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192610214716mo 6 3/4" x 4 1/2" dark red cloth gilt lettering on top cover and spine illustrated with folding maps 388 pp. Some extremity wear a couple of small stub tears on one map map fold slightly off some browning and aging; otherwise about very good. A useful little travel book for an exotic location at that time. Includes a couple of small folding maps of North Africa Algeria and Tunisia. Thomas Cook & Son, books
1925156823New York: Chelsea House 1925. Octavo pp. 1-11 12-249 250: blank 251: ad 252-256: blank note: first two and last two leaves used as front and rear paste-downs and free endpapers original dark green cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Cook on the front free endpaper: "Dr. G. B. Gesner / With best wishes / from / William Wallace Cook / Christmas 1925." A race around the world in futuristic space going aircraft. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 479. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 189. Bleiler 1978 p. 48. Reginald 03449. Gold lettering on spine panel very dull page edges tanned a very good copy. #156823 Chelsea House unknown books
189732283Buffalo N.Y.: D. Ransom Son & Co 1897. 1st edition thus. 20th edition overall cf. Cagle 876 - 878 for the years 1882 83 & 89. Printed peach-colored wrappers sewn. Hole for string tie to upper left for hanging from a hook. Advert to rear wrapper. Minor wear & soiling. Small inkspot to lower edge of front wraper. Withal a VG copy. 32 pp. P. 32 with a calendar for the year. Illustrated with the occasional woodcut primarily for adverts. 8vo. 6-3/8" x 4" <br/><br/>A recipe book ostensibly issued annually by D. Ransom with recipes the 'Coffee Jelly' sounds interesting interspersed with advertising matter medicinal cures & personal testimonies. The series began in 1874 continuing through our reseach indicates the mid-1920s. We no evidence of an extant complete run. D. Ransom, Son & Co unknown books
195020879ENew York: The Newcomen Society in North America 1950. Second printing. Staplebound pamphlet 6†x 9†28 pages. Illustrated. With a hint of darkening to the covers else fine in printed wrappers. The printed presentation by Dr. Clifford Cook Furnas Director of the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory Inc. before a meeting of the Newcomen Society on May 4 1950 in Buffalo NY. Introduction by Patrick H. Hodgson. The Newcomen Society began originally in London in 1920 and then in the United States in 1923 serving as a champion of American capitalism entrepreneurism and free enterprise until its closure in 2007. The Newcomen Society in North America unknown books
1979131644Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1979. Collection of 10 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1979 film. <br/><br/>Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay Best Actor and Best Actress. While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources an opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicise the incident but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1979131669Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1979. Collection of 6 vintage color double weight color still photographs from the 1979 film. <br/><br/>Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay Best Actor and Best Actress. While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources an opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicise the incident but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1979139971Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1979. Collection of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1979 film. <br/><br/>While reporting on alternative energy sources opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells Fonda witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret. <br/><br/>Shot on location throughout California. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay Best Actor and Best Actress. <br/><br/>11 x 14 inches. Light corner bumps else Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
194448319Washington: Office of War Information / War Food Administration 1944. First Edition. Quarto ca. 27cm.; printed staplebound self-wrappers; 16pp.; text printed in double columns. Minor toning else Fine. "This information supplements the basic wartime facts on food as presented in the Food Fights for Freedom program book" upper cover. Office of War Information / War Food Administration unknown books
1940WRCLIT40424Middlebury: Middlebury College Press 1940. Printed boards. First edition. Signed by Cook with a quote from Walden written out. Offset to two pages from now absent clipping otherwise a very good copy in lightly chipped dust jacket with split at flap folds. BORST C29. Middlebury College Press hardcover books
192753342New York: Macmillan. Very Good. 1927. Hardcover. New York & London Macmillan & University Press1927. Volume VI of Ancient History Collection cloth no jacket bumped rubbed good condition. . Macmillan hardcover books
192769123Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Good. 1927. Hardcover. This is only the Volume of Plates I. Brown cloth with gilt stamping. The covers show some light soiling with rubbed spine and edges. This is an ex-library copy with library stamps on the endpages and some slight remnants of a card pocket at the rear. Good. . Cambridge University Press hardcover books
193370326New York: Macmillan Company. Very Good-. 1933. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with a few library marks. 648 pages complete with folding maps brown boards with gilt stamping. Very Good. . Macmillan Company hardcover books
194647767New York: H. Holt. Very Good. 1946. Hardcover. NY: H. Holt 1946. 162 pages hardbound. VG/VG with very light wear to the mylar protected DJ. . H. Holt hardcover books
