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Boston, Massachusetts: E. C. Schirmer Music Company, 1936. 7" wide by 10.5" tall. A square, tight copy. Previous owner's tiny initials on cover. Pages are unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original printed paper-covered boards, and blue cloth spine. Laid-in are a musical program from 1939, and the sheet music for Corpus Christi, An Old English Carol, by Peter Warlock (copyright 1921, Curwen edition #61124).. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hard Cover. Very Good condition/No Dust Jacket. (iv), 172pp.

New York: Ace Books, 1999. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No creases. Appears unread. Not price clipped (5.99). No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. A Paperback Original (PBO). From the cover: "It is almost one thousand years since the birth of Christ. The battle between good and evil is about to begin... At the dawn of a new millennium, the forces of darkness begin to gather. In his guise as Angelo, Satan has guided England into despair and ruin... But Revelation also prophesies the appearance of two witnesses who will stand against the Antichrist... They possess magic from both Heaven and Earth that will enable them to battle the end of the world... A. D. 999." . First Printing of the First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine condition. Illus. by Falkenstern, Lisa (cover art). 309pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (price clipped). The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. A Soho Bibliography. Illustrated with 6 plates on glossy stock, including a frontispiece portrait of Housman. Bound in the original maroon cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. Complete with dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. (ii), 54pp. + 6 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Sussex / New York: The Harvester Press / Barnes and Noble Books, 1980. BRAND NEW in PERFECT condition. Sharp corners. NO rubbing. NO fading. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. Crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. 1980. First Edition. Expertly annotated bibliography. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Some Books and Articles on A. J. P. Taylor; A: Books; B: Books, Edited or Introduced by A. J. P. Taylor; C: Pamphlets; D: Historical Essays in Books, Encyclopedias, Learned Journals and others; E: Historical Essays in Newspapers, Periodicals and others; F: Articles etc. on Current Affairs; G: Book Reviews. Appendix: BBC Radio and TV Broadcasts. General Index. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. ISBN of the Barnes & Noble US Edition is 0-06-497910-5. . First Edition. Hardcover. New/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 616 pages. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Washington: Government Printing Office [Library of Congress], 1906. The Library of Congress copy? Near Fine condition. Square and tight. This 1906 first edition is RARE, especially so in condition as nice as this, since most copies went to libraries. This copy has NO stamps, numbers, or other library indications but for a loose "The Library of Congress 1800" bookplate laid-in. At the back of the bookplate is a little glue residue that appears to match a small glue residue shadow on the book's front pastedown endpaper. Bound in the original green cloth. Gilt stamping is bright and shiny. Cover is lightly rubbed but still has much of its original new book gloss. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. Corners are NOT bumped. Front inner hinge starting (but still holding). Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Introduction by William Coolidge Lane, Librarian, Harvard University Library. Sheehy BE 83: "Indexes some 120,000 portraits of about 40,000 persons." Walford 327: "An… Read More

Huntington, New York: JurisNet, LLC, 2006. 2 books. Laid-in is the American Arbitation Association's A COMMERCIAL ARBITATION GUIDE FOR BUSINESS PEOPLE (16 pages, staple-bound wraps, VG). The HARDCOVER handbook is NEW and unread in near PERFECT condition with only a tiny bit of very mild shelfwear to the cover (like you sometimes find in any new book store). NO chips, tears, creases or fading. Bright and shiny. Sharp corners. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Hinges are perfect. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- obviously never read. Footnotes. Index. Bound in the original gray, red and white laminated boards. From the rear cover: "The AAA Handbooks assemble from Dispute Resolution Journal - the flagship publication of the American Arbitration Association - and other sources, the leading professional writing in areas in which arbitration and ADR are likely to apply. The Handbooks on Arbitration and ADR are… Read More

