Four titles, all very good to near fine. Includes the following: Honey, J.R. De S. Tom Brown's Universe: The Development of the English Public School in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co, 1977. Hardcover with dust jacket, 416 pp. An excellent copy with bit of.....
Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack, [1860]. Two volume set. Octavos, original brown cloth, rebacked with original spine laid on, new endpapers. Toning and foxing to pages, covers worn, heavy chipping with loss to much of spine cloth, bookplate and owner inscription to front endpapers. Volume I [2], vi, 611 pp and.....
Kettering: 1906-1911. 6.75 x 5”, maroon leather binding gilt stamped “Album.” Binding loose but holding, paper restoration to front hinge, lower spine chipped. Good+. An album containing 14 original sketches/cartoons, 4 watercolor views, and 17 pages of handwritten poems and quotations, dated between 1906 and 1911. The owner of the.....
New York: E.P. Dutton Co, 1901. Hardcover, purple cloth with gilt lettering, xv, [1], 406, [2] pp, illustration plates. A very good copy with foxing and toning to pages, mild soiling to covers, slight sunning to spine.
Stockholm: Kungl. Boktryckeriet, P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1901. 8vo, 24, [2], pp, original wrappers. First edition. Ink corrections and pasted on corrections to text. Two inch tear to front wrapper, couple of smaller tears as well, chip to lower corner of rear wrapper, lower corner creased, bit of toning.....
England: Hills & Saunders, 1890s. Commercially produced photograph album by the notable Hills & Saunders studio of England. Consists of 22 albumen photographs, each captioned in manuscript and measuring 8 x 6", in a blue cloth album titled "Views of Cambridge" in gilt on the front cover. A striking series.....
Oslo, Norway: 1962. 4to, clasp bound glossy wrappers, 107 pp. A guide for American government workers living in Norway, with info on keeping house, shopping, food, and much more. Yellowing to covers, slight chipping to pages along upper margin, mild foxing, good.
Brigue, Switzerland: Zermatt-Gornergrat-Railway/H. Vontobel Meilen, 1929. Accordion style folding book of sepia toned views of the Swiss Alps above descriptive text, on one side, and a color panorama of the Alps on the other, measuring 85 x 15" when unfolded. In excellent condition.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1929. Early printing. Small 8vo, purple cloth, 287, [3] pp, yellow printed dust jacket. This copy belonged to longtime journalist and associated press correspondent John Koenig Jr, while he was serving in the Air Force in England during WWII (inscribed by him in 1943). Together.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1975. Hardcover with dust jacket, 182 pp. Memoir of the Fiat automobile heiress' upbringing during World War II Italy and after. Very good with bit of foxing to text block edges, ownership inscriptions to front endpaper.
New York & New Jersey: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World/Princeton University Press, 2010. 254 pp, 4to, hardcvoer with dust jacket, in very good plus with foxing to jacket, closed tear to jacket.
London: Arthur Baker Ltd., 1951. 295 pp, 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket, in good plus conditon with foxing to pages, creasing/rubbing to jacket.
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1906. 8vo, green cloth with gilt lettering, vii, [5], 306, [2], two illustration plates. First edition. A very good copy with bit of soiling and staining to covers, foxing and toning to pages.
England: Sutton Publishing, 2002. 238 pp, 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket, a fine copy.
New York & London: D. Appleton And Company, 1928. Hardcover with no dust jacket, 215 pp. In fair condition with heavy staining to front cover and spine, fading to spine toning to pages, owner inscription to front end cover.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1893. Octavo, 350pp, blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Color folding frontispiece map. Contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper. Very good with discoloration and wear to covers, foxing to pages, some pages with soiling to margins, soiling to upper text block edge, a few.....
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1951. hardcover. 282 pp, hardcover, In good condition with foxing on the pages and discoloration on the spine.
London: John Murray, 1863. Oblong 4to, quarter green morocco with green marbled covers, [82] pp, comprised of 23 full page comic illustration plates together with descriptions of each plate. Scuffing to leather on covers, heavy foxing to pages, verso of two plates repaired with tape, bookplate of art historian and.....
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1938. Hardcover, orange cloth with gilt lettering, 286 pp. A good copy with wear, fading and discoloration to covers, foxing, owner inscription and bookplate to front endpapers.
London, England: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 2001. 407 pp, 8vo, Hardcover with dust jacket, like new.
London: Cassel & Co Ltd, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket, 219 pp. A collection of portraits of pre-World War I nobility, by the daughter of the last British Ambassador to Imperial Russia. Foxing to text block edges and endpapers, toning and rubbing to jacket, discoloration to covers, owner inscription to.....
London: B.T. Batsford, 1939. First Edition. Quarto, orange cloth with brown spine lettering. xi, [1], 146 pp, illustrated. Memoir of Baroness Von Bulop as told to Cecil Beaton. Very good with foxing to pages, wear to cloth along spine, owner inscription to front endpaper.
London: John Russell Smith, 1844. 8vo, brown cloth, [12], 603, 16 pp. Second edition. Bookplate of Eugene C. Massie, American politician and member of the Virginia House of Delegates. In fair condition with toning and foxing to pages, chipping to margins of a few leaves, staining and fading to covers.....
Cambridge: The University Press, 1938. Hardcover with no dust jacket, 140 pp. In good condition with foxing and toning to pages, staining to rear cover.
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. Hardcover with dust jacket, 514 pp. Chosen and with an introduction by David Garnett. In very good condition with foxing and toning to pages, mild soiling to covers, owner inscription to front end paper, bit of chipping to jacket.