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Tschaikowsky, P. ( Tchaikovsky ). SYMPHONIE NO. 3 op. 29 - POUR 2 PIANOS A 8 MAINS (Ed. Langer)
Moscou et Leipzig. 1903 first edition thus. P. Jurgenson. no. 27753. small folio wraps. Backstrip reinforced. Original printed cover. 93p. Stamped "printed in Russia". Music clean . no foxing, almost no toning at all. Cover chipped on edges. Good. (a105553)
$220.00Gordan, Paul. (Kerschensteiner, Dr. Georg, herausgegeben). DR. PAUL GORDAN'S VORLESUNGEN �BER INVARIANTENTHEORIE
Leipzig 1885, 1887 Teubner. Herausgegeben von Dr. Georg Kerschensteiner. In German. 2 volumes bound in one. Large octavo, 201pp., 360pp., hardcover. Owner signed (Fritz Carson, 1917). VG+. Hinges uncracked; no owner marks in text. Text clean. No wear. no tears, no chips. (a9994)
$135.00Bateson, Mary (editor). A NARRATIVE OF THE CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY 1765-1767 TOLD BY THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE
London 1898 1st Longmans Green. Told by the Duke of Newcastle in a series of letters to John White M.D. Octavo, 174pp., index, hardcover. Uncut. Near Fine. no owner marks. no dj. (a16681)
$25.00Joos, Georg. LEHRBUCH DER THEORETISCHEN PHYSIK
Leipzig 1932 first edition Akademische Verlags. Hardcover. In German. Royal Octavo, 644pp., 157 fig., index, cloth. VG Plus, slight cover wear, no DJ. No owner marks. Hinges not cracked; text bright and clean. (a16684)
$35.00Aleksander, Irina. THE RUNNING TIDE
NY 1943 Duell sloan. First edition. 264p. Hardcover octavo. Book is Near Fine with Good Plus colorful pictorial dj. ***Signed presentation copy from author. Fiction about "a diminutive , fragile Russian seawoman" third mate on a Soviet merchant ship. Price not clipped on dj. Original publisher's advertisement card laid in. Very hard-to-find title and even harder to find signed copies, especially in this very nice condition. (a16690)
$95.00Bernard, J. H.; Frederic Rendall; S. Salmond, H. Kennedy, A. S. Peake. THE EXPOSITOR'S GREEK TESTAMENT - VOLUME III
London 1910 Hodder and Stoughton. In English. Scholarly study, includes: Epistle (2nd) to Corinthians; to the Galatians; to the Ephesians; to the Philippians; to the Colossians. Sm.4to., 547pp., cloth. ***Signed presentation copy from Percy Hodder-Williams, one of the publishers. A few neat pencil notes in text. Good, binding secure, cover unevenly faded, backstrip worn, especially at top spine end; backstrip has some small chips. (a17638)
$29.00Kantner, John F and Lydia W. Kuchychka. THE U.S.S.R. POPULATION CENSUS OF 1926: A PARTIAL EVALUATION
1957 U.S. Department of Commerce. Series P-95, No. 50. Large 4to., 142 leaves (rectos only), original printed wraps. Good, text quite faded but legible. Very Scarce. (a71045)
$95.00Simpson, Charles. LEICESTERSHIRE AND ITS HUNTS: THE QUORN, THE COTTESMORE & THE BELVOIR
NY 1926 1st Knopf. Introduction by Major A. Burnaby. Hardcover. Lg.4to., 256pp., 28 color illustrations, 55 monochrome illustrations, large detailed foldout map, original cloth. A few pages uncut. VG PLUS, slight amount of foxing sprinkled here and there in text, light glue stain inside front cover. no dj. no owner marks. In removable protective glassine jacket. (a71052)
$50.00Czerny, Charles. DEUX SONATINES ( SONATES ) FACILES op. 50 no 1 (pour le Pianoforte a quatre mains)
Vienne. mid 19th c . Ant. Diabelli et Comp. no. 1433.Druck von A. Eckel in Wien. sm folio wraps. 11p. Good, worn, some ink stains on cover . Music score for piano, 4 hands. Music score clean and clearly legible. Binding secure. (a105546)
$85.00Czerny, Charles. GUIRLANDE DE FLEURS DE L'OPERA 12 RONDINOS - RONDINO no. 4 (opus 766)
Vienne mid 19thc. H. F. Muller. 4to. wraps. old reinforcement of backstrip. 8p. Music score. Toned but legible. A few owner marks with pencil. (a105552)
$45.00Czerny, Charles. SOUVENIR-THEATRAL DE FANTAISIES ELEGANTES POUR LE PIANOFORTE
