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NY: St. Martin Press/Minotaur, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition. Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

NY: Bantam. NF. 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Review copy with publisher's fol ded letter laid in. .

E.P. Dutton & Company, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good- Dust Jacket. Oversize. Stated 1st edition hardcover in very good condition with unclipped good- dust jacket. Over 1000 pictures, 511 pages, copyright page states "First Edition", no indications of other printings. Binding is tight, sturdy and square; pictures, illustrations, boards and text also very good. DJ has chipping/small tears along edges and two larger tears (including a 2-1/2 inch by 1/2 inch chunk missing at heel of spine). DJ mostly intact and now protected in Mylar wraps.

Doubleday, Doran , Garden City NY, 1933. HBNODJ, 1933, stated 1st edition, Interior Nice, Tight Clean with light corner stain some pgs thruout, VG/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ, Burgundy cloth decorated Gold gilt Cover has rub, wear Scuff along spine, small chips Extremities, . First Edition. Hard Cover.

Dj has minimal scuff on tail. 25 pp text; 97 b&w plates with captions.

Boston: Little Brown. VG Hardback in G DJ. (1962). first Edition. How to live 50 years ago how life was in the early 1900s for those who knew how to live it right and were determined to do so .

Michael Di Capua Books, HarperCollins, 1994. HBDJ, 1994, stated 1st edition, small light stain pgs edge bottom, F-/F, AS-IS. First Edition. Hard Cover.

NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC.. G/G DJ EDGEWORN, TORN, CRSEAED. Pages: 511. . 1955. 1ST. HARDCOVER..

Book of Month Select, 1st Edit, 1962. HBDJ , 1962, book club, PC top & bottom inner flap DJ, Nice red cloth with Gold Gilt, DJ light rub, wear tiny chips tears Extremities, tiny stain bottom pgs edge, Interior nice, tight clean light Fox & tiny stain bottom corner 5 or so pgs, F-/NF,AS-IS, 305 pgs, . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardback. Good. First edition, hardback. 19.5 × 12.5cm, 518pp. This copy has a prize label to the ffep from The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club which has been signed by Eric Linklater (as President), Allan C Frazer (as Secretary) and another member of the Council whose name I can't decipher. A collection of verse in Scots (as popposed to an anthology of Scottish poems) starting with anonymous verse of the 1300s through to poets born in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Also includes a glossary of early Scots and modern Scots. Condition: A good solid copy, though the spine has a water-stain and is faded, and a few spots of fraying to the rear joint. The contents are very good.

Morris Plains, NJ: Unicorn Publishing, , 1992. Hard Cover. No Jacket.1992. 1st Edition Thus/ 1st Printing. with #1 Intact in Number Line, 4to - over 934" - 12" tall.Glossy color illustrated board with purple cloth spine Gold Gilt decoration & title slightly rubbed,Interior Nice, tight Clean, VG-/F-,NO DJ AS Issued.. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Cheval Books Simon & Schuster NY, 1979. HB NODustJacket, 1979, 1st US Revised edition,with #1 Intact in Number Line, blue & white embossed illustrated cloth Cover, Interior nice condition but some dogeared pgs, 169 pgs, NF/F, NODJ. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Whitman publ, Wisc, 1964. HB NODJ issued,1964, 1st edition,Glazed pictorial Cloth has some rub & Wear, 212 pgs, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Uit 'n skoolbiblioteek, met alle stempels en plakkers verwyderd; titel op ruggraat in swart. Omslag gedeeltelig oorgekleur.

First edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Review copy with publisher's fol ded letter laid in.

Hardcover in light tan buckram cloth with gilt lettering in Good DJ with edge wear and tears, pieces missing. Tight binding Unmarked text. Includes Introduction. Also contains chapters on First Foreign Policy Acts of the Soviet Government, as well as The Brest-Litovsk Talks and Peace Treaty; Beginning of the Foreign Armed Intervention and Soviet Russia's Struggle to Prolong the Peaceful Respite (March-November 1918;) Soviet Foreign Policy During the Armed Intervention and the Civil War (November 1918-March 1921); Establishment of New Relations with Eastern Countries; Struggle of the Soviet Union etc.

Clarkson Potter. HBDJ, Beige boards lettered on spine, PC , F-/F-, stated 1st edition, 1994, with #1 Intact in Number Line , index, 144 pgs, Conversion chart. First Edition. Hard Cover.

NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC.. VG-/G BOOK & DJ EDGEWORN. DJ SUNNED. Pages: 511. . 1955. 1ST. HARDCOVER..

