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Publisher's brown cloth with white spine lettering, octavo, pp. ix, 328. Illustrated. Illustrated dust jacket a little weary from pre-mylar days, with light chipping at some extremities, thus Good only. Jacket now ensconced in a new sheet of archival Brodart.

First American edition, octavo, pp. 255. Illustrated. Map: Vienna in 1938; Map: Austria in 1938. Light wear, as with age and handling, but GOOD and sound in the publisher's green cloth with spine lettering gilt. Illustrated dust jacket just light wear from pre-mylar days, but ensconced now in a sheet of archival Brodart.

Edition limited to 350 copies designed and printed by Gary Young. An 8 1/2 inch tall by 16 inch wide broadside-like collection of poems folded down to pp. [3] and inserted into a green lettered wrapper with front panel lino-cut by Michele Chapin. Colophon on broadside verso. Poems (1) This Is The Bed She Undresses; (2) Brown Apples Are On An Oak Bough; (3) The Cords Get Laid Down; (4) The Wild Mustard Stinks In The Lot; and (5) A Chair And Table In Sympathy. The poems were originally tipped-in to the wrappers, but over the decades, the paste or glue has dried away and left the poems laying in loosely (see photo number 5), thus "nearly" fine condition. There is no sticky residue of any kind. The whole now protected in a clear display sleeve with a white cardstock backing board. A scarce item, both in trade and in institutional holdings, with an April 2019 OCLC search showing University of California Irvine; University of California Santa Cruz; Brown University; and University of Virginia only.… Read More

Publisher's gilt-lettered brown cloth backstrip over beige boards, octavo, pp. ix, 290. "An ingenious cross between a glossary, a dictionary, and an encyclopedia."

Hardcover, reprinted in facsimile from the edition of 1850, octavo, pp. 111. Black and white illustrations. Very Good in the publisher's blue cloth with spine lettering gilt. Dust jacket was not issued with this title.

Hardcover. Quarto, pp. xxix, 258. Illustrated in black and white and in color. Family trees. Maps. Very Good in glossy boards. Color-illustrated dust jacket Very Good.

Publisher's soiled stapled wrappers, octavo, pp. [12] + colophon. Bottom page tips bent and old bottom-edge tide lines (see Photo 6). Withal, GOOD and sound. Ensconced now by us in a clear protective display sleeve with white cardstock backing board. A scarce title, both in commerce and in institutional holdings, with a May 2019 OCLC search returning University of Georgia only.

Hardcover. First printing, octavo, pp. xiv, 135 plus colophon. Very Good in the publisher's blue cloth with spine lettering gilt. Dust jacket Very Good. Twayne's United States Author Series.

Shire Album 50, octavo, pp. 32. Illustrated throughout. Very good in the publisher's stapled illustrated wrappers.

First edition, 12mo, pp. xv, 157. Text block lightly toned; a little offsetting on free front endpaper; chip at bottom edge of final page. Withal, a near very good copy in the publisher's brown cloth with spine lettering gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket a little weary, with chipping at spine ends & fold points, a few nicks along top edge, & a small tear at rear panel bottom edge. Jacket ensconced now in a sheet of protective mylar.

Publisher's blue cloth-backed boards, octavo, pp. xii, 271. Just very light shelf wear.

Cardstock sheet folded and stapled into an octavo-sized pamphlet with a frontis illustration and three pages of poetic text. GOOD with just light wear, and ensconced now in a clear display sleeve with white cardstock backing board.

Publisher's stiff stapled color wrappers, octavo, pp. 24. Illustrated throughout. Light foxing on title page, otherwise a gently handled, very good copy.

Publisher's yellow and black cloth, quarto, pp. xvi, 935 plus colophon. Endpaper maps. Black and white illustrations. GOOD condition with just light shelf wear. Price-clipped dust jacket about GOOD with chipping and minor paper loss at spine ends. Light loss of paper here and there along perimeter, as well. Jacket now in removable protective mylar. A tome, indeed.

Hardcover, octavo, pp. 256. Illustrated. Very Good in the publisher's blue cloth with silver spine lettering. Illustrated dust jacket Very Good.

First printing, so stated, octavo, pp. 285 plus colophon. Illustrated in color and in black and white. Small old Christmas gift card taped to free front endpaper. Light shelf wear. GOOD and sound in the publisher's brown cloth over boards with spine lettering gilt. Dust jacket GOOD and ensconced in a new sheet of archival mylar.

Publisher's original pale yellow boards with spine lettering gilt within single-ruled gilt border, octavo, pp. vii, 202. Dust jacket with light fading from sun on rear panel and mild shelf wear.

Stapled wrappers, octavo, pp. 14. Fourteen pages of World War ll military personnel with information particulars divided into columns with headings such as Name; Station; Home; Leave; Date of Rank; Revert to Inactive Status dates; and more. Looking over the many names among these pages. it occurs to us that a great deal of genealogical research might be done by a hobbyist or other interested party, particularly as concerns Women in the Military. On page 10, for example, is a 2D LT Mary Virginia Fletcher of Castlewood, VA, who was for a time at Ft. Bragg. Searching the Library of Virginia's online Virginia Chronicle, we located in the Lebanon News, Volume 115, Number 6593, 22 November 1995, a short biographical / autobiographical entry concerning the Lieutenant and some of her reminiscences of service. The paper used for printing this item has become somewhat limp over the decades, but it is safely stored now in a clear protective display sleeve with white card-stock backing board.

Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, octavo, pp. x, 159. Illustrated. Includes two maps.

Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, octavo, pp. x, 153 plus index. Black and white illustrations. Maps: (1) Jefferson County, AL, 1911; and (2) The explosion area of the Banner Mine.