FISCHER (David Hackett): Growing Old in America,
First Edition, 242pp octavo, a very good copy in original cloth, with dust-wrapper, New York, Oxford University Press, 1977.One of the first studies on the subject in America. With chapters on; The Exaltation of Age in Early America, 1607-1820; The Revolution in Age Relations; The Cult of Youth in Modern America 1780-1970; Old Age becomes a Social Problem, 1909-1970. (Book ref. 20769) £16.00
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First Edition, 242pp octavo, a very good copy in original cloth, with dust-wrapper, New York, Oxford University Press, 1977.One of the first studies on the subject in America. With chapters on; The Exaltation of Age in Early America, 1607-1820; The Revolution in Age Relations; The Cult of Youth in Modern America 1780-1970; Old Age becomes a Social Problem, 1909-1970. (Book ref. 20769) £16.00
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EPSTEIN (Abraham): The Challenge Of The Aged,
First Edition, Review copy, very good copy in original cloth, New York, Macy-Masius, Vanguard Press, 1928. Epstein was one of the very first to draw attention to the plight of the aged poor in America. He prepared the 1927 Report of the Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Pensions using first hand studies of the situation in several European countries and has presented some of this material again in this book. His anger over the increasingly difficult plight of the aged in America was heartfelt: "While our Pollyanna economists are singing the song of the "chosen people", of the land chuck-full of bath tubs and Fords, and of the air filled with radios, we continue to have a steady and considerable percentage of unemployed, the employment age line is being constantly lowered, and the budgets of our relief organizations are growing by leaps and bounds. Parallel with the indisputable prosperity of some of us there is also incontestable evidence that millions of American men and women with large families to support are today actually earning a wage below the level of an American way of life. Industrial pensions and welfare work can never meet the demands of the aged workers; in no country have these voluntary provisions been used as a substitute for social legislation or insurance. Sooner or later we shall be forced to open our eyes..." (p.viii). (Book ref. 20788) £35.00
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First Edition, Review copy, very good copy in original cloth, New York, Macy-Masius, Vanguard Press, 1928. Epstein was one of the very first to draw attention to the plight of the aged poor in America. He prepared the 1927 Report of the Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Pensions using first hand studies of the situation in several European countries and has presented some of this material again in this book. His anger over the increasingly difficult plight of the aged in America was heartfelt: "While our Pollyanna economists are singing the song of the "chosen people", of the land chuck-full of bath tubs and Fords, and of the air filled with radios, we continue to have a steady and considerable percentage of unemployed, the employment age line is being constantly lowered, and the budgets of our relief organizations are growing by leaps and bounds. Parallel with the indisputable prosperity of some of us there is also incontestable evidence that millions of American men and women with large families to support are today actually earning a wage below the level of an American way of life. Industrial pensions and welfare work can never meet the demands of the aged workers; in no country have these voluntary provisions been used as a substitute for social legislation or insurance. Sooner or later we shall be forced to open our eyes..." (p.viii). (Book ref. 20788) £35.00
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GEORGE (Henry); copy of L. L. BULLOCK (Sheriff of Placer County, California): Progress and Poverty, An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth the Remedy,
ONE OF 200 COPIES PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. OF EXCEPTIONAL RARITY. THE GREATEST ECONOMICS BOOK EVER WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED IN THE USA. First Edition, known as the Author's Edition of which ONLY 200 WERE PRINTED, [4], 512pp royal octavo, an excellent fine copy in original publisher's fine-grained cloth, decorated with blind-stamped ornamental borders, spine gilt lettered with the words in gilt at foot of spine: "Author's Edition." spine extremities very expertly repaired, with the ink signature "L. L. Bullock 1879" on the first paste-down, San Francisco, CA, Wm. M. Hinton and Company, 1879. AMEX 184: "This first edition of Progress and Poverty is of exceptional rarity and is often regarded as the greatest economics book written and published in the USA, certainly during the 19thC. The increase of productive power, George argued, had "neither lessened the toil of those who most need respite, nor brought plenty to the poor." "The most influential of American works on economics, this book gave its author an international reputation as prophet and reformer. He proposed to abolish poverty and secure fair distribution of the rewards of labour by appropriating all economic rent by taxation, and abolishing all taxation except on land values. Today, the slogan of the single tax still unites the followers of Henry George.." Grolier, One Hundred Influential American Books Printed before 1900, no. 81. "[Having