DROPPING NAMES
by Manohar Malgonkar
New Delhi: Roli Books | Lotus Collection, 1996. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. First Edition of Manohar Malgonkar's Dropping Names. From the description on the initial page, "here are some amusing vignettes about eminent personalities from the distinct worlds of the royalty, the army, business, writers and publishers." With no marks of any kind. Softcover. Near... Read More
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[PHILOSOPHY] DEEP EMPIRICISM KANT, WHITEHEAD, AND THE NECESSITY OF PHILOSOPHICAL THEISM
by Derek Malone-France
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Octavo; in pictorial boards; xv, 201 pages including the Index; pencil annotations throughout. ~. Near Fine binding.
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ST. ENOCH STATOIN HOTEL GUIDE TO GLASGOW AND FAVOURITE SCOTCH TOURS, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. A SOUVENIR PRESENTED TO VISITORS
by E. W. Thiem [Manager]
[Edinburgh]: [J. Bartholomew], 1888. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. A rather uncommon 19th century guide to Glasgow and vicinity. 155 pages with illustrations, plates and folded map. This copy has had the rear wrapper reattached with japanese tissue, and a new spine in same. An attractive cover printed in blue, in the "bulletin board" style,... Read More
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EVIDENCE
by Larry Sultan; Mike Mandel
Greenbrae, California: Clarworthy Colorvues, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. A clean copy of the first printing of this important photography "collection of found and recontextualized images taken from public and private American institutions, corporations, and agencies" (http://www.ahornmagazine.com/issue_3). A clean copy with some faint discoloration at the hinges from the binding glue, some faint spots... Read More
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LES COMEDIES DE SHAKESPEARE (7 VOLUMES; COMPLETE SET)
by [William Shakespeare] | Translated by Suzanne Bing & Jacques Copeau; Illustrated by Berthold Mann
Paris: Union Latine D'Editions. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. The complete seven volume set of this attractive production of Shakespeare's Comedies. In the original wrappers, with wood-veneer chemises titled on the spine, and housed in wood-veneer slipcases. Printed in red and black. The pages are unopened and there are no marks of any kind. Near Fine binding.... Read More
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BIBLIOTHECA DOMESTICA BONARUM ARTIUM AC ERUDITIONIS STUDIOSORUM USUI INSTRUCTA ET APERTA. OPUS SECULI NOSTRI STUDIIS AC MORIBUS ACCOMMODATUM. TOMULUS I. DE ARTIBUS ET SCIENTIIS UNIVERSE, AD DE GRAMMATICA SEU LINGUA LATINA. TOMULUS II. DE POESI, AC THETORICA SEU ELOQUENTIA SACRA ET PROFANA. TOMULUS III. DE HISTORIA SACRA ET PROFANA DEQUE RE NUMARIA. TOMULUS IV. DE RE DIPLOMATICA, DEQUE PHILOSOPHIA NATURALI ET MORALI. TOMULUS V. DE MATHESI GENERATIM: SINGILLATIM DE GEOGRAPHIA, ARCHITECTONICACIVILI AC MILITARI, DEQUE ASTRONOMIAE PARTE PRIMA. TOMULUS VII. DE JURISPRUDENTIA CIVILI ET ECCLESIASTICA. TOMULUS VIII. DE THEOLOGIA POSITIVA, POLEMICA, ET MORALI. TOMULUS IX. DE THEOLOGIA SCHOLASTICA, DOGMATICA ET HISTORICA. TOMULUS X. DE ARTE CRITICA ET DE RE ANTIQUARIA HEBRAEORUM. TOMULUS XI. DE RE ANTIQUARIA GRAECORUM, ROMANORUM, ET GERMANORUM. (TEN VOLUMES)
by Franz Xaver Mannhart
Augustae Vindelicorum: Matthaei Rieger, 1762. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. First Edition of Mannhart's Bibliotheca Domestica, with ten of twelve volumes only; lacking Vol. VI and XII. Folding plates of writing samples and a celestial map in Vol. IV. Folding plates of maps, architecture, and illustrations at the rear of Vol. VII. Folding plate at the... Read More
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[DOMESTIC ARTS] [OUTDOORS] A WAY TO GET WEALTH CONTAINING SIX PRINCIPALL VOCATIONS, OR CALLINGS, IN WHICH EVERY GOOD HUSBAND OR HOUSE-WIFE MAY LAWFULLY IMPLOY THEMSELVES
by Gervase Markham
London: Printed by John Streater, for George Sawbridge, 1668. Twelfth Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. The twelfth edition of Gervase Markham’s A VVay to Get Wealth was a popular handbook for gardening, outdoor sports, and agriculture, which Poynter in his bibliography states “must have received a great deal of ill-usage and it is not surprising that so... Read More
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![[BOOKS ON BOOKS] WILLIAM BULMER. THOMAS BENSLEY. A STUDY IN TRANSITION](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/562/236/1693236562.0.m.jpg)
[BOOKS ON BOOKS] WILLIAM BULMER. THOMAS BENSLEY. A STUDY IN TRANSITION
by H. V. Marrot
