The Peril and the Preservation of the Home
by Jacob A. Riis
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co, 1903. Cloth. Near Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1903 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in its navy-blue cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the spine. Internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings to speak of. 12mo, "Being the William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1903 ... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
by Jacob A. Riis
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1890. Pictorial boards. Very Good. A solid, very presentable copy of the 1890 true 1st edition of this seminal study of poverty on New York's Lower East Side, with its pictorial boards over navy-blue cloth and with the matching "1890" dates at the title and copyright pages. Tight and VG, with light spotting... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
The Old Town
by Jacob A. Riis
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909. Decorative Cloth. Very Good +. W.T. Benda. SIGNED BY JACOB RIIS on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1909 1st edition. Solid and VG+ in its gilt-bordered pictorial cloth, with light rubbing to the rear panel. Thick octavo, line-drawn sketches by W.T. Benda complementing the text.... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
by Jacob A. Riis
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1890. Cloth. Very Good. A solid copy of the 1890 1st edition, in its variant gray cloth binding, with blue titling and decorative blue bordering. Tight and VG, with bumping to the tips and light spotting along the panels. One signature loose (pgs. 195-208) but still holding. Thick octavo, dozens of evocative illustrations... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
Neighbors: Life Stories of the Other Half
by Jacob A. Riis
New York: Tha Macmillan Company, 1914. Decorative Cloth. Very Good +. A very presentable copy of the October 1914 1st edition. Bright and VG+ in its pictorial cloth, with bright gilt-titling and design along the spine. One small former owner stamp at the front pastedown, light spotting along the rear panel's lower corner. 12mo, 6 full-page illustrations (sketches)... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement Life in New York City
by Jacob A. Riis
New York: The Century Co, 1898. Pictorial cloth. Very Good +. The 1898 1st edition of this poignant look at the impoverished of turn-of-the-century New York. Tight and VG+ in its dark-gray pictorial cloth, with several tiny spots along the panels and a neat, small former owner name at the front free endpaper. 12mo, top-edge gilt. A handsome... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
Riley Farm-Rhymes
by James Whitcomb Riley
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1905. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. Will Vawter. The 1905 printing of this charming James Whitcomb Riley collection, in its uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Solid and VG+ in a crisp, VG- dustjacket, with small, decorative pasted-on leaf to the front panel, light chipping along the panel edges (including the spine ends) and several small,... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
Auguste Rodin
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Leipzig: Im Insel-Verlag, 1913. Boards. Near Fine. A clean, very well-preserved copy of this early, 1913 printing. Tight and Near Fine, with bright, completely unrubbed gilt-titling along the spine. Just a touch of light scuffing at the rear panel, very light bowing to the front board. Octavo, Rilke's tribute (in its native German) to the great French sculptor... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
Oeuvres de Jean-Arthur Rimbaud
by Jean-Arthur Rimbaud
New York: Brentano's, 1943. A handsome copy of the 1943 1st thus, published out of New York but in Rimbaud's native French. Tight and VG in its pictorial wrappers, with darkening along the spine. Octavo, 231 pgs., preface by Robert Goffin.
Offered by Appledore Books
My Story
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. The 1931 1st edition, in its wonderful Joseph Cummings Chase-illustrated dustjacket. Solid and VG (very light sunning along the top-edges, mild offsetting at the front free endpaper, tasteful former owner bookplate to the front pastedown) in a crisp, VG dustjacket, with light chipping along the top-edges. Thick octavo,... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
Complexation in Analytical Chemistry: A Guide for the Critical Selection of Analytical Methods Based on Complexation Reactions (In Dustjacket)
by Anders Ringbom
New York: Interscience Publishers (John Wiley & Sons), 1963. Cloth. Very Good -/Very Good -. The 1963 1st edition, in its uncommon dustjacket. A cleanly ex-libris copy, with an institutional stamp ("Atlas Chemical Industries") at the front free endpaper, a libray stamp to the toip and bottom-edges, a bit of tape at the flap-folds and the library pocket... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
The French Collection, Part 1
by Faith Ringgold
New York: B Mow Press (Being My Own Woman Press), 1992. Stapled wrappers. Near Fine. Faith Ringgold. A clean, sharp copy of the 1992 1st edition. Crisp and Near Fine in its stapled white wrappers. Oblong quarto, designed by Cicely Cottingham.
