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Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green paper covers, green title and author lettering to the sage green cloth spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 204 printed pages of text. Without any ownership markings. Very Good condition book, in torn and repaired dust wrapper with sun fading down the spine, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy red boards, Venetian red end papers. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. His story of survival was widely publicised after his return to England, becoming a source of inspiration for writer Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe. Contains 246 pp with colour photographs, monochrome illustrations and maps throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'Diana Souhami'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0297643851 DEFOE, Daniel (c. 1660-1731).…

Paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Zustand: Very Good. Probably the 1880 edition (chronology ends November 9th 1880). Hard back binding in publisher's original deep blue cloth covers, gilt title lettering and tools to the spine, symmetrical black lines to the front and rear covers, all page edges gilt, bevelled edges, pale blue end papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains tipped-in really clear photographic frontispiece of William Gladstone by The London Stereoscopic and Photographic company, [xv] 311 printed pages of text with engraved headers and tail-pieces. Light marks to the covers, hinges sound and in Very Good clean and bright condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS.…

Publisher's original stapled paper covers with blue and white floral pattern to the front cover, orange title and author lettering and colour inset illustration to the front cover, attractive period blue tinted Fry's Cocoa advertisement to the lower cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 32 printed pages of text. Brown stain to the lower cover, a little rubbing of the paper around the spine, no dust wrapper as published. We currently hold in stock 35 other titles from this series. Member of the P.B.F.A. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.…

Publisher's original stapled paper covers with blue and white floral pattern to the front cover, orange title and author lettering and colour inset illustration to the front cover, attractive period blue tinted Fry's Cocoa advertisement to the lower cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 32 printed pages of text. Light browning to the cheap paper, a little rubbing of the paper around the spine, no dust wrapper as published. We currently hold in stock 35 other titles from this series. Member of the P.B.F.A. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.…

Publisher's original stapled paper covers with blue and white floral pattern to the front cover, orange title and author lettering and colour inset illustration to the front cover, attractive period blue tinted Fry's Cocoa advertisement to the lower cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 32 printed pages of text. Light browning to the cheap paper, a little rubbing of the paper around the spine, no dust wrapper as published. We currently hold in stock 35 other titles from this series. Member of the P.B.F.A. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.…

21 (1) pages on medium-glossy paper with Art-Deco drawing/woodblock at titlepage, Smith's photographic Portrait on the verso and 10 photographic illustrations from quarterpage to doublepage size ('The Tower acts as a lightning-rod. . .'; 'When Clouds hang low. . .'; 'Looking to the Northeast. . .'; 'Looking to the Southeast. . .'; 'At night the surrounding City and Country. . .'; 'Looking to the South. . .'; 'Looking to the North. . .'; 'Looking to the West. . .'; 'The West Lounge. . .'; 'The Tea Room and Cocktail Bar. . .' + another - apparently - 'photographic'-architectural drawing); no Photographer mentioned. - Stapled in light-grey, slightly ornamented and black-titled cardboard wrapper; small-8vo.(ca. 20 x 10 cm). ~~~ [HERBSTVERKAUF bis 05.11.2026 / AUTUMN-SALE until November 05, 2026: um 25% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of 25%; vorheriger Preis / previously EUR 48,-] --- PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL; PUBLISHED SHORTLY AFTER THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDUNG HAS BEEN BUILT in 1931 yet was still waiting to being fully acknowledged by a larger number of wealthy tennants; it only reached its break-even in the early 1950ies. It took the position of the tallest buildung in the world from the Chrysler Building (1928-1930) and kept this rank until the early 1970 when it was surpassed by the World Trade Center (all in Manhattan, New York City). In 1994, Donald Trump entered into a joint-venture agreement with the owner of the land under the building Hideki Yokoi (Japan) with the - never reached - ''goal of breaking the Empire State Building's lease on the land in an effort to gain total ownership of the building so that, if successful, the two could reap the potential profits of merging the ownership of the building with the land beneath it. . . . In 2002 [when unrented space in the building reached up to 15% due to the lingering threat after 9/11 World Trade Center Attack], Trump and Yokoi sold their land claim to the [building's long-term leaser] 'Empire State Building Associates'. . .''(see wikipedia). --- The wrapper is only slightly used with few pressure marks around the lower staple at front that offset-but-getting-shallow to the middle of the booklet and a dogear at rearflap top-left which somehow has slight impact to the next sheets from the back, the overlapping corners of the wrapper partly with minimal crease; OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE RARE AND FRAGILE PUBLICATION. …

Zustand: Very good. - Original color photograph, 9-1/2 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide, mounted on a sheet of heavy white board, approximately 13 inches high by 9-1/2 inches wide. Boldly inscribed in black ink below the photo and signed "W. F. Bringle / Admiral US Navy". There is some minor soiling to the mount & its corners are slightly bumped. Near fine The photograph was taken at the Naval Photographic Center, Naval Station, Washington, DC and shows Bringle at waist length in full uniform with numerous medals.The inscription reads: "Honorable Seymour Halpern - / With very best wishes and respect / W. F. Bringle / Admiral US Navy".Admiral William Floyd Bringle, USN (1913-1999) was the first commanding officer of USS Kitty Hawk. During the Vietnam War, from 1967 to 1970, he was Commander, U.S. Seventh Fleet, as a Vice Admiral. From 1971 to 1973, as a four star admiral, he was Commander, U.S. Naval Forces in Europe.The Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation.…

