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Item #2330399 World War II, in 39 Volumes: Prelude to War; Blitzkrieg; The Battle of Britain; The...

Editors of Time-Life Books; Elson, Robert T.; Wernick, Robert; Mosley, Leonard; Zich, Arthur; Pitt, Barrie; Bethell, Nicholas; Collier, Richard; Bailey, Ronald H.; Moser, Don; Steinberg, Rafael; Wallace, Robert; Botting, Douglas; Blumenson, Martin; Miller, Russell; Goolrick, William K.; Tanner, Ogden; Wheeler, Keith; Shaw, John; Herzstein, Robert Edwin; Davis, Franklin M.; Rigge, Simon; Ziemke, Earl F.; Whipple, A.B.C.; Elting, John R.; Russell, Francis; Whiting, Charles; Adams, Henry; Fodor, Denis J.; Simons, Gerald;

World War II, in 39 Volumes: Prelude to War; Blitzkrieg; The Battle of Britain; The Rising Sun; The Battle of the Atlantic; Russia Besieged; The War in the Desert; The Home Front: U.S.A.; China-Burma-India; Island Fighting; The Italian Campaign; Partisans and Guerrillas; The Second Front; Liberation; Return to the Philippines; The Air War in Europe; The Resistance; The Battle of the Bulge; The Road to Tokyo; Red Army Resurgent; The Nazis; Across the Rhine; War under the Pacific; War in the Outposts; The Soviet Juggernaut; Japan at War; The Mediterranean; Battles for Scandinavia; The Secret War; Prisoners of War; The Commandos; The Home Front: Germany; Italy at War; Bombers over Japan; The Neutrals; Victory in Europe; The Fall of Japan; Aftermath: Europe; Aftermath: Asia

New York: Time-Life Books, 1978. Large Hardcover.

Top edges a bit foxed, corners rubbed (bottom fore edge board corners exposed), last half of pages in Battles for Scandinavia volume stained, otherwise a tight, clean set.

Time-Life's complete history of the Second World War, illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps, and.....

Price: $425.00

Ellenberger, W.; Baum, H.; Dittrich, H.; Weinbaum, Helene (Translator)

An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists

New York: Dover, 1949. First Unabridged American Edition. Large Hardcover.

1949 first unabridged American edition. Jacket in two pieces: front panel with front flap and rear flap only. Surface tear on front jacket panel, tape on front jacket reverse. ink name on front free endpaper.

120 pp. Translated from the.....

Price: $125.00

Elmore, Charles J.

First Bryan, 1788-2001: The Oldest Continuous Black Baptist Church in America

Savannah, Georgia: First Bryan Baptist Church, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed.

x, 169 pp. Historic First Bryan Baptist Church is an African-American church that was organized in Savannah, Georgia, by Andrew Bryan in 1788. Considered to be the Mother Church of Black Baptist, the site.....

Price: $125.00

Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Encyclopaedia Britannica, in Twenty-Four Volumes (Fourteenth Edition) [Encyclopedia, 24]

Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. / William Benton, Publisher, 1969. Fourteenth Edition. Large Hardcover.

Fourteenth edition, complete in 24 volumes. Gilt faded and rubbed away on spines, evidence of use along joints with splitting to index volume.

Boards designed in emulation of the decorating leather bindings of previous editions, though these.....

Price: $175.00

Item #2327061 Colloquia. nunc emendatiora. Cum omnium Notis. [All the Familiar Colloquies of...

Erasmus, Desiderius [Roterodamus] (Eramus of Rotterdam)

Colloquia. nunc emendatiora. Cum omnium Notis. [All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Rotterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things]

Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Typis Ludovici Elsevirii [Lodowijk Elzevir], 1650. Full-Leather.

Spine toned with drying leather and some loss from head, joints beginning to split with 1 inch tear along spine base, but all sewings holding firmly, ink name and date (B. Bridges, 1689) on front free endpaper, which is loose but.....

Price: $425.00

Item #2329878 Confederate Military History: A Library of Confederate States History, in Twelve...

Evans, Clement A.; Curry, J.L.M.; Garrett, William R.; Johnson, Bradley; White, Robert; Hotchkiss, Jebediah; Hill, Daniel Harvey; Capers, Ellison; Derry, Joseph; Wheeler, Joseph; Hooker, Charles; Porter, James; Johnston, J. Stoddard; Moore, John C.; Dimitry, John; Harrell, John M.; Roberts, Oran; Dickison, John; Parker, William

Confederate Military History: A Library of Confederate States History, in Twelve Volumes, Written by Distinguished Men of the South

Harrisburg, PA: The Archive Society, 1994. Facsimile. Hard Cover.

1994 facsimile of 1899 original. A few tiny spots on front board of two volumes and minor smudge on rear board of another, one volume still in original plastic wrap, a few related publisher inserts laid in, including several maps. Overall.....

Price: $350.00

Item #2325806 Geologic Story of the Genesee Valley and Western New York: Told in Word and...

