[London]: Bramley Books, 1997. First Edition Thus. Octavo (25cm); glossy pictorial boards; dustjacket; xxii,170pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced £15.99), with light surface wear, and a tiny tear at upper rear panel. "This vivid account explores the war as it appeared to the professional and amateur..... More

New York: Simon and Schuster, [1951]. First Edition. Husband and wife co-authors' coverage of China from June, 1948, to September, 1950. Includes the collapse of the Nationalist government and the rise of the Communist regime. First printing. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth-backed boards, yellow printed dust jacket; x,245pp. Jacket spine a...... More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925. First Thus. First illustrated edition, large paper issue. Octavo (21cm). Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt; plain endpapers; [xiv],354,[16]pp; halftone photographs throughout, 15 maps at rear. Sound but slightly loose and rubbed at edges: Very Good. With the view of Boston harbour and the corrected..... More

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xxv, 258pp. Trivial foxing to top edge of textblock and interior of jacket, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Minor external wear to jacket, showing mild sunning to spine. Very Good. More

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Cream buckram backed in red cloth, titled in gilt; xii,161,[1]pp. Inscribed by author to Julian Mason on front free endpaper. Pushed at spine ends, Near Fine. More

New York: Coward-McCann and Sheed and Ward, 1944. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Publisher's black cloth, in green and blue jacket; plain endpapers; [xii], 340pp; frontispiece. Straight, with two small scuffs to rear board: Very Good. Jacket trimmed at corners but price ($3.50) remains; spine sunned, edges rubbed, paper toned: just..... More

Washington DC: [1850]. Octavo (22.5cm). 116pp; folding map, 6 etchings. Disbound, with remnants of leather to spine; foxed throughout; complete and Good. Ralph Randolph Gurley (1797-1872) was a highly active and influential member of the American Colonization Society and is thus considered one of the founders of Liberia. His 1849..... More

[Washington: American Historical Association, 1901]. First Edition. Important early work by Abbott Lawrence Lowell, influential scholar and educator, scion of the Lowell Family of Boston (his siblings were poet Amy Lowell and astronomer Percival Lowell); and President of Harvard University from 1909-1933. The inscription is from Ralph Lowell, Abbott's cousin..... More

Williamsburg / Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 2006. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pictorial wrappers; [12],420pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, occasional pencil annotations in text, else Very Good or better. More

London: Collins, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Textured purple paper in blue dust jacket; 287,[1]pp; publisher's ads to rear dj panel; black and white illustrations. 1972 ownership inscription and 1973 inscription from the author to front free endpaper. Very slight forward roll, faint fading at tail, else Near Fine. Jacket..... More

New York: Greenwood Press, [1969]. Facsimile Reprint. Two volumes; large, thick octavos (26.5cm.); publisher's teal cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Light dust-soil, front hinge of Vol. 1 starting to crack, else a Very Good or better, quite sturdy set. Facsimile reprint of the Second (1769) edition. More

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Octavo (24cm). Black cloth, in white dust jacket; [xiv],289,[3]pp. Bookplate and inscription of noted zoologist James G. Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution. Straight and clean: Near Fine, in lightly rubbed, near Fine jacket. More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1983. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Two volumesin grey paper over boards, backed in blue cloth, in pictorial paper-covered slipcase; v.1 [xviii],973,[1]pp; v.2: xxvi,756pp.; black and white illustrations. Sound and fresh, old barcode stickers to lower rear boards, minor scuff to front board of v.2, else..... More