Used/Antiquarian BOOKS-SALE LIST 11

[RH Smith]

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Richard Smith
GREYHAVENS BOOKS
E-Mail: grey...@delphi.com Phone/FAX: (408) 624-3042
P.O.Box 22513, Carmel, CA 93923 [USA]
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The following is a weekly list of books currently offered for sale:

1. (Alaska/Klondike) McLain, J.S. ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE. (NY,
1907) Later ed. Cloth. Illustr. Good (some cover wear, soil;
gilt of cover title flaked off; shaken; hinges tender). $35

2. (Automobile History) THE AUTOMOTOR AND HORSELESS VEHICLE
POCKET BOOK OF AUTOMOTIVE FORMULAE AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(London, 1901) 4.5x6.5" Flexible leatherette. Illustr. Near
Good (cover wear; shaken; hinges tender). $35

3. (Birds) Delacour, J.. AVICULTURE: A TREATISE ON THE
MANAGEMENT OF FOREIGN AND BRITISH BIRDS IN CAPTIVITY. (Hertford,
England, 1936) Cloth. Illustr.(incl.9 color plates) Very Good
(slightest wear; owners rubberstamp). Volume 1. Revised edition
of a 1926 work. $30

4. (Birds/Color Plates) Eaton. BIRDS OF NEW YORK. (1916) 9x12"
Illustr.(color plates) Very Good (slight cover wear; the plates
have the slightest edgewear and foxing). A offprint of the
illustrations from a 2-volume work issued by the New York State
Museum. 106 lovely unbound paintings of birds by Louis Fuertes
Agassiz, in a tied cloth portfolio. $75

5. (Birds/Color Plates) Reed, Chester. THE BIRD BOOK,
ILLUSTRATING IN NATURAL COLORS MORE THAN SEVEN HUNDRED NORTH
AMERICAN BIRDS. (Worcester, MA, 1914) 1st ed. Cloth.
Illustr.(color plates) Near Very Good (light cover soil,
edgewear). First Edition of a frequently-reprinted major work of
natural history, with hundreds of color drawings by the author.
$55

6. (Chinese Art) Hackney, Louise. GUIDE-POSTS TO CHINESE
PAINTING. (Boston, 1929) 2nd ed. Cloth. Illustr. Good (light
cover wear, soil; spine darkened; owners inscription).
Calligraphy; Figure-Painting; Landscape-Painting; Chinese Art
Collecting, etc. $45

7. (Company history/Oil industry) Montague, Gilbert Holland. THE
RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY. (NY, 1903) 143pp.
Cloth. Good (spine faded; edgewear; foxing). $20

8. (Crime/Law/Murder Trial) Yerrinton, James M.W.. REPORT OF THE
CASE OF GEO.C.HERSEY, INDICTED FOR THE MURDER OF BETSY FRANCES
TIRRELL, BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS. (Boston,
1862) Cloth. Fair only (binding very worn; joint cracked, spine
chipped; owners rubberstamps). Boston murder trial on the eve of
the Civil War. $25

9. (Criminology) Ferri, Enrico. CRIMINAL SOCIOLOGY. (NY, 1897)
2nd? Amer. ed. 3/4 leather; marbled boards. Good+ (some cover
wear; light foxing). A seminal work in the history of
criminology. Ferri "predicated the scientific study - first of
the background of the criminal; and secondly, of the crime
itself. He believed economic conditions to be both directly and
indirectly the cause of crime." $30

10. (Criminology/Police) Fosdick, Raymond. EUROPEAN POLICE
SYSTEMS. (NY, 1915) Cloth. Illustr(folding chart) Good (some
cover wear, soil; rear cover stain; . Describes the Police
systems, just before World War I, of England, France, Germany,
Austria-Hungary, Italy, Holland and Belgium. $25

11. (Criminology/Police) McCarty, John H. REMINISCENCES.
(Phila., 1917) Cloth. Illustr. Near Good (some cover wear,
soil; hinges tender). Inscribed by the author. Scarce memoirs of
a New York Policeman during the Civil War who rose to become New
York City Marshal, then U.S.Marshal during the 1890s. Anecdotes
of bank robberies, counterfeiting, blackmail, Pinkertons, bunco,
municipal corruption, illegal foreign arms sales to Cuba, etc.
$37.50

12. (Gymnastics) Jenkin, A.F.. GYMNASTICS. (London, 1896)
4.5x6.5" Cloth. Illustr. Fair (Binding worn, soiled; hinges
tender). $20

13. (Mexican Art) Museum of Modern Art. TWENTY CENTURIES OF
MEXICAN ART. (NY, 1940) Stiff wrappers. Illustr.(incl.color
pls.) Near Good (some cover wear; small spine hole; fore-edge
stain). The first "comprehensive" study of Mexican Art published
in the United States. $50