Harper & Bros,. HB NO DJ, 1947, 1st edition stated , VG-, AS-IS, 2 pgs. missing at end bk, red cloth cover nice condition decorated & lettered in blue light wear, NODJ. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Macmillan NY, 1914. HB NODustJacket, April 1914, Printed a year after first edition , Interior Nice, tight Clean some rub, wear, lite wrinkling, dogears, & small water stains on corner blank Margins thruout, VG-/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ, 201 pgs + Ads, Beige & Orange & black Decorated Cloth cover light rub, wear ,soil & tiny Chips Extremities,. Hard Cover.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc., 1944. First edition, title page marked 1944, also a Wartime Edition. Bright red cloth lettered in black, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [2.00] and is in good condition with minor age-darkening to the spine and some old insect damages that has resulted in tiny holes along the outer edges where they fold ot the inner flaps, very little paper loss. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.

De Ville, no date but circa 2007. Hard cover, first edition. Fine condition in Fine dust jacket.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc., 1944. First edition, title page marked 1944, also a Wartime Edition. Bright red cloth lettered in black, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [2.00] and is in good condition with minor age-darkening to the spine and some old insect damages that has resulted in tiny holes along the outer edges where they fold ot the inner flaps, very little paper loss. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.

New York: Targ Editions, 1980. Hardcover. 105p., in original boards and cloth spine, very good first edition in English, limited to 350 copies, signed by Himes at the colophon, in original unprinted tissue jacket, ragged at edges and protective mylar. Targ Editions, no. 7.

De Ville, no date but circa 2007. Hard cover, first edition. Fine condition in Fine dust jacket.

London:: Printed for the Author, 1803., 1803. 8vo. [iv], xxvii, [1], 360, xxxi, [1] pp. 4 engraved plates of apparatus (Plate II acts as frontispiece, all plates are unnumbered), index. Crudely rebound in quarter calf, marbled paper over old boards. Armorial bookplate of Aske's Boy School, Haberdasher's Livery Company. Ownership signature on title of Jas. Law Jones, "rec'd from Messrs. Rickers staff & Jones -- 15 Sept. 1803". Scarce. First edition, vol. II only. With added paper (laid in): A Manual of Analytical Mineralogy. Review. Quarterly Review, 1809. 9 pp. pp. 153-161. "This clearly written and well organized book is called the first textbook of general chemistry written in the English language to be based on Lavoisier's new chemistry. The principles are illustrated with experiments." -- Cole. / Accum (1769-1838), born in Germany where the family operated a small soap boiling business. In 1793 Accum came to London to take a position at Brande, apothecaries to George II. He became friends with Anthony Carlisle and William Nicholson and established his own laboratory. He assisted Sir Humphry Davy until 1803 (the year this book was issued). He also began lecturing in 1802 where is students included Benjamin Silliman and William Peck. He supplied apparatus to institutions abroad. Amazingly, in December 1820, he was arrested for mutilating books at the Royal Institution Library, which triggered his exiting England for Germany. "The value of Accum's work lies in the way he saw and exploited the technological possibilities of the rapidly advancing science of chemistry." [DSB]. REFERENCES: Cole 9 (pp. 4-5); DSB I, pp. 43-44Neville I, p. 10.

Ditchling, Sussex: Pepler and Sewell, St Dominic's Press, 1934. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Hagreen, Philip. One of 300 copies, octavo size, sixteen unpaginated leaves. The text of a lecture given in London by Fr. McNabb to the Catholic Poetry Society. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in brown quarter-cloth over green paper covered boards, limitation page states, "300 copies have been printed by hand in Caslon 14 point Old Face type on Head's hand-made paper, January 1934. This is No. 255."; "Stones from the Brook: No. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer" (printed on the half-title); octavo size, (8" x 5 1/4"), sixteen unpaginated leaves. In a paper wrapper with black lettering on both panels and flaps. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine, boards have straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some fading to green color of both boards in uneven patches and on back boards around perimeter. The paper wrapper very good, overall light sunning, the right margin of the front flap unevenly torn vertically, and a 3/4" closed tear near head of spine. ___CITATION: Taylor & Sewell, no. A234, which notes the title-page engraving by Philip Hagreen. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

