New Zealand Native Trees I. [Mobil New Zealand Nature Series].
by Adams, Nancy M.
Auckland: Reed Methuen Publishers Ltd., (1984). 12mo, spiral bound (stiff, full-color illus. white wrappers), 79 pp. Fine (As New), in protective mylar wrapper.
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Dry Land: Man and Plants.
by Adams, Robert; Adams, Marina; Willens, Alan; Willens, Ann.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, (1979). First Edition, Review Copy. Quarto, blue leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, vii, 152 pp. Good+, with soiling to page edges, neat former-owner stamps, former-owners published review pasted to rear endpaper, in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From jacket: Over a quarter of the world’s surface is arid or semi-arid, and there... Read More
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Round the Year in Pudding Lane. Illustrated by Gertrude A. Kay.
by Addington, Sarah.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), full-color illus. paper label, gilt letters to spine, full-color illus. endpapers, 231 pp. Very Good+, with former-owner signature and lightly rubbed edges, in protective mylar wrapper.
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The Spectator. The Twelfth Edition. Seven [of 8] Volumes.
by [Addison, Joseph; Richard Steele, et al.].
London: Printed for J. & R. Tonson, 1739. Duodecimo, full original calf, calf labels. Portrait in oval on each title-page. Good; covers are rubbed, yet clean and tight, with each volume bearing the bookplate of “Congalton of that Ilk.”
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The Spectator. With Introduction and Notes by George A. Aitken. With Eight Original Portraits and Eight Vignettes. Eight volumes, complete.
by [Addison, Joseph and Richard Steele].
London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. This is actually the American edition, bearing the spine stamp of Longmans, Green, & Co., of New York. Eight volumes. Octavo, cloth, top edges gilt, uncut. Very Good; spines are faded, light shelf wear, generally clean and tight. Additional postage required.
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My Dreams Out in the Street.
by Addonizio, Kim.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007). Octavo, black & blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 257 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Rita Jackson is a young woman on the skids, spending her time in shelters and on the dot-com-drunk streets of late 1990s San Francisco. She’s a young woman haunted by... Read More
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Pioniere im Osten: Afrikanisches Heldentum. Mit 8 Bildern von Fritz Wittlinger sowie 11 Leisten und 2 Vignetten von Elisabeth Mannsfeld.
by Ade, Hans Christoph und Arnold Hillen Ziegfeld.
Stuttgart, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft (1923). Octavo, white illus. cloth (hardcover), 261 pp. Near-Fine.
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Roy Lichtenstein’s ABC.
by Adelman, Bob.
Boston: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown & Co., (1999). First Edition. Square octavo, illustrated boards (hardcover), [63] pp. Color illustrations throughout. Fine.
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A Time to Keep: History of the First United Methodist Church of Oviedo Florida, 1873-1973.
by Adicks, Richard; et al.
Union Park, FL: University Printing, Inc., (1973). Octavo, paperbound (stapled gold wrappers), 72 pp + Addenda & Errata page (laid-in). Very Good.
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The New Colophon: A Book Collectors’ Quarterly. Volume 1, Part Three (July 1948).
by Adler, Elmer, John T. Winterich and Frederick B. Adams, Jr.
New York: Duschnes Crawford, 1948. One of 2500 copies printed at The Asthoensen Press. Quarto, patterned boards, [iv], 221-312, [vi], [i] pp. Illus, ads. Includes: The True Story of ‘Herndon’s Lincoln,’ by David Donald; An Addendum to ‘Enemies of Books,’ by Michael Sadlier; A Mere Sale to Effect, edited by John H. Birss; Homer... Read More
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The New Colophon: A Book Collectors’ Quarterly. Volume II, Part Six (June 1949).
by Adler, Elmer, John T. Winterich and Frederick B. Adams, Jr.
New York: Duschnes Crawford, 1949. One of 2500 copies printed by E. L. Hildreth & Co. Quarto, patterned boards, [iv], 107-189, [i] pp. Very Good. Contents include: Another Man’s Roses, Frederick B. Adams, Jr.; On Belonging to Clubs, by Christopher Morley, and illustrated by Richard Erdoes; On Making a Few Books, by Alfred A.... Read More
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The New Colophon: A Book Collectors’ Quarterly. Volume 1, Part Two (April 1948).
by Adler, Elmer, John T. Winterich and Frederick B. Adams, Jr.
New York: Duschnes Crawford, 1948. One of 2500 copies printed at The Asthoensen Press. Quarto, patterned boards, [iv], 113-216 pp. Illus., ads. Includes: Stephen Crane, War Correspondent, by Ames W. Williams; Almost Books, by Frederick R. Goff; Reflections on Rarity, by John Carter; Silhouette of a Librarian, by George Boas; Holbein’s Old Testament... Read More
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The New Colophon: A Book Collectors’ Quarterly. Volume II, Part Five (January 1949).
by Adler, Elmer, John T. Winterich and Frederick B. Adams, Jr.
New York: Duschnes Crawford, 1949. One of 2500 printed by E. L. Hildreth & Co. Quarto, patterned boards, [vi], 104, [2] pp. Illus., ads. Includes: Epic on an American Theme, by Stephen Vincent Benét; Grabhorniana, by Oscar Lewis; Peter the Whaler, Plagiarist, by Malcolm M. Willey; Colored Paste Papers, by Rosamond B. Loring;... Read More
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AC 25 International Asbestos-Cement Review. January 1962, Volume 7, No. 1.
by Adler, Florian F.; Editor.
