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New York: The Exposition Press Inc. Good. 1952. Hard Cover. good hardcover, some light stains on cover, some edgewear, spine and edges chewed up a tad .

Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Second Printing. Very Good hardcover with Very Good dust jacket. Price clipped; owner's name inked to titlepage.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, (2008). First Edition, stated. Octavo, gray textured boards (hardcover), xii, 321 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: In March 1945 Allied forces prepared for the final drive into Germany to end World War II. Standing in their way were the Rhine River and, on the opposite bank, desperate German defenders ready to fight to the last man. Operation Varsity -- the last major airborne assault of World War II and the largest airborne assault of all time -- began on the morning of March 24 when a fleet of Allied transport planes took off from air bases in France and England. In addition to towing more than 1,300 gliders, the planes carried some 17,000 paratroopers from two Allied divisions -- the Red Devils of the British 6th Airborne Division and the Thunder from Heaven of the U.S. 17th Airborne Division. While the 6th had parachuted into battle on D-Day, the 17th had never jumped in combat before. Their mission was to drop behind enemy lines near Wesel, Germany, and gain a foothold for the Allied ground troops who would soon pour across the Rhine.

New York: Coward-Mccann, Inc.. Very Good. (1965). Hardcover. Second Impression. Black cloth boards, gilt stamping, stamping to spine is fading, otherwise a clean very good copy in a price clipped dj. .

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1860. 8vo, pp. [71]-117, [1] (i.e. 48 pages); 2 illustrations and tables in the text; green cloth-backed library boards, typed label on spine; fine. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate, with an Ayer presentation bookplate and a Newberry release stamp beneath. Offprint from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society.

John Murray, London, 2018. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 104pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny mark to the base of the lower board, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the upper edge. The second of the author's 'Slough House' novellas..

Houghton Mifflin, 1971. HBDJ,1971, 1st edition, 5th printing, embossed red Cloth Cover with Gold Gilt & design on Spine, minor rub & wear DJ, Tiny chips tears Creases extremites DJ, small corner piece from DJ, NF/VG, AS-IS, Interior Nice tight Clean Minor Wear & some creases wear to about 5 pgs corner & along edge in back of bk , 275 pgs. Signed by Author. Hard Cover.

[Washington DC: American Geophysical Union, 1979. 4to, pp. 24; text illustrations throughout; blue library buckram, title in black and call number on spine; library bookplate and bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on endpapers, very good. Extracted from the Biology of the Antarctic Seas, no. IX.

New York: Macmillian Company, 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Reprint (first edition of additional material). Introduction and notes by Keith Gordon Irwin. Octavo. Fine in price-clipped and a bit rubbed else near fine dustwrapper.

[New York: American Museum of Natrual History, 1917. 8vo, pp. [1], 362-404; 9 plates; bound with: Schulte, [Hermann von Wechlinger] and M. De Forest Smith, The external characters, skeletal muscles, and peripheral nerves of Kogia breviceps (Blainville). [New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1918. Pp. [1], 8-72, [2]; text illustrations, one leaf with short closed tear, not affecting text; bound with: Kernan, John D., and Hermann von Wechlinger Schulte, Memoranda upon the anatomy of the respiratory tract, foregut, and thoracic viscera of a foetal Kogia breviceps. [New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1918]. Pp. 231-267, [3]; 2 plates, text illustrations; Together, 3 volumes in later full green cloth, gilt title on spine, 3 original printed wrappers bound in, and 3 wrappers loose and laid in to a pocket in back; text clean and sound, bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on upper pastedown. All three titles from the Bulletin of The American Museum of Natural History.

[Chicago, IL: F. H. Revell], 1885. 8vo, pp. [3], 110-114, [4]; extracted from the American Antiquarian; later stiff brown boards backed in burgundy cloth, staple bound. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate with a Newberry Library release stamp in bottom corner of the first leaf. In 1882 L. Adam Parisot published what he claimed to be a French translation of a Spanish manuscript on the language and folksongs of the Taensa. Brinton's refutation, first published in the American Antiquarian, exposed it as a hoax.

