CAW (Students for a Democratic Society)
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New York: New York Regional Office, SDS, 1968. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. First Edition. The very first issue (Vol. 1, No. 1) of this SDS magazine, 1968. Bright and VG+ in its original pictorial and stapled wrappers. Quarto, 87 pgs.
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Esquire 1949 Pin-Up Calendar
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New York: Esquire, Inc, 1948. Collectible; Very Good. 12 nicely-rendered color sketches by Al Moore. Spiral-bound, clean and bright and solidly VG. The 1949 calendar, each month graced by an Esquire beauty.
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Seymour Chwast
Tokyo: Seibundo Shinkosha, 1972. Laminate boards. Very Good +. Very impressive Japanese monograph on the great graphic designer and illustrator Seymour Chwast. WONDERULLY INSCRIBED BY CHWAST on the front free endpaper. A clean, solid copy to boot. Tight and VG+ in its pictorial, laminate boards, with just a touch of light spotting at the panels. Tall quarto, vivid... Read More
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Exhibition of the Map of the City of New York -- Paris Exposition, 1900
New York: Board of Public Improvements, City of New York, 1901. Cloth. Very Good +. The uncommon 1901 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in its deep-blue, with decorative bordering and bright gilt-titling along the front panel. The small mark of an old paperclip at the top-edges of the first several preliminaries, very light wear to the rear panel.... Read More
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The Twelve Days of Christmas: A Picture Book By Robert Broomfield
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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1965 1st US edition. Clean and VG+ in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with one small chip at the front panel's top-edge. Oblong quarto, 31 pgs. Nicely illustrated thruout by Robert Broomfield.
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The Barnard College Mortarboard 1907 (The Barnard College Yearbook)
New York: Columbia University, 1906. 1/4 suede. Very Good +. A solid, sharp copy of the Mortarboard, Barnard College's 1907 yearbook. Clean and VG+ to Near Fine in its 1/4 suede over light-brown boards. Internally, just a bit of offsetting where small groups of flowers had been laid-in. Square octavo, dozens of wonderful period ads at the front... Read More
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Landscape Planting and Engineering
New York: Lewis & Valentine Co, 1922. Pictorial cloth. Very Good. Elegant, uncommon 1922 catalogue showcasing the beautiful landscape plantings of Lewis & Valentine Co., based in New York but also with branches in Rye, Boston, Detroit, Ardmore PA, Miami and Valley Stream and Roslyn Long Island. Crisp, lavish black-and-white photos showcasing some of the great estates of... Read More
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The Quebec Bridge: Carrying the Transcontinental Line of the Canadian Government Railways Over the St. Lawrence River Near the City of Quebec, Canada
The Canadian Bridge Company, Ltd, 1918. Card Wrappers. Very Good. Fascinating booklet describing in words and crisp black-and-white photographs the --often fraught-- history of the construction of The Quebec Bridge. Solid and VG to VG+ in its ribbon-tied gray wrappers, with mounted photo of the completed bridge. One 2" closed tear along the front panel's bottom-edge, light soiling... Read More
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Legendes Bretonnes
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Paris: Editions De L'Abeille D'Or, 1921. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. The 1921 1st edition, in its original decorative wrappers. Solid and VG, with light chipping along the spine. Internally, clean as could be, with the color plates --and decorated pages-- bright and immaculate. Quarto, wonderfully illustrated by Maurice De Becque.
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The Conchologist: A Quarterly Magazine for Conchologists (Vols. I-III)
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London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The first 3 issues of "The Conchologist: A Quarterly Magazine for Conchologists". By the 2nd volume the magazine was renamed "The Conchologist: A Journal of Malacology" and by Vol. III just "The Journal of Malacology". All 3 volumes clean and solid. Each volume rebound in a uniform dark-green... Read More
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The Celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Primitive Organization of the Congregational Church and Society, in Franklin, Connecticut, October 14th, 1868
New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers, 1869. Cloth. Very Good +. A presentable, well-preserved copy of the 1869 1st edition. Tight and VG in its dark boards, with blindstamped rule to the panels and bright gilt-titling along the spine. Very light scuffing at the rear panel, light offsetting to the pastedowns and endsheets. Several pages of... Read More
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The Heart of Creation: The Art of Martin Ramirez
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Goldie Paley Gallery--Moore College of Art, 1985. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. The 1985 catalogue of the exhibition at the Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art. Bright and VG+, with very light creasing to the panel edges and light soiling along the rear panel.
