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19637697Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. Illustrated by James Alexander. First printing. Near fine in a near fine minor edge wear dust jacket. . Bobbs-Merrill hardcover books
1867002675London: George Routledge and Sons 1867. First Edition. Decorated and Blindstamped Cloth. Very Good. A quintessential work by the absurdist illustrator Ernest Griset and a copy heightened by hand-coloring. 4to. 6 151 5 pp. With 100 or so hand-colored illustrations including frontis. Note that most copies of this lack the coloring of the images. Clean and tight within with newer endpapers. Wear to spine tips and along the edges with cloth rubbed in corners. Spine tear repaired with trace of it still visible. Soil marks on the boards. The centerpiece of a gilt diaper and raised figures may have the faintest of fading but nonetheless remains bright and and eye pop. <br/><br/> George Routledge and Sons hardcover books
1867002987London: George Routledge and Sons 1867. First Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. With handwritten letter from Griset to Edward Whymper the renowned mountaineer dated November 22 1881 mounted onto preliminary leaf. Whymper besides being the first to scale the Matterhorn was a wood engraver and illustrator. In this letter Griset thanks Whymper for a cheque and speaks of a desire to make the acquaintance of Whymper soon afterward. As to the book: 4to. 6151 5 pp. With publisher's cloth front cover and spine bound in. The hundred Griset drawings are all hand-colored in this copy. The full calf binding has considerable wear chips and scuffing around the edges and joints. Rebacked with original spine labels laid on. Foxing in prelim pages but overall clean and tight. <br/><br/> George Routledge and Sons unknown books
1998140651998. Softbound. VG. Color wraps. 32 pp. 8 color numerous bw plates. Essay 'Past-Perfect Landscape' by Amy Ingrid Schlegel biographic notes and brief writing by each artist several beautiful plates. Includes works by Bill Botzow Susan Brearey Kevin Bubriski Chris Esten Lars-Erik Fisk Dan Ford Leslie Fry Louise Hamlin Daniel Ladd Alex Maclean Kerstin Nichols Suzanne Pretty Alan Sonfist Altoon Sultan john Willis. unknown books
1995177101995. Softcover. NF. Bw wraps. 96 pp. Numerous bw plates. unknown books
2002299242002. Softcover. VG. Red wraps. 45 pp. 24 color plates. unknown books
199282341992. Softbound. VG. Wraps. 18 pp. 8 bw plates. Introductory essay by Barbara J. MacAdam. Catalogue lists 82 works by 44 artists including a fair representation of photographers. An interesting topic. unknown books
19419589New York: National Child Labor Committee 1941. Paperback. 94p. wraps slightly chipped and head and tail of spine else good condition first edition front. National Child Labor Committee paperback books
1946WRCLIT84382Asheville NC: Privately Published 1946. 20pp. Large octavo. Printed wrapper. Portrait and plate. Pale blue wrapper sunned at edges but very good or better. First edition of this essay in tribute to the mathematician / biographer / polymath accompanied by a bibliography of his book publications. Laid in is a 4pp. mechanically reproduced typescript of T.F. Hickerson's 1964 essay "The Archibald Henderson Era." A preliminary to Hood's more substantial 1949 work. Privately Published] unknown books
2004915152NY: Norton. 2004. A collection of stories. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Norton hardcover books
2004UHOOORN00fpW. W. Norton & Company 2004. Fine. Hood Ann. An Ornithologist's Guide to Life: Stories. New York NY: W. W. Norton & Company 2004. 237pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover books
1998914135NY: Picador. 1998. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Picador hardcover books
1987915148NY: Bantam. 1987. Her first novel published as a trade paperback original. Mild age toning to pages; else fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Bantam paperback books
1989915150NY: Bantam. 1989. A trade paperback original. Fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Bantam paperback books
2008Embry 184938W. W. Norton 2008. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. W. W. Norton, 2008. First edition, first printing. unknown books
2017Embry 172220W. W. Norton 2017. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. W. W. Norton, 2017. First edition, first printing. unknown books
183746829London: Whittaker & Co 1837. First edition. 8vo. viii 216 pp. OCLC locates 13 copies New York Botanical Garden U.S. Military Academy Trinity Delaware Chicago Indiana Purdue Boston Athenaeum Harvard National Library of Medicine New Hampshire College of Physicians of Philadelphia Cambridge. Somewhat later half-calf and cloth very soiled and discolored all edges sprinkled red lacking spine label; some insect damage to rear endpaper but a good solid copy. <br/><br/> Whittaker & Co hardcover books
199910099Paradise CA:Asylum Arts 1999. 1st edition. Fine in wraps. Blurb by David Rains Wallace. Review copy with material laid in. Paradise, CA:Asylum Arts, paperback books
18974207Lowell MA: C.I. Hood & Co 1897. Duodecimo 351 pages. First edition of this small Victorian guide for the home cook issued by the makers of Hood's Sarsaparilla. Each chapter carries a decorated letter and the book is well indexed. In publisher's grey-green printed boards which are rubbed and soiled. Less than very good but sound and complete. Bitting 563; not in Cagle. C.I. Hood & Co hardcover books
2062Lowell Mass: C.I. Hood n.d. Small octavo 18 x 12 cm. 32 pages. Advertisements. A later reprint but still issued by the company. A small product book with both recipes and remedies from the makers of Hood' Saponaceous Tooth Powder and Hood's Sasparilla. Very near fine in publisher's printed wrappers. C.I. Hood unknown books
1995278976Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1995. paperback. very good. Illus. 8vo pr. wrs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1995. Very good<br/><br/> Johns Hopkins University Press unknown books
197122149NY: Wiley-Interscience. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 0471408700 . First printing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Wiley-Interscience hardcover books
1933275014New York: Sears Publishing 1933. hardcover. very good. Illus. 4to maroon cloth. New York: Sears Publishing 1933. Very good<br/><br/> Sears Publishing unknown books
1990113458Oakland: Hood Trust 1990. 294p.263p. in one binding illustrations and plentiful line maps very good first edition in original pictorial wraps previous-ownership signature in ink. Two inter-related tough-guy novels by the Bay Area author with a curious appended interview with the main character questioning his ties to the Communist Party in the 1920s and 1930s. Manly adventure crime several fistfights some gunplay characters converse realistically but also tend to declaim on such subjects as railroads and doing business in Central America on physiognomy and on palmreading "chirography" in the text. Writes better than E. Howard Hunt --we mean this as a compliment. Hood Trust unknown books
198329586Glasgow: Collins. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0004356756 . Color photographs throughout by Douglas Corrance et al. First edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Collins hardcover books