been refused by a number of publishers] George decided to print the work himself, and Hinton made his plant on Clay Street available. Type in part was actually set by George, Taylor, and Hinton. The work was commenced in May, 1879, and was completed in September... Copies were sent to various publishers including Appleton & Co.; this led to a reply that Appleton would publish the book if given the original plates. The offer was accepted, and the first trade edition appeared in 1880. After a slow start the book became a runaway best seller. One can count on the fingers of one hand the number of treatises on economics printed before 1880 which are in print today; certainly it may be said that Progress and Poverty has had a wider circulation and a broader influence than any similar work. The book's true importance is the fact that it has led thousands to think about the economic facts of life and the problems of good government. In this book multitudes have met for the first time the terms capital, wages, rent, and interest in their economic sense; here other thousands for the first time have met the early stalwarts, Malthus, Mill, Ricardo, Quesnay, and Adam Smith. Progress and Poverty finds its real significance in the fact that it is a book which has provoked the minds of men... The first edition is easily recognizable because it is the only one bearing the date 1879 on the title page and the only one showing Hinton as the printer [and which has] the words Author's Edition on the spine..." Kenneth M. Johnson, 'Progress and Poverty a Paradox'. PROVENANCE: The original owner, L. L. Bullock, was Sheriff of Placer County California (1858) and later (1871) a member of the Board of Tide Land Commissioners, San Francisco (California) and, as such, his name appears on a number of extant Californian Sale Maps of salt marsh and tide lands. (Book ref. 20467) £7000.00
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ONE OF 200 COPIES PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. OF EXCEPTIONAL RARITY. THE GREATEST ECONOMICS BOOK EVER WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED IN THE USA. First Edition, known as the Author's Edition of which ONLY 200 WERE PRINTED, [4], 512pp royal octavo, an excellent fine copy in original publisher's fine-grained cloth, decorated with blind-stamped ornamental borders, spine gilt lettered with the words in gilt at foot of spine: "Author's Edition." spine extremities very expertly repaired, with the ink signature "L. L. Bullock 1879" on the first paste-down, San Francisco, CA, Wm. M. Hinton and Company, 1879. AMEX 184: "This first edition of Progress and Poverty is of exceptional rarity and is often regarded as the greatest economics book written and published in the USA, certainly during the 19thC. The increase of productive power, George argued, had "neither lessened the toil of those who most need respite, nor brought plenty to the poor." "The most influential of American works on economics, this book gave its author an international reputation as prophet and reformer. He proposed to abolish poverty and secure fair distribution of the rewards of labour by appropriating all economic rent by taxation, and abolishing all taxation except on land values. Today, the slogan of the single tax still unites the followers of Henry George.." Grolier, One Hundred Influential American Books Printed before 1900, no. 81. "[Having been refused by a number of publishers] George decided to print the work himself, and Hinton made his plant on Clay Street available. Type in part was actually set by George, Taylor, and Hinton. The work was commenced in May, 1879, and was completed in September... Copies were sent to various publishers including Appleton & Co.; this led to a reply that Appleton would publish the book if given the original plates. The offer was accepted, and the first trade edition appeared in 1880. After a slow start the book became a runaway best seller. One can count on the fingers of one hand the number of treatises on economics printed before 1880 which are in print today; certainly it may be said that Progress and Poverty has had a wider circulation and a broader influence than any similar work. The book's true importance is the fact that it has led thousands to think about the economic facts of life and the problems of good government. In this book multitudes have met for the first time the terms capital, wages, rent, and interest in their economic sense; here other thousands for the first time have met the early stalwarts, Malthus, Mill, Ricardo, Quesnay, and Adam Smith. Progress and Poverty finds its real significance in the fact that it is a book which has provoked the minds of men... The first edition is easily recognizable because it is the only one bearing the date 1879 on the title page and the only one showing Hinton as the printer [and which has] the words Author's Edition on the spine..." Kenneth M. Johnson, 'Progress and Poverty a Paradox'. PROVENANCE: The original owner, L. L. Bullock, was Sheriff of Placer County California (1858) and later (1871) a member of the Board of Tide Land Commissioners, San Francisco (California) and, as such, his name appears on a number of extant Californian Sale Maps of salt marsh and tide lands. (Book ref. 20467) £7000.00
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PENN (William); Preisner, Olga and Hedy Landman: The England of William Penn. 1644-1718 an Exhibition Organized in Recognition of the Tercentenary of William Penn's First Landing in America...
