Armitage, Isabelle. Yucca Valley, CA: Manzanita Press, 1961. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. 4to. Gray, red, and blue printed design on heavy paper wraps with slight sunning at upper edge. Clean within. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs of the Benidictine monastery and its residents.
A classic Armitage production using bold colors offset by black and white photographs. Photographs are by his wife, Isabelle. Very Good. More

Bourke-White, Margaret. New York: Farrar , Straus and Cudahy, 1956. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 236 pp. 8vo. Scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, small chips at edges, 1/2" tear at head of spine along front hinge of dust jacket, 1" tear at base of lower right corner along front flap, now in mylar cover. Very clean within.
Signed by both John LaFarge and Margaret Bourke-White on the first free endpaper. Inscribed additionally by Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) to Eliot Elisofon (1911-1973) on the second free endpaper in year of publication, "For Eliot and Joan Merry Xmas to my beloved Elisofon family. Peggy. Xmas 1956." Elisofon was active as a photographer from 1935 through his death in 1973 and was a staff photographer/correspondent for LIFE..... More

Napolitano, P.G. Santa Fe, NM: Laboratory of Anthropology, 1946. Hardcover. First Edition. 139 pp. 8vo. Some sunning to dust jacket at spine and edges, now in mylar cover. Gray/green cloth boards with same titling as dust jacket reproduced on cover and spine. Hevily illustrated and clean within, housed in a custom gray cloth clamshell box. [Purcell 59].
Book is devote to santo making, the depiction of religious objects with painted panels and carved wood figures. This copy is signed at the colophn by E. Boyd and Merle Armitage. Fine / Very Good. More

France: [1790]. Hardcover. As. 46, [2], 19, [1] pp. 12mo. Two small pamphlets bound together in small blue paper covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Pamphlets have been trimmed. Clean within.
Two French imprints centering around the Knights of Malta and the Order of Saint Lazarus which was formed during the Crusades around 1119. This bound set bears the bookseller label of Raymond Clavreuil of Paris and the signature of James J. Algrant (1926-2018). Algrant was the author of "Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem - An up-date to the History of the Order 1983 to 1987" and an historian of these religious/military fraternal organizations. Fine. More

New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. Hardcover. Eighth Edition. xxxv, 698, xii, 826 pp. 8vo. Brown publisher's binding with gold embossed titling to spine, some scuffing from shelf wear. Text block slightly shaken but still tight to boards, rear pastedown has split along gutter in Volume I, but still tight to text block, tape repair to hinge of rear pastedown on Volume II. Clean within. Very Good. More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Limited Edition. xx, 87 pp. Folio. Black leather spine with gold embossed titling, marbled paper covers. "The Monthly Letter of The Limted Editions Club" for April 1977 (Number 507) is laid in. Housed in an ivory paper paper covered slipcase with a paper printed label pasted to the front panel, small loss at right edge of label, slipcase in Very Good condition.
Printed in an edition of 1600 copies printed at the Oxord University Press under the direction of Vivan Ridler. This is copy #485. Fine. More

Delray Beach, FL: Levenger Press, 2007. Limited Edition. 276 pp. 4to. Red silk cloth boards with gold embossed family crest on cover board, gold titling to spine. Red marker ribbon and clean and crisp within. 110 color plates and 29 black and white illustrations. Appears to have never been read. Red silk cloth slipcase with gold titling to front panel and in Fine condition.
Produced in an edition of 2,000 copies, this is copy #1532. More

New York: Franklin Knight, 1855. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, 192 pp. 8vo. Brown publisher's binding with suning to spine and fading of gold titling. Previous owner's name tastefully written in ink on first free endpaper, clean within.
An argument, in scientific form through geology, of the divine creation of the earth. Very Good. More

London: Reeves & Turner, 1894. Hardcover. First Edition. 138 pp. Brown cloth boards with bright gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Slight bumping to board corners, clean within. Very Good. More

New York: Blakeman & Mason, 1863. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 322 pp. 8vo. Dark green cloth publisher's binding with gold embossed titling to spine that has faded, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Interiors clean with very slight darkening to page edges. Very Good. More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1867, 1870, Hardcover. First Edition. xxxiii, 379, 24 (ads); 356, 4 (ads); 520; viii, 581, 43 (ads) pp. 8vo. Green cloth publsiher's binding with gold embossed tooling to spine. Minor scuffing overall, bumping to corners of each volume. Each volume has dark brown endpapers, clean within.
Volume I: Essays on the Science of Religion; Volume II: Essays on Mythology, Traditions, and Customs; Volume III: Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities; Volume IV: Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language. Very Good. More

Boston, MA: J. P. Mendum, 1868/1970. Hardcover. First Edition. First Mendum Edition of each volume which are bound together as one. Green cloth binding with gold embossed titling to spine, quite clean for age. Slight darkening to pages from age and quality of paper. Very Good. More