing and operating submarine cables devolved but rarely on the Signal Corps of the Army, and in such cases only along the coasts of the United States where technical labor and special material were readily available. The war of 1898 necessitated on the part of the Signal Corps extensive cable operations in the Carribean Sea and in the Philippine Archipelago, while later they have been extended to Alaskan waters. Under such conditions it was impracticable to either lay such cables by contract or to operate them by civilian force. In… Read More

New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery. Fine. 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Clean and tight in original red wrappers with white lettering. Black & white frontispiece photograph of the artist in studio and eight (8) brilliant colour full page plates printed on high quality glossy photographic stock. Hans Hofmann (1880 – 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and colour relationships. Many notable abstract expressionists studied with Hofmann in New York and Provincetown. .

Munchen: Galerie Van De loo. Very Good. 1957. First Edition. Paperback. 8 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers, one page laid-in with an illustration by Platschek, Limes Verlag Wiesbaden. Three b&w reproductions of Platchek's works, one photographic portrait of the artist. OCLC 886394533 Galerie Van de Loo Projekte is a 64 year old Private Gallery showing mostly Painting with a focus on Gruppe SPUR. Since they were established in 1957 they have had at least 103 exhibitions (69 solo shows and 33 group shows) with 83 artists. .

New York: Dutton. Very Good. 1920. Hardcover. x, (2), 159, (1) pages; Clean and secure in original quarto red cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration at front board and spine; lower corners slightly rounded, spine cloth faded worn at spine ends; cloth unevenly toned on boards . Text block and all twenty colour plates present and in very nice condition. All black and white illustrations present and sharp. No markings, no tears; a decent example of this fabulous Rackham work. The Story of Hansel and Grethel & Other Tales By The Brothers Grimm is a fantastic collection of stories, decorated with Arthur Rackham’s splendid illustrations. Included, are such well-known and loved stories as ‘The Frog Prince’, ‘Hansel and Gretel’, ‘The Valiant Little Tailor’, ‘Cinderella’, ‘Snow White’, and ‘Rumpelstiltskin’. The Brothers Grimm (or Die Brüder Grimm), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859),… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+. 1891. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large quarto volume; clean and tight in original green cloth binding with decorative stamping in gilt, black and red. Twelve months of weekly issues (November 4, 1890 through October 27, 1891) of this important 19th century periodical aimed at America's young people. Full page frontispiece titled "Christmas Morning in Paris" by Alice Barber. Harper's Young People began publication in 1879 and later became known as the Harper's Round Table. After 1893 it became a monthly publication until its termination in 1899. This was a well produced and fairly costly publication. As with its counterpart for adult readers (Harper's Weekly), Young People included a variety of well written stories, poetry, serials, descriptions of games and athletic exercises and a good sampling of wonderful illustrations by noted authors and artists of the day. This volume includes contributions by Kirk Munroe,… Read More

Charlottesville: Unniversity of Virginia. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Autograph; xvi, 403 pages; Clean and secure in original grey cloth binding in dustjacket with damage to rear panel (now in mylar cover). Inscribed and Signed on ffep "To Rowland Evans, / With best personal wishes / and great admiration for your / contributions to the art of / journalism. / Jay Wilkinson" Currently, as Virginia is preparing a decisive turn away from many policies of the Byrd years, the University Press of Virginia is happy to present a study of the Virginia political system of the past two decades and of the founder and "boss" of that system, Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. The organization of Virginia politics around the county courthouse cliques; the conservative, even niggardly, attitude toward expenditures by the state for high- ways and schools; "golden silence"; and other Virginia political phenomena are closely… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard School of Law. Very Good. 1931. 1 pages; Photograph of the faculty of Harvard Law School from 1931, probably taken in March. Dean Roscoe Pound is seated center of front row. Very Good condition in brown envelope with name and address of original owners on one side and a pencilled draft of a poem on the other. Original owners - Francis X. Dwyer and his brother Walter Dwyer and Madeline Rose Dwyer all of 162 Lakeview Ave.; Cambridge, Mass. Francis Xavier Dwyer (1902 - 1987) received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1923 and an M.A. the following year. After obtaining a law degree from Northweastern University, Dwyer returned to Harvard where he was a librarian at the Law Library from 1931 until 1941. Subsequently, he spent decades as a librarian at the Law Library of Library of Congress. Roscoe Pound was Dwyer's mentor and colleague for many years both at Harvard Law Library and the Library of Congress Law Library. Dwyer was co-author of a widely used… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Library. Very Good. 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Clean and tight in original printed wrappers with minor toning at spine. Number 28, Mau 1938. Contents include: William Dean Howells Collection; Friends of the Library 1925-1937; Who Reads Treasure Room Books? .

