Buried Herculaneum by Barker, Ethel Ross - 1908

A. and C. Black, 1908-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 8x5x1. Bound in publisher's blue cloth. Gilt lettering. Eagle motif embossed in gilt on front board. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Spine sunned. Corner chipped from rear board. Rear gutter weakened. Foxing through out.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

Adam & Charles Black,, 1908 Adam & Charles Black, 1908. Hardcover. First edition decorative gilt titles and eagle to blue cloth xvi 253 pages with nine plans and sixty four illustrations with frontis of Apollo, from the private library of Thomas Braun the well respected Oxford Don, Academic, Linguist and Classicist with his Signature and date to fep. half of spine cloth missing, some wear to boards, inner hinge lightly cracked has library stamps and tanning to extreme page edges but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Adam and Charles Black. 1908. Original cloth boards with gilt decoration, b&w plates, illus, plans, pp xvi, 253. Ex-library, with library markings. Good condition. Archaeological study of Herculaneum, which (like Pompeii) was destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. 1st edition. Boards.

Hardback. New.

London: Adam and Charles Black. Very Good-. 1908. Hardcover. Boards with moderate wear to extremities, including small nick near fore edge and very minor soiling. Spine sunned. Internally a handsome copy ; With nine plans and 61 illustrations. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 253 pages .

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.

Andrew E. Lang , a rare book of his poetry. Ban and Arriere Ban USED. 1st Edition, 1894, Longman's Green and Co. Deckle edge, tanning. Beveled green boards with gold gilt ornamentation. The Author's name appears in gold at the front lower right.board. . 118 pages. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. illustrator of the Fairy Books. Per wiki "Arrière-ban, in French customs, is a general proclamation whereby the king summons to war all his vassals and their vassals. To the Provost of Paris belongs the convoking and commanding of the arrière-ban. In the Medieval usage, arrière-ban denoted a general levy, where all able-bodied males were summoned into arms. List of contents available upon request.: ."Many of the verses of this collection appeared in magazines prior to appearing here". INCLUDES ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PUBLISHERS STATEMENT, 4 3/8 x 2 3/8: "Messrs Longmans intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow discount."… Read More

Signed 1st Ed. w/DJ) WRACK AND RUNE: A PETER SHANDY MYSTERY BY FAMED CANADIAN AUTHOR CHARLOTTE MACLEOD. Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1982. Used First printing SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author on title page. Good Condition/ Good condition unclipped Dust Jacket, $10.95 original price. Will ship from United States.

The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Alaska (1925 Macmillan 1st Edition) HISTORY OF ALASKA. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Fold-out map affixed to binding at the back of the book has never been opened. The story of the (unsuccessful) attempted colonization of Wrangel Island Alaska. 413 pages plus appendix, Index. Titling is still bright. A clean, solid copy. Scarce.

O'Neill, Eugene: Mourning Becomes Electra, A Trilogy (1931 First Edition, Horace Liveright, Inc. w/Dj) DRAMA. Three Plays, or parts: Homecoming, The Hunted, The Haunted. RARE. Used. Very Good Condition/ Good- Original unclipped dust jacket. Original Cover Price is $2.50. Jacket has some loss at the spine. Now protected by mylar wrap. Please see our photos. Plot Summary: "Mourning Becomes Electra is a story styled after the Greek legend and the title refers to how the lead character is condemned to a life of mourning the disasters that befall her family. In the Greek legends, Electra is the sister to Orestes, and they are the children of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon."

Thomas Merton. What Are These Wounds: The Life of a Cistercian Mystic, Saint Lutgarde of Aywières. FIRST EDITION. RARE. Copyright 1950, February 17, 1948 First Printing Thus, The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee. Written by respected Trappist author THOMAS MERTON. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/GOOD- CONDITION $2.50 UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Top portion of dust jacket spine is missing. 190 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ½.

London: Macmillan, 1915. Second Edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published London: Macmillan, 1915. 8vo., xxiii+591pp., illustrated with numerous b/w photo plates and reproductions, maps. Blue cloth with gilt spine decoration and titles, top edge gilting. Some moisture indications along front edge of covers, else very good, clean, bright. . Hard. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo.

Collectible Fine First Edition 1979 Hardcover Clean 151 pp. Brown Leatherette Hardcover. Study of Lope Garcia De Salazar's Libro De Las Bienandanzas E Fortunas Textual commentary in Spanish and English. Fascinating journey to find Arthur's exploration of Hy Brazil and Avalon where the material Spanish mystery of Arthur in Avalon and Brazil touches the literary and Spiritual and Geoffrey of Monmouth Merlin and post Vulgate. NOT a library copy. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans The shadow on gold script is the glittering from camera! Fine condition

Leiden: E. J. Brill. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, usual library stamps and . de-accession markings.. 1971. Hardcover. 9004014764 . Olive green library reinforced cloth binding. xi, 173pp + xxxi black and white photo plates. Foreword, bibliography, index of ancient authors and sources, index of inscriptions, index of names, general index. Scholarly study of classical inscriptions of the citizenship oath sworn by Athenians in the 4th century BCE. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

First printing (number line contains "1").
Book cover like new, slight wear at end caps - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new.
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The first proper fortifications in Japan began to develop with the appearance of the first emperors around 250. Although initially fortifications were simply wooden constructions, as internal strife became a way of life in Japan, more and increasingly elaborate fortifications were built. By the mid-16th century elaborate and beautiful traditional stone castles were wide spread. At the same time, rivalries between different monastic orders led to the development of fortified Buddhist temples and monasteries until the suppression of the warrior monks under Tokugawa Ieyasu. The 19th century saw the development of European-style forts, and the strengthening of costial defences against incursions by the West.… Read More