Fairchild, Herman LeRoy

Geologic Story of the Genesee Valley and Western New York: Told in Word and Picture, 193 Illustrations

Rochester, New York: Herman LeRoy Fairchild / Henderson-Mosher Inc. / Rochester Book Bindery, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition in book form (originally published 1926-28 as articles in The Gas and Electric News). Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page ('Hon. Richard C.S. Drummond, with the regards of.....

Price: $125.00

Ferrell, Mallory Hope

The South Park Line

Mukilteo, Washington: Hundman Publishing, Inc., 2003. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover.

Limited edition, signed copy #020. Jacket price-clipped. A near fine copy in a fine publisher slipcase.

368 pp. Includes publisher slipcase. Covers the rise and fall of the Denver, South Park & Pacific as it overcame tremendous obstacles progressing through.....

Price: $150.00

Item #2329790 The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat, in Three...

Feynman, Richard P.; Leighton, Robert B.; Sands, Matthew

The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat, in Three Volumes

Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1967. Reprint. Large Hardcover.

4th, 3rd, and 3rd printings, respectively. Spines a bit faded, endpapers lightly foxed, ink name on front endpapers.

Includes graphs, tables, and equations throughout text. "'The whole thing was basically an experiment,' Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back.....

Price: $225.00

Item #2331301 De la Destination du Savant et de l'Homme de Lettres. [with] Methode pour Arriver a...

Fichte, J.G. [Johann Gottlieb]; Nicolas, M.; Bouillier, M.

De la Destination du Savant et de l'Homme de Lettres. [with] Methode pour Arriver a la Vie Bienheureuse.

Paris: Librairie de Ladrange, 1838. Hard Cover.

Edges rubbed.

104, lvi, 348 pp. Red leather spine with gilt titles and decorations, marbled boards and endpapers. French translations of two works by German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a founder of German idealism whose work was largely developed using the ideas of.....

Price: $400.00

Fitch, George Hamlin

Comfort Found in Good Old Books

New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1911. Full-Leather.

Edges rubbed.

xxi, 171 pp. Tipped in frontispiece and several illustrations. Contents include: Introduction; Comfort Found in Good Old Books; The Greatest Book in the World; Shakespeare Stands Next to the Bible; How to Read the Ancient Classics; The Arabian Nights and Other.....

Price: $125.00

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Flappers and Philosophers

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.

2nd printing. Lacks jacket. Bottom half of spine lightly faded, faint crease part way up front board, front endpapers faintly foxed.

269 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles on spine, blind-stamped titles on front board. Flappers and Philosophers was.....

Price: $225.00

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Tender is the Night: A Romance

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962. Shenton, Edward. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.

2nd printing (lacks A on copyright page). Lacks jacket. Boards lightly rubbed. Binding tight and square, pages clean and bright.

408 pp. Title page illustration and chapter headers and tailpieces by Edward Shenton. Set on the French Riviera.....

Price: $450.00

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

This Side of Paradise

New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1923. Reissue. Hard Cover.

1923 printing (Bruccoli A5.I.n). Lacks jacket. Spine and edges toned, minor wear to corners, pencil name on front endpaper.

305 pp., 6-page terminal publisher ad. Original light blue cloth, dark blue titles. Author's first novel. Fitzgerald's fictional debut and first published.....

Price: $150.00

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

This Side of Paradise

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920. 5th Printing. Hard Cover.

1920 5th printing, printed in the same year as the first edition, all 3000 copies of which sold within three days of publication. Lacks jacket. An excellent copy with just a few minor cosmetic blemishes to boards. Binding tight and.....

Price: $375.00

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Vegetable, or From President to Postman

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Held, John. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition, one of 7650 copies (Bruccoli A10.I.a). Lacks scarce jacket. Middle portion of spine faded, minimal diminishment of gilt titles on spine - a common problem with this edition (this copy is better than we usually see).....

Price: $275.00

Item #2324293 Typed Letter Signed by Malcolm S. Forbes Dated May 4, 1979, on Forbes Magazine...

[Forbes, Malcolm S.]; Forbes Magazine

Typed Letter Signed by Malcolm S. Forbes Dated May 4, 1979, on Forbes Magazine Letterhead, Matted and Framed with Three Images of Items from the Forbes Magazine Collection of Faberge, with Presentation Slips from the Publisher Presenting the Recipient William J.P. Smith III of Data General Corporation with a Complimentary Subscription to Forbes [with] June 8, 1979 TLS, also from Forbes to Smith, and Folder of Forbes-Related Ephemera (Postcard, Pamphlets, Greeting Cards, News Clipping, Exhibition Catalog)

New York: Forbes Magazine / James J. Dunn, Publisher, 1979. Unbound.

Very faint wrinkle and slight toning to framed letter, images pristine.

21 1/2 x 20. Matted and framed with three images of items from the Forbes Magazine Collection of Faberge, with presentation slips from the publisher presenting the recipient.....

Price: $150.00

Item #2325864 Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States, in Three Volumes: Part I....

