London: MCA Records; Universal, 1999. First Edition. Complete box set with 15 CDs of great Chess music, interviews with Phil and Marshall Chess; visual clips of major Chess artists & previously unseen footage of Chicago and Chess Records; interactive catalogue & artist listing of all Chess recordings; and chart history..... More
Darmstadt: Metz & Lautz, ca. 1900. Leporello album (5" x 8 1/2"). Tipped into album is a color panorama map of Mosel in 8 sections (unfolded to 8 x 35 1/2"). The image depicts the Mosel region from Trier to Coblenz along the Rhein River surrounded by a variety of..... More
New York: Fleet Street Corporation, 1984. 1st. Hardcover. [1984]. 8vo. 304pp. Photo-illustrations. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in white photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy (two minor pencil notations) in fine dustjacket (short closed tear to upper rear). The biography of a multidimensional man whose life was one of..... More
Wright Field, U.S. Army Air Corps, 1928. Tentative Edition. Original wrappers. Intended to be the basis of a new printing of the textbook on aeronautics for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Being a revision of certain chapters of "Simple Aerodynamics and the Airplane" by Charles N. Monteith, a...... 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
Chicago: Obsidian Press, 1961. 1st. Original wrappers. 8vo. 40 pp. stiff yellow wrappers with brown lettering. Uneven darkening to covers; a near fine copy of the author's scarce first book. Number 2 in 'The New Frontier Series in American Literature.' George Harold "Hal" Bennett (1936 – 2004) also wrote under..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1947. First Edition. Lovely two-page original watercolor, signed by David Hendrickson, which spreads across the half title and the opposite blank. Additionally SIGNED by Bosworth and Hendrickson. Small 8vo. 188 pp. The book is in near fine condition with decorative bookplate, in very good dusjtacket (price-clipped; minor..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1903. 1st. Original cloth. First edition. 4to. Unpaginated; [96]pp. Black & white illustrations. Brown cloth covered boards; black and green illustration to front board; black titles to front board and spine. Light wear to extremities, small scrape to lower front cover; light spotting to two..... More
Np: Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission, 1986. 1st. Paperback. First edition. 4to. xvi, 398pp, including bibliography. Full color photographic frontispiece illustration; numerous black & white illustrations; drawings; maps; charts. White & blue illustrated stiff wrappers. All edges neat and clean; previous owner's stamp on front cover, first page, and fore edge..... More
Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1930. First edition. original cloth. 4to. (ix) 546; 456; 451pp. Index, Maps; numerous photo-illustrations; portrait engravings with tissue guards. Dark green embossed boards with gilt lettering to spine; marbled page edges and endpapers. Minor wear to extremities; front hinge split at title page in..... More
London: R. Baldwin, 1782. The Second Edition, with improvements and corrections. Large quarto; viii, 459pp; plus an engraved frontispiece of Charles III and dedication leaf, 1 engraved folding map of Spain, 5 engraved plates, 1 folding (The cathedral of Burgos) and an engraved vignette at the end. Lacks Plate VI..... More
[New York]: [The Studio Press], 1883. Etching 6 3/4 x 12 3/4") on Japanese paper (12 3/4 x 17 3/4"), SIGNED in pencil and annotated '18'; signed, titled and dated in the plate; from the edition of 50 sets on Japanese paper. This etching is from the larger portfolio of..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1925. First Yale Edition. Small 8vo. (xvi) 259pp. Index. 8 photo-illustrated plates. Introduction by M. M. Quaife. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (some darkening, more so to spine; rubbing along..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1900. Monterey Edition. Monterey EditionComplete in two volumes. 8vo. xxxv, 310; 308 pp. Illustrated plates with titled tissue guards from drawings by Henry Sandham. Introduction by Susan Coolidge. Binding designed and signed by Amy Sacker. Cream, & green illustrated blue cloth with gilt lettering &..... More
Laramie: Powder River Publishers, 1954. First, unexpurgated edition, with change sheets laid in. 8vo. x, 277 pp. Illustrated with the pageant of personalities.With the corrected pages laid in, providing an opportunity to compare the original text and illustrations with the changed ones, side by side. Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More
New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1917. First Edition. Octavo; 100pp; illustrated with 19 plates. Edgewear, leaf 30/31 roughly separated (text & image unaffected), else a Very Good copy in original printed tan wrappers. Lists 365 items 'gathered in Peking by the well-known connoisseur Frederick Moore' auctioned in NY on March..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1975. Second edition. Hardcover. SIGNED "With best wishes/Bing Crosby/Kathryn Crosby." 8vo. 160 pp. Color plates; black & white photo-illustrations.Prologue by Bing Crosby. Green cloth in color printed dusjtacket. Brochure for Del Monte Lodge laid in. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1958. First Edition, Limited #96 of 320 copies. Hardcover. First Limited Edition #96 of 320 copies. SIGNED by Saul and Lillian Marks, Irene and W.W. Robinson, and Lawrence Clark Powell. 4to. 86pp. Eighteen color illustrations by Irene Robinson; additional illustrations in one color or black;..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1928. First Edition. INSCRIBED "To my dear friend and co-worker Mrs Belcher with my affectionate regards. Margaret Sanger". 8vo. 446 pp. Blue cloth in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. A very good copy. Margaret Sanger (1879 – 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and..... More
London: John Cassell, 1852. First British Edition with George Cruikshank illustrations in book form. 8vo. [i-v] vi-xxiii [xxiv] [1] 2-391 [392] pp. 29 black & white wood engravings (including frontispiece and title page with black & white wood engraving captioned "Eva and Topsy") by George Cruikshank. Also includes an extra..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1877. First Edition. Small 8vo. With half-titles. bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red leather with gilt decoration to spines; black leather spine labels with gilt lettering; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; AEG. Two abrasions to rear board of Volume I else a fine set. Set in the..... More
New York; Chicago: 1937-1959. Six typed letters to Kenneth Brown SIGNED on Rudy Vallee's personalized stationary and one autograph letter SIGNED on Vallee's personalized stationary from his lodge in Lake Kezar. 9" x 7" black & white original photograph of a young Rudy Vallee INSCRIBED "To Ken, In friendship, Rudy..... More
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1949. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. Hardcover. Quarto; unpaginated (complete as issued); 1 photo, 5 facsimiles, some on colored paper; chronological index, appendix. Original 1/4 red linen and red and gold illustrated paper-covered boards. A fine copy. The classic bibliography containing 241 annotated entries..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. 1st. Cloth. 8vo. 330pp. An honest and frank story of blind passion in sex-ridden Europe after World War II between "...two lives linked together by danger and delight." - dustjacket flap. A scarce first printing by the Hungarian Jewish novelist and journalist author of one..... More