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Very Good. Limited Edition. Explores the libraries of noted Providence collectors, including John Carter Brown, John R. Bartlett, Joseph J. Cooke, Alexander Farnum, C. Fiske Harris, Royal C. Taft, and the author's own. Presentation inscrption by noted libararian and collector William Eaton Foster. Foster attended the "Convention of Librarians" held during the 1876 during which the American Library Association was created. After which, he returned to Providence, RI iand assisted in opening the ...
Good+ First American Edition. Hardcover. Early and important clinical analysis by a noted...and eccentric...Scottish physician. [Austin 783]. Moderate shelf/edge/wear, pulls in leather, front joint/hinge partially split, rear hinge split, rubber stamp ownership mark at front and rear pastedown, ffep loose but present, light toning to textblock edges, else tight and clean. Full brown leather spine, gilt lettering. 442pp.
Very Good+ in Very Good DJ. First Edition. Hardcover. Minimal shelf/edge wear, touch of sun at top of boards, ownership mark at ffep and stamp at rear pastedown; DJ shows light sun toning, else clean. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering. 4to. 88pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Herbert S. Stone & Company, Chicago, IL
Date published: 1896
Description: Very Good+ First Edition. Hardcover. Frontispiece designed by Frank Hazenplug. "In ransacking old court records, newspapers, diaries and letters for the historic foundation of the books which I have written on colonial history, I have found and noted much of interest that has not been used or referred to in any of those books. An accumulation of notes on old-time laws, punishments and penalties has evoked this volume."--From the introduction. Minor shelf/edge wear, spine moderately toned, ... Read More
Edition: First Edition, revised
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, New York
Date published: 1942
Description: Very Good+ First Edition, revised. Hardcover. Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) was an American self-professed clairvoyant who answered questions on subjects as varied as healing, reincarnation, wars, Atlantis, and future events while allegedly asleep. A biographer gave him the nickname, The Sleeping Prophet. A nonprofit organization, the Association for Research and Enlightenment, was founded to facilitate the study of Cayce's work. Some consider him the true founder and a ... Read More
Edition: New and corrected edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Privately Printed
Date published: 1930
Description: Very Good+ New and corrected edition. Hardcover. Account of the fortunes of a poor country girl who arrives in London at the end of the 18th century and of her adventures in the bawdy houses and brothels of the sinful city. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of toning at text block edges, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue cloth, red leather label, gilt titling. 12mo. 333pp. Numbered limited edition of 1000 (100 copies on verge de pur fil numbered 1 to 100) this copy being 135. Read More
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York
Date published: 1869
Description: Very Good+ Later Printing. Hardcover. Elias Loomis, LL.D., professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in Yale College. Basic college level astronomy book and observation. Rebound in fine cloth board, marbled edging, yet clean, with foxing throughout, although text block unaffected. viii, [9]-346 pages, includes illustrations, tables, and 8 plates including frontispiece (with tissue guards), 24 cm. Plate IV bound as frontispiece. Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crosby and Ainsworth, Boston, MA
Date published: 1868
Description: Very Good+ First Edition. Hardcover. W.J. Rolfe and J.A. Gillet, teachers in the high school, Cambridge, Mass. General astronomy book for all education levels. Color spectrum frontispiece. Light shelf/edge wear, loss at head and tail, rear board cracked and repaired, very minor foxing at preliminaries, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Bound in black cloth with a black leather spine, color frontispiece. Small 8vo. 224pp plus 17 plates at rear with various constellations on a black field. Illus ... Read More
Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York
Date published: 1931
Description: Very Good in Good+ DJ. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Universal Library, complete and unabridged. Published anonymously and not attributed to Defoe until 1775, Roxana emerged as popular work in the eighteenth century. Reprinted frequently and with frequent alterations. A rather nice copy of an iteration that is sometime challenging to find in good shape. Light shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows moderate shelf/edge wear, selveral small to medium chips, closed tears and ... Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Slipcased
Publisher: Dolphin/Doubleday, New York
Date published: 1988
Description: Like new. First Edition. Slipcased. Illustrated and designed by artist Caroline Smith, this tarot deck is a reinterpretation of the traditional tarot system, but based on the four elements. Smith's approach to tarot is intuitive and symbolic, her system is simple and elegant, for anyone with basic knowledge of astrology. She is an internationally renowned artist whose work features recurring goddess imagery and together with her now late husband, leading astrologer and author John Astrop, she ... Read More
Edition: Unique
Binding: Hardcover
Date published: 1900
Description: Very Good+ Unique. Hardcover. Bookplate of renowned author and librettist Harry Bache Smith. Also bears armorial bookplate of Claire Mendel, noted German Consul and collector. A bit of background on Lord Bateman: "An adaptation of the traditional ballad attributed to Thackeray (British Library Catalogue) with preface and notes by Dickens. George Cruikshank regaled a dinner of the Antiquarian Society with a rendition of the ballad. On "hearing Cruikshank mournfully intone the word's of the ... Read More
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Theosophy Company [Theosophical Publishing Society], Los Angeles, CA
Date published: 1990
Description: Near Fine. Reprint. Hardcover. This volume "purposes to give information on the principal Sanskrit, Pahlavi, Tibetan, Pâli, Chaldean, Persian, Scandinavian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Kabalistic and Gnostic words, and Occult terms generally used in Theosophical literature." "A photographic reproduction Of the Original edition, as First Issued at London, England 1892"--Title page. Digital security sticker on rfep, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering. Large 8vo. 389pp. Read More
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