[Providence: publisher not identified, 1842. First edition, 8vo, pp. 15, [1]; later red leather-backed marbled boards; spine perished; all else very good. First leaf reads: State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, March session, 1842. "An act in relation to offences against the sovereign power of the state" directed towards the Dorrites. Not found in American Imprints; Bartlett, p. 98; Sabin 70663.

Washington: American Anthropological Association, January, 1888. Octavo offprint from the first volume of the American Anthropologist, pp. 77-96 (i.e. 20 pages); bound into old library boards, Ayer accession label at base of upper cover. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate with their release stamp at the bottom of the first leaf; no other markings. Includes a 10-p vocabulary of the dialect.

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1884. First separate edition, being an offprint from The Proceedings, volume XXI, no. 115, 8vo, pp. 345-412 (i.e.68 pages); original printed wrappers preserved and stapled into blue cloth-backed library boards, gilt lettering on spine; upper wrap detached; an Ayer Linguistic duplicate with an Ayer bookplate and a Newberry release stamp. James C. Pilling's copy with his ownership signature at the top of the front wrapper, and a the note "card made" in his hand underneath. "The present grammar of the Cakchiquel is the translation of a portion of a Spanish manuscript presented to the library of the American Philosophical Society in 1836, by Senor Mariano Galves, then Governor of Guatemala, and obtained, it would appear, from the library of one of the religious houses." The Kaqchikel (also called Kachiquel) are one of the indigenous Maya peoples of the midwestern highlands in Guatemala. Not in Palau.

[Newport: Mercury Office, 1809. 8vo, pp. 40; unopened; library boards; some toning; very good. Robert Smith's correspondence as Secretary of State, with Erskine, Jackson and Pinkney, including the letters to him, all relating to the British Orders in Council and the crisis that precipitated the War of 1812. Smith was Secretary of Navy during Jefferson's two terms, as well as Madison's first Secretary of State. American Imprints 18903.

[Providence]: Reprinted from the Rhode Island Historical Collections, October, 1923. 8vo, pp. 7, [1]; 2 plates showing 6 illustrations; original printed wrappers; bound with: the entire issue of the Rhode Island Historical Society Collections, Vol. XVI, No. 4, for Oct. 1923, pp. 97-128; 3 plates showing 9 illustrations; original printed wrappers. Together in a single volume of three-quarter green morocco over green marbled boards, gilt lettering direct on spine; spine sunned, else near fine. Laid in is an original photo postcard of two Block Island double-enders, and an April 1927 issue of The Rhode Island Mariner reprinting the same article. This is the author's own copy.

New York: Howard-McCann, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Cloth, gently bumped at spine tips and corners; in VG dust jacket with some light creasing and chipping along the edges. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and inscribed to him: "For Douglas Fairbanks -- who played a part in this decision -- Fred Freed." Fairbanks (1909-2000) was an iconic American actor from Hollywood’s Golden Era (his credits include “Gunga Din”), and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II. He is mentioned on page 92 of this political history, where it is revealed that a paper he wrote while a lieutenant attached to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, on the problem of defeating Japan, was influential to Eugene Dooman, and that it became the preface to the Potsdam Declaration.

Contains the confessions of the youthful Cooke and Tomlinson, who were executed on the basis of burglary in 1812 despite the pleas for mercy from their victims. Quarter red calf over marbled boards. 8 pages of text and an additional 22 blank pages in rear (for binding substance). Clean interior with no previous owner's name or other significant markings. 5 x 7.25 in

New York: The Mysterious Book Shop, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 26 signed and numbered copies. Fine. Quarter red leather with marbled paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A Matthew Scudder novel, one that sees him struggle with sobriety while investigating a murder.

