Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Ballantine Books, 2010. First edition. Hardback. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 473 pp.
Ballantine Books, 2010. First edition. Hardback. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 473 pp.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975. Reissue. Hardcover. Slim hardcover 8vo. in navy blue polished cloth lettered in gilt. Originally published 1942, this edition printed by Cisalpino-Goliardica, Milan in 1975. xi+ 124 pp. with general index, geographical index, index of personal names. A fine, bright example, deaccessioned from a university.....
Univ Of North Carolina Pr, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. As new except for a small owner's signature and date top edge of the front free endpaper; in bright, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. First printing. xviii+ 279 pp. with bibliography, index.
Upne, 1988. Paperback. Softcovers. Generally fine, internally clean and unmarked, some foxing about the edges of the text block. 136 pp. Illustrated with photographs.
New York: Oxford, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine in near dust jacket with a bit of bumping at the spine ends. Hardcover. 760 pp. with index. Illustrated. Highly respected biography of Harry S. Truman.
Burnham Inc Pub, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition, near fine dust jacket with slight chip on bottom corner of front panel. 195 pages. Index, bibliography, glossary. History of New Mexico from 1846 when it was annexed by the United States during the Mexican War until 1861.....
Augusta, KS: privately printed for A. Sellens, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Thick oversized volume in red cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Fine in generally fine dust jacket with a trace of bumping along the top edge. xi+ 545 pp. with bibliography. More than 4500 small illustrations throughout the text.....
University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. Hardcover. Fine hardcover in fine dust jacket. Quite scarce. Hardcover. 230 pages, with bibliography and index. Illustrated with photographs. The first work in a Western language to re-create the history of the Longmen Grottoes, one of China's great stone sculpture treasure houses. The site consists.....
New York: Leavitt and Allen, (1848). Hardcover. First edition presumed. N.D. (1848). 16mo. In robbed and blindstamped dark brown cloth with gilt lettering spine and front cover and with gilt design of two gentlemen shaking hands. All edges gilt. 64 pp. Very good, tight in its binding, all gilt clear.....
Hartford: Case, Tiffant & Co., 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Firts edition. In original green cloth with floral blimdstamped design, spine lettered in gilt reading "Blue Laws/ Quaker Laws and Witchcraft/ 1635". 336 pp. A tight example, spine faded but gilt spine stamping bright. Occasional light foxing. The first settlers of.....
New York: Benzinger Bros, (1864). Hardcover. N.d. (preface dated 1864). "Author's American Edition" stated on title page. 12mo. in violet cloth; 359 pp. with frontis and four additional illustrations. Charming hand drawn design of a scroll and holly in red and green on the first blank with the notation "Michael.....
Bowling Green, KY: Bowling Green State U/ Popular Press, 1992. First edition. Paperback. (NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING THOUGH AMAZON, ALIBRIS, B&N. These orders will ONLY ship media mail and will not ship to Canada). First ediiton. Oversized in illustrated softcovers. 407 pp. with index, bibliography, chronology. extensive appendix odf Ferris Wheel.....
New York: Harper Collins, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 415 pp. with index. Near fine in near fine, price clipped dust jacket. The firts book to focus on the secret relationship between Israeli and American intelligence---a relation ship that began from the founding of the State of Israel through the.....
Glasgow: G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1749. First edition. Leather_bound. 16mo. in full original calf, hubbed spine with gilt lettered label and fleurons in compartments. xvi (advertisment, biographical essay and contents) + 319 pp. Generally very good, boards somewhat bowed and dulled, small chips to the spine. The title page.....
Harvard University Press, 2004. Paperback. Softcovers. Fine. 302 pp. with index.
New York: published by the author, 1882. Revised. Hardcover. 32mo. (3" x 4 1/2") hardcover in blue cloth lettered in black. Patterned endpapers. 21 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear. The "New and Improved Edition" of 1882. Good to very good, wear at the extremities, rear free endpaper.....
1910. First edition. Leather_bound. Oversized hardcover in black full leather stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Owner's name in gilt on front cover. No statement of printing, publisher or place. 311 pp. with topical index and index of illustrations. Illustrated with full and partial page engravings, photographs and reproductions, decorated.....
Washington DC: Beverley Tucker, 1855. First edition. Hardcover. Slim octavo in dark brown cloth with design in blindstamp and cover title lettering in gilt. 40 pp. Near fine, gilt bright., scattered foxing to the text which is otherwise bright. Small original owner's name in fancy calligraphy front free endpaper and.....
Crown Publishing Group/ Bonanza, 1980. Reissue. Unknown. Oversized hardcover. Fine in near fine dust jacket. 192 pp. with index. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Pictorial history of the fearsome Nazi military section, the Schutzstaffel (the "SS"). Though most of the histories deal extensively with its sub-group the Gestapo or with the.....
Albany and Buffalo: W.C. Little/ Steele and Peck, 1939. Third edition. Leather_bound. The Third Edition, so stated on the title page. 12mo. in original speckled full calf with spine lined in gilt and with red leather spine lable lettered in gilt. 332 pp. plus one page recommendations. Very good, small.....
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1875. Hardcover. Very scarce. Part I (all issued so far as can be determined) covering the New Englans states and New York. OCLC locates only 12 copies in book form. Quarto sized (10" x 12") in blindstamped red cloth hardcovers stamped in gilt, over black tape.....
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1901. Hardcover. Hardcover in olive green cloth lettered in gilt and with gilt and siver imprint of the Countess' coat of arms front board. Title page read 1901, copyright page 1900. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. xxii+ genealogical chart + 253 pp. Illustrated. A......
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. First ediiton. Hardcover. Fine, tight example in bright crisp dust jacket. 391 pp. with index. Scarce, highly regarded biography of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (b. 1737) , prominent member of American Revolution-era Philadelphia society, considered on of tyhe foremost women of letters of.....
New York: Dial, 1969. Third printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 348 pp. Fine in price clipped dust jacket with small chips near the front and rear folds of the spine. Anne Moody's award-winning memoir of growing up an an African American woman in rural Mississippi in the mid-20th century. Dealing with her.....
London: Allen & Unwin, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 452 pp. with index. Illustrations. After Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St. Helena, arriving in October, 1815. For the next six years, he was "an eagle.....