Vienne mid 19thc. Ant. Diabelli et Comp. Caheri 30 oeuv. 247. oblong large 4to wraps. 19p. Music score for piano. Foxed but legible. Binding secure. Backstrip reinforced. *Contemporary owner signature: Franz Grazelerlther. (a105551)
$75.00Czerny, Charles. TROIS SONATINES FACILES INSTRUCTIVE ET DOIGTEES POUR LE PIANO FORTE SEUL - NO. III (only) Op. 158
Leipzig mid 19thc. H A Probst. Oblong 4to. wraps. pp. 18-25. Piano music score. Fair. worn but intact; music quite legible. ink stains on cover. (a105550)
$45.00Prossnitz, Joacob Alois. KRONUNGS-MARSCH op. 9
Wein. mid 19th century. G. Wegelein. large 4to wraps. Engraved decorative titlepage. Piece dedicated to Franz Joseph I. 3p. Fair. Worn but intact. Music score. Contemporary owner (?) signed on top of titlepage. (a105549)
$45.00Liszt, F. ETUDE III - LA CAMPANELLA - from GRANDES ETUDES DE PAGANINI TRANSCRITES POUR LE PIANO ET DEDIEES A MADAME CLARA SCHUMANN
Leipzig. mid nineteenth. Breitkopf & Hartel. 4to. wraps. A few light pencil notes in text. 13p. Very old repair which lightly cropped margins, reinforced some edges and added paper backstrip. Binding secure. (a105548)
$45.00Strauss, Johann. ZEHNER-POLKA FUER DAS PIANO-FORTE. ZU EHREN EINER IN DESDEN AUS 10 PERSONEN BESTELHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT
Wien. 1850 first edition. Carl Haslinger guondam Tobias. no. 11542. Small folio. wraps. original string binding. 6p. Music score for piano. Fairly Good, foxed and worn but intact. no owner marks. Spine reinforced (a105547)
$75.00Paatz, Walter und Elisabeth. DIE KIRCHEN VON FLORENZ EIN KUNSTGESCHICHTLICHES HANDBUCH - LIEFERUNG 7
Frankfurt am Main. Vittorio Klostermann. pp.97-336 with text drawings. Later backstrip. Cover edges lightly chipped. Text clean. Just this one volume of the set. (a105536)
$39.00Scudder, Rogers V (ed). THE VERGILIAN DIGEST - number 4 - issue for FALL, 1958
Vergilian Society of America. octavo blue printed wraps. 24p. Quite scarce. VG (a105535)
$65.00Zolotas, Xenophon. THE MULTICURRENCY STANDARD AND THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Athens 1963 first edition. octavo wraps. 18p. Zolotas was Governor of the Bank of Greece. Hard title to find. VG some uneven fading of cover; text clean. no owner marks. (a105534)
$59.00Powers, John Robert. THE POWERS GIRLS
NY 1941 first edition. Dutton. Hardcover octavo. 224p. A few pages yet unopened. Photo illustrations, most of the Powers girls. Good, some cover wear. Binding secure. no dj. (a105533)
$35.00. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES XXV and XXVI - 1833 and 1834
1833, 1834 first edition. Hardcover royal octavo. 576p. Some illustrations. Indexed. Binding secure; text clean (except for faint stain on lower tips first 10 pages) Cover quite faded and boards quite worn on edge; paper-covered boards with very faded cloth spine. No titles or labels on backstrip. no owner marks. Fair Plus. (a105532)
$55.00Meredith-Owens, Heather . HARVEY DINNERSTEIN AN INTERVIEW - article in one complete issue of AMERICAN ARTIST
NY 1973 first edition. Issue of American Artist for May. 4to wraps. Dinnerstein article pp. 26-33 and pp. 65-71 with illustrations. Other articles in issue as well. VG text lightly toned. no owner marks. (a105531b)
$33.00Russell, William; Francis T Russell (ed). ORTHOPONY OR VOCAL CULTURE
Bosston 1893 76th ed. Houghton Mifflin. hardcover 12mo. Manual of elementary exercises for the cultivatin of the voice in elocution. 302p. exlibrary with pocket only partly removed from end paper ; small paper label on spine. Good. Binding secure; hinges not cracked; text clean. A few pages have lower page tip curled inward. (a105538)
$29.00Dong, Lorraine and Marlon K Hom. CHINATOWN CHINESE: THE SAN FRANCISCO DIALECT - article in one complete issue of AMERASIA JOURNAL , Spring 1980
Los Angeles, CA 1980 first edition. Amerasia Journal. vol 7 no. 1. royal octavo wraps. Dong article pp. 1-30. Other articles in issue as well. VG Plus. no owner marks. (a105539)
$35.00Pryor, John H. THE ORIGINS OF THE COMMENDA CONTRACT - article in one complete issue of SPECULUM
