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140 pages with diagrams, tables, illustrations and pictures of this era. Octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") Separate issues bound in blue cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Volume 35. (Betts: 7-50) First edition.Published monthly (November-April); bi-monthly (May-October). Official publications of the United States Chess Federation. Absorbed the North American Chess Reporter after 1933. Volume 1, 1904, thru volume 60, 1963 issued. No more published after February 1963. Condition: Stained, small worm hold through pages else about very good.

209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.

xi+301 pages with maps , plates, figures, charts, tables, bibliography, appendixes, index and data disk at back. Quarto (11 1/2" x 8 3/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition.Contents: Dan M Healan, Tula, Tollan and the Toltecs in Mesoamerican Prehistory; Richard A Diehl, The Physical Setting with Previous Investigations at tula and Overview of the University of Missouri Tula Archaeological Project; Robert H Cobean and Alba Guadalupe Mastache, The Late Clasic and Early Postclassic Chronology of the Tula Region; dan M Healan and Robert A Benfer, Field Methods; Dan M Healan, Synopsis of Structural Remains in the Canal Locality with Stratigraphy of the Canal Locality and The Central Group and West Group; Terry Stocker and Dan M Healan, the East Group and Nearby Remains; Dan M Healan, Synthesis of Prehispanic Occupation of the Canal Locality ; Margaret D Mandeville and Dan M Healan, Architectural Remains in the El Coral Locality; Dan M Healan and James W… Read More

20 volumes. Volume 1: xxiv+492 pages with plates, tables and two foldout facsimiles of Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence. Volume 2: xlxii+450 with plates and tables. Volume 3: xx+494 pages with plates, tables and three foldout facsimiles of Jefferson's inaugural address. Volume 4: xxvi+458 pages with plates and foldout facsimiles signatures of the signers of Declaration of Independence. Volume 5: xxviiii+472 with plates. Volume 6: xxxiii+460 pages with plates. Volume 7: xxiv+486 pages with photoengraving foldout of Richard Henry Lee's Resolution of June 7th, 1776 and plates. Volume 8: xxviii+446 pages with plates. Volume 9: xxv+446 pages with plates. Volume 10: xxvi+448 pages with plates. Volume 11: xxv+448 with plates and two foldout facsimiles of Jefferson's letter to Harry Innes, January 23, 1800. Volume 12: lvi+441 pages with plates (one folding). Volume 13: lxviii+441 pages with plates. Volume 14: xxiv493 pages with plates. Volume 15: xxi+494 pages with plates and 3-page… Read More

221 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2" bound in original publisher's black with red label decorative scroll to spine and front cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition.Adventure, Love and Terror in this Collection of five great Crime stories: Spanish Blood, The King in Yellow, Pearls are a Nuisance, Nevada Gas, and Trouble is My Business. While these stories were previously published in paperback form, this is their first publication in a hardcover format.Condition:Corners bumped, pages age toned as usual. Jacket chipped at spine ends and corners, some light edge wear else a very good copy in like jacket.

200 pages with diagrams, tables illustrations and pictures of this era. Octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") Separate issues bound in blue cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Volume 29. (Betts: 7-50) First edition. Published monthly (November-April); bi-monthly (May-October). Official publications of the United States Chess Federation. Absorbed the North American Chess Reporter after 1933. Volume 1, 1904, thru volume 60, 1963 issued. No more published after February 1963. Condition:Some light damp stains at head edge. Else a very good copy.

228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.

v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.

xix+351 pages with diagrams and table. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/4") bound in brown cloth with brown lettering to spine and original wrapper cover tipped to front cover. Laid in postcard with "Kaiser Anniversary Chess Tournament in Vienna 1898". Card 3 3/4" x 5 1/2") with the participants of the tournament. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5250) First edition.
Postcard. Vienna 1898 is mounted to sturdy card 5 3/4' x 5 1/2" . * The front shows a group photo of the participants in the tournament in Vienna, lined up in two rows in a semicircle with two chess tables at the end: Seated: Tarrasch, Blackburne, Pillsbury, Steinitz, Tschigorin, Janowski, Schiffers, Lipke. Standing: Black, Bad, Fähndrich, Caro, Maróczy, Showalter, G. Marco, Alapin, Halprin, Baird, Burn. Postcard from the Vienna Chess Club publishing house.1898 was highlighted by the great Imperial Jubilee Tournament, organized to commemorate the 50 year reign of Emperor Franz Josef I and to mark the 25th anniversary of the first… Read More

