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Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black boards, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate-protection. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black and white Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Original green covers w/ gilt, red, black & white design. Spine rebound with brown cloth. Green spine label with gilt lettering. 16 pages of publishers ads in rear. Original brown endpapers.

Hardcover. Boston, Massacusetts, D. Lothrop & Co., 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Green cloth covers with black titles and gilt illustration, all edges gilt, beveled edges, multiple full page b&w tissue-protected plates, 12 chapters on different American artists. Very light foxing to tissue paper, mild wear to cover edges and spine; overall a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth with blue and gilt design, 543 pages with 30 photographs in black-and-white. Decorated design by Decorative Designers (DD). Believed to be a first edition, no date on title page, copyright page has 1924 with no other printings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. 332 pages. This edition features a color frontispiece, full-page plates in both color and black & white, and in-text illustrations throughout by William Walworth Stilson. A reprint of the 1901 edition. No date, probably the 1930s. Owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Ketchikan AK, United States Indian School, 1st, 1950s, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled pictorial card covers. A chronicle of the Thlingets, Tsimpshean, and Haidias tribes of Ketchikan, Alaska with a map detailing their locations. Approx. 60 pages, line drawings and typewriiten text printed on one side of pages. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings of totem poles, basket designs, hats, fish, canoes, an Indian house, bowl, household box, etc. Topics include: various totem poles, a Legend of the Eagle Clan, tales, basketry, Indian fishing and rights, berries, canoes, gambling, houses, dances, seal and deerskin tanning, Potlatch, prayers, etc. Clear tape on edges of cover, bookplate on inside front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 101 pages. Black & white photos of Hollywood in the 1980s. Introduction by Bret Easton Ellis.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Straight Arrow Books, 1st , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos. Dj price clipped otherwise VG/VG. "In his widely acclaimed first book, Suburbia, Bill Owens' camera captured the essence of the American Dream as symbolized in the life styles and fantasies of his neighbors and friends. Probing beneath the outer wrappings, he now presents a unique portrait of the myriad clubs and organizations to which these people belong, the symbols of their beliefs and loyalties, their pleasure and their pain." Profusely illustrated with annotated b/w photographs.

Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 93 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers. Small red stain to fore-edge, else a clean, tight copy. 74 full page black and white photographs. First edition, first printing. "One day in the early 1970s, Robert Adams and his wife saw from their home a column of smoke rise above the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant." (blurb). This series is the result of Adams attempt to document what stood to be lost in case of a nuclear disaster.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Gilt illustration on front cover. Spine cloth slightly age darkened. Light rubbing at top of spine. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Williams Book Store, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, 409 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of American firearms. Begins with a treatise advocating the personal possession of guns and rifles. Then describes hundreds of rifles with their images and technical details from the flint lock to carbines used against us. Also covers present manufacture and manufacturers, rifleman and much more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Flatiron Books, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 389 pages. Traces the story of the integration of the Cleveland Indians and their quest for a World Series title through four key participants-all members of Baseball's Hall of Fame. They were Bill Veeck, the eccentric and visionary owner of the team; Larry Doby, a soft-spoken hard-hitting pioneer who shattered stereotypes that many Americans had of black ballplayers; ace pitcher Bob Feller who set the template for the athlete as businessman; and Satchel Paige, legendary pitcher from the Negro Leagues too long excluded from professional baseball because of his skin color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. County Meath IR, Gallery Books, 1st , 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 78 pages, black cloth covers. Bright unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black, yellow and gilt. Top edge gilt, 276 pages, 8 b&w illustrations. First published in 1902 this is the Second Edition. Bookplate on front fly leaf, name on half title page. Light soil to covers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 78 pages. Yellow spine cloth with aqua & white flower pattern covers. Spine label intact. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Elizabeth Montgomery. Some darkening to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. with black & white line drawings by Elizabeth Montgomery. 77 pges. Browning to front and back end-papers. Dust jacket with wear to corners, spine edges. Dust jacket with color illustration on cover. Scarce.

hardcover. Austin, TX, Texas Monthly Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. A collection of black & white documentary photos taken in Texas in the 1940's. 149 pages. Dust jacket unclipped.

hardcover. Austin, TX, Texas Monthly Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. A collection of black & white documentary photos taken in Texas in the 1940's. 149 pages. The photographs are from the Standard Oil Company archive, compiled under the direction of Roy Stryker, and now housed at the University of Louisville. Dust jacket unclipped. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY - Ind., Bobbs Merrill, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Bill Tinker. Three stories -- one based on a Scottish ballad, another on a Japanese folktale, and the other on Greek mythology, with the common thread that the character in each story is taken out of this world, then back again.

Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 236 pages, 4 b&w line plates, olive green cloth covers with orange and black decoration. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. n.p., L.T. Myers, unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, 3 color lithographs, many black & white illustrations. Color label on decorated cover. No publisher indicated,(C) by L.T. Myers. Areas of cover show fading, soil.

Hardcover. Gottingen, Steidl, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Outside Inside is a gorgeous three-volume box set of 800 photographs drawn from this master photographer's immense archive. Chosen by Davidson himself, the selection spans a 60-year career, and features such seminal bodies of work as Circus (1958), Brooklyn Gang (1959), East 100th Street (1966-1968), The Civil Rights Movement (1961-1965), Subway (1980) and Central Park (1992-1995), as well as his two most recent works in progress--a series of urban landscapes made in Paris (2007) and Los Angeles (2009)--and many unpublished photographs. Each volume with the following format: Hardcover. Fine cloth, with tipped-in tritone plate on cover and title stamped in black on cover and spine; no dust jacket as issued. All three volumes are contained in a custom paper-covered slipcase with title stamped in silver. Photographs and text by Bruce Davidson. Edited by Bruce Davidson, with the assistance of Amina Lakhaney. Designed by Bernard Fischer and Gerhard Steidl. Volume I: 1954-1961, 300 pp., with 264 tritone plates; Volume II: 1961-1966, 272 pp., with 228 tritone plates; Volume III, 1966-2009, 372 pp., with 342 tritone plates. Scans by Steidl's digital darkroom; production and printing by Steidl, Gottingen. Each volume 11-5/8 x 12 inches.

Softcover. Burlington VT, privately printed, 3rd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. Black and white photos, map, and acknowledgments. A biography of the author's mother and a record of life in central Vermont during the turn of the century. SIGNED BY FARNSWORTH on the front fly leaf. Previous owner's signature also on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with a color paste-down on cover, 263 pages, A collection of 35 Native American animal folklore tales. Wood-lore (or, the ways of wild things) are told in an engaging format - a wise old chief holds evening "story-time" sessions with his very curious grandson, Little Beaver. Running through the linked narrative is the little black bear Moween, of whom Little Beaver is particularly fond. Illustrated with 8 color plates, a color title page and an endpapers drawing by Paul Bransom. Light shelf wear.