The Century Edition De Luxe of Raemaekers' War Cartoons with Descriptive Chapters (VOLUME 1 ONLY))
by Allsion, J. Murray (ed). Roosevelt, Theodore (foreward by)
NY: The Century Co, 1917. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good +. Raemaekers, Louis. Volume 1 of 2 only. Cloth boards, gilt-pressed author name in uncommon cloth (canvas) wrapper with like gilt pressing. Title label flaked from spine else a fine unnumbered copy (1000 printed). gte, sdes untrimmed, 30 full color tipped in plates on Alexandra Japan paper.... Read More
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Decoration and Furniture: The English Tradition (Vol 1) and Principles of Modern Design (Vol 2)
by Allsopp, Bruce. Russell, W. H., et al (designs of)
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1953. First Edition. Cloth Boards, Gilt Titles. Fine/Near Fine. An apparantly unused copy - free of prev owner names, bookplates - in slightly rubbed unclipped dws. xvii + 236; xvii + 206, index. Illustrated. Best parts: b&w photographs of mid-war, Bauhaus and Deco inspired furniture and interiors like the Buttery at the... Read More
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SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS, INSECTS, &c. WITH REFLECTIONS DESIGNED FOR THE YOUNG VOL. II
by Althans, Henry
Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1827. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Stated first American edition title page. 12 mo, 216p, red leather-backed printed paper covers. Some of the paper over boards is perished, what remains is heavily soiled, rear cover holding by one binding tie. Contemporary ownership label with decorative surround, typical of the period. There's a charming, primitive quality... Read More
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JOLLY JUNGLE JINGLES
by Amend, Ottilie (story by). Barte, Eleanore (pictures by)
Joliet: P F Volland, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Unusually well-preserved copy, in broken pictorial box (top and bottom intact, sides unattached or missing). Covers fine. Internals as new, really. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.
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Collected Poems 1951-1971
by Ammons, A.R.
New York: W.W. Norton, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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Impressions of Ukiyo-Ye: The School of The Japanese Colour-Prin Artists by Dora Amsden
by Amsden, Dora
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1905. Revised Edition, First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Brown, rough weave cloth darkened, solidly ribbon-bound, internals near fine.
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Bonifacius and Little Bonnie
by Anckarsvard, Karen
NY: Abelard-schuman, 1963. First English Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Rosell, Ingrid. An apparently unread copy.
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Andersen Kalender 1911
by Andersen, Hans Christian. Salus, Hugo (translated by). Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban (illustrated by)
Vienna: Munk, 1911. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good +. This copy distinctively is hardbound with the cover design pasted on cream linen, with three-quarter blue cloth, gilt ruled. We could not determine if this is a publisher's variant binding or a custom rebinding of an original edition. With the 12 fabulous full-page color designs by Lefler and... Read More
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TEA AND SYMPATHY
by Anderson, Robert
NY: Random House, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Anderson to Jane and Bob (Emerson) who managed the Drama Book Shop, the go-to bookstore for theatre professionals and aficionados in Manhattan, for many years. Inscribed vertically on the edge of the ffe; "To Mom on Christmas 1953 Buddy
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TEA AND SYMPATHY
by Anderson, Robert
NY: Random House, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Apparently unread book in very good, moderately soiled dw. SIGNED BY ANDERSON on the ffe. Catholic Actors Guild stamp with Manhattan address on pastedown. Before the Boys in the Band, this was about it. Still, it endures. The Catholic connection adds a nice, ironic touch.
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The unknown Turner; revelations concerning the life and art of J.M.W. Turner, with an account of the discovery of his hidden signatures and dates and the publication of the only known original manuscript of any of his sketching tours, by John Anderson, Jr.
by Anderson, John Jr. (J. M. W. Turner)
NY: Privately printed for the author, 1926. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 1000 copies, this copy unnumbered. large 4to, blue cloth, gilt titles front and spine, gte, sides untrimmed, 153 p. illustrated with plates, map, facsimiles. Sound copy, internals quite nice.
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Mostly True: Collected Writings and Drawings (and) Still Mostly True (and) Going Somewhere Soon (3 volume set)
by Andreas, Brian
Decorah IA: StoryPeople, 1995. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Three uniform volumes, softcover, each a later printing, each initialed "with love BA" on its title page in cloth covered slipcase stamped in gilt. Books as new, slipcase a littlke soiled and moderately worn at one corner.
