Item 371The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1956. First Edition. Publisher's red cloth-backed green boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket.
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Item 449Briefe von Alexander von Humboldt an Varnhagen von Ense, aus den Jahren 1827 bis 1858
With letters in German, English, and French.
New York: Bei Friedrich Gerhard, 1860. vi, 266 pp. Early half calf. vi, 266 pp.
Item 440The Naval Temple: Containing A Complete History Of The Battles Fought By The Navy Of The United States
The second edition, but seems to have the same plates and publication year as the first, down to the identical engraved title page.
Boston: Barber Badger, 1816. Illustrated with 7 engraved plates, including added engraved title and frontispiece. viii, [2], 9-322 pp. Octavo. Howes K135. Second Edition. Period sheep, black morocco lettering piece. Illustrated with 7 engraved plates, including added engraved title and frontispiece. viii, [2], 9-322 pp. Octavo. Howes K135.
Item 380The American Way of Death
Nonfiction work on the death, funeral, and mourning industry in the United States as it stood in the mid-20th century.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. 333 pp. Octavo. First Edition. Publisher's black cloth lettered in white, illustrated dust jacket. 333 pp. Octavo.
Item 381Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business
The state of the American prison-industrial system in the early 1970s.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. xii, 340, xi, [2] pp. Octavo. First Edition. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gray, top edge stained red, illustrated dust jacket. xii, 340, xi, [2] pp. Octavo.
Item 363King Cane: The Story of Sugar in Hawaii
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1939. Several plates from photographs, including frontispiece. xii, [2], 192 pp. Octavo. First Edition. Quarter green cloth and patterned boards, cartographic endpapers, dust jacket. Several plates from photographs, including frontispiece. xii, [2], 192 pp. Octavo.
Item 399Old Carmel in Rare Photographs by L.S. Levin
Nice account of Carmel's early history through the eyes of one of its resident photographers.
Carmel-by-the-Sea: 1995. Illustrated from photographs. 56 pp. Printed wrappers. Illustrated from photographs. 56 pp.
Item 438Mémoires ou Souvenirs et Anecdotes par M. Le Comte de Sègur
"This work contains an account of the author's services in the American revolutionary war" - Sabin. Mixed edition set but uniformly bound.
Paris: Alexis Eymery, 1826-1827. 3 volumes. Engraved portrait frontispieces to each volume, folding map in volume 3. Sabin 78915. Volumes 2-3, Second Edition; Volume 1, Third Edition. Period quarter blue morocco and blue pebble cloth, spines lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled red. 3 volumes. Engraved portrait frontispieces to each volume, folding map in volume 3. Sabin 78915.
Item 394Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property
London: Methuen, [1987]. Softcover.
Item 388The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurences
One of the major histories of the Quakers. Bookplates of: Rockford; Alfred Heacock Whittaker. Owner marks of John Moss of Manchester, 1759 to front free endpaper and title.
London: Printed and sold by the Assigns of J. Sowle, 1725. [xii], 699, [1 blank], [12 index] pp. Note: lacks final advertisement leaves. Folio. The Second Edition, Corrected. Period speckled calf, morocco lettering piece. [xii], 699, [1 blank], [12 index] pp. Note: lacks final advertisement leaves. Folio.Results 1 - 10 (of 10)