Root and Branch
by Stallworthy, Jon
London: Chatto and Windus/ The Hogarth Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. An apparently unused copy, fine in near fine dw w/ a lightly toned spine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.
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THE YOUNG ARCHITECTS
by Stanley-Brown, Katharine
NY: Harper and Brothers, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG+/NF-. General readership architectural survey of important American residences and home re-design at the height of the Colonial Revival. Distinctively preserved copy - red cloth with title pastedown - in uncommon dustjacket decorated with American samplers in sampler graphic style.
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COLLEGE GIRLS
by Stanlaws, Penrhyn (illustrator)
Princeton NJ: Princeton Tiger Publishing Company, 1901. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. Booklet, w/ tan pictorial covers printed in red and brown, stapled spine, unpaginated, 40 pages, with 16 full page pen&ink illustrations w/ blank versos of college girls at: Wellesely, Baltimore, Smith, Cornell, Mount Holyoke, St. Andrews (Scotland), Mills, Heidelberg, Byrn Mawr, Radcliff, Ann Arbor, Wilson, Vassar,... Read More
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Majorcan Houses and Gardens: A Spanish Island in the Mediterranean
by Arthur Byne and Mildred Stapley
NY: William Helburn Inc, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio, red cloth, gilt titles. Spine faded, minor loss at its tips, corners moderately worn, covers a tad soiled. Solidly bound, internals near fine. xvii of text, the 188 full page gorgeous plates, 5 in color. Extra shipping charges will apply.
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EAST IS WEST
by Stark, Freya. (Davies, Winifred)
London: John Murray, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/Very Good. Green cloth, solid binding, lacking dustjacket. Ownership copy of English teacher and rock climber Winifred Davies with her signature lightly penciled on the ffe. Davies (d1939) was the daughter of David Davies and a niece of the sculptor William Davies (Mynorydd). She was a cousin of the climber Owen... Read More
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Taegliches Hand-Buch in guten und boesen Tagen, das ist: Aufmunterung, Gebete u. Gesaenge, I. Fuer Gesunde, 2. Fuer Betruebte, 3. FuerKranke, 4. Fuer Sterbende. Nebst Mebreren Festandachten und. (STARK's HANDBUCH)
by Stark, Johann Friedrich
Philadelphia: Rohler, 1867. First or Early US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First or early American printing from German plates. 8v0, vii + 596 + 106pp. Original black leather binding, prefiessionally rebacked, brass clasps, marbelized endpapers. Some staining to prelims and first 8 pages, else internals very good. Rear hinge revealed, still binding strong.
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Report of Special Committee to Investigate the Indain Porblem of the State of New York, Appointed By the Assembly of 1888
by (Native Americans) (New York State)
Albany: The Troy Press Company, Printers, 1889. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. NF-. Original binding of dark brown fine ribbed cloth, gilt-pressed titles spine. 410 pages. Gilt soiled at spine and a short tear to cloth at spine foot, else near fine. A solid. clean copy.
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English Florilegium
by Stearn, William T.; Brickell, Christopher
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Abbeville Press, Incorporated, 1987. Cloth. Fine/Fine -. Grierson, Mary.
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ICELAND: THE FIRST AMERICAN REPUBLIC
by Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
NY: Doubleday Doran, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A near fine copy in better than very good dw. Inscribed by author Stefannson on the ffe and dated by him December 5, 1939, year of publication.
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The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions
by Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
NY: Macmillan, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Second printing of the Artic exploration classic. xxxi, [1], 784 pp, illustrated with all maps in original folds in rear pocket. From the library of American philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, owner of Sears Roebuch, and his wife Augusta with their bookplate, designed by Marie Blanke on the front pastedown, which... Read More
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Gedenkbilder für Elisabeth Steffen
by Steffen, Albert
Dornach: Verl. f. Schöne Wissenschaften, 1961. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Portfolio, with 4 pages of text and 12 fulkl color plates, each 12 x 17", a commemorative suite of painting dedicated to his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1961 just two years before his own death. Albert Steffen (1884 - 1963) was a Swiss poet, painter,... Read More
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Wolf Willow
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: Viking, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine -. price clipped, a couple of very faint splotches on dw, possibly coffee? else fine and clean, no previous owner markings.
