Honlulu: Patten Company, 1923. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Distinctive grass-woven patterned covers, designed by Jean Bernard Schiffers with inset for title and author front cover. Gift inscription from Hawaii ffe. Illustrated with woodcuts by John Poole and decorations by A. S. Macleod. A lovely production in a folksy kind of way..... More
Matthias Schaller/ VG Blidkunst, 2015. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Inscribed by Schaller in NY in August 2015. 800 copies in English, 400 in German, this copy in English. Squarish folio, white cloth, titles stamped in black, 115 (4), pictorial review of Schaller's homage to the great artists, photographing the paint..... More
Mexico: (Collecion Carillo Gil), 1949. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Uncommon catalog of the works of Orozco in the original Collecion Carillo Gil, 1500 copies, this # 320. Large 4to, black cloth, gilt-stamped titles front and spine in pictorial dustjacket (artist's self-portrait) , 59 pages of text (artist chronology, lists of..... More
Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An unused copy. More
1936. Soft cover. Two page, single spaced, 5 paragraph TLS, to a magazine editor, addressed as Mr. Stevens, undated, but likely 1936. Maxwell submits a review for "Reluctant Soil", a title written by George Stewart and published in 1936. He then embarks on a winding, broad commentary, employing the metaphor..... More
Soft cover. Twelve manuals owned by William J. Cole of Millerton NY a conductor with the Central New England Railway Company dated variously from 1900 - 1924, "pocket-sized" measuring roughly 4 x6" unless noted. Used condition, obviously. (N. Marcus, Accurate Watch & Jewelry Co, Inc HAMILTON WATCH TIME BOOK. Pictorial..... More
Paris? 1869. Hardcover. Carte de visite album celebrating the Spanish Revolution of 1868, a military uprising with civilian elements that led to the dethronement and exile of Queen Elizabeth II and the beginning of the period called Democratic Sexenio (1868-1874). The album measures 4.5" x 6", pebbled leather, ruled in..... More
London: A. Arrowsmith, 1804. Soft cover. Only 1 of 2 sheets, the northern hemisphere only, 12 panels, each measuring approx 9.5" x 13'" for a total length of 59.5" and height of 26", dissected and mounted on linen. Quite presentable. . More
New York City: 1942. Soft cover. One sheet, six paragraph, typed letter signed, dated January 2, 1941 on embossed City of New York Office of the Mayor letter head in which Mayor La Guardia replies to someone representing another New Yorker who was denied housing by the Housing Authority. With..... More
Hudson NY: Abel Stoddard, 1815. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Early issue of The Columbia Magazine, published in the newly prosperous Hudson, NY, the first city to be incorporated in the United States after independence, located in Columbia County, hence the magazine name. A remarkably unsophisticated copy, as issued, printed paper..... More
Princeton: RCA Corporation of America, RCA Laboratories Division, 1951. Soft cover. First booklet format, published by RCA Laboratories, of a paper first printed in RCA Review, March 1951, Vol XII No 1. Printed covers, stapled spine, illustrated, paginated 53-97. WorldCat lists this paper by Rajchman, but not this particular booklet..... More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Both copies first edition, second printings. Both inscribed by Crawford on the title page. Laid-in are 2, 1-page TNSs both on Crawford's letterhead in envelopes with her return address (150 East 69th Street, New York Ny 10021), both dated October, 8, 1971..... More
NY: Harper & Row, 1973. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Limited edition, this unnumbered, signed by Wilder on the limitation. Book as new in clear acetate wrapper. Slipcase moiderately rubbed. More
NY: The Century Co, 1926. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. First edition limited to 350 copies, 345 for sale, signed by Byrne on the limitation. Three-quarter vellum, gilt to spine.Vellum toned, solid binding. It was with this novel late in his career that some say Irish novelist Byrne (1889 - 1928)..... More
NY: HarperCollins, 1994. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. Limited edition of 176 copies, this #4, signed by Lessing on the limitation. Spine a bit dusty, else as new. More
London: Hodder & Sotoughton. 1st Trade Edition Thus. Hardcover. 4to, nd (c 1928) green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt with maroon accents, front and spine, (rear cover plain), 16 tipped-in plates, each with tissue guard. (xiv), 174. The gentlest toning of leaves (quality of paper stock). Binding firm. A lovely..... More
Florence: Sansoni Editori, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine, unused copy in dustjacket with minor wear at corners. Laid-in is exhibition catalog, with text also by author Rewald, for an exhibition of Reder's work at World House Galleries in Manhattan in Jan - Feb 1959. More
NY: Rizzoli, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused copy, internals as new. Covers slightly sunned around edges. Printed acetate wrapper is sun-toned at spine with a small squarish piece missing foot of wrapper. Catalogue raisonne. More
Vienna: Munk, 1911. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 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..... More
NY: Curt Valentin, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stamped REVIEW COPY upper right corner title sheet. 16 collotype plates in hinged folder with uncommon wraparound title band with $2.50 price printed on handmade pink paper laid-in. Covers a bit sunned else near fine. Wraparound worn. More
NY: Macmillan, 1966. Hardcover. First US edition of Hicks' first nook in his design series. An apparently little-used or unused copy in very nice dustjacket that is lightly sunned at the spine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused copy as new in fine dw. More
Geneva: The Bibliophile Library, 1985. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. First edition in this format and with these illustrations by The Bibliophile Library after the original edition of 1970. Faux leather, aeg, ribbon marker. Plainly signed by author Wiesel on the fly leaf. More
NY: New York Times Books, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by author Baxter acknowledging a mutual Barnard connection where Baxter is chair of the Department of History and American Studies. Fine apparently unused copy in near fine dw. More
