New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. x, 144 pp. 8vo. Slight wear to dust jacket, tiny creases at head and foot of spine, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Unlike many dust jackets of this publication that have survived, this copy has not faded to orange along the spine. Black cloth binding with gold embossed titling to spine. Clean and crisp throughout.
John McPhee's first book, his profile of then-Princeton student and athlete Bill Bradley, later professional basketball player for the New York Knicks, United States Senator for New Jersey, and Presidential candidate. Fine / Very Good. More

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

Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1995. Manuscript. First Edition. Archive includes a ten page computer printout of "The Writer and His Machine," which varies slightly from the published edition. The 17 page computer printout varies from all versions. Unsigned Michener note says about this second version ("This Fourth Version of the manuscript, the final version"): "We have indicated by bold face the new material..." His note covers several options for dealing with printing two such similar versions of the essay. Also included is a 12-page typescript fax corresponding to the first version of "My Advice to Young America." Printed on legal paper, folded to letter size, with the text written in hand where it ran off the bottom. Also includes typed note signed by..... More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiv, 400 [1] pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Brand new. Signed by the author on the title page.
Memoir of from United States Senator from Maine, Senate Majority Leader, and Special Envoy to Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Fine / fine. More

Privately Published, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, 220 pp. 8vo. Budgundy leatherette binding with gold embossed titling to cover and spine, light wear overall. Clean within.
The author has written a lengthy inscription on the first free endpaper in the year of publication. Very Good. More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. Hardcover. First Edition. xxxvi, 425, ix, 864, 32 (ads) pp. 8vo. Green cloth publisher's bindings with gold embossed titling to spine. Light fraying at head of Volume I, small tear at head of Volume II. Previous owner's name in ink on the verso of the first free endpaper in each volume. Very Good. More

San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. vii, 255 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More

New York: Tate Publishing/The Drawing Center, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 284 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More

Rose, Wendy. Greenfield Center, NY: The Greenfield Review Press, 1973. Wraps. First Edition. 25 pp. 8vo. Clean, right copy with a stapled binding. Illustrated by Wendy Rose.
Inscribed on the title page to Richard "Dick" Eberhart (1904-2005) and his wife, Betty in the year of publication. Fine. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1902. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, [1], 501 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and corners with marbled paper insets to covers. Five raised bands with gold titling to spine, call number handwritten in white ink at base of spine. Wear and scuffing to both from library use. Ex-library with bookplate and library stamp on title page of each volume, some library stamps within. Numerous plates illustrate articles.
Three papers by Karl Pearson (1857-1936) on inherited intelligence and the correlation of intelligance and physical features. Pearson was also a proponent of eugenics. Also contains Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) and Frances Cranmer Penrose's (1817-1903) article, “An Attempt to Ascertain the Date of the Original Construction of Stonehenge from its Orientation” that acccurately predicted the..... More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1935. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 462 pp. 8vo. Dark red cloth binding with gold embossed titling to spine. Clean and crisp within. Very Good. More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. Hardcover. First Edition. First American Edition. xiv, 194 pp. 8vo. 90 plates containing 105 Illustrations. Green cloth boards with gold embossed titling, considerable scuffing. Ex-library with call numbers in white at base of spine. Library bookplate and "Withdrawn" stamp on front pastedown, blind embossed library stamp on title page as well. Very Good. More

New York: Viking Press, 1987. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. xix, 603 pp. 8vo. Slight wear and soiling to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Small stains at head of text block, previous owner gift inscription on first free endpaper, clean within. Good / Good. More