![Dictionary of Soils [Dictionnaire des Sols]. André Cailleux, Georges Plaisance, Margaret...](/pictures/thumb/9793.jpg?v=1622641282)
New Delhi and Washington, D.C.: Amerind Publishing Co. with the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation, 1981. First Edition. Octavo (24.5x17x7.5cm); xii + 1109pp, including three appendices. One gate-fold table of soil terminology, in French. Volume entries are largely in original French; definitions are in English;..... More
Shanghai: Kwang Hsueh Publishing House, 1933. "Fifteenth Thousand" printing. 16mo (14x11x1.5cm); viii + 237pp + "Radical Index" of 70pp. Brown-black pebbled leatherette with gilt spine lettering and rules. Cover shows one white paint-like spot (1 cm) and several white speckles. Joints and hinges solid; textblock unmarred and unmarked. Chauncey..... More
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's green cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; ca. 110pp.; chiefly illus. Boards rather rubbed with exposure at corners and minor fraying at spine ends, dampstain to rear cover not bleeding into textblock, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, else Good or better..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press / Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1987. First Edition. Large quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's boards in mustard pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[1],239pp.; half-tone illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, light dust-soil to rear jacket panel, spine panel sunned, else Very Good and..... More
![Dictionary of American Regional English [Volumes I - IV] [Inscribed to William Safire]. Frederick...](/pictures/thumb/5204.jpg?v=1564075422)
First Edition. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1985 - 2002. Volumes I - IV; all First Printings. Thick Quartos. Publisher's blue cloth in tan pictorial dust jackets. Illustrations throughout. Several letters laid in from the editors to author, linguist, and speechwriter William Safire. Volume One inscribed..... More
New York: C.S. Dunning, 1831. Octavo; vi, 412pp. Printed in two columns, with woodcut illustrations throughout. Contemporary sheep with gilt decoration to spine, borders, and board edges. Marbled endpapers. Ex-library with card pocket on back pastedown with stamps of The Fleming School Library and Ecole Francaise Reference Library, but no..... More
![The Economics of Taste: The Rise and Fall of Picture Prices, 1760-1960 [Vol. I]. Gerald Reitlinger](/pictures/thumb/9360.jpg?v=1619467753)
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1982. Reissue. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's grey pictorial cloth; xvi,518pp.; frontispiece. Light shelf wear, tiny soil spot at spine foot, occasional faint marginalia, else Very Good and sound. The first volume of this monumental three-volume reference. More
![An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection [with] A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic...](/pictures/thumb/8816.jpg?v=1615313843)
Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery / University of Washington Press, 1988. First Edition. Two quarto volumes. 446 p.; 240 p. Black and white and color photographs and illustrations throughout. Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Decorative gray endpapers. Dark blue slipcase. Sturdy and square in boards with just..... More
Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1987. Two volume set, complete. Large octavos (11.25" x 8.5"); Vol 1 - [xviv], 589pp; Vol 2 - [xxii], 595-1460pp. Illustrated glossy paper-covered boards. No dust jackets as issued. Boards lightly edgeworn with some bumping to corners and light wear at spine ends. Two-inch pencil mark..... More
Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1995. Second Edition. Octavo. 735 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Black boards with spine stamped in white and front stamped in white with red label. Light wear to corners, with a slight roll to spine. Sticker to rear board. Binding is sound and pages..... More
![Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise [Thomas Jefferson Coolidge's Set]. Hippolyte Taine](/pictures/thumb/7053.jpg?v=1597859671)
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1866. Deuxième Édition Revue et Augmentée. Five volumes; 12mo (17.75cm.); uniformly bound in contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt spines in five compartments, marbled endpapers. Light shelf wear to boards, leather a bit dried with some cracking, else a Very Good..... More
Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1980. First Edition. Large Octavo. 295 pages. Black and white illustrations. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt at spine. Dust jacket shows light rubbing and toning along edges, with one small closed tear along front top edge. Boards show..... More
Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1975. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's blue library cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xvii,[5],384pp. Minor dust-soil, especially to spine, else a Very Good or better copy. Card catalog of the collection of Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980), bilingual introductory text in French and English. More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. Second Edition. 12mo; xviii, [19]-176pp +36pp ads. Blue and brown paper-covered boards with printed title label to spine. Boards well-rubbed at corners and along edges, with bumps to spine ends and general smudging to surface. Ownership name of "J. Evans Pugh" in..... More
Philadelphia: Griggs & Dickinson, 1832. Standing Edition, Greatly Improved. 24mo; 413pp. Contemporary brown leather with black title card to spine. Boards rubbed and bumped along edges and corners, with chipping at head of spine and leather worn away and cracking at bottom exposing gatherings. Split starting to front joint, but..... More
New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1907. Second Edition, Revised. Octavo; xxii + 244pp + 73pp of publisher's listings. Over 80 figures and diagrams throughout, with 8 additional diagrams in an appendix; multiple formula tables and explanations throughout. Textblock of heavy stock. Gray cloth with gilt spine lettering..... More
Paris: Librairie Larousse, [1948]. Nouvelle Édition refondue et augmentée. Two volumes; large quartos (29.75cm.); publisher's two-toned (green and cream) decorative cloth embossed in gilt, gilt-lettered paper spine labels, decorative endpapers; vi,488; [2],512pp.; color plates throughout mounted on grey card stock (some offsetting), additional text illus. Cream portions of binding rather..... More
![A Conrad Memorial Library: The Collection of George T. Keating [Limited Edition]. Joseph Conrad,...](/pictures/thumb/8236.jpg?v=1613596048)
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First Edition, Limited to 501 copies of which this is no. 155. Large, thick octavo (26.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, white embossed paper medallion inlay to upper cover, printed paper spine label (duplicate bound in rear), top edge gilt, housed in black cloth slipcase..... More
Toronto: The Clark Co., Yonge Street, [1904]. Revised Twenty-Third Edition. Octavo; [xii] + 1487pp. Half bound in sea-green leather with raised bands on spine and gilt-stamped ornaments within spine compartments; title gilt-stamped on burgundy ground. Sea-green, gold, and tan marbling front and back, endpapers, and on all textblock edges... More
![Signaturbogen [Book of Danish Painters' Signatures]. Kai V. Timm](/pictures/thumb/9688.jpg?v=1621532936)
Copenhagen: Nordisk Kunstarkiv, 1962. First Thus Limited Edition of 1000 copies, of which this is No. 771. Quarto (28.5x20x2cm); 188pp. Slipcase is 29x21x2cm. Slipcase in B&W reproduces in a wraparound splash many of the artists' signatures reproduced alphabetically and systematically inside. Boards in the same signature splash, with ruby..... More
![Abridgement of Murray's English Grammar [Alger's Murray]. Lindley Murray, Israel Alger, ed](/pictures/thumb/9804.jpg?v=1622666142)
Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1828. Improved Stereotype Edition. 16mo (6" x 3.5"); 122pp. Blue paper-covered boards with brown leather spine. Boards rubbed with exposure along edges and corners, showing some general soiling and smudging to surface. Leather spine scuffed with splits starting along joints and spine ends and some fraying..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1872. New and Revised Edition. Quarto. 860 pages. Rebound in contemporary half leather with gilt decoration, five raised bands, and red leather label to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. Clarke worked on the concordance for 16 years, and, although it was called 'as..... More
First Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. First Edition. Octavo. 283 pages. Inscribed by author to William Safire on front free endpaper. Inscription reads, "To: William Safire / with author's compliments / Michael Echeruo / 1998." A Hallmark Hanukkah card is also laid in and inscribed from..... More
Paris: Chez la Veuve Dutillet, 1775. Nouvelle Édition, revue, corrigée, & augmentée par l'Auteur. Two volumes; quarto (26cm.); full contemporary mottled sheep, marbled spines in six compartments with red and tan onlays, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; [2],xxxviii,558; [2],602pp.; woodcut title page vignettes, head- and tail-pieces. Leather dried and scuffed..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. First Edition. Quarto. 1265 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in copper. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Sturdy and square in boards with just a trace of shelfwear along bottom edge. Pages clean and unmarked. More