Seventh Army German language training program
[Germany]: Seventh Army Educational Branch, 1960. Staple bound booklet, 10.5" x 8"; pp. 28; grammar, idioms, songs, word list, insignia, etc.; pictorial wrappers; light soiling, pen annotations, ownership note of "Brienze, A BTRY 1st TAB 26th ARTY"; very good. Adapted from the 4th Armored Division Language School Student Booklet. US Army War College only in OCLC.
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Ragged homeless dogs
Champaign, Illinois: The Finial Press, 1975. Edition limited to 50 copies on Shinsetsu (this, no. 12); small folio, pp. [20] frenchfold, 6 wood engravings printed directly from the wood on the versos; near fine copy in original decorative orange boards. From the library of Kim Merker. Printed as part of the graphic design program at the University of Illinois,... Read More
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Gradus ad Cantabrigiam; or, a dictionary of terms, academical and colloquial, or cant, which are used at the University of Cambridge..
London: W. J. and J. Richardson, 1803. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [8], 139, [1] errata; 6 folding lithograph plates; original green floral wrappers, paper label on the upper cover; front cover neatly reattached and one plate neatly reinserted, the spine rubbed and worn; all else good or better. Alphabetically arranged throughout. Uncommon. Coleman notes Christopher Stray's Slang in... Read More
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The gazetteer of Sikhim
New Delhi: Manjusri Publishing House, 1972. Reprint edition limited to 1000 copies (this, no. 378), first published in Calcutta in 1894, with an introduction by H. H. Risley; 4to, pp. [6].xiv, [2], xxii, 392, [2]; 21 plates (1 folding); generally a fine copy in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Issued as Series I, Volume 8 in the publisher's Bibliotheca... Read More
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Great sacrifice! 5,000 dollars worth of dry goods!!
New York: J. Rosenbery, 1850. Broadside, folio (481 mm.); a bit soiled, corners a bit creased, else a good copy. Printed advertisement accomplished in manuscript for reduced prices in "dry goods, silks, hosieries, gloves, shawls, embroideries, &c." from New York City. Not found in OCLC.
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Hoch-Deutsches Lutherisches ABC und Namen Büchlein, für Kinder, welche anfangen zu lernen
Germantaun: Gedruckt und zu haben von Michael Billmeyer, 1812. 12mo, pp. [32]; the first and last leaf used as pastedowns; original sheep-backed pictorial boards, showing on the back cover a portrait of Martin Luther with a nine-line biography beneath, and a German alphabet on the front cover within a frame of asterisks, and a four-line sentiment beneath; boards worn,... Read More
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Lays of ancient babyland, to which are added divers small histories not known to the ancients, dedicated, with much respect, but without permission, to the babies of England
London: William Pickering, 1849. First edition, small, slim 8vo, pp. 111; engraved initials and head- and tail-pieces; title page printed in red and black; original red moire cloth (soiled) lettered in gilt on upper cover, unadorned spine, a.e.g., violet glazed endpapers; spine ends chipped, joints starting to crack, extremities rubbed; early gift inscription on front flyleaf (dated Jan. 15,... Read More
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British & European Prints, 18th - 20th Centuries: Catalogue No. 8
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England: Campbell Fine Art, 2000. Softcover. VG. White illus. wraps; Unpaginated, approx. 200 pp.; 346 figures, mostly bw, a few color. Includes works by Anders Zorn, Eugene Boudin, John Constable, JMW Turner, Samuel Palmer, William Giles, Robert Sargent Austin, John Copley, and many more; Each work accompanied by annotations, some quite extensive; Errata sheet laid... Read More
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The M. E. Blatt Co. Guide to Atlantic City. Almanac and Daily Diary 1929
Atlantic City: The M. E. Blatt Co, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 306pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawn vignettes. Quarter cloth and decorated paper with printed paper label. "Diary" written on the spine in light ink, corners rubbed, two facing pages of the diary filled in with ink, very good. Combination Atlantic City guidebook, viewbook, promotional... Read More
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Catalogue Des Travaux De JEAN DUBUFFET / Catalogue of the Works of Jean Dubuffet - Fascicules / Installments I - XXXVIII COMPLETE
pARIS AND gENEVA: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Weber, Les Editions de Minuit, 1964. Paperback. VG or better. A complete set of these 38 volumes, all in slipcases. 3 volumes are very clean exlibrary copies with singlew stamp inside. Various paginations, all are illustrated, with the majority of theillustrations in each fascicule being in bw with a few color plates. An... Read More
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Roosevelt Day Dinner Copley Plaza Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Chapter of Americans for Deocratic Action, 1949. Softcover. Near Fine. Roosevelt Day edition. Stapled wrappers. Toning on the page edges and slight creasing else near fine. Massachusetts Chapter of Americans for Democratic Action Roosevelt Day Dinner January 29, 1949 at the Copley Plaza Hotel Boston, Massachusetts.
