A History of Spain.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 478pp. 8 maps. Very good/very good. Lightly pencilled underlining and margin notes throughout. First U.S. edition. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 478pp. 8 maps. Very good/very good. Lightly pencilled underlining and margin notes throughout. First U.S. edition. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. 238pp. Fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear; nonauthorial 1968 gift inscription on half-title page. Tight and attractive early (not first) printing of (as jacket front panel cites) "The Autobiography of a Clairvoyant, with..... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 256pp. Fine/fine. First edition. Entertaining volume of true imperfections of the rich and famous including Abraham Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Rudolf Valentino, James Madison, Casanova, etc. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 238pp.Numerous color illustrations. Near fine/fine. First edition, with a bookplate bearing a facsimile printed Lunden signature and inscription. More
London: The Folio Society, 1985-86. Hardcover. Introduction by Peter Rowlandson. Complete 5-volume set. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and elaborate gilt rules, two slipcases (first housing Volumes I-II, second housing Volumes III-V). xxiv, 526; xvii, 542pp; xxiv, 582pp; xxxiv, 661pp; xxiii, 243pp. Frontispieces, illustrations. Fine/very good. All..... More
Edinburgh: William Aitken, Printer, 1830. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full calf, heavily blind-embossed and with gilt borders. xiii, 64pp. Frontispiece, full-page engraving, marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Expertly rebacked in calf with crimson leather label titled in gilt; mildly edgeworn; heavy foxing and bit of discoloration, mainly to preliminary..... More
Richmond: Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, [1960]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff grey wrappers. 20pp. Very good. Faint age toning to outer wrappers (only), with single spot at lower left or rear wrapper; else internally tight and bright. Attractive first edition of this provocative speech by the Lebanese diplomat (1906-87). More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1933. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth. viii, 391pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Ownership signature on front flyleaf; tiny chips at head of spine. Second printing, tight and decent. More
New York: Books, Inc. and Pocket Books, n.y. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. Black paper over boards with silver lettering and borders, matching U-shaped desktop mini-shelf. xxviii, 484pp; ix, 235pp, (11pp); xxxix, 332pp. Very good. Faintest of edgewear. Fun, goofy triple-decker of these three standard desk references, undated but ca. 1963-67..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1907. Hardcover. 12mo. Full calf with raised bands and ornate spine gilt decorations and lettering and large front board rules and gilt emblem. xii, 574pp. Marbled endpapers and edges. Very good. Slight edgewear. Tight, handsome "New Edition Revised and Enlarged" -- condensed, in other words --..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, dust jacket. xi, 343pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/good. Abrasion from ownership signature removal on half-title page; some chips and closed tears on jacket. First U.S. edition, a tight and clean copy. More
New York: Ivison & Phinney, 1856. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Original brown blind-embossed cloth. viii, 323pp. Frontispiece. Good plus. Binding edgeworn, with rear outer hinged cracked but still strong; lacks rear buff-colored flyleaf. Tight, decent third edition of this primer on debating. The same O.A. Boyd who pencils his ownership signature..... More
Garden City: Natural History Press, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 91pp. Near fine/near fine. Early (not first) printing, an "American Museum of Natural History Special Members' Edition." More
Chicago: University of Knowledge, [1940]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 383pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight, attractive first edition of this gathering of biographical sketches of 79 "Men and Women Who Influenced Their Times"..... More
New York: Harper & Row, [1970]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering and decoration, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 304pp. Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations (some color). Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Handsome, super tight later printing of this exhaustively-detailed and highly-regarded biography of the Prussian monarch..... More
Dorset: Blandford Press, [1978]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 159pp. Frontispiece, 31 full-page color plates, line drawings. Fine/near fine. Superb, tight, bright reprint edition of this handy survey first published in 1966. More
London: Falcon Educational Books, [1950]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, decorative dust jacket. 189pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight and attractive first edition of this volume in "The Falcon Histories" series, featuring 16 essays by various scholars on different..... More
London: Falcon Educational Books, [1950]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, decorative dust jacket. 226pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Tight and attractive first edition of this volume in "The Falcon Histories" series, featuring 16 essays by various scholars on different aspects of daily life --..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1982. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 255pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and clean and handsome. More
New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 208pp. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear, ownership information on front flyleaf. First edition. Chronicles dozens of astonishing hoaxes and their perpetrators. More
New York: Stein and Day, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth spine and orange paper over boards, dust jacket. xx, 372pp. Very good/very good. Slight edgewear. Tight and nice first edition, boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "To Steve -- / With my best wishes, / Frank..... More
N.p. Historischer Verein für Oberfranken, 1972. Paperback. Small 4to. Wrappers with tan paper spine. Pp. 187-253. Map, illustrations. Very good. Mild wear to outer wrappers (only), else internally fine. Scholarly offprint, entirely in German, of this article from 52nd volume of the "Archive for the History of Upper Franconia." More
Cleveland: The World Publishing Co., 1941. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth. 294pp. Near fine. Second printing, remarkaly clean and tight, of this domestic science aid. More
Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 812pp. Numerous illustrations. Good plus/very good. Outer lower corners badly bumped, else a tight, decent first edition. More
Ludhiana, India: The Pal Electric Press, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Black cloth spine and grey paper over boards. viii, 80pp, (2pp ads). Very good. Probable sole edition of this Indian curiosity, whose half-title proclaims it "Essential reading for all people, everywhere!" Author Nayyar defied all attempts to pin down birth/death year..... More