Forbush, Edward Howe

Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States, in Three Volumes: Part I. Water Birds, Marsh Birds and Shore Birds; Part II. Land Birds from Bob-Whites to Grackles; Part III. Land Birds from Sparrows to Thrushes (Massachusetts Department of Agriculture)

Massachuesetts: Massachusetts Department of Agriculture, 1925. Fuertes, Louis Agassiz; Forbush, Edward Howe; et al. Reprint. Large Hardcover.

3rd, 2nd, and 1st printings, respectively. Boards a bit rubbed with loss of gilt from first volume, related article laid in.

Three volume set. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Illustrated with colored.....

Price: $125.00

Item #2323963 Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg., in Three Volumes (New York...

Fox, William F.

Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg., in Three Volumes (New York Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga.) [New York at Gettysburg July 1-2-3-1863 Vols. 1, 2, & 3 / I, II, and III]

Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1900. First Edition. Large Hardcover.

First edition. All five maps included in pockets. A nice example of a set often found in poor condition, or missing one or more maps or volumes. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, interiors clean and unmarked.

Complete three volume set.....

Price: $225.00

Item #2323964 Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg., in Three Volumes (New York...

Fox, William F.

Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg., in Three Volumes (New York Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga.) [New York at Gettysburg July 1-2-3-1863 Vols. 1, 2, & 3 / I, II, and III]

Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1900. First Edition. Large Hardcover.

First edition, variant binding. A presentation copy given by a New York Senator. All five maps included in pockets. Spine labels toned with minor loss along edges, ink stamp stating 'compliments of Benjamin M. Wilcox, Senator, 39th District' on front.....

Price: $175.00

Item #2329274 Mr. Pottermack's Oversight: A Detective Story (The Dr. Thorndyke Mysteries, Book...

Freeman, R. Austin

Mr. Pottermack's Oversight: A Detective Story (The Dr. Thorndyke Mysteries, Book 20)

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1930. Oliver, Juan (jacket art). First American Edition. Hard Cover.

First American edition. Fine in very good original jacket (which advertises contemporary works by Agatha Christie, Anthony Gilbert, P.G. Wodehouse, John Rhode, etc.). Jacket toned, with all flap corners trimmed (this seems very common.....

Price: $425.00 save 15% $361.25

Frost, Robert

A Boy's Will

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First American Edition. Hard Cover.

First American edition, second state ('Aind' corrected to 'And' on page 14, 'wich-hazel' uncorrected on p. 62). Signed and dated by author without inscription on title page ('Robert Frost, Fitchburg 1938'). Lacks jacket. Spine and edges faded, newspaper.....

Price: $1,250.00

Garcia, Antion Lopez; Serraller, Francisco Clavo

Antonio Lopez Garcia: Drawings

New York: D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2010. First Edition. Large Hardcover.

First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.

213 pp. The Spanish artist Antonio López García is revered worldwide not only for the extreme realism he brings to his paintings and drawings, but because he conveys.....

Price: $350.00

Item #2331077 Sammelband of Ten Mid-18th Century London Sermons: A Sermon Preach'd before the...

George, William; Watts, George; Ayscough, Francis; Thomas, Lord Bishop of Oxford; Isaac, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.; Bearcroft, Philip; Thomas, John; Ashburnham, William; Magill, Moses

Sammelband of Ten Mid-18th Century London Sermons: A Sermon Preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, at Margaret's Westminster, on Monday, May 29, 1732.; A Sermon Preached before the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America; at Their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish-Church of St. Bridget, alias St. Bride, in Fleetstreet, London: on Thursday, March 18. 1735.; A Sermon Preach'd before the Honourable the House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Friday January the 30th 1735/6. Being the Anniversary of the Martyrdom of King Charles I.; A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; at Their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish-Church of St. Mary-Le-Bow, on Friday, February 20. 1740-1.; A Sermon Preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Sons of the Clergy, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, May 6, 1742.; A Sermon Preached before His Grace Charles Duke of Richmond, Lenox, and Aubigny, President; and the Governors of the London Infirmary, in Goodman's-Fields, for the Relief of Sick and Diseased Manufacturers, and Seamen in Merchant-Service, &c. at the Parish Church of St. Mary's-le-Bow, on Friday, March 25, 1743. The Duty and Advantages of Encouraging Public Infirmaries.; A Sermon Preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, on Wednesday April 11, 1744, Being the Day Appointed by His Majesty's Royal Proclamation for a General Fast.; A Sermon Preached before the Honourable House of Commons at St. Margaret's Westminster on Wednesday, January 30. 1744. Being the Day Appointed to Be Observed as the Day of the Martyrdom of King Charles I.; A Sermon Preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Tuesday, November 5, 1745.; A Sermon Preached in the Parish-Church of St. Mary, Dublin; on Thursday, October 9, 1746. Being the Day Appointed for a General Thanksgiving for the Suppression of the Late Unnatural Rebellion in Great Britain.

London: J. Tonson / M. Downing / T. Osborne; A. Peisley / J. and H. Pemberton / James Crokatt / Henry Woodfall / Edward Owen / W. Innys / John Jolliffe / J. Brindley, Bookseller to His Royal Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1732. Full-Leather.

Owned by a distant.....

Price: $1,500.00 save 15% $1,275.00