London: Printed by and for J. M Gowan [1815]. 8vo; leather covered boards with decorative gilt spine; hardcover; decorative endpapers; 476 pages; black and white illustrations; “containing observations on the English language...”; sunned and edgeworn boards with sunned and foxed pages else a good clean tight copy. More about The Young Man’s Best Companion, and Guide to Useful Knowledge Containing Observations on the...

Athens, GA and London: The University of Georgia Press (1990). 1st edition with 1 in the number line; 8vo, red cloth covered boards, hardcover; 167 pages; a fine, clean, tight copy in a fine dustjacker. More about Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut

Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1985. The Center For The Viewpoint Series # 14; 8vo. stiff brown wraps with gilt lettering; 19 pages; preface by John Y. Cole; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws. More about Books In My Life

NY: Nelson Doubleday (1964). 8vo.; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 64 pages; black, pink and white illustrations; lightly rubbed covers else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More about How to develop POISE AND SELF-CONFIDENCE (The Amy Vanderbilt Success Program For Women

NY: Mainstream Publishers, 1959. First Edition, Stated First Printing, November,1959 8vo. cloth covered boards, hardcover; ix, 367 pages; the second volume of a trilogy that is a historical novel depicting what was like to be a Negro in the United States from 1870 until the 1950s; a fine, clean, tight... More about Mansart Builds a School Book Two of The Black Flame, a Trilogy

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press (1985). 8vo.; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 344 pages; some ink writing on title page else a very good, clean, tight copy. More about Serving Women Household Service i Nineteenth-Century America

NY: Universe Publishing (1995). 1st edition with 1 in the numberline; square 8vo. blue boards, hardcover; 80 pages; color illustrations of contemporary paintings and black & white photographic illustrations; a fine, clean,tight,unmarked copy in a fine dustjacket. More about The Gilded Age Edith Wharton and Her Contemporaries

NY: St. Martin’s Press (1986). First U.S. Edition; 8vo; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 312 pages; a novel of London in the twenties; a very good clean tight copy in a lightly edgeworn pictorial dust jacket. More about Bright Young Things

London: H. V. Capsey (1943). 12mo.; cloth covered boards, 148 pages; hardcover; foreword by J. F. Wolfenden, Chairman of the Youth Advisory Council; some internal foxing in soiled and lightly rubbed boards in a soiled chipped and edgeworn dust jacket else very good. More about The Service Of Youth Book

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd (1979). Small 4to; brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 254 pages; black and white photographic illustrations and tables; “traces links between music, technology, business and society”; slightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy in aprice clipped pictorial dust jacket..... More about The Piano A History

NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1854. 16mo; decoratively embossed cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 174 pages plus 7 pages of D. Appleton & Co.’s Juvenile Publications; on spine: Tales for the People Family Secrets; sticker “Sold by Wm. W. Swayne, 210 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.” on..... More about The Dangers of Dining Out, or, Hints to Those Who Would make Home Happy

NY: Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1985. 1st Edition; 222pages; cloth; a collection of essays by 16 contributors on ‘general reflections on euphemism, a survey of its history in English and a look at its workings in other languages, and specifically euphemisms and children, in the office, the law, the media, etc.;... More about Fair of Speech. The Uses of Euphemism

NY: The Macmillan Co. 1926. One of the ‘Studies in Adult Education’ series; 1st edition; 8vo. cloth covered boards, hardcover; tanned pages else a very good, clean tight copy in a very poor sunned and heavily chipped dust jacket. More about Educational Opportunities for Young Workers