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Dispersion Relations and Their Connection with Causality (In Dustjacket)
New York: Academic Press, 1964. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. A solid, sharp copy of the 1964 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, VG to VG+ dustjacket, with light creasing at the spine crown and along its top-edges. Octavo, text exclusively in English. "Italian Physical Society: Proceedings of the International School of Physics 'Enrico Fermi'... Read More
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The Genealogy of the Royal Families of England, Showing the Succession to the Crown from Egbert the Saxon. The First Monarch of England. To His Present Most Gracious Majesty William the Fourth, of the Illustrious House of Brunswick
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Privately Published. 1st. Full-Leather. Collectible; Very Good. A sumptuously-bound, beautiful genealogy of the Royal Families of England, spanning the millenium from the mid 9th century to the mid 19th century. Elaborate, well-researched family lines, 9 engraved armorial family crests at the rear. Full light-brown morocco with gilt-bordering at the panels and spine. 5 raised bands. dark red leather... Read More
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James Lee Byars
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New York: Mary Boone Gallery/Michael Werner Gallery, 1988. Cloth. Very Good +. The catalogue based on the January 1988 exhibition at New York's Mary Boone and Michael Werner Galleries. Tight and VG+ in its dark cloth, with just a touch of light staining at the rear panel's upper tip. Tall quarto, all edges gilt, crisp color reproductions thruout.... Read More
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Smith Water Works Specialties & Supplies: Catalogue No. 30
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East Orange, NJ: The A.P. Smith Mfg. Co, 1930. Hardcover. Collectible; Very Good. Wonderful 1930 "water works" catalogue, issued by the A.P. Smith Co. of East Orange, NJ. Beautiful plates thruout, including crisp black-and-white photos, steel engravings and blueprints of the interiors of specific parts. Tight and VG in its black leatherette, with decorative gilt-embossing to the front... Read More
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Kate Greenaway Pictures
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London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1921. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. From Originals Presented by Her to John Ruskin and Other Personal Friends". A crisp, clean copy of the 1921 1st edition. VG+ with bright gilt-lettering to front panel. Tall quarto, an 11 pg. appreciation by H.M. Cundall plus beautiful tipped-in Greenaway illustrations with printed tissue guards. ... Read More
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Bruno Ceccobelli: D'Avo Uova
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Bologna, Italy: Galleria Nicola Verlato, 1989. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. The catalogue based on the October-November 1989 exhibition at Bologna's Galleria Nicola Verlato. Solid and VG+ (with light soiling at the front panel) in its printed white wrappers.
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First Poems
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New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc, 1969. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. A handsome copy of this beautifully-illustrated children's poetry book. 1969 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with foxing at the panels and light foxing to the fore-edge. 64mo, Brenda Meredith Seymour's rich color illustrations thruout.
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Urban Housing: The Story of the P.W.A. Housing Division 1933-1936
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1936. Very Good +. Handsome copy of the 1936 1st edition of this study of the P.W.A. (Public Works Administration) Housing Division of Roosevelt's New Deal from 1933 to 1936. Clean and Near Fine in its patterned boards, with very light wear along the tips and the spine ends. Crisp black-and-white photos throughout... Read More
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Two Evenings with Allen Ginsberg -- Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Steven Taylor (LP Record)
Munich: Loft, 1980. Vinyl. Very Good. An impressive, one-of-a-kind copy of "Music and poetry by Allen Ginsberg (and Corso, Orlovsky and Taylor), recorded live at LOFT, Munich, Dec. 6th/7th, 1979". THE 33 1/3 LP RECORD HAS A WONDERFUL SET OF INSCRIPTIONS --WITH ART WORK-- ON ITS WHITE INNER-SLEEVE: INSCRIBED BY ALLEN GINSBERG TO GREGORY CORSO, ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY... Read More
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De Groene Amsterdammer 1940-1945: Herinneringsalbum door L.J. Jordaan
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Amsterdam: De Groene Amsterdam. Original wraps. Very Good. A remarkable collection of anti-German illustrations by the Dutch artist L.J. Jordaan which appeared between 1940 and 1945 in Amsterdam's leading weekly newspaper "De Groene". Executed in lavish color --and with startling artistic skill-- these pointed attacks on all things Nazi-related cut very deep and seem reminiscent in their jagged... Read More
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Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature (4 Volumes from the 1940s)
Urbana, Illinois: ACCENT, 1945. Original wraps. Very Good. 4 early isues of Accent, 3 from 1943, 1 from 1945. Impressive literary quarterly from the 1940s and '50s, issued out of Urbana, Illinois. These 4 issues, all solid and VG in their stapled wrappers, show very light wear, except for Summer 1943, which does have a bit of chipping... Read More
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Grand Slams: Sixty Bridge Cartoons
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Philadelphia: Horizon House, 1938. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. A handsome copy of the 1938 1st edition. Solid and VG+ in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with minor soiling at the front panel and several small closed tears at the panel edges. Quarto, unpaginated.
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Carlo Ciarli: La Fabbrica Delle Rose (Rose Factory)
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Zurich: Rudolf Mangisch, 1988. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. The catalogue of the 1988 exhibition at Rudolf Mangisch Gallery, Zurich. Crisp and VG+ in its stapled yellow wrappers. Text in English, German and Italian.
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