Museum of Art. The Pennsylvania State University, 1982. Softcover exhibition catalog, contents - fine, covers - near fine; 82pp., with 115 b/w and colour illustrations plus bibliography. (Book ref. 20375) £10.00
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Museum of Art. The Pennsylvania State University, 1982. Softcover exhibition catalog, contents - fine, covers - near fine; 82pp., with 115 b/w and colour illustrations plus bibliography. (Book ref. 20375) £10.00
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BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS: IRISH UNIVERSITY PRESS: Colonies (General)
37 volumes large folio. This set - Colonies, General - comprises the papers which cannot be assigned to any specific colony, either because of subject matter or because of relationship to an overall corpus of material. The set includes a number of Select Committee Reports on general colonial policy. 34 volumes out of 37 comprise the colonial annual reports which were submitted to the House of Commons yearly from 1846 onwards. * PHOTOGRAPHS & FURTHER DETAILS OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. There are approximately 5,000 British Parliamentary Papers for the period 1800 to 1900 - a mountain of source material that, however, because of its traditional chronological arrangement, has been difficult to access. The Irish University Press programme of facsimile reprints of these papers overcame this by commissioning academic specialists to select the most important papers and group them on the principle of 32 subject sets in the folio size of the originals. This series was published c.1960-1972. All the volumes are strongly bound in half green morocco leather . They are designed to outlast generations of heavy use and wear and have the great advantage over the original printings because on a strong laid acid free paper. Reproductions of original maps and other illustrations are included throughout the series. Each volume now offered has neat library stamp on front endpaper and verso title, otherwise entirely unmarked and in excellent condition. (Book ref. 20042) £1100.00
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37 volumes large folio. This set - Colonies, General - comprises the papers which cannot be assigned to any specific colony, either because of subject matter or because of relationship to an overall corpus of material. The set includes a number of Select Committee Reports on general colonial policy. 34 volumes out of 37 comprise the colonial annual reports which were submitted to the House of Commons yearly from 1846 onwards. * PHOTOGRAPHS & FURTHER DETAILS OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. There are approximately 5,000 British Parliamentary Papers for the period 1800 to 1900 - a mountain of source material that, however, because of its traditional chronological arrangement, has been difficult to access. The Irish University Press programme of facsimile reprints of these papers overcame this by commissioning academic specialists to select the most important papers and group them on the principle of 32 subject sets in the folio size of the originals. This series was published c.1960-1972. All the volumes are strongly bound in half green morocco leather . They are designed to outlast generations of heavy use and wear and have the great advantage over the original printings because on a strong laid acid free paper. Reproductions of original maps and other illustrations are included throughout the series. Each volume now offered has neat library stamp on front endpaper and verso title, otherwise entirely unmarked and in excellent condition. (Book ref. 20042) £1100.00
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PERSON (David): Varieties: Or A Surveigh of Rare and Excellent Matters, necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons,
Wherein the principall Heads of diverse Sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of Naturall things unfoulded, &c Digested into five Bookes, whose severall Chapters with their Contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory [complete in five books], PHOTOGRAPHS SENT ON REQUEST, quarto, [52pp]; 47pp; [5pp]; 49-93pp; [7pp]; 97-123pp; [1p]; 126pp; 126-178pp; [2pp]; 181- 190pp; [6pp]; 177-208pp; 217-256pp; [4pp]; 105pp; [1p]. Complete with signature leaf A1 before title [often missing] and with the dedication of the Fifth Book to Thomas, Lord Denning [not found in all copies], AA1 in both uncancelled and cancelled state, with woodcut ornaments and decorations, early 19thC half calf, marbled boards, a fine copy, from the library of the Marquis of Downshire, Hillsbrough Castle, County Down, with his gilt crest at head of spine, hinges professionally repaired, London, Richard Badger for Thomas Alchorn, 1635. STC 19781. A famous book of secrets with American interest. The first book contains "a discourse and discoverie of some of the rarest and most profitable secrets of naturall things, whether in heaven, aire, sea, or earth". The second book on astronomy; comets, meteors, and "falling stars". The third book on military theory "armies and battels", "combats and duels". The fourth book on "curiosities", includes a 5 page section "Of Christopher Columbus his practical curiosity in his discovery of the new World or America". The fifth book includes numerology; alchemy, with an essay titled "Salamandra, or a short treatise in the Philosophers Stone". (Duveen p.466; Ferguson, Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets, I, 4, pp.19-20: "it is almost the only collection of secrets by a Scotchman that I have encountered.") (Book ref. 20017) £3200.00
