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198950652New York: Viking Kestrel 1989. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. dj. Text moderately browned. <br/><br/> Viking Kestrel hardcover books
1968116422London: Faber and Faber 1968. Octavo boards. First edition. Sixteen stories by Julian Symons Patricia Highsmith Eric Ambler Cyril Connolly and others plus poems by Maurice Richardson. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #116422 Faber and Faber unknown books
198848382London:: Victor Gollancz. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0575042184 . The author's second mystery. First British edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Victor Gollancz, hardcover books
196397664Hamden CT: Archon Books 1963. cloth. tall 12mo. cloth. ix 176 pages. Reprint of the 1914 first edition. Gives a lot of information on the evolution of libraries. Archon Books unknown books
1994Embry 197072St. Martin's Press 1994. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. St. Martin's Press, 1994. First U.S. edition. unknown books
1979100745.1Baltimore Md: Baltimore Museum of Art 1979. Softcover. G No dust jacket; white cover has some scuffs and aging as well as a distinct fold at one corner; interior is clean. White illustrated wraps. 219 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and bw. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition of these works by American abstract expressionist Barnett Newman 1905-1970. With lengthy essays bibliographical information a complete list of exhibitions etc. Large crisp plates. Baltimore Museum of Art paperback books
187125699Baltimore Maryland : Richardson & Bennett 1871. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Bendann Brothers. Bendann Brothers. First Edition. 562 pages separately engraved title page noting illustrations are by Bendann Brothers. 4to. 3/4 leather over pebbled cloth covered boards. Illustrated with sixty two tissue protected photographic unsigned portraits of luminaries fifty-one from life the balance copyprints after paintings or engravings. The photographs are in excellent condition strong and rich. Gilt ruling and decoration on raised bands on spine. Overall minor wear to extremities. Where leather rubbed toned to match. Page edges tinted red. One front endpaper with inked previous owner names and past purchase date. Small chip missing from front marbled endpaper occasional corners turned from past readers with bad habits. Seven pages noted with a few words underlined. No doubt the publisher's trade edition the deluxe edition which we've also owned had facsimile signatures underneath each portrait and a deluxe binding. Cloth. The first 146 pages are a historical sketch of the area by Brantz Mayer titled "Baltimore As it Was and As it Is: A Historical Sketch of the Ancient Town and Modern City from the foundation in 1729 to 1870; Compiled and written from Authentic Materials.". The second section is titled "Biographical" and provides biographical sketches and in many cases photographs from life of those worthy of inclusion. John W. Woods printer. Richardson & Bennett unknown books
1872170118Washington D.C. 1872. unbound. 4 pages front and back with each two-page spread measuring 10 x 16 inches marked "Private" Washington D.C. April 12 1872. Rare letter by the American politician and negotiator to the former Confederate States of America Treasurer Tyler in preparation for Richardson's successful trip to Geneva to obtain damages from Great Britain letting Tyler know of a Judgeship opportunity available to him by the means of Richardson's resignation in part: ".In any article that is written in the newspaper perhaps it will be well to state the fact of the immediate cause of my resignation the desire of Secretary of the Treasury Boutwell to have me manage the refunding of the national debt after my successful operation of the hundred million negotiation in London.Now I hope you will be my successor and you must attend to it immediately and persistently." It has long been speculated that the job opportunity and Tyler's assistance to the government were linked and crucial to the successful outcome of the Alabama Claims Commission.<br/><br/> unknown books
1929263161Haverstock Hill Hampstead London 1929. One page in ink on a bifolium letterhead. 12mo. Fine. One page in ink on a bifolium letterhead. 12mo. Winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics. Owen Willans Richardson 1879-1959 was a leading British physicist and winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics who 'kept a good table and a well-stocked cellar wherein whisky was drawn from the wood" ODNB. He accepted his prize during the 1929 ceremony.<br/><br/>Attractive autograph letter from the Nobel laureate to Alfred Eisenstaedt thanking him for photographs of the Nobel award ceremony in Stockholm and providing an address for 1929 Nobel laureate in medicine Frederick Gowland Hopkins discoverer of glutathione. unknown books
198719907Sydney: Golden Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0855589140 . Color photographs throughout by Robbi Newman. A later printing. Front free endpaper has been removed else near fine in a near fine minor edge wear dust jacket. . Golden Press hardcover books
