Gasser, Peter. Switzerland: Edition Stockeregg, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. 60 Plates. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover.
Stunning catalog of the black & white photography of Peter Gasser. Fine / Very Good. More
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xii, 241 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Day, Maurice. Frederick Fell, Inc., Publishers, 1958. Hardcover. First Edition. xiii, 295 pp. 8vo. Slight wear and chipping to dust jacket, small 1" tall piece missing from base of spine, now in mylar cover. Light red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Clean within. Very Good / Very Good. More
Child, Charles. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 346 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, darkening at edges, light staining at rear, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with small blemish at midpoint of cover, 1/3 of the way up from the bottom. Very clean within. Beautifully illustrated by the author.
Charles Child was the twin brother of Paul Child (1902-1994), husband of Julia Child (1912-2004). This book documents Charles Child's family's love affair with Maine and the spot that Paul and Julia would come back to repeatedly during their marriage. Very Good / Very Good. More
New York: The Manual of Statistics Company, 1903. Hardcover. First Edition. xvi, 982 pp. Green cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine, light scuffing and wear, minor staining.
Fascinating look into how data was organized and made available to bankers and traders in the early 20th century. Many folding maps and diagrams showing existing rail lines, proposed rail lines and other utility infrastructure showing the viability of companies in addition to value data. Very Good. More
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1871. Hardcover. Second Edition. xii, 147 pp. 12mo. Burgundy publisher's binding with ornate gold and black embossed deocoration and titling to cover and spine representing a pond scene. Numerous black & white illustrations as well as full page color plates. All edges gilt. A discreet personal library book plate attached to front pastedown. A beautiful volume. Very Good. More
Chicago, IL: The John C. Winston Company, 1930. Hardcover. First Edition. 384 pp. 8vo. Slight wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Sky blue cloth boards with silver embossed titling and inset color image of Byrd's plane. An absolutely stunning production. Fine / Very Good. More
Washington DC: Army Medical Department, 1950. Wraps. First Edition. 50 pp. 8vo. Wraps. Scuffing and wear to covers, tear at upper left corner of front panel which has resulted in multiple creases. Some soiling and abrasions.
Important early review of the basis of nuclear energy and the impact on humans, how it might be treated, and the extent of fallout should a bomb be detonated in a populated area. A sobering piece of infromation produced for the general public early in the atomic age. Good. More
New York: Random House, 1951. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xi, 308 pp. 8vo. Wear and chipping to dust jacket, small losses at edges, tape repair on reverse of front flap, now in mylar cover. Darkening to edges of interior pages, very clean within. Very Good / Good. More
Berwyn, PA: Lyman Perry Architects, 2012. Hardcover. First Edition. 135 pp. Oblong 4to. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Heavily illustrated with color photographs of the work of Lyman Perry Architects. No dust jacket, as issued.
Inscribed by Lyman Perry on the title page. Fine. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. Hardcover. First Edition. xix, 439 pp. 4to. 8 Color Plates. 69 Illustrations and Photographs. Slight wear to dust jacket, creasing at edges, now in mylar cover. Green cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Vibrant endpapers that reproduce the stunning fish motif that graces the wrap around dust jacket illustration. Heavily illustrated in color and black & white.
An absolutly stunning book in design and illustration of an early oceanographic expedition. Fine / Very Good. More
Brooklin, ME: WoodenBoat Books, 2002. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. 4to. Clean, crisp copy in mylar cover. Signed by photographer Neal Parent on title page.
Inscribed by the author/photographer on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
Krieghoff, Cornelius. Toronto, Canada: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1934. Hardcover. First Edition. 152 pp. 4to. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small chips and losses at edges, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine, minimal sunning at head of spine where dust jacket is missing a piece. Clean and crisp within.
An early biography and catalog raisonne of the paintings of Cornelius Krieghoff (1815-1872). Very Good / Good. More
London: Duckworth, 1928. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 21 pp. 4to. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Slight scuffing overall. Front endpapers have darkened slightly from age. Clean within.
Printed in an edition of 275 copies, this is #116 and signed by Edith Sitwell on the colophon. Very Good. More
New York: Random House, 1939. Hardcover. First Edition. Unpag. 4to. Heavy boards with blue cloth spine and printed color cover showing Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket. Light wear and scuffing overall from years of reading, fraying at head and foot of spine, some paper losses at corners of cover boards. Gift inscription on verso of first free endpaper. Illustrated from stills of the movie as well as production sketches and drawings. Good. More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1957. Hardcover. First Edition. 240 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Clean within. Fine / Very Good. More
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 265 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
London: John Van Voorst, 1856. Full Leather. First Edition. xl, 696 pp. 8vo. 41 Plates. Full leather binding that has been expertly rebacked with headbands and endpapers replaced, light scuffing and overall wear. Light spotting to prelims, foredges of text block marbled. A beautifully restored binding. Also contains 816 woodbuts within the text. Many of the 41 plates are hand colored.
Important early edition on micrographics published as microscopes became more powerful and abundent. Very Good. More
New York: Da Capo Press, 1978. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 119 pp. Folio. Green cloth boards with a gold embossed column on the front cover, gold titling to spine. Clean and crisp within.
A limited edition facsimile of Robert Dale Owen's 1849 edition of the title. Printed in an edition of 500 copies, this is copy #243. Owen was a major influence on the establishment of The Smithsonian Institution. Fine. More
London: Pavilion Books Limited, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. 96 pp. Folio. Slight wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small tears at head of spine, now in mylar cover. Clean within.
Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Fine / Very Good. More
Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2015. Hardcover. First Edition. 451 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with light bumping at corners. Clean within. No dust jacket, as issued. Very Good. More
Klint, Hilma af. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 287 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued.
Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) is believed to be the first artist of abstract art in the West. Fine. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Books, 2018. Hardcover. First Edition. First Smithsonian Books Edition. Third Printing. 51 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy of this facsimile edition. No dust jacket, as issued.
Originally published in Edinburgh in 1821. Fine. More
Zurich, Switzerland: Lars Müller Publishers, 2019. Hardcover. First Edition. First Lars Müller Publishers Edition. 106 pp. Light scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within.
A beautiful facsimile edition of the first installment in the Bauhausbücher series edited by Walter Gropius and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy that explored the work of the Bauhaus in architecture, design, painting, photography, and fillm. This edition was originally published in 1925. Fine / Fine. More