[Washington D.C., 1840. 8vo, pp. 161, [1]; 27 plates, charts and maps, most folding, many colored, including one large colored map of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois showing the location of iron, copper and lead deposits; contemporary half black straight-grained morocco over marbled boards, gilt ruled spine; a separate pamphlet had previously been bound in and has been excised, splitting the upper hinge and leaving the inner spine bald for a half inch; some mild foxing to the text and plates, the large color map with a closed tear at gutter repaired and reinforced about two inches, not affecting impression. 26th Congress, 1st Session, House of Reps. Doc. No. 239. The first edition of Owen's geological survey of this region. It was followed by a Senate edition and a revised edition with 2 additional plates in 1844 titled Report of a Geological Exploration of Part of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. "He received his commission Aug. 17, 1839, engaged and instructed his 139 assistants as to purposes and methods of procedure, and presented his report on Nov. 14 following 'a feat of generalship which has never been equaled in American geological history.' ... He was an artist... of the 25 plates in his report of 1840, fourteen are from his own drawings." (DAB). Sabin 58008 for the 1844 revision.

London: printed for J. Owen, No. 168, Piccadilly, 1795. 8vo, pp. [2], 35, [1]; residue of adhesive along the sides of the spine, and additional (but now unused) sewing holes, suggest this pamphlet has been dis-bound, and restitched for further rebinding; very good. Virginia and Waseda only in OCLC, both copies, apparently, missing the title page and citing the drop title only. "The author of this letter has affirmed the title of Gonfaloniere di Giustizia, of Lucca for the purpose of ridiculing the solution of continuity between the elector of Hanover and a great personage, in the case of a former finding the French 'capable of preserving the accustomed relations of peace and amity,' which the latter has not yet been able to discover. The satire is better clothed, and is more uniform, than we generally find in works attempted on the plan of Swift; and there are occasionally touches which may be mentioned with some of the most fortunate of that author's effusions. The Gonfaloniere conceals his indignation and is poignant without being rancorous. He is, however, somewhat tedious: and many of his notes might have been dispensed with, for they do not all keep up the farce of gravity" (Critical Review, 1796).

3 pp. Small 8vo, modern calf-backed marbled semi-stiff boards (spine slightly rubbed), spine gilt. [Paris: 1769]. An interleaved and annotated copy of this rare catalogue. Amand (1730-69), winner of the 1756 Prix de Rome for his Samson and Delilah (now at the Landesmuseum in Mainz), studied under Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre and became a member of the Académie in 1767. He is very probably the "Jean François Amand or Aman" known to be working in Rome in 1759. From a printed note at the end of the catalogue, we learn that Amand died during a stay in Rome where he was a resident artist of the king. This catalogue, fully priced and totaled on the interleavings, describes the possessions of Amand in 17 large lots of paintings (some by the artist), sketches, easels, portfolios of drawings, and books. Very good copy; no example in North America. Engraved bookplate of Henry Pannier (1853-1935), the Parisian art dealer, and stamp of the Bibliothèque Heim on verso of the manuscript title-page. ❧ Benezit, Dictionary of Artists, Vol. 1, p. 387. Lugt 1770.

[Philadelphia], ca1840. First Separate Edition?. Original blue paste paper boards.. Fine; occasional spotting; untrimmed.. 8vo, [2], [1] - 37, [1], [1] - 11, [1] pp. The volume collates: A - F4, H2. There are several text illustrations. A scarce tract. Appended to the main text are two other papers by Hare : A Brief Account of the Theory of Ampere; An Examination of the Question ... of Mechanical Electricity. Hare also included a preface: To the Students [Drop title], not noted by Gartrell, that is a most interesting account of the development of electrical studies as an adjunct to chemistry and chemical instruction at the Univ. of Penn. See Gartrell #767; absent from Cole.

