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East Sandwich, MA: Nye Family of America Association, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. Thick octavo; 875, lv, [xiv] pages, blue cloth, in red publisher's slipcase

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 432 pages, green cloth Issued in the American Lakes series edited by Milo M. Quaife. Illustrated and with maps and map endpapers.

Paris: Librairie Louis Janet, 1842. Hardcover. Very Good. With 30 full-page plates, and 58 wood engravings in the text by Henry Monnier.. Octavo, [i-iv], 231pp., contemporary quarter leather, extra gilt, satiny boards, marbled endpapers, foxing. Satirical look at French working-people. Monnier's illustrations reflect his pre-occupation with the bourgeois -he created the immortal character of Joseph Prudhomme. His caricatures are continued here, but with Bedollierre's serious text, including the chapter on French sewers and sewer workers, "L'Egouttier", which is in the era covered by Victor Hugo's LES MISERABLES. [ Champfleury, 324; Brivois, 224]. With 30 full-page plates, and 58 wood engravings in the text by Henry Monnier. [ Goldsmith-Kress 32715.9].

New York: Stein and Day, ( 1967 ). First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, red clothbacked boards; dj nicked, two tears (one closed) This crime plot inspired Alfred Hitchcock's film, "Frenzy", his penultimate film. Surprisingly scarce.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ( 1970 ). First Edition. Octavo, 218 pages, red cloth Boxing legend Jake. One section of photographs.

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1901. First Separate. Hardcover. Fine . Octavo, 299pp., half vellum, gray paper boards, untrimmed. Ex libris John Thomas Lee, who was President of The Caxton Club in the 1920s. [ see Sowerby 4073 & 4074 for Jefferson's copies of this work ]. "This was first published, in French, in Margry's six-volume DECOUVERTES. ... from an anonymous manuscript. This, the first separate edition, gives both French and English texts. It was the official account sent to the Ministry of the Marine; if not by La Salle himself, it was probably inspired by him. { Fr.} Hennepin's plagiarisms from it in his 1797 NOUVELLE DECOUVERTE, indicate that he had access to the manuscript -Howes L110." LaSalle's "domineering character is perhaps too often emphasized and his questing spirit and contribution to humanity are too often forgotten. The narratives of the LaSalle expedition are among the most fascinating of the Midwestern travel tales -full of action and excellent description -- Hubach… Read More

Washington DC : United States Geological Survey, 1921. First edition. stapled wrappers. Fine. 8vo, 294 pages, name on cover Bulletin 679 of the USGS. "In this bulletin the author gives a set of tables for the systematic determination of minerals from their optical constnats, describes briefly some methods for the rapid determination of optical constants, gives the results of measurements of the optical constants of more than 500 species for which data was not previously available, and presents statistics on the optical properties of minerals - p.3." 1 plate, 14 figures.

Washington DC: Bureau of the Census, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 297 pages, bevelled cloth, rubber stamp on title-page "As late as 1893 no two countries in the world employed precisely the same forms and methods for the statistical classification of causes of death, the compilation of which is universally regarded as of the utmost importance for the advancement of sanitary science and practice - Introductory."

Bloomington, IL: Illinois Agricultural Association, ( 1965 ). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. photos. 8vo, 464 pages, green cloth, inked inscription; edgeworn dj

New York: New York, NY, U.S.A.New York, NY, U.S.A.: Amphoto, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Quarto, 160 pages, cloth State-of-the-art photographs, with technical descriptions to advise the practicing photographers. 98 color plates, 20 b&w plates.

Hutchinson, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Square 8vo, 248 pages, blue cloth How do the aristocrats survive and thrive in the modern world? Lacey examines it through his appreciation of six great noble families from Britain, Spain, Germany, Italy, France and Liechtenstein - including how one prince lead Liechtenstein to Europe's highest per capita income. A companion volume to Lacey's BBC series. Photographs.

Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, pictorial boards,top joint of fragils spine splitting at ends Elf book no.493.. Art by George Schlining Studios.. 

London: Methuen, (( 1956 ). First English language edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 12mo, 204 pages, brown cloth, brief inked note on rear endpaper for when the prior owner finished the book This first novel won the Georges Simenon Prize after it appeared in 1953 as EL INOCENTE in Spain. "Making use of the conventioins of the crime story, it nevertheless goes beyond the genre and may be compared to the best of Simenon himself. ... At the end of the novel each character knows only what he himself has seen and done; the reader alone sees the complete picture."

Paris: Nelson / Calmann-Levy, 1928. New edition. Hardcover. Good/good. 16mo, 282 pages, decorated cream cloth; dj a bit smudged, nicked, edgeworn. Issued in the Collection Nelson, no. 278.

Paris: Leon Genonceaux, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 152 pages, three-quarter red morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, extremities rubbed This play was presented in October 1890 at Paris in the Dejazet Theatre, directed by Henri Boscher.

New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., ( 1945). Enlarged Armed Services edition. Paperback. poor. Oblong 12mo, 479 pages (lacking final leaf of text and rear cover), stapled wrappers worn and soiled - used. ASE no. Q-38. An historical novel about the clipper ships.

Indianapolis: Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong quarto, 449 pages, fore-edge spotted (coffee? tea?) Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory. Extensively illustrated with photogravures.

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1965. New Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine. maps, portr. 16mo, 395 pages, blue cloth Covers the Sioux uprising of 1862-3 in Minnesota and Dakota Territory. [Howes M58; Graff 2578; Field 979]. Illustrated with maps, portraits. "Gen. Sibley, a prominent actor, as will be seen, said to the writer, after a close perusal of the first edition, that is seemed quite a mystery, 'how one, not an eye witness of the events, could detail them so graphically and minutely correct.' - Preface to the 1864 revised edition."

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1957. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 16mo, blue cloth; glassine dj

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons , 1927. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo, green cloth