Prague: Vydala Propagacni tvorba, 1980. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. Unpaginated (48pp). Original color-illustrated wraps. Color photographs and children's artwork documenting the development of the City since 1945, including some photographs of memorial for the city's role as concentration camp under the Nazi occupation. Historical outline from city's founding in 1779..... More
NP, 1960. Softcover. 8vo. xv,430pp. Blue wrappers. Rubbing, abrasions and some creasing to wraps. Wonderful catalogue of the collection of paintings in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Includes appendix with b/w photographs of books signed by artists such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and others. Wraps in fair, interior in very good condition..... More
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xi,281pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine in original photographic dust jacket. Map endpapers. Inscribed by author on title-page: "Newport Harbor Y(?). C. November 7th 1969, Best wishes, Jim Robinson." Fascinating account by James Robinson of his experiences in the..... More
New York: Workers' Library Publishers, (1931). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 214pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on cover. Pro Communist work on the "Industrial Party Trial" of two large group of public servants and scientists who supposedly planned a counter-revolution against Stalin's regime. Five defendants were given the death..... More
London; Paris; Edinburgh: Goupil & Co., 1898. Second edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Folio. [4], III, [1], 206, [2]pp. Uncut. 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and tooling on spine and blind-stamped ruling on covers. Top edge gilt. Title page in red and black lettering. Publisher's vignette on..... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XV, [1], 480pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over green cloth and gold lettering on spine. Collection of remarkable essays examining how firmly democracy is established in Germany since the end of WWII. Contributions by: Fritz René Allemann; Kurt L. Shell; Alfred..... More
The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xx,327pp. Tan cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust jacket. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Minor chipping and age wear on dj. "Joseph of Rosheim - or Joselman, or Josel, as he was sometimes called..... More
New York; London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Authorized edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. XXXI, [1], 367pp. Uncut. Original cloth with gold-stamped decoration on front board and gold lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Printer's device on title-page. This book written with the explicit permission of the King Carol..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XIII, [1], 422, [6]pp. Original green cloth with gold lettering on spine. In 1902, the author brought together and rearranged, under a single interrelated group, the main historical statements concerning some three thousand members of royal and noble families, with..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XI, [1], 351, [1]pp. Original green cloth with gold lettering and publisher's logo on spine. Remarkable work being a full account of the diplomacy between France and Italy from 1860 to 1865, and particularily the principal problem involved in the..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1957). First American edition. Hardcover. Quarto. ix,[1],345pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust jacket. Frontispiece b/w portrait of von Treitschke. Compelling biography of Heinrich von Treitschke, one of the major German historians whose thinking affected not only the Germany of Wilhelm..... More
Schwäbisch Hall: Journal-Verlag Schwend, (1999). Hardcover. 4to. Volume III of IX volumes. 414pp. Original gold-stamped blue paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers. The most detailed work on Prussian-German rifles and bayonets ever published. Includes dates, facts and other important details of each weapon. Profusely illustrated with color..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, xvii, 452pp. Orange cloth binding with dj. Head and tail of spine bumped. Corners bumped and worn. Blue marker stain to top edge. Dj chipped and torn along edges. Some watermarks and light staining to dj. "This well-integrated symposium offers..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1931. First UK edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 541, [3]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. In this remarkable work, the author shows his interest with the problems of foreign policy and the idea of world peace. He also mocks the British "naive" faith..... More
Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 1963. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. VII, [5], 510pp. Original decorative wrappers over red cloth with silver and black lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Decorative title page. More than another biography of Bismarck, this captivating work is a political history of Germany during the crucial years between..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. VII, [3], 313, [1]pp. Uncut. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Publisher's logo on title page. In this work the author warns against the dangers of Pan-Germanism, a late 19th-century doctrine of German racial superiority and world domination by..... More
London: William Andrews & Co., 1899. Hardcover. 8vo. 250 (6) pp. Blue cloth binding. Chruch-related essays by various authors. Light foxing to page edges. Corners bumped. Some wear to head and tail of spine. Spine slightly cocked. Overall, in good condition. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XIII, [1], 320pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine. Interesting work on the various diplomatic efforts to preserve peace in post-WWI Europe. Sporadic creasing, closed tears and tiny chipping along edges of dust-jacket. DJ in..... More
Paris: Editions du Centre, 1946. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 88 pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrap and 1st 8 pages torn at spine, spine splitting but still attached, some tearing on rear wrap at spine, some chipping to wraps at edges. Slight staining to edges of wraps and interior pages..... More
London: Cassell, (1966). (Third edition). Hardcover. 4to. 310 pp. Two-tone green cloth binding. The Island Race is an abridgement by Timothy Baker of the four volumes of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill. With numerous b&w and color illustrations. Two-page spread photographic illustration of Big Ben and..... More
Madrid: Instituto Enrique Florez, 1952. First edition. Softcover. 4to. 151, (17) pp. Original printed wrappers. Illustrated with full-page b/w reproductions of photographs of manuscripts on glossy paper. Some staining on wraps, 1 1/2" tear at head of spine, 1" tear at middle of spine, 2" tear at tail of spine..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1892. 8vo. x. 332pp. Dark green decorated cover with gilt lettering. Head and tail of spine bumped rubbed with a closed tear at the head. Corners bumped and rubbed. Side and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontispiece is separated but present. There is a list..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth binding with original dj. Minor rubbing to edges. Light bumping to head and tail of spine. Light scuffing to dj. Frontis. Illustrated with 11 b/w annotated images and many tables. A tight copy in very good condition. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1977). Hardcover. Large 8vo. 336 pp. Brown cloth binding with dj. With 342 illustrations, 63 in color. Corners lightly bumped, and minor edgewear. Book and dj in very good condition. More
London: Spring Books, (1971). Hardcover. 4to. 296 pp. Goldenrod buckram binding w/dj. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped. Minor chipping to tail of spine of dj. Profusely illustrated with visual materials ranging from trade cards, advertisement and menus to contemporary engravings and photographs. In overall good+ condition. More