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Binding copy only but textblocks intact but for missing ads n volume one. Longman Brown London 1846 1st Edition Hardback 8vo. xi, 317; vii, 328 pp. Two volumes complete. Rebound in three-quarter leather. Without ads in back volume one. OCLC 8537279. Scarce.

Clean, tight book with gilt on boards intact and no noteworthy flaws. Price-clipped dustjacket shows edgewear with loss at front corners and spine tips. White rear panel soiled, spine sunned. Despite the flaws described, a better-than average copy Reynal Hitchcock New York 1939 1st Edition Hardback Cloth, large 8vo. 158 pp. Blue linen, gilt spine and front board. Endpapers have printed passages from the book. Pictorial dustjacket. Four years of photographs showing the migration westward of Americans forced off their land by drought, depression, and mechanization. Roth 102.

Clean, tight book. Light shelfwar. Dustjacket appears to have been professionally mounted to cardstock at some point, and therefore does not exhibit the level of wear usually seen on these early editions. Some minor chips and sunning. Longmans New York 1935 1st Edition Hardback Cloth 8vo. 481pp. Scarce first edition as-is in price-clipped dustjacket.

Clean, tight books. Reinhardt - Viking London - New York 1965-1988 Hardcover 8vo. Cloth. Mixed set. Vol 1 UK reprint. Vol 2, UK first. Vol 3 lacking. Two copies Vol 4, US first and UK first. From the collection of Isidor Saslav.

Interior clean, binding tight. Gilt dulled, hinges cracked but holding well. General wear and and slight bowing. Barthelemy Girin Paris 1723 Hardback 12mo. (xxiv), 587 pp. Contemporary calf, gilt compartments, raised band.

Little Brown Boston 1964 1st Edition Uncorrected Advance Proof. Unpaginated. Tall format, in plain manila stapled wraps. With publisher's label front cover: "An 'A' Book to be considered at the next meeting." Spine pulling away from textblock, another label with pub info front cover is torn otherwise clean and intact. Proofs of this author's works scarce.

Clean, tight book, pictorial wraps bright, moderate wear to spine only. Caxton Printers Caldwell 1980 Paperback "From Coronado to the Cow Towns". Oversize 8vo, 235pp, bibliog, index.

Clean, tight book in bright, near fine dustjacket. National Wildflower Research Center/Abbeville Press New York 1988 Signed 1st Hardback Bookplate front endpaper signed by Lady Bird Johnson. Oblong 8vo, 309pp, bibliog, index.

Both volumes clean and tight but for tiny in name and date front endpapers, volume one price-clipped dustjacket shows moderate overall soiling, sunned at spine, moderate wear to spine tips and corners, volume two price-clipped dustjacket shows light wear to spine tips, sunned at spine, faint overall soiling. Bollingen Series/Pantheon Books New York 1962 Hardback "Excavations Conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University". Vol. 4, in two parts. Two volumes complete. 4tos, 186pp & 263pp, indices, b&w plates.

Clean, tight book in bright, fine wraps. White Chocolate Austin 2001 Paperback Inscribed by the author.

Interior clean but for occassional pencil underlining, printed wraps show heavy wear to spine, wraps almost detached. Small 8vo, 30pp. Marxian Educational Society Detroit 1919 Paperback "Including the Story of 'Communist Saturdays'."

Spine mildly worn but the binding is tight and square. Internally fresh and clean. Edmonston Douglas Edinburgh 1869 1st Edition Sewn wraps. 22 pp. Bound into three-quarter calf-backed marbled boards with raised bands, gilt decorated spine and leather label in the 19th century. This is a presentation copy, "from the author" on title page at crown. With 32 blank leaves following this short work, giving the book a bit more substance. Transcript of the Introductory lecture after Lister's appointment as professor of clinical surgery. Germ theory is addressed in the speech.

Recent calf binding is clean and sound. Internally dusty and foxed but whole. Buckland London 1739 1st Edition 8vo. 450, [19] pp. Index. Recent period rebind in full calf with blind ruled boards and gilt, red-leather spine labels, raised bands. Important early work on the subject. "Shewing, by reason supported with experiments, and cases, the probability of dissolving the stone either in the kidneys, or bladder; and of preventing the returns of the gout by suitable aliment, with proper rules of diet. To which are added directions of diet proper for person afflicted with cold, fevers, quinseys, coughs...the whole form'd for usefulness in families."

Clean, tight book but for faint offsetting endpapers, faint browning text, cloth boards show light wear to spine tips, pictorial dustjacket moderately sunned, lightly chipped at spine tips and corners, two 1" closed tears to top edge of front panel. Dutton New York 1943 1st Edition Hardback "A Story of Old Texas".

Clean and tight ephemera but for light penciling front cover, staple binding. Old Colony Trust Company Boston 1919 Paperback 8vo, 51pp.

Clean, tight book but for previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper and paperclip indent to title page. Dustjacket clean and bright with one half-inch closed tear to top of rear panel and one small chip to top of front panel. Else a nice copy. Sheed, Andrews & McMeel Kansas City 1976 1st Edition Hardback 8vo, 89pp.

Clean, tight ephemeris in faintly scuffed white paper wraps. The Many Press London 1980 Paperback 4to.

Internally clean and fresh with only moderate age-toning. The plates are intact with no chipping, tears, or loss. Moderate wear to binding with some loss at foot of spine. Jacobum Willeke & Jacobum De Beunje Leiden 1740 8vo. [16], 267, [20] pp. Eight copperplate engravings. Index. Title page in red and black. Seventh edition, printed in Leiden. In the original Latin. Scarce edition with only 20 copies listed in OCLC (69249848) and no copies offered at auction since 1979. 19th-century rebind in morocco-backed marbled boards and endpapers, gilt spine, ruled in black. Presentation copy from Sir William Osler and dated December 24th, 1908, in Paris. Inscribed on the front blank. Osler was a renowned bibliophile so this copy was likely from his collection. From the ODNB: "Lower's investigations in cardiopulmonary physiology and blood transfusion were summarized in his major work, the Tractatus de corde, containing in its five chapters a succinct exposition of his most important… Read More

Interior clean, wraps show faint sunning to edges, otherwise clean and bright. Frank Lucas N p 1975 Paperback 8vo, 19pp, scarce.