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19709012325Harrisburg PA: Stackpole Books 1970. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth. Gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper. The dust jacket has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. <br/><br/> Stackpole Books hardcover books
19271332161Garden City NY: Garden City Publishing Co. Inc 1927. Hardcover. 10mo; pp 383; VG-; black spine with red text and decorations to spine; no jacket; cloth has mild wear to exterior; strong boards; slight edge wear; text block has modest age toning to exterior edges; deckled fore edge; frontispiece; illustrated; tight binding. 1332161. FP New Rockville Stock. Garden City Publishing Co., Inc hardcover books
1968203403San Francisco: Hoddypoll Press 1968. Paperback. 39p wraps lightly worn & creased staples starting to rust else good condition 8.5x11 inches poetry photos drawings first edition. Countercultural poetry written in 1967 in San Francisco during the high point of the hippie era. Hoddypoll Press was located at this time in the Haight-Ashbury. James Mitchell went on to found the path breaking gay literary journal Sebastian Quill. This is his first book. Hoddypoll Press paperback books
197827425London: Faber and Faber 1978. First edition. Cloth. Good/good. Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 62 pp poet / artist collaboration. Spotting to cloth covers. Covers are splayed open slightly. A good to very good copy in clipped dustwrapper that has a sticker shadow to the front panel. Only a decent copy overall but enhanced by the fact that it has been INSCRIBED by the artist to poet James Tate and dated in 1988. Faber and Faber unknown books
1966114961New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1966. First edition of Robert Manry's account of his voyage in the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic nonstop at that time. Octavo original cloth catographic endpapers 32 pages of photographs most by the author. Drawings by Roy C. Hearn. From the library of James Stephen "Steve" Fossett with his bookplate to the front pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days 8 hours and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fosset was also one of sailing's most prolific distance record holders set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships with a Zeppelin NT in 2004. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including aviation's highest award the Gold Medal of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale FAI which he was awarded in 2002. Fossett disappeared on September 3 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert between Nevada and California. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Robert W. Kelley. In 1965 Robert Manry sailed from Falmouth Massachusetts to Falmouth Cornwall England in a tiny 13.5-foot sailboat named Tinkerbelle. At the time Tinkerbelle was the smallest boat to make a non-stop trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover books
1986188213Amwell Press 1986-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Slipcase and book have minor wear. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. No limitation number. Amwell Press hardcover books
1930012079NY: E. P. Dutton 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good -. Uncommon international fairy tale title in original Art-Deco styled dustjacket in blue/ white/ silver worn at folds and with some loss at spine ends and corners. Still presentable. E. P. Dutton hardcover books
001727Paris: Bibliotheque D'Education et de Recreation J. Hetzel et Cie. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. N.d. circa 1870s. 8vo 260 pp. The gifted energetic and controversial Viollet-le-Duc had a profound effect on architectural thought. Responsible for the restoration of Reims Cathedral and the ambitious successful restoration and appreciation of the Medieval walled city of Carcassone Voillet-le-Duc was more concerned with capturing the beauty and overarching finest qualities of the past rather than the fine details that were strictly-speaking historically accurate. In this he was at loggerheads with the more literal purist the art critic John Ruskin whose views have in recent times been more in favor despite his not having been a trained architect. In any case this book is one of the best surveys of the anatomy of house and is especially good in describing the various trades which contribute to the building of a house. Organized as a novelistic dialogue the treatment also superbly avoids the trap of a dry exegesis that usually afflicts even popular surveys. Clean and tight within. Light sunning to the spine. Minor repair of the upper spine tip was made. <br /><br /> Bibliotheque D'Education et de Recreation, J. Hetzel et Cie. hardcover books