Zustand: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated russet brown cloth covers, gilt title lettering to the spine, gilt title block lettering and coloured fish illustration with a fishing line and float going down through the waves to the front cover, also to the front cover is a colour inset illustration of two dogs and two children dancing, all page edges gilt, brown tinted advertisements to the end papers. Quarto 9'' x 7''. Contains 140 [x] printed pages of text with green tinted illustrations printed in Bavaria and monochrome illustrations throughout. Just a little snagging of the cloth to the ends of the spine, without any ownership markings and in Very Good clean and bright condition. We currently hold in stock 50 other The Child's Companion, and Juvenile Instructor titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.…

Zustand: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original slate blue cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. Quarto 10'' x 7½''. Contains 40 printed pages of text. Light soiling to the covers and in Very Good sound condition. Loosely inserted is a two page typed letter on 'Salts Found in Water', also enclosed are two blue Fractions - Decimal Equivalents cards. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHEMISTRY.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, water-marked silk end papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains [xii] 403 printed pages of text with archive monochrome photographs throughout. Near Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with sun fading down the spine and across the op of the rear cover, not price clipped. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'For John Badock (Royal Signals), a comrade-in-arms - From Tony Farrar-Hockley'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0246640596 MILITARY (Armed Warfare).…

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Second Edition. Octavo, 700pp, [8pp]. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Floral endpapers. Complete with frontispiece portrait with tissue cover, 8 full-page illustrations of battle scenes and 8 full-page color illustrations of battle flags. A few points of foxing to text block, light foxing to leaf ends. (Nevins II: 130) (Eicher 637) (Dornbusch IV: 1834) The first edition was published in 1888. This is the nearly identical second edition, published the following year. My Story Of The War details the wartime activities of a journalist and social worker during the Civil War. It describes military hospitals in St. Louis, with descriptions of the sanitary conditions and her efforts to improve hygiene. She describes her meeting with Ulysses S. Grant before the battle of Vicksburg. My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative Of Four Years Personal Experience As Nurse In the Union Army, by Mary A. Livermore. (illustrator).…

Hard back binding rebound in chestnut brown calf, the spine divided into seven panels, morocco and gilt label to the second, tools to the others, Cambridge tools to the sides, new hand made paper cream end sheets, silk head bands. 12mo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains red and black printed title, (xxxii), 374 pp. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE BEFORE 1800.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. iv, 117 pp, 1 folding plan / vii, 294 pp, [2], 1 frontis & 2 plates hors text, / 304 pp, plus 4 pp, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, rubbed, title gilt on raised spine, marbled endpapers, pencil annotations in margin & on blank leaves, printed by order of the Trustees, London 1863 / L'Imprimerie Virgile, Naples 1854 / Imprimerie Francaise Moures, Alexandria, 1864. #33791. d'Antiquites Egyptiennes a Boulaq + Royal Institution of Great Britain on Greek Coins as Illustrating Greek Art. FOUR PARTS IN ONE. (illustrator).…

ROBERT D. CABANA (1949) US-Astronaut / Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and retired NASA astronaut, having flown on four Space Shuttle flights. He served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1994 to 1997 and as director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center from 2008 to 2021. He is also a former naval flight officer and naval aviator in the United States Marine Corps. Offizielles-NASA-Farbgroßfoto (4 to, als Astronaut), mit eigenhändiger Widmung for Dieter, Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Original manuscript autograph letter signed (ALS) 'C. Sahir Erozan'. 18x13,5 cm. In Ottoman script. Twelve lines. 1 p. On a paper with '.d Bank Paper' watermark. Written by a pencil. Mentions that he was sick and his article in the 19th issue of 'Yeni Adam' literary magazine. Celâl Sahir was a Turkish author, poet, politician, known as 'poet of the love and the women', one of four founders of the Turkish Language Society. He is the son of Fehime Nüzhet Hanim, one of the leading Turkish female poets, and the father of Berin Nadi, one of the owners of the Cumhuriyet newspaper. Signed by Author(s).…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Original autograph letter signed 'Celâl' on a paper with very calligraphic 'Celâl Sahir' letterhead. 22x14 cm. In Ottoman script. Five lines. A short manuscript letter to an unnamed friend, dated March 18, 1926, Istanbul. Celâl Sahir was a Turkish author, poet, politician, known as 'poet of the love and the women', one of four founders of the Turkish Language Society. He is the son of Fehime Nüzhet Hanim, one of the leading Turkish female poets, and the father of Berin Nadi, one of the owners of the Cumhuriyet newspaper. Signed by Author(s). …