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Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. Fine. 1998. Softcover. 0708312497 . 176 pp., includes indes; pictorial wrappers; black & white portrait photo; musical notations. Printed in Welsh. .

Boston & N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin. Fine. 1999. Reprint. Softcover. 694 pp. 8vo; black wrappers. Together with three items: Robert S. Wistrich; G. M. Gilbert; ( U. S. Government et al); 1.) Weekend in Muncih: Art, Propaganda and Terror in the Third Reich, hardcover; 2.)Nurmberg Diary, softcover; 3.) Nazi Conspiracy and Agression, Opinion and Judgment, Office of… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Westgate Press. Fine. 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, unnumbered. Noted bookman A. Edward Newton's copy with his signed bookplate, inscribed & signed to him by Flodden W. Heron, May 13, 1931, "on his visit to the shop where the book was made." 250pp.; 8vo; orange linen, paper spine label, plain acetate… Read more about this item

N.Y.: Garden City no date (c 1931). Very Good. 1931. Hardcover. 441pp., portrait frontis; black cloth, spine gilt; without jacket. Light cover wear. .

London; New York, Cambridge: Collins; Macmillan 1947; 1935;1949. Very Good. 1947. Hardcover. A mixed set of three volumes, first and last titles Collins, New Edition; second volume Macmillan, 1st U. S. edition. 8vo; cloth in jackets, Years of Peril price-clipped; Saviour of the Navy with some foxing to edges, offset tanning to endpapers. Samuel Pepys and the… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Paul Elder (1917). Good. 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex- Pacific Union Club Library with their bookplate tipped-in, and only small call numbers in pencil and pen on copyright page, an pen on verso of front endpaper. Front endpaper with gift inscription from club member J. M. Quay (Joseph Madison) to fellow member Mr. Thomas J.… Read more about this item

Beauvais: Musee Departemental de l'Oise-Beauvais. Good. 1978. Softcover. TEXT IN FRENCH. 99pp.; square 8vo; white wrappers. Illustrations, chiefly portrait photographs. Front cover with spotting and stains. Unsightly but a serviceable reference. And he had an exhibition. Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (1816 1882) was a French aristocrat, diplomat, writer, and ethnologist who propounded a 'scientific' theory… Read more about this item

Exeter, England: Anne Piper. Fine. 1998. Hardcover. 0953212300 . 96pp.; 8vo; cloth in pictorial white jacket with light wear at edges. Fine , with protective mylar wrap .

London: John Murraey 2004; 2005. Fine. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; cloth in pictorial dust jackets. Ceaseless, 1st Ed.; Milk 1st Ed., 2nd Printing. The final two of twelve volumes. Fine s, with protective mylar wrap .

Madrid: Editorial Maestre. Good. 1953. Softcover. 105pp,; 8vo; printed tan wrappers. Loss to leading top corner tip; 2" split to cover bottom front spine; 2" split to rear top spine; title written in black ink on spine; covers age toned. Spine appears to be sewn, so still holding together well. TEXT IN SPANISH. .

Firenze: Successori Le Monnier. Very Good. 1877. Hardcover. 3 vols; 8vo; quarter leather and pebbled brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt; marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Rubbing to spines, joints and spine ends and leather corner tips, with some tips worn through; fading to cloth at extremities; repaired 1" divot to leather top of spine, volume one;… Read more about this item

(Caldwell, ID): Privately Printed. Fine. 1960. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 9 of 100 copies. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper: "To Donald H. McLaughlin, with esteem and best wishes, Nahum Sabsay, June 12, 1960." 346pp.; 8vo; gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt; in plain mylar wrap, as issued. Scarce first edition of Sabsay's dramatic first person… Read more about this item

N.Y.: Soho. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 1569470537 . 8vo; cloth in dust jacket. Vietnam's celebrated General Giap, victor at Dien Bien Phu, and mastermind of the Tet Offensive. .

N.Y.: The New Press (1992). Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 1565840879 . 365pp.; 8vo; cloth in dust jacket. On Novermber 16, 1980, Louis Althusser, while massaging his wife's neck, discovered he had stangled her. Here the philospher takes us on a journey inside his own madness. .

San Francisco: Schwabacher-Frey Stationery Company. Very Good. 1927. Softcover. 12 unnumbered pages; folio; printed, stiched wrappers with chips and three closed tears (up to 1") at edges; first page with dog-eared lower leading corner tip. .

Oakland: Carruth & Carruth. Very Good. 1902. (Enlarged Monumental Edition). Hardcover. 258 pp.; (i)-x, appendix; (i)-xx, supplement; (i)-vii, postscipt; (i)-viii, addenda to the appendix. 8vo; blue cloth lettered in gilt; portrait frontis; illustrated with photographs and other reproductions. Ex-Pacific Union Club library with their bookplate on front pastedown. As was the clubs wont, a 1935 newspaper… Read more about this item

London: (The Book Collector) (1985). Fine. 1985. Offprint Edition. Softcover. 11pp.; 8vo; stapled wrappers I first came upon George John Pettit, the artist, composer, poet, and architect, in Beak Street in 1960. .

Dallas: The Book Club of Texas. As New. 2014. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 375 copies printed by David Holman at Wind River Press. 59pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; gray cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Inscribed by the editor to Barney and Ruth (Rosenthal), on front endpaper; laid in is a printout of an email from Bernard Rosenthal to… Read more about this item

Stockton, CA: San Joaquin Pioneer & Historical Society. Fine. 1955. First Edition. Softcover. 20pp.; 8vo; wood patterned brown wrappers. .

Boston: Oliver Ditson and Co.. Good. 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. 213pp., (2) pub. ads; 12mo; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine faded; wear to spine ends & corner tips; small spot back cover; first signature slightly sprung. Louis Moreau Gottschalk, (b. 1829, New Orleans; d.1869, Rio de Janeiro). American composer and pianist, the first to win… Read more about this item