War in the South Atlantic: its course and impact
Los Angeles: Center for Media Studies, 1982. v, 203p., 8.5x11 inches in wraps, black plastic comb binding. On the Falkland Islands war. More
Cat.No: 188345
Los Angeles: Center for Media Studies, 1982. v, 203p., 8.5x11 inches in wraps, black plastic comb binding. On the Falkland Islands war. More
Cat.No: 188345
Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1990. Hardcover. 24p., followed by XXXIII fullpage doublespread facsimiles in full color, a large atlas (plates 16.5x11.5 inches), the doublespreads separated by blanks. The handsome text-block is in fine shape, from the preliminary blanks through terminal plate and abbreviated colophon. The hard binding (blue-grey papered boards lettered..... More
Cat.No: 275846
Mexico D.F. Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1958. Hardcover. vii, 32p., plus 40 full-page modern line maps in colors printed rectos only, hardbound in oblong boards, 9.5x13.5 inch wraparound pictorials overprinted with titling, under cloth backstrip gilt-titled. A banged-up copy, quite edgeworn with a severe bump to upper left corner that..... More
Cat.No: 276870
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1927. Hardcover. ix, 315p., letterpress on laid-lined paperstock throughout, illustrations and maps as called for. Hardbound in 9x5.5 inch dark blue cloth boards titled gilt and decorated in blind, untrimmed fore- and bottom-edges, a mildly edgeworn volume with turned corner-tips, crimped top and..... More
Cat.No: 281541
Torino: Societa Editrice Internazionale, 1991. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 106p., comix panels in color throughout the item (emphasis on character of Columbus, structure of caravels), presswork on semi-glazed alkaline paperstock hardbound in 11.5x9 inch laminated pictorial boards. Text in Italian. Endsheets provide maps of the transatlantic voyage, and of several Caribbean..... More
Cat.No: 292273
New Delhi: Published for the Division of Ocean Sciences, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. by Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 1991. Hardcover. v, 97p., lcciv (plates); enormous hardbound (11.5x17 inches) bound with plastic rings beneath glossy paper over boards, matte and coated paperstock throughout. Facing German and English texts. Charts/maps..... More
Cat.No: 208873
London: Christie's, 2007. Hardcover. 348, 321p,, printed price list laid in with holograph info added. Plentiful color plates rendered clearly, numerous extraordinary maps, learned commentary by Christie staff. Catalogs a matched pair, each hardbound in openweave green cloth boards with large color onlay decoration, 10.7x8.2 inches. Corner-tips slightly bumped, otherwise..... More
Cat.No: 276217
Stockholm: Ahlen & Akerlunds Forlag, 1943. Hardcover. 62p., illustrated with grainy b&w news photography and personal photos by Gunder's handlers. Gunder was an international track competitor, very likeable, a funny guy, see pix of him with Greer Garson, Gary Cooper, Eddie Rickenbacker and many ordinary characters. He competed in San..... More
Cat.No: 292015
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. Hardcover. 214p., profuse fullpage color reproductions, captioned by the artist, on coated alkaline paperstock, bound in beautiful openweave turquoise cloth boards gilt and color dust jacket, repros front and back. Book itself (measuring 12.2x10.5 inches) is near fine: perfectly sound, clean and..... More
Cat.No: 259024
Paris: Chandeigne, 2006. Hardcover. [302]p., illustrated with three line maps, a few b&w period vignettes, and a longish series of color facsimiles (pp.227-247). Hardbound in 8.5x6 inch matte-white boards printed in pale green, a lovely design choice, and enclosed in a pictorial green dust jacket. A perfect, as-new copy... More
Cat.No: 278881
London: Routledge, 1992. Trade Paperback. xi, 274p., wraps, mild cover soil. Greatest emphasis here is on slavery. More
Cat.No: 101921
Halifax, Nova Scotia: Dalhousie University, 1982. Spiral_bound. vi, 620p. + [3p.], plastic comb binding, 9x11 inches; wraps toned, soiled, and shelfworn, ex-library with minimal markings, else in good condition. More
Cat.No: 280914
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931. Hardcover. 314p., first edition in 8x5 inch grey cloth boards lettered red (top edge tinted red, a nice production) and enclosed in an interesting dust jacket. Book itself is perfectly sound, clean and unmarked, and while the dj is a bit edgeworn..... More
Cat.No: 265312
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1927. Hardcover. xiii, 213p., letterpress on laid-lined paperstock throughout, illustrations and maps (color-onlaid) as called for. Hardbound in 9x5.5 inch dark blue cloth boards titled gilt and decorated in blind, doublespread endsheet maps (two different ones, with red onlay). Untrimmed fore- and bottom-edges..... More
Cat.No: 281545
Louvain / Paris: Editions Nauwelaerts / Beatrice-Nauwelaerts, 1965. Paperback. xxxvii, 253p., illustrated with several period images and a modern line map printed in inserted coated stock, main text in French, softbound in 10x6.5 inch pale green wraps titled black and brown. Opened neatly throughout, foredge slightly toned with a couple..... More
Cat.No: 279519
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1944. Hardcover. xvi, 204p., green boards, 6.25x9.25 inches. Boards lightly soiled, crease and small tear in fold-out Table 58, paper evenly toned, else very good. Signed, inscribed, and dated by Radius on the front free endpaper. More
Cat.No: 287127
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Paperback. xxxviii, 309p., softbound illustrated solely with five skimpy line maps (a 1998 reprint may be better-furnished), anyway, theoretical cartography by a scholar of African history who had taught in Zambia, later doing research made possible by a Carter G. Woodson Institute fellowship. Thornton builds..... More
Cat.No: 264899
Princeton / London / Oxford: Princeton University Press / Humphrey Milford / OUP, 1916. Hardcover. A couple of unpaginated leaves, then the facsimile 1-32p., several woodcut illustrations per original, solid print-blocks without paragraphing, appears to us a medieval Italian excursus in blackletter. Nice small hardbound in grey cloth boards gilt..... More
Cat.No: 276925
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1928. Hardcover. xi, 255p., letterpress on laid-lined paperstock throughout, illustrations and maps as called for. Hardbound in 9x5.5 inch dark blue cloth boards titled gilt and decorated in blind, doublespread endsheet maps (two different ones). Untrimmed fore- and bottom-edges, a mildly edgeworn volume..... More
Cat.No: 281543