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COMMUNITY INDUSTRIES OF THE SHAKERS (NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM HANDBOOK 15)
by Andrews, Edward P.
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1933. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Near fine copy. Shows little if any signs of use. 322 pages, lots of illustrations.
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Museum of Soviet Unofficial Art
by Andreyeva, Natalia with Vitaly Dlugy, Alexander Glezer, Joseph Shneberg and Ludmila Thorne
Jersey City: Museum of Soviet Unofficial Art, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Exhbittion catalogue with three-page press release announcing this exhibition to celebrate the 25th anniversary of non-conformist art in the USSR. Also laid-in are 10 8x10 b&w glossies of some of the pieces in the exhibition.
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
by Angelou, Maya
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1986. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As New. As new. Signed by Angelou.
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ÈDENKERT: VERSEK (Garden of Eden: Poems
by Lesznai Anna
Gyoma, Hungary: Kner Izidor Kiadása, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Scarce first edition of an early work of poetry of Hungarian-born writer, graphic designer and member of Hungarian art circle known as The Eight. Lesznai (1885-1966) was born into a family of landowners, educated in European capitals, lived in exile in Vienna since 1919 and emigrated eventually... Read More
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The traffic in girls : white slavery as now practiced in America, including detailed descriptions of the customs and manners of the white women
by anonymous
Chicago: (unidenitified). Soft cover. VG+. Pamphlet, pictorial covers with picture and titles in blue ink on thin polished yellow stock, measuring 13x19cm, 31 pp, illustrated, pulp stock heavily toned, as expected. Title page title is "The traffic in girls : white slavery as now practiced in America, including detailed descriptions of the customs and manners of the white... Read More
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CARLO FRANCONI, THE LITTLE ITALIAN BOY AND OTHER STORIES FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT AND INSTRUCTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE
by anonymous
Philadelphia: C. G. Henderson, 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed first or certainly early edition, 1853 on title page, 1852 on copyright, in publishers tight weave brown cloth with a gilt-pressed image of an impoverished young boy and girl and a monkey front with blind-ruled and stamped border. unobtrusively rebacked with nearly all original spine with gilt... Read More
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SWEETS FROM FAIRY LAND
by (anonymous)
London/ NY: Ernest Nister/ E. P. Dutton 0. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Presumed first or early edition. Large 4t0, chromolithographed pictorial covers, pages disbound. No author identified, nor year of publication. c. 1880-90. Distinctive movable with 8 movable plates, plus text illustrated with line drawings, so that when a tab is pulled changes the configuration of the story... Read More
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MEMORANDA OF CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 1822 - c1832
by (anonymous)
anonymously hand-printed and illustrated, 1822. Hardcover. Near Fine. Replicas of the first 58 volumes of Curtis Botanical Magazine rendered, in hand-colored floral illustrations and holographic text edited from and amended to the original text by an anonymous English artistic hobbyist and rebound (likely early 20thC) in 24 volumes. William Curtis' first volume was published in 1787; Curtis's volume... Read More
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The Shipwreck or The Desert Island: A Moral Tale
by Anonymous
Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1840. Brown Cloth. Very Good -. Johnson. Extremely scarce, only 8 copies listed in OCLC. Jointly published by C. H. Kay & Co. in Pittsburgh. Faded spine ends and cover corners worn, small tear at left spine edge with signatures barely visible, minor scuffing to covers, gilt title in triple ruled box... Read More
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Ansel Adams, Images 1923-1974
by Ansel, Adams. Stegner, Wallace (foreward by)
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. First printing, unused book, oblong folio, as new in as new dustjacket in slipcase that has a slight strip of sunning to front panel. THE collectible copy.
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Comprehensive Plan for the Protection, Management, Development and Use of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail
by Appalachian Trail
Harpers Ferry, WV: Appalachian Trail Project Office, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. Scarce. Slight spotting to left edge front cover. Minor library label residue at lower end of spine. Rear cover lightly soiled. Binding tight, text clean.
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Ideen, Orte, Entwurfe: Architektur Und Stadtebau in Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland = Ideas, Places, Projects Architecture and Urban Planning in the Federal Republic of Germany
by Germany (West);Bund Deutscher Architekten
Ernst Henri, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Issued without Dustjacket.
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SISTER WOLF
by Arensberg, Ann
NY: Viking, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First novel of Ann Arensberg (1937 - 2022) and winner of the National Book Award in 1981. Dustjacket spine sunned as it almost always seen with this title, else near fine. Signed by Arensberg on the ffe.
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