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8vo three-quarters bound in dark brown leather w/raised bands & gilt text on spine, marbled paper covers & endpapers. VG-. Binding strong w/corners moderately scuffed or threadbare, light wear on spine-edges from opening & closing, top & bottom board covers mildly worn. Endpapers have 1/4" thick, up to 1"+ long chipped portions at top & bottom near spine w/missing portions adhered to pastedowns. Front hinge is split w/endpaper looses but not detached; rear hinge is splitting. Consistent age ...
Octavo; good+/good; dj, yellow spine with blue text; HB, red cloth spine with black text; front board, raised illus.; minor shelf wear and bumping; text block, clean; edges, foxing starts; 319 pp.; binding, shaken; dj, [BRO-DART]; staining; small open tears; else good. [Photos available upon request]. 1138132. Rockville Non-Retail Listings.
VG-hardcovers. 2 vols. : 499, 574 pp. Volume I: The Social Life; Volume II: The Psychic Life. Extremely influential early ethnographic study of the Thonga people in what is today Mozambique and surrounding regions (e.g. the Natal). This edition was not only a translation of the 1st (French) ed. published in East Africa but a considerable enlargement of it. Internally very clean: paper is beginning to show some age-toning & both textblocks are modestly dust-soiled at the head but no other ...
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Aries Books, Bangkok
Date published: 1995
ISBN-13:9789748924496ISBN:9748924491
Description: Octavo; vg/vg; dj, black spine with red and white text; HB, black spine with no text; ex libris, BOOKPLATE OF CASPAR WEINBERGER; INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, 1995, ffep; minor shelf wear and bumping; text block, clean; illus., maps; 256 pp.; else very good. This book is part of the overstocked 15's, kept in Room X. 1148845. FP New Rockville Stock. Read More
Edition: Nouvelle edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Didot; etal, Paris
Date published: 1747
Description: Small octavo; VG+/none; brown leather spine with gilt lettering and raised bands; gilt filigree in panels; major shelf wear and bumping; edges and joints, chipping and wear; edges, tinted red; endpapers, marbling; 574 pp. else good; TEXT IN FRENCH. Shelved Dupont: Case 10. 1149128. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Read More
Edition: Neue Titelauflage
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wilh. Jacobsohn & Co, Breslau
Date published: 1892
Description: VG+/no DJ Octavo in red cloth over boards with Victorian filigree and borders, gilt lettering on spine. Ex libris, name stamp on verso of portrait page. Minor shelf wear and bumping; text clean; 602 pp. Small florette wallpaper endpapers. Spider marbling on edges of text block. In exceptional condition. ---TEXT IN GERMAN. Shelved upstairs, in shelves near copier. 1149626. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Date published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780224041867ISBN:022404186X
Description: Book. Octavo in brown cloth with pictorial dust jacket, VG+/VG+, dust jacket protected by vinyl cover. Boards show little shelf wear, boards are straight, binding strong. Text block is age toned, text clean. Dust jacket has light shelf wear. A scarce first edition, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room X, Case #1. 1151753. FP New Rockville Stock. Read More
Edition: FIFTH PRINTING
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited, London
Date published: 1904
Description: Book. VG. 16mo (just over 6" tall) in red leather, title on spine in gilt with five raised bands on spine. Light shelf and edgewear to boards, light rubbing to bottom corners, light general bumping and scratching to boards, noticeable sun discoloration to spine. Gilt to top edge of textblock, lightly burnished, other edges agetoned, fore edge is deckled. Marbled endpages. Pages have only light agetoning. 288 pp. + list of Macmillan Golden Treasury Series books. HAGAR CONSIGNMENT. Shelved ... Read More
Edition: first edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780684802312ISBN:0684802317
Description: VG+/VG+. 8vo in gray boards with black quartercloth spine. DJ is white with title on spine in gray. Signed and Inscribed by author Reeves on main title page. Light edgewear to boards and DJ, DJ in protective mylar sleeve. 702 pp. Small abrasion to rear free and paste down end page. Shelved U.S. BIOGRAPHY. 1160024. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Read More
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan and Co, London
Date published: 1876
Description: Octavo hardcover in dark brick-colored boards, VG-/No DJ: some shelfwear, some bumping to head and tail of spine and corners of boards, some concomitant abrading, some age-toning to edges of text block and interior, some sunning and resultant darkening on spine, previous owner's name written on ffep, front and rear hinges show splits starting, light, sporadic foxing to interior, pages a bit stiff. Includes black-and-white engraving of Augustus Raymond Margary as frontispiece. Fold-out map of ... Read More
Edition: revised edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Robert Carter & Brothers, New York
Date published: 1867
Description: VG. 8vo in brown buckram, title on spine in gilt. Wear to boards; boards rubbed and lightly scratched, edges rubbed, corners lightly bumped, light general wear otherwise. Spine bowed, binding strong and intact. Foxing to edges of textblock, foxing to endpages, light scattered foxing otherwise. Prev. owner's signature on front endpage. 448 pp. Shelved locked-LAFCADIO. 1165654. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Read More
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Ballantyne and Co.; Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, and William Miller, Edinburgh and London
Date published: 1810
Description: G+/no DJ Large Crown Quarto in full dark brown calf with gilt text in red title boxes on spine. Contemporary rebinding with additional endpapers and new endbands. 290 pp. Notes: cxxix. Frontispiece, title page, inscription, and argument page all present. Three of the four possible watermarks present [1807, 1809 and Balston 1810]. Evident shelfwear; boards rubbed and scuffed, corners a bit bumped, leather in excellent shape. Interior age toned with some foxing, scattered light pencil marginalia. ... Read More
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