EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL LIFE
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. A volume in the Themes in the Social Sciences series. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine, unread copy. More
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MARQUEE BALLYHOO: An American Novel
Los Angeles and San Francisco: Overland - Out West Publications, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Romantic intrigue in the lives of a group of tent repertoire players. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with black titles. Small..... More
WE SOVIET WOMEN
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, translated by N. Alexander. The story of fifteen women, drawn from different classes of life, responding in strikingly different ways to the effects..... More
PRISONER OF WAR: A Siberian Diary
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, translated from the German by Ian F.D. Morrow. First-hand account of a German officer's gruelling experiences in Siberian and Russian prisons from..... More
TALES OF THE LABRADOR
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. Hardcover. Later printing. "Eleven stories of shipwreck, peril and adventure among the hardy fishermen of Labrador, and of the life, love and hunting of their simple-hearted Eskimo..... More
A LABRADOR DOCTOR: The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, M.D. (Oxon.), C.M.G.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Hardcover. An early printing, signed and dated by Grenfell on the front flyleaf. British medical missionary Wilfred Grenfell (1865-1940) devoted much of his life to the establishment..... More
PEARY TO THE POLE
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated by Lord on a label affixed to the front flyleaf. "...tells the heroic story of Robert E. Peary and his conquest of the..... More
THE BIG FIGHT (Gallipoli to the Somme)
New York: W.J. Watt & Company, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Captain Fallon on a prefatory blank leaf. "Capt. David Fallon, who had been with the British..... More
LABRADOR LOOKS AT THE ORIENT: Notes of Travel in the Near and the Far East
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, with an original ink sketch, by the author on the front flyleaf. An account of the English medical missionary's journey through Egypt, Palestine..... More
THE MONUMENTS OF ITALY: A Regional Survey of Art, Architecture and Archaeology from Classical to Modern Times
London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002. Hardcover. Reprint. A detailed geographic guide to Italy's archaeological, architectural, and artistic treasures. Five volumes arranged by region and province provide historical facts and descriptive observations of more..... More
CRUISERS OF THE AIR: The Story of Lighter-than-Air Craft: from the Days of Roger Bacon to the Making of the ZRS-4
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 308 p. with numerous textual photographs, drawings, and diagrams. Octavo. Original cloth binding, with blue stamping. Ink date to the verso of the front flyleaf, with..... More
ADRIFT ON AN ICE PAN
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. Celebrated narrative of Grenfell's near-death experience in Hare Bay, south of St Anthony, Newfoundland, on Easter..... More
RED SUN OF NIPPON
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's second novel, concerning a young State Department office in love with a beautiful Chinese-American girl who helps him uncover a network of intrigue..... More
COSTA RICA AND CIVILIZATION IN THE CARIBBEAN
Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Don Ricardo Jimenez (1859-1945), President of Costa Rica, on the front flyleaf. Jones (1881-1941) was a diplomatic attache and academic..... More
DIANE: She Came From Venus
London: Regency Press, [1956]. First Edition. Hardcover. The author’s second book, inscribed by Howard on the verso of the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original yellow cloth binding, with gilt titles. Small bit of offsetting from an..... More
ACCIDENTAL AMBASSADOR GORDO: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. First Edition. Trade paperback. Signed by Arriola on the title page, with a bookplate signed by Arriola and Harvey laid in. An illustrated history with selections from Arriola's popular..... More
THE YOUNGEST WAC
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1945. Hardcover. Fourth printing. An empowering example of homefront propaganda, this is the first of three young adult novels concerning the World War II service of Teresa Nan Thompson, or..... More
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF EDGAR A. POE [AND] COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDGAR A. POE
San Francisco: Russian Hill Private Press, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 350 sets printed and bound by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn. More a bibliographical record of the renowned Robertson collection than a traditional bibliography..... More
RELIGIOUS TEXTS OF THE ORAL TRADITION FROM WESTERN NEW-GUINEA (Irian Jaya)
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1975 and 1978. Trade paperback. Part A: The Origin and Sources of Life [and] Part B: The Threat to Life and Its Defence Against "Natural" and "Supernatural" Phenomena. ISBN 9004043918, 9004056947. Octavo..... More
THE ULYSSES THEME: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1976. Second Edition. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. Small bit of edgewear; otherwise very good. More
HERMES AND HIS CHILDREN
Irving, Texas: Spring Publications, 1977. Trade paperback. 135 p. with 12 plates. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. A very good copy. More
POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. A fine copy. More
AGAINST ART AND ARTISTS
Edinburgh: Polygon, 1991. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original glossy paper wrappers. A fine copy. More
SKY SIGNS: Aratus' Phaenomena
Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1983. Trade paperback. A semiological celebration of the sky in 1154 Greek hexameters. Octavo. Original blue paper wrappers. A very good copy. More
IMPERIAL CULTURE IN GERMANY, 1871-1918
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with silver titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More