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New York: The Scribner Book Store. Very Good with no dust jacket. Softcover. Catalogue Number 115, not dated but late 1930's. Each item priced and described, author index at rear. Blue wraps illustrated with map on cover, yapp edges. This was the copy of James D. Hart of the Bancroft Library, with his signature at the front and a note laid in at rear from a student returning it to him. ; 6 x 9.5"; 96 pp; Spine darkened, yapp edges worn, text is clean and unmarked. .

London: Henry Danielson. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, frontispiece portrait of Machen with facsimile? signature below. One from an edition of 500 copies. ; 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; x, 59 pp; Front board bowed outward, frontispiece has tide-mark around edges, otherwise clean and unmarked. .

Galena, Illinois: Main Street Fine Books and Manuscripts. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. [1994]. Softcover. Contains 1,958 entries described and priced. Gray wraps, perfect bound. ; 6 x 9"; 291 pp; Rear cover and page edges lightly soiled, date stamped inside front cover. .

Baton Rouge, La.: Department of Commerce & Industry, State Capitol. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1955. No edition noted. Softcover. Blue stapled wraps.; 5 x 6.5"; 88 pp; Toning to cover edges. .

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2003. First paperbound printing. Softcover. 0-8263-2388-X . Stiff wraps, perfect bound, b&w cover portrait of Edward Abbey, additional photographs within. This copy signed by the author without inscripton on the half-title page. ; 6" x 9"; 298 pp; Signed by Author; Minor edgewear, clean and unmarked within apart from noted inscription. .

New York: Christie's. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. Blue coated paper boards, gray endpapers, Lots 235 to 882 are described in detail, many with full color images. ; 8-21/2" x 10-1/2"; 475 pp; Cover with the slightest of wear at the tips, internally fine. .

Berkeley, CA: Deserted X Unincorp.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (1988). Softcover. Orange wraps, stapled, poetry, prose, art. ; 6-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 84 pp; Slight wear at corners, clean and unmarked within. .

Glasgow: Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0 85261 458 6 . Blue cloth with silver lettering to front cover and spine, entries are organized alphabetically by author within site. Heavy, extra for international postage.; 8-1/4" x 11-1/2"; xxxiv, 602 pp; Bumped at corners and in one spot along bottom edge of front board, solid binding, clean and unmarked within. .

Leipzig: Carl Ernst Poeschel. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1909 - 1912. Softcover. Each volume lists books and magazines/newspapers in separate sections. Volumes are wraps, yellow or orange with ads at rear.; 5 x 7.5"; 46, 48, 82, 100 pp; Covers toned, front cover for 1911 is creased. .

Milano-TORINO-Roma: Fratelli Bocca. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1907. Hardcover. Original wraps bound into uniform hardcover bindings with gray pebbled cloth spines, decorative green paper boards, leather spine labels with gilt lettering, Vol. I with frontispiece portrait of the compiler, volumes contain entries organized alphabetically, text in Italian. Set is heavy; extra for Priority or international shipping. ; 7" x 10"; xv, 510+504+524 pp; Boards show light toning and little wear, internal wrappers a bit soiled and foxed with bleeding onto closest leaves, printed on quality paper showing little sign of wear. .

New York: H. W. Wilson Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt spine lettering, 19 full page facsmile title pages of important works. ; 7 x 10"; 229 pp; Waterstaining to top 1/2" of cloth, extermities slightly worn, a few fingerprints and some discrete pencil notations. .

Rochester, New York: Printing House of Leo Hart. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown leather spine, gilt titling, tan cloth over beveled boards, top edge gilt. Housed in tan slipcase. Number 96 of the special edition of 250 copies, signed by the author. ; 6 x 9"; 142 pp; Spine leather rubbed in spots, else book is fine. Slipcase browned, edgeworn, splitting along top edge. .

Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall & Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0-8161-0969-9 . "Bibliotheca Cisorientalia is a reasonably complete checklist of books reporting at first hand on the Mideast after the Moslem conquest, published in English before 1915." Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering.; 9" x 11-1/4"; xviii, 315 pp; Slight cover wear, clean and unmarked wiithin. .

Leipzig: O. Gradlauer. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1895. Hardcover. Original olive cloth, black titling, edges red, decorated endpapers.; 5.5 x 8.5"; 70 pp; Prior owner bookplate with printed accession number, very slight cover wear. .

Oakland, California: Roskie & Wallace Bookstore. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Softcover. Sets forth a methodology for cataloguing books and the specific abbreviatio ns to be used, lists many examples of books with prices. Pages typewritten, 3-hole punched and bound into blue card covers. This copy bears the authors presentation inscription "For ______ _____ best regards, Phil". ; 8.5 x 14"; 131 pp; Covers and pages are somewhat creased and worn, no tears or writing apart from noted inscription. .

Glasgow: Printed by Robert Maclehose and Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1934. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt spine lettering, With Three Illustrations (on 2 guarded pp preceding numbered text). Limitation page opposite title page notes this as [Number 48 of] Fifty copies privately reprinted from the records of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society.; 8" x 10-1/2"; 20 pp; Small area of fraying along spine else but slight wear. .

Bruxelles, Belgique: CEDESA. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1961. No edition noted. Softcover. 1,418 entries, index at rear. Published by Centre de Documentation Economique et Sociale Africaine (CEDESA) as Enquêtes Bibliographiques VII, tan printed wraps, perfect bound, sewn, errata slip tipped in, text in French.; 6 x 9"; 241 pp; Covers and edges toned, spine slightly cocked, minor cover wear. .

Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado Book Store. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition; Stated First Impression. Softcover. This bibliography ... is one of a series of thirteen booklets [ Volume VIII], now in preparation, covering the entire field of Italian art. Entries are listed by category of decorative or applied art and are primarily "limited to those written in or translated into the English language". Stiff orange wraps with orange cloth spine.; 7" x 9-3/4"; v, 71 pp; Light cover wear/soiling, slight fraying to cloth at top/bottom of spine, pages are clean and unmarked. .

Rome: Edizioni dell' Ateneo. Good with no dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Original cream colored paper boards, text in Italian, French and English. ; 7 x 10"; 251 pp; Bumped at extremities, paper split at spine, reinforced at corners with clear tape, pages bumped and paper toned. .

Los Angeles: University Of California (printed at the Plantin Press). Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Cream card wraps, illustrated.; 6.5 x 10"; 29 pp; Slight soiling to covers. .