Search Results: Titles starting with R from McBlain Books

New York: Twin Editions, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine. 81p. text plus 38 plates (some color), Hardcover in brown leather. 32cm. Backstrip rubbed at top. Brief gift inscription on title-page. Slipcase present but missing a large piece and having some other wear. No Jacket. Copy No. 32 of an edition limited to 200 copies.

New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. ill, xx, 273p. dj. 23cm.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1934. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. index, viii, 253p. Cloth. dj. 23cm.

Philadelphia: University Museum, 1962. Paperback. Very Good. frontis (map), viii, 83p. plus 9 plates. Original stapled blue cover. 28cm. "Rejected Tozzer Library" stamp on first blank. INSCRIBED by "Daris (also on the first blank). Museum Monographs. New Britain Studies.

Morristown, Tennessee: Morristown College, 1949. Good. photos, 6p. 43 x 31 cm. Folded. Small snag in center of first leaf and other modest soiling and wear. An uncommon student newspaper. Morristown College, a small HBCU founded in 1881 by the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, saw its enrollment peak at 435 students in the 1940s. The college closed in 1994.

[Washington?]: Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. photos, viii, 90p. Hardcover. 26 cm. No jacket.

[Washington?]: Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. a few black and white photos & illustrations, v, 137p. Hardcover. 26 cm. Modest cover soiling. Contents sound and clean. No jacket.

London: Dean & Son, 1897. Hardcover. Good. frontis, illustrations, map, 306p. plus (14)p. publisher's advertisements. Red cloth. 19cm. Sound but moderately soiled and worn copy of this inexpensively-produced book.

Chicago: Charles Leib, 1860. Very Good. Four-page newspaper. A couple of small holes, various brown spots and other bits of minor wear A campaign newspaper for Abraham Lincoln in the Presidential Campaign of 1860. We note a half-column story on the front page of this issue that accuses Senator Douglas of being a Roman Catholic -- a charge based partly on the fact that Mrs. Douglas was a Catholic as were their children -- probably an effective charge in largely Protestant mid-19th century America. Our brief research suggests that Douglas was not a Catholic (or a formal member of any other organized religious group). The purpose of another half-column story on the front page was to make it clear that Lincoln had publicly condemned the actions of John Brown and did not object to Brown's execution. Charles Leib, the editor, was a political operative with a murky background who had previously edited a Democratic campaign newspaper on behalf of the Buchanan campaign in 1856. Leib served briefly as an… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. index, viii, 177p. dj. 21cm.

New York: D. Appleton, 1922. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. index, xxx, 771p. Hardcover. 21 cm. Short tear at head of backstrip. Former owner's name on endpaper. No Jacket.

New York: Henry Holt, 1909. Hardcover. Good. folding map, index, xi, 441p. 22cm. Ex lib. (Discard stamp on bookplate of the Seligman Library of Economics at Columbia University). Spine slightly sloped. Minor fraying at head of backstrip. Corner bumped. No Jacket. INSCRIBED by McPherson to Edwin R. A. Seligman (one of the promoters of the progressive income tax).

Paris: Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, 1952. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. index, 445p. Wrapper (with dj). 24cm. Jacket has some chipping and wear along edges and folds. OEEC Technical Mission No. 14.

New York: Key Publiching Company, 1914. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. index, xv, 523, ix, 447p. 21cm. Name on endpaper. Pencil underlinings in one chapter. No Jacket. Caxton Railroad Series, III and IV.

Philadelphia, 1919. Paperback. Good. viii, 252p. Gray wrapper. 25cm. Cover has a few chips. Front cover partially detached at ends. Backstrip shipped and partially reglued. Contents slightly age-toned but otherwise sound. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. LXXXVI, No. 175 (November, 1919). This railroad issue was edited by T. W. Van Metre.

Stanford: Stanford University, 1940. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. index, ix, 145p. Original cloth. 20 cm. Minor rubbing. No jacket.

Washington: GPO, 1939. Paperback. Very Good. vii, 131p. Wrapper. 24cm. Moderately browned throughout. Published by the Bureau of Statistics at the Interstate Commerce Commission.

New York, 1920. Paperback. Good. iv, 268p. Wrapper. 23cm. Cover browned and rather brittle. A few corners creased. Age-toned. Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York, Volume VIII, Number 4 (January, 1920).

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1927. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. index, x, 473p. Dark green cloth. 21cm. Stamped at bottom of front free endpaper: "Please return this book to the library of Simmons-Boardman Publishing Co." No Jacket.

New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1919. 2nd printing. 6 folding plates, index, xix, 360p. Cloth. 19cm. Some rubbing. No Jacket.