THE END OF THE GAME
NY: Viking Press, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good in very good, price-clipped dw. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. More
New Arrivals
TIME AND AGAIN
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Price-clipped dustjacket that observes all first state points: no BOMC slug on bottom right rear cover, 20497 on rear dw panel bottom right and caption "Fifth Avenue from 34th to 14th - is enchanted" below photo at bottom... More
FASHION IS SPINACH
NY: Random House, 1938. Brodovitch, Alexey. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Decorated cloth covers, designed, as are endpapers and text decorations, by Alexey Brodovitch. Covers a tad soiled, corners worn, spien slighty cocked, still presentable in good condition (lacking scarce dw). More
alleverythingthatisyou
Aspen CO: Baldwin Gallery, 2006. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Limited to 1000 copies, this numbered 398 on original, individually printed dustjacket. As new all over. More
THE SOUL AFIRE: REVELATIONS OF THE MYSTICS
NY: Pantheon, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, Very good in very good dustjacket. Neat owner name on ffe. More
GARDEN-CRAFT OLD AND NEW
London: KEgan POAul Trench, Trubner & Co, Ltd, 1891. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's tan linen, gilt-pressed titles and device front and spine, beveled edges, sides untrimmed. Covers browned around edges and moderately worn at corners, minor loss spine head. Solidly bound. Illustrated with 16 plates. A solid, unsophisticated copy. More
HOW TO KNOW THE WILD FLOWERS: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of Our Common Wild Flowers
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Satterlee, Marion and Elsie Loiuse Shaw. New Edition after the First Thus. Hardcover. 1926 edition of the New Edition of 1921, with colored plates. Decorative binding oif green cloth after Margaret Armstrong (uncredited). Better than very good copy, inscribed and dated January 1927 by author... More
Rumsfeld, Donald. Early revised draft, RUMSFELD'S RULES, plus photocopy of typed letter signed, December 1991.
Chicago: Photocopied draft by office of author, 1991. 1st Edition. No Binding. The famous (or infamous) Secretary of Defense and one of the principal architects of the Iraq War (currently portrayed by Steve Carrell in the movie VICE about Vice President Dick Cheney) began composing his own "words of wisdom"... More
ALL EIGHT HARRY POTTER TITLES: The Philosopher's Stone; The Chamber of Secrets; The Prisoner of Azkaban; The Goblet of Fire; The Order of The Phoenix; The Half-Blood Prince; The Deathly Hallows; and The Cursed Chold
NY: Scholastic, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1999 - 2017. The seven novels plus the eighth installment, the play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The first four titles are a boxed collection in slipcase. The earlier titles are later printings, the most recent first editions, all American editions. The boxed... More
Story Number 1 and 2
NY: Harlin Quist, 1978. Naprstek, Joel. Failly, Gerard. 1st Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Variant editions, these the smaller format . Story 1 illustrated by Joel Naprstek, Story 2 by Gerard Failly. Both fine in near fine dustjacket. More
ACCENT ON AMERICA
NY: E. Weyhe, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1675 copies. Black cloth, stamped red titles and eagle design. Lacking dustjacket, spine faded. Illustrated with a series of woodcuts of eagles by book designer Armitage. Inscribed by Armitage to Milton Lancelot, author and authority on WWI aircraft on the dedication... More
A Legacy To Wage- Earning Women: A Survey Of Gainfully Employed Women Of Brattleboro, Vermont and of Relief Which They Have Recieved from the Thomas Thompson Trust
Boston: Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The original edition. Gray cloth, gilt-stamped titles front and spine. More
MY LOVE, WHERE SHALL WE MAKE LOVE?