xii+288 pages with diagrams, illustrations, plates, tables and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's reddish brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Volume LXII (62). (Betts: 7-27) First edition.Published monthly from January 1881, Huddersfield, Leeds, London, Trench, Trubner, (1881-1919); London, Walbrook & Co (1920); Leeds, Whitehead & Miller, (1921-1937); London, Pitman (1938-April 1949); London, St Leonards-on-the-Sea (1949- ) Editors John Watkinson (1881-1987); Robert Frederick Green (1888-1893); Isaac MacIntyre Brown (1894-1919); R C Griffith (1920-1937); acting, September 1940-November 1940; Harry Golombek (1938-August 1940); Julius du Mont (December 1940-April 1949); B Reilly (May 1949- ). Continued the chess section of The Huddersfield College Magazine.Condition:Spine bumped, points rubbed, corners gently bumped, some age darkening. A very good copy issued without jacket.

157 pages with diagrams, maps and bibliography. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") issued in wrappers. With a four page stapled Claves de los Mapas Distritales laid in. Limited to 1000 copies. First edition.This is a study of the origin of the names of the Mixtec people in relation to the etymology of each name of the place and Mexican Mixtec language (Nahuatl). Condition:A near fine copy with light edge wear

286+iv pages with five facsimile indigenous maps. Size Royal Octavo (9 1/2" x 7"). Issued in original wrappers. Volume five, Relaciones Geograficas de la Diocesis de Tlaxcala. Manuscripts of the Real Academia de la Historia de Mardrid y del Archivo de Indias en Sevilla. Year 1580-1582. First Edition.Modern scholarship continues to be deeply indebted to the labors of Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, less for any extended completed studies or synthesis than for a lifetime of collecting historical materials of the greatest importance to continuing investigation. His activities in Europe during the 23 years he spent searching out, copying and preparing for publication a vast store of prime documentary materials for the pre-Conquest and colonial history of Mexico have been abundantly documented. Paso y Troncoso saw his prime mission as twofold. First, he proposed to gather and publish as complete a corpus of Sahagun documents as possible. His interest in the great Franciscan had stemmed from the days when… Read More

44 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") issued in wrappers. From the library of Professor George M Foster.Biblioteca Aportacion Historica. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 55.Gerónimo de Aguilar, O.F.M. (1489-1531) was a Franciscan friar born in Écija, Spain. In 1511 Aguilar left Panama on a caravel sailing to Santo Domingo, accompanying the procurator Juan de Valdivia. They were shipwrecked near the Yucatán Peninsula due to bad weather, but Aguilar, along with a sailor from Palos, in Spain, Gonzalo Guerrero, were two of fifteen survivors. Strong currents brought them in their ship's boat to the coast of the modern-day Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Aguilar and the others were captured by the local Maya and scheduled to be sacrificed to Maya gods. He and Gonzalo Guerrero eventually managed to escape later to be taken as a slave by another Mayan chief named Xamanzana.[1] Here he and Guerrero were able to learn the language of their captors. Aguilar lived as a slave during his eight years with… Read More

422+[viii] pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in period cloth with blind stamped covers with gilt insignia, and gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Title in red and green. Volume VIII. (Betts: 7-1) First edition.The Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant from 1841–56 and 1859–62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess. Various unrelated but identically or similarly named publications were published until 1902. The earliest chess magazine in any language was the French Le Palamède, published in 1836-39 and 1842-47. In 1837 George Walker introduced an English-language magazine, the Philidoria, that was devoted to "chess and other scientific games". Only six issues of it were published, and it "expired in May, 1838". In 1840 or 1841 Staunton bought the fortnightly magazine The British Miscellany and Chess Player's Chronicle. In 1841 it became The Chess Player's Chronicle. In 1843, the Chess… Read More

314 pages with color lithographic frontispiece and 4 black and white illustrations by Will Grefé. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial black cloth stamped in grey and yellow, lettered in gilt, with applied chromolithographic illustration housed in custom cloth clamshell box. Inscribed in bold hand by author. (McIlvaine A13a) First edition.A Gentleman of Leisure is a novel by P G Wodehouse. The basic plot first appeared in a novella, The Gem Collector, in the December 1909 issue of Ainslee's Magazine. It was substantially revised and expanded for publication as a book under the title The Intrusion of Jimmy by Tit-Bits between 11 June and 10 September before being published as A Gentleman of Leisure by Alston Rivers Ltd, London, on 15 November 1910. There are minor textual differences between the American and British editions of the book. A Gentleman of Leisure was adapted for the stage in 1911 and has twice been filmed, in 1915 and 1923.Condition: Inscribed in bold… Read More