London: The Fleuron Limited, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Small quarto; in the publisher’s green cloth binding, with dustjacket; 80 pages ,with facsimiles and portraits; the binding has minor damping to the edges, especially the bottom edge; there are no marks or dampstaining in the book; the cream colored dustjacket is soiled.~~This is... Read More
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JAPHET, IN SEARCH OF A FATHER
by [Frederick Marryat]
Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1835. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The American Edition of the Marryat's novel, in which a foundling searches for his father. Complete, with two volumes bound as one; separate title leaves. In the publisher's worn drab boards backed in darkened pink cloth with a paper label. (Rinderknecht 32826). Very... Read More
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DEATH IN ECSTASY
by Ngaio Marsh
New York: Sheridan House, 1941. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Poor dust jacket. Previously owned by Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy, the American author best known for her first novel, The Quick and the Dead, with her signature on the front endpaper, dated January 1941. An unfortunate '1936' penned at the bottom of the title page. Binding somewhat... Read More
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THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN
by Richard Marsh
New York; London: New Amsterdam Book Co.; Methuen & Co, 1900. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. A collection of supernatural tales by Richard Marsh, who is described by Bleiler as a "British author of popular fiction, frequent contributor to variety periodicals around the turn of the century. Work in general is sometimes ingenious in idea but... Read More
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![[DIARY] [AMERICANA] SCRAPBOOK OF PEPPERELL GRADUATING CLASS OF 1895](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/047/028/1715028047.0.m.jpg)
[DIARY] [AMERICANA] SCRAPBOOK OF PEPPERELL GRADUATING CLASS OF 1895
by Frank Tyler Marston
Pepperell, Massachusetts, 1945. Frank Tyler Marston (1877-1952) was the President, Salutatorian, and Class Poet of the 1895 coed graduating class of Pepperell High School in Massachusetts, on the border with New Hampshire. He created the scrapbook and included photographs of the school and Prescott Hall, where the graduations took place, a program, a clipping, his invitation, and several carte-de-visite... Read More
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THE THEORY OF FIELD-FORTIFICATION
by C. Malorti de Martemont
London: T. Egerton, 1810. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo.; full speckled calf neatly rebacked in new calf with morocco label; with new endpapers; complete with 31 folding plates at the rear of the book. Armorial bookplate of Arthur Webber on the pastedown. Wear to the edges of the boards, especially at the corners.~~The... Read More
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[SIGNED] KING OF KINGS
by Malachi Martin
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s beige paper-covered boards, backed in ochre cloth; 480 pages; the dustjacket has a bit of sunning but is quite legible; it is not price-clipped.~~This copy is personally inscripted by Fr. Malachi Martin:”To Becky | Esteem &... Read More
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[AUDIO] [SLIPCASE] ABBEY ROAD
by John Lennon; Paul McCartney; George Harrison; Ringo Starr | George Martin; Giles Martin
[London]: Apple, 1969. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Quarto; in glossy pictorial boards housed in pictorial slipcase; this edition of Abbey Road features a new 2019 mix of the original masters, with CDs and Blueray all housed in a profusely illustrated book; 93 pages, [94-97] pages;~~From the library of Civil War historian Gary Gallagher with a a card attesting... Read More
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[ART] [CARIBBEAN] ART AND EMANCIPATION IN JAMAICA
by Tim Barringer; Gillian Forrester; Barbara Martino-Ruiz
New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2007. First Edition. Fine binding. Quarto; in turquoise cloth binding, with dustjacket; xix, 592 pages, including the Index; with a number of pencilled annotations.~~A massive work on the art. music, reliigion and preformance in Jamaican culture, covering from the beginning of British rule in 1655 to the period of emancipation in... Read More
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THE BEGINNING OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT LEXINGTON, ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
by Martin P. Burks; E. Pendleton Tompkins; John D. Letcher; et al.
