Walker Evans American Photographs
by Evans, Walker; Lincoln Kirstein (introduction); Monroe Wheeler (foreword)
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1962. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. Second Edition. Hardcover. Later edition with price of $7.50 on jacket. This MoMA monograph is a landmark book in 20th century photography. Evans (1903 - 1975) was a photojournalist best known for his work documenting the Great Depression. In very good condition in black... Read More
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Pointe Shoes
by [Even Hoshen Press] Someck, Ronny; Ido Agassi (printer and binder); Hana Inbar and Robert Manaster (translators)
Israel: Even Hoshen, 2009. Hardcover. Fine. Someck, Ronny. Someck, Ronny. Hardcover. Number 35 of 88 copies. Signed by the author and printer. A collection of five poems by Ronny Someck about ballet with two hand-colored illustrations. Someck is an Israeli poet, musician, and artist who has won multiple awards for his poetry including the Prime Minister's Award, the... Read More
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An Address Delivered at the Annual Examination of the United States Naval Academy, 28 May, 1863
by Everett, Edward
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Pamphlet. Very Good. Pamphlet. SCARCE. Very good pamphlet in beige paper wrappers. Rear wrapper detached but present. Minor chipping to edges. Interior is clean and bright. 23 pages. American History. AME/12052.
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Code of the Public Local Laws of Dorchester County (Article 10 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland)
by Everstine, Carl N. [ed.]
Baltimore: Kings Brothers, Inc, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Stamp of previous owner to front free end page, title page, and rear free end page. Many pages include type written notes taped into the margins. Browning has occured under the tape but does not effect the text. Else... Read More
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The Blowing of the Seed
by Everson, William
New Haven, CT: Henry W. Wenning, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Number 147 copies of 218 copies signed by the poet. Copies 5 to 215 were for sale, with the first three copies lettered a, b, c reserved for the poet, publisher, and printer. William Everson (1912 - 1994), was also known as Brother Antoninus, A deeply serious... Read More
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Lecture. 1951. The Future of Local Government
by Eve, Sir Malcolm Trustram
London: University of London / Athlone Press, 1951. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Lecture delivered on 6 February 1951. Octavo in light blue side-stapled paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Slight browning to edges of wrappers and margins of pages. 22 pages. ENGHIS/090815.
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The first editions of A. E. Coppard, A. P. Herbert, and Charles Morgan, with values and bibliographical points
by Fabes, Gilbert H.
London, Myers & Co. [1933]. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. Bound in blue cloth in a chipped dust jacket. Very good condition. 154 pages.
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Colloquial Sinhala. Part 2: Lessons 25 - 36, Appendix, Glossary
by Fairbanks, G. H., J. W. Gair, M. W. S. De Silva
South Asia Program, Cornell Univeristy, 1984. Paperback. Very Good+. Paperback. SCARCE. Second Printing. Beige illustrated paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper and to spine. Spine faded to white. Minor edgewear to spine ends and corners. Light creasing to spine. Interior is clean and bright. 251 pages. IND/112918.
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The Gathering of Brother Hilarius
by Fairless, Michael
London: John Murray, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Floral design to front board and spine. Minor rubbing to designs and minor fading to edges of boards and to spine. Yapp edges (over hanging boards). Minor foxing to end pages. 171... Read More
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Cecilia de Noel
by Falconer, Lanoe [Mary Elizabeth Hawker]
London: Macmillan & Co, 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Lanoe Falconer was the pseudonym of Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908), the Scottish novelist, pianist, and short story writer. This scarce book was a very popular supernatural novel in its day about ghostly encounters. In very good condition in original dark blue cloth boards. Light bumping to corners... Read More
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A Christmas Greeting from the Van Sinderen Family at Glenholme Farm. December 1937
by Van Sinderen Family
William E. Rudge's Sons, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited to 400 copies. Once a renowned horse farm, this property located in Washington, CT is now a boarding school. Navy blue paper covered boards with gilt title "A Christmas Greeting!" to front cover. Minor wear and soiling to covers. Slight browning to spine and edges of boards. Occasional... Read More
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Contemporary Argentinean Women Writers. A Critical Anthology
by Fares, Gustavo and Hermann, Eliana, eds.; Britt, Linda, trans
University Press of Florida, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. "With this anthology, the voices of fourteen major Argentinean women writers will be heard for the first time in English. Along with their short stories and novel segments, the collection includes an interview with each author and a bibliography of her work. Since its original publication in Spanish, the collection... Read More
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Military Music (The World of Music)
by Farmer, Henry G.
