Antiques & Collectibles

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.

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.

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. West Chester, Pa., Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Some sun-fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean 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. 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. New Jersey, Chartwell Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Decorated cover boards. In beautiful condition, looks barely read. Binding tight. Clean and unmarked inside and out.

Softcover. Bosto/NY/Philadelphis, Lame Duck Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 136 pages, illustrated in color. Beautiful catalog with many color illustrations. Wonderful reference for books you'll probably never run across at your local library sale. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, self-published, 1st, 1825, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leatherbound, 321 pages. Leather label on spine present but coming loose. J.W. Copeland, printer. A rare early Vermont imprint. Brown calf covers worn, binding fragile but holding. Pictures available on request. Deming (1787-1853), born in Connecticut became a Vermont political figure and Middlebury resident, living at 38 Washington Street until his death in 1853.

Hardcover. Atglen PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 133 pages plus bibliography and appendix. A thoroughly researched reference by an impassioned aficionado to a type of artwork that became popular around 1900 and lasted until roughly 1940. About 1,000 etchings and lithographs were created in France by some 100 engravers (Louis Icart was the pioneer); the pictures depict sensual, dreamy women lounging seductively in lingerie or various stages of undress a kind of softer-than-soft porn. Abundantly illustrated. 9.25x12.25". Like new, clean.

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.

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.

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 147-214 plus 68 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include Contemporary methods of watch production, Mysteries of the lever escapement, Zug watches of the 16th and 17th centuries, and more. Mild wear, 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.

Softcover. London, Christie's , 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 246 pages illustrated in color.

Hardcover. London, Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Orange cloth covers with black lettering and rules on spine and both covers, 443 pages with hundreds of pictures. Front and rear hinges partially cracked, previous owner's initials on front fly leaf, otherwise the book is very good, clean throughout.

Hardcover. London, UK, Faber and Faber, 1st UK, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 238 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, white pictorial dust jacket. Slight shelf-wear to edges, dust jacket worn, with mild soiling and light bump to upper corner, price clipped. Overall a nice, tight copy

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. Foxing to endpapers, with faint darkening to page edges. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Christie's, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover catalog, 234 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Clean, tight 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 149-210 plus 64 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include Checking watch mainsprings, The cylinder escapement, A clock wound automatically by a photo-voltaic cell, The 22nd Swiss Watch Fair, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.

Softcover. NY, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 360 pages, Profusely illustrated with 712 photographs, 437 in color. Uzbek architecture, art, textiles, and more. Bright, clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

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.

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. 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. 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. 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. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", 128 pages. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Cover article on Results of the 1952 Swiss Observatory Competition. Also A Technical Analysis of the Vibrograf, The Origin of the Decimal Watch, How International Criminals Work, tributes to watch makers, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.

Softcover. Plesant Plain OH, David Zimmerman, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 348 pages illustrated in b&w and color. A visual reference for all kinds of tins for coffee, peanut butter, cocoa, tea, and various other food products. Also tins for talcum powder, soap, typewriter ribbons, needles, pens, medicines, etc. Clean copy.

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. 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.

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. 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.

Softcover. Chino Valley AZ, Blacksmith Corp., revised ed., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, illustrated in b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Chez Castel, 2nd pr., 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, VIII-352 pages plus a 70 page supplement. Title printed in red & black. Original 1/2 leather, with marbled boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilded decorations. This is the 2nd. and much enlarged edition. A very useful volume in the scarce field of book repair. FRENCH TEXT. Leather corners show light wear, small scar to front panel, otherwise a very good, clean volume.

Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 309-393 plus 68 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include 75 years of a Journal Suisse D'Horlogerie Et De Bijouterie 1876-1950, The accuracy of wrist-watches, Styles in jewellery 1900-1950, New models-new calibers, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.

Paperback. Paducah, KY, Collector Books, 1st wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 391 pages of color photos. Clean, very good.

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.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 282 pages, plus index. Text by Bernard Barenholtz and Inez McClintock, photographs by Bill Holland. Light blue cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, illustrated laminate dust jacket, 285 illustrations including 100 plates in full-color. Light rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. Harrison , Robert Alan Green, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 179 pages. Illustrated with early American Silversmiths identification marks. This reprint edition limited to 1000 copies. Light wear to edges of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

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, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 259-323 plus 62 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include Temperance clocks in Flemish tapestries, Nuclear energy and watchmaking, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.

Hardcover. Major Cities Publishing Company, 2nd Edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 234 pages. Haardcover. Ford Model "A" 50th Anniversary Commemorative Printing. B/w illustrations throughout. Orange decorated cover boards. Dust jacket has some agewear (chipping, tanning, light foxing). Pages unmarked. Binding very good. Spine straight.

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.

Softcover. Hong Kong, Christie's Hong Kong,, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 88 pages, 55 lots. Comprehensive catalogue accompanying the Christie's Hong Kong special auction of the Tianhe Shanfang collection, held May 30, 2005. All items illustrated with color photography, accompanied by detailed descriptions and historic information, with value estimates in HK and US dollars. Clean, like new.

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.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 450 pages, b&w illustrations, diagrams throughout.Dust jacket with minor edgewear.

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 251-324 plus 64 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include Some Experiments on Friction, Antique clocks of Vienna, Swiss self-winding watches, An Astronomical Clock of Modern Conception, watch case repairs, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.

Hardcover. Plesant Plain OH, David Zimmerman, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 268 pages illustrated in color. A visual reference for all kinds of tins for coffee, peanut butter, cocoa, tea, and various other food products. Also tins for spices, tobacco, cosmetics talcum powder, soap, typewriter ribbons, needles, pens, medicines, etc. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Stratford, John Edwards, Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages. Hardcover. Features more than 5700 buttons illustrated, identified and described. Previous owners stamps on front endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, unmarked text.