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Wherein the principall Heads of diverse Sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of Naturall things unfoulded, &c Digested into five Bookes, whose severall Chapters with their Contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory [complete in five books], PHOTOGRAPHS SENT ON REQUEST, quarto, [52pp]; 47pp; [5pp]; 49-93pp; [7pp]; 97-123pp; [1p]; 126pp; 126-178pp; [2pp]; 181- 190pp; [6pp]; 177-208pp; 217-256pp; [4pp]; 105pp; [1p]. Complete with signature leaf A1 before title [often missing] and with the dedication of the Fifth Book to Thomas, Lord Denning [not found in all copies], AA1 in both uncancelled and cancelled state, with woodcut ornaments and decorations, early 19thC half calf, marbled boards, a fine copy, from the library of the Marquis of Downshire, Hillsbrough Castle, County Down, with his gilt crest at head of spine, hinges professionally repaired, London, Richard Badger for Thomas Alchorn, 1635. STC 19781. A famous book of secrets with American interest. The first book contains "a discourse and discoverie of some of the rarest and most profitable secrets of naturall things, whether in heaven, aire, sea, or earth". The second book on astronomy; comets, meteors, and "falling stars". The third book on military theory "armies and battels", "combats and duels". The fourth book on "curiosities", includes a 5 page section "Of Christopher Columbus his practical curiosity in his discovery of the new World or America". The fifth book includes numerology; alchemy, with an essay titled "Salamandra, or a short treatise in the Philosophers Stone". (Duveen p.466; Ferguson, Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets, I, 4, pp.19-20: "it is almost the only collection of secrets by a Scotchman that I have encountered.") (Book ref. 20017) £3200.00
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BURKE (Edmund); DODSLEY ( Robert ): The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1783. [Volume XXVI]
First Edition, Iv, 367; 223, [14]pp., large octavo, contemporary leather backed marbled boards with leather label, hinges worn but holding, spine rubbed but sound, an excellent unsophisticated copy, J. Dodsley, London, 1785. PHOTOGRAPHS SENT ON REQUEST. Includes Samuel Johnson's "on the Death of Dr. Robert Levet". Also much on India, America and other colonies, retrospective view of affairs in the West Indies, North America, Africa, and Europe, previous to the conclusion of peace; American interest including several letters signed in type by George Washington and Washington's Farewell Orders to the Armies ofthe United States dated 2 Nov. 1783. Also includes the transcript of the Paris Peace Treaty between Great Britain and the United States of America that formally ended the American Revolutionary War: "His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof." (Book ref. 20021) £250.00
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First Edition, Iv, 367; 223, [14]pp., large octavo, contemporary leather backed marbled boards with leather label, hinges worn but holding, spine rubbed but sound, an excellent unsophisticated copy, J. Dodsley, London, 1785. PHOTOGRAPHS SENT ON REQUEST. Includes Samuel Johnson's "on the Death of Dr. Robert Levet". Also much on India, America and other colonies, retrospective view of affairs in the West Indies, North America, Africa, and Europe, previous to the conclusion of peace; American interest including several letters signed in type by George Washington and Washington's Farewell Orders to the Armies ofthe United States dated 2 Nov. 1783. Also includes the transcript of the Paris Peace Treaty between Great Britain and the United States of America that formally ended the American Revolutionary War: "His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof." (Book ref. 20021) £250.00
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OHIO; Statement relative to an intended Theological Seminary in the Diocese of Ohio.: Statement relative to an intended Theological Seminary in the Diocese of Ohio,
8pp pamphlet octavo, disbound, good copy, London, 1824. Description of a project to establish a Theological Seminary in the Diocese of Ohio, with subscription list. (Book ref. 19982) £40.00
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8pp pamphlet octavo, disbound, good copy, London, 1824. Description of a project to establish a Theological Seminary in the Diocese of Ohio, with subscription list. (Book ref. 19982) £40.00
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JOHNSON (Hildegard Binder): ORDER UPON THE LAND: THE U.S. RECTANGULAR LAND SURVEY AND THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI COUNTRY (THE ANDREW H. CLARK SERIES IN THE HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA).
