TEA AND SYMPATHY
NY: Random House, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Anderson to Jane and Bob (Emerson) who managed the Drama Book Shop, the go-to bookstore for theatre professionals and aficionados in Manhattan, for many years. More
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Mostly True: Collected Writings and Drawings (and) Still Mostly True (and) Going Somewhere Soon (3 volume set)
Decorah IA: StoryPeople, 1995. First Edition. Soft cover. Three uniform volumes, softcover, each a later printing, each initialed "with love BA" on its title page in cloth covered slipcase stamped in gilt. Books as new, slipcase a littlke soiled and moderately worn at one corner. More
COMMUNITY INDUSTRIES OF THE SHAKERS (NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM HANDBOOK 15)
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1933. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near fine copy. Shows little if any signs of use. 322 pages, lots of illustrations. More
Museum of Soviet Unofficial Art
Jersey City: Museum of Soviet Unofficial Art, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Exhbittion catalogue with three-page press release announcing this exhibition to celebrate the 25th anniversary of non-conformist art in the USSR. Also laid-in are 10 8x10 b&w glossies of some of the pieces in the exhibition. More
The English Secretorie, or, Methode of writing of epistles and letters: with a declaration of such tropes, figures and schemes as either vsuallie, or for ornament sake are therein required. Also the parts and office of a secretorie. Deuided into two bookes. Now newly reuised, and in many parts corrected and amended: by Angel Day.
London: Printed by Felix Kyngston, for William Welby, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church yard, at the signe of the Swan, 1614. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. This the 1614 edition after the first of 1586 and printings in 1592 and 1595. OCLC list 6 copies..... More
RAVENS CROWS MAGPIES AND JAYS
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, second printing. Near fine copy in like dustjacket, warmly inscribed by artist Tony Angell with a drawing of a crow in flight on the title page. Laid in are photocopies of two journal articles about Angell's work both signed..... More
CARLO FRANCONI, THE LITTLE ITALIAN BOY AND OTHER STORIES FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT AND INSTRUCTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE
Philadelphia: C. G. Henderson, 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first or certainly early edition, 1853 on title page, 1852 on copyright, in publishers tight weave brown cloth with a gilt-pressed image of an impoverished young boy and girl and a monkey front with blind-ruled and stamped border. unobtrusively rebacked with..... More
The Shipwreck or The Desert Island: A Moral Tale
Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1840. Johnson. Brown Cloth. Extremely scarce, only 8 copies listed in OCLC. Jointly published by C. H. Kay & Co. in Pittsburgh. Faded spine ends and cover corners worn, small tear at left spine edge with signatures barely visible, minor scuffing to covers, gilt..... More
Comprehensive Plan for the Protection, Management, Development and Use of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail
Harpers Ferry, WV: Appalachian Trail Project Office, 1981. Soft cover. Scarce. Slight spotting to left edge front cover. Minor library label residue at lower end of spine. Rear cover lightly soiled. Binding tight, text clean. More
Guide to the Appalachian Trail. From the Connecticut - New York State Line to the Susquehanna River Publication No. 2 (Fouurth Edition)
NY: The New York - New Jersey Trail Conference, 1957. 4th Edition. Soft cover. An exceptionally well preserved copy, with little signs of use. Small spot front cover and dusty top edge, else near fine with all 10 maps in rear in original folds, 252 pages. Laid-in is a folded..... More
DIANE ARBUS
Millerton NY: Aperture, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing with the photo "Two girls in identical raincoats, Central Park, N. Y. C. 1969" that was omitted from subsequent printings. Internals fine. Dustjacket has a 1" closed tear upper left corner front panel, a shorter closed tear bottom right..... More
Avigdor Arikha Dessins 1965/6
Jerusalem: Tarshish Books, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused copy. Fine all over. 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
SOME APPROVED SOLUTIONS OF THE HOSTESS' PROBLEMS
Fort Leavenworth KS: Army Relief Society, 1921. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Thick textured gray paper covers, titles in red, stapled spine, 112 pages. All recipes, no preface or acknowledgments. Good ole' American food, each recipe attributed to its contributor, all women. Trace residue of paper clip top edge title page..... More
A CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS: THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COMPETITION
Oxford: Rizzoli, 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Ownership copy for the competition for the new visual arts center for Ohio State of Argentinian-born, American architect Cesar Pelli (1926-2019) with his signature and July 1982 date in his hand upper right corner ffe, the design for which Pelli competed. (Eisenman won.)..... More
HENRY LOVELL: A TEMPERANCE STORY
Valley Falls RI: Alex S. Arnold, 1878. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth, stamped in black front, gilt titles spine, yellow endpapers, 8vo, 195pp. Cancel insert of blurbs from press reviews before preface. More
Majorcan Houses and Gardens: A Spanish Island in the Mediterranean
NY: William Helburn Inc, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 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. More
THE TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS / HOW TO WIN FORTUNE
Madison WI: Eddy Pubishing, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Secrets of success by industrial barons. Printed covers, quarter cloth, 8vo, (xvi) 164. Besides the Helps and Carnegie essays, there are fiur short essays in the rear, two of which by Sir Francis Bacon and Elbert Hubbard. No there's a pair, for..... More
COLORED SCULPTURE
np: The American Foundation of Arts, 1965. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Exhibition catalog, designed by Hiram Ash, for exhibition of 22 sculptures, curated by artist and scholar Sidney Geist. One sheet, folded to oblong, printed on one side only, rear panel Geist's text, front panel 8 rectangles stacked alternating in..... More
The Columbia Magazine, Designed to Promote Evangelical Knowledge and Morality
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
A TREATISE ON DIVINE CONTENTMENT
NY: M. W. Dodd, 1841. 1st Edition or early edition. Hardcover. Mid-19thC American edition of this religious treatise,by Simeon Ashe first printed in London in 1853. Original binding, blind-ruled brown cloth, spine decorated in gilt. 8vo, 256 pages, foxed throughout but solidly bound. A very good unsophisticated copy, distinctive as..... More
THE ZOO: A PAINT BOOK WITH CUT-OUTS (Orbis Paint Book)
NY: Atlantic Book & Art Corporation 0. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Presumed first or early edition. Large oblong, pictorial cardboard cut outs, with 8 pages of zoo animals, some pages torn, many of the animals cut out but laid back in. An obviously used copy. Number 1 in the Orbis..... More
THE BAR OF OTHER DAYS
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Sides slightly foxed, internals clean. Dw spine soiled, a few chips at bottom and top edge. Inscribed by Auerbach and dated 1940 on ffe. More
MANSFIELD PARK, PERSUASION, LETTERS (5 volumes)
Boston: Dana Estes. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. nd, circa 1905. Five volumes only of the Illustrated Cabinet Edition of the works of Jane Austen: MANSFIELD PARK Vol I and II; PERSUASION; LADY SUSAN THE WATSONS LETTERS Vol I and LETTERS Vol II. Light green cloth, Arts and Crafts style floral..... More