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56 pages with illustrations and bibliography. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Publication 503. First edition.
The list of children's books makes no pretense of doing more than putting down the names of a few good books of each kind, grouped into classes with reference to children's interest and their varying levels of development.
Condition: Edge wear with some closed tears and bumped corners. Some marginalia else about very good.

2 volumes: 576+xv pages; 499+xv pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in 3/4 period leather. Translated from the first German edition (1781) which includes a chapter entitled: "Observations and additions to by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider". Translated with additional notes and reviews by Jean Baptiste Lefebvre Villebrune. First Spanish edition published in 1772 (Madrid). (Sabin 36805) First French edition.Antonio de Ulloa (12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795) was a Spanish general, explorer, author, astronomer, colonial administrator and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. He was born in Seville, the son of an economist. Ulloa entered the navy in 1733. In 1735 he was appointed with fellow Spaniard Jorge Juan a member of the French Geodesic Mission, a scientific expedition which the French Academy of Sciences was sending to Ecuador to measure a degree of meridian arc at the equator, led by Pierre Bouguer. He remained there from 1736 to 1744, during which time the two Spaniards discovered the… Read More

x+126 pages with frontispiece and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with pictorial boars and dark brow lettering to spine. First edition.
Intended for compilers or retellers of folktales, for storytellers or librarians serving children, or for children themselves, the annotated bibliography contains references to 152 sources of North American Indian folktales. Sources in the non-comprehensive bibliography were selected on the basis of (1) a statement of sources and faithfulness to them; (2) a true reflection of Indian cosmology; and (3) a written style that retains the spirit and poetry of the Indians' native manner of telling. The bibliography is divided into 12 sections. The first contains references to 23 sources (studies, anthologies, children's anthologies, bibliographies, indexes) that present the overall picture of North American Indian mythology and folklore. The other sections present sources for 11 North American culture areas: Eskimo; Mackenzie;… Read More

267 pages. Small octavo (7" x 4 1/2") bound in full leather with a new spine and label and original boards housed in a custom slipcase. (Hagedorn: p54-55, 7. 1824)Willard Fiske noted that this was first published in London by Ogilvie in 1806. Editions in one volume afterwards appeared in 1809, 1813, 1819, and at other times. the name of the compiler has never been made public. the miscellaneous collection of anecdotes, essays, and poems at the end is ot without interest. The openings and games are all in numerical notation and no diagrams are given.Condition:New spine in a custom made slipcase, ruminants of old book plate on front paste down, lacks folding plate else a very good copy.

12 unpaginated mimeograph pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. First edition. A listing of the works of the Seminario de Integracion Social Guatemala to 1970. Condition: Edge wear, some item numbers circled else a good copy.

43 pages with photograph and table. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. (Lusis: 1679) First edition. Tallinn organized a large scale international tournament every 2 years. The 1973 edition was the strongest so far, with two ex world champions, former challenger Bronstein and the local ace Keres. After Sukhumi (1972), the USSR Championship (1972) and Hoogovens (1973), Mikhail Tal scored his 4th tournament victory in a row. There were speculations that he might continue in this vein and rise to challenge Robert James Fischer in 1975, but unfortunately three months later, at the Leningrad Interzonal (1973), he failed miserably. A point and half behind the leader was Lev Polugaevsky and followed by a distant shared third was Yuri Balashov, David Bronstein, Paul Keres and Boris Spassky all at 9 points each. The seventh spot was shared with Ulf Andersson and Iivo Nei at 8. Jan Timman captured sole ninth a half point behind and tenth was shared with Helmut Pfleger, Josef… Read More

393 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper with gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Review copy with material laid in. Upcher's lovers are all star-crossed in this with-it, literate sitcom about who's right for whom. Hope Collins, a high-powered Hamptons real estate agent, is married to husband number two, the helpless/hopeless but charming British Eddie Calder, an editor at a New York publishing house and the father of baby Booty. Hope has two older children eight-year-old Harry and six-year-old Coco by her bounder ex-husband, Craig, now a hotshot Hollywood producer. She still carries a torch for this stinker, who butters her up only so she'll come baby-sit the kids on the rare occasions they see him. Feeling the need for a Mary Poppins to set all right, Hope requires Eddie to find one, and his sister sends along 47-year-old Annabel Quick. Annabel has the training but hasn't worked as a nanny for… Read More

401-430 pages with map, figures, table and cited references. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Current Anthropology Volume 35, Volume 4 complete issue. First edition. Archaeological investigations on the margins of "high civilizations" have traditionally been guided by the assumption that polities in such zones were peripheral to core states. This paper argues that this assumption obscures the multiple dimensions along which core/periphery distinctions can be measured and ignores the possibility of mutual influence and interdependence among interacting societies at all size and complexity levels. This confusion is particularly evident in the study of southeastern Mesoamerica (adjoining portions of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), usually viewed as peripheral to lowland Maya core states during the Late Classic period (A.D. 600-950). In an attempt to advance the study of polities bordering complex and extensive sociopolitical systems, a general model is outlined which… Read More

262+[1 ad] pages with plates and illustrations. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. From the library of Professor George M Foster. 4th edition.
This work is a native botanical of medicinal plants, used by indigenous peoples of Latin America, with illustrations, descriptions and various uses of the plant.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America,… Read More

Oblong photograph (6 3/4" x 11 1/4") Signed by 14 of the 18 contestants Boris Spassky, Michal Tal, Anatoly Karpov, Alexander Beliavsky, Efim Geller, Paul Keres, Victor Korchnoi, Nukhim N Rashkovsky, Gennadi Kuzmin, Vladimir Savon, Evgeni Ellinovich Sveshnikov, Mark Taimanov, Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov, Orest Averkin and one non contestant Viktor Davidovich Kupreichik on the verso. The photograph shows the stage were the contest took place with lined up game tables and the participants during the competition. In the foreground a part of the auditorium with seated spectators.In the aftermath of Robert James Fischer's victory over Boris Spassky in the 1972 World Championship, the Soviet Union had been humiliated and humbled by an American, and the 35+ year rule of the Soviet chess machine over the international chess world had finally been put to an end. The consequences of this result were felt in Soviet chess for months after. Mark Taimanov, Tigran Petrosian, and Spassky were all reprimanded for… Read More

296 pages with maps, tables, charts, appendix, bibliography and index. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition limited to 500 copies. The book Memorias del margin serrano. Atarjea, Guanajuato, 1871-2008 1 brings us closer to the narrations and the stories of a little known region; its author, Jorge Uzeta, reveals in detail the processes that constitute and give meaning to the memories of this margin of Guanajuato, the municipality of Atarjea. The text offers us a complete and at the same time complex view of a historical evolution, which includes more than 130 years of life in the municipality. The author gives us a diversity of documents and voices that help the analysis of the situation of this town and the region, emphasizing the struggles and agrarian processes. These processes involved the formation of mediations, leaderships and relations, which at the same time advocated for the defense of their lands and resources, also contributed to the presence… Read More