First Edition, 268pp large octavo, a few library marks but a very good copy in original cloth, with numerous plates and illustrations, New York, Oxford University Press, 1976 (Book ref. 19756) £18.00
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First Edition, 268pp large octavo, a few library marks but a very good copy in original cloth, with numerous plates and illustrations, New York, Oxford University Press, 1976 (Book ref. 19756) £18.00
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BLOCH (Ruth): Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1756-1800 ,
First Edition, 291pp tall octavo, a few library marks but a very good copy in original cloth, with dust-wrapper, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985. (Book ref. 19707) £22.00
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First Edition, 291pp tall octavo, a few library marks but a very good copy in original cloth, with dust-wrapper, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985. (Book ref. 19707) £22.00
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HOLROYD (J. B. Earl of Sheffield): Observations on the Commerce of the American States..
With an Appendix Containing Tables of the Imports and Exports of Great Britain to and from all Parts, from 1700 to 1783. Also, the Exports of America &c. With Remarks on those Tables and the Trade and Navigation of Great Britain, and on the late Proclamations &c. The Sixth Edition, enlarged, with a Complete Index to the Whole, xlvii, errata leaf, 345, 24pp with numerous large folding tables and others, 8vo, contemporary half calf, spine a little rubbed but a very good copy, London, Debrett, 1784. Goldsmith 12623. 'Sheffield was one of the leading authorities of the time on matters relating to commerce and agriculture..., his Observations on the Commerce of the American States was written in opposition to the bill introduced by Pitt in 1783, proposing to relax the navigation laws in favour of the United States...' -DNB. Photograph available on request. (Book ref. 19606) £110.00
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With an Appendix Containing Tables of the Imports and Exports of Great Britain to and from all Parts, from 1700 to 1783. Also, the Exports of America &c. With Remarks on those Tables and the Trade and Navigation of Great Britain, and on the late Proclamations &c. The Sixth Edition, enlarged, with a Complete Index to the Whole, xlvii, errata leaf, 345, 24pp with numerous large folding tables and others, 8vo, contemporary half calf, spine a little rubbed but a very good copy, London, Debrett, 1784. Goldsmith 12623. 'Sheffield was one of the leading authorities of the time on matters relating to commerce and agriculture..., his Observations on the Commerce of the American States was written in opposition to the bill introduced by Pitt in 1783, proposing to relax the navigation laws in favour of the United States...' -DNB. Photograph available on request. (Book ref. 19606) £110.00
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BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS: AMERICA COST OF LIVING: COST OF LIVING IN AMERICAN TOWNS, Report of an Enquiry by the Board of Trade
into Working Class Rents, Housing and Retail Prices, together with the Rates of Wages in Certain Occupations in the Principal Industrial Towns of the United States of America, with an Introductory Memorandum and a Comparison of Conditions in the United States and the United Kingdom, First Edition, xcii, 533pp folio, map, a few library marks but a very good copy bound contemporary half calf, London, HMSO, 1911. Cmd 5609. One of a series of important comparative detailed international social surveys undertaken by the Board of Trade at that time. The particular focus was "the condition of the working classes in industrial towns." For this volume 28 representative towns and cities were selected for detailed investigation. (Book ref. 19531) £390.00
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into Working Class Rents, Housing and Retail Prices, together with the Rates of Wages in Certain Occupations in the Principal Industrial Towns of the United States of America, with an Introductory Memorandum and a Comparison of Conditions in the United States and the United Kingdom, First Edition, xcii, 533pp folio, map, a few library marks but a very good copy bound contemporary half calf, London, HMSO, 1911. Cmd 5609. One of a series of important comparative detailed international social surveys undertaken by the Board of Trade at that time. The particular focus was "the condition of the working classes in industrial towns." For this volume 28 representative towns and cities were selected for detailed investigation. (Book ref. 19531) £390.00
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BRADLEY MARTIN LIBRARY; SOTHEBY'S: The Library of...Part VI Highly Important American and Children's Literature.