3031ASPEN COLORADO -- LAND PROMOTION. Aspen in all seasons. Real estate development promotional photo album filled with inviting images of vacationers enjoying the historic Hotel Jerome the Four Seasons Club the Aspens Rodeo Grounds mountain climbing playing tennis and historic Victorian homes. Aspen CO: Walter Paepcke Aspen Skiing Company ca. 1950. 4to. 20 pp unpaginated thick card stock mylar-covered leaves title and typed list of images mounted on front pastedown w/ 20 original silver gelatin images tipped-in sized 7.75 x 9.4 in. and nearly all w/ photographer's stamps and pencil annotations verso. Original padded simulated brown calf comb-bound album spine rebacked minor bumping to corners very minor toning to fore-edges of title leaf on front pastedown still a VG exemplar. This splendid land promotion photo album offers an invaluable visual record of Walter Paepcke's post-World War II effort to remake Aspen Colorado into a kind of American Athens which united art ideas architecture music and outdoor leisure activities into a popular destination. At the urging of his wife Paepcke came to Aspen Colorado just after World War II and immediately saw the tremendous development possibilities and began buying prime Aspen CO Victorian homes secured a 25-year lease on the historic Jerome Hotel and the Wheeler Opera House and organized the Aspen Skiing Company to build and operate the hotels restaurants and develop the ski industry. In 1949 he founded the Aspen Institute and by 1949 made Aspen the site for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang Goethe. The celebration featured such attendees as Albert Schweitzer Jose Ortega y Gasset Thornton Wilder and Arthur Rubinstein. These images include a birds-eye view of Aspen and Red Mountain the Hotel Jerome Lobby Dining Room mountain climbing horseback riding swimming in the Four Seasons Club an informal rodeo at the Aspen Rodeo Grounds and even restored Victorian homes. Most of these promotional images were taken by several famed Western photographers. These include Ferenc Berko 1916-2000 who while teaching film & photography at the Chicago Institute of Design was invited by Paepcke to photograph the Goethe Bicentennial and enamored with the stunning vistas relocated to Aspen where he began promoting and documenting Aspen's growth as a cultural and leisure community; Fritz Kaeser 1910-1990 world-renowned Aspen CO ski photographer trained with Ansel Adams served with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II and later operated the Aspen Photo Gallery/Studio that became the Mother Lode on Hyman Ave. ; and Loey Ringquist 1919-2006 who first came to Aspen in 1949 and began her career with Patrick Henry at the Aspen Tintype Studio and whose beautiful images included the mountain passes ghost towns abandoned mines wildflower meadows and other areas around Aspen. See: Mark Seal For Love of Aspen Vanity Fair Jan. 23 2014; Ferenc Berko The Ferenc Berko Collection Biography Aspen Colorado 2017 ; Tim Willoughby Fritz Kaeser -- Roch and rocks The Aspen Times July 28 2010; Loey Ringquist Obituary The Aspen Times Nov. 22 2006. unknown books
1884833951884. RICHARDSON Benjamin Ward. THE ASCLEPIAD: A BOOK OF ORIGINAL RESEARCH AND OBSERVATION 6 VOLUMES 1884-1889. London: Messrs. Longmans Green and Company 1884-1889. var pp. 8vo. olive green cloth stamped in gilt. Cloth and gilt lettering clean and bright interiors fine tight and clean. A fine set. Medical essays. Extra postage required. unknown books
199249470New York: Persea Books 1992. 1st Edition. Pale green glossy paper covers printed in white & black. Light wear Nr Fine. 78 2 pp. 9" x 6" <br/><br/> Persea Books unknown books
1992288705New York: Persea Books 1992. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. From the National Poetry Series edited by Amy Clampitt. With no marks. Sunning along the spine. Softcover. Very Good binding. Persea Books unknown books
199242009NY: Persea Books 1992. Paperback. Very good. First Printing. Spine sunned else very good in publisher's wraps. <br/><br/> Persea Books paperback books
1992URICART00DPEHarry N. Abrams Inc 1992. Very Good. Richardson John Adkins. Art : The Way It Is. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1992. 416pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Harry N. Abrams, Inc paperback books
1965260473N.p.: Finished finally at Hotel Llao Llao San Carlos de Bariloche Argentina 1965. Duplicated typecript printed rectos only. With two loosely inserted printed BEA airline maps of Europe and the U.K. 59 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Stapled card wrappers upper cover with printed title. Spine tape slightly worn lower cover with some marginal loss internally fine. Duplicated typecript printed rectos only. With two loosely inserted printed BEA airline maps of Europe and the U.K. 59 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Lee Richardson's account of hard-drinking jet-setting travels including a visit to the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo Hong Kong Beirut Vienna a lengthy acount pheasant shooting in Czechoslovakia with a game bag of 156 pheasants then on to Yugoslavia London and Winnipeg. Not in OCLC Finished, finally, at Hotel Llao Llao, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina unknown books
