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Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Press of the Readers Club, 1943. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is good with shelf/edgewear, price clipped, and separated in two pieces at spine.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Missing. First Edition. New York, 1943; brick red illustrated cloth covered boards; mild corner wear; spine edges rounded; no dust jacket; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; gift inscription on half-title page; interior is clean and unmarked; 457 pages.

First printing. Contents include: Make Peace Before the Sun Goes Down by Roger Lipsey - The long encounter of Thomas Merton and his Abbott, James Fox; On the Train to Siberia by Lillian Firestone - She was a Polish money changerwasn't she?; Made in Our Image by Richard Smoley - The angels and demons of our nature; The Death of Dr. Erdös by George Konrad - A report from a land of demons; Queen of Angels by Tracy Cochran - Seeking the divine; A Glimpse of the "Outer Darkness" by Frank R. Sinclair - A struggle with "dark forces"; The Demons Appear; A conversation with Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer; Fallen Angel by Betsy Cornwell - A young woman finds her way; The Christmas Angels by Risa Levenson Gold, artwork by Jean Zaleski - Two strangers, vehicles of the miraculous; The Return of the Angels by Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake - The priest and the biologist on angels and the cosmos; When God Is a Sheep in Wolf's Clothing by James Reho - St. Anthony and the devils; Death & Company by Carl Lehmann-Haupt - Meditations on the ultimate teacher; Rembrandt's Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels by Dante Elsner - In a great painting, the angelic and the human; 128 pages.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Very good Hardcover, no dustwrapper. Book has minor wear of spine ends and cover edges, browning cover and spine, name inside front cover, light browning of foredges. Clean text. Former owner's name inside front cover. Covers faded.

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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. SLIGHT STAINING ON TOP OF PAGES.

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Text in English. Soft, lightly thumbed, cover. 421 (5) pgs.

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Zustand: New. KlappentextbTitle:/b History of the Campaign of the British, Dutch, Hanoverian, and Brunswick armies, under the command of the Duke of Wellington and of the Prussians under that of Prince Blucher . in . 1815: with a plan of the batt.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Fenris Wolf is a research journal focused on the human mind, developments in comparative magico-anthropology, and on the occultural implications and applications of these fields of study.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Numbered Facsimile Reprint. Hand-numbered 123 of 250. x, xiii, 159 pages. Reprint of the 1816 first edition. Fold-out map inside back board. "Author was a Prussian officer who, as a colonel, served as Blucher's Subchief of Staff during the Waterloo Campaign. He was Prussian liaison officer joined to Wellington's staff over the critical days, and was instrumental in bringing in General Thielmann's corps to reinforce the Allied left wing at the last crisis of the battle of Waterloo." - copyright page. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A nice copy.

Three-Quarter Leather. Zustand: Very Good. First English Language Edition. A near contemporary account of the Waterloo Campaign. Includes a large folding map. Von Muffling was Blucher's liaison with Wellington and as a noted military theorist played a part in the planning of the victory over Bonaparte during the Waterloo campaign, he was also a signatory to the Convention of St Cloud that brought an end to the Wars. Sir John Sinclair was a Scottish politician who visited Waterloo in 1815 and corresponded with Wellington. He interviewed survivors of the battle and persuaded Muffling to publish his account in English. xii, 160pp. First English language edition from the original German edition. Rebound in three-quarter calf with marbled paper to remainder. Morocco title plate to spine with gilt lettering. Spine has five raised bands and a little gilt decoration. Private bookplate to free endpaper of Lt.-Col. Desmond Vigors, RA. Title page heavily foxed, light foxing to various pages, all pages are toned at extreme edges. Map is complete, but crisp and toned. Small (approx. 1cm) closed tearto fold of folding map. Pages rippled.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Octavo. 191pp. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. A fine, bright copy. Contains seven poems by Sinclair Lewis, his earliest appearance in a book. Lewis's contributions are under the name "Harry S. Lewis" while a member of the Yale Class of 1907.