January 30-31 1990, c500pp. with detailed descriptions of 527 lots; illustrated throughout including many coloured plates; fine hardback in original cloth. New York: Sotheby's 1990. 28 cm x 21.5 cm, green cloth with pictorial label on upper board, unpaginated; illustrated in colour and b&w. Introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle. Useful catalogue of one the best best collections of American literature ever held in private hands. Especially strong on Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe, and others. (Book ref. 18755) £14.00
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January 30-31 1990, c500pp. with detailed descriptions of 527 lots; illustrated throughout including many coloured plates; fine hardback in original cloth. New York: Sotheby's 1990. 28 cm x 21.5 cm, green cloth with pictorial label on upper board, unpaginated; illustrated in colour and b&w. Introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle. Useful catalogue of one the best best collections of American literature ever held in private hands. Especially strong on Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe, and others. (Book ref. 18755) £14.00
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GREENFIELD (Kent Roberts, general editor): United States Army in World War II,: United States Army in World War II,
50 volumes [of the complete c.65 volume series], PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition, large octavo, library bookplate and shelf mark on spines, one hinge of one volume partly torn, but a very good run in original green cloth, Washington: Office of Chief of Military History, Dept of the Army, 1947-52. A very valuable highly detailed record of the US role in WWII. Bargain price - individual volumes are normally priced at $30 - $80 each. Comprising: [The War Department series]1) CHIEF OF STAFF: PREWAR PLANS AND PREPARATIONS. 2) WASHINGTON COMMAND POST: THE OPERATIONS DIVISION. 3) STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR COALITION WARFARE: 1941-1942. 4) STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR COALITION WARFARE: 1943-1944. 5) GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND STRATEGY: 1940-1943. 6) GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND STRATEGY: 1943-1945. 7) THE ARMY AND ECONOMIC MOBILIZATION. 8) THE ARMY AND INDUSTRIAL MANPOWER [The Army Ground Forces series]. 9) THE ORGANIZATION OF GROUND COMBAT TROOPS 10) THE PROCUREMENT AND TRAINING OF GROUND COMBAT TROOPS [The Army Service Forces series]. 11) THE ORGANIZATION AND ROLE OF THE ARMY SERVICE FORCES [The Western Hemisphere series] 12) THE FRAMEWORK OF HEMISPHERE DEFENSE. 13) GUARDING THE UNITED STATES AND ITS OUTPOSTS [The War in the Pacific series]. 14) THE FALL OF THE PHILIPPINES. 15) VICTORY IN PAPUA. 16) CARTWHEEL: THE REDUCTION OF RABAUL. 17) SEIZURE OF THE GILBERTS AND MARSHALLS. 18) CAMPAIGN IN THE MARIANAS. 19) THE APPROACH TO THE PHILIPPINES. 20) LEYTE: THE RETURN TO THE PHILIPPINES. 21) GUADALCANAL: THE FIRST OFFENSIVE 22) OKINAWA: THE LAST BATTLE. [The Mediterranean Theater of Operations series]. 23) NORTHWEST AFRICA: SEIZING THE INITIATIVE IN THE WEST. [The European Theater of Operations series] 23) THE SUPREME COMMAND. 24) LOGISTICAL SUPPORT OF THE ARMIES, VOLUME I: MAY 1941 - SEPTEMBER 1944 25) CROSS-CHANNEL ATTACK. 26) THE LORRAINE CAMPAIGN. 27 THE SIEGFRIED LINE CAMPAIGN [The Middle East Theater series]. 28) THE PERSIAN CORRIDOR AND AID TO RUSSIA [The China-Burma-India Theater series]. 29) STILWELL'S MISSION TO CHINA. 30) STILWELL'S COMMAND PROBLEMS. 31) TIME RUNS OUT IN CBI. [The Technical Services] 32) THE CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE: ORGANIZING FOR WAR. 33) THE CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE: FROM LABORATORY TO FIELD. 34) THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS: TROOPS AND EQUIPMENT. 35) THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT: HOSPITALIZATION AND EVACUATION, ZONE OF INTERIOR. 36) THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT: PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY. 37) THE QUARTERMASTER CORPS: ORGANIZATION, SUPPLY, AND SERVICES, Vol I. 38) THE QUARTERMASTER CORPS: ORGANIZATION, SUPPLY, AND SERVICES, Vol II. 39) THE QUARTERMASTER CORPS: OPERATIONS IN THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN. 40) THE SIGNAL CORPS: THE EMERGENCY (TO DECEMBER 1941). 41) THE SIGNAL CORPS: THE TEST (DECEMBER 1941 TO JULY 1943). 42) THE TRANSPORTATION CORPS: RESPONSIBILITIES, ORGANIZATION, AND OPERATIONS. 43) THE TRANSPORTATION CORPS: MOVEMENTS, TRAINING, AND SUPPLY. 44) THE TRANSPORTATION CORPS: OPERATIONS OVERSEAS [Special Studies series]. 45) CHRONOLOGY: 1941-1945. 46) MILITARY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA: 1939-1945. 47) REARMING THE FRENCH. 48) THE WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: [Pictorial Record series]. 49) THE WAR AGAINST GERMANY AND ITALY: MEDITERRANEAN AND ADJACENT AREAS. 50) THE WAR AGAINST GERMANY: EUROPE AND ADJACENT AREAS (Book ref. 18658) £750.00
