Old Bookshelf

Newmarket : Its Port and Personalities

Siltzer, Frank · 1923

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

London Cassell and Company, Ltd. First Edition 279pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, 32 illustrations in color and half-tone Light wear to covers, 2 small spots to front board, endpapers lightly foxed, text mildly toned but clean, binding is solid. Good

A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language:...To Which is Annexed a Key...

Walker, John · 1831

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

New York Collins and Hannay 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 609, 103pp. Full calf, black leather label. Covers worn, contents tanned and foxed, one rear free endpaper half torn away , pencil notations on endpapers, dampstaining to corners of a few pages, front board barely attac...

Random Notes of Boston

Dowst, Henty P. · 1913

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Boston H.B. Humphrey Company First Edition 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall John Albert Seaford 92pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering and gilt decoration, illustrations all with tissue-guards. A very sound copy, contents age-toned but clean and book appears to be unread. Tasteful illu...

Uhren Ein Handbuch Für Sammler Und Liebhaber, Mit 120 Abbildungen

Bassermann-Jordan, Ernst Von · 1920

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Berlin Richard Carl Schmidt & Co. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall viii, 178, xviii pp. Grey boards, gilt lettering and decoration. Corners worn, backstrip half missing, contents clean and unmarked, owner's bookplate on front pastedown, binding is tight. Illustrated throughout. ...

New Angles to Bass Fishing

Radke, Ernst F. · 1955

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York Greenberg First Edition Laszlo Razel Signed by Author(s) 188pp. Tan linen cover, orange decoration, gilt spine lettering. Covers unworn and clean, contents age-toned, some darkening to endpapers, owner's name in pencil on front pastedown. Book is INSCRIBED and SIGN...

The Artist's Assistant, In the Study and Practice of Mechanical Sciences. Calculated for the Improvement of Genius

1785

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

London and Brmingham Printed for the Author and G. Robinson and M. Swinney 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 288pp. No date, circa 1780s. Covers missing, spine partially missing, frontispiece, title page and preface in facsimile only, however all plates are present including 4 ful...

Canada 1939; Manuel Official des conditions présente et des progrès Récemts

Bureau Fédéral de la Statistique Ministère du Commerce · 1939

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

Ottawa Ministèe du Commerce 195pp, folding map and folding plates. Text in French. Corner chipped and other moderate wear, some cover bleeding to edges and margins of last pages, text mostly clean and sound. Good

A Year of Good Wishes

Sunter, J. Pauline · 1923

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

NIce Hodderand Stoughton Ltd. 8 x 4 Inches J. Pauline Sunter 12pp. Cream card metallic tie binding, cover illustration on celluloid card attached at corners. 12 heavy card pages printed one side only, featuring a color illustration of a little girl representing each of the 12...

Amours Secrettes De Napoléon Buonaparte (Tome Second, Volume II only))

M. le baron De B*** · 1816

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Paris Germain Mathiot 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 284pp. Full leather. Couverture rigide. Text in French. Covers chipped and worn, front free endpaper missing, tape repair to title page, contents shaken, no loose pages, text lightly soiled, a few small chipped edges, owner'...

The Younger Mrs. Courtney ; A Novel (Signed by Author)

Broaker, Mrs. Frank · 1903

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York Alwood Company First Edition 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Mrs. Freeland A. Carter Signed by Author(s) 319pp. Marroon cloth, gilt lettering. Edges rubbed, spine ends worn, spine dulled, contents is age-toned but clean, 2 inch piece torn from first front free endpaper. ...

Dirty Dining, A Cookbook and More for Lovers - SIGNED BY AUTHOR

Bivona, Ginnie · 1993

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Universiity of Pennsylvania Republic of Texas Press (Wordware Publishing, Inc.) Signed by Author(s) 135pp. Spiral bound, pictorial cover. In very good condition. SIGNED on the title page, by the author, in sexy red ink. Very Good

A Circumstantial Narrative of The Campaign in Russia, Embellished with Plans of the Battle of the Moskwa and Malo-Jaroslavitz

Labaume, Eugene · 1815

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

London Printed for Samuel Leigh in the Strand Fourth Edition, Considerably Improved 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 269pp. 2 folding battle plans. Original paper boards. Cover is worn and soiled, retaped and split, contents age-darkened, front endpaper mising, some loose signatu...

Sidelights on Aluminum and Non-Ferrous Metals

Brile, L.M. · 1919

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

New Haven, Connecticut United Smelting & Aluminum Co. First Edition 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 152pp. Black and grey printed card wrapper. 2 color frontispieces plus black and white illustrations, folding table of alloys tipped-in at rear. Cover moderately worn and lightly s...

A La Pintura. Cantata de la linea y del color

Alberti, Rafael · 1945

$70.00 (€63.51 | £52.98 | ¥11,175)

Buenos Aires Imprenta Lopez First Edition 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 33pp, 58 plates in blackand white and in color. Text in Spanish. Tan boards, gilt letterimg and decoration. Chipping to spine. Text and plates mainly clean, last plate has 3 very small abrasions, slight in...

Adeline Genée; A Lifetime of Ballet Under Six Reigns

Guest, Ivor · 1958

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

London Adam and Charles Black First Edition 207pp Blue cloth boards, gilt spine lettering. Thd slightest of fading to spine, otherwise ibook is n near fine condition. Dust jacket has light edgewear and 3/4 inch tear at top. Near Fine Good

The Romantic Ballet in Paris

Guest, Ivor · 1966

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Middletown, Connecticut Wesleyan University Press Fifth American Edition 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 314pp. Purple cloth. Very good, minor bumps to lower board, slight offsetting to endpapers, contents clean and sound. Dust jacket is unclipped and moderately worn along edges....

Ballet Life Behind the Scenes

Neale, Wendy · 1982

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

New York Crown Publishers, Inc. First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Stephen Caras (Photographer) 182pp. Blue boards, grey cloth backed. A very nice book in a very good unclipped dust jacket. Near Fine Very Good

Ballet Decade

Haskell, Arnold L. · 1956

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York The Macmillan Company 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 224pp. No date, c1956. Red cloth. Book is in near fine condition, unworn, contents mildly age-toned. Dust jacket is missing a 2 inch piece at bottom, and several smaller fragments, edgewear and light soil. Illustrat...

Svetlana Beriosova (Dancers of To-Day)

Swinson, Cyril · 1956

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

London Adam and Charles Black First Edition 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 32pp. Stamped full leather binding, gilt border and spine decoration, raised band, marbled endpapers. Covers are clean and unworn, interior pages slightly wavy, but clean and unmarked. A remarkably beauti...

How to Obtain a Patent

Victor J. Evans & Co. · 1932

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Washington, DC Victor J. Evans & Co. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 56pp. Stapled pictorial wraps. Short tears to lower edge, cover and contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Laid-in is an introductory letter from Victor Evans Co., a blank Record of Invention certificate and a r...