Springfield, IL: Hawley & Grant, [N.d., ca 1870]. Octavo. Printed blue paper wrappers; 32pp. Chipping to wrapper edges, else Very Good. Front wrapper with applied printed label (as issued). Includes numerous full-page advertisements for businesses in Springfield and Chicago. More
Augusta, GA: Chronicle & Sentinel, 1853. First Edition. Octavo. Sewn pamphlet; original printed yellow paper wrappers; 32pp. Chips to wrapper edges; slight wear and soil; Very Good. Contains on pp. 31-32 a poem entitled "Charlie Rogers" by Lydia H. Sigourney, presumably the first appearance, but not recorded by BAL. More
New York: Walden Publications, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. Original pictorial cloth boards; 243pp; 25 inserted leaves of plates. Mild wear and soil to covers, with spine gilt dulled but legible; a clean, VG copy. Graphic accounts, with equally graphic illustrations, of the trials of the Christian martyrs. Published, we suspect..... More
![The Rallying Idea [Presentation Copy from Alice L. Kahler]. Erich von KAHLER](/pictures/medium/48172.jpg?v=1585883586)
Jerusalem: Van Leer Foundation, 1965. First Edition. Laid in is a prospectus for the 1967 Unicorn Press reprint of this title, featuring Shahn's original design. Clean, tight copy of the somewhat uncommon first edition, published in Jerusalem by the Van Leer Foundation for the Advancement of Human Culture. With the..... More
Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1965. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers; 268pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed; gentle toning to text; Very Good. First edition of a standard text, reissued in revised editions through the 1980s; somewhat uncommon, and a valuable snapshot of the activities of..... More
Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1967. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 10pp. Mild corner-creasing and evidence of handling, else Fine. One of a series of "Topical Talks" on South African race relations issued by the SAIRR in the 1960s. More
![A Mission is Born. Italy - July 1944 - May 1945 [Inscribed Presentation Copy]. WW2, S. M. KEENY,...](/pictures/medium/48169.jpg?v=1585883586)
[Rome: n.d., ca 1947]: by the Author. First Edition. Rare privately-published memoir of the activities of the UNRRA in Italy in 1944-45. Keeny was Chief of Mission for the UNRRA in Europe; later became Director of UNICEF in Asia. The presentation is to Paul Gyorgy, a Romanian-American medical doctor and..... More
New Delhi: Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, [1960]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 13pp + two large folding maps in color. Bit of staining to covers; age-darkening to adhesive at gutter; Very Good. "The political map of the African continent hs, during the past decade..... More
London: Edinburgh House Press, 1951. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 64pp; illus. Mild external wear; a few instances of light pencil marginalia; Very Good. Ownership stamp inside front cover, "Property of M.S.C.C. Library / Toronto." In the publisher's series of "Background Books," intended for Sunday School readers to..... More
Toronto: Joint Committee on Summer Schools and Institutes of the Church of England in Canada, [1936]. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers, printed in red; 48pp; illus. Mild cover soil, else Very Good. Errata slip attached before first page of text; ink ownership stamp "Property of M.S.C.C. Library" inside front..... More
[Ibadan: Abiodun Printing Works], 1968. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 75pp; illus. Bit of wear and corner-creasing to covers, else clean, tight, and Near Fine, with text free of markings or soil. History, for young readers, of the municipality of Ijebu-Ode, in Southwest Nigeria. Includes numerous photographic text..... More
London: International Review of Missions, 1961. Offprint. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 15pp. Ownership signature and offsetting to title page; faint creases; Good or better. Reprinted from the October 1961 number of the International Review of Missions. On the selection, training, and support of Christian missionaries in underdeveloped nations. More
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Green cloth boards; dustjacket; unpaginated (chiefly illus). Tight, Near Fine copy in gently spine-sunned dustwrapper, still near fine. Study of Ossabaw Island in words and pictures, with photographs by Jack Leigh, essay by James Kilgo, and paintings by Alan Campbell..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. Second printing. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 233pp. Offsetting to two facing pages as a result of laid-in news clipping, else a tight, clean VG copy in slightly toned and edgeworn dustwrapper. More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1926. Third edition (revised). Two 12mo volumes; olive green cloth, lettered in gilt on spines; 468+407pp. Very good, with ownership signatures in ink to front endpapers; text clean, tight and unmarked. More
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1933. First, Limited Edition. First American edition, one of 1000 numbered copies (this is no. 124) on Normandy vellum. Very Good or better in the original patterned boards; in original paper dustwrapper, soiled and backed with kraft paper on verso; just Good. WW1 poetry. More
Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1971. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 49pp text + plates; 84 works illustrated. Gift inscription to half-title; light wear and soil in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper; Very Good. Scarce monograph on the major Mexican modernist painter Rodriguez Lozano (1895-1971), published the year of..... More
Charlottesville: Virginia Place Name Society, 1978. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Cloth-backed paper wrappers; 118pp. Includes "Index Map of Madison County," in rear pocket. Complete, solid copy, lightly soiled, a few page corners turned down and mild wrinkling to title page; Very Good. More
New York: Herder & Herder, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 157pp. Inscribed on half-title: "To Ben & Bernarda," signed and dated 1966. Meditations on human evolution by the liberal Catholic theologian, author of The Wisdom of Evolution (1964). From the library of artists Ben and Bernarda Shahn, with..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1936. Third edition. Octavo; cloth boards; pictorial dustwrapper; 332pp. Tight, VG copy in slightly rubbed & soiled dustwrapper. Campaign biography for the 1936 Republican presidential candidate. Landon lost in a landslide to Franklin Roosevelt in one of the most lopsided elections of the modern era. More
Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1963. First Edition. Thick, heavy octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 799pp. Bumps to corners; light rubbing to dustwrapper; Very Good. Omodeo (1889-1946), Sicilian historian and politician, member of the short-lived left-wing Partito D'Azione following WW2. Text entirely in Italian. More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 178pp; includes bibliography. Tight, Near Fine copy in price-clipped and lightly worn/soiled dustwrapper, Very Good. On postwar global economic expansion. More
New York: Macmillan, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. Maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; xvi,311pp; 3 maps (two folding). Spine lettering dulled, else a tight, straight and unmarked copy, Very Good or better. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, [1948]. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards (hardcover); 314+12pp. Tight, straight, unmarked copy, Near Fine. Verso of title page gives copyright date of 1947. Inserted erratum states "Owing to production delays this book was not published until 1948" More
New York: The Viking Press, 1931. First, Limited Edition. One of 200 signed, hand-numbered copies (this being no. 8). Octavo (22.5cm); medium green boards, stamped in gilt, in unprinted glassine dustwrapper and slipcase; TEG; 3-296pp. Fine copy in slightly chipped glassine and original publisher's slipcase, lightly worn at spine ends;..... More