London: Max Parrish and Company, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Vg/G+ Dj, Many small dj edge tears, chips, Area of dj tape-repaired at lower spine, small tear to endpaper Music. MUS108301.
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Julian Home A Tale of College Life
by Farrar, Frederic
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Frederic Farrar (1831-1903) was a senior cleric of the Church of England, as well as being a schoolteacher, philologist and author. He was the Archdeacon of Westminster from 1883-1894, and Dean of Canterbury from 1895 until he died. Farrar was also elected to the Royal Society in 1866... Read More
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The Bookman (3 ISSUES)
by Farrar, John (editor)
New York: George H. Doran, 1923. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. Three issues G+ in green wraps/wear to wrapper edges on all three volumes/buyer gets the August and September 1923 issues and the February, 1924 issue. Books on Books. BOB111011.
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The Bookman: January, 1924
by [Farrar, John, ed.]
New York: George H. Doran, 1924. Paperback. Good ++. Paperback. G++ in blue wrappers/wrapper edgewear Periodicals. BOB811151.
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Decision in the Atlantic: The Allies and the Longest Campaign of the Second World War
by Faulkner, Marcus and Christopher M. Bell [edited by]
Andarta Press, 2019. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in blue/green and brown illustrated matte paper covered boards with dark blue and light blue title to front board and dark blue title to spine. Pristine interior. Index, 313 pages. WWII/050919.
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Wilfred Scawen Blunt and the Morrises
by Faulkner, Peter
London: William Morris Society, 1981. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. First annual Kelmscott lecture of the William Morris Society given on 30 September 1980. Fine in purple paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Sewn binding with white thread visible along spine. 45 pages. MOR/080515.
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William Morris and Eric Gill. William Morris Society. 1975
by Faulkner, Peter
London: William Morris Society, 1975. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. Limited to 1750 copies. This essay was developed by Peter Faulkner from one for which he was awarded a Peter Floud Memorial Prize in 1963. In light blue paper wrappers with black title to spine and front cover. Clean and bright. 32 pages. MOR/080415.
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William Morris: The Critical Heritage
by Faulkner, Peter [editor]
Great Britain: Rutldege and Kegan Paul, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. This is a part of The Critical Heritage series, which covers more than 90 authors and documents their criticism by contemporaries. Includes 84 reviews and articles of numerous Morris works, with a 29-page introduction by Faulkner. Contemporaries include Swinburne, Henry James, Walter Pater, Ruskin, Tennyson, Browning, Rossetti,and... Read More
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Wilfred Scawen Blunt and the Morrises
by Faulkner, Peter
London: William Morris Society, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. First annual Kelmscott lecture of the William Morris Society given on 30 September 1980. Very good in purple paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Sewn binding with white thread visible along spine. Minor wear to edges of wrappers and minor fading along spine. 45 pages. MOR/080515. ... Read More
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The Death of Venice (1st Edition)
by Fay, Stephen and Knightley, Phillip
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./190 pp./illus. Italian History. ITH112201.
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Justice in Moscow (1st Edition)
by Feifer, George
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./353 pp./contents bright & clean/first-hand report on Soviet courts from an American point of view. Russian History. RUS6/5132.
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The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites
by Ferber, Linda S. And William H. Gerdts
New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Paper Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to. Illustrated color wrappers with title to spine and front panel. Minor rubbing/wear to panels and edges. Tightly bound with clean interior and numberous color and B&W plates. An excellent reference. Catalogue, & index, 288 pp. PRERAPH/033006.
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Father Tom and the Pope, or a Night in the Vatican
by (Ferguson, Samuel)
New York: A. Simpson, 1867. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. According to the Dictionary of Irish Biography (Peter Denman, contributor), Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810–86) "wrote ‘Fr Tom and the pope’, a burlesque targeting Fr Thomas Maguire (1792–1847) a catholic controversialist, for Blackwood's. The story was frequently reprinted in the nineteenth century, because it is richly comic but also as... Read More
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