Search Results: Titles starting with U from Old Bookshelf

Washington, D.C.: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1959. Soft cover. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 64pp. Illustrated stapled wraps. LIght cover wear, slight dampstain to first few lower margins otherwise sound and clean. Articles on NIkita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to USA, including meetings with President Eisenhower and numerous other American officials and citizens. Heavily illustrated.

Berlin: Richard Carl Schmidt & Co., 1920. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 178, xviii pp. Grey boards, gilt lettering and decoration. Corners worn, backstrip half missing, contents clean and unmarked, owner's bookplate on front pastedown, binding is tight. Illustrated throughout. Text is in German, glossary in rear in German, English and French.

New York: Editions Vynckier Courtrai, 1958. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Octave Landuyt. Unpaginated, 40 pp approx., printed one side. Stiff printed wraps. Light edgewear a nc chipping to edges, contents are sound.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Difusion, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 220pp. Stiff card stock cover. Text in Spanish. Cover very lightly worn, text is tanned, dampstain to top edges and foredges, text is unharmed. Inscribed and signed illegibly on half-title page, possibly by author. Dust jacket is also dampstained and spine is faded. Laid-in is a promotional brochure of the book by the publisher.

Montreal: Houghton Mifflin Comapny, 1892. Hardcover. Good. A.B. Frost. 357pp. Green cloth, pictorial and gilt lettering to cover and spine, 12 illustrated plates plus frontispiece. Very good with very slight wear, some fading to spine and to board edges, staining to lower margin of a few pages, text is age-toned and endpapers more heavily, inscription on front free endpaper. Copyright date is same year as first edition.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1945. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 174pp. Blue cloth, blue spine lettering. Faint spotting to front board, slight tape remnant on rear pastedown, contents toned and clean. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket is soiled, chipped and missing several pieces.

Lahore, India: The Lion Press, 1944. 31st Impression . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 182pp. Paper over boards. Light soil and 3 small ink spots on front cover, chipping to spine cover including 1 inch from foot of spine, text is mildly toned but otherwise clean, owner's name and date (New Delhi 1945) on front free endpaper. A vicious attack on American culture in rebuttal to Katherine Mayo's book on India.

Salem: Peabody Museum, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 88pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. Covers are clean and sound with barely a trace of a stain at top edge. Contents are clean and unmarked and binding is tight. One of an Edition of 500 copies on Ragston paper printed by The Anthoensen Press, Portland , Maine.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. viii, 223pp. Green cloth, gilt let4tering to cover and spine. Corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, contents miildly age-toned (endpapers most heavily), occasional light pencill notes in text, neatly written inscription on front free endpaper, binding is tight, bookis in overall sound condition.

London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1914. Hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Kate Greenaway. 56pp. No date circa 1914. Pictoial paper over boards, white cloth spine. Edgewear and some faint spotting to cover, text is clean and sound, "Horace Mann Kindergarten" neatly written on front pastedown only ex-library evidence. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd. Verses and color illustrations throughout.

Chicago: American School, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1-100, 101-182pp. Red cloth. Both volumes are in clean and sound condition. contents appear unread. Instructions on safe electrical installation.

Compagnie Générale Translantique. Soft cover. As New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Michel Lezla. 24p unpaginated. No date circa1960. Stapled card wraps. No wear, contents clean. Comprehensive fully-illustrated description of the company's principal activities with graphic details. Includes the history of the company, fundamental navigational principles, descriptions and cutout sections of the ocean liners and other relevant information.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 18pp. Printed wraps. Light wear and light soiling to covers, contents are clean. A later copy of the First Edition with 1904 date on copyright page. An excerpt reprinted from Twain's "A Tramp Abroad", published 19 1880.

Milano: Arnoldi Mondadori Editore, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 254pp. Green cloth, gilt spine lettering, in Italian language. Covers are clean and binding is sound, contents clean. Dust jacket is slightly faded, worn along top edge and has a few short tears. Book is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author , in French, on front free endpaper. Inscritta dal autore in francese.

New York: Whittlesey House, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 53pp + approx. 110 pp illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt insignia to cover and gilt lettering to spine. Corners lightly rubbed, spine darkened but readable, book is in clean and sound condition. Book includes an extensive section on historical photos and illustrations of the academy.

Boston: Universalist Publishing House, 1853. Sixth Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 381pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. Corners and spine ends worn, spine slightly sunned, some insecting to joints and splitting to front hinge, but binding is holdling firmly and contents are toned but sound, scattered pencil marginalia.

Boston: John F. Murphy, 1904. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 176pp. FIRST EDITION. Grey pictorial stiff wraps. Light wear to cover, clean cover tear archival tape-repaired, contents in sound condition. Numerous illustrations and descriptions of Boston circa 1904. No map present. This is the original printing from 1904, not a recent printing.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Lewis Carroll. 45pp. Tan paper covered boards. Age-toning to cover, unworn, contents clean. Dust jacket is clipped, but curiously original price ($2.50) still shows, darkened along spine and folds. Authhor's first book written at age 13, a remarkable work.