Very handsome small book with a pleasing design to spine and front board. The binding is tight and there are no cracks to gutters and no names or writing. Hortense was the daughter of Josephine and the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The book is illustrated witholut with fill page steel engravings. Book measures 5" x 7" and has 379 pages plus a couple pages advertising Abbott books. View More...
Crisp and clean as new. Appears to have been issued sans dustjacket. Boards, pages and page edges are all pristine. Book measures 8-3/4" x 11-1/2" and has 379 pages, plus photographs at back of book. This edition ihas been consolidated from the 1990 updated directory and its 1995 supplement. This book as been updated with 350 new items, a combination of entries and plates. View More...
Bromfield is noted for his agricultue experiement at his Ohio Malabar Farm, but this book is a work of fiction. The book is clean and tightly bound, but lost its dustjacket. The only other fault is a small stain to blue top exterior edge.There is also book plate at front free endpaper that almost looks at first glance as though its's part ofthe design. The pay-off is the title page upon which Bromfield SIGNED thus, "With Best Wishes, Louis Bromfield." He also wrote his location, Malabar Farm, at the top and dated it 1939. The book came out originally in 1933. It measures 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" and ha... View More...
Very nice clean book with no defect of note other than a stamp to front free endpaper indicating that it had been a review copy. Book measures 6"x9" and has 225 pages. It's a reprint of a book first published in 1837 in which the author ventured to discusss hynosis and altered states of consciousness. He was also considered the first American aeronaut due to his expeirences with ballooning in France. Durant was a Renasissance man, as he was also noted for printing, lithography, politics and the clasifications of seaweed before he launching a book on this controversial topic. It was one of th... View More...
Nice clean copy with usual library markings. Wear to corners and crown and tail of spine and two light stains to face of paste-on title box at front. Contents clean as a whistle with plates and errata sheet in like condition, stored in special green envelope at front pastedown. Indexed. Extensive bibliography. 154 pages. View More...
Very clean, handsome book with colorful paste-on art to front board. Giltt printing is clear and readable on both the front and the spine. Book is tightly bound and there are no names or writing. Color illusrtration at frontis plus 35 more in black and white. Book measures 7" x 8-1/2" with 190 clean, tightly bound pages. This is a first edition in this form, but the original edition debuted in 1888 and was one of the author's earliest titles. Thomas Nelson Page was very popular in his day. View More...
Book is clean and tightly bound. Blue boards show no bumping. Printed in white at spine. Though states Volume One, it actually contains consecutive issues from Volume 1, No. 1 (January 6, 1912) through Volume Two, No. 17 (October 26, 1912) . Magazines were issued weekly. Index at front contains many American surnames. View More...
