Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 2nd pr., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt and black decoration, 171 pages. Eight color illustrations by Marion Oldham. Endpapers drawing by Maria Kirk. Spine lightly faded. No dust jacket. Carrots is the nickname of a little boy named Fabian, and his delightful story was written by the famous Victorian Era children's writer Mrs. Molesworth. Molesworth was the pen name of Ennis Graham, who was favorably described as the Jane Austen of children's literature.
Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages, paperback. Cultural criticism regarding the Weimar Republic. With many color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Examines intellectual life in the Weimar Republic, looks at paintings, caricatures, dance, architecture, and films, and discusses the Nazi rise to power.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 188 pages, b&w photos. An account by a Kenya African of his experiences in detention camps in the 1950s. Foreword by Margery Perham. In a lightly worn dust jacket.
Chicago, Judson, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Decorated cloth covers with bold black title, 142 pages. Black & white illustrations by Charles H. Steinbacher. A collection of folk tales from Burma. No dust jacket.
Softcover. Lockport NY, Niagara County Historical Society, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue wrappers, 377 pages, black & white line drawings. Minor wear to covers, clean copy.
Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 142 pages. In the late 1910s, in a Europe ravaged by World War I, Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen put the finishing touches on his illustrations of A Thousand and One Nights. The results are considered masterpieces of early 20th-century illustration: bursting with sumptuous colors of deep blues, reds, and gold leaf, and evoking all the magic of this legendary collection of Indo-Persian and Arabic folktales, compiled between the 8th and 13th centuries. However, publishers retreated from Nielsen's project in the financially strapped postwar climate, and the publication never happened. A rising star, Nielsen moved on to other work. This world heritage classic's spectacular pen, ink, and watercolor images remained under lock and key for 40 years. Published just once in the 1970s, the illustrations were rescued from oblivion after Nielsen's death in 1957 and are now held by the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Art Institute of Chicago, and in two private collections. This publication is a unique compilation of fine art prints and stunning illustrations reproduced directly from Nielsen's original watercolors--the only complete set of his extraordinary drawings to have survived. The book features descriptions of all of the images and three generously illustrated essays on the making of this series, the origin of Nielsen's unique imagery, and a history of the tales. In addition, it shows many unpublished or rarely seen artworks by Nielsen and intricate black-and-white drawings Nielsen created for the original publication. Text in English, German and French. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 638 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small stain on fore edge of textblock. Otherwise, a very clean, unmarked copy with minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Small tear to top edge of rear dust jacket cover. A tight copy. Black & white and color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth spine and green paper-covered boards.A nice collection of b&w cartoons from The New Yorker. No dust jacket.
NY, Simmons-Boardman Publishing, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Bound in original dark blue cloth with lettering printed in gold. Thirteenth edition of this massive encyclopedia covering every aspect of building and maintaining steam, electric, diesel and industrial locomotives. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white photographs and dimensional diagrams of locomotives and their various parts. Sections include Dictionary of Terms, data on US and Canadian steam locomotives, locomotive boilers, water supply, fuel supply, cabs, boiler mountings, the engine, foundation and running gear (trucks, roller bearings, axles, etc.), lubrication, couples and draft gears, brakes, signals, tenders, safety appliances, locomotive shops and engine terminals. Filled with numerous detailed advertisements from parts manufacturers explaining the various goods they sell. With bibliography and indexes for advertisers (by name and by product). 1418 pages. Previous owner's signature on early page, otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Reel Art Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Includes 240 black and white and color photographs: . "Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are." - David Hurn - This volume is the first anthology dedicated to Hurn during one of his most iconic periods of the 1960s.
Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE AND SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Black cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 18 color and 400 b&w illustrations, book review included from Maine Antique Digest, August 1977. Light wear to edges of dust jacket; overall a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Portland, Paul E. Merrill, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 166 pages plus additional 28 page pamphlet laid-in. Hardcover. Both hardcover and pamphlet illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Both book and pamphlet have musty odor. Dust jacket with wear and tape repaired tears along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Stephen Daye Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with white lettering on spine, b&w illustrations, 207 pages, including a bibliography. A history of skiing is reviewed from Prehistory, the Ski in Literature, Skiing Becomes Sport, and Competitions and Records; a world-wide discussion by each country and area follows, all continents represented; Norwegian skii equipment manufacture is mentioned; facilities, conditions and the sport standing in each country are evaluated. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. US, Soul Jazz Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to laminated cover boards. Color and black and white pictures throughout. The image of the Caribbean is as much a creation of the West as it is the result of its population's incredibly complex identity. A melting pot of races born of the 400-year slave trade--Africans, indigenous Americans and their French, Spanish, German, Dutch and English colonizers--the identity of the Caribbean stands at the intersection of tourism, colonialism and tropicality. This deluxe large-format volume features hundreds of fascinating and unique photographs that span 100 years of Caribbean history, culture, industry and more, as well as the subsequent diaspora of its people to America, England and elsewhere. The photographs show the many ways in which the region has been portrayed, from tropical backdrop of tourism and hedonism to colonial outpost and revolutionary threat in North America's own backyard.
New York, Delacorte Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 144 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Patrick James Lynch. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. A great collection of folktales from England & Wales, filled with boggarts, hobgoblins & other creatures.
Hardcover. NY, Lippincott & Crowell, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 241 pages, b&w illustrations. A scrapbook of baseball nostalgia which, in well-chosen words and rare photographs, traces the evolution of our national game.' Includes sections on the Abner Doubleday/Cooperstown controversy, ball parks, superstitions, black history, and more.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 307 pages. Black & white photography. Minor wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, Revised Ed., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. 618 pages, b&w illustrations. Features a vast amount of factual data bout the customs and rituals of the Murngin, the result of several years of study in the region. This new revised edition has 16 charts, a map of the tribes and clans, 17 photos and a glossary. Some light pencil marking in a few chapters.
New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 122 pages. Black & white chapter illustrations by Kate Kiesler. "Ehrlich ventures confidently into new terrain in her eloquent and affecting debut children's novel. [Her] prose, as pristine and spare as her snow-covered landscape, portrays the quiet drama of the changing seasons -- in both their consistency and unpredictability -- as well as a family attuned to nature's every nuance." --Publisher's Weekly, starred review. Clean copy
Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with half the spine missing, Blue cloth with silver and black eagle on cover and silver and black lettering. Black lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in b&w and 3-colors by Charles Child. Biographical rhyming verse: Columbus to Woodrow Wilson, some generic categories. Name on page opposite half-title, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, spine stamped in black and gilt, gilt faded. 165 pages, 20 Native American myths. Emdossed stamp on title page, otherwise clean, very good. Uncommon title.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing Co., 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a green cloth spine. An alphabet and number book illustrated in reds and blacks, with dashes of yellow and blue. Illustrated by Nerman. Spine has fraying to top and bottom of spine. Pencil name inside front cover otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations by Ray Cruz. Shows minor wear, otherwise nice condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.
Hardcover. NewYork, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering. Features 40 full-page etchings of Civil War scenes with commentary on opposite page.