Hardcover. Boston, Bradbury Soden & Co., 1st thus, 1844, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard, extra engraved title page, several other full page engraved plates as well as text illustrations. Brown cloth with black leather spine stamped in gilt. Pages with tanning to edges, faint water stain to top corners of some pages, not affecting text or images. Covers show mottling, discoloration to foredges, front and rear. Interior clean, binding tight.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Faith Jaques. Library Edition. Story of Victorian England set in a family shop in the back streets of Manchester, England. Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. The FSA archive includes the work of dozens of photographers, from acknowledged giants like Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange to Marion Post Wolcott and Russell Lee, whose names and work may be less familiar. This book collects work from nine of these trips: Evans in Louisana and Alabama, Shahn in West Virginia, Lange in California, and others, uniting them with Stryker's shooting scripts, letters, and other relevant archival documents. Reproduced in duotone, the 175 photographs in The Likes of Us were all printed from the original negatives at the Library of Congress.
Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. The FSA archive includes the work of dozens of photographers, from acknowledged giants like Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange to Marion Post Wolcott and Russell Lee, whose names and work may be less familiar. This book collects work from nine of these trips: Evans in Louisana and Alabama, Shahn in West Virginia, Lange in California, and others, uniting them with Stryker's shooting scripts, letters, and other relevant archival documents. Reproduced in duotone, the 175 photographs in The Likes of Us were all printed from the original negatives at the Library of Congress.
Hardcover. NY, Horizon Press, 1st Ed., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 327 pages. Bound in black cloth with gold titling on the cover and spine. Illustrated with B&W political cartoons from the era throughout from Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Vanity Fair, Punch, etc. The illustrations are reproduced side-by-side with historical background and commentary by the author. Includes artwork by Thomas Nast, Matt Morgan, Frank Bellew, Louis Maurer, Sir John Tenniel, Currier and Ives, etc. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with light soil, chipping.
Hardcover. New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Anniversary Edition. 320 pages of black & white photos. In the elusive dust jacket! Light soil, fade to spine.
New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 87 pages. Black & white and 3-color illustrations by author. Dust jacket has some small tears.
NY, Morrow, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Ted Lewin. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A twelve year old boy tries to return the mountain lion he's raised from a cub to her native habitat in the Idaho mountains.
Hardcover. NY, Artisan, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 145 pages. A master craftsman provides timeless wisdom from working with stone. Beautifully illustrated with color and black and white photographs from the work-field. In his highly anticipated second book, Vermonter Dan Snow once again proves that he is not just one of America's premier artisans, but also one of our most articulate voices on the natural world and our relationship to it. Snow's medium is stone: He is the nation's premier drystone wall builder. Schooled in this ancient craft, he painstakingly creates structures as breathtaking as sculpture with nothing but gravity as their glue. In Listening to Stone, Peter Mauss's tactile photographs of Snow's artistry are matched by the artisan's quietly compelling prose. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 592 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Remainder mark on page block. Combining the personal correspondence of and interviews with Noguchi and those closest to him from artists, patrons, assistants and lovers Herrera has created an authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century's most important sculptors. She locates Noguchi in his friendships with such artists as Buckminster Fuller and Arshile Gorky, and in his affairs with women including Frida Kahlo and Anna Matta Clark.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Black and white photographs by Bill Brandt throughout. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus Co, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 62 pages. Color illustrations by Ver Beck. Color illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's signature on endpapers and front fly leaf. Wear to corners, spine.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Altemus, 1st thus, 1928, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages, illustrated in color by Ver Beck. Heavy edgewear to pictorial boards, previous owner's signature on front and rear endpapers. Pages darkened. Hinge separated, loose pages.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Altemus, 1st thus, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 62 pages, illustrated in color by Verbeck. Light edgewear to pictorial boards, previous owner's signature on front and rear endpapers. Internally neat and bright.
Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 62 pages illustrated with 29 color plates by Ver Beck. Red cloth covers with color label on front, black lettering and design. A reprint of the 1926 Altemus book. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Platt & Munk, reprint, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with pictorial label on front cover. Illustrated in color and b&w by Eulalie. Unpaginated but 28 pages. Light soil to covers, binding fragile, shaken.
