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200416562Pomona NY: Kelly-Winterton Press 2004. First Edition. Leaf book with four leaves of Pickering books tipped in of which one taken from one of his minute Diamond Classics is an extra insert for this copy. In addition to the list it is lavishly illustrated with images of pages from many of his books--half the book is taken with all of the reproductions. The images are in black and white and a few are in color or black and red. The title page and one other page of his splendid Euclid are beautifully reproduced but reduced in size. One of three hundred copies. 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches. 56 pages of text about as many pages of reproductions of pages unpaginated but indexed back to the bibliographical entry. Fine except for a slight faint spot on front cover.check number of original leaves and facsimiles tipped in Kelly-Winterton Press unknown books
199210667NY: Knopf 1992. First edition first prnt. Signed by Wolff on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Blurbs by Conroy Hoagland McGuane Plimpton et al. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
19222222220<p>First edition thus. Small thin octavo. Pictorial dust jacket with portrait of Beerbohm holding a torch. Fine. 29 pages.</p><p>With two bookplates : N. John Hall; Dan Francis.</p><p>Beerbohm 1872-1956 controversial essay "A Defence of Cosmetics" first appeared in The Yellow Book in April 1894. It later appeared in "The Works of Max Beerbohm" in a revised version and retitled "The Pervasion of Rouge" in 1896.</p> Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
20151331413Pasedena: Norton Simon Museum 2015. Hardcover. Small Quarto; pp 133; VG/VG; white spine with black text; dust jacket shows minimal wear to exterior; cloth has clean exterior; strong boards; text block clean; frontispiece; profusely illustrated; arts-Sculpture. 1331413. FP New Rockville Stock. Norton Simon Museum hardcover books
199730786San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0152016104 . Illustrated by the author. First American printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Harcourt Brace & Company hardcover books
18502673London: David Bogue 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xi 236 pp publisher's catalogue with hand colored frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text. Original publisher's cloth gilt spine; endpapers replaced. Edgeworn with chips and head and tail of spine tear to cloth along rear hinge binding slightly pulled at title page; text clean. Account of Smith's travels in the Near East including description of dervishes the slave market bazaars mosques a gun factory and other interesting locales. David Bogue hardcover books
1988900450Austin: Texas Monthly Press 1988. First edition first prnt. Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.Harrigan's first collection of essays. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Texas Monthly Press Hardcover books
199530261NY: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1995. First edition first prnt. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Signed by Morris and Moser on the title page. Disclaimer slip laid in as issued. Bottom corners just touched; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author and Artist. First Edition. Hardcovers. Illus. by Barry Moser. <br />The images are of the book described and not stock photos. Harcourt Brace & Co. hardcover books
183621534London: John Murray 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. xi 378 38 Appendix with folding map 8 plates and additional illustrations in the text. Marbled boards with later leather spine new endpapers. Stamp of the Isle of Wight Insitution on several pages. Title page frontispiece and some plates foxed as often found the remainder of the text quite clean. Map has a section meanuring about 1.5 x 3 inches missing from lower left with some loss of content. A good reference copy. The author was the son of Sir John Barrow who traveled and worked in China and South Africa and served in the British Admiralty where he was a great promoter of Arctic voyages of exploration and discovery. The younger man followed in his father's footsteps as a traveler and writer producing popular and well-received works on his travels in Ireland Iceland Northern Europe and Austria Lombardy and Bavaria. John Murray hardcover books
177521457London: T. Cadell 1775. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition. 8vo 411 pp with folding map as frontispiece. Bound in early full calf with gilt spine in six compartments red spine label. Front joint rubbed and partially cracked; binding otherwise sound text very clean. Armorial bookplate of Johnathan Pytts Esq. on front pastedown. "Wraxall's travelogue is elegantly written and its Scandinavian and Russian itinerary was novel and therefore of great interest to the reading public.The narrative is self-consciously chivalric and testifies to Wraxall's lifelong interest in tales of intrigue and distress although Queen Caroline Matilda's predicament does not figure in the text presumably in the interests of diplomacy" ODNB. T. Cadell hardcover books
21423Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Very good. Early reprint title page undated copyright page states "Published February 1913." 338 pp indexed and illustrated including double-page map in original blue cloth binding. No dust jacket. Light shelfwear to boards; binding sound text clean with the exception of some foxing to the first few leaves. Previous owner's raised stamp on front free endpaper. As described in contemporary review in the Missionary Herald "the earlier part of Miss Kendall's journey brings out vividly the life of such unfamiliar regions as French Tonking and the provinces of Yunnan and Szechuan in West China and includes such unusual experiences as a peek into Lolo Land a stop at Tachieniu--gateway to Tibet--and a remarkable sojourn at the monastery of Omei Shan that ancient and mysterious mountain shrine of Buddhist China. The middle part of the journey follows the more usual highways down the Yangtze and north to the Wall but the route becomes adventurous again as it crosses the Gobi Desert and pushes northward through Mongolia to Siberia. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