Cambridge: Harvard University Library. Very Good. 1940. First Edition. Paperback. Clean and tight in original printed wrappers with minor toning at spine, former owner's name neatly at top of front wrapper. Number 30, March 1940 - The First Bulgarian Book & Thomas W. Lamont Collection on the Spanish Armada, Kress Library of Business and Economics; Law School Library at Langdell Hall .

Boston: F. Gleason. Very Good+. 1854. First Edition. Print. Gleason's Pictorial ; 1 pages; A beautiful vintage print, hand-colored. This first page of the October 21, 1854 issue of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Image measures 10 X 14 inches; matted print measures 22 X 14 inches. Beautiful coloring. The top image is the bannerhead of the publication which depicts Boston (City on the Hill) and Boston Harbor with two steam paddleboats and several sailing boats and ships. The central text serves as explication of the lower image which depicts OCTOBER - two gentlemen talking business as several young men operate a cider press and two other men unload bushels of apples from an ox-drawn wagon. A large barn is in the background . Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1851– 1859. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. The publication name was changed to… Read More

Boston: F. Gleason. Very Good+. 1854. First Edition. Print. Gleason's Pictorial ; 1 pages; A beautiful vintage print, hand-colored. This first page of the November 4, 1854 issue of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Image measures 10 X 14 inches; matted print measures 22 X 14 inches. Beautiful coloring. The top image is the bannerhead of the publication which depicts Boston (City on the Hill) and Boston Harbor with two steam paddleboats and several sailing boats and ships. The central text serves as explication of the lower image which depicts NOVEMBER - two farmers and a young boy pulling ears of dried feed corn off the stacks of stalks and load them into an ox-drawn wagon. A large barn and farmhouse are in the background. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1851– 1859. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. The publication name was changed to… Read More

Boston: F. Gleason. Very Good+. 1853. First Edition. Print. Gleason's Pictorial ; 1 pages; A beautiful vintage print, hand-colored. This first page of the July 2, 1853 issue of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Image measures 10 X 14 inches; matted print measures 22 X 14 inches. Beautiful coloring. The top image is the bannerhead of the publication which depicts Boston (City on the Hill) and Boston Harbor with two steam paddleboats and several sailing boats and ships. The central text serves as explication of the lower image which depicts JULY - A woman and young boy gathering greens while several farmworkers scything hay and loading it onto a wagon with a barn and a farmhouse in the distant background. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1851– 1859. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. The publication name was changed to Ballou's Pictorial… Read More

Boston: F. Gleason. Very Good+. 1854. First Edition. Print. Gleason's Pictorial ; 1 pages; A beautiful vintage print, hand-colored. This first page of the September 16, 1854 issue of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Image measures 10 X 14 inches; matted print measures 22 X 14 inches. Beautiful coloring. The top image is the bannerhead of the publication which depicts Boston (City on the Hill) and Boston Harbor with two steam paddleboats and several sailing boats and ships. The central text serves as explication of the lower image which depicts SEPTEMBER - a farmer and a young boy tying together a stack of corn stalks, while another farmer is scything stalks as yet unharvested. A large barn and farmhouse are in the background with a flock of birds flying overhead. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1851– 1859. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851.… Read More

Boston: F. Gleason. Very Good+. 1854. First Edition. Print. Gleason's Pictorial ; 1 pages; A beautiful vintage print, hand-colored. This first page of the June 17, 1854 issue of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Image measures 10 X 14 inches; matted print measures 22 X 14 inches. Beautiful coloring. The top image is the bannerhead of the publication which depicts Boston (City on the Hill) and Boston Harbor with two steam paddleboats and several sailing boats and ships. The central text serves as explication of the lower image which depicts JUNE - several farmworkers scything spring wheat and loading it onto a wagon with a large barn and a farmhouse in the background. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1851– 1859. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. The publication name was changed to Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in 1855, after… Read More

Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz. Very Good. 1858. Hardcover. Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors; 372 pages; Bound in quarter red calf with red cloth covered boards, leather rubbed at extremities, contents clean and tight. Copyright Edition. Todd and Bowden Nos. 451-452b. The Heart of Midlothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels. It was originally published in four volumes on 25 July 1818, under the title of Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, and the author was given as "Jedediah Cleishbotham, Schoolmaster and Parish-clerk of Gandercleugh". The Heart of Midlothian is often regarded as Scott's finest novel. Much of the dialogue is in Lowland Scots. .