Red cloth on boards. Scrape and tear to top of back cover. Interior clean and undamaged. This book describes a monumental task - the planning and painting of a frieze for the Delivery Room of the Boston Public Library in 1895 and 1901. Eight feet high and 194 feet in length, the work contains about 150 life-size figures. Fifteen color plates and details in black and white. How much ? $15,000. View More...
Original brown blindstamped cloth on boards. Quotations related to the practice of law from these various languages are translated into English. Previous owner's name. First free endpaper missing, and second last free endpaper torn half away, otherwise unmarked and easily readable. Very light foxing freckles. Fabric bookmark. 312 pp. View More...
3/4 red leather on marbled boards. Cicero, Caesar, and Cato. Cicero has 16 orations, while the other two have one each. Wear to head and foot of spine. 431 pp. View More...
3/4 red calf on marbled boards. Previous owners' names. Pericles, Aeschines, Demosthenes, Isocrates. Demosthenes credited with 19 orations, while the others get one each. Wear to head and foot of spine. 430 pp. View More...
Blue cloth on boards. Nine short stories by various authors. Three splashes of light green paint to spine. Library bookplate and stamps. Stories are: A Race for Life; The Russian Lottery Ticket; The Clock We Were All Ashamed Of; The Young Fisherman of Heligoland; The Power of Music; The Flying Leap; David the Scholar; The Foundling of the Fens; and Anson Gregg's Wedding. 316 pp. View More...
Gold cloth on boards. A masterful gathering of information from the area. Surely anyone with family in this region will find something of interest in this huge volume. No writing or damage. 1096 pp. plus several blank leaves for notes. Heavy book will need extra postage. View More...
Dark brown cloth on boards. 262 pp. This Second Edition has an Appendix, in which are grouped Conic Sections and Demonstrations of the Rules of Mensuration, which the unnamed author considers to be a better arrangement. Conic sections. Soliods. The Five Regular Bodies. Surfaces of Solids. Mensuration of Timber, etc. Specific Gravity. Balls and Shells. Sounds. Gauging. Surveying. View More...
Lilac embossed cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. A textbook of soils, manures, implements, crops, and livestock. Many small illustrations, charts, and tables. 349 pp. View More...
Original glossy laminate on boards. No writing or damage. Very thin paper. 1269 pp. English to Chinese plus 73 pp. "Incoterms" plus 25 pp. "Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits" (in English) folowed by assumed same in Chinese. Last 15 pp. Glossary English to Chinese. ISBN 7-5600-2801-2. Heavy book will need extra postage. View More...
Original black cloth with large, blindstamped "A" on boards. Two front endpapers rumpled, previous owner's name, but no other faults. "Abacus" to "Zoom". 740 pp. plus ads. View More...
Original brown blindstamped cloth on boards. Ca. 1850. Small tear head of spine. Beatrice is a 6-year-old Spanish girl, the lone survivor of a shipwreck on St. Mawes, on the south coast of Cornwall, England. The rector takes her in. Easily readable, with scattered spots of foxing. Previous owner's name and address (Cannada W.) (sic). Colour frontispiece. 126 pp. View More...
Glossy paper on boards. No writing or damage. After WW I the world breathed a sigh of relief, but Hitler was gaining stength, and became Chancellor in 1933. Major events from every facet of life are shown in b/w photos. Heavy book will need extra postage. 270 pp. View More...
Red velvet on boards, decorated and lettered in gilt on cover and spine. Spine somewhat faded. This book contains most of those published previously in five books; Later Poems, Ballads and Lyrics, Far Horizons, Wild Garden, and Sanctuary, as well as some new poems, including May in the Selkirks, which was the poet's last. 546 pp. Previous owner's name. Heavy book will need extra postage. View More...
Original dark blue cloth on boards. No writing or damage, Milling Cutters, Hobs, Reamers, Twist Drills, Taps, Dies, and Screw Plates. Faint marks from tape used to secure dust jacket. No DJ. 496 pp. with index. View More...
Original illustrated boards of two girls, two boys and a black Scottie dog with a wooden boat. Slightly taller than the Canadian version. First free endpaper missing. No date or edition listed. AM/20/63 in print at foot of Contents page. Perfectly clean with bright colour illustrations inside. Foxing freckles to edges. 220 pp. View More...
Original maroon cloth lettered in black on boards. First free endpaper missing. A basic history appropriate to young people or new converts to the Church of England. A few pencil notes inside both covers, but text is clean and easily readable. 298 pp. View More...
Original dark green cloth blindstamped on boards. Reports of two commissions, The Commission on Church Unity and The Commission on Missions, as well as four addresses, one of which is by Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, entitled "The Romance of a Missionary's Life." Previous owner's name stamp. Book clean and undamaged. 318 pp, including bibliography. View More...
