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London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1924. Very Good. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1924. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's tan cloth, front cover and spine lettered in black; 197pp.; seventeen (17) plates including one folding plan, additional illus. throughout text. Cloth a bit finger-soiled and lightly foxed, spine panel toned, ownership rubberstamps to bottom textblock edge and title page, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy overall. Introducing the British public to the use of powered fuel.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, yellow glazed endpapers; xii,[13]-384pp. Boards a bit scuffed at corners and spine ends, endpapers darkened and textblock heavily foxed, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by the author.

Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1948. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1948. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [2],190pp. Jacket a bit brittle with numerous small chips and shallow losses along extremities very slightly touching text, most notably at spine ends, corners bumped, endpapers toned, else Very Good and sound. An "Armchair Mystery" set during the post-War boom years of the Las Vegas gambling scene.

Hicksville: Exposition Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hicksville: Exposition Press, 1975. Stated First Edition. Octavo; 79pp. Original dustjacket with $4.00 price present; book in orange cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket scuffed along edges with a couple small, clean tears at top near front spine and back fore-edge and some general toning. Boards are square with a few small runs to cloth. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1937. Very Good. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1937. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 303 pp. Tan cloth boards decorated in brown; red topstain. No dust jacket. Boards with mild shelfwear and faint spotting. Slight lean to boards but binding is sound. Toning to endpapers and ownership inscription to front free endpaper but pages else unmarked. Very Good.

Boston: Printed by Banister and Marvin, 1824. Very Good. Boston: Printed by Banister and Marvin, 1824. Third Edition. 12mo. 94, (1) pp. Bound in contemporary sheep-backed black cloth. Single sheet printed invitation to an "Old Guards" meeting for September 17th, 1844 laid in, with head and tail notes in manuscript. Broadsheet of The Guards Festival Song by Thomas Power also laid in. Moderate wear to edges of boards. Binding is sound. Ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper; toning to interior but legible throughout. Laid in sheets both folded with regular age wear, else all sound and Very Good. Includes artillery maneuvers, a light infantry manual, and past officer and member lists with death or discharge dates, here with additional manuscript notations. Invitation lists George Tyler Bigelow as a committee member. Bigelow was chosen as captain of the Guards after their lauded service in helping deal with the Broad Street Riot of 1837. Scarce and Guards Festival Song unrecorded. [Sabin 52686].

Chicago: Richard D. Irwin, 1950. Very Good. Chicago: Richard D. Irwin, 1950. Stated First Printing. Signed by author with inscription to Dr. Harry Clifton Byrd, then president of the Univ. of Maryland. Blue boards tight and square. Pages clean and unmarked, tight in binding. Taff, a longstanding economics professor at the University of Maryland, served as a consulting advisor on transportion issues during the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations.

Scranton, PA: Intext Educational Publishers, 1971. Very Good. Scranton, PA: Intext Educational Publishers, 1971. First Edition. Octavo. 246 pages. Black and white illustrations. No dust jacket. Green boards stamped in black and red. Light shelfwear to edges. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked.

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1929. Very Good. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1920 [but 1929]. Quinzième Édition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's green printed card wrappers; [4],xxviii,303pp. Upper cover and spine toned to tan, the former a bit spotted, textblock uniformly toned, else Near Very Good. Collection of essays on literary theory by the major influencer of the works of French Naturalist novelists Zola and Maupassant.

London: Palmer and Clayton, 1846. Very Good. London: Palmer and Clayton, 1846. First Edition. Quarto (30cm.); modern calf over contemporary marbled boards, contemporary gilt spine labels retained; 338,[2](ads)pp.; seventeen leaves of plates, including two printed in color and two folding, as well as the captioned and mounted original calotype (85.x6.5cm.) facing p. 143 depicting "The Martyr's Monument, Oxford," with printed patent mounted to recto of leaf. Margins of paper over boards scuffed, intermittent heavy foxing throughout textblock occasionally affecting plates, vertical crease affecting nearly every leaf, including calotype, else a Very Good, sound volume. The most important volume of The Art-Union, featuring an exceptionally early calotype. Just two years earlier, in 1844, the inventor William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) had begun work on his first photo-illustrated book, The Pencil of Nature, using his salted paper process resulting in a calotype (frequently called a "talbotype" by the… Read More

New York: Tammany Hall, 1890. Very Good. New York: Tammany Hall, 1886-1890. Eight brightly colored tickets to the Democratic Republican General Committee at Tammany Hall. Each includes Chairman and Secretaries with reverses blank. Presumably color coded for various wards or districts. Light edgewear to tickets, heavier wear and creasing to one; overall a Very Good set.

