Shakespeare's Victorian Stage: Performing History in the Theatre of Charles Kean.
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Trade paperback. First Edition. First Paperback Edition. xiv, 208 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Fine. More
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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
Anthology of Rapture.
White Creek Press, 2008. Pamphlet. Limited Edition. Unpag. 8vo. Four fold sheet with black and white photo on cover by Fukushima (1952) from "Big Sudden Flash" (1961) Clean, crisp copy.
Printed in an edtion of 232 copies. Fine. More
Devantures de Boutiques.
Paris: Editions Albert Lévy, 1927. First Edition. Unpag. Folio. 48 Plates. Title-page and contents page on three folded folio leaves and 27 numbered black & white plates and 21 color plates. Housed in publisher’s portfolio with an ivory cloth backstrip, splitting along joints, light gray paper covers with some soiling and bumping to corners, original gray cloth ribbon ties. Plates are all clean and sharp. Text in French.
A stunning portfolio of early Art Moderne storefront designs. Included in the plates are 21 colored pochoir plates. The designs represent designers René Herbst, Pierre Chareau, Eric Bagge, René Prou, and many others. 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
Professional Military Education in the United States: A Historical Dictionary.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiv, 391 pp. Green cloth boards, clean and crisp inside and out. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More
Aperture 82.
New York: Aperture Foundation, 1979. Wraps. First Edition. Clean, crisp copy. Brand new, still in original shrink wrap.
Contents: People and Ideas -- Wheeling and Dealing at Rochester, Aaron Siskind at 75. Walter Chappell: A Metaflora Portfolio -- Photographs and Text by Walter Chappell. The Island of the Strong Door -- Poem by Alan Garner, Photographs by Paul Caponigro. Paul Caponigro: Stonehenge. On the Recent Photography of Siegfried Halus -- Fragments from a Collectanea
Selected and Arranged by William E. Parker. Alen MacWeeney: An Irish Odyssey -- The Tale of the Tinker, Photographs by Alen MacWeeney, Essay by Valerie Moolman. Laurence Bach: Paros Shards -- Photographs by Laurence Bach, Text by Don Earnest. Fine. More
"Uniform compounds of uniform polyhedra" (Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 79 Part 3 pp. 447-457, May 1976).
London: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Wraps. First Edition. 393-585 pp. 4to. Mustard yellow wraps with very minor scuffing clean and crisp within.
Provides a complete list of uniform compounds of uniform polyhedra and discusses symmetry relationships. Over 60 Wikipedia entries make reference to this paper. Fine. More
Elsie de Wolfe: A Life in High Style.
New York: Atheneum, 1982. First Edition. xvii, 366 pp. 8vo. Very light scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Fine / Very Good. More
Frank Lloyd Wright and Madison: Eight Decades of Artistic and Social Interaction.
Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art/University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. vii, 218 pp. Oblong Folio. Light wear to dust jacket, creasing to upper right corner of front panel, sunning to spine and left side of rear panel, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Fine / very good. More
History of the Royal Society.
St. Louis, MO: Washington Unveristy Studies, 1958. Hardcover. First Edition. First Washington University Studies Edtition. xxxii, 438, 78 (Notes) pp. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with light scuffing, clean within.
A facsimile edition, with notes of commentary, of Sprat's 1667 history of the Royal Society of London. Very Good. More
The Grapes of Wrath.
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 619 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth illustarted boards have light scuffing, minimal scuffing. Endpapers decorated with the sheet music of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" front and rear with some foxing. Light staining to the text block edges, a spot here and there within. Good. More
Maxims of Love.
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1911. Three Quarter Leather. As. 201 pp. 12 mo. Three quarter leather binding with black leather, red leather patch title at spine. Gift inscription on first free endpaper. Clean and crisp within and printed on a heavy, fine quality paper. Very Good. More
Sunspots in Action.
New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1947. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 252 pp. 8vo. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small chiops at edges, minor fading to spine, now in mylar cover. Dark blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown. Clean within. Very Good / Good. More
The Help.
New York: Amy Einhorn Books/G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by Kathryn Stockett on the title page. This was Stockett's first book and basis for the wildly successful 2011 film of the same name. "The Help" garnered several Academy Award nominations with Octavia Spencer winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Minny Jackson. Fine / Fine. More
Progress in Negro Status and Race Relations 1911-1946. The Thirty-Five Year Report of the Phelps-Stokes Fund.
New York: Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1948. Wraps. First Edition. 219 pp. 4to. Minor soiling to covers, front and rear, small chips at edges. Clean within. Very Good. More
"On the Long Spectrum of Electric Light." (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 152 for the Year 1862, pp. 599-619).
London: Royal Society of London, 1862. First Edition. Extracted from original volume. 21 pp. 4to. Very light toning from age.
George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) conducted groundbreaking research in fluid dynamics, light, fluorescence, polarization, chemical analysis, and opthalmology. Very Good. More
A Music Manual: Containing Certain Things That Everybody Wishes to Know and Remember About Music.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1936. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 110 pp. 8vo. Light orange boards with black embossed titling to cover and spine. Clean within.
Inscribed by Olga Samaroff Stokowski, first wife of legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski and former wife when this was written and inscribed. Very Good. More
FIRST CALCULATION OF THE CHANDRASEKHAR LIMIT: “The Limiting Density of White Dwarf Stars” and “The Equilibrium of Dense Stars” (The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science Vol VII, pp. 63–70, 1929 and Vol. IX, pp. 944–963, 1930) -- 2 Volumes.
London: Taylor and Francis, 1929/1930. First Edition. ix, 1216 pp. viii, 1208. 8vo. Uniform dark blue library bindings with gold embossed titling to spine. Clean and crisp within.
In 1929 and 1930, well before Chandrasekhar, Edmund Stoner (1899-1968) calculated the the relationship between the mass, radius, and density of white dwarf stars, leading to his prediction that the maximum mass of a white dwarf (now called the "Chandrasekhar limit") would be approximately 1.1 solar masses, beyond which it would collapse further. More
Quantum Mechanics adn the Particles of Nature: An Outline for Mathematicians.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Wraps. Revised Edition. Second Printing. xiii, 358 pp. 4to. Light scuffing to covers, clean within. Fine. More
Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 213 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Commonsense Architecture: A Cross-Cultural Survey of Design Principles.
Taylor, John S. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 160 pp. 8vo. Minor wear to dust jacket, small 1/4" closed at upper right corner of front panel, now in mylar cover. Clean and tight within.
A delightful book, hand lettered and drawn by the author, that investigates and intreprets building styles and components over the centuries. Fine / Very Good. More
Museum Jean Tingueley Basel: Exposition Inaugurale 1996-1997.
Tingueley, Jean. Wabern-Bern, Switzerland: Benteli Druck AG, 1996. Wraps. First Edition. 191 pp. 4to. Text in German and French. Fine. More
Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. xxiii, 318 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More