Hardcover. Daly City CA, Advection Media, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. A fascinating visual journey through the Westlake District of Daly City, California, one of America's first and most iconic postwar suburbs. Located just south of San Francisco, Westlake has frequently been compared to Levittown, New York, the first major postwar suburb in the United States. Developed by Henry Doelger, once the largest home builder in the nation, Westlake has long been the subject of adoration as well as ridicule. Perhaps Westlake's greatest claim to fame is that it inspired Malvina Reynolds 1962 anti-suburban folk song, Little Boxes. Although the neighborhood's quirky architecture has been featured in books, newspapers, and national magazines, this is the first book exclusively about Westlake. Little Boxes features over 100 new color and historic black-and-white photographs, as well as floor plans, maps, and vintage ads. Based on years of research and new interviews with architects and others who shaped Westlake during the 1950s, Little Boxes documents this important suburb's meticulous development process and celebrates its classic midcentury style. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages. Hardcover. Features 6 full color and black & white illustrations in text by Edwin Willard Deming. Short separations of preliminary pages from interior hinge at top and bottom. Areas of foxing and abrasion to title page. Printers unusual binding method has created creasing before the page margins. Short closed tears on some pages. Front cover pastedown intact with some surface abrasions. Scarce.
Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk Co, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black stamped lettering and illustration of monkey and elephant on front cover. Clean, tight copy with small chip from spine and light fraying on edges.
NY, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black design, 182 pages. Color frontis, b&w illustrations of insects. Ex-lib with light markings, residue to end papers. Light wear to top of spine, small spine label.
Hardcover. NY, American News Company, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth cover stamped with a black and gilt design. 416 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. 26 issues of this magazine for children, featuring poetry, stories and nonfiction on a variety of subjects, from moral lessons to history and descriptions of various races and peoples around the world. No date but appears to be circa 1880 with New and Enlarged on title page. A bright color frontis of brother and sister helping little sister to skate. Spine cocked, covers with edgewear, fraying to top of spine. front endpapers with stamp, pastedown, binding firm, pages clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with black and yellow design, 181 pages, 4 color plates by Edith F. Butler. Light stain to front and rear covers. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in red cloth with black titling and upper cover illustration, 128 pages, endpapers art and four 2-color plates by H. S. Barbour. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,182 pages, green cloth covers with color illustration lpaste-down on front cover. illustrated in black & white by Milo K. Winter. Binding a little shaken, still a nice copy.
Hardcover. NY/Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black & white, 2-color cartoons from the Saturday Evening Post. Bright cardboard covers, clean, sharp. Dust jacket with edgewear, soil. Presumed first edition, price of 50 cents on front flap and *Little Lulu and Her Pals* only Lulu book listed on rear flap.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Rick Schreiter. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st illust thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color label on front cover, 335 pages. Eight color plates by Reginald Birch. Corners lightly bumped. Small book shop sticker on inside back cover. Back cover soiled in places. Previous owner's inscription on reverse of frontispiece.
Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with 3-color decoration, 243 pages. Illustrated in black & white by Etheldred B. Barry. Cover has some soil. Previous owner's inscription and stamp on front fly leaf. First edition of this scarce and delightful tale of a young orphan from New York, who stows away on a tramp ship to Canton, China, and discovers his lost father. The work is written in dialect and pidgin Chinese of the period.
hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 12th pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Paul Lantz. Very Good with worn dj. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. The beautiful rhythms of the Navajo life in Red Rocks Country of Arizona for a young girl named Doli, who must face the outer world in this coming of age story.
Hardcover. Franklin Square, NY, Nostalgia Press, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. B&W and color comic strips throughout. Black pictorial boards with orange cloth spine. Sticker residue to bottom corner of back cover. Overall, a clean, tight copy. A gorgeous collection of Little Nemo cartoons from 1905 - 1910, including many in color. With an introduction by Woody Gelman.
