The Peace Terms of the Allies
London: Richard Clay & Sons, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self wrappers; 32pp. Mild soil; ownership signature (illegible); Good or better. More
London: Richard Clay & Sons, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self wrappers; 32pp. Mild soil; ownership signature (illegible); Good or better. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1904. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original tan decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt, top edge gilt; [6],541,[1][2](ads)pp.; color frontispiece. Light rubbing to extremities, contemporary bookseller ticket to front free endpaper, else Near Fine. BAL 7941. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1904. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original tan decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt, top edge gilt; v,[1],541,[1],[2](ads)pp.; color frontispiece. Spine cloth a bit darkened, light shelf wear, hinges cracked but still quite sturdy, else Near Very Good and sound. BAL 7941. More
Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1907. Copyright Edition. 12mo (16cm.); contemporary half tan morocco over pictorial paper boards, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, decorative endpapers; 280pp. Light shelf-wear, contemporary ownership bookplate to front pastedown, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1965]. First Edition. Baptist missionary's memoirs of her work in the Congo and the attack by "communist-trained terrorists" (upper jacket flap) that would kill her companion Irene Ferrel. Octavo (21cm.); original boards in green and yellow photo-illustrated dust jacket; 192pp.; 4 leaves of photographic..... More
London: I.B. Taurus & Co. Ltd., 2010. First Edition. Moving biography of the Austrian author and philosopher, who was both a victim and a survivor of the concentration camps during World War II. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,301,[5]pp; illus. Spine ends gently nudged..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover in dustjacket; 276pp; illus. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Small reviewer's "check" mark in ink to front free endpaper, else Fine in a slightly spine-sunned, else Near Fine dustjacket. More
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 191pp. Fine and unmarked in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; Near-New. More
New York: Eaton & Mains, [1909]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's tan gilt-lettered cloth; xix,[3],333pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 19 leaves of photographs. Corners rather badly bumped, general dust-soil, one plate separated but present, else Very Good, internally sound. Study (by a white author) of the social conditions of African-Americans, with..... More
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, N.d. [1962?]. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Side-stapled wrappers; 23pp. Fine. Author was Chair of the Department of Economics at Fisk University. "...there is, in reality, little cause for optimism regarding rapid change in the status of Negroes in the near future..." More
New York: by the Author, 1943. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Printed card wrappers; 167pp; includes bibliography. Clean, tight, Very Good copy. Ph.D. dissertation. The author was a faculty member at Columbia Teacher's College. This study, based on research compiled during the decade of the Great Depression, notes the "...steady grown..... More
London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd, 1969. First Edition. Covers South Africa's worker race classification, the Bantu Labour Act, and wage discrimination, among other aspects of apartheid. Octavo (21cm.); original red pictorial staplebound wrappers; vi,83pp. Very minimal edge wear, else About Fine..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1940. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; xx, 468pp. Inscribed: "For Hugh / with best regards, Pen," dated 2003. Tight, VG+ copy, with fading to cloth at base of spine; in original pictorial dustwrapper with ca. 3/4" scuff at upper edge of front..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. Described as a "Narrative History of Wall Street from 1644 to 1908," though only the final chapter deals with Wall Street in the brokerage era. Nicely illustrated with sepia halftone reproductions of contemporary views and documents. Sharp copy. Octavo (21cm). Original green..... More
New York: Emerson Hall Publishers, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Critical study in which the author "has amassed, analyzed and interpreted a wealth of data bearing on the manner in which Black families hav ebeen able to survive and indeed, move beyond survival to a high level of existence and humanity..... More
[Jericho, NY: New Dimensions in Education, 1968]. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original pictorial staplebound wrappers; [2],62pp. Wrappers rather soiled and worn from handling; contents about fine. Short anthology of works "to be used in conjunction with the Professional Notebook, Workshop" (p. [ii]), including stories and articles by Chester Himes, Earl..... More
New-York: T. and J. Swords, 1825. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; iv,[5]-48pp. Extremities very slightly chipped and toned, else Very Good and sound. Later work by the Episcopal bishop, based on his travels through Europe from 1823 to 1825. SHOEMAKER 20917. More
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1949). Later edition. Small octavo (19cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 510pp. Clean, tight and unmarked in lightly faded and dusty jacket, Very Good or better. Originally published in 1898, this is an attractive postwar reissue based on the Revised Edition of 1926. More
New York: Random House, [1935]. Revised Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original blue cloth, spine lettered in black; [2],xv,[3],383pp. Minor soil spots, spine a bit faded, else Very Good and sound, albeit lacking dust jacket. A vocational volume first published in 1932, written as a follow-up to Hoerle and Florence B. Saltzberg's..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1951. Later printing, with the date code "M-A" (i.e. December 1951). 12mo (20cm). Grey paper over boards in blue dust jacket; [xiv],176pp. Lightly rubbed at head and tail, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $2.50), lightly rubbed with chips at head and tail, slight dustsoil..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover, dustjacket; xviii,410pp; illus. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper, else a fine, new-appearing copy in the original dustwrapper. In the publisher's series Creating the North American Landscape, under the general editorship of George F. Thompson. More
Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, (1986). First Edition. First printing. Oblong quarto. Black cloth spine over red textured cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 224pp; illus. Remainder mark to bottom edge of text block, else Fine in a crisp, unworn dustwrapper. Illustrated from historical photographs by George N. Barnard. More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; 247pp. Dampstaining to top and bottom edges of rear jacket panel, not bleeding into boards, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Jacket subtitle: "A Fan's Life." The author's..... More
Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, [1957?]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original white card wrappers printed in black and green; x,265pp. A hint of wear and dustiness else Fine. More
Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, [1958?]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original white card wrappers printed in black and blue; viii,258pp. A hint of wear and dustiness else Fine. More