198523707New York: Coalition of Publishers for Employment Inc 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardbound 8vo issued without dustwrapper. The correct first edition preceding the W W Norton edition published the following year. 31 pp. Includes drawings by Al Hirschfeld who has both SIGNED and dated this copy in year of publication but also briefly INSCRIBED this copy at the rear colophon. Also with a printed signature of the author. <br/><br/> Coalition of Publishers for Employment, Inc hardcover books
19299007578Paris: Fortune Press 1929. Hardcover. Near fine condition. One of 1200 numbered copies. Bound in quarter blue cloth and marbled boards with the spine stamped in gilt. Tears to the corners. Uncut. <br/><br/> Fortune Press hardcover books
18761316745London: Smith Elder & Co 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; Fair/no-DJ; black 1/4 leather spine with gilt text; gilt rule framing spine binding; boards have noticeable soiling smudges to exterior; heavy chipping to spine; small chips to exterior edges; sturdy boards; red decorative border to front; text block shows slight age toning to exterior fore and tail edges; top edge gilt; some light foxing to few first and last pages; frontispiece with tissue guard; illustrated;. 1316745. FP New Rockville Stock. Smith, Elder & Co hardcover books
1928012140Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Solid copy in soiled dustjacket with browned spine missing an inch at top of spine. Laid-in is ANS by Mary R Walsh of Houghton Mifflin apparently an editor there to author and bibliofile Anne Haight who founded the Junior Book League promoting the book especially for readers 9 to 12. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
196368929El Paso: Texas Western College Press 1963. Hardcover. viii 250p. including scattered illustrations one of 300 copies bound for members of the El Paso bar and signed and numbered by Broaddus very good limited first edition in boards and lightly-worn dj with a small chip and closed tear. With considerable material on Hispanic origins. Texas Western College Press hardcover books
1895D5869Paris: Librairie L. Conquet 1895. Hardcover. Near Fine. Rebound by Carayon preserving the original illustrated wrappers at rear. Half gilt-ruled marbled paper and green morocco gilt-stamped lettering and illustration on spine t.e.g. marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 68 hand-colored plates. Light scuffing at spine tips and corners; gift inscription on FFEP. <br/><br/> Librairie L. Conquet hardcover books
1948RTAYAFR00LAWThomas G. Samworth 1948. Very Good. Taylor Pondoro John. African Rifles & Cartridges: The Experiences and Opinions of a Professional Ivory Hunter with some Thirty Years of Continuous Living in the African Bush. Smith drawings E. Stanley. Georgetown South Carolina: Thomas G. Samworth 1948. 1st edition. 431pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Sage cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good with subtly rubbed corners and small stain on front cover. Two former owners' names on front pastedown. Light unobtrusive soiling on a couple of pages. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair with chipped edges and subtle soiling and having several short closed tears with tape repairs. Soft creasing in front panel. In dust jacket protector. Thomas G. Samworth hardcover books
196029858New York: McGraw Hill 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition of this memoir by Beat legend Jack Kerouac. 183 pp. Illustrations by Larry Rivers. Lightly worn. A very good hardbound book in edge-worn dustwrapper. Stated first edition. Original $4.50 price to dustwrapper flap. Lightly toned and with a small chip at leading edge of front panel. McGraw Hill hardcover books
194847717.1Pawlet Vermont: The Banyan Press 1948. 1st Edition. cf. Edelstein A13. Limited to 500 copies. Variant olive green semi-stiff wove paper wrappers without the watermark as noted in Edelstein A13. Printed in brown lettering sewn with brown thread. Text printed in black lettering on Etruria paper. Leaves untrimmed. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some light age toning to back strip and top-edge. Internally clean and bright. Unpaginated though 16 pages. Two full page illustrations by Kurt Seligmann printed on Zebu paper. 10-2/8" x 7" <br/><br/>This pamphlet was printed with either Orange Bright Green or Olive Green wrappers - "though no priority in the use of these colors" cf. Edelstein A13. We believe this to be Olive Green. The Banyan Press unknown books
19819007675West Branch Iowa: Toothpaste Press 1981. Hardcover. Fine Condition. One of 50 copies signed by the author and the artist. Hand-bound in green cloth by Constance Sayre at the Black Oak Bindery with an illustration on paper of a Mercury automobile's grill pasted onto the front cover. <br/><br/> Toothpaste Press hardcover books