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[Pamphlet]: Semana Santa 1961 (Sevilla)
(Sevilla) [Seville, Spain]: (Casa Rubio?), 1961. Unbound. Near Fine. Pamphlet. One octavo sheet folded to make four pages, printed in purple ink. Text in Spanish. Two tiny nicks at the bottom of the fold else fine. Page three prints the "Horarios de cofradias," the cover shows the María Santísima de la Amargura in the Iglesia de San Juan... Read More
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臺北帝國大學第臺回海南島學術調查報告 / ... Dai ikkai Kainantou gakujutsu chousa houkoku [= First Hainan Island science survey report]
Taihoku (Taipei): Taihoku Imperial University, 1942. Large 8vo, pp. [6], 588, [2]; 46 composite plates, plus text illustrations, and a folding chart; text in Japanese; full blue cloth; boards bowed, edges spotted, text clean with an addenda slip pasted on to title page and some plate images censored, possibly due to military sensitivities; very good in a torn but... Read More
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His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama. Los Angeles 1984
[Los Angeles: Thubten Dhargye Ling, 1984. 11 x 8 in., pp. [3], 45; text illustrations; original red paper wrappers; touch of sunning to spine, shallow stain at lower edge, very good. A keepsake produced on occasion of the Dalai Lama's visit, the contents are mostly scripture and rituals in translation.
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De Maisse. A journal of all that was accomplished by Monsieur De Maisse Ambassador in England from King Henri IV to Queen Elizabeth Anno Domini 1597. Translated from the French and edited with an introduction by G. B. Harrison ... and R. A. Jones
Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1931. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xvii, [1], 146; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; near fine.
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Manuel du chrétien, pour le temps des missions et pour le reste de la vie, ou l'on trouve tout ce qui est nécessaire à un chrétien pour s'instruire et se sanctifier. Nouvelle édition corrigée et considérablement augmentée
Castres: F. Gausy. an XII, 1804. 12mo, pp. xxiv, 648; woodcut vignette on title-p.; contemporary full calf, black morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; corners worn, spine rubbed, but the binding is sound; good copy. Devotional exercises, Christian catechism, prayers in Latin, spiritual hymns, etc. This edition not in OCLC, or KVK databases.
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Massachusetts Mercury. No. 31, Vol. XIII
Boston: printed by Young and Minns, Tuesday, April 16, 1799. 20 " x 12½ ", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; removed from binding. An account of a French ship firing at an American ship in the harbor of Curracoa (French forces invaded Curaçao a year later) in which ten men were killed and wounded; a letter defending President... Read More
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Baedeker's conversation dictionary in four languages, English, French, German, Italian
Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1889. Slim 16mo, pp. vi, 230; text in double columns; original orange cloth lettered in gilt, all edges marbled; ex-Hamilton College Library with usual markings and gift bookplate; spine toned, a few ink markings on covers; bfep nearly loose; contemporary owner signature on ffep, textblock very good. Conversion chart and Charles Scribner's Sons ads on pastedowns.... Read More
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BOSTON PRINTS and printmakers 1670-1775. A conference..
Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1973. First edition, 8vo, xxv-[xxvi] & 294pp., 143 illustrations, fine copy in very good jacket. Volume 46 of the Society's publications. Review copy with slip laid in.
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千代田図書館八十年史 / Chiyoda Toshokan hachijuunenshi [= 80 year history of Chiyoda Library]
Tokyo: Chiyoda ku, 1968. 8vo, pp. 3, [3], 3, [1], 337, [1]; 11 photoreproductive plates; text in Japanese; full blue cloth, gilt title on spine; glassine wrapper perished, else fine in original slipcase. Harvard only in US OCLC holdings, with British Library, Diet Library, Waseda and National Library of Australia in addition.
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Green mountain boys gathering materials for Paine's celebrated Green Mountain Balm of Gilead and cedar plaster
Boston: Forbes & Co. Lith, 1868. Large folio broadside (506 mm.); lithographic illustration and decorative borders around text; some soiling and minor foxing along margins, else fine. Advertisement for "the best Plaster ever known. Compounded from the choicest Gum Resins of the Green Mountain State...so combined as to produce a healthy counter-irritant by dissipating soreness and extracting the coagulated... Read More
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History of Imperial Palace China: an album of photos
Hong Kong: Happiness Publishing Company, 1965. Folio, pp. [2], 45, [3]; color and black and white photographs throught, one leaf folding; captions in Chinese and English; tan cloth; boards bowed and toned, owner's stamp on title page.
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The Maid's Head Hotel: Norwich. Its history and associations [cover title]
London and Tunbridge Wells: Lewis Hepworth & Company, 1897. 6½" x 4¾", pp. [44]; full-page text illustrations; ads printed in red and black; green printed paper wrappers; binding string snapped and text essentially loose, owner's note on upper wrapper, text clean bright, good. The Maid's Head Hotel is the oldest hotel in the UK. This promotional booklet covers not... Read More
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Хинди-Русский словарь в двух томах: около 75 000 слов / Hindi-Russkii slovar
Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya, 1972. 8vo, 2 vols., text in two columns; full green cloth printed in black and gilt; spines sunned, corners bumped, good and sound.
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Fifty-five books printed before 1525 representing the works of England's first printers: an exhibition from the collection of Paul Mellon, January 17-March 3, 1968
New York, 1968. Edition limited to 1650 copies printed at the Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine; 8vo, pp. xiii-[xiv], 62; 8 illus. on rectos and versos of 3 plates and bibliography; fine in orig. beige cloth, gilt spine. Over half the catalogue is devoted to works printed by Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde. Grolier 1884-1984, no. 134.
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