With thunderstorms of books, a hail of ephemera, a squall of photos.
Hardcover. 12.5 x 10 inches, fair condition with recent cloth over spine, boards rubbed and darkened, some pages loose, and occasional abrasions to the cards, tears, etc. We count 48 leaves with an average of 12 cards per sheet. Christmas inscription on pastedown from 1882. Probably from NW Pennsylvania. A......
New York: Time, Inc., 1939. First Printing. Wraps. Quarto, 12 x 9.25 inches, spiral bound wraps, very good, light wear, slightly wavy. Paginated 1-48, 397-499, 49-128 (don't ask us why). With folding color "directional map" of the San Francisco fair by Ernest Born. Lots of great photos and articles on.....
New York: The Bankers Publishing Co., 1910. Hardcover. Large thick 8vo, 10 x 7 inches, publisher's red cloth gilt, very good with some darkening and soil to covers, contents very good, some old pencil numeric notes and calculations on endpapers. 1542 pp, with approximately 60 double-page color maps of all.....
New York: The Bankers Publishing Co., 1915. Hardcover. Large thick 8vo, 10 x 7 inches, publisher's red cloth gilt, good plus with some soil and darkening to covers, stains to back cover, contents very good, some old pencil numeric notes and calculations on title page. 1699 pp, with over 60.....
Edinburgh: John Anderson, Jun. 1825. First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto, 11 x 9 inches, slightly later half calf and marbled boards, very good, light wear to binding, slight restoration along outer joints, contents very good. 412 pp, frontispiece and one other plate, plus 4 pp. list of subscribers.
London: Macmillan, 1877. Hardcover. 2 volumes, inscribed in the first volume, "To W. C. Lake - with every good wish from his affection old friend, Matthew Arnold, May 31st, 1881." Bound in early 20th century full green morocco gilt, fair set with both front boards detached, light wear to spine.....
Paris: G. Cres, 1926. First Printing. Wraps. Small 8vo, pictorial wraps, good with wear, soil and light loss to wraps, pages quite tanned. Inscribed by both to theatrical director and actor Edmond Roze (d. 1943 Auschwitz), good copy in original yellow printed wraps, wraps moderately edgeworn, text tanned. Curnonsky was.....
Koln: Taschen, 2017. Hardcover. Folio, 15 x 10 inches, deluxe binding in full dark brown leather heavily gilt decorated, watered silk endpapers, maps in color. Most minor wear, still about fine.
London: Pickering, 1836. First Printing. Hardcover. Vol. 2 only. In contemporary half dark brown calf and dark green block cloth boards, good to very good, some rubbing and wear to binding, darkening to areas of the spine, contents show quite a lot of foxing to outermost pages and with foxing.....
Dry-mounted on 12 x 10.5 sheet of thick stock, signed and dated in pencil beneath the print. Photograph measures 9.5 x 7.75 inches. Verso has some notations and glue residue where a label with title and other information must have been. Bullock did do some tidal and coastal studies in.....
Goteborg: Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, 1937. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, rebound in green buckram, very good overall, with Adolf Grunbaum's signature twice, inscription to him from "Bibby" dated London 1950, a few pages show underlining mainly in pencil by Grunbaum. 265 pp. Important book and nice linkage between two philosophers who.....
Paris: Mourlot, 1964. First Printing. Wraps. 10 x 7.5 inches, wraps, very good, dust jacket which is an original lithograph by Chagall shows some tanning, light stains, soil, contents very good to fine, with original lithographs by Chagall, Picasso, Miro, Beaudin, Esteve, Matisse, Guiamond, Florsheim, Cathelin, Braslier, Brianchon, Cocteau, Minaux.....
PIttsburgh & Beaver Falls: Commercial Sash & Door Co., 1923. Hardcover. 10 x 7 inches, cloth, very good clean copy, 288 pp, heavily illustrated, two plates of stained glass in color. The style seems post-mission, clean lines, no frills, quarter-sawn oak. Uncommon catalog. The offices were in Pittsburgh, the factory.....
London: Taylor & Walton, 1847. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, ex-libris Bryn Mawr with their bookplate and withdrawn stamp, in blue library buckram, with white label on spine, book good with title page having perforated blindstamp and release stamp, bar code on rear flyleaf, ink stamp on pastedown, contents otherwise very.....
(Philadelphia): Franklin Survey Company, Ca. 1931. Hardcover. A huge and rare map, in 4 maps, each composed of 4 panels, each of the four maps measuring 28 x 40" -- the total area of the map, if all 4 quadrants were put together, would be 56 x 80 inches. In.....
New York: Scribner's, 1934-1935. Hardcover. 4 volumes, publisher's red cloth gilt, very good, spines dull and a littled rubbed and darkened, first volume SIGNED by Freeman in his small neat hand (not inscribed). All volumes have "A" on their copyright pages signifying first editions, and all volumes bear the ownership.....
New York: 1953. In a homemade envelope of gray paper, sent to Rena Lee in NYC (sister of Manfred Lee, part of the duo that comprised "Ellery Queen"), with handwritten greetings from Renee and Chaim Gross and with mounted 9 x 4.5" drawing of a champagne glass, unicorn and swan.....
Tokyo: The Asiatic Society of Japan, 1913. First Printing. Hardcover. 9 x 6 inches, cloth backed boards, about very good, light wear to spine cloth, boards a bit rubbed and quite tanned and darkened, contents very good, some toning. Paginated 683-878 pp. Most of the volume is taken up with.....
Cincinnati: J. A. James, 1836. First Printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo, publisher's plum cloth boards, recent cloth over spine, light restoration to inner hinges, contents very good, light toning and foxing, 1887 inscription on flyleaf and old owner's name on title page: W. R. Gormly. 284 pp, 2 pp. ads. A......
London: Printed for Alex. Hogg, Ca. 1790. First Printing. Hardcover. 7 x 4.25 inches, leather backed boards, fair copy, light restoration to spine, boards quite rubbed and darkened with quarter-sized loss of paper covering in the middle of the front board, contents good, general tanning and light wear, occasional old.....
London: Longmans, Hurst, Reed & Orme, 1805. First Printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, oblong folios, 18 x 12 inches in original paper covered boards with original title labels on upper covers, good set with some early 20th century restoration involving recornering the books with gray paper and using the same paper.....
San Francisco: SF Bay Area District Council no. 2 Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast, (1937). Wraps. 13.5 x 10 inches, wraps, general light shelfwear, light rubbing and wear along spine, scattered light abrasions to rear cover, still better than good. Approximately 60 pp, illustrated with photos by Otto Hagel.....
Paris and New York: Margaret Anderson & Jane Heap, 1929. Hardcover. 8vo, 9.5 x 7.5 inches, original covers (including the original paper spine) bound into gray cloth with leather spine label, very good. The final number of this esteemed expatriate literary journal, with contributions from 62 modernist authors, most if.....
Washington DC: Blair and Rives, 1848-1849. First Printing. Hardcover. Thick quarto, 12 x 9 inches, contemporary half red leather and marbled boards, gilt titled on spine, very good, light general rubbing and wear to binding, contents good to very good, occasional faint old tidemarks from damp-stains, first owner's signatures in.....
(Oakland, CA): Self Published, 1983. First Printing. Hardcover. Book bound in dyed fabric made by Marshall himself, bound Japanese style and in Japanese cloth wraparound chemise with stabs, very good, light stains to title page. Book measures approx. 9 x 7 inches with about 100 pages of text, illustrated with.....