Tokyo: Bijitshu Shuppan Sha, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio, approx 27 cm x 37 cm, black cloth in clear acetate fitted wrapper under which, in front, is a folded poster and vinyl record in sleeve. AS NEW COPY in pictorial slipcase, ownership copy of Argentinian-born, American architect Cesar Pelli with..... More
London: Nicholas Prevost (and) Claude du Bosc, 1731. 1st Englsh editions. Hardcover. Folio, 7 volumes in 6. Vol. I (1731), The Ceremonies of the Jews, etc.; Vol. II (1731), The Ceremonies of the Roman Catholicks; Vol. III (1731), The Ceremonies of the Idolatrous Nations; Vol. IV (1733), Vol. V (1736)..... 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
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
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
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: Macmillan, 1892. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large folio. Publsihers tan cloth stamped device and titles in brown, xii + 300, illustrated with 154 full page plates, decorations and insets. Missing patch of cloth foot of spine and front cover stained with a modest size light colored blotch, but binding solid..... More
Berlin: Askanischer Verlag and Carl Albert Kindle, 1940. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large 8vo, 221 + 449 pages, tipped-in illustrations, full parchment cover elaborately pressed front and back, with red and black titles in the original dust jacket (lacking cardboard slipcase). Book in near fine condition, dustjacket browned. This edition..... More
NY and Amsterdam: Johnson Reprint and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1977. Facsimile Edition and First Thus. Hardcover. Double elephant folio, quarter navy morocco over burgundy loth with pressed title in gilt to cover and spine. Facsimile reprint of the 1873 edition, this #68 of the 250 numbered handbound copies. 36 color..... More
NY: The Stone Street Press, 1981. 1st Edition, limited. Soft cover. Set of series of three, limited edition booklets by writer and Stone Street Press publisher McCormick. Three pamphlets - uniform in format, string-tied spine, cover and spine title pastedown, stiff paper covers - in slipcase with title pastedown of..... More
Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1975. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. 140 copies. Fine. Discrete bookplate front pastedown. Publisher's prospectus for the title laid-in. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo, 4 volumes, handsomely custom bound in brwon three-quarter crushed leavant at Putnam's Bindery, 2 volume Clarendon Press edition divided and boundin 4 volumes, gte, 5 rasied band, gilt titles and pressed devices to spine. Stamp of G. P. Putnam Sons on..... More
Easthanptom: Adastra Press, 1994. 1st Editions, Limited. Soft cover. Six titles, 1994 - 1996, each in fine condition, Millrat slightly faded around edges. Each limited softcover edition, each apparently unused, unread. More