Cambridge, Mass. 1977 first edition. Speculum issue for January 1977. sm4to wraps. Pryor article pp. 5-37. Other articles in issue as well. Near Fine, no owner marks. (a105540)
$29.00Bensink, John Robert and Melving B Shestack. MARRIED NO CHILDREN - or - D. I. N. K. ( DOUBLE INCOME NO KIDS) - SCREENPLAY
1983 . Typescript copy . 109p. (printed on rectos only.) One-page bio of authors. In student notebook with metal binding. Near VG. clean, some light cover wear. Likely a script for a movie. (a105541)
$59.00Corrsin, Stephen D. THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF EUROPEAN LINKED SWORD DANCING - article in one complete issue of DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL, Spring 1993
NY 1993 first edition. CORD. yellow printed 4to wraps. Corrsin article pp. 1-12 with bw photo illustrations. Other articles in issue as well. VG Plus. no owner marks. (a105542)
$29.00Summit Branch Railroad Company . ORIGINAL FINANCIAL RECORD BOOK OF RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FOR JULY 2, 1868 - APRIL 10, 1872
One hardcover tall narrow 4to leather covered record book. 223p. of handwritten entries (plus just a few blank pages .) Fully ink manuscript, easily legible. Itemized list of freights shipped with owner's names and cost of shipping plus receipts for items purchased by the railroad company. Leather cover worn and chipped. Boards cracked at hinges but holding by binding strings. Binding secure. Original leather spine label still present ("Ledger") but lightly chipped. Includes several signatures and at least 3 orange tax stamps are tipped in. The Summit Branch RR Company was incorporated in 1851. (a105543)
$650.00Chen Chi. AQUARELLES DE CHEN CHI
Shanghai March 1946 second edition. Hardcover. square 4to. Coarse cloth cover with title in red Chinese characters on front panel. Text in both English and Chinese. Preface by C T Cheng. Sixteen mounted color plates of Chen Chi's watercolors. All pages holding the plates are lightly foxed in margins. Inner hinges are beginning to crack but binding still secure. Cover cloth is toned and foxed. This second edition is quite Scarce. no dj. (a105544)
$180.00Geiger, Josef. MUSIKALLISCHE EISENBAHN - PRACTISCHER UNTERRICHT IM PIANOFORTE-SPIELE - Hefts 1-4
Wien no date but 1842 - 1848 for sure. Tobias Haslinger's Witwe und Sohn (publisher used this name only from 1842-48) . Small folio. 44p. Music score for piano. Cover is marbled paper with green cloth spine (original? but definitely quite old.) No owner marks. Some light toning throughout and an occasional spot of foxing. Scarce. Geiger lived 1810-1861. Plate numbers 10031- 10034 (which date them as from 1842-48.) (a105545)
$200.00Woodward, Ralph C. CLEVELAND WOODWARD: AMERICAN PAINTER - article in one complete issue of AMERICAN ARTIST
NY 1973 first edition. Issue of American Artist for May. 4to wraps. Woodward article pp. 20-25 with illustrations. Other articles in issue as well. VG text lightly toned. no owner marks. (a105531a)
$33.00Padmore, George (editor). COLONIAL AND COLOURED UNITY A PROGRAMME OF ACTION HISTORY OF THE PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS
Manchester c. 1945 Pan-African Service Ltd. Chapters include: Biographical Sketch of W E DuBois, Coulour Problem in Britain, Ethiopia and Black Republics, Problem in the Caribbean, Oppression in South Africa. Owner signed. 12mo., 79pp., original wraps. Good, text toned, small bit of chipping along spine. Text slightly evenly toned. (a77096)
$29.00Laban, Juana de. INSTITUTE OF COURT DANCES OF THE RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE PERIODS
NY 1972 first edition. CORD Committee on Research in Dance. Dance Notation Bureau. yellow sm octavo wraps. Conference held in Ely, Vermont and South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1970 and 1971. 83p. some text drawings. VG no owner marks. (a105537)
$45.00Segalen, Victor. RENE LEYS (in English)
Woodstock , NY 1988 first edition thus. Overlook Press. translated from French to English by J A Underwood. Hardcover small octavo. Fine in Fine dj. AS NEW . unread. (a105529)