1880114416Paris: J. Hetzel 1880. Hardbound. Good wear to outer hinges and bands book is tight and fresh with slight foxing. Vull red leather with 4 raised bands and bordered design in each compartment. All edges are gilt. 260 pp. 4 color chromolithographs and 58 bw engravings. A splendid copy internally and outside is nice except where it has worn through the red of the leather to the tannish leather below. The gilt edges and the tightness of the book make it a pleasure to hold. J. Hetzel hardcover books
194847717Pawlet Vermont: The Banyan Press 1948. 1st Edition. cf. Edelstein A13. Limited to 500 copies. Olive green semi-stiff wove paper wrappers printed in brown lettering sewn with brown thread. Printed in black lettering on Etruria paper. Leaves untrimmed. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some light age toning to edges of wrappers. Some very soiling to wrappers. Internally clean and bright. Unpaginated though 16 pages. Two full page illustrations by Kurt Seligmann printed on Zebu paper. 10-2/8" x 7" <br/><br/>This pamphlet was printed with either Orange Bright Green or Olive Green wrappers - "though no priority in the use of these colors" cf. Edelstein A13. We believe this to be Olive Green. The Banyan Press unknown books
2005SB1104Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Mackay Andrew; Busby John. First printing quarto size 675 pp. The 17th work in the series "Bird Families of the World" the series chief editor being C.M. Perrins.<br/><br/>From the dust jacket flap: "The pelecaniformes are a large and important group of seabirds containing many spectacular species.this book will enable readers not only to identify the many spectacular species which make up this large and important group of seabirds but also to understand their breeding biology." <br/><br/>Replete with photographs maps and charts an indispensable tool for anyone who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of these marvellous birds published with the quality and high standards for which the Oxford University Press is known. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full navy blue cloth over boards silver lettering on the spine text in two columns replete with black-and-white drawings photographs maps and charts with twelve full-colour pages further illustrating selected sub-species; quarto size 9 7/8" by 7 5/8" pagination: i-xiv 1 2-661. The dust jacket shows illustrations of birds on the front and back panels on a grey ground white black blue and green lettering on the front black and blue lettering on the spine summary of the book on the front flap pictures and short author and illustrator bios on the back flap. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine with clean boards straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; as new other than a hint of dustiness to the bottom edge of the text block. Dust jacket also fine unclipped although without a printed price clean and without noticeable edgewear unsunned with all colours deep and true. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that this is a large and unusually heavy volume and therefore additional postage may apply; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Oxford University Press hardcover books
19671337054New York City: Grove Press 1967. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto; NM; minor creasing to front and back cover protective Mylar sleeve; translated by Richard Seaver English; RH Consignment; Shelved Case 8 1/4. 1337054. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Grove Press hardcover books
1900005290New York: W. S. Sterling & Co. 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Paper pastedown. Cloth spine. . Very Good. Clever Columbiana an ABC for the college student and alum capturing college life there in the early days of the Morningside Heights campus -- this was written shortly after the university had moved from Midtown. Oblong 4to 21 by 29 cm. Unpaginated but 30 pages including title page. Illustrations on every page. A light dampstain affects every page but given the good paper quality the dampstain we believe is not especially obtrusive. Soiling on the cloth spine. <br/><br/> W. S. Sterling & Co. hardcover books
1858006736Paris: Chez Hangard-Maugé 1858. First edition. Half Morocco. Marbled paper over boards. . Very Good. Plate volume -- only color chromolithographic plates 154 in all. 4to. 28 by 24 cm. Some plates with foxing. Most plates are clean. Moderate wear to binding. <br/><br/> Chez Hangard-Maugé hardcover books
1990118427Austin: The State House Press 1990. Signed limited edition of this work by the award-winning author one of 350 numbered copies this is number 316. Octavo original half cloth cartographic endpapers illustrated. Signed by James A. Michener and illustrator Charles Shaw. Fine in a fine slipcase. Recounts the period in Texas history when renegade Sam Houston emigrated to the Mexican state of Tejas and helped lead the 1836 revolution against Mexican president Santa Anna. The State House Press hardcover books
