NY, The Press of the American Institute of Architects., 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Complete with 24 watercolor prints and 44 plates. Loosely bound in case with cloth ties which has cracking along spine. Interior very good. Number 677 of 1000. Elephant folio 23" tall. "A Series of Historical Examples from Roman Times to the End of the XVIIIth Century." An appreciation of historic French infrastructure that survived WWI. Beautiful large color reproductions of original watercolors of bridges by Pierre Vignal; 35 black and white drawings by Louis C. Rosenberg & Samuel Chamberlain; 44 measured drawings, photographs, diagrams, and maps. DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with only light wear to paper wrappers. Cartoons throughout in black and white by Lorenz. Remainder mark on top.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace , 1st US, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 200 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. This copy previously owned by author Roger Shattuck and includes his underlining and editing of text in various colors of ink. Upper right corner of front cover bumped. Foxing to endpapers and edges. Dust jacket quite worn.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 170 pages, top edge gilt, 8 color Illustrations by H.C. Christy. Light wear to cover decoration in gilt and 2-colors by Margaret Armstrong. Light corner wear to cloth.
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. 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, 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.
Softcover. Barstow CA, Back Door Publishing, 2nd Ed., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 607 pages of text and black & white illustrations. The book is signed and inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. After 22 years of interviewing old timers and researching newspapers, archives and document, Walker finished this book on California bootlegging, rum-running and moonshining. The years covered are from 1917-1935, the war years, Roaring 20s, and early depression years. Bootleggers, moonshiners, border patrolmen, and constables tell their own stories. To cover more of the state, about 30 local authors and historians contributed their articles. Clean, bright copy.
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. 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.