San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1892. Hardcover. Very good. 384 pp, in original brown cloth decorated in black and gilt. Rubbing to edges, dent to top edge of front board, otherwise very good. Binding tight, text clean. Beautifully illustrated with engravings of various hot springs and scenic locations in California..... Item #20811
Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. xiv, 283 pp + folding map + illustrations, with maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. Name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1972 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series, No. 142. Includes documentation of voyages to England, the Canary..... Item #1852
New York: Viking, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. First printing of this early collection of Angell's humorous pieces. Slight wear to foot of spine, top edge lightly dust soiled; else fine. Dust jacket has a few chips to the top edge and some..... Item #11720
Hobart: Anson's Photographs. Hardcover. Very good. Souvenir view book printed in Germany for this Australian photography firm. Undated, internal evidence places it between 1890 and 1892. 5.75 x 4.25 inches (oblong). Red paper-covered boards decorated in gilt and black, containing 14 accordion-folded photolithographic (albertype or a similar process) views. Brothers..... Item #20485
![Picturesque Southern Tasmania [Port Arthur]. Anson Brothers](/pictures/thumb/20485_1.jpg?v=1553624299)
New York: American Geographical Society of New York, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. x, 292 pp + folding plates, with maps, bibliography, index. Light rubbing to front pastedown, light shelf wear and soiling, a few spots of nibbling to spine; text clean. No dust jacket. American Geographical Society Research..... Item #2832
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. 249 pp, bound in gray cloth. Mild spine slant, otherwise minimal wear. Clean, tight, unmarked. Dust jacket has slight edgewear; original price ($3.00) present; in a new mylar cover. "A romantic novel..... Item #14565
Branson, MO: The New Menace, [1921]. [11] pp. Stapled wrappers, lightly toned, a few spots of foxing. Very good. The New Menace was a virulently anti-Catholic newspaper founded in 1911 (as The Menace) and boasting a subscriber base of more than a million after just three years. Circulation declined during..... Item #18043
Milan, IL: Rail Splitter Press. Sixteen pamphlets in original wrappers, averaging around 40 pp each, some with illustrations; all in very good condition, most quite scarce. William Lloyd Clark was a venomous anti-Catholic who founded the Rail Splitter Press to publish tracts, handbills, and postcards elaborating his views and those..... Item #20685
Geneve: Henri-Albert Goss & Comp. 1759. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo, 141 pp + 14 plates (on which are printed a total of 49 engraved figures), in contemporary paste paper boards. The word "gherminella" (slight of hand) is written on the front pastedown, along with what is likely an..... Item #20715
Lima, Peru: Instituto Andino de Estudios en Poblacion y Desarrollo, 1981. Softcover. Very Good. 55 pp, with two foldout diagrams, bibliography. Short (1/2 inch) tears at head and foot of spine; light handling wear; contents clean and sound. Text in Spanish. A study of migration patterns within the nation of..... Item #329
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 199 pp + illustrations. Slight bump to lower corners, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has sticker damage to front panel and a few short tears. Aramilev "brings vividly before his readers the..... Item #1018
Allegan Forest, MI: Priscilla Press, 2003. Softcover. Near fine. Trade paperback, 347 pp, indexed, illustrated with b/w photos. Signed by Arbic under his name on the title page. Short inscription from previous owner describing the circumstances of purchasing the book; otherwise clean, with minimal wear. Useful, comprehensive history of the..... Item #14619
![City of the Rapids: Sault Ste. Marie's Heritage [SIGNED]. Bernie Arbic](/pictures/thumb/14619.JPG?v=1474055660)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First American edition. 464 pp, plus index (xiv); folding map. Orange cloth boards. Lower corners lightly bumped, previous owner's signature on title page; else fine. Dust jacket lightly..... Item #11159
Faux red crocodile leather album, 10 x 14 in., with embossed gilt lettering and metal clasp closure, 40 black paper leaves interleaved with glassine on which are mounted ca. 125 black and white photographs ranging in size from 2 x 3 to 5 x 7 inches. Titled in Russian on..... Item #20629
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 334 pp, with bibliography, index. Lightly bumped corners; internals clean and sound. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, mild toning to spine. A modern critic writes: "Written simultaneous to Richard Aldington's Biographical Inquiry (and..... Item #18968
New York: E. Weyhe, 1935. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 6.5 x 9.25 inches, in original printed wrappers; lacking the dust jacket. Some chipping to the spine and upper corner of the front cover. Number 50 of 200 copies for sale from a total edition of 212, with an original..... Item #19640
London: Arthur Barker, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 306 pp, with frontis portrait, maps, index, map endpapers. Light spotting to page edges and approximately 10 pages, some wear and soiling to boards including mottling to spine; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. biography of Ibn Saud, Arab tribal leader..... Item #1414
London: Gerald Howe, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good in a good dust jacket. 96 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers, light wear to edges, contents clean and sound. Dust jacket has internal tape reinforcements and is chipped at corners and spine ends with a small loss along the front joint. Lady Stanhope..... Item #1775
Oxford: Francis Macpherson, 1852. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 16mo, 15 pp, in original wrappers. Light toning, strip of paper covering the spine that may be a later addition (although the sewing goes through it, all else very good. This Newdigate Prize Poem was the first publication of one of..... Item #19746
London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, 207 pp. Original green cloth boards, with mild bumping to corners, bookplate of Arthur Sherwell on front pastedown; binding sound, text clean. Includes three discourses delivered by Arnold during a lecture tour in the United States, titled: Numbers; or..... Item #2463
London: Macmillan and Co., 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp xix, 302, [2] (ads), bound in publisher's rust cloth ruled in gilt. Corners bumped, spine lightly toned, penciled notes on verso of rear free endpaper, minor foxing; very good. Presentation copy, inscribed "From the Author" on the half title..... Item #18549
London: Macmillan, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo,122 pp + ads. Publisher's burgundy cloth ruled in gilt. Mild edgewear, repaired tear to first page of text, else sound and clean. During his travels in France, Arnold visited several French secondary schools, which he found superior to their English equivalents..... Item #18946
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp xxxii, 228, in publisher's mauve cloth ruled in black, with gilt insignia on upper board. Mild rubbing to spine ends, corners lightly bumped, some faint staining to rear board, closed tear to half-title, with tiny archival tape reinforcement..... Item #18550
![Last Essays on Church and Religion [ASSOCIATION COPY]. Matthew Arnold](/pictures/thumb/18550.jpg?v=1485470037)
Cincinnati, OH: Queen City Publishing, 1874. Hardcover. Very good-. 226 pp + 29 ('Descriptive Catalogue of T.S. Arthur's Popular Works"), with wood-enrgaved frontispiece. Original green cloth decorated in gilt and black. Light shelf wear to boardss, corners rubbed, light soiling to pages edges and occasional margins. Binding tight and square..... Item #2519
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near FIne in a Very Good dust jacket. 310 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, short bibliography, index. Foxing to top edge; else fine. Dust jacket is price clipped and has light shelf wear. "This book is an attempt to describe Leopold..... Item #292