Zurich: Dr. H. Girsberger, 1962. Oblong octavo, stiff color-illustrated wrappers, 54, [3] pp. Photographs, plans. Published in English, French, and German. This issue focusing on “Building the churches for today.” Good; spine a bit chipped, moderate shelf wear.
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Revue Generale de L’Aeronautique Militaire Theorique et Pratique. Troisieme Annee. Tome V. -- Janvier 1914 -- 28e Livraison. Dans Ce Numero: Le Combat Aerien par G. Sensever et L. Ballif -- Anciens eleves de l’Ecole Polytechnique; Cinematique Aerienne; La Construction des Aeroplanes par P. James, Ingenieur civil des mines; Les Organes de Contact Avec Le Sol. Brevets d’invention concernant l’Aeronautique.
by Librairie Aeronautique.
Paris: Librairie Aeronautique, 1914. Octavo, paperbound, P. 237-307 [71 pp] + ads. Good, with chipping to spine.
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Sunshine and Sport in Florida and the West Indies.
by Aflalo, F. G.
London: T. Werner Laurie, (1907). First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth (hardcover), top edge gilt, uncut, xv, 272 pp. Photographs. Guide for the English sportsman, mostly along the southwest Florida coast seeking tarpon. Good; ex-private library with a sheet pasted inside the rear cover indicating such, hinges a bit wabbly.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families.
by Agee, James and Walker Evans.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. Octavo, slick black cloth (hardcover), silver letters, [64] plates + 471 pp. Near Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans were sent on a journalistic... Read More
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Religion and the Intellectuals. A Symposium with James Agee, Hannah Arendt, Newton Arvin, W. H. Auden, A. J. Ayer, William Barrett, R. P. Blackmur, George Boas, Robert Gorham Davis, John Dewey, Allan Dowling, James T. Farrell, Robert Graves, Clement Greenberg, Sidney Hook, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Paul Kecskemeti, Dwight MacDonald, Jacques Maritain, Marianne Moore, Henry Bamford Parkes, William Phillips, Philip Rahv, I. A. Richards, Isaac Rosenfeld, Meyer Schapiro, Allen Tate, Paul Tillich.
by Agee, James, [et. al.].
New york: Partisan Review, 1950. PR Series, Number Three. First Edition. Octavo, tan printed wrappers (softbound), 139 pp. Very Good, with edgewear and soiling to covers.
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The Glass of Fashion: Some Soical Reflections. Illustrated.
by A Gentleman with a Duster.
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1921. Second Printing. Large octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, untrimmed, xxi, 176 pp. Near-Fine, with slightly bowed covers, in a darkened dust jacket with hair-line tear. From jacket: The Gentleman with a Duster who so mercilessly and brilliantly clarified the mirrors of Downing Street, now... Read More
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Letter to the Honorable Mr. Hawes, in Reply to His Strictures on the Graduates of the Military Academy.
by A Graduate, Late an Officer in the United States Army.
New York: Wiley and Long, 1836. Octavo, string-bound wrappers, 30 pp. Top leaf loose, neat former-owner signature, soiling to wrappers. “Sir:-- / When one charged with the responsible duties of a legislator forgets the nature of the trust which he holds for the Commonwealth, and instead of consulting the common interests alone, endeavors to procure the enactment of... Read More
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Handbook of Latin American Studies: 1946.
by Aguilera, Francisco and Charmion Shelby, eds.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949. Handbook of Latin American Studies, No. 12. Octavo, silver stamped navy blue cloth, [v], 167 pp. Illus., map endpapers. Former-owner signature; otherwise Near-Fine in dust jacket with mylar protector.
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Antaeus: Ford Madox Ford. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Guest Editor Sondra J. Stang. No. 56, Spring, 1986.
by Ahlpern, Daniel.
Tangier: Drue Heinz, 1986. Octavo, softbound (stiff gray wrappers), 245 pp + [xiv] pp. Very Good, with edgewear to covers, darkened spine and edges. Contents: Sondra J. Stang: Introduction; William H. Gass: Ford’s Impressionisms; J. A. Bryant, Jr.: Ford Madox Ford - Tempermental Impressionist; Max Saunders: A Life in Writing - Ford Madox Ford’s... Read More
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If Your Child Stutters: A Guide for Parents. Revised Edition.
by Ainsworth, Stanley; Fraser-Gruss, Jane.
Memphis, Tennessee: Speech Foundation of America, [1981]. Octavo, stapled red wrappers, 40 pp. Fine. ‘This book is written for parents who are concerned about the speech of their young child...The goal of this book is to enable you to begin working with your child, and the clinician when necessary, with a better understanding of the problem. ... Read More
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Old St. Paul’s.
by Ainsworth, W. Harrison.
London: George Newnes Limited, MCMIII. Duodecimo, 3/4 leather and marbled boards, gilt letters and decoration to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-protected frontis., illustrated title, 637 pp. Very Good, with light edgewear and rubbing to spine.
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Crichton.
by Ainsworth, William Harrison.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. Third Edition, Revised. First with illustrations by Hablot K. Browne. Octavo, bound by Riviere & Son in 3/4 tan levant & marbled boards (hardcover), with original cloth and advertisements bound at rear, top edge gilt, uncut, vi + 353 pp + [vii] ads. Plates. Near-Fine; some minor scuffing, bearing the... Read More
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