Black Swan Books

Boyer D’Agen; Henry Fowler (Compiler)

[RELIGION] [EXPOSE] [ROMAN CATHOLIC] LIFE OF A CARMELITE NUN

Toledo, Ohio: L. J. King, [1910]. Original Wrappers. Third Edition. 8vo.; stapled pamphlet with photographic illustrations; 75 pages; sensationalism at its most sensational -- “Filthy and Loathsome Punishments in a Roman Catholic Convent”; “Escaped, Pursued, and Forced Back to the.....

Price: $150.00

Carolyn Reading Hammer (Compiler)

[SPECIAL PRESS] VICTOR HAMMER’S ENGRAVINGS AND WOODCUTS

[Lexington, Kentucky]: The Anvil Press, 1979. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Quarto; in paper-covered boards with an onlay of title and a woodcut by Victor Hammer, with dustjacket with the initials “V. H.” on a paper label at the spine; the.....

Price: $650.00

Item #296779 [GENEALOGY] [VIRGINIA] THE BAYLOR COLLECTION: A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS, LETTERS,...

Elizabeth Herring Baylor (Compiler)

[GENEALOGY] [VIRGINIA] THE BAYLOR COLLECTION: A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS, LETTERS, PAPERS AND MEMORABILIA SAVED BY TWO GENERATIONS: BERNARD HOSKINS AND ANNE BARKSDALE BAYLOR AND WILLIAM BARKSDALE BAYLOR

Henrico, Virginia: Alpha Graphics West End, 2016. Quarto. Pictorial Boards. First Edition. Quarto; in the publisher’s red pictorial boards with elaborate titling; viii, 362 pages; with illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles, maps; there is a previous owner presentation inscription from.....

Price: $175.00

H.H. Sir Bhavsinhji, K.C.S.I. [Compiler] | [Chester MacNaghten]

FORTY YEARS OF THE RAJKUMAR COLLEGE. RAJKOT. Vol. VII GENERAL INDEX.

London; Aylesbury: Printed and Bound By Hazell, Watson & Viney. Ltd., [1911]. Hard Cover. Index volume only, to the seven volume set comprising a history of one of the oldest public schools in India.. The set is a lavish production.....

Price: $350.00

Item #277888 FOR 1840. BUFFALO CITY DIRECTORY; CONTAINING A LIST OF THE NAMES, RESIDENCE AND...

Horatio N. Walker, Compiler

FOR 1840. BUFFALO CITY DIRECTORY; CONTAINING A LIST OF THE NAMES, RESIDENCE AND OCCUPATION OF THE HEADS OF FAMILIES, HOUSEHOLDERS, &c. ON THE FIRST OF MAY, 1840.

Buffalo, [New York]: Faxon & Graves, Printers, 1840. In the publisher’s green printed paper-covered boards, backed in black morocco. The front board is printed with the Calendar for 1840. Quite an interesting, if foxed, binder’s advertisement for Faxon & Read.....

Price: $450.00

Item #294671 [MASONIC] HISTORY AND BY-LAWS OF HENRICO UNION LODGE, NO. 130, A. F. & A. M.,...

J. Staunton Moore (Editor and Compiler)

[MASONIC] HISTORY AND BY-LAWS OF HENRICO UNION LODGE, NO. 130, A. F. & A. M., RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, WITH A LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS.

Richmond: Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1905. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo.; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding, with decoration and titling in gilt; 179 pages, including the Index, with halftone frontispiece of “The Lodge Building” and with.....

Price: $85.00

Paul Reps (compiler)

[EASTERN RELIGION] ZEN FLESH, ZEN BONES: A COLLECTION OF ZEN AND PRE-ZEN WRITINGS

Rutland, VT; Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc., 1957. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo.; in publisher’s brown paper-covered boards with decorations in black and titling and decoration in gilt; [4], 5-211 pages; there is a previous owner name on the.....

Price: $150.00

Item #300289 [VIRGINIA] TIES TO REMEMBER: A STUDY OF TWO COMMUNITIES. THE COMMUNITY OF REEDVILLE...

Robert N. McKenney [Compiler; Enumerator]

[VIRGINIA] TIES TO REMEMBER: A STUDY OF TWO COMMUNITIES. THE COMMUNITY OF REEDVILLE (1874 - 1903) AND THE COMMUNITY OF ROSELAND (1903 - 2003)

N/A: N/A~, [2003]. Soft Cover. In publisher’s stiff printed wrappers; [1] |~ 2-317 pages; chockfull of records, mostly cemetery; one page (p. 311) with scant marginalia; the rest of the book appears to be ummarked.~~The book is chock full of.....

Price: $225.00

Item #297488 [GENEALOGY] [LOUDOUN COUNTY] BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY OF SOME OF THE ANTHONY SOUDER...

Warren J. Souder (Compiler]

[GENEALOGY] [LOUDOUN COUNTY] BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY OF SOME OF THE ANTHONY SOUDER AND MARGARITE MAURER FAMILY

Fredericksburg: Bookcrafters, 1997. Hard Cover. 8vo.; in tan cloth binding with titling printed in black to the upper board and the spine; iii, 348 pages, illustrated with facsimiles, photographs, a map of Loudoun County, and the like; there are no.....

Price: $150.00

Item #259991 [TRAVEL] ROCKY MOUNTAIN VIEWS ON THE RIO GRANDE THE “SCENIC LINE OF THE WORLD”:...

Wm. H. Crane (compiler)

[TRAVEL] ROCKY MOUNTAIN VIEWS ON THE RIO GRANDE THE “SCENIC LINE OF THE WORLD”: CONSISTING OF TWENTY-FOUR ENGRAVED VIEWS FROM RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS

Denver, Colorado: Smith-Brooks Printing Company / Inter-state Company, 1914. Original Wrappers. Complete collection of colored tipped-in plates showing the fantastic views from the Denver & Rio Grande-Western Pacific Railroad route. Signature of “F. S. Savage Sr.” dated 1914 on the.....

Price: $75.00

Zhengzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (compiler)

[ARCHAEOLOGY THE DAHECUM SITE IN ZHENGSHOU (I)

Science Press, 2001. Quarto. Hard Cover. Binding sound; moderate edgewear to dust jacket, including several closed tears. Dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover. No markings to text.

Price: $75.00