Spanish prelude
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. Hardcover. 306p., corners bumped, old price penned on free front endpaper, else very good condition in a price-clipped and heavily worn and chipped dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 70140
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. Hardcover. 306p., corners bumped, old price penned on free front endpaper, else very good condition in a price-clipped and heavily worn and chipped dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 70140
Republic of Cuba: Cuban Tourist Commission, A Government Department. 1947 / [1950s]. First item on a 9x11.5 inch leaf of semi-alkaline paperstock, printed smallpoint in black, folded twice to make an upright 9x4 inch brochure, this hand-folded again, transversely; rather dust-soiled and handled, a fair to good copy. Second item..... More
Cat.No: 244442
Zürich: Swiss National Tourist Office, 1948. Pamphlet. 56p., scattered unremarkable line drawings, softbound, a 7x4.5 inch pamphlet titled in black and red on warm tan wraps. Covers have a few short marginal tears (inconspicuous), a faint touch or two of offset soil, quite sound, otherwise clean, and entirely unmarked. FYI..... More
Cat.No: 313361
Palo Alto: Sharain Books, 1983. Paperback. 126p., preface, a couple of photos, venue addresses & phone numbers, first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Cover mildly rubbed, inked corrections at p.42 (LeMontmartre on Lombard), a swell copy. More
Cat.No: 180467
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1979. Paperback. ix, 212p., wraps, 6x9 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 263588
Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995. Hardcover. 325p., illustrated with numerous super-simplified line maps keyed to text, the text itself amplifying the medieval author's terseness, a nice hardbound production in black cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the glossy dust jacket. Near fine, just a suggestion of marginal wear to..... More
Cat.No: 265127
Chicago: Northwestern University School of Commerce, 1952. Paperback. 80p., glossy coated paperstock throughout with profuse b&w photography and diagrams; softbound in 11x8.5 inch plain printed wraps. Nice copy, although the cover bears three intake codes in red pencil, one of which partially erased; no other signs of ownership or institution..... More
Cat.No: 226491
San Francisco: Bedpan Productions, 1996. Paperback. 189p., revised and updated fifth edition, very good trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 235626
Rome: compiler/gallery owner as Antiquarius, 2008. Paperback. 55p., with a 2p price-list bound in. Dealer's instructions & brief critical apparatus in Italian with English translation on terminal leaves. Content consists in vignette reproductions (138, 6 to a page) of Rossini's engravings of classical ruin sites, often simply a grouping of..... More
Cat.No: 275777
Berkeley: the author, 1974. 15p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, personal inscription signed by author, very good report in stapled red covers. Travelogue by a Berkeley professor, noting the vagaries of Intourist-directed travel. More
Cat.No: 165590
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1969. Mass Market Paperback. 64p., pocketbook format in 7x4.5 inch stylized wraps. Presswork on acidic paperstock, all leaves are deeply toned but not yet fragile, sound, clean and unmarked: a very good copy. Birney was a Trotkyist in the 1930s. New Canadian Library original, no..... More
Cat.No: 315747
Hong Kong: An Odyssey Book / the Guidebook Company Ltd, 1997. 240p., profuse captioned photos and period images throughout the text, high-density coated paper in trade-size glossy frenchfold wraps, a very good copy. An engaging commercial production. More
Cat.No: 165613
Burnaby, BC: Talonbooks, 1996. Spiral_bound. 207p., 8.5x11 inches, very good first edition in pictorial spiral-bound wraps. More
Cat.No: 71955
Mexico: Editur, S.A., 1992. 33 p., stapled wraps, 5x8.5 inches, very good condition. Contains numerous photos and maps. Text in Spanish. More
Cat.No: 122370
Oakland: Howell-North press, 1942. Hardcover. xvi, 763p., 9.75x12.25 inches, pictorial endpapers, genesis, Mexican Governors of California, American Rule, Flags that have flown, revelation, index, illustrations, 21 maps, several folding, presentation inscription to the Sarah Dix Hamlin School in SF signed by author at rear and a personal inscription signed by..... More
Cat.No: 214203
Vashon, WA: Merryant Publishing, 1988. 24p., 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrated with drawings and plans, very good booklet in stapled tan pictorial wraps. The Missions: California's Heritage #6. More
Cat.No: 166501
San Francisco: Norton Coker Press, 1991. 31p., staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch plain printed wraps with all titling on back cover. A very good copy. Love in Paris, unexplained death of partner. More
Cat.No: 164633
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1922. Hardcover. xviii, 381p. plus publisher's menu, presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock, illustrated with profuse captioned b&w site and portrait photos throughout a running text, front endsheets occupied by a doublespread Rand McNally map of Oceania, in colors. Hardbound in 9x6 inch dark green cloth..... More
Cat.No: 296661
Austin: Mercury Productions, 2002. Paperback. 385p., foreword, photos, travel accommodations, listings, wraps lightly worn, large piece of clear tape on rear wrap, else very good trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 313749
Rugby, TN: Historic Rugby, 1995. Paperback. 72p., wraps, 8.25x11 inches, color illus., very good condition. More
Cat.No: 146739
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Hardcover. 190p., map, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped, edgeworn dj. Braithwaite, an African American writer, was officially designated as "Honorary White" in order to gain access to restricted Whites Only hotels and restaurants as a journalist. The UK edition contained 8 pages..... More
Cat.No: 213182
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1962. Hardcover. 243p., first edition, dj slightly worn at spine ends. The Afro-Guyanese author's discussion of his trip to Africa. Author of the novel "To Sir, With Love" basis of the Sidney Poitier film. More
Cat.No: 2571
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1962. Hardcover. 243p., one inch triangle clipped from f.e.p. and half-title page, first edition, edgeworn dj. The Afro-Guyanese author's discussion of his trip to Africa. Author of the novel "To Sir, With Love" basis of the Sidney Poitier film. More
Cat.No: 44586