New York: Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America Price is per issue. If you want more than one, we can adjust the total by increasing the shipping. Very Good to Fine condition. NOT library discards. NO owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. Available issues: Vol. 11, #2 (Winter 2000); Vol. 11, #4 (Summer 2000); Vol. 12, #1 (Fall 2000); Vol. 12, #2 (Winter 2000); Vol. 12, #3 (Spring 2001); Vol. 12, #4 (Summer 2001); Vol. 13, #1 (Fall 2001); Vol. 13, #2 (Winter 2002); Vol. 13, #3 (Spring 2002); Vol. 13, #4 (Summer 2002); Vol. 14, #1 (Fall 2002); Vol. 14, #2 (Winter 2003); Vol. 14, #3 (Spring 2003); Vol. 14, #4 (Summer 2003); Vol. 15, #1 (Fall 2003); Vol. 15, #2 (Winter 2004); Vol. 15, #3 (Spring 2004); Vol. 15, #4 (Summer 2004); Vol. 16, #1 (Fall 2004); Vol. 16, #2 (Spring 2005); Vol. 16, #3 (Summer 2005 - In Memoriam, Leona Rostenberg); Vol. 16, #4 (Fall 2005); Vol. 17, #2 (Spring 2006); Vol. 18, #2 (Spring 2007); Vol. 18, #3 (Summer 2007); Vol. 18, #4 (Fall 2007); Vol. 19, #1… Read More

Paris: Contact Organisation, 1953. Square, tight, unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original pictorial green cloth, decorated in white and black. Light cover soil. Pages are browned (age-toned) at the edges. Photo portraits throughout. "Cet ouvrage a été établi et Publié sous la Direction Générale de René Thevenet.". Hard Cover. Near Very Good condition./No Dust Jacket. 8vo. 762pp. .

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1992. BRAND NEW HARDCOVER in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. Perfect condition. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. 1992. Sixth Edition with Corrections & Additions. Revised by Nicolas Barker. Shaken, Unsophisticated, Harleian Style, Dentelle. Can you define these terms? This dictionary of terms and facts is both a pleasure to read and a key reference. There are far too many booksellers who apparently have not consulted this book. In their catalog and on-line descriptions they confuse "ex-libris" with "ex-library", "uncut" with "unopened", "issue" with "state", etc. Essential reference and the best book on the subject. Bound in the original red cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine and front cover. Complete with pristine dust jacket.. 6th Edition with Corrections &… Read More

London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1974. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Fine dust jacket. The jacket is protected by a removable clear-plastic sleeve. Price clipped but NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Previous owner's name on half title page. All other pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. NOT a remainder. 1974. Fifth Edition with Corrections. Although a 6th edition exists revised by Nicolas Barker, this 5th edition was the last to come out in John Carter's lifetime, and thus retains all of his charm and erudition It is a dictionary of terms and facts that is both a pleasure to read and a key reference. There are far too many booksellers who apparently have not consulted this book. In their catalog and on-line descriptions they confuse "ex-libris" with "ex-library," "uncut" with "unopened," "issue" with "state," etc. Essential reference and the best… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1917. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London -- so signed with a stamp in bright gold at the foot of the front inside cover. SEE PHOTOS. Full dark green crushed levant morocco, front and rear covers with triple gilt ruled borders and corner pieces. Spine with five raised bands decoratively gilt tooled/lettered within 6 compartments. Gilt ruled board edges. Handsome gilt inside dentelles (i.e. all 4 borders eloborately decorated with gilt lacy pattern at inner edges]. Spine with five raised bands and 6 compartments brightly gilt tooled/lettered. Near Fine condition (only lightly rubbed). Spine has uniformly mellowed to a pleasing brown. Outer pages with minor foxing. SEE PHOTOS. 4.75" wide by 6.25" tall. NO owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. The Hunting Alphabet, with many letters A - Z illustrated with a full page b/w plate after paintings by Richard Newton, Jr. 1917. Limited to 262 copies… Read More

New York: Harper and Row, 1964. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. A bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The jacket has 2 short (half-inch) closed tears. Jacket price is $4.95. Remainder mark on bottom edge. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. "First Edition" is so stated. Not a book club edition. From the library of Professor Louis B. Sohn, Harvard Law School, with his tiny label. Bound in the original gray cloth. Complete with dust jacket.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. x, 303pp .

