New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947-1949. Complete in 3 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Photographic reproductions. Cloth in color illustrated dustjackets; housed in publisher's illustrated slipcase. Previous owner name in each volume & backside of slipcase; two volumes priceclipped; light wear to extremities & slipcase; some agetoning; a very good set..... More
Berlin: Published by the Ramses Cigarette Company, ca. 1932. Oblong 8vo (9" x 12"). [2 pp text in German]. Complete with 240 tipped-in premium pictures of movie stars. Most of the photographs are of German stars during the Weimar Republic, but a significant number are of American and English stars..... More
Faber & Faber, 1971. First Edition, Limited No. "zero seven eight" of one hundred copies. SIGNED by the artist on the limitation page. 12mo. 46 leaves consisting of parchment paper, art paper, machine-copy paper, orange felt, silver foil, red tissue, black construction paper, and green florist's tissue including 34 silk-screened..... More
Boston: Press of Emery and Hughes, 1887. First Edition. Both copies are from the family of Robert Lockhart of Co. C First Maine Cavalry, with their pencil notations indicating passage from grandfather to father and grandfather to grandson. Copy 1: Large 8vo. 735, [1] pp. 69 photographic plates comprising 307..... More
Berlin: Ernst Cramer. 8 1/4" x 11 3/4" printed December 1993 holiday greeting hand-addressed to General and Mrs. Fergusson and SIGNED 'All the best from Berlin, Ernst Cramer'. An unusal holiday greeting, Cramer shares his thoughts on the state of the world, highlighting economic woes and suffering, and closes with..... More
Chicago: George Engelke The Aries Press, 1935. First Edition Thus. Folio (17 3/4" x 12"); 5 preliminary leaves, 3-57 (i.e. 95) pp, 41 striking hand-colored plates, many full-page. A Fine copy in gold buckram, retaining its plain somewhat worn dust jacket, lettered in red with Rosicrucian symbol to upper cover..... More
Shanghai: Navy Y.M.C.A., (1926). Date taken from text. Fold-out map (13" x 25") tipped into printed card cover (6 3/4" x 3 1/2"), intended for the use of U.S. servicemen stationed in or visiting the city. Printed in blue ink, the map contains many places of interests indicated by red..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. First Edition thus, Limited #182 of 1200 copies. SIGNED by Thomas Hart Benton at the colophon. Octavo; xxviii, 418pp. A Fine copy in illustrated green cloth with half green leather spine letterd in gold; page edges stained light green. Protected by a somewhat..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. INSCRIBED "This, my second attempt at novel writing, was done in a great hurry and doubtless shows it but in it is a character like Cherry Malotte, who persisted in being written over again in "The Winds of Chance." Rex Beach' 8vo..... More
New York: Warner Books, 1980. First Edition. INSCRIBED by President Nixon (on a tipped-in publisher's"the Real War" bookplate, as usual for this book) to Justin Dart, longtime major Republican supporter. Dart was a member of President Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" of advisers during hsi presidency. 8vo. 341 pp. Index. Red..... More
4 3/4" x 6 3/4" simply framed ink sketch on buff paper of head of a Native American INSCRIBED 'To Jane & Justin/Many thanks for the use/of your camp/Olaf Wieighorst'. Justin and Jane Dart were prominent arts patrons and philanthropists (the Dart's were members of Ronald Reagan's inner circle); their..... More
[Los Angeles?]. 'Dr. Geisel' Place Card; verso is SIGNED 'T.S. Geisel' below which he has printed his address in La Jolla. Elegant 2 1/4" x 3 3/4" beveled card stock, embossed with the Presidential seal; bearing two old staples, else in fine condition. On September 3, 1970 President Richard Nixon hosted a state..... More
Buffalo, N.Y. The Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company, 1911. First Edition. 4to. 31, (1) pp. Striking color & black & white drawings by Adolph Treidler; photographic reproductions. Stiff brown string-tied wrappers in fine condition (short closed tear at bottom front edge). Contents with the various models of this noted marque; along..... More
Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1986. First Kitchen Sink Press Edition. INSCRIBED "Pretty Wild Stuff for Stanley Simon. H. Kurtz [with a little drawing of a stick person]". Tall 8vo. 140 pp. Introduction by Art Spiegelman. Color illustrated glossy boards in fine condition, as issued without dustjacket. Listed #26 on..... More
London: Printed for the author, by T. Gardner, and sold by him at his Printing-Office at Cowley's Head, opposite St. Clement's Church, in the Strand ; And J. Robinson, in Ludgate-Street, 1746. First Edition Thus. Carefully Extracted from Fox, and other writers: Being designed as a Cheap and Useful Book..... More
El Paso, TX: El Paso Public Library Association, 1977. First Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Lawrence Clark Powell and four of the "Great Constellations" (Carl Hertzog, Paul Horgan, Jose Cisneros, and Tom Lea) to John Gordon Knight, El Paso historian and writer at Texas Western. 8vo. [16] pp. Designed and..... More
New York: Edited and published by the Architectural Forum for the American Face Brick Association in Chicago, 1926. First Edition. 4to. 112 pp. Photo-illustrations of buildings and homes; some plans. Brick red stiff wrappers with color illustrated plate & black lettering on front cover. Uncommon publication highlighting archtectural designs in..... More
New York and London: John Lane, Bodley Head; Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1914. First Canadian Edition. 8vo. 310 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering in scarce publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (spotting along the spine and flap folds; light wear to extremities, more so..... More
In 1981, Giuseppe Mirabella joined the Private Libraries Association and wrote to members with 'an interest in xylography, wood engravings and bookplates' to propose exchanges of his bookplates for "good ex libris from all over the world, preferably of past times..." . In his letter he enclosed 15 examples of..... More
London: Duckworth, 1910. First Edition. Complete in two volumes. Large 8vo. xvii, 288; ix, 428 pp. Index. Frontispiece plate "Grocers Hall, London", with tissue guard; illustrated plates in both volumes. Blue cloth with gilt decoration & lettering; top edges gilt. Some foxing to page edges else a near fine set..... More
Vienna: Christian Brandstatter Verlag, 2007. First Edition. Folio. 218 pp. A double page with color photographs focuses on each of the more than 100 buildings in Lower Austria, with description. A fine copy in color illustrated dustjacket. The buildings show distinctive architecture & design, using a mix of wood, concrete..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First Edition. 8vo. 279 pp. Index. Photographic plates (several by Edward Curtis) and drawings most from sketches by John Muir). Edited by William Frederic Bade. Gray cloth with color plate affixed to front cover; white lettering; top edge gilt; in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Gift inscription;..... More
NP: Published by the author, 1927. Second edition. Square 8vo. 12 pp. 6 black & white plates (including frontispiece of Stevenson). INSCRIBED "No man is useless while he has a friend". RLS. Josephine Mildred Blanch." Orange stiff staple-bound wrappers with black illustration & lettering to front cover. Light fading to..... More
Sante Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Bibliography, Genealogy; Index. INSCRIBED by Spivey. Color and black & white illustrations. Black cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy; as new. Includes over 200 fine examples of Maria's pottery, many from private collections and museum..... More
Monterey: Monterey Peninsula Area Planning Commission, [1985]. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. 63pp. Green, black, and grey maps; black & white illustrations; photographs; maps; large fold-out color map of Monterey Peninsula Area Plan at rear. Green illustrated soft cover wrappers; black titles to front cover and spine. Business stamp for Comstock..... More