New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Slected catalog of the world-renowned collection of Mae Festa. Sqaurish softvover, items beauifuilly photogrtaphed in color by Ron Livierie. 406p, organized by textiles from Indonesia, Japan, Southeast Asia, China, Central Asia, India, Middle East, Turley, Europe, Africa and the Americas..... More
Kelly-Winterton Press, 2009. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. PRESENTATION COPY from artist van Doren to arhcitect Cesar Pelli, inscribed by van Doren on the half title "To Cesar with admiration. Best, Adam 1/31/17" With a ANS on a correspondence card (with envelope) of van Doren as lecturer, residential college seminars at..... More
London: Printed for T. Payne, 1794. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 3 volumes. Vol. I and II 1774, Vol. III 1776. 4to, original mottled calf. Vol I: xx + 516, 10 listed plates, errata. Vol II: vii + 537, 19 listed plates. Vol III: viii + 601 pp, 3 maps, 1 folding..... More
London: Printed By W. Bulmer and Co., Shakspeare Printing Office, For John and Josiah Boydell, and George Nicol, 1794. Hardcover. Folio. 3 volumes. Period bindig: polished-calf, blind cross hatched, double-bordered, gilt-rulesd with blind-tooling, spine six caompartments, 4 with elabortaew gilt device, 2 with gilty titles and numbered, "Boydell Lond.1794 at..... More
Taschen, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. An apparently unread, near fine copy inscribed in red ink by Gibson across the title page. More
St. Petersburg: A.F. Marx, 1900. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large folio. Elaborately illustrated version of Gogol's popular novel. Large 4to, vii + 572p, 10 heliographs and 355 illustrations by various artists. Letters and vignettes by N.S. Samokish. Design under the direction of II.P and M.M. Dalkevich. Green cloth covers, decorated..... More
London: Robert White, 1648. 1st Edition. Soft cover. The printing by command of the King of the correspondence among and between: George Goring Earl of Norwich, Arthur Capel Baron of Hadham, Sir Charles Lucas, Baron Thomas Fairfax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of Halifax, et al between June 10 and June 23..... More
NY: Art in America, 1962. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Folio, limited edition 500 copies, 12 single- sheet reproductions by famous American artist Andrew Wyeth loosely placed in folio covered in rough-weave cloth with title label. Oddly, there are two copies of the page folded sheet that has the text, a...... More
Northampton (MA): Printed by F. Cordeux, 1815. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo, original binding, green paper over boards, white spine with printed title label on green paper "Religious/ COURTSHIP/ Price (indiscernable)", sides untrimmed, 252pp, frontispiece engraving of mother/ daughter chatting (presumably about "the birds and the bees"). Front cover starting..... More
Hudson (NY): William E. Norman, 1811. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Printed by William E. Norman, No.2 Warren Street. 8vo, half leather, 143 pages, covers heavily worn and some signatures springing but holding, stained throughout. Definitely unsophisticated. OCLC list 3 institutions. . More
Paris: Dubray, 1814. Hardcover. 12mo, 3 publications bound together, half leather marbleized boards. 1) Description de la colonne de la Grande Armée, Elevée à la gloire des Armées françaises, l'an 1810. Terminée par la description de Parc de Triomphe du Plais Tuileries. Paris: Chez Aubrey, nd (1810). 12pp with ful..... More
London: Macmillan, 1881. 1st Editions, Limited. Hardcover. Four titles uniform cloth binding of tight weave, olive linen and double band of gilt front to back across spine. All London editions - 1881, 1882, 1886 with Strom printed in NY by Whittaker 1887 but of uniform biding. Some minor cloth wear..... More
NY: Macmillan, 1880. 1st Editions, Limited. Hardcover. First US Edition, uniform with binding design of British editions of the smae time. This copy mustard-gold pebbled cloth, double gilt bands front to back across spine. Some chipping and attendant slight loss spine tips, else solidly bound, clean copy. More
London: Macmillan, 1877. Later Printings. Hardcover. Two titles uniformly printed and bound both New Editions, Chaplet of Pearls , complete in one volume, and both dated 1877. Both uniformly bound in green cloth with double gilt and garland bands running front to back across spine,gilt titles spine. Very good copies..... More
London: Macmillan, 1900. Later Printings. Hardcover. Six titles uniformly printed and bound part of Macmillan's Uniform Edition of Novels and Tales of Charlotte M. Yonge (43 titles in total). These six strikingly and uniformly well preserved - blue pebbled cloth, blind-ruled, gilt publishers monogram front, gilt titles spine. No names..... More
NY: Peter & Katharine Oliver, 1937. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Limited to 300 copies, printed at the Harley-Ajax Press in New York City on Cloudweave vellum in Egmont type. The title pagfe was set by Eve Light. Slightest wear spine tips. More
London: Elliot Stock, 1886. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, quarter brown pebbled leather, gilt pressed titles spine, green pebbeld cloth, gte rest untrimmed, 248p. Leather at joints rubbed, else near fine, spine slightly scratched here and there, else clean covers front and back. Internals near fine. Contemporary bookplate of Peter..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University, 1934. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Brochure for class week for Harvard graduates 1934. 12mo, crimson suede covers, cross-tied ribbons, tissue guards front and rear, unpaginated (40 pages). Beautifully preserved. Printed by E.A. Wright, Phildelphia. More
Konigstein: Karl Robert Langewiesche, 1931. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Book of stunning b&w loral photographs by German photographer Paul Wolff (1887 - 1951). (Now we know who influenced Mapplethorpe when he shot his floral compositions.) Short 4to, 128pp, 120 full page photos, heavy paper printed wrappers with pictorial dust wrapper..... More
Paris: Librarie Hachette, 1891. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Volume II of the series. 4to, bound in vellum elaborately decorated in gilt all over, beveled edges, dentelles, marrbleized endpapers, aeg, 864pp, profusely illustrated. Vellum moderately soiled, solidly bound, internals as new. More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University (printed by The Andover Press), 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. All men, all white, to a person. As new copy still in a tattered brown paper dustwrapper issued by The Andover Press, the printer, with a statement about the yearbook's private nature, its limited printing and its..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. 1st Edition Thus, Limited. Hardcover. First printed by the Aldine Press in 128, this version was printed by The DeVinne Press in 1903, limited to 500 copies, this # 279. 4to, vellum covered boards, gilt titles front and spine, missing a 1/4" piece foot of..... More
NY: Richard H. Dana, Jr., 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Photographic review of the work of architect Richard Henry Dana, master practitioner of the Colonial Revival (and grandson of Richard Henry Dana, author of "Two Years Before the Mast"). More
San Francisco: Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, 1920. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. 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..... More
NY: Doubleday, 1916. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. First US on British sheets. Solid copy, Quarter faux-vellum (browned) over brown-paper backed boards. More