[Berlin]: Vereinigung Berliner Architekten, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Folio (13 1/2 x 10 1/4"). 58, [2]pp (Text and in-text illustrations), [56] leaves (Plates). Original blue cloth, with gold lettering to front cover. Decorative endpapers. Laid in, an original and unsigned watercolor on transparent paper, and the third issue of the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg, dated February 27, 1920. Title page decorated by Adolf Hartung. This splendid photo-illustrated architectural monograph was published by the Union of Berlin Architects (Vereinigung Berliner Architekten) to commemorate the 25th anniversary of their founding. The founding members included distinguished historians as well as Martin Gropius, a celebrated architect and the uncle of Walter Gropius. By 1904, the association had over two hundred members. As seen in this book, the Union was an active participant in the architectural life of Berlin and curious about developments elsewhere. "Vereinigung Berliner Architekten MDCCCLXXIX-MDCCCCIV" features striking full-page b/w illustrated and photographic plates showing some of the best architectural examples produced between 1879 and 1904, such as: - The Berlin Dom (Cathedral), constructed from 1893 to 1905 by Julius Carl Raschdorff. - An architectural drawing of the Metz railway station, under construction at the time of the publication. The impressive Gothic-style station was built between 1905 and 1908 by German architect Jürgen Kröger assisted by the architects Jürgensen and Bachmann. - The Kaiserbrücke, a railway bridge on the Mainz rail bypass across the Rhine at the north end of Mainz. The bridge was built between 1901 and 1904 by Franz Heinrich Schwechten, one of the most famous architects of his time who contributed to the development of historicist architecture. The Kaiserbrücke was destroyed in 1945 by retreating German troops. - The New Town Hall (Leipzig), built between 1899 and 1905 by Hugo Licht. - The Lessing-Theater (Berlin), built between 1897 and 1898 by Hermann von der Hude and Julius Hennicke. The theater was destroyed during an allied air raid in April 1945. - The Bismarcksäule (Cologne), a prominent memorial statue dedicated to Prince and Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. The statue was built by A. Hartmann. - The Bismarck-Denkmal (Hamburg), is a memorial sculpture located in the St. Pauli quarter, dedicated to Otto von Bismarck. The monument was built by W. Müller. - The Charlottenburg U-Bahn station, built by Alfred Grenander. - The Almemor (raised platform also called bema, bimah or bima) of the synagogue in Lindenstrasse (Berlin). The synagogue was built in 1881 by Cremer & Wolffensteir. Some of the buildings featured in this work were built in the style of the Jugendstill (Art Nouveau). Minor abrasion to spine. Binding rubbed along edges. Text in German. Binding in overall good- to good, interior in very good condition.

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1923. 1st ed. in German. Hardcover. Good. 68 mounted plates (mostly in color) plus several smaller, mostly mounted, illustrations (some color) on text pages, Original vellum quarterbinding (purple boards backed in vellum). 37 cm. Small gilt figure on front cover. Front and back cover quite faded around outlines of smaller books that protected the original color. Center half of rear joint split (and then visibly reglued). There is also a small gouge at the bottom of the front joint. Cover edges heavily rubbed. Contents sound and clean with a few creases on tissue guards. Minimal foxing. No slipcase or jacket. German text. Editions of this book also appeared in English ("Bakst, the Story of the Artist's Life") and French ("Bakst: Histoire de Leon Bakst"). Bakst was born in Grodno (now part of Belarus) to Jewish parents. He later changed his name and achieved fame in Russia and elsewhere as an artist and designer of sets and costumes for the Ballet Russes.

Munich: Marees Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co. Verlag, 1918. First Limited Edition Thus. Full Pigskin (Full Leather), with custom slipcase. Near Fine. No. 162 of 200, with one of 150 on hand-made paper of Wiggins, Teape & Co. 240 copies in all were made, including unnumbered copies (212 were numbered in one of two ways). 4to. (27 by 20 cm.) 282, [5] pp. The outstanding aspects of this edition and copy in which Ovid's verse is rendered in both Latin and German translation are magnificent decorative pigskin binding, the flowing type, and the elegant page decoration, which includes a huge variety of cameo images. These images are never repeated exactly, it should also be noted. Resulting is a book of extraordinary beauty, both exterior and interior-wise. Aesthetically the book production is true to the classical in its lines and sensibility while being securely of its own time when a sinuous Art Nouveau or Jugendstil was ripening into a modernist economy, or Art Deco. There are sensuous Rococo details, such as the gilt lines etched into the spine, while one can not but be impressed with the lack of clutter on each and every page! While the type is not a plain Roman or the like, the gentle curvature of the cursive invites and soothes the eye, and every word should be crisply clear to the modern reader. Light soiling and darkening on the spine. Clean and tight within. The slipcase has some wear.