Gillingham, Dorset: The Blackmore Press, 1952. First edition. Quarto (28.5 cm); 199 pp.; illustrations; photographs; maps; dust jacket. Foam green cloth with gilt stamping to front board and spine. A near fine copy with just a hint of sunning to board edges. Scarce original dust jacket is very good with... More about The Marn'll Book, Some Particular History, Some General Topography, a Number of Photographs, and...

[n.p.]: Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co., 1890. First edition. Oblong (28 x 17.5 cm); unpaginated [24] pp.; chromolithographs. Cord-tied illustrated covers. This scarce album was offered by Arbuckles Notion Department as a premium and contains illustrations of all 50 cards in the zoological series, arranged four to a page with the... More about Arbuckles' Album of Illustrated Natural History

New York: Vim Publishing Company, 1905. First edition. 12mo; red cloth lettered in black, vi, [11], 2-215 pp, [5] pp. (adverts). INSCRIBED by the author to “Dr.” Charles Pichel, an eccentric conman, traditionalist Catholic and obsessive anti-Communist who headed the spurious Shickshinny Knights of Malta. Tipped in to the rear... More about The Life Sexual: A Study of the Philosophy, Physiology, Science, Art, and Hygiene of Love [INSCRIBED

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First American edition. Twelvemo. Green paper boards pictorially printed in black; 159 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. A Very Good+ copy with toning to board edges in a Very Good, unclipped ($1.75), dust jacket, which is also toned and has one mark of soiling... More about The Gardener's Year

Boston: O. S. Fowler, 1869. First edition. Large octavo (24 cm); vi, 236, [12] pp (bound in); illus. Brown pebbled cloth, blind-ruling to both boards, title gilt-stamped to front board. Very light wear to boards; spine a little sunned; owner's name to front endpaper. Fowler was a famous phrenologist and... More about Offspring, and Their Hereditary Endowment: Or, Paternity, Maternity, and Infancy; Including...

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. First edition. 12mo. Green cloth stamped in gilt; xi, [6], 70 pp.; photographic plates; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy. Light flaking of gilt; dust-soiling to top edge; browning to endpapers from jacket flaps; plates are a trifle foxed. A card has been tipped... More about The Care of Ornamental Trees In Planting, Fertilizing, Pruning, Tree Surgery, and Spraying

London: The Fuller Engineering Company, 1920? 24.5 x 18.5 cm; 24 pp.; illus. Saddle-stapled booklet, staples oxidized and bleeding a little. Some general rubbing with a few marks of soiling to rear cover, but overall a Very Good copy. This article was originally printed in "The Textile Recorder" and seems... More about The Use of Combustion Instruments and Notes on Pulverised Coal Applications in the Textile Industry

San Francisco: Liberty & Property, [196-?]. Fourth printing. Tall, stapled wrappers (23 x 10 cm), 17, [1] pp. Anti-miscegenation pamphlet from Dr. Bela Hubbard, who argues that voluntary segregation is the only practical solution to prevent race-mixing, which leads to the degeneration of both races. Published by Property & Liberty... More about The Hybrid Race Doctrine: A Critical Analysis of Some Teachings of Modern Anthropology

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Fifth edition. Pink and grey-stamped copse with gilt lettering to front board; heavy octavo. xxiii, 533, [7] (adverts), pp. With 178 illustrations from photographs and with 162 illustrations from drawings. Bookplate of Southern High School, Philadelphia, to front pastedown; red stamp to two pages... More about Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits and Their Peculiarities

San Francisco: Far Horizons Books, 1982. Second revised printing. Octavo. Perfectbound paperback; 284 pp. The author traces humanity's evolutionary development and argues that man can only act altruistically when he abandons religion and embraces science and rationalism. A Very Good copy with covers slightly rubbed, clean throughout. More about The Evolution of Conscience

Parry, New Jersey: John R. Parry, 1897. First edition. 19 x 14 cm; 157, [1], pp.; ill. Stapled, perfect-bound black wrappers with dulled lettering to front wrapper and dulled design to rear. Wrappers rubbed with some white flecking and chipping to top edge; dampstaining throughout with a small chunk missing... More about Nuts for Profit. A Treatise on the Propagation and Cultivation of Nut-Bearing Trees Adapted to...

[Pennsylvania]: Hon. Daniel H. Hastings, 1898. First edition. One leaf folded to make two pages; illustration. Some grubbiness and soiling, still Very Good. A warning written for soldiers about the poisonous Manchineal tree, which grows along the Sea Shore in Cuba, and the West India Islands. The author describes the... More about Soldiers! Beware of the Manchineal Tree!!

Philadelphia: The Farmer Company, 1893. First edition. 8vo (23 cm); red pebbled cloth stamped in gilt, 367, [1] pp, photo frontis of the author; illus. A firsthand account of the author's decision to take up farming and the practical knowledge he's learned along the way. Cloth lightly rubbed & a.... More about Our Farming; Or, How We Have Made a Run-down Farm Bring Both Profit and Pleasure. Potato, Wheat...