London: Reeves & Turner, 1883. Fifth edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XIX, [1], 347, [1]pp. Original gilt- and blind-stamped cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece protected with a tissue guard. Title page in red and black lettering. Vignette on title page. Originally published in 1863 as..... More
New York: Institute of Social and Religious Research, (1930). Hardcover. 8vo. xii, 194 pp. Blue cloth binding with dj. Dj sunned and chipped to edges. Else, in good condition with fair/good dj. More
Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1966. First English language edition. Hardcover. 4to. 228pp. Gray cloth with black lettering on cover and spine in original price-clipped dust jacket. The author seeks a 'Marxist' answer to the much debated question if man is endowed with a free will or not. To approach the problem..... More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. XXIV, 368pp. Original decorative dust-jacket over white cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. Although the Tiwi people of North Australia have been studied before, Goodale's approach adds a significant dimension--from the perspective of the Tiwi woman..... More
Wien: Ferdinand Berger, Horn, 1956. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. viii,568pp. Original wrappers. Some discoloration and minor staining to wraps. Page 537 through back wrapper creased on upper third of top corner. Some staining to fore-page edge. "Festschrift anlasslich des 25-jahrigen Bestandes des Institutes fur Volkerkunde der Universitat Wien (1929-1954)." Illustrated..... More
New York: Herder and Herder, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 191, [1]pp. Original decorative wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine. The essential considerations of this controversial work are the nature and history of Jewish liberalism in America, the social and political relationships between blacks and Jews, and their..... More
Paris: Unesco, (1977). Hardcover. 4to. 198pp. Sienna cloth with dust jacket in attached glassine. Glassine was not part of the original publication. Tear to lower back corner of glassine. Minor age yellowing to outer edges of pages. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs. Very good condition. More
Dordrecht - Holland: D. Reidel, (1963). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii, 600pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. The purpose of Z. A. Jordan's study is to describe the development of philosophy in Poland since the end of W.W.II, as well as looking at..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, [2], 66, [2]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. "As far as the intelligence goes, the material reported in this study gives evidence to the effect that the 'Negro' who leaves the South for the North is..... More
Beacon Hill: Starr King Press, (1957). First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvii, 226pp. Tan cloth with black lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Captivating study of the role of the religious and social radicals in the Polish Reformation. Red stain on front cover. Parts of bottom edge on..... More
New York: Howard Fertig, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 260pp. Gray cloth in original printed dust jacket. Mosse explores German nationalism in pre-Nazi Germany, which closely resembled a society that was neither capitalist nor communist. In its midst were the Jews and their fateful attempt to affirm their own identity..... More
New York: NP, 1947. Hardcover. Lg. 8vo. From pp. 181 to 356. Blue cloth spine over paper boards. Some wear to edges. Head and tail of spine bumped. Illustrated with many b/w annotated photos of members of the society. Overall, in good + condition. More
Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, (1959). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. x, 347pp. Gray cloth with imprinted green title-label in original illustrated dust jacket. Collection of essays containing Christian philosophical insights by former Aquinas lecturers, various authors, officers and members of numerous philosophical societies. Published as a tribute to Etienne Gilson. Frontispiece..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 418pp. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Brown endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. "The volume has been made up from recollections of friends, from notes and reports made of meetings; and while I fear it will be found fragmentary and..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x, 533pp. Gold-stamped green cloth in original illustrated dust jacket. Analysis of post-war federalism in Germany, former Austrian territories, Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe. Looks at some earlier history of the countries as well. Inside on head of..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1960. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 283, [5]pp. Original printed wrappers over cloth with silver lettering on spine. This is the first book devoted to English social-imperialism - the attempts in the critical years between 1895 and 1914 to make the English working-class aware of..... More
Boston: American Peace Society, 1870. Hardcover. 8vo. 109,[28],pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on cover. Minor age wear and bumping to edges. Pencil markings to few pages. An Address by Charles Sumner, before the American Peace Society, at its anniversary in Boston, May 28, 1849. Overall very good condition. More
Buenos Aires: Ediciones FICONG, (1994). First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 348pp. Pictorial wrappers. Minor scuffing to wraps. A study looking at poverty in Latin America based on the Seminario Internacional "Modelos de Desarrollo y Pobreza en America Latina" held in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1993." Text in Spanish. Very good condition. Rare..... More
Manchester: Granada TV Network Limited, (1962). First edition. Softcover. 12mo. 102pp. Original decorative wraps. Contents: The Past Speaks to the Present by Professor Yigael Yadin. Television for Teaching by Yoshinori Maeda. The Language of Economics by Dr. J. K. Galbraith. Minor rubbing to edges of wraps, head of spine slightly..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1926. Hardcover. 8vo. xii, 132 pp. Black cloth binding. With six plates (including frontis). Plate six loose, but laid in. Ex-libris. Book foxed throughout, not affecting text. Some rubbing to corners, and light scuffing to cover. Overall, in good condition. More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1882. Seventh edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxi, 535 (1)pp. Original full Morocco with gilt-stamped illustration and ruling on cover, gilt tooling and ruling with gilt lettering on black label of spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. Contains advertisement to second edition, translator's and author's preface, Roman life..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927. Second Impression. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with blind-stamped title on cover and gold lettering on spine. Bottom corners slightly bumped. Minor scuffing to boards. Small bookplate on rear endpaper. Very good condition. More
Lahore (India): The Time Publishing Company, (c. 1930). Hardcover. 8vo. 214 pp. Decorated black cloth binding. Head and tail of spine bumped and worn. Corners worn. Frontis. Illustrated with more than 40 annotated b/w photos. Light browning to edges of pages not affecting text. A serious but naive and often..... More
Lisbon: Oxford University Press, 1951. Hardcover. Octavo. VI, [4], 307, [1]pp. Original decorative dust-jacket over green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. This remarkable study concentrates on a number of representative Russian personalities, ranging from the ultra-conservative Chaadayev and the pagan Byzantine Leontiev to the violently radical Chernyshevsky and..... More
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1962. Softcover. 8vo. 28-50pp. Original wrappers. Some discoloration to wraps. Sonderdruck, Band 38, 1-2, aus "Der Islam" gegründet von C. H. Becker, herausgegeben von Berthold Spuler. Text in German. Very good condition. Rare. More