Antiques & Collectibles

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. 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. 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 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.

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. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 205 pages. 320 b&w plates from drawings by the author. VOLUME 2 ONLY. This volume contains the B&W plates 116-210 Remnants of small sticker on bottom of spine, otherwise clean. Architect Albert Kahn's copy with his ownership signature in pencil on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages, 347 illustrations, 85 in color. A comprehensive guide with factories, artists, potters and techniques all covered. Near fine in a similar dust jacket in a cardboard slipcase.

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.

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. New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A comprehensive guide to nearly 4000 years of sword making from all over the world. Written by a distinguished team of experts and scholars, it provides an expert appraisal of the weapons themselves and is rich in historical and background detail. Fully illustrated throughout with photographs and art reproductions, this is a unique survey of a vast body of superb craftsmanship. It is an essential reference work for weapons enthusiasts, collectors and lovers of military history and fine art.

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.

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.

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 JordansBasketball legends LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Michael JordanGroundbreaking designers such as Virgil AblohInfluential figures like Will Smith, Spike Lee, and Travis ScottInformative anecdotes from Larry DeadstockOriginal advertisements from Nike, Adidas, Air Jordan, New Balance, Rebook, Vans, and more. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

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. New York, Christie's, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Non-Paginated. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Marion, MA, N/A, N/A, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, b&w photographs. Green cloth covers w/ small gilt lettering. Missing front fly leaf, previous owner's markings on some pages. Foxing/staining to end papers, covers and edges; else pages clean.

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. London, Published at the Offices of "Country Life", 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three matching hardcover volumes. Elephant folios, 16 by 11''. Original green cloth, spines and front covers gilt lettered, top edge gilt. 51 colored plates and many other plates and illustrations in black and white. Vol. I (A-Ch): xl, 262 pages of text. 19 color plates. Vol. II (Ch-M): xii, 360 pages of text. 14 color plates. Vol. III (Mo-Z): [xii], 340 pages of text. 16 color plates. Small label on bottom of spines. Architect Albert Kahn's set with his ownership signature in Vol.1 in ink on the front blank page. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, illustrated throughout in color. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Price clipped, light wear to coves and edges, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Softcover. Shelburne, Shelburne Museum, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, 180 pages. Softcover exhibition catalog. Features full color photographs and information related to furniture manufactured in the state of Vermont up to 1850. Light wear to covers. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy.

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.

Hardcover. Atglen PA, Schiffer Publishing , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages illustrated in color. Value Guide (for 1992) laid in. All the excitement and enchantment of over ninety years' worth of wonderful Wizard of Oz memorabilia awaits you on every page of this deluxe, full-color tribute to the collectibles and merchandise inspired by America's foremost fairy tale and everyone's favorite film! Oz experts Jay Scarfone and William Stillman have--for the first time ever!--compiled an astounding assemblage of over one thousand "Ozzy" artifacts documented and categorized for convenient reference in sixteen different sections. Autographs, books, buttons, dolls, games, puzzles, figurines, drinking glasses, postcards, novelties, publicity and promotion, posters and lobby cards, records, sheet music--it's all here AND SO MUCH MORE! You'll be amazed at the wealth of offerings to be found along that Yellow Brick Road of "Oz and ends." Supplemented by a timely value guide, this comprehensive volume is an absolute must for collectors of movie memorabilia, dolls, toys, Judy Garland, or anyone devoted to magical mementos of Ozmania! Like new, clean.

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.

Softcover. NY, Dover Publications, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 364 pages with 295 b&w plates. Originally published as a hardcover in 1939. In this, the definitive work on Duncan Phyfe, Nancy McClelland, noted authority on the history of American antiques, recounts with keen appreciation the story of his life and work. She identifies the English Regency style, tells how the style developed, shows how it influenced Phyfe, and then describes both the man himself and numerous examples of his furniture construction -- his tables, chairs, sofas, sideboards, beds, etc. Accompanying the text are many fine photographs of famous Regency homes and furniture, houses built during the Classical Revival in America, and scores of Phyfe's masterpieces. Succeeding chapters, also enriched with photographs of surviving pieces, describe work by Phyfe's competitors -- Lannuier, Michael Allison, John Gruez, John Seymour, Samuel McIntire, Nehemiah Adams, Henry Connelly, etc. -- and work by Phyfe known to have been bought by specific customers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London ; Boston, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Previous owner's blind stamp on front end paper, else a 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.

Kentucky, Collector Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards illustrated in color. 252 pages. Black & white and color photographs.

Hardcover. Lanham MD, AltaMira Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 217 pages with color photos throughout. This book is a full-color catalogue raisonne and interprets the distinctive furniture made by John Shearer, one of the most accomplished and intriguing furniture makers during the post-Revolutionary period. Shearer emigrated from Scotland in the late 18th century and retained loyalist sympathies throughout his life, evidenced by the imagery and inscriptions sympathetic to various British causes-such as the suppression of the Irish rebellion in 1798 and the British victory in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805-that he worked into his furniture. Davison provides insight into the furniture's appeal to Anglo-American patrons, not secret loyalists, but men still culturally tied to Great Britain. Shearer's pieces are scattered among various collections, and many of them have been identified only in the last 25 years. This catalog is the only work in which all of Shearer's known pieces of furniture are presented in a single volume.

Hardcover. NY, Christie's, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, light blue cloth covers stamped in gilt, auction catalogs illustrated throughout in color. Part 1: Important French Porcelain, 161 pages, 468 items. Part 2: Important French Furniture, Works of Art, Old Master Paintings, Drawings and Chinese Porcelain and Jade. 292 pages, 456 items. Auction held March 21- 23, 1991. Clean bright copies. Scarce in hardcover format. Ms. Firestone was heir to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. fortune and considered one of the last great post-war collectors.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Concord, MA, Joslin Hall Publishing, Reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 50 pages. Reprint from original 1928. B/w photographs and illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine and front board. Very clean inside and out! A comprehensive study of the Silversmiths of Little Rest (Kingston), RI, who practiced from the latter half of the 18th century into the first half of the 19th.