Softcover. Las Vegas NV, Sahara Hotel, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color PR photo of a young Johnny Carson, probably mid-60s. Clean, no writing on address side. 4 3/4 x 7".
Hardcover. Philadephia, Charles J. Peterson, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 leather with black cloth covers, raised bands on spine, gilt lettering. January thru December 1870, all hand-colored plates and fold-outs present, dozens of steel and wood engravings. Edge and corner wear, chipping to black leather, front hinge cracked but volume is solid, binding sound. Previous owner's leather label, ruled and lettered in gilt, on front cover.
Softcover. Florence, Italy, Qua D'Arno, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 156 pages, bilingual texts in English and Spanish, b&w plates and text throughout. Illustrates and describes numerous torture devices including breast rippers, the ever popular rack and iron maiden, heretics fork and many more. Clean copy.
Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 215-288 plus 66 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include The point of attachment of the balance spring, The Bergeon stamping machine, Paris-The 3rd Watch Show, and more. Mild wear, chipping to paper on spine, excellent condition, no markings.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, illustrated in color. Minor shelf-wear, else a very neat, clean, tight copy in excellent condition. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white examples of fine book design. Dust jacket shows standard wear with small tears or rubbing along edges.
Softcover. New York, Christie's , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 155 lots, illustrated in color. Softcover with minor wear to covers and spine else in very good condition.
Softcover. New York , Japan Society, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America, Wendy A. Woloson takes seriously the history of objects that are often cynically-made and easy to dismiss: things not made to last; things we don't really need; things we often don't even really want. Woloson does not mock these ordinary, everyday possessions but seeks to understand them as a way to understand aspects of ourselves, socially, culturally, and economically: Why do we--as individuals and as a culture--possess these things? Where do they come from? Why do we want them? And what is the true cost of owning them? Woloson tells the history of crap from the late eighteenth century up through today, exploring its many categories: gadgets, knickknacks, novelty goods, mass-produced collectibles, giftware, variety store merchandise. As Woloson shows, not all crap is crappy in the same way--bric-a-brac is crappy in a different way from, say, advertising giveaways, which are differently crappy from commemorative plates. Taking on the full brilliant and depressing array of crappy material goods, the book explores the overlooked corners of the American market and mindset, revealing the complexity of our relationship with commodity culture over time.
Hardcover. New Market NJ, self-published, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth, gilt title on spine, 197 pages illustrated with b&w photos of buttons. Clean copy.
Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", 68 pages plus 64 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include 23rd Swiss Watch Fair Basle, List of exhibitors, Guard pin tools, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 408 pages, b&w illustrations. Imperial Green Jade, also known as jadeite, is one of the rarest stones in the world. This volume combines original historical research, a travelogue, and investigative journalism to tell the secret history of jadeite. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Highfill Press Inc., 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1223 pages, illustrated throughout with charts and photographs in color and b&w. Black leatherette with silver titles to front and spine. White dust jacket. Slight wear to dust jacket, else a beautiful copy.
Hardcover. Tarrytown NY, Sleepy Hollow Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages. includes index, bibliography, b/w illustrations throughout the book plus middle section of full-color photos. Covers Phillipsburg Manor, Upper Mills & Van Cortland Manor and Washington Irving's Sunnyside.
NY/Paris, Hachette/French & European Publications, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 530 photos. 40 in color. 341 pages. This is the English translation of Verlets' 1963 masterpiece "Les Ebenistes du XVIIIe Siecle Francais". Written by the Chief Curator of decorative arts at the Louvre, this classic text discusses each of the known French cabinet-makers active during the 18th century. This involves over 30 individuals, who were influential in determining the styles of the Regency, through Louis XV & XVI. Sections on each figure or firm with numerous examples of their furniture. Excellent 12 page appendice on maker marks, with thumbnail sketches of individuals and firms, business locations, etc.
Softcover. Burlington VT, The Horn Company, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 75 pages, cream wrappers with black lettering, gun stock on cover. First published in 1975, this second edition has a glued binding that's not destined to last. All there and in good condition. Scarce reference.
Softcover. United Printing , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 120 pages, illustrated in color. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Contents include Histories of les Cinq Grands (Nevers, Rouen, Moustiers/Marseilles, Strasbourg); Decline of French Faience; Faience in the Age of Industrialization; Faience Fine: Montereau, Creil, Gien; Grand Feu: Quimper, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Desvres, Malicorne, Blois, Angouleme; Petit Feu: Faienceries of the East: Luneville and St. Clement, Sarreguemines; Index of Marks; Bibliography; Index. Clean copy.
Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 81-149 plus 60 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include Checking Watch Mainsprings, Clocks of Southern Germany, Modern Calendar or Date Watches, How to Oil a Watch, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 864 pages, b&w engravings throughout. 3/4 black calf leather over pebble grain cloth covered boards. Rubbing to the leather. Subjects: Lookout Mountain & How We Won It, John Bull in Abyssinia, Among the Andes of Peru and Bolivia, Fashions in Guinea, Chinese Embassy to Foreign Powers, Explorations in Lower California, Shooting Stars and Meteors, Fish Culture In America, many other articles. Hinges cracked, library bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, R W Elliott, limited, 1987-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 174 pages. Edition limited to 2500 copies. Light edgewear and rubbing to brown covers. Internally very good.
Hardcover. Grand Rapids, Periodical Publishing Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with slipcase. Features 101 black & white plates with design measurements and details. Book clean and tight, with bright gilt titles on cover and spine. Moderately worn slipcase with a deep abrasion confined to bottom right corner of spine - approx. 1".
Softcover. Los Angeles, CA, Wizard Promotions, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages. Softcover with black and white photos. Minor wear to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, Praeger Publishers, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 156 pages with 10 color and 232 b&w plates. The chapters are: general history before 1850 with factory marks; excavations on the Caughley site: other early Coalport porcelain; Messrs Antice, Horton & Rose's Coalport porcelain; 1815-1850 & the factory pattern-books; porcelain from 1850: Coalport artists; early Coalport porcelain mentioned in 19th century catalogues; the 1841 & 1861 census returns. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. Includes index and bibliography. Illustrated with 102 plates in full color, many color plates within the text and many diagrams and photographs in black & white. A remainder mark rubberstamped in the shape of a "star" to the bottom edge, otherwise bright and clean.
Hardcover. London/NY, Ingram/Hastings House, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages. Consists of eleven reproduced French doll and toy catalogues before WW I, with descriptions and prices of the era. Some color, mostly b&w. Clean copy. Mild musty smell.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages illustrated in color. Dust jacket with light wear and rubbing to edges, covers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated boards with red cloth spine, 96 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Previous owners signature at top of front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Spine cloth faded. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , H. L. Lindquist Publisher, 1st, 1947, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcovers, 2 Volumes. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGES. 319 + 305 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Black cloth, gilt lettering. Dust jackets chipped and worn with faded spines, Tape-residue to front cover of volume 2. Internally very good.
Hardcover. Tokyo, Sophia University, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages, b&w illustrations. Beige cloth spine with patterned boards and a bright dust jacket with a glassine wrapper.
Hardcover. Atglen PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 9 1/2" x 12, 250 pages. A handsome volume with over 450 illustrations of the world's finest wristwatches produced by the top 17 watch houses. Includes Blancpain, Breguet, Cartier, Audemars Piguet, Baume & Mercier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Rolex, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, Chopard, Girard-Perregaux, IWC, Corum, Ebel, Piaget, Ulysse Nardin. Like new, clean.
Softcover. Philadelphia, Henry Disston & Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible leather covers very worn and chipped, 206 pages, Interior is clean and firm with one loose page, and page 60 looks like a photo of a hammer was cut out, otherwise clean, bright pages. Loaded with b&w photos and illustrations of vintage tools from 1911. This is the original printing.
Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 105-184 plus 64 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include Notes on Transistors, The balance and spring, Precision timekeeping in the pre-Huygens era, New tools for hairspring work, and more. Mild wear, light paper chipping to spine, excellent condition, no markings.
Hardcover. NY, Sotheby's New York, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 579 lots, color photos throughout. Maroon cloth. Includes silver, miniatures, watches, prints and illustrations, maps, small statuary, a few paintings and marble busts, furniture, painted portraits, more furniture, clocks, chairs, Indian artifacts, more clocks, china, brassware, more furniture, a few paintings, samplers, embroidered items, carved ivory, more furniture, and some folk-art items. Lots of annotation on the more expensive items. Small dent to lower edge of front board, light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Iola, Wisconsin, Krause Publications, inc., 3rd Expanded, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 482 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial paper boards, no dust jacket. Slight wear and rubbing along edges, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE AND SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Black cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 18 color and 400 b&w illustrations, book review included from Maine Antique Digest, August 1977. Light wear to edges of dust jacket; overall a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Burlington VT, self-published, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 9" x 11 1/4", red cloth with silver gilt titling and decorative detail to front board and spine, 313 pages, map illustrated endpapers, Dust jacket very worn with minor paper loss. SIGNED BY CARLISLE on title page, also with a promotional sheet laid in with the author's comments on sales, addressed to publisher of Garden Wat Publications. Biographical sketches of 983 Vermont craftsmen. Limited to 1000 copies.
