Recent finds newly listed!
Yangon / Rangoon: The People's Handbook and Temple of Literature, Ca. 1955. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 7.25 x 5 inches, publisher's dark ruddy red boards stamped in gilt, very good, containing 6 short books in wraps, both front and rear wraps bound in, no date, but probably mid-1950s. 5 of the.....
New York: USSGA, 1963-1968. Wraps. 6 consecutive issues. Each 10.5 x 8 inches, wraps, very good, ranging from 36 to 64 pp each, illustrated. Each with minutes from the annual meeting, information about the annual tournament, including players, past winners, scores, profiles and photos of members, information on related matches.....
Hardcover. Large binder with red leatherette spine and patterned boards, housing 645 pp. typescript of Dolvid, Parts I-III, plus hand-drawn map and 2 pages of genealogical and chronological tables. Numerous small holograph corrections to script, which is present mainly as a carbon but with some pages original. Dated at the.....
Berkeley: Center for Environmental Structure, 1970. Second Printing. Wraps. Quarto, 11 x 8.5 inches, wraps, very good or better with just a touch of wear. 219 pp, illustrated. With laid in loose page, "Jurors' comments on 4 of the international submissions" from April 1970 Architectural Digest. Appears 7 years before.....
Guatemala City: University of San Carlos of Guatemala, 1968. First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto, 12 x 9.25 inches, cloth in dust jacket, very good clean copy with light wear. Well illustrated including 10 plates in color. 480 pp, text in English and Spanish.
Paris: B. Waree, de L'Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1808. First Printing. Hardcover. New edition, the first to expand the original 3 volume edition with a 4th volume. 4 volumes, complete, 8v, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, mid-19th century half dark red calf and marbled boards, stamped in gilt on spines, very good.....
(Shippensburg): Beistle Co., Ca. 1920s-30s. 9 x 6.25 inches. No date, publisher or any such information, but purchased in a group of similar satirical broadsheet cartoons from the 1920s-30s, many of which were published by the Beistle Co. in Shippensburg, PA, so we're presuming these were printed by them, too.....
Shippensburg, PA: The Beistle Co., Ca. 1925. 10 x 7 inches, cover sheet plus 24 loose sheets with red borders, each with a cartoon printed on a tinted background and a 6-line poem in satirical verse style, lampooning their subjects -- the boss's pet, the meek husband, the proud papa.....
(Shippensburg): Beistle Co., Ca. 1920s-30s. 10.5 x 7.75 inches. No date, publisher or any such information, but purchased in a group of similar satirical broadsheet cartoons from the 1920s-30s, many of which were published by the Beistle Co. in Shippensburg, PA, so we're presuming these were printed by them, too.....
(Shippensburg): Beistle Co., Ca. 1920s-30s. 10 x 7 inches, on newsprint quality paper, with satirical cartoon of a suffragette and 4 lines of verse. No date, publisher or any such information, but purchased in a group of similar satirical broadsheet cartoons from the 1920s-30s, some of which were published by.....
Jamaica: Sangster's Bookstores, 1966. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's red boards stamped in gilt, in dust jacket. Signed by Bennett and Nettleford to some local Pittsburghers when the two came to town to read work from this book under the auspices of the International Poetry Forum. Rarely found signed. Very.....
Pittsburgh: Allegheny County Board of Commissioners, 1934-1935. Hardcover. 8 x 6 inches, black cloth stamped in gilt on front cover, a bound volume containing 4 booklets, 100, 158, 61 & 61 pp., some illustrations, all published under the auspices of the Allegheny County Board of Commissioners, which comprised three individuals.....
Milano: Universita di Milano, 1961-1965. Wraps. Bombieri (b. 1940) is an Italian mathematician, known for his work in analytic number theory, Diophantine geometry, complex analysis, and group theory. Bombieri is currently Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Bombieri won.....
Wraps. 68 separate offprints, all in wraps, very good, occasional light wear. From the collection of Juan Jorge Schäffer, math professor at CMU. Each one has a small pencil annotation in upper right corner. Browder (1927-2016) was an American mathematician known for his work in nonlinear functional analysis. He received.....
New York: Pantheon, 1966. First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book about fine, jacket very good with light wear. Inscribed to Arthur and Rosemary, Sandy Calder; Arthur and Rosemary Hagadus ran a bookshop in Bridgeport CT (The Open Bookshop) that primarily sold new books in the arts, children's.....
London: Macmillan, 1876. Hardcover. Later edition. 8vo, publisher's dark red cloth gilt, good with some rubbing, discoloration and wear to binding, light abrasions along fore-edges of boards, inner hinges slightly touched up, contents very good, mild tanning, very mild spine lean, inscription from 1953 on half title.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. First Printing. Hardcover. No. 150 of 800, this one signed on the half title and with signed bound in frontispiece etching. Folio, 16.25 x 12.5 inches, bound in publisher's half undyed rough linen and dark red cloth boards, very good in quite worn two-part slipcase.....
Wraps. Coleman was a senior fellow at the Mellon Institute, and he remained there from 1957 to 1988. During this time, he was also a professor of mathematics (1967-1988), professor of biology (1974-1988), and professor of chemistry (1984-1988) at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1988 he moved to Rutgers University to.....
Paris: Aux Bureax D'Abonnement et de Vente, 1839. First Printing. Hardcover. Bound volume containing one of the earliest accounts of photography. 11.25 x 8 inches, quarter cloth over patterned boards, very good, light wear to binding, offsetting to endpapers and light toning to contents. 412 pp, illustrated. With important article.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's dark sea-green cloth, gilt spine, very good but lacking large map in pocket at rear; minor wear to binding, light restoration to inner hinges, ownership signature on flyleaf of Professor Ba Nyunt, 1954, then at London University (he would.....
London and New York: Verso, 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. True first printing with no subsequent printings listed of this classic of urban studies. Very good in very good dust jacket, no major issues, just light wear, and non-authorial inscription on flyleaf. 482 pp.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1978. First Printing. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, deep pictorial orchid cloth, fine copy, signed by Emberley in 1978. Rare in the first, especially signed! With related bookmark laid in.
New Haven: Yale University Press, C. 1919. First Printing. 8vo, stiff card covers with printed blue overwrap, very good, inscribed "To Tom Beer with much admiration, John Farrar, New York City, May 1920." Probably the recipient was Thomas Beer, who graduated from Yale in 1911 (Farrar graduated from there in.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, C. 1919. First Printing. 8vo, stiff card covers with printed blue overwrap, very good, light wear, minor loss to bottom of front overwrap. With the bookplate of Stephen Vincent Benet, who was intimately associated with Yale and the Younger Poets series; he was a student.....
Pittsburgh: 1943. Wraps. A folder full of material regarding Senate Bill 1243, authorizing the construction and operation of demonstration plants to produce synthetic liquid fuels from coal and other substances, in order to aid the prosecution of the war, to conserve and increase the oil resources. A hearing jointly held.....