Hardcover. New York, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 86 pages illustrated in b/w with the adventures of Little Orphan Annie. Done in comic book style. Illustrated title page. Some brown spots, stains, and smudges on the pages. Pages are age toned. Previous owners' inscriptions on front flyleaf in crayon and pencil. 8vo. Color pictorial front boards of Annie and her dog Sandy. Black cloth spine. There are two scars to paper at mid-center of front board, where paper is gone. Worn corners. Boards are browned and show smudges and age soil. Pencil marks on front cover. Edgewear. Corners are bumped, rubbed, and slightly frayed.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering and black drawing on cover. 160 pages. Eight color plates by Marion Mildred Oldham. Spine a little faded, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. SIGNED BY MOSLEY ON TITLE PAGE. Black covers, red spine with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket. Covers unmarked, very slight rubbing to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, pages crisp and unmarked; a beautiful copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt lettering. 210 pages plus publisher's ads, b&w illustrations, frontis with tissue guard. Penciled inscription and embossed stamp on prelim blank page, otherwise clean. Charming Victorian juvenile by the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman".
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 79 pages. Black & white illustrations by Sherman C. Hoeflich. Green illustrated endpapers. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Spine wear. Charming story with wonderful b/w line drawings about a tadpole who becomes a toad and has many adventures. Written with a factual understanding of the toad, not a fanciful one.
Hardcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 135 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to edges, otherwise a clean, tight copy. 100 color plates with 39 black & white illustrations.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, First Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 594 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear. Features behind the scenes gossip & interviews with a wide variety of stars, writers & guests, too numerous to detail here. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout. When Jack Davis took up his pen for EC Comics, he made his innocent victims more eye-poppingly terrified, his ax-murderers more gleefully gruesome, and his vampires and werewolves more bloodthirsty and feral than any other artist. These horror and suspense tales - from the pages of Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, and Shock SuspenStories - offer everything a horror fan could ask for: re-animated bodies and body parts, a ghoul who stores bodies like a squirrel stores nuts, a vampire who moonlights at (where else?) a blood bank, greedy business partners, corrupt politicians, jealous lovers, revenge from beyond the grave, and a healthy complement of vampires, werewolves, and assorted grotesqueries. All leavened with the cackling, pun-laced humor of scripter Al Feldstein and illuminated as only the virtuoso brushwork of Jack Davis can present them.
Hardcover. New York, Kodansha, 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 300 pages. SIGNED BY BY MARIA POVEKA (MARTINEZ) AND FAMILY ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color and black & white photographs and illustrations. Unclipped dust jacket has some minor moisture wrinkling on back. Book has faint damp smell. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 144 pages, b&w illustrations. Cream cloth with gilt title to spine. Black pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 387 pages. Black cloth covers slightly bowed. Some light notes in pencil. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows light wear.
Hardcover. NY, Simmons-Boardman, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt, Definitions and typical illustrations of locomotives, their parts and equipment; descriptions and illustraions of shops and tools employed in their construction and repair; locomotives built in America for railroad and industri al operations in foreign countries. 1131 pages with product information on locomotives and parts, plus photographs and dimensional diagrams. Clean bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Derrydale Books, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, black and white and two-color illustrations; Includes:Policeman Small, Cowboy Small, The Little Farm, The Little Auto, The Little Sail Boat, and The Little Airplane. Mr. Small directs traffic, rides the range on his horse, Cactus, raises cows, pigs, and chickens, takes a drive in the country, goes fishing in his sailboat, and flies in his single-engine plane. No dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, Armstrong and Co., 1st US, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth stamped in gilt and black. 359 pages, publisher's ads in rear. First US edition with 1873 date on title page. Described by J. M. Keynes as "an undying classic", Lombard Street analyses the operation of the British financial system, focusing on the economic role of the Bank of England. Bagehot's recommendation that the Bank alter gold reserves based on economic cycles was highly influential, and the book was considered authoritative into the 20th century. Thre is mild rear to top and bottom of spine, corners bumped, otherwise clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 433 pages, green cloth stamped in gilt and black, Scribner A on copyright page. A square and solid book with fading to spine and small stain to cover. Photo portrait of James, b&w illustrations by him. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Same page with a crease. Internally sound and clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Paul Giovanopoulos. 192 pages in a nice, price-clipped dust jacket. The saga of the Amistad. Off the Cuban coast, a slave from Sierra Leone took over the ship which drifted and was taken into custody by the US Navy. The return to Sierra Leone after protracted legal battles. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Light soil to top pages, abrasion on title page. Black and white pictures throughout, some color.