$49.00Page, Elwin Lawrence. CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE LANDED MAN TO CIVIL LIBERTY
Cambridge 1905 first edition. Riverside Press. Printed for the Department of Political Science of Williams College.Hardcover octavo., 266p. Hardcover. Largely unopened. Blue papercovered boards with gilt lettering. VG .slight fading of backstrip; no owner marks; almost no wear at all. Original book not remake. (a4642)
$49.00Drumond, Carlos. CONTRIBUICAO DO BORORO A TOPONIMA BRASILICA
Sao Paulo 1965 Universidade de Sao Paulo. 134pp., wraps. Linguistics. VG Plus, cover slightly toned. no owner marks. (a5557)
$34.00Mannheim, Karl. IDEOLOGY AND UTOPIA AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE
New York. 1936 Harcourt Brace. Hardcover octavo. 318p. Dark gray green cloth. VG spien lettering fading . no owner marks; hinges not cracked; binding secure; text clean but slightly evenly toned. no dj. (a19774)
$35.00Hanna, Judith Lynne. CORD COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH IN DANCE - MEMBERSHIP BIOGRAPHICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DIRECTORY
NY 1974 first edition. New York University. sm octavo yellow wraps. 62p. VG. (a105530)
$35.00Cornelius, Wayne A.. MEXICAN MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, AND U.S. RESPONSES
Cambridge 1978. Center for International Studies, Massachussetts Institute of Technology. 4to., 119pp., wraps. VG, very light soiling and wear on cover. (a37063)
$35.00Riley, James Whitcomb; William B Dyer. RILEY LOVE-LYRICS WITH LIFE PICTURES BY DYER (SIGNED BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY)
Indianapolis 1899 Bowen-Merrill. Hardcover. Octavo, 90pp., photo illustrations, original gilt illustrated freeish cloth. ***Inscribed "to Miss Valerie Rich with greeting - James Whitcomb Riley 1901." VG, cover unevenly faded, backstrip somewhat toned. (a71543)
$145.00Hrebicek, Ludek. QUANTITIES OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION WITH GENERAL APPLICATIONS TO ISLAM AND SOCIAL MORPHOGENESIS
Praha 1986. Orientalischen Institut Verlag der Tschechoslowakischen Dissertationes Orientales 43. Octavo, 197pp., original printed yellow wraps. VG, slight wear. no ownership marks. (a79007)
$55.00Gogol, Nikolas.. REVIZOR A COMEDY BY NIKOLAS V GOGOL TRANSLATED FOR THE YALE UNIVERSITY DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION
New Haven 1908 first edition. Translated for The Yale University Dramatic Association by Max Mandell. Introduction by Willima Lyon Phelps. octavo hardcover. Photo illustrations of the production. 72pp. First production in English of Revizor. VG, light wear. Owner signed "Geoffrey Konta, Yale College 1908". no dj. (mu171)
$29.00Kierkegaard, Soren. VAERKER I UDVALG
Kobenhavn 1950 Gyldendalske. Med indledninger og Tekstforklaringer ved F. J. Billeskov Jansen. 4 volumes. Roy8vo., 428pp., 336pp., 336pp., 238pp., wraps. Covers worn, chipped. Volume 1 binding broken. Probably should be rebound. 4 vol set: (a19059)
$44.00Scott, Job. JOURNAL OF THE LIFE TRAVELS AND GOSPEL LABOURS OF THAT FAITHFUL SERVANT AND MINISTER OF CHRIST
NY 1797 Isaac Collins. Octavo hardcove. 360pp., full leather. Boards present but detached. Mounted red leather spine label present but rubbed so that it is readable but only barely. Contemporary owner signed (Henry Mitchell) Text light - moderately foxed throughout; binding secure. (a23409)
$80.00Nadel, Arno. DER SUNDENFALL SIEBEN BIBLISCHE SZENEN ( SUENDENFALL )
Berlin 1926. Sm.4to., 103pp., frontis illus. Blue cloth. Nadel was a Jewish musicologist and poet who perished at Auschwitz. VG, front hinge a bit tender, no DJ. (a28713)
$45.00Berlin, Charles I. PhD (editor). HEARING SCIENCE RECENT ADVANCES
San Diego 1984 1st College-Hill Press. 8vo., 499pp., index., printed boards. Good, corners bumped, small brown stain on fore-edges and on margin of last few leaves (not near text). (a41868)
$29.00Shenton, Gordon. THE FICTIONS OF THE SELF: THE EARLY WORKS OF MAURICE BARRES
