7.00" (18 cm) Tall Slightly cocked with light soiling to buckram over boards. Corners gently bumped. Tight binding and hinges. Pages foxed. Small written note on rear endpaper. 144 pp. Memoir of the Boer War by American woman whose husband, John Hays Hammond, was a mining engineer, diplomat, philanthropist and business partner of Cecil Rhodes (King Solomon's Mines) in South Africa. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/1300007.jpg

Very-good, clean copy of this over-sized ex-libris hardback. Usual library markings - Inner pages are free from writing and tears. Tight spine - Bright pages. Illustrated throughout. Stated First American Edition.

reprint. ~ Paperback, F. xxx+130pp, b/w frontis, fine copy, text unmarked. ~ Vanbrugh [1664 - 1726] dramatist better known as the architect of Blenhiem Palace. His plays mark the end of the Restoration period, and a change from wit to respectability. This is his first play, a Restoration comedy written in 1696 as a sequel to Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift, or, Virtue Rewarded. In Cibber's play, restoration rake is brought to repent and respectable clean living by his wife. In The Relapse, the rake succumbs to temptation and has a new love affair. His virtuous wife is also the subject of a seduction attempt, she resists - with difficulty. In part Vanbrugh based the play around the actots of the Restoration stage - Cibber being one of them.

Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Very Good Hard Cover First Edition One of 975 copies. (b Cork, 23 Mar. 1889; d Oxford, 19 Jan. 1958). British wood engraver, book designer, and travel writer. He founded the Society of Wood Engravers in 1919 and ran the Golden Cockerel Press from 1924 to 1933, illustrating many of its books himself and also employing engravers such as Eric Gill and Eric Ravilious. He went through a nudist phase at about this time and sometimes typeset in the nude. Gibbings's books typically combine topographical impressions, personal anecdote, and observations of nature, illustrated with his own engravings; they include two on the River Thames, Sweet Thames Run Softly (1940) and Till I End my Song (1957). Rare.

Soft Cover. VG-G. First Edition. 1st Paperback Cardinal Edition. An Explosive and important book about one of society's most difficult problems--prostitution. Old very delicate, Judge Murtagh and Sara Harris go into the world of the prostitute and why she does it? Stories of Peurto Rican Girls really from Cuba being transported to New York for being a sex slave or prostitute only 5/9/2003 3/30/2008 3:42:04 PM 1

190 x 120 mm Antal sidor :30 + 163 + 218.Inga bilder. 3 st böcker, på tyska.

4.25" (11 cm) Tall Blue wraps are faded and tanned. Stapled binding very sound. No chips, tears or creases. Interior pages age-darkened. 64 pp. plus wraps. Essays include "How the Great Corporations Rule the U.S." (Dreiser), "How America Is Enslaved by Exploiting Big Business" (Latta), "This Oil Conservation Bunk" (Latta), "The Worst Graft in America - Safe from the Law" (Gunn), "Slavery in a Colorado Mining Town" (Mooney), "Civil Liberties and the Southern Negro" (Harris), "A Study in Patriotism" (Mooney), "Justice in the New South" (Patterson). Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanuel Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s and 1950s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/1380074.jpg

7.25" (18.5 cm) Tall Square, tight binding and hinges, clean pages a bit off-white with age, no evidence of reading wear. Green cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has edge wear, general light soiling, light shelfwear. 674 pp. Contents: George Villiers, The Rehearsal; William Wycherley, The Country Wife; Sir George Etheredge, The Man of Mode; John Dryden, All for Love; Thomas Otway, Venice Preserved; Sir John Vanbrugh, The Relapse; William Congreve, The Way of the World; George Farquhar, The Beaux' Stratagem. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/1100162.jpg

10" (25.4 cm) Tall Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have very light edge rubbing. 114 pp. Contents: Watson, "Front Porch"; Griffin, "The American South and the Self"; Harcourt, "The Boys Will Have to Fight the Battles without Me: The Making of Sam Davis, Boy Hero of the Confederacy"; Cohen, "Jim Crow's Drug War: Race, Coca-Cola, and the Southern Origins of Drug Prohibition"; Sledge, "Lacy Charm in Old Mobile: The Historic Cast Iron of Alabama's First city" (photos by Sheila Hagler); film review essays by Harris and Parker; book reviews. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/1360010.jpg