Malmo, Sweden. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Squarish, accordian-style fold out, pictorial paper covers, unpaginated. Covers a wee tanned and a 2" splity alonhg fold bottom of paper cover spine. Internals fine. Undated c 1970. More
22 CELLS IN NUREMBERG: A PSYCHIATRISRT EXAMINES THE NAZI CRIMINALS
NY: Greenberg, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Solid, clean book - no names, inscriptions or bookplates - in unclipped dw, missing a 1/2" strip top of spine and moderatley chipped at bottom and corners. Striking dustjacket art, unattributed. More
THE SWEET SCIENCE - BOXING AND BOXIANA, A RINGSIDE VIEW
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Solid, clean copy - no names, inscriptions or bookplates - in unclipped dw that is slightly faded at spine with loss at ends, more noticeably at top. Chipped corners, too. Still, a presentable copy. More
THE WANDERERS
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. First edition, near fine in near fine unclipped dw. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and collectible thus. More
CRINMSONED PRAIRIE: THE INDIAN WARS ON THE GREAT PLAINS
NY: Scribners, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Warmly inscribed by the author on the ffe and dated 14 Feb 73, to Bill Hopanki, likely Native American, "For my good friend and host, Bill Hoponaki, who has known wars as badly messed up as these with many thanks and all good wishes. Sean Marshall" More
Story Number 1,2,3,and 4 for Children (4 volumes, complete series)
NY: Harlin Quist, 1978. Delessert, Etienne. Corentin, Philippe. Nicolett, Jean-Michel. 1st Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. First illustrated editions, large format (4to) volumes 1 and 2 illustrated by Etienne Delessert, volume 3 illustrated by Philippe Corentin, and volume 4 by Jean-Michel Nicollet. Volumes 1 and 2 have very good duistajcket with some... More
Barbed Boredom: A Souvenir Book of Stalag Luft IV
Irvington NJ: Privately published, 1950. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First hand memoir of American serviceman POW, remarkably detailed and illustrated, 109 pp. Pages through 56, text, pages 57-109 list of serviceman interned. Pictorial paper covers, stapled spine. Minor edge bottom right corner of first for pages, else better than very good. Scarce, apparently. More
GLADYS
NY: Richard Grossman, 1963. 1st Edition. Soft cover. An un-numbered copy, collection of sketches of a "bosomy" woman, known as Gladys, a sexual and comical figment of industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss' (1904-1972) imagination, which he drew for personal amusement and for his (male) friends. Dreyfuss' friends, retailer extraordinaire Staley Marcus... More
The Architecture of Leandro V. Locsin
NY and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Foreword Fernando Zobel. Photos Akio Kawasumi. Visual presentation Norio Ishiguro. Gift inscription half title. Extra shipping charges will apply. More
DIET FOR CHILDREN, GREEN SALDS AND FRUIT SALADS, MEALS ON A TRAY, THE COMPLETE JAM CUPBOARD, SUMMER DRINKS AND WINTER CORDIALS, and COLD SAVOURY MEALS
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A lot of 6 titles (of the 9 total) of Mrs. Leyel's The Lure of Cookery series published by Routledge circa1930s. One dated 1931, rest undated, presumed first or early printings, bound uniformly in cloth (different colors) stamped titles with decorative... More
SERVE IT FORTH
NY: Harper& Brothers, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Solid, clean copy - no names, inscriptions or bookplates. Stated second edition. Green cloth, black-stamped titles. Lacking dustjacket. Slight wear to cloth at spine head. More
FRENCH COUNTRY COOKING
New York: Horizon Press, 1952. Miton, John (decorated by). 1st American Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Trace spotting to sides, else very good - no names, inscriptions or bookplates, in dj browned about flap edges and missing a small triangular piece spine head, else very good (unclipped). More
The Modern Cook; A Practical Guide to the Culinary Art In All Its Branches: Comprising, In Addition to English Cookery, The Most Approved And Recherché Systems Of French, Italian, And German Cookery; Adapted as well for the Largest Establishments as for the Use of Private Families
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 1858. Early American edition from the 9th English. Hardcover. Early edition from the 9th London edition. Certainly no earlier than 1850, before which Lee and Blanchard first published in the US in 846, and likely no later than 1860. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt... More