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Hardcover. REPRINT. GOOD book. Half morocco, marbled boards. EX LIBRARY.

Hardcover. Condition: GOOD book, no DJ. Snyder, W P did 8 b/w illus. (illustrator). 1st edition. GOOD book, no D/J. Text pages white & bright, but moderate wear & stained cover & page edges. 8vo, 291pp.

Hardcover. REVISED ED. MINT book, FINE D/J, with FINE maps in VG slipcase. DJ spine lightly sunned & extrems with minor wear. 8vo, 196pp. AS NEW book, FINE DJ with FINE set of maps all in VG slipcase.

Hardcover. with b/w photos. (illustrator). 1st edition. GOOD book. 8vo, viii,144pp. Tight binding. VG inside. 1st ed, 1897 date on tp & cp. Austin House photo on front board. Book covers soiled, extremes w heavy wear. Text & interior illus w only occasional spots of soiling or ageing. GOOD book. Gilt lettered cloth spine. Paper boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good book, no DJ. 3rd impression. VG book, no D/J. TEG. FINE inside BUT: inked name on fep. 4to. 238pp, followed by an equal # of pages of b/w plates.

Hardcover. Frontis (illustrator). 1st edition. GOOD book, (bound upside down). Worn original brown cloth. Tight. Blind stamped boards, gilt lettered & decor spine. A worn but clean book. Scattered light foxing. Text block edges the same light tan. Tight (up side down) binding. Hinges fine, book stays closed when stood on its spine. Mostly the lives of literary figures but some scientists, mathematicians as well as mechanics and wood workers. GOOD book. (Bound upside down). 1st ed. 8"x5", 387pp.

Hardcover. Frontis, 11 full page plates (illustrator). ABRIDED ED. FAIR book. GOOD inside. Tight. Text & plates collated complete. Pebbled brown cloth, lion's embossed image on both boards. Heavily worn cover, small damp stain on text block top edge. Illustrated with 12 full page plates and 4 in text. This edition was sold as an affordable edition. The UK 1st had 22 plates and fold out maps & charts. This abridged edition with NO FOLD OUTS, but still, all pages & plates complete for this edition. FAIR book. READING copy only. Worn. Moderate foxing throughout.

Hardcover. GOOD book, no DJ. Small thin 8vo, 192pp. Worn extrems. Weak inner hinges. Text lightly age browned. GOOD book, no DJ. Brown cloth. Gilt lettered upper board.

Hardcover. Hutt, Henry illus. (illustrator). NEAR FINE book, no DJ. 1st edition, later state. Pebbled green cloth. Gilt cover lettering and spine/cover decor in white. NEAR FINE book, no DJ. TEG. Clean, bright & tight. MINT inside.

Hardcover. 24 full p illus. (illustrator). early edition. VG book, no DJ. Dusty top edge. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Red roofed house boat boarding passengers on front bottom. Owner's sticker inside cover. Very Good book, no DJ. Bright, clean book. NEAR FINE INSIDE.

Hardcover. Hundreds of tables. (illustrator). GOOD book. VG inside. Black cloth with edge ruled boards. Spine lettering in gilt, long since turned black. 8vo,631pp. Wright was the first head of was later known as the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Report is on 22 cities. All but San Francisco are east of the Mississippi. The first 10% of the book is on general conditions in each of the 22 cities. The rest of the book is divided into 32 sections spread over 500 pages. 1st section gives present ages starting at under 12, 12 through 38 and over 38 for each industry of each city. NYC lists 132 occupations so the exact age counts for each job is in a 4 page table. The sections are: (1) present age by industry, (2) present age by city, (3) Age at beginning of work by industry, (4) age at beginning of work by industry, (5) age at beginning of work by city, (6) years in present occupation by industry, (7) years in present occupation by city, . following by similarly detailed tables on birth state or country, conjugal conditions, home conditions, MANY chapters on "cetain conditions of working women". Last are chapters on income. GOOD book.Cover clean appears shabby because of surface rubbing.

Hardcover. Peirce & Steele illus. (illustrator). 1st edition. VG book. 16 plates. Blue cloth with gilt bordered pictorial front cover paper label. Spine w gilt lamp post & title/author. Signatures at top only of binding loosening. Cover extrems wearing. Neatly inked gift note on fep. Very Good book, no DJ. 1st ed. Bright, clean. FINE text.

Hardcover. 1st edition. NEAR FINE book, no DJ. Ribbed cloth. FINE inside BUT: bkplt & neatly inked Xmas 1916 gift note. NEAR FINE book. 1st ed. Green cloth w gilt lettered author/title.

Hardcover. Schonberg, Thorsten (illustrator). FAIR book. Gilt lettered marroon cloth. TEG. Each page w superb decorations & illustrations, most in color. 9"x7", unpaginated. Binding tight even though MISSING backstrip. No loose leaves or weak signatures. Inner hinges cracked but still sound. FINE text block. Five full page plates, all printed one side only. Bright top edge gilt, clean fore & bottom deckled edged. ZERO pastedown browning, aging, foxing, etc. In Kleist-Fraktur German, the most decipherable of the three major Fracturs. FAIR (missing backstrip) book. Binding still tight. FINE inside.

Hardcover. Frontis, plates & map, (illustrator). 1st edition. FAIR full sheep over FINE text block. Tight. Clean. Zero internal aging, soiling, foxing, memoribilia, etc. 8vo, 524pp. Ideal rebind candidate. Bound in the original full sheep. Both boards intact but holding only by the cords. Backstrip tattered but the gilt lettered black leather title label intact. The boards and the title label would be a nice starting point for a rebind. FAIR book. SUPERB reading copy. Flawless text, plates & map.

Hardcover. Parrish illustrations. (illustrator). Early reprint. GOOD-VG book, no DJ. Olive green cloth. Tight. FINE text & Parrish plates. Colorful front cover. Gilt lettered spine. GOOD-Very Good book. 1st ed. Extrems with minor wear. Sunned spi.

Hardcover. 1st edition. VG book, no DJ. 1/2 black cloth, brown paper boards. Gilt front cover decoration. Spine ends rounded. Spine lightly sunned. Spine sunned with a long crease. Spine letters almost faded to zilch. VG book, no DJ. 1st ed. Top edge tinted dark blue. 8vo, 253pp.

Hardcover. 22 full page plates. (illustrator). 3rd edition. VG book. Tight. Fine text. Black lettered green cloth with FINE b/w photo glued to front cover. Stated 3rd edition. Bright book. Spine cock (shown in photo). Cover extrems scuffed but not worn. (Worn is when the cloth is worn through to the underlying white cardboard.) Flawless otherwise. Also, book tends to stay closed when stood on its spine, a sign of having been read with care. Very Good book. Tight. FINE text & illustrations. 8"x5", 248pp.

Hardcover. early edition. GOOD-VG book. NEAR FINE text and fold out map. Tight, book stays closed when stood on its spine. Half brown morroco.

Hardcover. Frontis. (illustrator). LATER REPRINT. VG+ book Extrems scuffed. Charles XII frontis engraving. Tight. Inner hinges cracked just a bit, but still sound. 18x11cm,276pp. Spine sunned a bit, divided into 5 panels by gilt ruling. Gilt "CHARLES TWELFTH" on 2nd panel. Brown dot speckled text block edges. NEAR FINE inside, just an occassional spot of foxing. With the 6 page "PREFACE to the EDITION OF MDCCL". Tight. Book stays closed when stood on its spine, a sign of having been read with care, if at all. VG+ book. Contemporary brown morroco. Gilt ruled cover edges.