Hardcover. Strasburg PA, Shenandoah Publishing House, 1st, 1929, Hardcover, purplish textured cloth with gilt letters on spine and gilt decoration on front cover. 277 pages. 7 color plates, 38 halftone illustrations and 100s of smaller bw depictions of stoneware. A wonderful solid copy of the original edition of this classic. Spine cloth faded. Otherwise clean.
Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 171-251 plus 64 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include The Interpretation of Timing Machine Traces, A 16th Century Watch from Zoug, The 24th Swiss Watchmaking Fair at Basle 1954, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books, 1st, 2023, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 544 pages illustrated in color. This is a must-have reference text for sneakerheads and Deadstock collectors; eye candy for sports fans, influencers, and all sneaker wearers; and an exploration of a rising phenomenon in fashion and streetwear for anyone interested in contemporary culture. The ultimate coffee table book for the sneakerhead in your life. This book features: The origin story behind the first pair of Air Jordans Basketball legends LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan Groundbreaking designers such as Virgil Abloh Influential figures like Will Smith, Spike Lee, and Travis Scott Informative anecdotes from Larry Deadstock Original advertisements from Nike, Adidas, Air Jordan, New Balance, Rebook, Vans, and more. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Framingham MA, Old America Company, Revised Ed., 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 716 pages, illustrated with more than 1500 examples in photographic plates. This is revised and expanded from the 1921 edition (which had 587 pages). Dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Minor wear to front corner at bottom otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York, Dryden Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 114 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 66 black & white photographs. Previous owner has carefully glued-in additional black & white photographic images of related Chinese bronzes to preliminary pages front and rear, and to a few random pages. Dust jacket with chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.
Softcover. New York, Sotheby's, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 75 pages. Softcover with paper warppers. Like new. Color photographs throughout.
Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. A comprehensive guide to lacemaking, patterns and techniques, as well as a profusely illustrated history of this exquisite, enduring craft. Whether you want to make lace, learn to appreciate it as a connoisseur, or only contemplate its loveliest examples in the splendid photos, you will find it in this book. The author has included design notes, beautifully drawn diagrams, and clear, complete instructions for lacemaking in four categories: network, needle laces, bobbin laces, and mixed laces. These instructions will enable you to realize the ornate and flowery patterns of the past no less than the free-flowing forms of modern art. Clean copy.
Softcover. Denver CO, Roberts Publishing Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, orange wrappers, 136 pages, profusely illustrated with 152 instructional drawings in black & white. The first of a series of papers on the repair of the complex mechanisms of complicated watches, providing an in-depth analysis of mainly chronograph movements. Written by the Dean and President of the American Academy of Horology. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, 249 pages. This bibliography includes more than 1,100 entries from books, journals, newspaper articles, and dissertations concerning North American Indian basketry. More general cultural works with some information on basketry are also included, and the materials date from early ethnographic work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to 1987. . . . The introduction offers a good overview of research in Native American basketry, and although the annotations vary greatly in thoroughness and length, they are generally useful. Bookplate on inside front cover. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Secaucus, N.J., Chartwell Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, color illustrations. Clean, tight copy. Discusses the main collecting areas, provides expert advice on how to avoid expensive mistakes, how to care for old toys, and how to spot the works of the masters.
Hardcover. West Chester PA, Schiffer, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 265 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. 3 paperclip impressions at top edge of same amount of pages. Copy of "Penny Bank" Antique and Collectible Commercial Perfume Bottle Pocket Price Guide - Third Edition - laid-in. Clean, tight copy. Comprehensive guide to collecting the past and present bottles used by perfumers. Beautiful color pictures of flacons made by R. Lalique, Baccarat, J. Viard, Brosse, A. Jollivet, Cristal Nancy, Wheaton, C. K. Benda, and Lucien Guillard. Figural, novelty dimestore, and bottles with the original packaging are shown. Lavishly illustrated with catalog and ad pictures. Histories of many famous perfume houses and bottle makers are included. A directory of hundreds of American and European perfumers from 1870 to the present, with the names of thousands of scents makes dating a bottle easier for the collector.
Hardcover. Privately Printed, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages. INSCRIBED By AUTHOR on title page. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket spine slightly faded, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. CD inside rear cover. Covers the 40 year production span of the mechanical organs that provided music in the last pert of the 19th century and first 30 years of the 20th.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages, hardcover, 186 illustrations, 23 in color. A well illustrated detailed study of the 21 European clocks (19 French, 2 German) in the Getty Museum with detailed biographies of their makers.
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