14. (Morocco) Ashmead-Bartlett, E.. THE PASSING OF THE
SHEREEFIAN EMPIRE. (Edinburgh/London, 1910) Cloth.
Illustr.(+folding map) Good (some cover wear, soil; bit shaken;
hinges tender; fore-edge foxing). First-hand account, by a
British war correspondent, of the French and Spanish colonial
conquest of Morocco. $45

15. (Mountaineering/Himalayas) Fellowes, P.F.M.; et al. FIRST
OVER EVEREST! THE HOUSTON-MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION, 1933. (NY,
[1934]) Later ed. Cloth. Illustr. Very Good, slight wear. $20

16. (Music/African-American) Krehbiel, H.E. AFRO-AMERICAN
FOLKSONGS, A STUDY IN RACIAL AND NATIONAL MUSIC. (NY, [1914])
Fourth ed. Cloth. Illustr. Near Very Good (rear cover stain;
ragged edge to flyleaf; owners inscrption). First scholarly
study of African-American music, by a noted musicologist: Slave
songs; Black spirituals; African musical harmony; Negro dances;
two chapters on Black Creole music. An important precursor to
study of the history of Jazz. $45

17. (Polish-American history) Morley, Charles, ed. PORTRAIT OF
AMERICA: LETTERS OF HENRY SIENKIEWICZ. (Columbia Univ.Press,
1959) Cloth/boards. Illustr. Very Good. America of the 1870s as
described by a famous Polish visitor, author of the novel QUO
VADIS? $20

18. (San Jose, Calif./Silicon Valley/History) Colahan, W.J. and
Julian Pomeroy. THE SAN JOSE CITY DIRECTORY AND BUSINESS GUIDE
OF SANTA CLARA CO.. (San Jose, 1973) Cloth. Illustr. Very Good,
slight edgewear and soil. Reprint, by the San Jose Historical
Museum, of the first San Jose City Directory of 1870. Limited
Edition, 1 of 500 copies. A century before the Silicon Valley
invasion. $30

19. (Skiing/skating/ice hockey) White, W.Dustin. THE BOOK OF
WINTER SPORTS. (Boston, 1925) Cloth. Illustr. Good(Light cover
wear, soil; spine lettering flaked off; internally Very Good).
Snowshoes, skiing, skating, ice hockey, etc. $22

20. (Stamp-collecting/German) Bungerz, Alexander. GROSSES
LEXIKON DER PHILATELIE. (Munich, ca.1923) Cloth. Illustr. Near
Very Good (Binding lightly rubbed, soiled; spine lettering
flaked off; marginal stain, lower corner of text pp.).
Well-illustrated German philatelic encyclopedia. $30

21. (Stamp-Collecting/So.Pacific) Ramsay, Charles Stuart and
Charles Plumb. TIN CAN ISLAND, A STORY OF TONGA AND THE SWIMMING
MAIL MAN OF THE SOUTH SEAS. (London, n.d.[1939]) Cloth.
Illustr. Good (some cover wear, soil; hinge tender). Inscribed
on Tonga by Ramsay, who for years, picked up the island mail by
swimming out to meet visiting ships, returning with the post
sealed in a tin can. A Pacific and philatelic oddity. $30

22. (Stamps/Postal History) Lewins, W. HER MAJESTY'S MAILS: AN
HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH POST-OFFICE.
(London, 1864) Cloth. Fair(Heavy binding wear, esp.at spine,
joints, corners; foxing; owners stamp). $25

23. (Store Window Decoration) Cowan, George. WINDOW BACKGROUNDS,
A COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF STORE WINDOW
BACKGROUNDS. (Chicago, 1912) Cloth. Illustr. Very Good(Light
cover wear, soil). Art Nouveau style.. The art of store-window
display in the Art Nouveau era. $30

24. (Yachting/Naval/World War I) Greene, Clay. VENETIA, AVENGER
OF THE LUSITANIA... (San Diego, 1919) Limited ed. Cloth/boards.
Illustr.(incl.color pls.) Near Very Good (light cover wear,
soil; spine label slightly chipped; hinge tender). Sugar king
John Spreckels gave his pleasure yacht to the U.S. Government
during World War; it was turned into an armed cruiser which
sailed off to do battle with German submarines. 1 of only 300
copies, privately-printed by the H.S.Crocker Company, San
Francisco. $45

25. (Yacht Racing) Soiland, Albert, M.D.. TRANSPACIFIC OCEAN
RACES AND THE TRANSPACIFIC YACHT CLUB. (Los Angeles, 1937)
Privately pr. Cloth. Illustr. Good (light cover wear, soil;
spine darkened). $25

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