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Adolf Stieler's Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde und über das Weltgebäude. 95 Karten
by Steiler, Adolf
Gotha: Justus Perthes 0. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Adolf Stieler's Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde und über das Weltgebäude. In original pebbled full leather binding, moderately worn at hinges and corners. 8 pages of text, all 95 maps extant and in fine condition. Undated, circa 1870s. Extra shipping charges will apply.
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Stein, Gertrude. (Alice B. Toklas)
NY: Harcourt Brace, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. First edition, inscribed by Gertrude Stein and signed, too, by Alice B. Toklas. Copies signed by the pair are highly uncommon. Stein has inscribed the book on the free front endpaper to Dr. (indecipherable), then below her signature is Toklas's in shaky hand. Lacking the dustjacket (though a... Read More
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TORTILLA FLAT
by Steinback, John. Gannet, Ruth (illustrated by)
NY: Covici Friede, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, second issue dustjacket. The price from the front flap has been excised along with the top inch of it. Dustjackety toned most obviously at spine which is chipped at its head. Solid, clean book with no names, inscriptions or bookplates.
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PASSION (Pair of Special and Trade Edition)
by Steiner, Robert
Lincoln MA: Penmaen Press. First Edition -. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. Golahny, Berta (woodcuts). McCurdy, Michael (book design). Two copies; one the special edition, the other the regular edition, both uniform 8vo. The deluxe edition is cloth over decorated boards. one of three hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author and artist. The trade edition... Read More
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Mariage Freres French Tea: Three Centuries of Savior-Faire
by Stella, Alain. Kitti Cha Sangmanee. Frank Desains
Paris: Flammarion, 2003. Hardcover. As New. As new in cloth slipcase. Signed on the half title by two of the three entrepreneurs and tea connoisseurs who brought the Paris firm founded by the Mariage family in 1854 into a new realm. A handsome production.
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KNOLL CATALOG: STEPHENS SYSTEM
by Stephens, Bill (office design of)
NY: Knoll International. Soft cover. Near Fine. Full color, unpaginated (12 pages) catalog, measuring 8.5" square, of the office system designed by Bill Stephens for Knoll International. Undated, c1980s.
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A Poetry Recital
by Stephens, James
London: MacMillan, 1925. First Edition. Half Cloth. Very Good/Good. jacket soiled with a number of closed tears, small piece missing top spine, internally clean, uncut pages, spine exposed halfway through, some toning endpapers.
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ENGLISH LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: FORD LECTURES, 1903
by Stephen, Leslie
London: Duckworth and Co, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, publisher's polished, tan linen, gilt titles spine, beveled edges, 224p, Duckworth device blind-stamped rear cover. Some light fosxing largely at prelims and rears. Handsome book. Stephen, noted for his literary criticism and mountaineering, perhaps more famous as the father of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Bell.
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BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS 1981 -1986 and OPEN STUDIO (2 titles)
by Stern, Robert A. M (Pelli, Cesar)
NY (and) NY: Rizzoli (and) Monacelli, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Two copies about or by American architect Stern presented by him to Argentinian-born Pelli, the work of both having transformed the look of cities in the US and worldwide and how we see and use urban space. Both copies, as new, from the personal library... Read More
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Garden Flowers in Color
by Stevens, G.A.
New York: MacMillan, 1936. First Edition. Cloth. Fine -/Very Good +. toning and foxing to dw, but only a fwe chips, very small piece missing from top of spine.
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An Illustrated Guide To The Flowering Plants Of The Middle Atlantic And New England States
by Stevens, George T.
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First edition, 8vo, green cloth, gilt titles front and spine, 749p, illsutrated. Solid, clean copy.
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THE NOVELS AND TALES OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSN (random lot of 10 of 26 vols)
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Pyle, Howard et al. Volumes 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 19, 24. Uniformly bound red cloth, gilt spine titles. Spines dulled/soiled, internals fine, sturdily bound.
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DIOGENES IN LONDON AS WRITTEN BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AND PRINTED FOR THE FIRTS TIME FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BY EWDWIN & ROBERT GRABHORN FOR JOHN HOWELL
by Stevenson, Robert Louis. Hopkins, Ernest Jerome
San Francisco: Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, 1920. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. VG-. Grabhorn's 1920 edition of Stevenson's telling of Diogenes, different from its 1921 edition. This edition has a different introduction by Hopkins (not Vincent Starret) and different title. The colophon of this early version identifies 150 copies, this unnumbered, printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn and bound... Read More
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