Gill, Eric.

Unemployment.

First Edition. London, Faber & Faber, 1933. 17 x 11 cm. 32 pages. Illustrated title. Original red paper wrappers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Mild foxing. See images.

Goodwin, Rutherford. [Marshall, George C. / Pound, Dudley / Portal, Charles F.A. / Somerville, James F. / Wavell, Archibald P. / Hastings, L. Ismay et al].

A Brief & True Report Concerning Williamsburg in Virginia. [Signed by George Marshall and British Chiefs of Staff in 1943]. Being an Account of the most important Occurrences in that Place from its first Beginning to the present Time.

A third Edition revis’d & enlarged by the Author. Williamsburg, Printed for Colonial Williamsburg by August Dietz, 1940. 20 x 12 cm. xii, 406 pages. With a frontispiece, two foldout maps and other illustrations. Brown calf with gilt line decorations. Label with gilt title on spine. Speckled edges. Good condition. Binding seriously rubbed and bumped. Material losses to spine and spine label. Abrasion to boards. Edges dust dulled. Internally slightly age darkened, otherwise in very good condition. Initials A.F.B. and 13 signatures on front end papers. Placed and dated (Williamsburg, Virginia 5/16/43). Text block bright and clean.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.

First Edition. Two Volumes. New York, Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. 23 x 15 cm. Vol.1: 584 pages / Vol.2: 647 pages. Illustrated. Original deluxe three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands, circular gilt-stamped medallions on front and rear covers, marbled endpapers and edges. Very good condition. Sound bindings. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Neat gift inscription to Library. Small library stamp (‘Peru Library’) on first blank of each volume. Occasional mild foxing. Internally bright and clean. A very nice set overall.

Guenther, F. / Schmidt, S.J.

Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Languages.

Dordrecht / Boston, Reidel, 1979. 8°. VIII, 378 pages. Softcover. Original Reidel edition. Near FINE condition. Absolutely clean and tight. [Synthese Language Library – Volume 4].

Gwynn, John.

Why I am a Catholic. [A Series of Lectures given in the Jesuit Church, St. Francis Xavier’s, Dublin].

First Edition. Dublin, Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, 1909. 18 x 12 cm. vii, 101 pages. Original green cloth with red titles on front board and spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Spine darkened. Edges and end paper dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. A very nice copy of this rare book.

Hallam, Henry.

The Constitutional History of England [George Bellew Binding]. From the Accesion of Henry VII to the Death of George II.

Fifth Edition. Two Volumes. London, John Murray, 1846. 21 x 14 cm. Vol.1: xv, 719 pages / Vol.2: viii, 624 pages. Uniform green morroco by G. Bellew, Dublin. Binders stamp in gilt on front past down. Elaborate gilt decorations. Decorated end papers. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubing and bumping. Occasional mild staining to edges. Prize paper label on front paste donw. Internally bright and clean. Overall a very nice set in a lovely sturdy binding.

Handy, Moses P.

The Official Directory of the World’s Columbian Exposition. May 1st to October 30th, 1893. A Reference Book … General Information concerning the Fair. Copiously Illustrated.

Chicago, W.B. Conkey Company, 1893. viii, 1120 pages. Illustrated throughout in B&W. Losely inserted are four different admission tickets for the Chicago Fair in 1893. Original light blue cloth (see images). Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Edges dust dulled. Hinges started to crack and binding weak, but holding.

Hayes, Richard.

Irish Swordsmen of France. – Signed Association Copy. With a Foreword by Rev. Patrick Browne, M.A., D.Sc.

First Edition. Dublin, M.H. Gill and Son, 1934. 21 x 13.5 cm. xix, 307 pages. With a coloured frontispiece and seven additional Plates, of which one is folding. Original blue cloth with gilt title on spine. In original decorated dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Very good in good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers age darkened and mildly foxed. Dust jacket with some edgewear and losses to spine top and rear. Internally bright and clean.

Hazlitt, W. Carew.

English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases. Collected from the Most Authentic Sources Alphabetically arranged and annotated by W. Carew Hazlitt.

First and Limited Edition. London, John Russell Smith, 1869. 23 x 15 cm. xxix, 505 pages. Title page Vignette. Original brown cloth. Hard cover with gilt title and author on spine. Foreedge deckle. Rebacked in 2024 using the original boads and spine. New end papers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Neat gift inscription on half title page. Internallty bright and clean. A very nice copy.

Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.

Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism. On the Idea of a Patriot King: and on the State of Parties at the Accession of King George the First. By the Right HonorableHenry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.

London, Printed for A. Millar, 1752. 20 x 12 cm. 280 pages. Contemporary polished calf. Red morroco spine label with gilt title. Raised bands and gilt line decoration on spine. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped with small loses to spine ends. Front hinge cracked. Sound binding. Miild age darkening / browning. Internally clean. A very nice copy.