1930. First Edition. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. A Short History of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Lexington, Virginia. Referring to the Robert E. Lee Memorial Church, originally the Grace Church, and now named the Grace Episcopal Church, in Lexington, Virginia; its foundation, early members, and the events and aftermath of Lee's involvement with the church. With everyday... Read More
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[COOKERY] [HANDBILL] A HANDBILL WITH MASALA RECIPE. DELHI
by Bawa Masala Company
Delhi, n.d.. Handbill, 7" x 5", printed in Farsi and in English, distributed by the Delhi Masala wholesaler Bawa Masal Company located at Tilak Bazaar; undated. With a recipe for "Special Meat Masala": "All the preparations, Roasted Mutton, Mutton, Curry, Chicken Roast & Curry and Mutton Pulao, made of our Masala, are delicious, rich in flavour and energetic". We... Read More
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![[PHILOSOPHY] DE JURE NATURAE ET GENTIUM, LIBRI OCTO. CUM INTEGRIS COMMENTARIIS VIRORUM CLARISSIMORUM JO. NICOLAI HERTII, ATQUE JOANNIS BERBEYRACI, ACCEDIT ERIS SCANDICA. [3 VOLUMES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/936/065/1640065936.0.m.jpg)
[PHILOSOPHY] DE JURE NATURAE ET GENTIUM, LIBRI OCTO. CUM INTEGRIS COMMENTARIIS VIRORUM CLARISSIMORUM JO. NICOLAI HERTII, ATQUE JOANNIS BERBEYRACI, ACCEDIT ERIS SCANDICA. [3 VOLUMES]
by Samuel [Sam. L. B. A] Pufendorf; Johann Nikolaus Hertius; Jean Barbeyrac; Gottfried Mascov
Francofurti & Libsiae: Ex Officina Knochiana, 1759. Reprint. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Three quarto volumes; in parchment bindings, with decorations and morocco title labels to the spines; boards are a bit bowed; corners are bumped; edges are speckled;in red; it should be noted that “Eris Scandica” has a separate title page and pagination; Volume I with the... Read More
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SECRET MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF PETERSBURG, PARTICULARLY TOWARDS THE END OF THE REIGN OF CATHERINE II AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF THAT OF PAUL I, FORMING A DESCRIPTION OF THE MANNERS OF PETERSBURG AT THE CLOSE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ..
by [Charles Francois Philibert Masson]
Dublin: P. Wogan, 1801. Hard Cover. Good binding. Issued the same year at the London edition. In the publisher's boards, with an amateur early reback with a piece of leather -- with it's own vernacular charm. The first few leaves, including the title, separating at the top of the text block, but holding well. With... Read More
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AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL THE LAND: EMANCIPATION AND THE STRUGGLE OVER EQUALITY IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
by Kate Masur
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. Large 8vo; in publisher's blue cloth boards, with dustjacket; [xii]. [1], 2-364 pages, including Index.~~From the flap: "Masur reveals Washington as a laboratory for social policy at a pivotal moment in American history."~~Review copy with material from The University of North... Read More
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FOUNDATION OF JAPANESE BUDDHISM. VOLUMES I & II (2 Volumes)
by Daigan Matsunaga; Alicia Matsunago
Los Angeles: Buddhist Books International, 1976. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. A clean First Edition set in two volumes; we find no marks of any kind in either book. The dustjackets have some rubbing and are now protected with new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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[AMERICANA] MEN’S LIVES: THE SURFMEN AND BAYMEN OF THE SOUTH FORK
by Peter Matthiessen
New York: Random House, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Signed. Small quarto; in publisher’s navy blue binding, with dustjacket; [xii], [1], 2-339, including the Index; this copy is signed by Mr. Matthiessen with a personal inscription wishing John Culken a Happy Birthday in June of the year of publication. Near Fine binding... Read More
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The Burma Road to Poverty
by Maung, Mya
New York: Praeger, 1991. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Maroon Cloth. Very Good binding.
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TRILBY
by George du Maurier
Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1895. Limited Edition. Very Good binding. The signed, limited edition du Maurier's enormously popular late 19th century novel, which introduced to the world the character of the musician and magician Svengali. This large-paper edition limited to 250 copies, of which this is #48, signed by George du Maurier. Quarter vellum... Read More
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