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
NY: Hyperion (2008). 1st Edition with 1 in the numberline; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 239 pages; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a fine dustjacket. More
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
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. Small 4to; cloth covered boards with title pastedown on spine and informational documents as endpapers; hardcover; 449 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; sunned, lightly foxed, and rubbed boards with foxing on endpapers else a very good clean tight copy; domestic shipping will have..... More
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
Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press (1984). 8vo., cloth covered boards, hardcover; 259 pages; from the dustjacket: “Hospital with a Heart examines the dilemma of 19th/20th century women doctors "as they sought to preserve their all-women"s institutions and to succeed in the male-dominated medical profession." very good in very..... More
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
NY: Doubleday (1964). 8vo.; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 48 pages; black, pink and white illustrations; lightly soiled and edgeworn covers else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Edinburgh: Alexander Donaldson, 1780. “Translated from the French of Silvester Du Four to Which is Added a Collection of Moral Instructions, in Prose and Verse from the Best Authors”; 16mo; leather covered boards, hardcover; 150 pages; writing and red markings on front and back pastedowns; edgeworn and chipped covers with..... More
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
Great Britain: Frederick Muller Ltd (1975). First Edition; 4to; green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 228 pages; black and white illustrations; collection of Punch cartoons; lightly edgeworn boards with lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy in a sunned edgeworn pictorial dust jacket with a...... More
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
Williamstown: corner House Publ., 1984. Facsimile of the1899 title; 8vo., 418 pages; b&w illustrations; very good in very good dust jacket. More
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
Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Co. 1866. 8vo. decorated red boads with gilt illustration, hardcover; 8vo., 448 pages; a very good, clean, tight copy. More
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
Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday. 12mo. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 369 pages; edgeworn covers else a clean tight copy. More
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
Boston: Crosby, Nicols & Co. and NY: Charles S. Francis and Co. 1854. Third edition; 12mo. cloth covered boards; 190 pages; faded back cover else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
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
NY: J. & H. G. Langley, 1845. 8vo.; disbound with gilt page edges, 125 pages; b/w illustrations; covers are missing else very good. More
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
NY: Viking (2009). First Edition with a 1 present in the number line; 8vo; paper covered boards; hardcover; 195 pages; a very good clean tight copy in a similar quality pictorial dust jacket. More
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
Washington, D. C.: The Victor J. Evans Co, 1916. Small 12mo.; pictorial wraps, small softcover; 184 pages; b/w illustrations; torn cover with tight interior with some sunned pages else very good. More