194013257San Francisco: British War Relief Association of Northern California 1940. First Edition 1st Printing. Near Fine. 8x5.5in; 3 5-125 pp. 1 charts for calories minerals vitamins and meat cuts black and white illustrations in text; Cream stiff paper covers with red and blue lettering and British flags on front within rust ink illustrations blue and red eight plastic spiral binding; Minor soiling and tanning to covers no prior owner marks or annotations. The British War Relief Society was created in 1939 for humanitarian relief of Great Britain with the outbreak of World War II in Europe. In the United States there was a strong isolationist movement and the official policy of the government was nonintervention with the 1939 Neutrality Act. This did not stop citizens from organizing relief efforts to support the beleaguered British people with nonmilitary supplies in the first years of the war. The Society's headquarters was in New York with chapters throughout the Country. British War Relief Association of Northern California unknown books
196040860NY: Architectural Book Publishing 1960. First Edition. 4to pp. 187. Photographs and drawings with commentary. An author's presentation on flyleaf.Cover somewhat soiled but a VG tight copy. Architectural Book Publishing unknown books
1943109149New York.: Reinhold. 1943. hardcover. very good with no dust jacket; shelf wear bumped corners pages tanning. 8vo. Reinhold. hardcover books
198717136New York Cambridge and London: New Museum of Contemporary Art MIT Press 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Oversized octavo. 431 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Foreword by Marcia Tucker. Quarter cloth over boards. A nearly fine copy in dustwrapper. Artist musings by Yvonne Rainer Richard Prince Simon Watney Jenny Holzer Candance Hill Gary Indiana and a host of other contributors. <br/><br/> New Museum of Contemporary Art, MIT Press hardcover books
1935285817Cambridge: University Press 1935. hardcover. very good. 11 maps all but one folding plus three folding tables. xxii 554 pages large 8vo brown cloth with gilt stamped front cover decoration; inscription on front free endpaper. Cambridge: At The University Press 1935. A very good copy.<br/><br/> University Press unknown books
195353643Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. Fold-out maps and tables. Third impression with corrections. Ex-library copy with typical markings else very good in a very good dust jacket.; 648 pages . Cambridge University Press, hardcover books
198265037La Jolla: Laurence McGilvery/Atticus Books 1982. First edition. 101 pp w/index. Very near fine in full red cloth. No dust jacket as issued. A complete description of the first forty books in the famed “Pocket Poets†series. La Jolla: Laurence McGilvery/Atticus Books, hardcover books
194820792Cambridge MA: Halcyon 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. Red cloth-covered boards. Two issues bound in retaining original wraps. Near fine overall. Ownership signature to FFEP. Mildly toned throughout but clean and unmarred. 63pp Winter; 57pp Spring. <br/><br/>Two issues of this little magazine featuring contributions from E.E. Cummings James Merrill two poems Wallace Stevens Richmond Lattimore and a review of Celine's DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN by a 21-year-old Allen Ginsberg. Morgan C26. Halcyon hardcover books
197813887ENew York: M. Evans & Co 1978. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author Bruce Cook to fellow writer Wayne Warga. Inscribed: “For Wayne Warga - ‘Please do not understand me too quickly.’ Andre Gide. Bruce Cook with great good wishes.†Fine in a fine dust jacket. A murder mystery set in Chicago where social and sexual mores reflect the transitional times of the 70s. From the library of journalist and novelist Wayne Warga. The youngest editor at Life Magazine at age 25 Warga reported on John F. Kennedy’s race for the Presidency and went on to cover the Civil Rights movement for the magazine. For many years Warga was one of the leading writers at the Los Angeles Times where he did in depth articles and features on writers and people in the arts. Later Warga became a mystery novelist creating three well-received bibliomysteries: Hardcover Fatal Impressions and Singapore Transfer featuring Los Angeles rare book dealer Jeffrey Dean. M. Evans & Co hardcover books
195761288New York: Limited Editions Club 1957. First edition thus 1/1500 copies printed at the Griffin Press Adelaide Australia and signed by the illustrator and the designer Douglas A. Dunstan. 4to. xii 296 pp. Plates chapter head and marginal vignettes; LEC monthly newsletter tipped in at rear. Several nicks to the spine bookplate on verso of front endpaper else very good. Brown quarter-kangaroo rubbed and rough patterned tapa cloth over boards publisher's slipcase with printed paper spine panel label. #8178. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1970166090Andover MA: Addison Gallery of American Art 1970. First edition. Softcover. Artist book that consists of text based on this first line: "The following exhibitions may possibly by produced at the Addison Gallery of American art Andoover Massachusetts." Each page after that continues with that thought process and is a list of possibilities. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Addison Gallery of American Art unknown books
1967547081967. COOK Fred J. THE PLOT AGAINST THE PATIENT. Englewood Cliffs NJ: 1967. Small 4to. cloth in dust jacket. First Edition.Signed presentation from Cook on the front endpaper: "For Lillian and Ed Wolfe with thanks to Lil for some items that helped. With all best wishes. Fred J. Cook" Very Good; few moderate chips & tears tiny stain d/j. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books