Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn, soiled dust jacket. 94 pages. Features a short foreword by Margaret Mead. Includes numerous black and white images by Jill Krementz. Light tan cloth with blue lettering on spine. The book is in clean, excellent condition, the dj fair to poor.
Hardcover. Boston, Jr. Lit. Guild/Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Hardcover with black stamped illustration on front cover. B&w illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Mild stain to several pages and light rubbing to covers, otherwise tight and clean. Faded spine.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil spot on bottom of page block. Dust jacket is protected in plastic, but has light abrasion to paper near bottom spine front. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages, boards. Story of a little black fish, the only one left from an entire school. 1964 Caldecott Honor Book. Color illustrations by the author. Small brown stain on front of dust jacket. Dust jacket edgewear and chipping.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color, black & white illustrations by Anastaiya Archipova. Color illustration on front of glossy boards.
Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, First Thus, 1946, 162 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, light scuffing to boards, toning throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to preliminary pages. Black & white illustrations and photographs. Clean unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York , G. G Putnam's Sons , 1st , 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages hardcover. Blue cloth bindings. Black and white illustrations at chapter headings. Illustrated flyleaves and end pages. Top edge decorative stain. Gilt decoration on spine and cover. Some shelf wear and soiling on front and back cover, otherwise clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Chicago IL, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color and black & white illustrations by Margaret Ayer. 128 pages. Orange cover with green writing. Mild soiling to covers, edgewear. No dust jacket.
Softcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 2nd, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers, Color, Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 190 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. The documentary style that dominates American photography had its origins in the social reform publicity campaigns of the turn of the century. This book traces the history of this genre and its main participants, including Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Russell Lee. Clean copy.
Softcover. Paris, Mouton & Co., 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 495 pages. FRENCH TEXT. 10 black-and-white plates. Some creasing along spine. Minor edge wear. Binding a little cracked where plates begin and end. Good, unmarked copy. (Agrarian Systems and Agricultural Progress: Three-Field Crop Rotation in Russia in the 18th and 19th Centuries).
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with green and gilt stamping. A story of love, murder and suicide, described by one critic as "atmospheric to the verge of mystical." The novel concerns a woman named Felicia Lissell, who travels to Rhodesia with her aunt, to visit the farm of Dick Cardross, but she doesn't suspect that "dangerous social complications awaited her in the gay English colony nearby." The author, born Lilian Julian Webb in London in 1862, was a resident of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 1896. She achieved international recognition with the publication of her story collection "Virginia of the Rhodesians" in 1904, and went on to great success as the author of numerous novels. Owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Devin-Adair Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated boards with a black cloth spine. 252 pages, b&w photographs, map end paper. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers. Hinges weak. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine and front cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Additionally with a note to the title page stating she has hand-corrected some 20 errors in the printed text, unique thus. An epic poem "on the lives of a young composer-aviator and his intimates and casual acquaintances the accumulated wisdom and lore of the world in which we live." Winner of the Yale Poetry Award. No dust jacket. Mildred Dodge Jeremy Ingalls was an American poet and scholar of Chinese literature. In 1943, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on her major poem, The Thunder Saga of Tahi, this being the result. Spine gilt faded.
Hardcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red endpapers. Decorated cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. An innovative exploration of the place of the erotic in Renaissance art and culture, focusing on a notorious set of images created by the young Italian master Giulio Romano. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 139 pages. Black & white illustrations by Marjorie Flack. Previous owner's bookplate pasted to half-title page. INSCRIBED BY LOMEN to previous owner on front flyleaf. Clean cover.
1986, Coffee House Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Spine lightly faded on dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Rhonda McClun. A dandelion in the garden of an autocratic rose-fancier triumphs over the threat of extinction.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in pencil opposite half title page. Full color and black & white illustrations by Masha. Dust jacket with chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 156 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, black & white illust. by Henry Pitz. Ex-lib with modest marking, residue. Dust jacket with light chipping. Glue abrasion on title page at gutter.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth spine with color pictorial boards, 248 pages. Illustrated in color and black/white by Anne Anderson and Alan Wright. Edges of cover chipped, paper tanning, chipping to paper on rear cover. hinges tender. No date.
Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering and decoration on spine and front board. The author's reminiscences of time in the trenches during World War I. An American serving at the time with British 'Tommies', he also wrote 'Over the Top' and other books about his experiences. Front fly leaf missing, book opens to half title page, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London , E. Nister, unk, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 319 pages. 6 color plates and 70 half-tone illustrations by W. Paget. Green cloth covers with red, yellow, and gold decoration. Gold and black lettering. Beveled edge. Front hinge cracked. Soiling to covers. Wear to extremities. Sticker on front end paper.