Florilegium Press, 2017. First Edition. 4to. 128 pp. Essay by Helaine Glick. Color plates of the artist's works. Stiff color illustrated softcover in fine condition. A publication to coincide with a retrospective of Eleen Auvil’s body of work over five decades including sculpture, weaving, monotype and paper making held at..... More
Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author. 8vo. xxxviii, 248 pp. Index. Illustrations. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering & map endapapers. A fine copy, as new. Includes chapters on ship descriptions, travel documents, ship lists arriving into Boston (1891 - 1901) & New York (1880 -..... More
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1878. First Edition. Presentation, SIGNED to "Julia H. West, Cambridge, Oct., 1877. From the Publisher." 8vo. vi, [3], 10-344 pp. Frontispiece and 12 plates (with tissue guards) from photographs and sketches (including 6 after illustrations by William Keith but drawn by Thomas Moran or W.H...... More
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2006. First Edition. Octavo; (xviii), 617pp. Illustrations; Bibliography; Index. A fine and new, unread copy. This book brings together the top experts in nutritive health who present significant evidence that specific dietary micronutrients have the potential to play a role in resisting cancer, modulating its development..... More
New York: Appleton-Century Company, 1941. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. [iv], 267pp. Blue cloth covered boards; gilt titles to front board and spine; original illustrated dust jacket. Book is in near fine condition (light wear to spine ends) in very good dust jacket (light wear to extremities, more so to..... More
Sacramento: State Office, 1884. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 555pp. Frontispiece illustration of the Sacramento State Agricultural and Industrial Exposition Building. Purple-red pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and illustration to spine. A near fine copy (fading to spine; minor wear to extremities; decorative advertisement for Pacific Electric Pad Truss adhered inside front..... More
St. Louis: B. Herder, 1912. 1st. Hardbound. Octavo, 367 pp. Begun in Dublin, the Sisters of Charity came to Philadelphia in 1833 and on to Iowa in the early 1840's, where they established St. Joseph's Convent, Mount Carmel. This book relates the story of the Institute from 1833 to 1887..... More
New York: Beau Arts Editions, 1995. First Edition. Folio. 374 pp. Bibliography; Chronology; Index. More than 250 reproductions (more than 120 in color). Blue cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy, as new. "...brings together the writings of art critics, reminiscences of family, friends, and colleagues, and Chagall's own..... More
London: William Pickering, 1825 - 1834. A new edition by Basil Montagu. Complete in 16 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece and engraved leaf of script. Indices. Finely bound by F. Bedford in full calf with gilt ruling & dentelles; red and green leather gilt lettered titles labels to spines;..... More
New York: Routledge, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; [xiv], 252pp. First Edition. Color glossy boards in Fine condition. More
Boston, MA: Small, Maynard & Co., 1924. 1st. Cloth. 12mo. 93pp. Index. 2 full-page photo-illustrations (including frontispiece). Foreword by Sir Charles S. Sherrington. Original green cloth with dark green lettering and decoration. "Mr. Bailey was seized with the thought, still very much alive today, that the subconscious execution of the..... More
New York: Harbor House Book, 1977. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 150pp. Numerous color plates and black & white illustrations. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (minor wear to extremities). All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. More
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 4to. xxv, 332pp, including appendices, notes, and index, plus 68pp of plates. Full color and black & white illustrations; photographs; woodblock frontispiece illustration. Blue cloth covered boards; gilt titles to spine; original glossy illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy..... More
New York: Flammarion, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 317pp. Color plates; photo-reproductions; black & white illustrations; 40pp of reproductions of notes scrawled on matchboxes and small sketches which are produced on onion skin paper. As new copy in as new dustjacket. This exhibition catalogue traces the relationship between the two artists....... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. ix, [2], 3-339pp. Navy ribbed cloth with white lettering in cream photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy (a few small spots to upper page edges) in very good dust jacket (water marks to rear cover and lower spine; wear to extremities; darkening to..... More
Np: Published by the author, Nd. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. 99pp. TLS by Bale laid in. Beige cloth covered boards; gilt titles to brown leather label on spine; errata and table of contents laid in; typewritten bound manuscript. A fine copy. Unusual book with poems inspired by student life..... More
Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 1992. 1st. Hardcover. Quarto; 129 pages. Handsome production. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 416pp. Bibliography; Index. Plates; Maps. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; t.e.g. Ex library, else good (spine reinforced with blue cloth, original spine laid down; front hinge cracked; half-title detached; wear to extremities with boards showing along edges); contents clean. All domestic..... More
Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, Ld. 1903. Fourth Edition Revised and Enlarged. Octavo; (xii), 816pp. Index. Photograph (2 1/2" x 4") of Chinese outdoor merchants tipped to loose sheet of paper, laid in. A Very Good copy in yellow cloth with hanging lantern illustration to front board, which is lettered..... More
London; Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1893. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Octavo; (iv), 4, 497, xiv pp. Index. A Very Good to Near Fine copy in black cloth lettered in gold; 'Kelly and Walsh Booksellers & Stationers' sticker to front pastedown. Ball was considered the most capable and..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1972. 1st. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 223, [1] pp. Brown cloth in turquoise dustjacket with yellow & white lettering. Slight fading along upper board edges; bump to upper rear corner; else a fine copy. The fourth Virgil Tibbs detective novel by the..... More
London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Co., 1885. First Edition. 8vo. xix; 551 pp. Half-title; frontispiece; Index. With coloured plates and numerous illustrations. Three-quarter red leather over cloth covered boards; five raised bands & gilt lettering to spine. A near fine copy of the uncommon first edition of..... More
Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2007. 1st. Quartos; complete in two volumes, 514 pp and 479 pages. No foreign shipping for this heavy two-volume setHardcover. More
New York: The Bancroft Company, [1886]. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 784pp. Pioneer Register and Index. Brown cloth with paper title label to spine. Volume 5 of the author's History of California, with original title-page removed and a new one substituted. Being that part of the author's series on the history of..... More
New York: The Bancroft Company, [nd. ca 1886-1890]. Hardcover. 8vo. (xvi), 795pp. Pioneer Register and Index. Brown cloth with paper title label to spine. Volume 2 of the author's History of California; issued separately. More