174 p., clean and unmarked; screw-post binding with dark blue plastic covers with silver lettering; many ill., including graphs, tables and technical drawings. View More...
63 p., clean and unmarked, plus order forms; glossy blue and white wrapper pristine; binding firm; the only thing that keeps this from being described as "like new" is mild age-toning of the excellent and strong paper; many descriptions and photos of firearms, scopes, binoculars, gun covers, shooting glasses, as well as 8 pages of ads for books. Difficult to date but it was published pre-zip code (1963) and after Hawaii became a state (Aug. 1959). There is a reference to Hawaii as one of the states for which extra postage is required for delivery and there is no zip code on the address on or... View More...
182 p., plus order forms in back, all clean and unmarked; red wrapper with black and white printing has former owner's name written on front with 1949 date, back of wrapper is white with faint smudges and a few tiny closed tears; binding firm; interesting articles & descriptions, as well as b&w drawings & photos of firearms, cameras, binoculars, hunting clothing, stoves and lamps,etc. The reason why this volume is not rated "very good" is that the expertly close and tidy nibbling along front edges and lower front corner suggest biopredation of the mouse variety--it doesn't go deep and text is... View More...
Firmly bound and immaculate collection of 14 b&w postcards with captions in French and German; beige boards with red lettering and drawing of WWI battle scene; View More...
At head of title: FREE SAMPLE COPY; unpaginated but estimated 30 p.; clean and unmarked; binding firm; front edges clipped and a small amount of chipping on bottom edges; paper age-toned but pages can be turned without damage; contents fascinating, not only for the lore of yore but for the ill., lists of the birthdays of famous people and an insert concerning Dr. Parker's New Marriage Guide, which is physiologically startlingly explicit. View More...
Two volumes bound in one tome; ex-lib., with The Army Library Washington D.C. stamped on end papers and in gilt on spine, with call number in white--otherwise clean and unmarked; binding firm; dark red boards with gilt lettering on spine; Italian language, with many detailed tables and technical drawings, most of them fold-out, related to the manufacture and use of artillery, intended as instructional material for the Italian Army. View More...
Embossed covers with gilt decoration but spine covering has fallen off and is included inside the book 543 pages quite foxed and water stained along top edge. SAVE ME View More...
German language in old script; 492 p., clean and unmarked; paper age-toned but strong; many engravings, reproductions of paintings, some in color and full-page, period photos of battle scenes, early aircraft and tanks, notable personnages. Possibly a collection of single-issue magazines, but no mast heads, no imprints to indicate date or publishing house. Maroon boards bound in black half-leather. Title blind-stamped on spine. Marbled edges. Corners are bumped and there is abrasion along edges of spine but binding is firm though bowed from poor storage. View More...
241 p., immaculate and unmarked--some pages still unopened; paper strong and only mildly age-toned; binding firm; beige wrapper with red and black lettering clean, very little shelf wear--slight bumping of lowe edge, scarcely discernible wrinkle on spine. Bibliotheque de Langues Modernes. View More...
440 p., clean and unmarked--not ex-lib., no former owner's name; frontis. is sepia photo of the distinguished publisher and diplomat, appointed ambassador to the UK by Woodrow Wilson after WWI, within are other photos of Wilson, George V, Lord Kitchener and other important figures of the time; paper mildly age-toned but of fine quality and very strong; TEG, other edges deckle; blue boards show scuffing and bumping despite presence of rather chipped d.j., with closed tear along spine that separate front and inside panel from back--front features photo of Mr. Page and back three ads for books;... View More...
pp. 149-189, plus ads and ill., immaculate and unmarked; binding firm; pictorial wrapper clean; were it not for slight age-toning of paper this would be "like new." Includes maps, period photos & artwork, full-page b&w portrait of "Custer in 1865;" daguerrotype of Jeb Stuart. View More...
Appears to be a deluxe prospectus of "a definitive edition of the papers and letters of Woodrow Wilson ...comprising approximately forty volumes..."; 16 clean, unmarked pages on fine paper; interesting photos and a holograph of a letter written by President Wilson; listing of members the Publications Committee, the Editorial Advisory Committee, which incucludes Henry Steele Commager and Arthur Schlesingr, Jr., officers of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, including honorary members sich as Mrs. Woodrow wilson; editorial Staff; and long list of luminaries on the Sponsors committee, which include ... View More...
3 issues in pristine condition; pictorial covers; lavishly illustrated with photos, artwork, ads; interesting articles on every aspect of Remington firearms. View More...
3 issues in pristine condition; pictorial covers; lavishly illustrated with photos, artwork and charts; interesting articles on every aspect of Remington firearms, and type writers as well. View More...
85 p., in pristine condition, as are pictorial covers; interesting articles about Remington firearms and books about them; lavishly illustrated with photos, artwork and ads. View More...
Some aged tone edges. Page 3 has some information underlined. This reprint is from the October 1956, August 1960 and May 1962 issues of the American Rifleman, a fully copyrighted publication. View More...
Second ed., but still a rarity; 153 p., plus 14 fascinating pages of the publisher's listing of titles, clean and unmarked, except for book seller's stamp in front end paper, which has a narrow tear at top; paper, though very strong, is foxed; binding is firm; blind stamped green boards show fading at spine and at top of back board; though the author of these poems is better remembered for his travel writings and his translation into English of Goethe's Faust, his poetry was popular in his day and some was set to music. His travels poems here are quite evocative--from "In Italy": "Sad is th... View More...
248 p., clean and unmarked; lavishly illustrated with photos of antiques and artwork; glossy color wrapper features a portrait of Gernoimo, as well as various society ladies and the kind of furniture and tea sets they would have lived with, as well as landscape and seascape paintings. There is a hole through inner top corner that probably allowed this volume to be placed on a ring, for convenience of consultation; one of the corners has been folded over.and there is a small closed tear at top of back panel near crown of spine; binding firm; insert of addenda. View More...