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50 volumes [of the complete c.65 volume series], PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition, large octavo, library bookplate and shelf mark on spines, one hinge of one volume partly torn, but a very good run in original green cloth, Washington: Office of Chief of Military History, Dept of the Army, 1947-52. A very valuable highly detailed record of the US role in WWII. Bargain price - individual volumes are normally priced at $30 - $80 each. Comprising: [The War Department series]1) CHIEF OF STAFF: PREWAR PLANS AND PREPARATIONS. 2) WASHINGTON COMMAND POST: THE OPERATIONS DIVISION. 3) STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR COALITION WARFARE: 1941-1942. 4) STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR COALITION WARFARE: 1943-1944. 5) GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND STRATEGY: 1940-1943. 6) GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND STRATEGY: 1943-1945. 7) THE ARMY AND ECONOMIC MOBILIZATION. 8) THE ARMY AND INDUSTRIAL MANPOWER [The Army Ground Forces series]. 9) THE ORGANIZATION OF GROUND COMBAT TROOPS 10) THE PROCUREMENT AND TRAINING OF GROUND COMBAT TROOPS [The Army Service Forces series]. 11) THE ORGANIZATION AND ROLE OF THE ARMY SERVICE FORCES [The Western Hemisphere series] 12) THE FRAMEWORK OF HEMISPHERE DEFENSE. 13) GUARDING THE UNITED STATES AND ITS OUTPOSTS [The War in the Pacific series]. 14) THE FALL OF THE PHILIPPINES. 15) VICTORY IN PAPUA. 16) CARTWHEEL: THE REDUCTION OF RABAUL. 17) SEIZURE OF THE GILBERTS AND MARSHALLS. 18) CAMPAIGN IN THE MARIANAS. 19) THE APPROACH TO THE PHILIPPINES. 20) LEYTE: THE RETURN TO THE PHILIPPINES. 21) GUADALCANAL: THE FIRST OFFENSIVE 22) OKINAWA: THE LAST BATTLE. [The Mediterranean Theater of Operations series]. 23) NORTHWEST AFRICA: SEIZING THE INITIATIVE IN THE WEST. [The European Theater of Operations series] 23) THE SUPREME COMMAND. 24) LOGISTICAL SUPPORT OF THE ARMIES, VOLUME I: MAY 1941 - SEPTEMBER 1944 25) CROSS-CHANNEL ATTACK. 26) THE LORRAINE CAMPAIGN. 27 THE SIEGFRIED LINE CAMPAIGN [The Middle East Theater series]. 28) THE PERSIAN CORRIDOR AND AID TO RUSSIA [The China-Burma-India Theater series]. 29) STILWELL'S MISSION TO CHINA. 30) STILWELL'S COMMAND PROBLEMS. 31) TIME RUNS OUT IN CBI. [The Technical Services] 32) THE CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE: ORGANIZING FOR WAR. 33) THE CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE: FROM LABORATORY TO FIELD. 34) THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS: TROOPS AND EQUIPMENT. 35) THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT: HOSPITALIZATION AND EVACUATION, ZONE OF INTERIOR. 36) THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT: PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY. 37) THE QUARTERMASTER CORPS: ORGANIZATION, SUPPLY, AND SERVICES, Vol I. 38) THE QUARTERMASTER CORPS: ORGANIZATION, SUPPLY, AND SERVICES, Vol II. 39) THE QUARTERMASTER CORPS: OPERATIONS IN THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN. 40) THE SIGNAL CORPS: THE EMERGENCY (TO DECEMBER 1941). 41) THE SIGNAL CORPS: THE TEST (DECEMBER 1941 TO JULY 1943). 42) THE TRANSPORTATION CORPS: RESPONSIBILITIES, ORGANIZATION, AND OPERATIONS. 43) THE TRANSPORTATION CORPS: MOVEMENTS, TRAINING, AND SUPPLY. 44) THE TRANSPORTATION CORPS: OPERATIONS OVERSEAS [Special Studies series]. 45) CHRONOLOGY: 1941-1945. 46) MILITARY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA: 1939-1945. 47) REARMING THE FRENCH. 48) THE WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: [Pictorial Record series]. 49) THE WAR AGAINST GERMANY AND ITALY: MEDITERRANEAN AND ADJACENT AREAS. 50) THE WAR AGAINST GERMANY: EUROPE AND ADJACENT AREAS (Book ref. 18658) £750.00
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Joos (Martin, editor): Readings in Linguistics. The Development of Descriptive Linguistics in America Since 1925,
4th edition, 421pp quarto, a very good copy in original cloth, University Chicago Press, 1966. (Book ref. 18646) £10.00
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4th edition, 421pp quarto, a very good copy in original cloth, University Chicago Press, 1966. (Book ref. 18646) £10.00