Chapel Hill 1979. North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages No. 214. Octavo, 160pp. wraps. VG Plus. no owner marks. Clean. (a41870)
$22.00Buckingham, George Duke of. THE REHEARSAL AS IT IS NOW ACTED AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL
London 1734 Twelfth Edition. Sm.8vo., 88pp., Fine fullpage copperplate frontispiece . VG, rebound in later wraps. no owner marks. Original printing, not modern remake. (a36303)
$110.00( O'Hara, Kane ). MIDAS AN ENGLISH BURLETTA (IN TWO ACTS) AS IT IS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL IN THE COVENT GARDEN
London 1771 Sixth Edition. Sm.8vo., 32pp., 2 leaves, Fine fullpage copperplate frontispiece by Isaac Taylor . VG, bound in later wraps. Original printing, not modern remake. (a36302)
$55.00Garrick, David. RULE A WIFE AND HAVE A WIFE, A COMEDY
London 1786. A Comedy altered from Beaumont and Fletcher marked with the variations in the Manager's Book. Sm.8vo., 59pp., Fine fullpage copperplate frontispiece by Dodd and Collyer. VG, later wraps. no owner marks. Original printing not modern remake. (a36301)
$55.00Joe, Alexander. THE ACUTE INFECTIOUS FEVERS
London 1947 first edition . Churchill. Hardcover octavo. Bright blue cloth. 276p., 64 illustrations. Near Fine, no owner marks, no DJ. (a18175)
$35.00Greenidge, C. W. W.. SLAVERY
London 1958 first edition. Allen and Unwin. Hardcover octavo. On modern-day slavery in Arab countries and tribal Africa, and serfdom in Latin America. 235p., index. VG, brown offset marks on end papers,no other wear, no chips, no stains, no tears; no owner marks. in Good DJ, some wear. (a13437)
$39.00Pease, Zephaniahc. CENTENARY OF THE MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK
New Bedford 1925 first edition. Hardcover. Royal Octavo, 91p., photo illustrations, top edge gilt. Fine. no dj. Mounted printed label on front cocver. No owner marks. (a4626)
$25.00Kenney, James. MATRIMONY A PETIT OPERA IN TWO ACTS
NY 1805. Altered from the French by James Kenney. 12mo., 36pp. Good, rebound in later wraps.Blue ink number stamp on titlepage. no other owner marks. VG. Original printing not modern remake. (a36304)
$49.00Bartlett, William W.. MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES PRODUCTS, ANALYSIS, TRADING
NY 1989. Lg.8vo., 493pp., index, boards. very near Fine in near Fine DJ. no owner marks. Clean; unused. (a39681)
$27.00Mulrooney, C. J.. RECOLLECTIONS THE STORY OF THE JAMES MURPHY FAMILY AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE MINNESOTA TRIBUNE COMPANY AND RELATED EVENTS
1978 1st MTC. 8vo., 197pp., 2 large foldout genealogy charts of Murphy and McGraw families., photo illustrations, hardcover. Fine, no DJ. AS NEW, unread. (a52081)
$29.00Queneau, Raymond. THE FLIGHT OF ICARUS
NY 1973 1st American Edition, New Directions. Translated from the French. 8vo.,191pp., hardcover. Number stamp on front free blank. Near Fine in Good DJ, light wrinkling. (a57307)
$25.00Boyd, William. TRIO
NY 2021 First American edition (stated) Knopf. BRAND NEW. UNREAD. Very Fine in Very Fine dj. (a105525)
$22.00Veth, Cornelis. THE NORWEGIAN WORK OF W. H. SINGER, JR.
Amsterdam 1923 first edition thus. Frans Buffa & Zonen. Hardcover square 12mo. 32 bw reproductions (no tissue guards). Portrait of Singer as frontispiece. Translated to English from original Dutch edition. VG hinges not cracked; some light fading of spine lettering. no owner marks. no dj. Scarce. (a105526)
$89.00Pfeffer, W.. UNTERSUCHUNGEN UBER DIE ENTSTEHUNG DER SCHLAFBEWEGUNGEN DER BLATTORGANE
Leipzig 1907 Teubner. In German. 4to., pp. 259-472 (complete), mit 36 Textfiguren. In later plain wraps. VG, light wear. Not a modern reprint. (a105528)
$29.00Veth, Cornelis. GEZELLIGHEID EN ONGEZELLIGHEID IN DE NEDERLANDSCHE EN VLAAMSCHE SCHILDERKUNST
Amsterdam n.d. (c.1950) Van Holkema and Warendorf. In Dutch. Hardcover. Octavo, 64pp., illustrations, cloth. VG, light wear, in Good DJ. (f349)
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