North Haven Summers: An Oral History.
Rockland, ME: Red Barn Publishing, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing, 2009. 255 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.
Signed by the author on the title page. Fine. More
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Growth, Efficiency, and Modernism: GSA Buildings of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
Washington DC: U.S. General Services Administration, 2003. Wraps. First Edition. Second Printing, 2005. Clean, crisp copy.
One often forgets that the Federal Government commissioned, built, and was a proponent of much of the Modern Architecture built in the US and abroad during the time period covered in this volume. A fascinating survey of a crucial time when architectural theory and practical applications came together. Fine. More
Oliver Wiswell (2 Volumes).
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1940. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 411, 415-849 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with gold embossed titlinig to spine, top edge gilt, color maps illustrate the endpapers of each volume. Both volumes retain the original clear plastic dust jacket and are encased in a matching cloth slipcase in Very Good condition with a paper title pasted to front cover.
Produced in a limited edition of 1,50 copies, 1,000 of which were for sale, this being #566 and signed by the author on the colophon. Fine. More
Norman Rockwell's Christmas Book: Carols Stories, Poems & Recollections.
New York/Norwalk, CT: Abrams Press/Easton Press, 2009. Full Leather. Facsimile Edition. 223 pp. 4to. Full green leather binding with gold stamped title to cover and spine which is decorated with three raised bands; Rockwell illustration of Santa reading letters at a small desk inset on cover. Gold silk ribbon, moire endpapers, all edges gilt.
Easton Press packaged the 2009 reprint edition of as one of their leather bound books. No Easton Press imprint to be found, but perfectly matches their style. Fine. More
Atlas des Champignons de France Suisse et Belgique.
Paris: Libraries des Sciences Naturelles, 1910. Half Leather. First Edition. 126 pp. 120 Plates. 4to. Half leather binding with marbled paper covers, brown leather spine with five raised bands, gold embossed titling. Marbled endpapers, clean within. Sports 120 gorgeous color lithographed plates of mushrooms. Text in French. Fine. More
Books Have Their Fates.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. Hard Cover. First Edition. 199 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Old & Rare: Thirty Years in the Book Business.
New York: Abner Schram, 1974. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 234 pp. 8vo. Slight wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Minor bumping to cover board corners, light water stain to head of text block but does not impact the pages or text, clean within.
Inscribed by both authors on the first free endpaper to Lillian Berliawsky, longtime Maine bookseller and founder of ABCD Books of Camden, Maine. A wonderful association copy. Very Good / Very Good. More
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 162 For the Year 1872.
London: Royal Society of London, 1872. Quarter Leather. First Edition. iv, [4], iv, [4], [1]-501, pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page and verso, also occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
This full volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. Very Good. More
The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century.
Kent, England: George Allen, 1884. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. vi, 152 pp. 4to. Three quarter leather with marbled paper insets to front and rear boards, matching endpapers and matching marbeling to foredges of text block. Slight wear and scuffing to covers, interior clean and tight. Very Good. More
Photographs from the Border: The Otis A. Aultman Collection.
Aultman, Otis A. El Paso, TX: El Paso Public Library Association, 1977. Hardcover. Limited Edition. xiii, [1], 100 plates. Oblong Folio. Includes the usually discarded onionskin dust jacket that has small chip and tears at the edges, losses at the head and spine. Red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine, the subject's logo is replicated on the gray endpapers, clean and crisp within. Photograph prints by Charles H. Binion.
Signed by the author on the half-title page. Published in an edition of 3,000 copies with the plates destroyed after printing. Printing supervised by Lyman E. Dutton and Carl Hertzog. Longtime book designer and printer Carl Hertzog's monogram appears on the colophon. Fine / Good. More
Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays (2 Volumes).
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printings. xlvi, 475 pp. xlvii, 653 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copies. No dust jackets, as issued. Brand new! Fine. More
What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell.
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1944. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Printing, 1948. viii, 92 pp. 8vo. Green cloth boards with light scuffing, gold embossed titling to spine. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper. Clean within. Four black and white plates illustrate the text. Very Good. More
The President's House: A History (2 Volumes).
