Design For A House.
University of Missouri Press, 1972. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 61 pp. Cover sunned and somewhat soiled, pages clean and tight. Author's inscription to fellow author on ffep. Collection of poetry about life in modern America.
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The History of the World as Pictures: Poems.
Columbia, MO: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1965. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 79 pp. Cloth hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil to ep's. Dj tanned at edges, few nicks. Warmly inscribed by author opposite half-title. Stray ink mark verso of half-title. Signed.
The Story of a Sub-Pioneer.
Providence, RI: Snow & Farnham Co., 1925. Hardcover. 318 pp., 8vo. Burgundy hardcover in dj. A Rhode Island suffragette recounts her experiences in the fight for womens' right to vote. Light shelfwear & soiling to boards & spine. Binding very sturdy. Illustrated w/ historical b&w photos & newspaper cartoons. Some.....
L'Ecriture Latine de la Capitale Romaine a la Minuscule.
Paris: Arts Et Metiers Graphiques, 1939. Hardcover. Unpaginated, folio. Hardcover folder. French text. Containing &w facsimiles. Moderate foxing & slight wear to boards & spine; sunning to spine & some tears along edges. Pgs very clean. Board edge strings intact.
Andrea Sansovino:; Sculptor and Architect of the Italian Renaissance
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1935. Cloth. 155 pp +73 plates. Ex-library, markings include catalog sticker to spine, bookplate and stamp to fpd, stamps to all 3 sides of text block, card holder to rpd, tiny stamp to frep. Shelfwear to boards, bumping to corners and spine ends. Rough cut.....
Primitivism in Modern Painting.
New York and London: Harper & Bros. 1938. Cloth. 8vo. 210 pp. Spine sunned, bumping to corners and spine. Rubbing and fading to board edges. Small, dark stains splatter to both boards and outer corners of rear endpapers. Former owner's name, crossed out in permanent marker at top of fep.....
Notes: Critical & Biographical.
No Place: J. M. Bowles, 1895. Limited edition. Paperback. 216 pp. 8vo. Paperback. Wear and soiling to spine/covers. Bumping to spine ends, edges, and corners with chips and tears. Spine sunned. Large pieces of color overlay missing from covers and edges, 1 1/2" x 3/4" piece of front cover missing.....
Handbook of Quality-Standard Papers.
Holyoke, MA: American Writing Paper Company, 1923. Hard Cover. 8vo. 412 pp. Top 1 3/4" of spine missing, hinge creased and cracked, edgwear. Fep, frontisepiece, title page dogeared at lower right corner. Otherwise, pagees clean, tight.
The Story of a Sub-Pioneer.
Providence, RI: Snow & Farnham Co., 1925. Hardcover. 318 pp., 8vo. Dark blue hardcover in dj. Inscribed by author in pen on ffep. A Rhode Island suffragette recounts her experiences in the fight for womens' right to vote. Light shelfwear & soiling to boards & spine. Binding very sturdy. Illustrated.....
Great Prints and Printmakers.
Bentveld, The Netherlands: Harry N. Abrams, N. V., (1967). Cloth. 244 pp + 16 loose extra plates. Folio. Pictorial cloth in clear plastic cover. Minor shelfwear. Spine and top edges sunned, lt tanning to textblock. Lt soil to feps. Interior otherwise clean, binding strong. Plastic cover lt scuffed, lt yellowed.....
Our Police :; A History of the Providence Force from the First Watchman to the Latest Appointee
Providence, RI: J. M. Beers, 1889. Cloth. 519 pp + appx. 100 pp. advertisers' appendix; 8vo. Burgundy cloth with decorative black cover text and stamping to boards. Some edgewear, bumping to corners, head and foot of spine. Scuffing and light soiling to boards and spine. Spine sunned with fading to.....
Girlhood Embroidery:; American Samplers and Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First edition. Cloth. Two volumes in pictorial black slipcase, 583 pp total. Black cloth. First edition. Lt. sunning/fading to spines. Bindings tight, text blocks clean and crisp. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. Slipcase has some shelfwear, heavier at head and foot of spine panel.....
The Bangor and Brewer Directory 1890.
Portland, Maine: W. A. Greenough and Co., 1890. Hard Cover. 8vo. 519 pp. Number 13. Spine edges, corners are frayed and worn. Stain to title page. Slight waterstaining to top edge of ffep. Pages are very clean. Containing a general directory of the citizens, a classified business directory, city officers.....
Early Homes of Rhode Island.
Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, Inc., 1937. Cloth. 480 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. Illustrated w/ b&w drawings & photos. Mild sunning discoloration & light shelfwear to boards & spine, more sunning to spine. Binding holding. Openings to both hinges. Sm po pen numbers to ffep top fore corner, some very.....
Morton's Picture Book with Entertaining Stories for Young Folks.
Boston: George W. Briggs, 1847. Cloth. 16mo. 117 pp. Corners bumped and heavily rubbed with board exposure, light rubbing to covers, heavy chipping to spine, lower half of backstrip missing. An illustrated collection of children's stories and poems.
Shakespeare's Perfume:; Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Hardcover. 125 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Boards & spine fine. Binding tight. Textblock clean & crisp. Dj fine. "Starting w/ St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted w/ homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in.....
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic Volume 1:; Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850
Cambridge (UK) and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Paperback. 520 pp., 8vo. Paperback. Demonstrating how the bloodiest conflict on American soil arose from the vast differences between between capitalism & slave modes of production. Textblock clean & crisp.
Real Analysis.
Boston: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010. Paperback. 505 pp., lg. squarish 8vo. Paperback. Covers rubbed, scuffed, curled, peeling from versos. Edges worn w/ slight soiling to textblock edges. Po pen marks to title pg; highlighting scattered to textblock; light soiling to rverso/reps. Few pgs creased to top corner. All pgs legible;.....
The Long Old Road in China.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Hardcover. 168 pp, 4to (short). Quarter cloth. Shelfworn and sunned, lt. soil to boards, crease/closed tear and wear to spine label. Center hinge split. Lt soil and foxing to eps, title pg, and a few scattered margins. Interior otherwise clean. B&w illustrations throughout.....
Remains of the Reverand John Mason.
Providence: Carter & WIlkinson, 1798. Leather. 12mo. 184 pp. Stated first American edition. Remains of the Rev. John Mason, A.M. Late rector of Water-Stratford in the County of Bucks, containing a variety of devout and useful sayings, on diverse subjects, digested under proper heads; religious observations; serious advice to youth.....
The Grammar of Ornament.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. Hardcover. Folio. Burgundy hardcover w/ gilt decorations & lettering. A.e.g. 'Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament.' 112 (b&w & full-color) plates. Slight rubbing/scuffing, soiling & shelfwear to boards & spine; some dampstaining to rear board & spine. Binding sturdy. Dampstaining throughout interior edges, otherwise.....
The First International Minutes of the Hague Congress of 1872, with Related Documents.
Madison: The Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1958. Cloth. 8vo (large). 315 pp. Very good+ copy. Very light rubbing to boards, light browning to textblock and endpapers, light soiling to textblock and scattered text margins. Interior otherwise clean, binding tight. Sunning/soiling to dj, very small pieces missing from front panel and.....
The Evolution of Values.
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1926. Cloth. 8vo. 277 pp. Faint soil to covers, spine sunned. Light browning to page edges, small ink previous owner signature to ffep, belonging to Lewis Feuer; noted sociologist, Marxist philosopher. Interior tight and clean. Studies in sociology with special applications to teaching. Translated.....
French and Electric Blue:; The Massachusetts State Police
Lowell, MA: Dept. of Public Safety, Commonwealth of MA, circa 1985. Cloth. 372 pp., 4to. Cloth hardcover. A pictorial history. Inscribed by author. W/ "Public Safety Officers' Benefits Act of 1976" brochure laid in. Some faint soiling & wear to boards. Light sunning, shaking & shelfwear to spine but binding.....
Dictionnaire critique et documentaire Des Peintres Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs; 14 vol.
Paris: Editions Grund, 1999. Cloth. 14 vol; approx 1000 pp each. 8vo's (large). Cloth. Text in French. Ex- university library with usual markings such as spine labels, textblock stamps, bookplates, interior stamps, etc. Light wear to lower corners and lower edges w/ slight board exposoure. Vol. I has peeled spot.....