The Collector's Book of Railroadiana
New Jersey: Castle, 1976. FIRST. Hardcover. Fine / fine. A clean and solid copy.
Non-Fiction
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Akenfield: Portrait Of An English Village
New York: Pantheon, (1969). First American edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and lovely copy. Appears unopened and unread. Old copyright statement crossed out with a correction stamped above it. This appears to be the norm for the US edition. The jacket is price-clipped, else fine.
Losing Mum and Pup
New York: 12 Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. A wonderful book-funny and touching.
The English Language
London: The Folio Society, (2007). Hardcover. Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Third printing stated on copyright page. Illustrated throughout - many in full color. A lovely copy. In a fine slip-case.
Women Of Crisis. Lives of Struggle and Hope
Franklin City: The Franklin Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. A fine copy in all respects of this limited first edition from the Franklin Press. Illustrated by Chet Jezierski. All edges gilt. Black silk endpapers. Bound in dark green leather with elaborated gilt design.
The Light's On At The Signpost
London: Harper Collins, (2002). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / fine. Original maroon boards, lettered in gilt to the spine. In a lovely example of the complete jacket. The book appears unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page. Number row ends in "1."
Organisation and Management. A Socialogical Analysis of Western Theories
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / fine. As new. Unopened and unread. A fine copy of this book.
Economic History Of The South
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1934. FIRST. Hardcover. Near Fine / near fine. A clean, bright and solid copy. The jacket has only minor edge-wear but overall remains very nice.
Report on European Dock-Yards
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1889. Second edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto, 1/4 recent leather spine and corners, original russet cloth, lettered in gilt. A very solid and pleasing copy. Naval Constructor Philip Hichborn toured European dock yards and ship-building facilities toward the end of the 20th Century and filed this report. Seven photo-gravure plates plus a frontis of the.....
The Newgate Calendar; Containing Interesting Memoirs Of the Most Notorious Characters
London: J. Robins & Company, 1824. Hardcover. Fine. Co-authored with William Baldwin. Four volumes, bound in half crimson morocco and cloth. Spine, lettered and bordered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and top edge gilt. One engraved frontis per volume. Numerous in-text engravings. Bindings signed by Hatchards. Volume I is dated 1824; Volumes II and III are dated 1825, and Volume IV.....
Sweet Promised Land
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1957). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. A clean, bright and solid copy of this account of an American returning to his beloved Basque country on a journey of discovery. The book is fine and the bright and complete dust jacket shows only minor rubbing at the head of the spine.
Quiet Crisis In India. Economic Development and American Policy
Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, (1962). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. A very clean, bright and important scholarly work.
Mudlarking
London: Bloomsbury Circus, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. A delightful look at Ms. Maiklem's passion of hunting for relics and other treasures left exposed at low tide on the Thames.
The Student Life and Other Essays
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. In the scarce dust jacket. The jacket has only minor wear at both spine ends. By the great English Physician. Now quite scarce in this excellent condition.
Learning From Other Worlds. Estrangement, Cognition and the Politics Of Science Fiction and Utopia
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, (2000). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. A fine copy in all respects.
Blue And Gray. Georgetown University And The Civil War
Washington DC: The Georgetown University Alumni Association, (1961). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. Original gray cloth, lettered in blue. With a gift inscription, dated July, 1941. The book is very clean, bright and pleasing. The dust jacket shows, wear and rubbing. There is some tape-repair to the verso. Provides brief biographies of students and alumni who were engaged.....
Surviving The Male Mid-Life Crisis
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1977). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy. As new.
Twentynine Palms. A True Story Of Murder, Marines, And The Mojave
New York: William Morrow, (2001). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. Remainder mark to the top edge.
Building A New Japan
Tokyo: The Simul Press, (1973). First Englis Translation. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy. Illustrated throughout.
Syria's Secret Library
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page. The true story of how a besieged Syrian town found hope through reading.
The Rock Rabbit And The Rainbow
Einseideln: Daimon, (1998). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. A fine copy in all respects of this collection of essays and tributes.
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