1851WRCAM54157London 1851. Two volumes. viii4131pp. plus folding map and nine colored plates including frontispiece; vii1426pp. with color frontis. 20th-century three-quarter calf and tan cloth spine gilt leather labels. Minor shelf wear and rubbing. Modern bookplate on front pastedowns light toning. Very good. Richardson the noted naturalist accompanied Franklin on his first and second expeditions with the rare folding map not present in all copies. The present work includes the journals of Richardson and Rae on the Mackenzie Arctic and Coppermine rivers in 1849. "Filled with details of personal experiences of Indian life. The appendix contains a comparative table of dialects spoken by the Eskimo" - Sabin. Richardson did not limit himself to searching for Franklin and looked for plants and animals as well. An appendix of almost ninety pages comprises one of the earliest detailed listings of Canadian and Arctic plants as well as describing the physical geography of the Arctic. A number of contributors have provided material on the linguistics of the Indians of the region. Most of the attractive plates illustrate members of the Kutchin tribe of native Indians. STREETER SALE 3716. SABIN 71025. WAGNER-CAMP 203:1. PILLING PROOF-SHEETS 3256. TOURVILLE 3804. GRAFF 3493. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 9170. RICKS p.182 ref. TPL 3029. REESE BEST OF THE WEST 121. hardcover books
1851017647London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1851. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. Two volume set; complete. Original brown cloth is moderately worn and rubbed with minor fraying and some chips; protected in archival mylar. Vol. I: viii 413 pages 32 pages of advertisement. Vol. II: vii 426 pages. Complete with 10 plates and hand-colored folding map. The frontis and title page of the 2nd volume is stained in the margin. The folding map has a repair and a small tear at the edge. The endpapers are affixed to the paste-downs and the previous owner's inscription is on the front endpapers "To Mr. John Kirkwood a parting gift from his Cousin Geo. Cockburn Liverpool July 20 1858." Sabin 71025; Field 1300: "exceedingly interesting work.thronged with details of personal experiences of Indian life." Wagner Camp 203:1: "Of interest to our work is.account of the journey from Hudson's Bay by way of the Athabasca River and Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean." Excellent color plates of Indians mostly Kutchins and Crees. Large colored map titled "British North America." First edition. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans Hardcover books
185239873New York: Harper & Brothers 1852. . 516 12 adverts pp. <br /><br />"A Journal of a Boat-Voyage Through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea in Search of the Discovery Ships under Command of Sir John Franklin. With an Appendix on the Physical Geography of North America." Journal of Richardson's expedition down the Mackenzie River and eastward along the coast to Coppermine River. Chapters of Eskimoa Kutchin Cree and Chipewayan Indians. - Arctic Bib 14489. This is the American edition of a book first published in London the year before. The text is identical but it does not have the plates of the English edition. Text foxed original cloth binding faded. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
004177Kingston and Montreal; 1984: McGill-Queen's Univesity. First Edition. Small Quarto. 349pp. illustrated by H. Albert Hochbaum. John Richardson medical officer of the Franklin expedition records the daily round of making camp collecting specimens and logging all observations. In July of 1821 the party reached the icy waters of the Arctic but it was far too late in the season. They attempted to return across the Barren Lands starving cold bedeviled by loss of men and equipment. Only nine of twenty men returned. For survival they turned to cannibalism. Richardson's journal of the first Franklin expedition is published here for the first time. Bound in blue cloth spine lettering white previous owner's gift inscription near fine in very good pictorial dust jacket with some toning. A very good copy. McGill-Queen's Univesity unknown books
193941578San Francisco Shanghai / Macao / Hong Kong: The Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition Inc 1939. Letters are dated: Nov 20 1938; Jan 18th 1939; Jan 27th 1939; and Feb 16th 1939. Though typewritten and mimeographed all four are personally signed by Halliburton. Letters typewritten to buff paper envelopes with blue seal of the "Sea Dragon" with illustration printed to front. Modest wear to paper some light age-toning and rubbing to papers. Envelopes rubbed and worn. Withal a VG lot. Pages within the letters: 5 3 4 3 Total of 16 typewritten pages. Two black and white Kodak photographs are included printed in 1957 presumably from a negative of Robert Pullen's famous shots of the "Sea Dragon" taken just before its doomed maiden voyage. Letters: 14" x 8-1/2". Photographs:. <br/><br/>Who took the first aerial picture of Mount Everest after receiving