Boston, MA: Dana Estes & Company, 1901. Hardcover. First Edition. xiii, 477 pp. Red publisher binding with yellow and black embossed titling and dragon illustration on cover. Slight scuffing to covers from shelf wear, bumping to corners. Gift inscription on verso of first free endpaper, dated 1920. Clean within.
Heavily illustrated view of China, from a Western perspective, at the outset of the 20th century. Very Good. More
London: Methuen & Co., 1902. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 302, 40 (Ads) pp. 24 Plates. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with golde embossed tilting to cover and spine. Wear and scuffing to spine, some staining, sunning to spine. Some discoloration to endpapers, light foxing within. 24 photographic plates illustrate the volume. Very Good. More
Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2012. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xii, 275 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with the dust jacket in a mylar cover.
A fascinating work by multiple hours that traces the natural history and history of some of the only water sources available to indigenous populations and travelers in what is now referred to as the Sonoran Desert. Fine / Fine. More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2010. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 236 pp. 8vo. Yellow cloth boards with black titling to spine. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued.
Signed by both authors on the title page. Rare in hardcover and signed by both authors. Fine. More
Brunhoff, Jean de. Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1931. Hardcover. First Edition. Early Printing with elephant on copyright page as well as a list of the next two titles in the series. 48 pp. Folio. Bright red illustrated boards with blue cloth spine. Spine has small 1/2" tear at head of spine. Covers Have scuffing, chipping at edges from shelf wear. An enthusiastic reader took a light red crayon and made some stray markings on pages 15-17, otherwise remarkebly clean and tight within. Very Good. More
Guatemala: Telefonica, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. 345 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Text in Spanish.
Publication highlighting young artists of El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Rizzoli, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. 157 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
London/New York: Gaia Books/Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. Wraps. First Edition. First Printing. 144 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Small spot on the rear panel of the limited edition wrapper, some scuffing.
In addition to the original cover, this edition has a separate heavy paper wrap with a labyrinth design blind embossed on front and rear panel, this limited edition cover is noted in pencil along the rear edge and signed by the author, "TES '09//Portland OR//Jim Buchanan//9/50" This edition is also inscribed by the author on the title page. Very Good / Very Good. More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Trade paperback. First Edition. xiii, 339 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Fine. More
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 307 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Brand new copy. Fine. More
Princeton, NJ: Mercer Oak Publishing, 2013. Wraps. First Edition. v, 387 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
Signed by both authors on the title page. Fine. More
New York: Public Affairs, 2011. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Printing. xxv, 319 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York, NY: Viking, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 383 pp. 4to. Very light wear to dust jacket, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs and reproduced color prints.
A fine book on big game hunting. Fine / Very Good. More
Newport News, VA: The Mariners Museum, 1976. Wraps. First Edition. First Printing. x, 64 pp. Wear and scuffing to covers, sunning to edges of front cover. Very clean within. Very Good. More
Tremlett, David. New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 1984. Wraps. First Edition. 4to. Eight separate publications houses in a two-piece cardboard box with printed paper covers that replicate, in reverse colors, the design of the Catalog (48 pp.) and Bibliography (36 pp.) housed within. Box in Very Good condition.
There are six pieces commissioned by the Yale Center for British Art in this collection: RIchard Long's "Stones and Suilven/Scotland 1981"; Victor Burgin's "I'Vegno Per Menarvi a l'Altra Riva"; Gilbert and George's "Life Without End. 1982"; Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum Document. Postscriptum. Summer 1983"; Robert McLean's "Piece Peace a Piece of Shit"; and David Tremlett's "Old Tom and Hotel Room" which is signed by him in pencil on the cover. Fine. More
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965. Hardcover. First Edition. First Southern Illinois University Press Edition. 412, [1] pp. 4to. Light scuffing to dust jacket, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Rubbing at base of cover boards, clean within. Fine / Very Good. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Hardcover. First Edition. 331 pp. 8vo. Green cloth boards with profile of cowboy and horse printed in black on the cover, black titling to spine. Slight bumping to corners, minor scuffing from shelf wear. Clean within.
Struthers Burt (1882-1954) was a short story writer, poet, and novelist who was also instrumental in the establishment of Grand Teton National Park. This memoir chronicles some of his time in the American West. Very Good. More
Boroko, New Guinea: Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 81 pp. 4to. Clean, tight copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 228 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with no dust jacket, as issued.
Catalog of the exhibition of the same name mounted at MoMA from 12 November 2010 - 7 February 2011. Fine. More
Caballero, David Rodriquez. La Rioja, Spain: Museum Wurth La Rioja, 2011. Wraps. First Edition. 239, [2] pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
Catalog for an exhibition of the same name at the Museum Wurth La Rioja. Inscribed and signed by the artist on the title page. Also decorated with a small drawing on the second free endpaper, dated 2013. Fine. More
Lee, Doris. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1943. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. 324 pp. 8vo. Wear and chipping to dust jacket, losses to upper left corner of front panel, upper right corner, slight darkening and soiling, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Very Good / Good. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 452 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. Encased in the Deluxe Edition gray cloth box with the two audio cassettes housed in the styrofoam floor of the box. Box has slight rubbing along base from shelf wear, the title silver embossed on the spine as well as Cage's signature reproduced in silver on the cover.
The Deluxe Edition was produced to include two audio cassettes of John Cage's (1912-1992) Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University between 1988 & 1989, one of his reading mesostic (IV), the other a recording of question and answer sessions at the seminars. Signed by Cage on the half-title page. Fine / Fine. More
Cage, John. Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1991. Wraps. First Edition. 16 pp. Oblong 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
A scarce catalog from John Cage's (1912-1992) solo exhibition at the Elvehjem Museum of Art, signed by Cage on the title page. The exhibition was held at the Elvehjem Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison April 6-May 19, 1991. Cage would die the following year. Laid in is an invitation to the opening reception as well as a program from a piano performance of Cage's work by Ellsworth Snyder at the First Unitarian Society in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 6, 1991 -- likely planned as part of the opening event. Fine. More
Calder, Alexander. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Catalog of the exhibition held at the Gagosian Gallery Rome from October 29, 2009 through January 30, 2010. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946. Hardcover. First Edition. First Museum of Modern Art Edition. xviii, 130 pp. 4to. Dust jacket has wear and chipping at the edges, small losses and tears, now in mylar cover. Light gray cloth boards with previous owner's name in ink and stamped on first free endpaper, clean within. Very Good / Good. More