198992410NY:: Abrams. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0810917726 . 158illustrations including 125 in color. Photographs by Kiku Obata. First edition. About fine in a fine dust jacket. . Abrams, hardcover books
2005140517California: Andrew Smith and Michael Dawson Galleries 2005. Softcover. VG but for the color change to spine. Grey photographic wraps with mint green from sun spine; black lettering on spine; 87 pp. with 47 bw photos. With two essays "Adam Clark Vroman: The Inquisitive Eye" and one about Vroman's travel diaries. Amazing photos of Zuni Hopi Navajo areas Acoma Pueblo and much more. The West when it was the "real" west. Andrew Smith and Michael Dawson Galleries paperback books
1928344Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good . 309 pp 4 full color illustrations with frontispiece. Spine significantly sunned and fraying at head and foot; book store label on rear pastedown; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
20061336570Berkeley: University of California Press 2006. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto; VG/VG-; off-white spine with burgundy and black text; pp 134; dust jacket has light tone toward head and tail edges; cloth clean; strong boards; text block has light tone to edges; interior clean; profusely illustrated; good binding. 1336570. FP New Rockville Stock. University of California Press hardcover books
20192389Lanham Maryland: Roman & Littlefield 2019. Hardcover. Illustrated boards. Fine. 225 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Julia Skinner explores the development of the afternoon tea meal - a meal that came of age during the British Empire's most aggressive expansion afternoon tea was transported to new continents with colonial forces. Skinner describes how this movement took place and uncovers the different ways tea and colonialism intersect in both the colonial and the postcolonial worlds. Pristine condition. <br/><br/> Roman & Littlefield hardcover books
19899013588Newark NJ: Newark Museum 1989. Paperback. Fine Condition. Bound in publisher's original wrappers. <br/><br/> Newark Museum paperback books
1992867Ithaca: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University 1992. <b>First edition one of 1000 hardbound copies this one of 200 issued with an original lithograph signed dated & numbered by the artist. </b>Small folio xiii & 192 pp. illustrated throughout in color & black & white. Laid in and enclosed in a folding sleeve is the untitled lithograph number 7 of 200 measuring 11.75 inches by 8.75 inches. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine & upper cover in pictorial dust jacket.<br /><br /> A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear and soiling.<br /><br /> Issued in conjunction with an exhibition at Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art this catalog of conceptual artist Agnes Denes' work is visually stunning. Includes essays by Peter Selz Lowery Stokes Sims Robert Hobbs and Donald Kuspit. The lithograph printed in blue ink on thick deckle-edged paper is not titled but represented on page 51 as <b><i>"Model for Probability Pyramid - Study for Crystal Pyramid." </i></b><br /> Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University hardcover books
2007WRCLIT71522Colognola: Nomadnomad 2007. xxiv196pp. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Illustrated in color. Small inventory label on lower wrapper otherwise about fine. First edition. 27 visual poets and artists from around the world tackle the complexity of the alphabet. Nomadnomad unknown books
20009002356New York: Abrams 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine. With 385 illustrations including 290 in full color. Bound in the publisher's original silver cloth with the front cover and spine stamped. Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh. <br/><br/> Abrams hardcover books
199288966Tokyo: National Museum of Art 1992. Paperback. Near Fine. color illustrations 141p. Softcover in original wrappers. 28 cm. Text in Japanese and also selectively in English. <br/><br/> National Museum of Art paperback books
19871327560Boston: Published in association with the Brandywine River Museum a New York Graphic Society Book Little Brown and Company 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo oblong; First edition; VG/VG-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine white with black print; DJ has slight edgewear small blemish on front else clean and bright; Boards in brown cloth with gold print clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; "Published in connection with the exhibition organized by the Brandywine River Museum"; xii 209 pages frontispiece illustrated color. Shelf: American Art. 1327560. FP New Rockville Stock. Published in association with the Brandywine River Museum, a New York Graphic Society Book, Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
19879014221Boston: New York Graphic Society / Little Brown & Co. 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. <br/><br/> New York Graphic Society / Little, Brown & Co. hardcover books
197118266Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky 1971. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; light brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 95pp. Top edge lightly foxed with faint spotting scattered along panels; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped lightly rubbed at extremities with a touch of sunning to spine; Very Good. A collection of 14 essays which survey the achievement of American literature covering a multitude of genres. The University Press of Kentucky unknown books
200757945El Paso Texas: El Paso Museum of Art. Very Good. 2007. Softcover. 54pp. paperback Exhibition Catalogue Very Good. . El Paso Museum of Art paperback books