express permission by stunning the Majarajah of Nepal with bi-plane aerobatics Richard Halliburton was a legendary American travel writer and adventurer. Reading stories of his feats and antics seem surreal - after all who flies an airplane upside down over the Taj Mahal Halliburton was born in January of 1900 in Brownsville Tennessee. Deciding at an early age not to settle down and grow old with a wife and family as the rest of his family and friends seemed to be doing. After graduating from Princeton Halliburton traveled on as many adventures as possible and published his first novel The Royal Road to Romance in 1925 at the tender age of 25. His first novel became a bestseller and was followed by more published adventures in 1927 and 1929. He enjoyed fame and adventures for a little over a decade before deciding in 1938 that his next grand feat would be to cross the Pacific ocean from Hong Kong to the San Francisco International Exposition in a Chinese Junk ship made expressly for his purposes. It is on this voyage that Halliburton and the entire crew of the Junk the "Sea Dragon" were lost at sea having gotten caught in a typhoon. In 1945 a 150-foot ship outline with Chinese lettering washed ashore in California this thought to possibly be some of the wreckage of the "Sea Dragon." Letter I: Halliburton describes the arrival in China and purpose of the expedition as well as his interest in junks stemming from a 1 ft. scale model he sailed as a child. He explains that he chose to use a junk for his journey because of their stability and notes that it is possible it will not be the smoothest ride. He quips: "If the junk should be small the storms violent and the voyage long - all the better. For if there is no hazard no battle where is the sport" He introduces the "friends" of the expedition to his crew of Captain John Welch Henry von Fehren "Bru" Potter among others. Halliburton also spends a significant amount of time discussing the war with China and Japan and the Japanese belief systems. Letter 2: The second letter discusses the search for an appropriate junk and the ultimate decision to build their own that could be modified for the journey. Working with the man said to be the best ship-builder in Hong Kong Mr. Fat Kau and the appropriation of a few more crew members a chef and a radio operator. Letter 3: The third letter posted from Canton desribes their taking the Sea Dragon out for a "shake down" cruise with Mr. Fat Kau as his guest who though a builder of ships had never sailed on one and with high seas nearly everyone aboard became seasick. Halliburton notes the dry deck despite the high waves and believes he was right about the Sea Dragon's sea-worthiness. Much of the rest of the letter is spent discussing Canton the disputes between the Chinese and Japanese the destruction the looters and other conditions in the city. Letter 4: After setting out on their voyage the Sea Dragon needed to return after only 2 days due to sickness on the boat. Though Halliburton seems only a trifle annoyed at the delay of their voyage he is excited enough to try again and leaves his readers with this: "In about another week we plan to leave again to slip away as quietly as possible and head east once more around the southern tip of Formosa - and straight on to Midway. If all goes well the next letter the fifth will carry an American stamp for Midway Island is American. When this the fourth letter reaches you we'll be a thousand miles along the way - I hope. Many thanks again for your interest and good will. Faithfully Richard Halliburton" The Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition, Inc unknown books
1840134197London: Charles James Richardson 1840. Hardcover. Good Ex-library with expected marks and perforation stamp on title page. Most plates marked lightly on front with ink stamp. Light foxing/spotting to some plates but generally clean. Light general wear to exterior with a little fraying of cloth at spine ends. Brown library buckram. 14 pp plus frontispiece decorative title page and 29 additional plates and titles mostly bw but some duotone and one with color. Oversize. Two parts in one volume. Charles James Richardson hardcover books
6354RICHARDSON Charles James. ARCHITECTURAL REMAINS OF THE REIGNS OF ELIZABETH JAMES 1st. FROM ACCURATE DRAWINGS AND MEASUREMENTS TAKEN FROM EXISTING SPECIMENS. London: The Author 1838. Large folio. Cloth spine paper boards. Frontispie vi 8 pages 11 plates. First edition. Planned as a two volume work volume two was never published. "Address" dat 1839. The title page is a tinted lithograph there is no letterpress title page. With two copies of plate four. The title page and plate four are enchanced with hand coloring. Three of the plates are details of ceilings. Edges rubbed. unknown books
19331309600Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 10mo; pp 336; VG-/G; burgundy spine with ivory text; scarce; dust jacket has light sunning to exterior mostly to spine; minor chips to edges; mylar wraps; cloth has slight wear to exterior; light toning to edges; text block has slight age toning to edges; interior clean. 1309600. FP New Rockville Stock. J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