[Colophon:] London: Printed for A. Baldwin, [1712]. Folio. 4 pp. Unbound and uncut bifolium; creased and toned, edges worn, in cloth folding case, worn and split First edition of this "reply, in defence of Marlborough, to The Fable of the Widow and the Cat … in which Swift had a hand" (Rothschild) which has been variously, and erroneously, attributed to Prior and Swift, as well as Arthur Mainwaring.REFERENCE: Ashley IV, p. 77; ESTC T52367; Foxon W384; Rothschild 1690; Teerink 1299PROVENANCE: Jerome Kern (book-label, his sale 1 January 1929, lot 969)

London: J. Moyes, n.d.. 4to, pp. 5; OCLC finds only the U. of Chicago and Newberry copies; bound with: Observations on the coffin-plate and history of Gunilda, sister of the Saxon king, Harold II, by G.F. Bletz, London, 1834, pp. 15; frontispiece facsimile of the coffin-plate; bound with: Observations on the Bayeux Tapestry, by Hudson Gurney, London, 1817, pp. 14; partially in double column detailing the 72 inscriptions on the tapestry; bound with: Some observations on the Bayeux Tapestry, by Charles Strothard, in a letter addressed to Samuel Lysons, London, 1819, pp. 10; bound with: A defense of the early antiquity of the Bayeux Tapestry, by Thomas Amyot, London, 1819, pp. 19, including an appendix containing a 3-p. poem on the Battle of Hastings; bound with: Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror, by Thomas Stapleton, London, 1835, pp. 14, including a half-page family tree; bound with: Magni rotuli scaccarii Normanniae de anno ab incarnatione Domini M.C.LXXXIIII, Willielmo filio Radulfi senescallo, pp. [4], 12; largely printed in Saxon type, n.p., May, 1830; the text of a Norman pipe-roll and "printed for private distribution" to draw attention to "our own invaluable series of Pipe-Rolls, of which it is believed comparatively little is known"; inscribed "Henry Ellis Esq. with Mr. Petrie's comps."; not in OCLC; bound with: De rebus gestis Richardi Angliae regis in Palestina. Excerptum ex Gregorii Abulpharagii chronico Syriaco. Edidit vertit illustravit Paul. Jac. Bruns, Oxonii: apud J. & J. Fletcher; D. Prince & J. Cooke, 1780, pp. 20, xi, (last 6 leaves printed in Syriac); bound with: A table of the movements of the court of King John of England, by Thomas Duffus Hardy, London, 1828, pp. 39, text largely in double column; bound with: Narrative of the progress of King Edward the First in his invasion of Scotland in the year 1296, by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, London, 1826, pp. 23; bound with: A brief summary of the wardrobe accounts...of King Edward the Second, by Thomas Stapleton, London, 1835, pp. 30; bound with: Account of the tomb of Sir John Chandos, Knt. A.D. 1370 at Civaux, a hamlet on the Vienne in France, by Samuel Rush Meyrick, London, 1823, pp.14, with an attractive copper-engraved plate of the tomb; not in OCLC; bound with: Transcript of a chronicle [of the time of Edward the Third] in the Harleian Library of MSS. No. 6217 [drop-title], [by Thomas Amyot], London, 1828, pp. 82; not in OCLC; bound with: Two English poems in the time of Richard II. Communicated by the Rev. J.J. Conybeare, M.A., Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, ... (Read 3 March, 1814), [n.p., n.d. ?London, 1814], pp. 8; Wellcome Library only in OCLC; bound with: Some account of the coronation of King Richard the Second, by Alfred John Kempe, London: printed for the author, n.d. [ca. 1831], pp. 16, hand-colored engraved frontispiece showing the crowns of 11 kings, text largely in double column; 3-line and presumably authorial correction to the text on p. 5; bound with: An account of the army with which King Richard II. invaded Scotland, by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, London, 1828, pp. 9. Together 16 scholarly texts in a contemporary binding of quarter tan calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated spine, gilt lettered direct ("English History before Ric. II."); joints starting, minor rubbing; most acceptable. Nine titles are offprints from the Archaeologia as published by the Society of Antiquaries, and mostly printed by J. Nicols and Son. All are presumably rare. The Conybeare and the Oxford imprint are terrific.