Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1st Thus, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover. 1925 date is estimate. Full color and black & white illustrations by Anne Anderson. Red cloth with full color paste down illustration on front cover. Endpapers with Illustrations in red. Foxing to preliminary/dedication page. Light foxing to page 73. Light rubbing to cover corners, top/bottom of spine. Three small spots on back cover. Hinges intact but tender. Overall very good.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, expertly rebound green cloth with original gilt and black design inlaid on front cover. New color pattern endpapers, 460 pages, plus publisher's ads. Frontis w/ tissue guard many b/w engravings throughout. Various artists. illustrated tale of the triumphs and tragedies of the formation of the English colonies through the French & Indian War. Light shelf wear, no marking.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 47 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KENNEDY on front fly leaf with a typed personal note to the inscribee, also SIGNED. Black & white illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace World, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 153 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white woodcuts by Enrico Arno. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 442 pages. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy. Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore.
Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop and Co., 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra cotta cloth stamped in gilt and black, b&w plates, 335 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Light shelf wear otherwise clean, very good. A shiphand's account of life in the early merchant marine.
Softcover. New York, Raphael Tuck & Sons Co, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 unnumbered pages. Soft cover with stapled binding. Color and black and white Illustrations. Moderate creasing and chipping to booklet. Light soil to rear wrapper.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, First Edition, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket, price-clipped with light wear to edges, light toning. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Horace Liveright, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 302 pages. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Black boards with white binding, small gilt pictorial to front cover, many page ends uncut, black book ribbon, profusely illustrated with b&w plates, burgundy slip case with black pasted labels. Light soiling to spine, very slight rubbing to boards, pages crisp and unmarked, edgewear to slipcase. Fascinating work being a diary written by the famous American cartoonist between September 1st 1925 and March 1st 1926. It is profusely illustrated with numerous in-text b/w drawings along with 17 full-page line and 20 full-page halftone illustrations.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, Rep., 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 377 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated in black & white and 2-colors by T.M. and M.T. Bevans. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, black cloth spine over paper boards with a striped design, 85 pages. Translated from the French and edited by Jean Autret and William Burford. Glassine dust jacket present but fair with chunk gone from rear, slipcase with minor wear. Small red dot to top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white photos. 127 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Longman's, Green and Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers stamped in black. B&w illustrated in b&w by Sanford Tousey. An authentic adventure story of the California gold mining camps, contrasting east and west coast cultures. Author was Nathaniel Hawthorne's granddaughter. Bookplate on inside front cover. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Burns Archive Press, 1st Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 Volumes: (SIGNED). In slipcase. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Slipcase still has original mylar wrap (See image).1916-1945 The Radium Era.1845-1875 The Anesthesia Era.1876-1900 The Antiseptic Era.1901-1915 The X-Ray Era.Limited to 6,500 copies including a special edition of 500 copies. Color, b/w and sepia illustrations throughout. Black, decorated cover boards in like new condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spines straight. Slipcase fine.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Minor wear to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy. Light soil. Black and white line drawings by Jerome Synder.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, b&w photo illustrations, black cloth covers, gilt on spine faded. INSCRIBED BY SHAWN and dated Nov. 5 1960 on front fly leaf. No dust jacket. Ted Shawn was an American dancer and choreographer. Considered a pioneer of American modern dance, he created the Denishawn School together with his wife Ruth St. Denis. After their separation he created the all-male company Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. Covers Shawn's travels and tours: with the army, in the Orient; and his creation of the Denishawn Dancers with the male athletes at Springfield College. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st US, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in publisher's red cloth, lettered in gold with black letterbox. First printing of Churchill's fourth war speeches volume, containing Churchill's speeches from 1943. Here the oratory takes a more positive tone as Churchill and the Allies begin to anticipate victory. A little before mid-year, on 19 May 1943 Churchill gave his second address to the U.S. Congress. Seventeen long months of war had passed since his first, just after Pearl Harbor. Dust jacket flap copy pasted to inside front cover. Mild spotting to covers. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Woodstock, NY, Overlook Press, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Text by William T. Vollman. Black & white documentary photos of society's outcasts. Miller's black & white photos are captioned by quotes from works of fiction by William T. Vollmann. His subjects here are street people, prostitutes, skinheads, and others of America's underclass; and his gaze is unflinching. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, circa 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with a black cloth spine. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak in b&w. A beautiful reprint of the classic 1960 edition. No dust jacket, clean. (Imprint is Harper & Row, so not a first. No ISBN so mid-or late 1960s).
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with black cloth spine, illustrated boards, 2 small signatures opposite title page. Clean and tight copy. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Schuman, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white drawings by Simont. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Reprint, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, 604 pages. Stated: First Edition - Third Thousand. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Minor fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Tokyo, Hokuseido Press, Reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket & slipcase. Mustard cloth boards with black printed titles to spine. Full page, full color illustrations protected with tissue guards throughout. Frontis illustration, Man Playing the Samisen, in full color & protected with a tissue guard. Chronological chart of Japanese Humor tipped-in. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, lightly price-clipped to corners. Plain slipcase with creases, light wear to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 202 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Pays homage to the ultimate travel dream of that era. This collection of over 100 autochrome, sepia, and black and white photographs captures delicate, lost details: the dusty, labyrinthine walls of the casbah; the dappled sunlight on the market stall of a souk; the intricate metal work of traditional jewelry. Each image is accompanied by an informative text that situates the photograph in its historical reality.
Akron OH, B.F. Goodrich Co., 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "No damage - they're Koroseal", color photo of black porter dropping a load of suitcases. 10" X 13". very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
NY, Harper & Bros., 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color painting of a seated woman in a black evening gown, holding her pearl necklace. Painting by Walter Tittle. 10 X 13".PLEASE NOTE The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
NY, Harper and Brothers, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black farmer helping automobile riders by filling their overheated radiator with a jug of water. Art by John A. Coughlin. Approx. 10 X 13".PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith , reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 342 pages. Pink cloth with black lettering on spine. Light pencil marking to about 15 pages, spine fading, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith , reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 342 pages. Beige cloth with black lettering on spine. Light underlining to about 10 pages, otherwise clean.
Softcover. College Station, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Softcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front cover. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Darkening to spine paper, light surface rubbing to front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1st, 1817, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards, black leather spine label with gilt lettering. 303 pages. Containing, among others, many letters from Alexander Pope, and three from Dr. Johnson, being addressed to Francis Fowke, Joseph Fowke and Samuel Richardson. Mild wear to spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
1964, Book: Very Good, Art of ballet dancer done with black brush line by Birnbaum. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
1907, Book: Very Good, Color art of family Christmas dinner with Black servant holding turkey platter. Painting by W.T. Smedley. 10 1/2 X 15", small label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
1917, Color portrait of woman with black hat in front of window by Neysa McMein. 11 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
1917, Book: Very Good, Color art of woman in black hat seated before window by Neysa McMein. 11 1/2 X 14 3/4", mild crease, still very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
1930, Book: Very Good, Color portrait of a woman in a black hat by McClelland Barclay.10 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
1908, Book: Very Good, Two-color art of running girl in black bathing suit by James Montgomery Flagg. 10 X 13", small label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. Black cloth covers with silver titles to spine, silver pictorial to front, silver dust jacket and slipcase with color illustration, 191 illustrations throughout. 1"x3" strip missing from upper right corner from front endpaper, slight rubbing to dust jacket and slipcase, clean covers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
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, 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.