Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Company, reprint, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 376 pages. 214 b/w illustrations throughout by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson. Gilt title and decorations on spine and front cover. Dark green cloth, some slight fraying at very top of spine. Illustration on frontispiece with tissue guard. Gilt edges still quite bright. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpapers. Light foxing throughout pages, but does not affect text or illustrations. Considering age in very good shape.
Hardcover. Fowlerville MI, Wilderness Adventure Books, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 277 pages, b&w illustrations, index. INSCRIBED BY KLEIN on the front fly leaf. Adventures canoeing in the wilds of Canada's Northwest Territories. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a scarce, bright dust jacket, 389 pages. Endpapers map, b&w photos. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with still in publishers shrink wrap. Visions of an American Dreamland highlights more than 200 images from Coney Island's history, including paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, posters, film stills, architectural artifacts, and carousel animals.
Hardcover. Tielt BE, Lannoo, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. The most recent project of Magnum photographer Carl De Keyzer; a sharp image of Congo as it is today. Dutch, French & English text. Stunning photo collection in high quality reproduction.
Softcover. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale , 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stiff paper covers with light edgewear, tanning, 356 pages, TEXT IN FRENCH. Illustrated throughout, folding map.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete. 811 pages, many b&w illustrations. Green cloth with black rule, gilt design and lettering, top edge gilt. Volume one with fraying to cloth at top of spine, previous owner's sticker inside front covers. Otherwise clean, very good set.
Softcover. London, Bemrose & Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Softcover with heavy wear to paper wrappers. Maps and black and white pictures. Previous owner's markings on rear and throughout. Spine paper removed.
Hardcover. Chicago, Poole Brothers, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Hardcover. Title and decoration in silver on cloth cover - darkening to edges. Illustrated with Sepia photographs. All edges gilt. Front hinge tender. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Street & Smith, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Book is divided into 4 sections: Cuba, Porto Rico, The Philippines, & Hawaii. Each with a fold-out color map. 178, 171, 174, & 178 pages respectively. All maps present and in very good condition. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. The pale green covers suffer from rubbing and abrasions causing discoloration, fading. Internally very good.
Hardcover. Washington, D. C., Smithsonian, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 58 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Berlin GR, Nicolai Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. GERMAN TEXT. The history of Berlin's grand hotel. The Adlon opened on October 23, 1907, with the Kaiser, his wife, and many other notables in attendance. It quickly became the social center of Berlin. As the rooms in the Stadtschloss were cold and drafty, the Kaiser paid an annual retainer to keep suites available for his guests.[2] Likewise the Foreign Office used the Adlon for accommodation during state visits, with guests including Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala. Notable guests of the early years included industrialists such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as politicians like Walter Rathenau, Gustav Stresemann and the French prime minister Aristide Briand. Many wealthy Berliners lived for extended periods of time in the hotel, while its ballrooms hosted official government functions and society events. Many photos. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Benteli Verlags , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover with a pictorial label, 192 pages. The faded remnants of a glorious past are captured in all their morbid beauty, in images that manifest the ephemeral and go beyond all conventional associations and conceptions of the American South: Days Gone By combines carefully crafted photographs from the past ten years with a cultural history of the region's social and structural changes. With an unflinching gaze, Jorg Rubbert presents the demise of countless small towns between Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, their suffering particularly tangible following the financial crisis. Rural towns, idyllic at first glance, are soon revealed as forgotten relics of times long past.
Hardcover. Birmingham AL, Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full gray leather. all edges gilt, ribbon marker, marbled endpapers, raised bands. Facsimile reprint of his landmark work first published in two volumes in 1838 and 1840. The author was a French aristocrat, political philosopher and historian. His travels through America and his astute observations about our government and it's people create an important historical portrait of the country at the time. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages plus 6 pages of ads. Previous owners inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Original advertising leaflet for book laid-in. Moderate rubbing, chipping to cover edges. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. New York, A. Wittemann, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown boards stamped in gilt. 29 plates with photos of Detroit landmarks in the late 1800s. Top half inch of spine cover gone, title page with a tan corner stain. Plates all clean. Front endpapers with previous owner's signature, address. Binding shaken, but holding.
Hardcover. Boston, L. C. Page & Company, 1st US, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gilt-stamped light gray cloth with Dickens' escutcheon in red & gold on cover, top edge gilt, frontispiece photographic profile of Dickens & 18 B&W photographic illustrations. Nice retrospective of London in reference to Charles Dickens life, book provides a brief look at Dickens' literary life, manner and customs, history of the area and more. 300 pages including index,
Softcover. Mechanicsburg PA, Stackpole, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages, paperback. A definitive guide to New England diners. Mild edgewear to wraps. With color photographs throughout. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Running Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. Donuts are America's favorite treat and, in Donut Nation, Ellen Brown travels the United States in search of the best donut shops. From beloved mom-and-pop establishments and roadside cafes to innovative boutiques and artisanal restaurants, there are more than seventy hand-crafted donut shops to take you from Maine to Arizona.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages, color photographs, Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Doors of the Kingdom is a unique collection of photographs depicting the ancient and disappearing craft of doormaking in Arabia. The Islamic concept of hurma, or sanctity of a place of dwelling or worship, is recurrent throughout Arabic poetry and literature. The door (bab), preserver of sanctity, becomes symbolic of the boundary between public and private space, and between the profane and the sacred. In 1995, Haajar Gouverneur traveled throughout the Arabian Peninsula photographing each region's distinctive doorways and the remaining artisans who make them. The doors of Arabia, painstakingly hand-carved from the wood of the Al-Athel trees, last in their exquisite variety for hundreds of years. This ancient craft, passed down from generation to generation in the central and northern regions of Saudi Arabia, is now nearly extinct. Modern materials, technology, and changing priorities threaten the continuity of the sacred and artisanal tradition of doormaking.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Hubbard Brothers, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark brown cloth stamped in black and gilt design, 443 pages plus 53 page appendix, b&w plates with a folding map (in excellent condition). B&w frontispiece portrait of the author, blue floral endpapers. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to corners. Title page says 1888, copyright page states 1887. Still believed to be a first printing. Early exploration through Chippewa country, source of the Mississippi, Grand Rapids, Minneapolis. Saint Paul, La cRosse, Rock Island, Saint Louis, Memphis, Natchez to Baton Rouge, New Orleans.
Softcover. Manchester, England, Manchester University Press, 1st Paperback Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good, has a crease at the top right corner of front cover. Pages clean and unmarked, edges have some light foxing/tanning. Binding tight. In great shape. This superbly-illustrated new book explores English society and its relationship to the landscape, as seen through photography and tourism over the last hundred years.
Hardcover. Hildesheim GR, Edition Olms, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 325 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, 120 b&w images. Once locked away in European archives, these early modernist photographs of America rival those of Steichen and Evans. Emil Otto Hoppe was born in Munich in 1878 but lived in London from 1900 until his death in 1972. He was an early and important modernist whose seminal views of the United States in the 1920s rival those of his peers: Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, and Walker Evans. His work shows us an America as only an outsider could: brave, new, and grand in scale but with a hint of trouble brewing in the gaps between its multicultural and economic diversities.