11.75 x 8.25 inches, silk brocade covers, bound accordion-style, with 50 mounted photos measuring roughly 6 x 4.25 inches each, showing a festival and parade involving a "float," martial artists and many school-children, with quite a few activities. Some foxing or spotting to the accordion pages, but the photos in.....
Glasgow: R. Urie, 1751. Hardcover. Published 1751, small 8vo, rebound in late 19th century pebbled brown cloth gilt, 267 pp, 4 pp ads, 31 woodcut plates of coins and medals printed on rectos only, comprising 'Three Setts of Medals Illustrated by the Ancient Poets, in the foregoing Dialogues...'.
New York: Random House, 2016. Fourth printing. Hardcover. SIGNED / INSCRIBED by Svetlana Alexievich on the title page. 8vo. in black cloth and blue boards, dust jacket. 470pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Light edge wear to dust jacket, housed in mylar. Wear to spine ends. Internally bright.....
Stuttgart: Spemann, 1913. First printing. Hardcover. Stated Erster Band, but the only volume published in this projected series. viii, 297 pp, very good copy in half cloth and vertically patterned boards. Wiki: Karl Ludwig Bühler (27 May 1879 – 24 October 1963) was a German psychologist and linguist. In psychology.....
Milano: Editori Alfieri & Lacroix, (1917). First printing. Hardcover. First edition, (1917), large quarto (13.25 x 10 inches) original printed gray boards, 11 pp. text, 46 plates, some printed in bistre, others in blue, of Carpie's impressions of life during WWI in Italy, INSCRIBED by Carpi to a Professor Frank.....
Copenhagen: The Danish Museum of Art & Design, 2008. First printing. Paperback. Wraps, illustrated throughout (some in color), clean unmarked text, near fine copy, creasing to page 9 /10. Text in English. Uncommon.
London: Nattali and Bond, (1855). Hardcover. Ninth edition, no date on title page, but 1855 seems the accepted date. 3 volumes, tall 8vo, finely bond in dark plum morocco, raised bands, gilt titled on spine, leather and gilt turn-ins, all 80 plates present, illustrated and colored title page for vol.....
Pittsburgh: ca. 1960s. ca. 1960s oil on canvas-lined board, 15.5 x 12 inches. In frame and mat, 22.5 x 18 inches. A lovely still life of flowers in a vase, featuring Contis' iconic "Byzantine Butterfly". Near fine in a near fine frame. Peter Contis is a Pittsburgh artist known for.....
New York: William Morrow, 1948. First edition thus. Hardcover. Hardcover octavo with yellow cloth boards in dust jacket. Book and jacket are in Very Good + condition. Jacket has chipping and edge wear and one small patch of writing. Book has staining to the text block and cover, previous owners.....
London: Published by C.Baldwyn, 1823-1824. Hardcover. Published 1823-1824, tall 8vo, two parts bound together, in somewhat later half leather and marbled boards, good copy with some scuffing and wear to leather, contents shows foxing and the plates are printed on a paper that has turned a deep tan (less so.....
Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1929. Limited ed. Hardcover. 1929. One of 400 copies. Hardcover, large 4to., vellum-backed boards. Fine in original slipcase. Printer's prospectus on the type face laid-in. Printed by George Jones at the Sign of the Dolphin. Slipcase with light fading and signs of soil from handling.....
Modena, Italy: Franco Cosimo Panini, 1994. Hardcover. Three volume complete set in slipcase and original cardboard box! Gilt stamped black silk covered boards, quartos, various paginations, illustrated in color. Books have rubbing to silk boards, bindings tight, texts clean bright and unmarked. No DJs. Slipcase gently rubbed. Cardboard case has.....
London: W. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Creech, 1774. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1774, rebound in green cloth boards, octavo, 434pp., not illustrated. Book VG with rebound boards showing bright title gilt and stain on spine, mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, no half-title page, faded.....
London & Oxford: 1671-1672. Hardcover. 3 volumes often found bound together, all later printings from 1671 to 1672. 8vo (7.75 x 6 inches), contemporary calf boards, recent cloth over spine, good with some wear to one corner, contents very good, each with its own title page, collated complete. A nice.....
Louisville KY: Touchstone Publishing, 1972. First printing. Approximately 150 pp of typescript, mostly carbons but also original typed pages, with many corrections in pen and pencil as well as several notes in shorthand on the versos of some of the sheets, in Jim Hart's hand. Provenance: estate of Samuel Marx.....
(London): np, 1641. Paperback. 1641. No publication info. Small vignette on the title page. 12 pp. Pages bound together; no covers. Bold text. Very old underlining and marginalia to a few pages. Digital images available upon request.
Granada: Higueras y Otero, 1859. Hardcover. First edition, 1859, wraps bound into full vellum with gilt seal of Bibliotheca Hispana, title handwritten on spine and back cover, 76 pp. OCLC cites one copy, only in the library at Granada. We have tried to make contact with the Spanish National Library.....
London: W.B. Clive, 1924. Second edition, fourth impression. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. 1924. Second edition, fourth impression. Hardcover, 8vo. in brown cloth, with gilt spine titles. 372, 508pp. illustrated, plus index and ads. Very good. wear to spine ends and corners, edges and endpapers foxed. Ownership signature on front.....
London: J. Johnson, 1788. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. 8vo. in worn full leather. 308, 346pp. plus index. Ex defunct institutional library, with spine labels, ink number on pastedown, and stamp on title page. Fair otherwise. Heavy rubbing and surface loss to boards and spine, boards detaching from spine. Light.....
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Hardcover. No. 208 of 300 copies, small quarto, cloth backed batik cloth boards, very good, minute rubbing to corners and top of spine, contents fine. 198 pp, index.
Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture/Whitney Museum of American Art/Harry N. Abrams, 2001. Hardcover. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, oblong quarto, 791pp., illustrated in color and b&w, with large fold out chart at rear. Book has handsome boards with sun to edges of boards and spine, binding tight, text clean.....
Bordeau: Delmas, 1970. First printing. Paperback. One of 300, this one inscribed from Marshack to Ralph Solecki, a prominent archaeologist, "who, from 1964 to 1971, was always there to offer advice and help. My deepest appreciation and much, much thanks. Alexander Marshack." Folio (15 x 11 inches), stiff gray wraps.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1882. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, large 8vo, pictorial light brown cloth, very good, light wear to spine ends, small bump to bottom board of second volume, moderate foxing to both volumes, heaviest at outermost leaves and more prevalent in second volume. Text block edges sprinkled.....
The letters date from 1886-1893, and are divided fairly evenly between letters from James McCann to his wife Martha and her letters to him. Most letters are 4 or more pages, one is upwards of 15pp. Most have their envelopes. In addition, there is one letter each from Thomas Spencer.....
New York: Delacorte Press / William Morrow, 1966, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. 5 volumes total, the first edition of the first volume from 1966, very good in used dust jacket with light stains to front flyleaf, with Goldman's estate stamp, "From the Library of William Goldman (1931-2018).....