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DECKER (Peter R.): Fortunes and Failures; White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco,
First Edition, 336pp large octavo, a few library marks but a very good copy in original cloth, title page unmarked, Harvard University Press, 1978. (Book ref. 18355) £10.00
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First Edition, 336pp large octavo, a few library marks but a very good copy in original cloth, title page unmarked, Harvard University Press, 1978. (Book ref. 18355) £10.00
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COCHRAN (Thomas C.): Frontiers of Change, Early Industrialism in America,
First Edition, 179pp tall octavo, a few library marks but a very good copy in original cloth, title page unmarked, with dust-wrapper, New York, London, Oxford University Press, 1981. (Book ref. 18291) £10.00
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First Edition, 179pp tall octavo, a few library marks but a very good copy in original cloth, title page unmarked, with dust-wrapper, New York, London, Oxford University Press, 1981. (Book ref. 18291) £10.00
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REVANS, S.: Advantages of counter exchange with the United States of America.
Good clean copy, disbound. London: Pelham, Richardson, 1838. 24p. 8vo.. Goldsmiths' 30477. Not in BLC. NNC in NUC. Samuel Revans? NUC lists the author as S. Revans as on the title page. Samuel Revans (1808-1888) colonist, the 'father of the New Zealand press'. He returned from Canada in 1837 to Good clean copy, disbound. London, (which fits in with the date of this pamphlet) where he identified himself with Wakefield's scheme for the colonization of New Zealand. In 1839 he was appointed to the executive committee for inaugurating the settlement of Port Nicholson and became a prominent figure in the early days of the Wellington Settlement. Torrens answers an argument put forward by Revans concerning the ability of the capitalist to reduce wages in Europe to subsistence level in Letter to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, on the..Measure for establishing Poor Laws in Ireland published in 1837. (Book ref. 17989) £150.00
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Good clean copy, disbound. London: Pelham, Richardson, 1838. 24p. 8vo.. Goldsmiths' 30477. Not in BLC. NNC in NUC. Samuel Revans? NUC lists the author as S. Revans as on the title page. Samuel Revans (1808-1888) colonist, the 'father of the New Zealand press'. He returned from Canada in 1837 to Good clean copy, disbound. London, (which fits in with the date of this pamphlet) where he identified himself with Wakefield's scheme for the colonization of New Zealand. In 1839 he was appointed to the executive committee for inaugurating the settlement of Port Nicholson and became a prominent figure in the early days of the Wellington Settlement. Torrens answers an argument put forward by Revans concerning the ability of the capitalist to reduce wages in Europe to subsistence level in Letter to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, on the..Measure for establishing Poor Laws in Ireland published in 1837. (Book ref. 17989) £150.00
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Hewett (Edgar Lee, with others): The Physiography of the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico,
in Relation to Pueblo Culture, First Edition. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 54. Tall 8vo., orig. green cloth, 76pp. With 11 plates, (one folding). Near fine. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913. (Book ref. 17698) £8.00
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in Relation to Pueblo Culture, First Edition. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 54. Tall 8vo., orig. green cloth, 76pp. With 11 plates, (one folding). Near fine. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913. (Book ref. 17698) £8.00
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress,
Preceded by a List of Works Relating to Cartography, First Edition, 1137 thick royal quarto, contemporary brown morocco gilt, neat uninked early embossed library stamp on title repeated occasionally in text, a very good copy, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1901. (Book ref. 17627) £24.00
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Preceded by a List of Works Relating to Cartography, First Edition, 1137 thick royal quarto, contemporary brown morocco gilt, neat uninked early embossed library stamp on title repeated occasionally in text, a very good copy, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1901. (Book ref. 17627) £24.00
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