A History of Advertising From the Earliest Times
London: Chatto and Windus, 1975. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt design on front cover. 616 pages. More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1975. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt design on front cover. 616 pages. More
Washington City (Washington, D.C.): McGill & Withrow, Printers, 1876. First (Original). Softcover. Heather grey wraps with string tie at left side; black decorative border and black lettering; likely disbound from nonce volume. An original edition of this pamphlet discussing Stockton in Liberia, how slavery affected Liberia, and the US Navy's..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Hardcover. Both volumes: textured green cloth; map of Africa; gilt lettering. No dust jackets. Vol. I: xiv; 547 pp. with bw frontis (tissue guarded) and several bw plates/illustrations; 1 folding map in back pocket; Vol. II: xvi, 540 pp. with bw frontis (tissue guarded)..... More
London, England: George Virtue, 1840. Hardcover. green marbled boards w/ quarter cloth navy spine; burgundy & gilt spine plate. book iv, 106 pgs w/ bw tissue-guard plates throughout. all edges marble. Remains tightly bound; appears to be a lightly read copy. This is only Volume II. Previous owners name to..... More
New York: Garland, 1988. Hardcover. Blus cloth boards. xiv, 390, vii pages, 115 pages of plates : illustrations. Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-390 (2nd group)). More
Columbus, OH: Daughters of American Revolution of Ohio; F. J Heer, 1929, 1938. Hardcover. Two volumes. Blue cloth. 445 + 436 pp. A few bw illustrations in vol 1, bw frontispiece in vol 2. More
Brooklyn: The Cemetery, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Dark Green cloth boards with gilt illustration and lettering; color-illustrated DJ with white lettering; x, 241 pp.; richly illustrated. "Published for the 160th anniversary of the cemetery, this book includes stories of some of the people buried there, "Civil War generals, murder victims..... More
Locust Valley, N.Y. J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1965. Hardcover. charcoal grey cloth boards w/ gilt printing. 458 pgs. A nice, bright copy. More
Marburg, i.H. N.G. Elwert, 1913. Hardcover. Light brown cloth with black lettering and illustration; green dyed textblock edges; xi, 812 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in German. More
Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1973. Hardcover. Greek/English text. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. xxxvii, 631 pages. English and Greek on opposite pages./ Includes indexes./ Includes bibliographical references (page 524). More
London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2023. Hardcover. Black boards; black color-illustrated DJ with yellow and white lettering; 371 pp.; richly illustrated, primarily in color. A carefully-integrated group of studies begins with the so-called "Chertsey" ceramic tiles, depicting combat between King Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. Found at Chertsey Abbey not far..... More
New York: Solomon King, 1830. Hardcover. Volume 1 only. Brown leather boards. Black title blocks on spine with gilt lettering. 432 pgs. More
Philadelphia, PA: A. Hart, J.W. Moore, J. Penington, 1850. Hardcover. brown cloth boards w/ blind-stamped decorations & gilt emblem; gilt printed spines. vol1: book xv, 609 pgs, bw plates w/ plastic cover; vol2: book vii, 591 pgs w/ bw plates, plastic cover. Volume one has near split to textblock from..... More
Philadelphia: John Campbell, 1865. ORIGINAL EDITION, NOT A REPRINT. Paperback. Original blue wraps with black lettering. 136 pp. (there should be a few more to the index, but those are missing) with no illustrations. "This invaluable list of close to 2,000 persons who signed the Revolutionary oath of allegiance in..... More
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018. Paperback. Tan paper wraps with color illustration. x, 552 pages : illustrations (some color). Contents: Introduction : the anti-Gothic turn -- 1. Getting the point : antiquity to 1300 -- 2. From Gothic to late Gothic : 1300 to 1350 -- 3. The evolution of late..... More
London, England: W. Lowndes, 1793. Hardcover. leather boards w/ gilt spine printing & title plate. marbled pastedowns & endpapers. 268 pgs w/ tissue-guard frontispiece. Frontispiece and select illustrations are handcolored. Cover pastedown has ex-libris plate of Henry A. Sherwin, co-founder of Sherwin Williams paint company. Sherwin was known for his..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1967. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth/boards; gilt lettering. xviii, 634 pp. with no illustrations. Contents include: Freedom of speech in the Constitution -- War-time prosecutions -- Abrams case -- Post-war sedition laws -- Deportations -- Purifying the legislature -- Last war cases -- Rand..... More
London: Folio Society, 2003. Slipcased. Red boards, red slipcase. 4 volumes. Illustrations. More
Oxford, England: Claredon Press, Oxford, 1990. Hardcover. navy cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. book xi, 253 pgs. turquoise dustjacket w/ white printing. Clean, sharp and unappearing unread. A very nice copy. More
Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2011. Hardcover. Bright yellow paper boards, 1178 pp. Text is in French. Title translates to "Rome is no longer Rome: The Magic Formula for a Lost Center." Part of the series "Bibliotheque de la Renaisance." More
Middletown, NJ: Grantha Corporation, 1999. Hardcover. Turquoise cloth boards with white lettering on the spine; photo-illustrated DJ with white and gilt lettering; 127 pp.; richly illustrated; maps. "The Golconda diamonds and the mines of that name are the stuff of the Thousand and One Arabian Nights. Some of the most..... More
Madrid, Spain: Instituto De Valencia De Don Juan, 1935. Softcover. cream wraps w/ red & black printing. vol1: 446 pgs w/ 14 bw plates, 3 foldouts; vol2: 451 pgs w/ 12 bw plates; vol3: 475 pgs. text in Spanish. Volumes have unopened pages. Pages have light to moderate tanning to..... More
Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society, 1882. Hardcover. Brown leather boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Gilt decorative elements on cover. x, 475 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits. "Published for the Alumni association of Pennsylvania College."/ The illustrations include 17 mounted albumen photographs of Pennsylvania College faculty, campus buildings..... More
Paris: Didot Jeune, 1877. Hardcover. Original wraps bound into later olive buckram. xi, (1), 351 pp., 6 plates with tissue guards, including two vivid chropmolithographs. text entirely in French. Many smaller engraving and vignettes within the text. The final volume of a 4-volume set. More
London: Charles Knight and Co. Ludgate Sreet, 1839. Hardcover. Half-bound red leather and cloth boards with gilt lettering; xvi, 749 pp.; 7 unnumbered leaves of plates; illustrations. This book is in incredible condition at the interior, considering the age of this book. "With upwards of three hundred illustrations, engraved on..... More