The Good European: Nietzsche's Work Sites in Word and Image.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 255 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
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Active Galactic Nuclei: From the Central Black Hole to the Galactic Environment.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. Trade Paperback. First Edition. First Priting. xxi, 598 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to cover, small crease on front cover lower right corner where corner was turned back. Previous owner's name in ink on inside of front cover, clean within. Very Good. More
The Magic of Jewels and Charms.
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1915. Hardcover. First Edition. xv, 422 pp. 4to. Blue cloth publsiher's binding with a gold embossed image of the earth surrounded by the symbols of the Zodiac. Top edge gilt. Heavily illustrated with color plates, line cuts, and duotones. Very Good. More
Norman Gorbaty: Works of a Modern Master.
Gorbaty, Norman. New York: QCC Art Gallery/CUNY, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. 191 pp. 4to. Dust jacket has very light scuffing from shelf wear at edges, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Fine / Very Good. More
Birds of Paradise: Revealing the World's Most Extraordinary Birds.
Laman, Tim. Washington DC: National Geographic/The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 2012. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 227 pp. Oblong 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Brand new.
A lush and stunning book of color photographs of the New Guinea's elusive birds-of-paradise. Signed by author & photographer Tim Laman on the title in year of publication. Scarce! Fine / fine. More
How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earch from the Big Bang to Humankind.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Revised Edition. Fourth Printing. xvi, 718 pp. Clean, crisp copy. Fine / Fine. More
Courageous Visions: How to Unleash Passionate Energy in Your Life and Your Organization.
Burlington, PA: Discover Press, 2004. Trade Paperback. First Edition. First Printing. 317 pp. Clean, crisp copy. Fine. More
New York: A Guide to the Empire State.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1940. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxxi, 782 pp. 8vo. Blue/gray cloth binding with dark blue art moderne illustration of agriculture, shipping, and business on cover board, same color tilting to spine. Minor spotting to boards. Front endpapers illustrated by a map of New York keyed to tours described within; some staining along gutter from glue used in production as it has aged. Large folding map in Fine condition in pocket tipped in at rear.
A volume in the important WPA American Guide Series. Very Good. More
Transes d'images: Anatomie de l'Art S&M.
Lemaire, Guy. Brussels, Belgium: Les Editions Secretes, 1993. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Unpag. 4to. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, divot on rear panel of jacket at spine, 3" up from bottom from being dropped. Black cloth boards with no titling, corresponding slight divot to spine,small black remainder dot at foot of text block. Clean and crisp within.
Collection of Lemaire's arresting black and white photographs of men and women in various stages of S&M. Printed in an edition of 1,000 copies. Very Good / Very Good. More
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1: Journalist, 1706-1730; Volume 2: Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747; Volume 3: Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748-1757 (3 Volumes).
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006/2006/2009. Hardcover. First Edition. Volume 1: Second Printing. xiv, 549 pp. 8vo.; Volume 2: Second Printing. xiv, 647 pp. 8vo.; Volume 3: First Printing.xx, 746 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copies with dust jackets in mylar covers. Fine / Fine. More
THE LINDLEY EQUATION: "The Theory of Queues with a Single Server" (Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 48 pp. 277-289).
London: Cambridge University Press, 1952. Hardcover. First Edition. v, [1]-749 pp. 4to. Black cloth with gold embossed titling to spine. Clean, crisp copy. Ex-library and barely noticeable.
Dennis Lindley's (1923-2013) description of what was later called, "The Lindley Equation" that describes the waiting times experienced by customers in a queue with the First-In First-Out (FIFO) discipline. Fine. More
The Concord Fight (2 Volumes).
Concord, MA: Robert D. Naiva, 1975. Full Leather. First Edition. An absolutely exquisite miniature two-volume leather edition. Each volume is the account of the Battle of Concord from the American and English perspective. Full blue leather, gold embossed title in a blue coth slipcase that has light wear and scuffing from shelf wear. Each volume pristine within. One of 2,000 copies; printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland; bound by Reliure du Centre S.A., Limoges, France. Fine. More
Chinese Classical Gardens.
Hardcover. 319 pp. Folio. Dust jacket has very slight wear at edges. Interior clean with light staining along foredge of text block. Paper coverd slipcase with design in Fine condition. Very Good / Very Good. More
Principles of Geology (3 Volumes).
New York: The Classics of Science Library, 1997. Full Leather. First Edition. First Classics of Science Library Edition. xv, 511, xii, 330, xxxi, 398, 109 pp. 8vo. Full gray leather bindings with gold embossed decoration to coverd, gour raised bands to spines, gold embossed titling. Edges of text block gilt, gray silk ribbon marker bound into each volume. Clean set, pristine!
A facsmilie edition of Charles Lyell's (1797-1875) master work. Fine. More
Oblivion.
Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. 15 black and white plates. Clean, crisp copy with Maisel's photograph illustration of reprinted on cover.
Stunning aerial photographs of the Los Angeles area by photographer David Maisel. Photographs take on an almost surveillance-like feel from the height at which they were taken and printed as they appear in the original negative form. The photographs are preceded by Mark Strand's poem, "Black Maps" and ends with an essay by William L. Fox entitled "Shadowlands." Fine. More
STUDY OF DINOSAURS BEGINS: "Memoir On a Portion of the Lower Jaw of the Iguanodon, and on the Remains of the Hylæosaurus and other Saurians, Discovered in the Strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex" and "On the Fossil Remains of Turtles, discovered in the Chalk Formation of the South-east England." (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 131 for the Year 1841 Part I & Part II, pp. 131-151, 153-158).
London: Royal Society of London, 1841. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1], [1]-10, [1]-312, [12] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
See also our #27502 "On the Structure of the Jaws and Teeth of the Iguanodon" (pp. 183-202).
Also contains William Bowman's "Additional Note on the Contraction of Voluntary Muscle in the Living Body" (pp. 69-74). Very Good. More
One Way: Peter Marino.
Miami, FL: Bass Museum of Art, 2014. Wraps. First Edition. 138 pp. Clean, crisp copy bound with leather and metal studs, paying homage to the subject's distinct style. Fine. More
The Figure of the Earth,Determined from Observations Made by Order of the French King, at the Polar Circle.
London: T. Cox, 1738. Full Leather. First Edition. First English Edition. Originally published in France. vii, 232 pp. 1 folding map and 9 folding engravings that illustrate the text at rear. Full leather binding with five raised bands at spine and hand lettered title that replaces original leather patch title that must have fallen off. Scuffing and wear overall and at corners, but quite tight given its age. Previous owner's signature in ink on first free endpaper. Clean within, Very Good. More
Ann Wyeth McCoy: A View of Her Own. Watercolors.
McCoy, Ann Wyeth. Privately Published, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. 80 pp. 4to. Slight scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean and tight within.
Inscribed by the author, Anna B. McCoy, on the title page. An important work on the daughter of N.C. Wyeth, sister of Andrew Wyeth, and wife of painter John B. McCoy. Fine / Very Good. More
Three Essays.
Koch, Nora. The Nature Conservancy, 1993. Wraps. Limited Edition. Unpag. Heavy paper wraps with pamphlet stitch binding, title label pasted to front cover. Woodcut by Nora Koch graces the first page of each essay.
A collection of the following three essays: "The Adirondack Mountains" by Bill McKibben; "The Colorado Plateau, Utah" by Terry Tempest Williams; and "The San Pedro River, Arizona" by William Least Heat-Moon. Produced in an edition of 500 copies. Not signed. Fine. More
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast. Vol. I: Penobscot Bay.
Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, 1997. Hardcover. Revised Edition. First Printing of the Revised Edition. xix, 500 pp. 4to. Hardcover binding with the front panel of the dust jacket mounted to cover board, professionally bound and quite nice. Binder's stamp on rear pastedown. Fine. More
Houses By Bart Prince: An American Architecture for the Continuous Present.
Prince, Bart. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiii, 100 pp. 4to. Minor wear and scuffing to dust jacket, creasing and slight color loss at head of spine, now in mylar cover. Clean within.
A survey of the work of Bart Prince at the midpoint of his career. Prince is an architect who was deeply influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright and worked an assistant to architect Bruce Goff (1904-1982). Designing in a highly animated, organic style, his works uses the topography of the site, climate, and other inspirations from nature to design structures that are arresting in site and have high energy efficiency despite their often fanciful appearance. Laid in is a brochure from a 2015 exhibition at..... More
Navajo Textile Arts & The Alfred I. Barton Collection of Southwestern Textiles.
Ewing, Louie. Santa Fe, NM: Laboratory of Anthropology & San Vincente Foundtion, 1947/1949. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 102 pp. 8vo.; 99 pp. 8vo. These two items, which match in height and have similarities in design both have paper covers over boards. Both copies are housed in a custom slipcase with a leather spine and gold embossed titling. Both volumes heavily illustrated with black and white photographs and descriptions of the textiles and their origin. "The Alfred I. Barton Collection of Southwestern Textiles" also contains three color serigraphs by Louie Ewing that reproduce vibrant Pueblo, Navajo, and Rio Grande tribal designs at the beginning of each section illustrating their work.
"Navajo Textile Arts" [Purcell 69] was printed in an edition of 1,250 copies. "The Alfred I. Barton..... More
718: Photographs by Martin Meyer.
Meyer, Martin. Privately Published. Trade paperback. Unpag. 8vo. Clean, tight copy.
Full page page, black and white photographs of Brooklyn. Fine. More