New York: Alliance Press, 1936. Very Good+. New York: Alliance Press, [1936]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth lettered in black; 56pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, ten leaves of plates. Pinpoint wear to extremities, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed on half title: "To my old time pioneer friend who knows and appreciates Indians--Homer Reams [?] / 1939 / M.I. McCreight." Posthumously published oral account of Chief Flying Hawk (1854-1931), combatant during the Great Sioux War of 1876 who, later in life, traveled with Buffalo Bill and the Great Wild West Shows as an educator and historian.

Salt Lake City, UT: Book Store / Modern Microfilm Company, 1976. Very Good. Salt Lake City, UT: Book Store / Modern Microfilm Company, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 95; 9 pp. Printed wraps with clear acetate cover secured in black plastic along joints. Wraps worn and toned with soiling and pen markings to rear. Binding is sound. Light curling to pages with toning to edges; pen marginalia to pages, mostly occasional checkmarks. Very Good copy of a scarce title from the Tanners, known for their career dedicated to publishing material related to problems they had with Mormon church and theology.

New York: Arno Press / New York Times Company, 1976. Near Fine. New York: Arno Press / New York Times Company, 1976. Facsimile reprint of the first (1887) edition. Octavo; publisher's pale green cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in dark blue; [2],vi,[2],188pp. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Near Fine. Forms part of the series History of Ideas in Ancient Greece. Text almost entirely in French.

Boston: samuel Hall, 1798. Good. Boston: Samuel Hall, 1798. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 31pp. (collated and lacking half title page). Light dust-soil and faint dampspotting to exterior leaves, signatures starting to separate, else a Good example. "The history of the antient Republics of Greece and Rome is...particularly instructive to the people of America. The prosperity, declension, and ruin of those states experimentally show that virtue is the soul of republican freedom" (p. 19). ESTC W38057; EVANS 34628.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in tan price-clipped dust jacket printed in red and black; ix,[5],296pp. Jacket extremities toned and rather chipped with shallow losses at spine ends, corners bumped with minor fraying, contemporary ink ownership signature and note to front pastedown and free endpaper, else Very Good in the uncommon dust jacket.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1947. First Edition (stated). Octavo; publisher's cloth in pink decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [6],341pp. Light shelf wear, some foxing to jacket flap folds, spine panel a shade sunned, corners gently bumped, else a Very Good and sound copy overall. Three short works (Walterson, Uncertain Molly Collicut, and Rennie Peddigoe) published posthumously a year after the author's death, all previously published in popular magazines before appearing in book form for the first time here.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Very Good -. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition, Limited to 377 copies of which this is no. 148. Large octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered paper-covered boards, top edge gilt; [10],493pp. Spine rather brittle and lightly toned with small losses at spine crown, brief scuffing at margins, dust jacket remnants only (rear panel and flap); a Good to Very Good copy overall. Signed by the author on limitation notice at front.

New York: House of Books, 1945. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: House of Books, 1945. First Edition, Limited to 300 copies of which this is no. 189. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in unadorned dust jacket; [44]pp. Jacket extremities and spine panel quite toned, cloth of spine crown rubbed, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Charming edition of Tarkington's short, gently propagandist play first broadcast on the radio in 1940 "in order to reach as many sympathetic minds as possible...for Britain then stood alone against the destructive might of the Axis" (from the author's introduction, dated October 10, 1945).

New York: Crown Publishers, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Crown Publishers, 1998. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author to fellow writer and columnist William Safire on half title with inscription: "For Bill Safire -- With admiration, respect, and linguistic deference. Erik Tarloff." Octavo; 249pp. Illustrated dustjacket with original $23.00 price; book in red and blue paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket nudged at spine ends, else clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.