First Edition. First printing. Small octavo; blue cloth gilt; xii,192pp. Titling just a shade dulled on spine, else a tight, clean, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. First book publication of Sinclair Lewis [as "H.S. Lewis"], following numerous magazine appearances. Edited (and with a contribution by) Robert Moses, who graduated Yale in 1909 and went on to become a hugely influential figure in New York City urban planning.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Prater, Ernest; Tresilian, S.; Wigfull, W.E.; Holloway, Cyril; Illingworth, L.G.; Brock, R.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Brock, R.H.; Inns, Kenneth; Cattermole, Lance (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Devil-Stones - A strange story of West African "fetish" and its uncanny powers among the superstition-ridden natives; Too Many Bears - Experiences of a camp cook in Yosemite National Park, where bears are as plentiful as berries, and astonishingly bold - with great photos; Through the Guadalupe Wilderness - Photo-illustrated account by Carl B. Livingston of his exploratory trip into the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico, perhaps the most inaccessible and least-known region in the United States; The Last Voyage of the "Joan" - W.E. Sinclair and a partner attempt to cross the Atlantic from England to Newfoundland - until disaster strikes in mid-ocean; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part I - After two years of preparation living in a Himalayan cave, Alexandra David-Neel sets out to become the first white woman to enter Lhasa, the mysterious Forbidden City of Tibet - with photos; The Mare's Nest - an amusing photo-illustrated story from an Australian back-blocks medical practice; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part II - Two city-bred sisters continue their homesteading adventures in South Dakota; Eskimo Magic - E.W. Hawkes, who has spent considerable time among the Eskimos of the Bering Strait, recounts several uncanny instances of "native magic"; His Highness The White Elephant - Photo-illustrated article on this animal which is held in the utmost veneration in Siam; In Quest of Gold - Part III - Final part of the adventure faced by two young Americans seeking buried gold who were forced to turn back by the Savage Yaqui Indians; The Robbery At the Mine - Sundry exciting happenings at a gold mine in West Australia where the author worked; His Last Break - An unsuccessful prison escape attempt in South Africa; The Worm That Turned - A tale from Calcutta where a European official did not recognize one of his staff. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue.

Zustand: Very Good. Zweibrücken [Deux-Ponts], l?imprimerie Ducale, 1773. 8vo. (4),+ LXXIV,+ (2),+ 212; (8),+ 411; (8),+ 144, 141-156, 155-234, 237-238 pp. All title pages printed in red and black. Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt with red label, boards with gilt frame, all edges red, slightly rubbed boards. Owner?s signature of Olof Rosenstierna on title page and his initials on half title. Fine copy. With printed dedication to the Swedish king (Gustav III) from ?Le Bar. de Sinclaire, Colonel commandant du Régiment Royal-Suédois, au service de France?.Carl Gideon Sinclaire (1730-1803) från Stralsund var svensk militär och militärteoretiker. Efter en lång karriär i utländsk tjänst, först i Frankrike både i La Dauphine och Royal-Suédois där han deltog i flera fälttåg och senare som lärare i krigskonst för Maximilian I i Bayern, kom han 1775 tillbaka i svensk tjänst. Han blev 1777 generalmajor och adjutant åt Gustav III. Med sin långa erfarenhet blev han en viktig reformator av det svenska militärutbildningen och han var en av grundarna av Krigsvetenskapsakademien. Efter det misslyckade ryska kriget 1788-90 tappade han Gustav III:s förtroende och efter år 1794 drog han sig tillbaka till Gammelbo herrgård i Västmanland. Även ägaren Olof Rosenstierna (1757-1845) var militär. Han begärde avsked som överstelöjtnant 1805. Hardcover / Hardback.

Zustand: Matted and framed. Half-length portrait of the seated author, head resting in his hand. Vintage gelatin silver print. Verso docketed with holograph notations in pencil, giving the name of the sitter, date of the photograph, and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print ("XXXI L"). 1 vols. 13-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches. Published in Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978) Half-length portrait of the seated author, head resting in his hand. Vintage gelatin silver print. Verso docketed with holograph notations in pencil, giving the name of the sitter, date of the photograph, and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print ("XXXI L"). 1 vols. 13-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches.