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Barr, William. TRAGEDIES AND TRIUMPH IN THE NORTH: RUSSIAN EXPLORATION OF THE ARCTIC 1910-1915. Oslo: The Fram Museum. 2019. Small square 8vo. Wraps. 177 pp. Signed by Barr to title page. Ligth wear to edges, with some light soiling to covers. Very good. $28 CW428689

Bell, Jonathan; Watson, Mervyn. A HISTORY OF IRISH FARMING, 1750-1950. Portland: Four Courts Press. 2008. 8vo. Cloth. 344 pp. Black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear. Very good plus in a very good plus jacket. $50 CW428690

Black, Max. A COMPANION TO WITTGENSTEIN'S TRACTATUS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1964. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 451 pp. From the library of renowned philosopher James K Feibleman with his name stamped to front free endpaper. Light shelfwear. Some slight dog-earing to several page corners. Jacket with light wear at edges, including some soiling to rear panel and some small closed tears at the edges. Very good in a very good jacket. $125 CW428711

Blake, William. WILLIAM BLAKE: THE ILLUMINATED BOOKS (IN SIX VOLUMES). Princeton, NJ: The William Blake Trust / Princeton University Press. 1995. Six volume set. 4to. Cloth. Volume 1, JERUSALEM, 302 pp. Volume 2, SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE, 209 pp. Volume 3, THE EARLY ILLUMINATED BOOKS, 286 pp. Volume 4, THE CONTINENTAL PROPHECIES, 367 pp. Volume 5, MILTON A POEM, 286 pp. Volume 6, THE URIZEN BOOKS, 231 pp. Superficial shelfwear. Each volume with previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Jackets all with light wear and slight sunning at edges. Jacket of Vol 4 w/ small closed tear to top edge of jacket front at spine. Overall near fine in very good plus to near fine jackets. $650 CW428722

Brady, Ciaran. INTERPRETING IRISH HISTORY: THE DEBATE ON HISTORICAL REVISIONISM. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 1999. 8vo. Cloth. 348 pp. Rubbing to bottom edges. Boards slightly bowed. Jacket with light edgewear. Very good in a very good jacket. $60 CW428702

Browne, George Waldo, compiled by. THE AMOSKEAG MANUFACTURING CO. OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: A HISTORY. Manchester, NH: The Amoskeag Mqanufqacturing Company. 1915. First edition. Large 8vo. Contemporary half morocco over marbled paper, rebacked with a plain leather spine, top edges gilt. 288 pp. Black and white illustrations with tissue guards. Housed in a later custom clamshell case. Rubbing to edges and corners. The new spine is plain brown leather with no identifying marks. Hinges reinforced. Some loss at the edges of the free endpapers, which have been archivally reinforced. Slight losses at the edges/corners of the other blanks. Light toning to edges. Very good overall with faults as noted. $125 CW428707

Cappelli, Adriano. LEXICON ABBREVIATURARUM: DIZIONARIO DI ABBREVIATURE LATINE ED ITALIANE (MANUALI HOEPLI). Milano: Ulrico Hoepli Editore. 1999. 1979 reprint of the 6th edition. 12mo. Faux vellum. 531 pp. Latin text with Italian notes and commentary. A few folding plates. Light shelfwear and light soiling to covers. Small pink stain to rear cover from a removed sticker. Previous owner's name in pencil to front free endpaper. Price sticker to rear pastedown. Very good, no jacket. $45 CW428697

Cook, Michael; Robinson, Chase F.; Fierro, Maribel; Morgan, David O.; Reid, Anthony; Irwin, Robert; Robinson, Francis; Hefner, Robert. THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ISLAM 6 VOLUME SET. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2010. Six volume set. 8vo. Green cloth. Light shelfwear. Some light soiling to tops of textblocks. Jackets with superficial wear. Very good plus in near fine jackets. $1195 CW428723

Feibleman, James K.. ONTOLOGY. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 1951. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 807 pp. Jacket with light rubbign and wear to edges and front panel, with some soiling to rear panel, and some light soiling at edges. Light shelfwear. Very good plus in a very good jacket. $125 CW428710

Frege, Gottlob. CONCEPTUAL NOTATION AND RELATED ARTICLES. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1972. 8vo. Cloth. 291 pp. Light shelfwear. Small stain to top of textblock. Glue toning to gutters. Jackt lightly faded at spine, rubbed at the edges and to the back panel, and with small closed tears at the edges. Very good in a very good jacket. $60 CW428719

Godley, W.; Lavoie, M.. MONETARY ECONOMICS: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO CREDIT, MONEY, INCOME, PRODUCTION AND WEALTH. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. 8vo. Paper-covered boards (hardcover). 530 pp. Some light scuffing and wear to exterior. Wrinkle to rear cover. Slight bumping to corners. Last 25 pages dog-eared at upper corner. Very good, no jacket. $65 CW428724

Jackson Gregory. THE SILVER STAR. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1935. Reprint. Small 8vo. Red cloth, top edges stained red. 318 pp. Inscribed by Gregory to Irma Wyckoff (secretary to Max Perkins at Scribner). Slight fading to spine. Dampstains to top of textblock. Two small holes to cloth at fore-edge of rear board. Small tear to fore-edges of last few pages. No dust jacket. $35 CW428694

Jammer, Max. CONCEPTS OF MASS IN CLASSICAL AND MODERN PHYSICS. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1961. First edition. 8vo. Quarter cloth over paper-covered boards (hardcover). 230 pp. Light shelfwear. Glue-toning to gutters. Light toning to page edges. A few instances of marginalia. Jacket sunned at spine and edges, with small chips at the corners and spine ends. Jacket price-clipped, and with a number written in red ink to rear flap. Very good in a very good jacket with faults as noted. $150 CW428715

Kaufmann, Walter. HEGEL: INTERPRETATION, TEXTS, AND COMMENTARY. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co.. 1965. First edition. 8vo. Quarter black cloth over red cloth. 498 pp. From the library of renowned philosopher James K. Feibleman, with his signature to front free endpaper and following blank. Light shelfwear. Some small dark stains to lower fore-edges. Jacket with rubbing and wear at edges, some small chips to spine ends, and a vertical crease to spine. Jacket price-clipped. Very good in a very good jacket. $60 CW428709

Linzee, John William. THE LINDESEIE AND LIMESI FAMILIES OF GREAT BRITAIN [WITH] THE LINZEE FAMILY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE ALLIED FAMILIES. Boston: Privately Printed. 1917. Two volume set. Quarter morocco over blue pebbled cloth, rebacked with remnants of original spines laid down, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 910 pp. total, continuously paginated. Black and white portraits throughout. Some light toning and scattered foxing, particularly to the plates, else very good. Each volume housed in a custom blue cloth-covered clamshell cases. $125 CW428704

Man Ray; Benjamin Peret; Aragon. 1929. London: Alyscamps Press. 1996. Edition limited to 215 copies. 8vo. Wraps. 51 pp. Light wear to edges. Small nick to fore-edge of first blank. Very good. $95 CW428698

Mayo, Lawrence Shaw. THE WINTHROP FAMILY IN AMERICA. Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society. 1948. 4to. Cloth, top edges gilt. 507 pp. Extensively illustrated. Light shelfwear. Some scuffs to the boards. Old dealer number in pencil to front pastedown. Very good, no jacket. $150 CW428708

Moran, D. P.. THE PHILOSOPHY OF IRISH IRELAND. Dublin: James Duffy & Co.. 1905. 8vo. Wraps. 114 pp. Soiling and wear to covers. Wraps beginning to split at front joint and separate from textblock. Textblock warped. Foxing to edges. title page, preliminaries, and last few leaves; otherwise some sporadic interior foxing. Good plus. $95 CW428703

Nkosi, Lewis. HOME AND EXILE. London: Longmans. 1965. First edition. 8vo. Orange cloth with jacket. 136 pp. Light shelfwear. Slightly cocked spine. Boards slightly bowed. Some soiling to top of textblock. Previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Jacket with some rubbing and wear to edges, including some small chips and tears to top edge. Jacket spine faded. Some moisture rippling to front panel of jacket. Very good minus in a very good minus jacket. $125 CW428705

O'Brien, Mark; Larkin, Felix M.. PERIODICALS AND JOURNALISM IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRELAND: WRITING AGAINST THE GRAIN. Portland: Four Courts Press. 2014. 8vo. Cloth. 240 pp. Inscribed by Larkin to title page. Light shelfwear. Spine cocked. Very good in a very good jacket. $35 CW428688

Popper, Karl R.. THE LOGIC OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. London: Hutchinsons. 1959. First UK edition. 8vo. Cloth. 480 pp. From the library of James K. Feibleman, with his signature to front free endpaper and his marginalia. Light shelfwear and light soiling to covers. Toning to page edges and endpapers. Gutter exposed at title page. Occasional marginalia. Light foxing to fore-edges. Very good minus, no jacket, with faults as noted. $295 CW428716

Quine, Willard Van Orman. A SYSTEM OF LOGISTIC. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1934. First edition of Quine's first book. 8vo. Red cloth. 204 pp. From the library of renowned philosopher James K. Feibleman, with his name stamped to front free endpaper. Shelfwear. Some fading to spine and edges. Toning and foxing to endpapers. Small stain to bottom of rear endpapers. Very good, no jacket. $500 CW428717

Robert Musil. Translated from the German by Eithne Wilkins & Ernst Kaiser. THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES. London: Secker & Warburg. 1953. First English edition. Two volume set. 8vo. Cloth. 365, 454 pp. From the library of renowned philosophy James K. Feibleman, with his name to front free endpaper of volume I and with occasional underlining and marginalia. Light shelfwear. Light toning to page edges. Offsetting to endpapers. Occasional underlining and marginalia. Spine cocked in volume I. Jackets with rubbing and wear, including some chips to spine ends, vertical creases to spines, and sunning to spines. Overall very good in very good jackets with faults as noted. $150 CW428712

Savage, James. A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND SHOWING THREE GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE MAY, 1692, ON THE BASIS OF FARMER'S REGISTER [IN FOUR VOLUMES]. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1862. Four volume set. Rebound in modern burgundy cloth, titles gilt to spine. Light shelfwear, light toning to page edges, sporadic light foxing, else very good. $150 CW428691

Shelton, Frank H.. REFLECTIONS OF A NUCLEAR WEAPONEER. Colorado Springs, CO: Shelton Enterprise, Inc.. 1988. First edition stated. Small quarto. Burgundy pebbled buckram. Unpaginated. Extensive black and white illustrations. Inscribed by the author to Robert B. Barker, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, on the title page. Light shelfwear. Hinges somewhat tender. Very good, no jacket. $950 CW428720

Symons, Arthur. LONDON NIGHTS. London: Leonard Smithers. 1897. Second edition, revised. Edition limited to 400. 106 pp. Inscribed by Symons (to C. B. Cochran) to the front free endpaper. Light shelfwear. Corners bumped. Some dampstains to rear cover. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Front hinge partially exposed. Gutter visible in several places, particularly at pp. 32/33. Very good, no jacket. $95 CW428693

Thomas Sumner. A NEW AND ACCURATE METHOD OF FINDING A SHIP'S POSITION AT SEA, BY PROJECTION OF MERCATOR'S CHART. THE PRINCIPLES OF THE METHOD BEING FULLY EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED BY PROBLEMS, EXAMPLES, AND PLATES, WITH RULES FOR PRACTICE, AND EXAMPLES FROM ACTUAL OBSERVATION. Boston: Thomas Groom. 1845. Second edition. 8vo. Panel stamped cloth with gilt decoration and lettering to front. 88 pp. Nine plates in six, several folding (including frontispiece). Some scuffing and wear to exterior, including some stains to the covers. Dampstaining to lower fore-corners and rear endpapers. Previous owner's signature (Capt. Joseph Thorndike) inked to front pastedown, with another Thorndike's name in pencil to both front endpapers. Moderate foxing throughout. Good plus overall. $150 CW428695

Tulin, Alexander. DIKE PHONOU: THE RIGHT OF PROSECUTION AND ATTIC HOMICIDE PROCEDURE. Stuttgart und Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. 1996. 8vo. Gray cloth. 135 pp. Light shelfwear, else very good plus, no jacket. $45 CW428696

Various. THE NEW CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY (IN EIGHT VOLUMES). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. 2006 reprints. 8 volume set. 8vo. Cloth. Minimal shelfwear. Slight soiling to top of textblocks. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Overall very good plus in very good plus jackets. $1250 CW428721

Vautier, John D.. HISTORY OF THE 88TH PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION 1861-1865. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. 1894. 8vo. Rebound in black buckram, top edges stained red, other edges speckled red. 281 pp. Black and white illustrations. Ex-library, with catalogue number to tail of spine, bookplate stamped DISCARD to front pastedown, and library stamp to title page, with some other library markings to verso of title page. Light toning to page edges. One of the later plates with a small closed tear to top edge. Very good minus with faults as noted. $95 CW428706

William Hope Hodgson. BOATS OF THE "GLEN CARRIG" AND OTHER NAUTICAL ADVENTURES (THE COLLECTED FICTION OF WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON, VOL. 1). San Francisco and Portland: Night Shade. 2003. First printing. 8vo. Silver-stamped blue boards. 513 pp. Superficial shelfwear, bar code sticker to rear cover, else very good plus, no jacket as issued. $40 CW428700

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Edited by G. H. von Wright and G. E. M. Anscombe. . NOTEBOOKS 1914-1916. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1961. 8vo. Cloth. 131 pp. German text with facing English translation. From the library of renowned philosopher James K. Feibleman, with his signature to front free endpaper and some marginalia from him. Light shelfwear. Light foxing to endpapers and page edges. Newspaper clipping taped to front pastedown. Occasional marginalia. A few fore-edges slightly dinged/torn. Jacket with rubbing and scuffing to spine, as well as some small chips to bottom edge. Very good in a very good jacket. $250 CW428713

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. PRELIMINARY STUDIES FOR THE "PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS" GERNERALLY KNOWN AS THE BLUE AND BROWN BOOKS. Oxford : Basil Blackwell. 1958. First English language edition. 8vo. Cloth. 185 pp. Light shelfwear. Light foxing to endpapers and page edges. Jacket sunned at spine and edges with light wear to edges. Very good in a very good jacket. $125 CW428714

von Neumann, John and Oskar Morgenstern. THEORY OF GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1947. Second edition with new material added. 8vo. Cloth. [xviii] 641 pp. From the library of renowned philosopher James K. Feibleman, with his name stamped to front free endpaper and occasional marginalia from him. Rubbing and shelfwear to exterior. Hinges slightly tender. Light toning to page edges, with some small stains to fore-edges. Endpapers with toning and foxing. Very good minus, no jacket. $500 CW428718