Osaka, Japan: Published by the author, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 36 pp. Text in English & Japanese. Striking color serigraph illustrations accompanied by Earle's poetry. Glossy paper covered boards in color printed dustjacket. Fine in fine dustjacket; still in original plastic sleeve. An unusual title on Earle's works; as..... More
New York: Assouline, 2016. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author, Ken Gross; and the photographer, George Saitas. 4to. 168 pp. Over 100 striking color photo-reproductions. Black cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine, new copy. "...the first book dedicated to a legend finding new life under the passionate..... More
Baden Baden: Verlag fur Kunst und Wissenschaft, 1947. First Edition. Quarto; 93pp; Near Fine copy, inscribed on ffep in the year of publication; #83/300 copies with a SIGNED woodcut 'Hamlet' (of a total edition of 5000) over 30 of Jonynas' woodcuts are reproduced. More
Cambridge: The Rampant Lions Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 96pp. A Fine copy in 1/4 vellum and decorated paper-covered boards in publisher's glassine. With striking two-page title page printed in blue and 16 textual illustrations; a lovely copy. More
New Haven: Published for the Pierpont Morgan Library by Yale University Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quartos; xiv; 284pp. text in double columns; 474 plates; indices of names, former owners and subjects. Volume one (Introduction and catalogue); Volume two (plates 1-242); Volume three (plates 243-474). Fine copies in blue..... More
Atlanta: Banner Press, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Warm, lengthy inscription, including a brief poem, to Mrs. Phillip M. Stone (to whom 'Pictures in Words' on page 23 is dedicated). 12mo; 28pp. Near Fine copy (offsetting to ffep from several newspaper articles on author) in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gold..... More
Leiden: [Brill], 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Large octavo; xii, 99pp. A Very Good copy in original mottled card stock. Covers the period 1683-1938. More
Shanghai: The Shanghai Times, 1940. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo; (vii), 160, (1), 3pp. Illustrated with photographs (two of which are of Pamela Werner). Very Good copy in publisher's pink wrappers with yapped edges;, spine and upper cover are lettered in black. 'Memorigrams' is a collection of reflections from Werner's life;..... More
New York: September 22, [1978]. 2-page ALS penned just two weeks before the successful Broadway opening of First Monday in October (Fonda's last live stage appearance). Written on letterhead from The Wyndham hotel in New York along with envelope addressed to James Stewart at his Beverly Hills, CA address. Housed..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 94 pp; illustrations. Inscribed by Harding's sister, Carolyn Harding Votaw 'Presented to Dr. and Mrs. C.W. Richardson/in loving memory of my disting-/usihed brother -/ Carolyn Harding Votaw'; stapled to ffeps are copies of the notice of the Commonwealth Club's scheduled..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; ix, 566pp. Very Good copy (light edgewear, gift inscription, binding a bit loose) in original gilt stamped brown cloth, top edge gilt, decorated endpapers, 219 illustrations. Originally published in 1882, here is the translated edition with modifications and revisions....... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. First Edition Thus. Small quarto; xxii, 297pp; illustrated endpapers by Maynard Dixon showing Native Americans meeting a Western-bound Conestoga wagon train. #942, and signed by Maynard Dixon at the colophon, Our copy is well-worn and beginning to separate at the spine; Good only, lacking..... More
Philadelphia: William Brotherhead, 1857. First Edition. Octavo; 40pp. Green printed wrappers in good condition (front cover fragile; lacking rear cover; edgewear), else a complete copy of a scarce title. William Brotherhead was a book dealer in nineteenth-century Philadelphia and the author of 'The Centennial Book of the Signers: Being Facsimile..... More
Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1892-94. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavos; xxi, 360pp; viii, 361-827pp; frontispieces, illustrations, plates (one folding). Bound in 3/4 black leather and black buckram lettered in gilt at spine; Good only (leather scuffed, hinges cracked but holding, Vol. I pp 55-58 loose). Volume I includes Part I: Funeral rites..... More
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. First Edition. Octavo; 241pp. As New copy in German. Staatsdiskurse Band 13. Is the concept of the nation on the verge of decline or a renaissance? Will the international politics of the coming decades be determined by national or post-national concepts, what role does the..... More
[Shanghai]: Reprinted from 'The National Review', ND. Reprint. Octavo; 16pp; 6 plates of game birds. Very Good copy in grey printed and stapled wrappers. "Reprinted, by special permission, from the author's book, 'Shooting in China.'" More
Baltimore: Waverly Press, 1938. First Edition. Octavo; xiii, 339pp plus foldout map at rear. A Near Fine copy (appears unread, some light scuffing) in publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Vol 1: XIII plus 339 pages. Fold-out map at end of book. Hardcover. More
London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2005. First Edition. Octavo; 538pp. Arabic language. A Fine copy in publisher's gold-lettered maroon paper-covered boards in dust jacket. This is Volume 4 only; the full 8 volume catalogue descriptively lists 4000 manuscripts that are to be found in the Institute of Research on Human..... More
London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2005. First Edition. Octavo; 538pp. Arabic language. A Fine copy in publisher's gold-lettered maroon paper-covered boards in dust jacket. This is Volume 3 only; the full 8 volume catalogue descriptively lists 4000 manuscripts that are to be found in the Institute of Research on Human..... More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1950. First Edition. Large octavo; 78pp with 117 b/w illustrations and diagrams of prize winners, etc. A Near Fine copy in illustrated wrappers; cover design by Don Knorr. Features the winning entries in the 1949 MoMA International competition which introduced the experimental plastic..... More
San Francisco: 1906. First Edition. Octavo; 56pp. A Good copy of a scarce publication (none currently offered in the market) in original printed stapled gray wrappers (spine splitting, tape repair, 1/2" chip to corner of upper cover with faint rubber stamp, dampstain to first 12pp at lower corner). The purposes..... More
Ann Arbor: Edwards Brothers Inc, 1938. First Edition. Large quarto; xxii, 533pp. Very Good copy in publisher's reddish brown buckram, blind-stamped to font cover and gilt lettering to spine. Frontis illustration of U.S. Consular buildings in Amoy, China, illustrated with photos and tables (one fold-out). Extensive appendices and bibliographies. More
Los Angeles: The Organizing Committee of the Games, 1932. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto. 32pp. Photo-illustrations. Color printed staplebound wraps in very good condition (pencil notations on several pages recording winners with times and distances). More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First Collected Edition, Limited to 1050 copies, this being one of the 50 sets for Presentation (Volume 12 is from numbered set 360) as indicated on the limitation page with the handwritten statement "This is one of the fifty sets for presentation" SIGNED by..... More
El Centro, CA: Desert Magazine Press, 1950. Second Edition. Small 4to. 80 pp. With Introduction by Hugh Lacy and Foreword by Randall Henderson. Reproductions of Ruess' woodcuts and photographs of him and his travels. Tan cloth with brown lettering in orange & dark green illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy with..... More