Recent finds newly listed!
New York: Harper and Row, 1987. Third Printing. Hardcover. Number line to "3." Signed on title page, with COA slip from an Indianapolis firm. Very good in dust jacket, minor wear. Too bad this book wasn't the foundational blueprint for Russia in the 1990s onward!
Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1990. First Printing. Wraps. Quarto, wraps, very good, light wear. With elaborate architectural drawing and inscription from Graves dated 1993 on first blank. Rare thus. 351 pp, illustrated, some in color.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, very good, no jacket, some offsetting and tanning to endpapers, text clean, old owner's name in pencil on flyleaf (Emerson Brown of Chicago). 358 pp. In 1935, William S. Gray of the University of.....
Wraps. 19 offprints from the collection of Juan Jorge Schäffer, mathematics professor at CMU. Halperin got his doctorate under Von Neumann in Princeton and taught at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario. He completed two unfinished manuscripts of Von Neumann's which were published without reference to him. In 1946 he was.....
Wraps. Hartman was an American mathematician at Johns Hopkins University working on differential equations who introduced the Hartman–Grobman theorem. We have, in no material order: On Generalized Ellipses (1959, with Frederick A. Valentine); On Functions Representable as a Difference of Convex Functions (1959); On Exterior Derivatives and Solutions of Ordinary.....
Waterville, ME: Colby College, 1996. Hardcover. A little cloth binder measuring 6.5 x 7 inches, about 50 pp. of text, mainly a list of the works by Katz on display, plus a conversation with Katz, architectural information, information on the museum in general, and pocket with 4 color slides, housed.....
Koln/Cologne: Galerie Gisela Capitain, 1992. Paperback. RARE! Printed paper wraps, octavo, 23pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book has very faint paperclip ghost to top front panel, mild rubs, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Pamphlet has same faint paperclip ghost at top edge, otherwise fine. Only one copy of.....
Harrisburg PA: Gustav S. Peters, 1828. Hardcover. 8vo, 7 x 4 inches, full original dark brown calf with two clasps, very good, light rubbing, usual tanning of the contents, a better than usual copy, with all 12 woodcuts collated complete. 511 pp.
Richmond: Peter Cottom, 1830. Hardcover. Fifth edition, with additions, the first to contain Pomeroy's Essay on Mules, and also the first to have an alphabetically arranged stud book. 8vo, original calf, red gilt stamped spine label, very good, light rubbing and wear to binding, light loss to bottom of spine.....
London: George Eld, 1614. First English languge edition. Folio (11.25 inches tall; 29 cm), slightly later sprinkled calf, good copy with general moderate rubbing and wear to binding, contents good with fairly faint tide-mark from damp-stain to much of the text, but not terribly so. ([16], 232 [i.e. 236], 212.....
New York: M. Walter Dunne; St. Dunston Society, C. 1903. Hardcover. 17 volumes, complete. The "Salon Edition" of 1244 sets of which this is no. 159, bound in full olive-green-brown leather, flat spines (that is, no raised hubs or bands), ornately gilt decorated, very good with minor occasional rubbing to.....
Hardcover. Kept by Mary Orr McClintock, 1803-1899 of Washington PA and Greene County. She has captioned each of the photos with name and sometimes additional information. Her husband, John (b. 1807) was a Presbyterian minister at the New Providence church in Carmichaels, PA, and his father, William McClintock, was a......
Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1909. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's dark green cloth gilt, very good, inscribed by author on April 24, 1912, "The Wedding Day," additional inscription from 1960 on flyleaf (non authorial), and author's frontispiece portrait also appears to be signed in pen underneath, and the author has also.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1936. First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo, 6 x 4.25 inches, original cloth backed boards, near very good, light wear and soil to covers, slight motting to cloth, stamp of Edgar Dale, Curriculum Division, Ohio State University in Columbus, and his small white numbers on.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, (1927). First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo, 6.25 x 4.5 inches, publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket, book very good, slight wear, corner creasing to a few pages, jacket good plus with general toning & soil, light edgewear and rubbing, light foxing, spine shows some rubbing and.....
Wien u. Nurnberg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1747. First Printing. Hardcover. Part two, Zweyter Theil, only. 8vo, contemporary half leather, good with rubbing and wear to covers but still solidly bound, contents very good, general light tanning, collated complete, light dampstaining to a few of the plates, and a few plates.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, pictorial blue cloth, near fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket, very rare in jacket, light rubbing and edgewear. A mystery aboard a yacht, involving an axe murderer. As one Goodreads reviewer wrote, "Most people don't realize that this book is.....
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1911. First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's green cloth in color pictorial dust jacket, book about fine, jacket very good, light wear, small chip to upper left of rear panel, about 1.25 x .25 inches. Extremely uncommon in dust jacket, this is the first book to collect stories starring "Tish,".....
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, C. 1913. First Printing. Hardcover. Presumed first, no date on title page, no subsequent printings mentioned. 8vo, maroon cloth gilt in dust jacket, book very good, foxing to endpapers, light toning to pages, in good pictorial dust jacket, some light loss, tears, general toning and soil, verso of.....
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1936. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket. Book very good, jacket fair with front flap split from front panel, general edgewear, chipping to rear panel and top of spine, yellowing, etc. Inscribed to Arthur McKeogh, "Whose abiding faith in this book from its inception.....
New York: Doran, C. 1915. First Printing. Hardcover. Probable first printing; the publisher was not consistent in the practice of putting their GHD logo on copyright pages to denote first editions and we have yet to encounter a copy of this book that has that logo. Cloth in dust jacket.....
New York: Stern and Reubens, 1919. 20 pp. agreement, mainly a carbon copy but with the actual signatures of Rinehart, Goldwyn and Beach plus the initials of Goldwyn and Beach next to a handwritten emendation. Some tanning and edgewear but generally very good. Agreement gives Goldwyn, as producer, exclusive right.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's orange cloth in pictorial dust jacket, book very good with minor wear, slight corner bumping, jacket good with general edgewear, a few short tears, moderate wear to spine, also in tanning plain see-through glassine dust jacket which is also edgeworn; this could.....
New York: Doran, 1926. First Printing. Hardcover. With Doran insignia on copyright page. Cloth in pictorial dust jacket, very good or better, owner's name on pastedown, jacket with just a touch of edgewear. Very uncommon in dust jacket.
New York: Hyperion, 2003. First Printing. Hardcover. Small square 8vo, cloth backed boards in dust jacket, nearly fine. With laid in postcard from Joanne Rogers to Ceci Sommers, who together with her husband Jack Sommers founded WQED-FM in Pittsburgh, the radio station that complimented the TV production facilities where the.....