Boston: Chez J.H.A. Frost, 1824. Second American Edition. 12mo. 379 pages + 3 pages advertisements. Contemporary sheep with spine lettered in gilt. Text in French, advertisements in English. Worn at extremities with exposure to edges and loss at spine ends, most significantly to top of spine with gatherings exposed..... More
London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by W. Griffin, [1766]. First Edition. Octavo. 118 pages. Bound in 19th century boards with leather spine and tips with gilt lettering to spine. Chipped at extremities with loss to bottom of spine. General scuffing and rubbing to boards. Ownership stamp..... More
Harrisburg, PA: Privately Printed: The Aurand Press, 1939. Limited Edition. Octavo. 108 p. + 1 p. advertisement. Brown cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Full title continues: An Impartial Examination into Everyday Beliefs and Practices of the Pennsylvania-Germans, Diligently Compared with an English Interpretation of..... More
Cleveland, OH: Central Publishing House, [1899]. Slim 16mo (15cm.); publisher's brown cloth lettered and ruled in black; 94pp. Boards rather bumped and rubbed with some light soiling to covers and text block, tiny hole mid-spine, contemporary juvenile pencil notes to endpapers, later pen ownership signature to front free endpaper; Good..... More
Cincinnati: Swormstedt & Poe, 1855. Later edition. 16mo. 166, [2[, 197 p. Original blue-green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. First published in 1844-1845, the memoirs of a retired itinerant Methodist minister. Boards worn with exposure. Hinges starting but binding holding. Foxing to pages but overall text legible. [Howes S-953]. More
Evansville: Antes Press, [n.d., but 1928]. First Thus. Large, slim octavo; publisher's blue blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 127pp. A few tiny surface scratches to boards, else Fine. Letters by the 19th-century Austrian Catholic missionary in Utica, New York, and Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin territory, translated from the original German. First..... More
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, [1983]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's tan card wrappers printed in brown and red; xiv,192pp. Light shelf wear to wrapper extremities, spine and rear wrapper sunned, else Very Good, internally fine. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, Bollingen Series LXXXIX, 1977. Octavo (23.5x15.5x2.5cm); xxxviii + 580pp, including general index and indexes for Greek, Sanskrit and Pali terminology. Twenty-three B&W images. Coated card covers with photograph on front. Near Fine. One small lacuna to coating on rear surface; spine uncreased and uncracked; textblock clearly..... More
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Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833. First American Edition. Small octavo; publisher's cloth, printed paper spine label; viii,[13]-328pp. Some shelf wear, especially at spine ends, spine cloth toned and label's text mostly effaced, light foxing throughout textblock, else Very Good and sound. Pencil and ink ownership inscription of..... More
London: William Pickering, 1850. 12mo. 157 pages + 4 pages advertisements. Green cloth binding with paper title labels to front and spine. Boards are worn along edges with staining and soiling. Chipped at top of spine with some light fraying to joints near spine ends. Corners bumped. Spine..... More
[Japan]: Kyo Bun Kwan, 1961. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's paper-covered boards in green photo-illustrated dust jacket; [4],149pp.; 11 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, three folding maps bond in rear. Light shelf wear, chiefly to jacket extremities, spine panel a bit sunned, else a Very Good and..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945. Second Printing. [Publications of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society Vol III] Octavo; x + 126pp, including appendices and bibliography. Burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Cloth mildly soiled, with some scratches, and nudging to crown and foot of sunned spine. Lettering darkened on spine..... More
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1970. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Lyons loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 211 pp. Black and white illustrations. Original dust jacket with "$6.95" price intact. Red boards stamped in black and white. Black topstain. Dust jacket rubbed and toned along edges..... More
New-York: J.E.D. Comstock, [1847]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); contemporary half sheep over marbled boards; vi,[153]-426,[2],[9]-148pp.; 24 leaves of plates including 12 colored botanicals, woodcuts throughout text. Boards rather rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription of a Mary Hart to front free endpaper, rear endpaper torn away, else Very Good and sound, complete..... More
Dublin: Published by Colm O Lochlainn at the Three Candles, 1961. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's red simulated cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xi, [1], 509pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, folding map plate bound in rear. Ex-Lancaster Theological Seminary with their usual markings, spine rather sunned, corners bumped, else Very Good..... More
New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. 292 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Paula and Abe, / with fondest regards. / - Benson." Number 56 in the Numen Bookseries - Studies in the History of Religions. Purple illustrated dust jacket over brown..... More
![Church and State in Social Welfare [Inscribed and Signed]. Bernard J. Coughlin](/pictures/thumb/6919.jpg?v=1596738601)
New York: Columbia University Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket, black topstain; xii,[4],189pp. General shelf wear, jacket spine rather sunned and crown chipped, tiny loss at bottom of rear flyleaf, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed..... More
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Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1985. First Edition. Large square quarto (30cm.); publisher's black pictorial card wrappers; 143pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, tiny creases at bottom fore-edge corners of first three leaves, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed by Aron on title page. More
![The Book of Job: A Revised Text and Version [William Safire copy]. C J. Ball, C F. Burney, preface](/pictures/thumb/5848.jpg?v=1576528321)
Oxford: Oxford University / Clarendon Press, 1922. First Edition. Octavo. 479 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt. Area the size of a dime cracked at top of spine. Cloth still attached but loose from binding. Rubbed at extremities and more heavily along top edge..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969. First Edition. Tall Octavo. 425 pages. All black and white plates and maps present. Illustrated dust jacket with original $15.00 price present. Orange boards stamped in black. Dust jacket rubbed with some light chipping to extremities. Lightly dust soiled along edges. Boards are..... More
Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid, 1932. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo (24cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's tan printed wrappers; [2],140; [2],52pp.; Vol. II chiefly illus. General minor shelf wear and a hint of dust-soil, small chip at Vol. I spine crown, Vol. II slightly foxed, especially title page, else Very Good overall..... More
Philadelphia: Christian Education Press, [1955]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; [8],120pp. Light shelf wear to extremities, rear jacket panel slightly soiled, else Very Good and sound. "Meditations for Youth and Adults" (upper jacket panel). More
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New York: Charles P. Somerby, 1875. Second U.S. Edition. Octavo. Mixed pagination; advertisements at rear. Blue moire cloth stamped in black and gilt. A series of essays from the English political activist, atheist, and founder of the National Secular Society. Includes "A Plea for Atheism," "Poverty," and several..... More
New York: Restoration Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's purple moiré cloth lettered in gilt; 232pp.; tipped in portrait plate on p. [8]. Spine toned, else Very Good or better. Anti-tobacco novel by the dentist and all-around crank, whose obituary title read: "Dr. C.G. Pease, 86, Noted..... More
Hollywood: Marcel Rodd, 1945. First Edition. Octavo; [viii],452pp. Illustrated dust jacket over brick cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, corners, and spine ends, with a few scuffs to surface. Small dampstain visible on jacket interior at bottom front..... More