Bethesda, Maryland: McNeil Engineering, 1962. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the AUTHOR, directly on the title page: "To Charles, with best personal regards, Gomer." HARDCOVER. Near Fine condition. Square and tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. Part I only, Fundamentals. Illustrated with numerous diagrams. List of references. Conversion factors. Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine and front cover.. INSCRIBED & SIGNED. Fifth printing of the 1949 original. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Paged by chapter (about 150? pages). Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Indianapolis, Indiana: Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc, 1962. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean and tight. EX-LIBRARY copy, stamped "WITHDRAWN" on endpapers. Very Good condition. Illustrated throughout. Appendices. Glosdsary. Index. From the cover: "Complete coverage of preset, command, beam-rider, and homing guidance systems, plus the fundamentals of missile guidance, development of rockets and missiles, and principles of propulsion.". First Edition. Softcover. Original pictorial wraps. 96pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

[Michigan]: American Concrete Institute, 1992. NOT a library discard. Fine condition. NO creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are unmarked -- creamy white, clean and crisp -- probably seldom if ever read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First printing (August, 1992) of the Eighth Edition, Revised. Illustrated throughout with line drawings, photos, charts and tables. Bound in the original flexible red cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine and front cover. 8.5" wide by 11" tall.. Eighth Edition, Revised. Softcover. Fine condition. ix, 220pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Farmington Hills, Michigan: American Concrete Institute, 2000. NOT a library discard. Very Good condition (but for occasional lines in the margin only that call attention to certain paragraphs). NO creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. First printing (February, 2000) of the Ninth Edition, Revised. Illustrated throughout with line drawings, photos, charts and tables. Bound in the original flexible purple cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine and front cover. . 8.5" wide by 11" tall.. Ninth Edition, Revised. Softcover. Very Good condition. viii, 209pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

San Francisco:: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988. Bright, square, and tight. Review copy with a few typos circled and check marked in the page margin. A letter from the publisher is laid-in, requesting 2 copies of the review. Dust Jacket is not price clipped (19.95). No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a book club edition. First printing with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "Drawing on fascinating original material and combining powerful vignettes and brilliant character sketches, the author has brought to life the terror and frenzy of a society ravaged from without and within as it faces the dawning of a new epoch and an uncertain future... Carnage, famine, cannibalism, pestilence, rapine, murder and madness plague the continent... The end of the millennium is fast approaching and with it the nightmare visions of Armageddon and Apocalypse. As rich as any fantasy, this chilling historical account… Read More

New York & Chicago: Circle Fine Art Press, 1981. Cover is in Very Good condition (light shelfwear). Bright and shiny. Sharp corners. FINE inside. A guide to an exhibition of Yaacov Agam's graphic works. Includes: "The Artist's Credo." Many beautiful full color reproductions. Chronology. List of Editions and Publishers. Bound in the original black laminated pictorial boards. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall.. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good - Fine condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by Agam, Yaacov. 48 pages. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Washington, DC: Executive Intelligence Review, 1989. NOT price clipped ($250.00!!!). Very Good condition. Flat uncreased spine. Bright and shiny. Light wear. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Two ink stamps on the title page (distributor's name, and NOT FOR SALE). Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. November 1989 Revised Edition of the August 1988, AIDS Global Showdown. Illustrated with map, diagrams and graphs. Subtitle: "Featuring Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.'s plan for victory." Bound in the original pale gray wraps., lettered in red and black From Wikipedia: "In 1986 the LaRouche movement worked to place an AIDS initiative, Proposition 64, on the California ballot, which lost by a 4 - 1 margin. It was re-introduced in 1988 and lost again by the same margin. Federal and state officials raided movement offices in 1986. In the ensuing trials, some leaders of the movement… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press, 1990. A gorgeous copy. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (15.00). No chips. No tears. No creases. Protected by a removable Brodart clear plastic sleeve. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp, apparently never read. This is the first U.S. edition of a novel that won the Whitbread Award in England. It tells the story of an African boy, a child guerilla who is schooled in bloodshed and who places his trust in his AK assault rifle. Remarkable jacket art by Leo and Diane Dillon. First printing with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Bound in the original rust-color boards and black cloth spine. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. As New condition/As New dust jacket. Illus. by Dillon, Leo and Diane (jacket art). 8vo. (vi), 231pp.