Offered by Appledore Books
The Grecian Orders of Architecture. Delineated and Explained from the Antiquities of Athens
by Stephen Riou
London: Printed by J. Dixwell, for the Author, 1768. 1/4 calf. Very Good +. The 1768 1st edition of this imposing folio, elegantly bound in a 20th century 1/4 calf over marbled boards by Starr Bookworks of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Decorative blindstamped compartments, 6 raised bands, leather title and author labels along the spine. Tight, handsome and solidly... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
Believe It or Not!
by Robert Ripley
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Cloth. Very Good. INSCRIBED BY ROBERT RIPLEY on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the August 1929 9th printing, consisting of 5,000 copies. Tight and VG in its dark-green cloth, with bright red-titling along the front panel and spine. Very light dusting at the panels, just a bit... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
Stigma and Perseverance in the Lives of Boys Who Dance: An Empirical Study of Male Identities in Western Theatrical Dance Training (Review Copy)
by Doug Risner
Lampeter, Wales: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. Pictorial cloth. Very Good +. A clean, very sharp copy of the 2009 1st edition. In fact a Review copy, with the "Review" stamp appearing at the lower half-title page. Tight and VG+ to Near Fine in its gray pictorial cloth, with several very light strands of soiling to the panels.... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
An Uncertain Grace
by Sebastiao Salgado (Essays by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin)
Aperture Foundation, Inc, 1990. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A crisp, very sharp copy of the 1990 1st edition, in its less common hardback edition. Clean and Near Fine (just a touch of very light bumping at the tips) in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Salgado's exceptionally powerful black-and-white photos throughout of the desperately poor and voiceless. Essays by... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty
by Joseph Ritson
London: Richard Phillips, 1802. Full leather. Very Good. Impassioned early 19th century essays by Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) on the physical and spiritual merits of vegetarianism. The 1802 1st edition, bound in a mid-19th century full-morocco by J. Clarke of London. Raised bands, 6 compartments (4 of which show intricate gilt-tooling and design, 2 of which show blindstamped titling).... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
1 PG ALS
by Larry Rivers
New York, 1959. Warm 1959 handwritten, signed letter from New York School artist Larry Rivers to New York friend --and collector-- Morris Golde. A light streak of smudging affecting several of the letters but still perfectly legible and presentable. 6" x 9". Also includes the original handwriten envelope, stamped Jan. 15th, 1959.
Offered by Appledore Books
Wajih Nahle: Pour Un Nouveau Graphisme Arabe 1952-1977
by Andre Parinaud and Joseph Abou Rizk
Beirut, Lebanon: Contemporary Art in Lebanon, 1978. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 1978 1st edition of this important monograph on leading Lebanese painter and sculptor Wajih Nahle. Captions and text in French and English. Good quality reproductions, many in color. VG in a bright, VG dustjacket. Quarto, 280 pgs. A glimpse into the latter 20th century world of... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
Preschool Vision: Tests--Diagnosis--Guidance
by R.J. Appell and R.W. Lowry, Jr.
St. Louis: The American Optometric Association, Inc, 1959. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. The 1959 1st edition of this examination of testing the vision of pre-schoolers. Solid and VG (light spotting to the panels) in a crisp, VG dustjacket, with light chipping at the spine crown and very light creasing --with several small closed tears-- along the panel edges.... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
79 Park Avenue
by Harold Robbins
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY HAROLD ROBBINS on the front free endpaper. A tight, solid copy to boot of the 1955 stated 1st edition. Clean and VG (a light band of offsetting along the top-edges, light fading along the spine) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with light chipping at the... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
On Ancient Lights, and the Evidence of Surveyors Thereon
by Robert Kerr, Architect
London: John Murray, 1874. Cloth. Very Good. Ther scarce 1874 edition (though the title page is dated 1865) of this early dissertation on lighting, here divided into three sections: "The Rationale of the Law of Ancient Lights"; "The Employment of Window-Lighting, and the Classification of Lights"; and "The Meassurement of Window-Light, and Proof of Its Diminution and Damage".... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
The First Book of Sewing
by Catherine Roberts
New York: Franklin Watts, Inc, 1956. Pictorial cloth. Near Fine. A handsome copy of the 1956 stated 1st printing of this uncommon title in the wonderful "First Book of" children's series, published by Franklin Watts of New York. Clean and Near Fine in its off-white and green pictorial cloth. Richly illustrated as well by the author herself throughout.... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
Aprendendo Com Las Vegas ("Learning from Las Vegas" in Portuguese)
by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour
2003: Cosac & Naify, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pictorial wrappers. Near Fine. A handsome copy of the 2003 presumed 1st Portuguese edition of the seminal architectural title "Learning from Las Vegas". Clean and Near Fine in its original pictorial wrappers. Octavo, dozens and dozens of crisp black-and-white plates throughout. Translated from its original English into Portuguese by Pedro Maia... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
Learning from Las Vegas
by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1972. Pictorial cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ROBERT VENTURI (AND SIGNING ALSO FOR HIS PARTNER DENISE BROWN) on the front free endpaper. A solid, well-preserved copy to boot of the 1972 1st edition of this seminal manifesto in urban planning. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG example of... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books