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Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 166 pages. Black & white illustrations by Reginald Birch. Edgewear. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling. Brodart cover.

Softcover. Old Lyme. CT, Florence Griswold Museum, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 89 pages, b&w illustrations, 29 color plates, illustrated tissue guard. Light wear to wrapper corners. Else a very clean, tight copy. A book examining the life and work of an artist noted for his joie de vivre and for his versatility as an artist from winter views of New England to undersea paintings of the Bahamas. 89 pages, 29 color & 40 b/w illustrations with unique color frontispiece on vellum.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 222 pages. Story of the boy who helped William Tyndale smuggle into England his new English translation of the Bible.

Hardcover. NY, Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Illustrated, laminated boards, no dust jacket issued. Clean, tight copy. This is a beutifully produced catalog of a NY retrospective for the Australian/British/American painter Hayley Lever (1876-1958). His painting also crossed boundaries including elements of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism & Tonalism. Perhaps it was this refusal to sit in one box that accounts for his being so nearly forgotten. There are many lovely pictures here, mostly of St Ives & the coasts of New England.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with tape repair to rear panel. The opening volume (but second published) volume of James Morris's trilogy about the Victorian Empire, Heaven's Command tells the story of the British Empire from Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. 554 pages with index, color title page and frontis,. b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Oxford, England, Clarendon Press, 1st Edition, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 627 pages. Hardcover. Sequel to Hegel's Development: Toward the Sunlight 1770-1801(Clarendon Press, 1972). Black cover boards, gilt title and design on spine. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, faded (shelfwear), light agewear, glossy. Harris distinguishes three main phases in Hegel's development over this period: the period of callaboration with Schelling (1801-3); the appearance of a three-part 'phenomenological' system (1803-50; and the emergence of the mature system.

Hardcover. London, England, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 574 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf with small notations (pencil) throughout. Black cover boards (some light chipping), gilt title on spine. Spine slightly cocked, doesn't affect binding. Dust jacket unclipped, has agewear: chipping, fading, some small tears (see image). This book provides an intellectual biography of Hegel from the Gymnasium years until he went to his first academic post at Jena.

Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages with index. William Crockford, born in squalor in 1775, had an amazing ability to calculate odds accurately and shrewdly. In 1828 he opened Crockford's Club in Mayfair, where he accumulated a huge fortune, much of it at the expense of the English aristocracy. He was the father of modern bookmaking. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green boards with beige buckram spine, black lettering on spine and front cover. 425 pages with index. The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks. Diagrams by the author and numerous illustrations, colored lithographs and collotype reproductions from ancient examples. Gutter cracked at half-title page, previous owner's name otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 381 pages, b&w illustrations, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 3rd Edition reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 741 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrated frontispiece. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Pages clean, unmarked. Binding good. Spine straight. Dark blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has some agewear, price-clipped. An impressive eye-witness account of life in India at the turn of the century. It combines descriptions of the Hindu religion and Hindu sociology with masterful portraits of the intimate lives of the people among whom the author lived.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd pr., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with elaborate decoration in gilt, green and black on front cover and spine. Pages are deckle-edged with gilt on top. Frontis. illustration of Plymouth in 1622 with tissue guard. Information on Maine: Portland; Massachusetts: Rutland, Salem, Cambridge, Concord, Boston, Plymouth, Cape Cod, Deerfield; Rhode Island: Providence, Newport; and Connecticut: Hartford, New Haven. B/W illustrations. 599 pages, indexed. Extra illustrated by former owner with photo clippings tipped-in. Large folding map titled "Boston and its Environs in 1775" facing page 206. Fascinating histories of Early American towns, biographies of individual Pilgrims and settlers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, England, Cambridge at the University Press, 2nd Edition Reprint with corrections, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 596 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear (see image). Binding very good. Spine straight. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age. In this book the development of Roman law is traced historically from the earliesst times until the age of Justinian.

Hardcover. Birmingham, AL, Legal Classic Library, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 466 pages. Hardcover with gilded decoration, edges and leather bound covers. Clean, tight copy. Facsimile of originals. Marbled end papers. Ribbon marker.

Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 519 pages. Blue cloth with gilded lettering. Top edge gilt. Minor bump on edges and spine. Previous owner inscription on front fly leaf. Many b&w illustrations by various artists. Nice, clean interior.

Hardcover. London, England, Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1st Editions, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction. Two Volumes: Vol. 1: 352 pages. Vol. 2: 706 pages plus publisher ads. Previous owner's name on front flyleafs. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, fading to boards, especially to spines. Binding tight. Spines straight. Pages/edges have light tanning, otherwise clean. Appearing in isolation as they do, autobiographies demand for their description and appreciation, a comprehensive view of the development of the human mind. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Kent, U.K., Midas Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 407 pages, with b&w illustrations throughout. Very slight foxing on top edge and minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st U.S., 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, two-tone cloth stamped in gilt and dark blue, 576 pages. First published in England in 1891. Clean, bright copy.

London, Baynard Press, 1st, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 124 pages, Illustrated with 5 b&w portraits of Generals, 15 fold-out maps in color. Label on front cover is torn, chipped, with paper loss to 3 sides. Otherwise book is very good with all maps in excellent condition. Scarce.

Hardcover. London, Stevens and Sons, 1835, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Volume three. Rubbing to corners and spine. Some soiling to covers.

Hardcover. London, Architectural Press, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 487 pages. Oversized book. Black & white photography of English architecture. Light spinewear. Dust jacket with soiling and chipping. Small chunk missing from top of spine.

Hardcover. New York/London, M. Dooladt/Sampson, Low, Son and Marston, 1st US, 1866, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 575 pages, brown cloth, spine lettering worn away, edges frayed. Light soiling to end papers. Internally the volume is tight and clean. Edited, with Preface, Introduction and Notes and a Disquisition on the Past, Present and Future State of Gipsydom by James Simson. Focus is on Gipsies in England and Scotland.

Hardcover. Vermont, Tenth Vermont Regimental Association, 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages, green cover, small gilt design to front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper, light wear to cover, small date stamp to corner of rear endpaper; otherwise book in great condition. Includes a complete roster of the regiment & details of Virginia actions.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co., 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 188 pages, b&w illustrations, patterned end papers. Dark green covers w/ gilt lettering on spine and seal on front. Rubbing to corners. Bookplate inside front cover. Front hinge cracked. Else a clean, tight copy.