collectibles

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.

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.

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. London, Whizzard Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket depicting Alice stretching to put an envelope into a red cast iron Victorian postal box, illustrated with philatelic color images (stamps and covers mainly) relating to Alice by Tenniel, pictorial end-papers with B&W images of Lewis Carroll & Sir John Tenniel, 48 pages. An unusual reprise of postal images relating to Tenniel's classic illustrations of Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. Bookplate on dedication page, otherwise clean.

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. 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. 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. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white photographs of furniture in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass. Slipcase slightly sunfaded. Bottom edge of case torn approx. 1" along seams. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover set. Two volumes in a cardboard slipcase, 344, 300 pages. Illustrated with b&w photographs throughout. Vol. 1 covers New England, Vol. 2 - The Middle Colonies and the South. Clean, tight copies.

Softcover. Hershey PA, Bonhams & Butterfields, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 82 pages illustrated in color. Clean copy.

Softcover. privately printed, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 50 pages printed on one side only. Limited edition of 2000 copies, this being number 943. Signed by Cork. Semi-glossy paper, wonderful color photos of carousel horses. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Tuttle Publishing, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 170 pages. This art book contains many unique pieces that were produced extensively in the United States, Great Britain, and other European countries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when this fine art was at its height. All of the illustrations are in full color. The book contains 424 plates, 50 of which are full page. The complete description of each piece indicates its size, the type of glass used, its identification marks, the names of the designer and/or producer, when known, and its present owner. While every significant type of art glass produced during this period is covered in the succinct text, the exciting galaxy of 424 plates, interspersed throughout the book, were selected not only because of their rare beauty and authenticity, but also to show representative pieces, similar to those that are still obtainable. Most important of all in identifying a piece and determining its value, according to the authors, are its color, its shape, and the texture of its surface, to which they constantly give particular attention.

Hardcover. New York, Ridge Press/Macmillan, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 251 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. price clipped dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy. Bil Baird, a master puppeteer of our time, recounts the history of his art, from its remotest yesterday to its bright and promising tomorrow. Along the way, he examines the famous and outrageous Mr. Punch, the raucous Karaghioz, the noble knights of the Orlando legend, the lovely shadow plays of Asia, the unique Bunraku puppets of Japan, and the exciting developments in today's puppetry around the world. To which we would like to add: There has never been any book to compare with this one. It remains the classic text on the history of puppetry around the world. It has dozens of amazing photographs, and a very lucid text written by one of the great master puppeteers of our time.

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, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, illustrated throughout with 213 plates in color and b&w. Maroon cloth with white title to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. The rich artistic and social history of the Arts and Crafts movement in California, as well as the highly collectible objects it produced. In a brief but intensely prolific period between about 1895 and 1930. Essays by Leslie Greene Bowman, Bruce Kamerling, Cheryl Robertson, Joseph A. Taylor, David C. Streatfield, Karen J. Weitze and Richard Guy Wilson.

Softcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st pbk, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 292 pages. A detailed resource on the comics and collectibles inspired by the classic character provides close-up photography and information on everything Batman, from the history of the character's graphic design to sixteen new pages of obscure memorabilia. Chip Kidd, who also wrote a neat "Batman Animated" coffee able book on the well-loved and critically acclaimed "Batman: The Animated Series" that debuted in 1992, turns here to the hobby (and serious business, for some) of collecting. He includes his own childhood remembrances of Bat-items, as well as wonderfully quirky photography. This book, full-color throughout, is not a "guide" to the collectibles, as it does not include price values or manufacturers (it does give the year and dimensions for each piece pictured). Plus, there is an editorial comment on the Andy Warhol Batman piece that's got a bit of an attitude. Clean copy.

Softcover. Las Vegas NV, Pioneer Books , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Softcover, pictorial wraps,145 pages, b&w illustrations. Shows and describes toys, cards, and collectibles associated with the Batman television series, and shares interviews with the main cast members. Clean, bright copy but has a smoke odor.

Softcover. Hartford CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. White wraps with color illustration and black lettering; 80 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w and color. Exhibition curator J. Herbert Callister. 49 works in the exhibition.

Softcover. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 141 pages. Illustrated color and b&w captioned photographs throughout text. Light edge wear to wrappers. Small water stain on bottom of front cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Bennington, The Bennington Museum, First Edition, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 172 pages. Hardcover with facsimile of early ads to endpapers. Published to accompany the exhibition by the same title, held at the Bennington Museum, Bennington VT, May 6 - July 30, 1995 and Shelburne Museum, Shelburne VT. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout detailing antiques, collectibles, furniture, related maps & historical documentation. Dust jacket with only light, marginal wear. Unmarked & bright copy.

Hardcover. Phiadelphia, University Of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a peach-colored dust jacket with mild fading to spine, 116 pages with a reproduction of a Morley inscription as frontispiece. The fifth in the series of Rosenbach Fellowship Lectures. Clean copy.

Softcover. Paducah, KY, Collector Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers and light wear to edges of spine.