Washington DC: White House Historical Association/National Geographic Society, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. 1224 pp. (601 pp., 622 pp.). Green cloth covered boads with gold embossed image of the White House front doors on each volume. No dust jacket as issued. Slipcase in Very Good condition with light stain across image of White House portico. Fine. More
Thomas Eakins.
Eakins, Thomas. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2001. Hard Cover. First Edition. xli, 446 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / fine. More
The Lithographers Manual.
Pittsburgh, PA: The Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, Inc., 1966. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition of the Walter Soderstrom Commemorative Edition. xvi, Unpag. 4to. Green cloth boards with silver embossed titling to cover and spine, light wear and scuffing. Clean within. Very Good. More
Berit Olam. Studies in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry: Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xviii, 306 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
The Simplex System of Concrete Piling.
New York: Simplex Construction Co., [1912?]. Hardcover. First Edition. 96 pp. 8vo. Green paper covered boards with green cloth spine, gold embossed titling to cover. A very sharp, bright, and clean copy. No dust jacket as issued.
76 black and white photographs in this trade catalog illustrates the process, load tests, and completed buildings that used the Simplex Concrete Piling System. This small volume peels back the mystery on how some monumental buildings and infrastructure like industrial storage tank were built on sub-standard soils. Pages 89-96 at rear of volume list, by state, buildings upon which the system was used. An important reference in architectural history. Fine. More
A Captain of Industry.
Girard, KS: The Appleal to Reason, 1906. Hardcover. First Edition. 142 pp. 8vo. Scuffing and small chips to edges of dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Bright blue cloth boards with white embossed titling to cover board. Interior very clean.
Jackets in this kind of condition for this book are extremely rare. Very Good / Very Good. More
Clouds, Wind and Air.
Sloane, Eric. New York: The Devin-Adair Copmpany, 1941. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Printing. 74, [1] pp. Folio. Dust jacket ini two pieces, split at center with spine missing, now in mylar cover so that the jackets can be used. Blue cloth boads with some wear and scuffing, darkening at edges. Interior quite clean.
A fascinating book on meteorology based on cloud formations that was used by the US Air Corps in training flyers during World War II. Even more amazing is that it is signed three times and inscribed by Eric Sloan (1905-1985) twice to the recipients, George & Adele Tilyou. Very Good / Poor. More
Declaration of Conscience.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. ix, 512 pp. 8vo. Slight wear to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Light tan cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Minor dust staining at head of text block, clean within.
This memoir of her life by Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995) takes it's title from her 1950 speech on the floor of the United States Senate denouncing the Joseph McCarthy and his fear mongering campaign against alleged Communists in the United States Government, universities, and Hollywood. Smith served the State of Maine as a member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate from 1940 to 1973. This copy is inscribed by both Senator Smith and the editor, Bill Lewis..... More
Saguaro National Monument: An Archeological Overview.
Tucson, AZ: Arizona Archaelogical Center, National Park Service, 1975. Wraps. First Edition. 54 pp. 4to. Brown paper wraps with very minor soiling. Brief overview of archaeological studies in the Monument at that time, as well as outside the Monument n the Gila River Basin. Very Good. More
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Bibliography. Issued on the Occasion of the Destruction of the Francis W. Little House, Deep Haven, Minnesota, 1913-1972.
New Brighton, MN: Kenneth Starosciak, Bookseller and Publisher, 1973. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. 12 mo. Square format with red front wrapper. Very light wear to the cover, clean and crisp within.
A bibliography issued by Kenneth Starosciak that consists of 42 entries of books written or contributed to by Wright from 1896-1962. Includes a three page introduction on the destruction of the Francis W. Little House in 1973. (Sweeney 1919). Fine. More
The Rise of Los Angeles as an American Bibliographical Center.
Sacramento, CA: California State Library Foundation, 1989. Wraps. Limited Edition. 37 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy that has never been read. One of 1,000 copies.
The 1989 Coulter Lecture. Fine. More
Charles Sheeler: The Photographs & Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings (2 Volumes).
Sheeler, Charles. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. Photographs: ix, 162 pp. Paintings: xii, 225 pp. 4to. Sight age toning to dust jackets, the "Photographs" volume is price clipped, both now in mylar covers.
Highly unusual to find both volumes together. Fine / Very Good. More