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193217718New York: Viking Press 1932. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; maroon cloth with titling and decorations stamped in black and gilt on spine and front panel; peach topstain; dustjacket; 298pp. Gently nudged and faded at spine ends else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped lightly worn at joints and extremities with some shallow chipping at spine ends and corners; Very Good. "The story of conflict between a small conservative settlement in the Tennessee mountains and a man who tried to rebuild the town only to meet with hate and resentment." A scarce piece of Tennessee fiction especially in dustjacket. COAN p.69 HANNA 664 BOGER 77. Viking Press unknown books
19751329590New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1975. Hardcover. Quarto; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine red with white print; DJ has edgewear slight tear to front top edge and to front bottom edge remains of label on front bottom edge mild shelfwear; Boards in black cloth with gold print light wear to corners and spine caps wear to bottom edge else clean and strong; Text block has small stain to top edge else clean and tight; 306 pages illustrated b&w. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1329590. FP New Rockville Stock. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
199026289NY: Prentice Hall. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0137848102 . Color photographs throughout. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Prentice Hall hardcover books
195937045London: Andre Deutsch 1959. Hardcover. 283p. very good first UK edition in boards and price-clipped dj with wraparound illustration and lightly-sunned spine affecting the orange field faded to yellow. Young 622. A young English subaltern stands trial in an African country on the brink of independence form British Army rule. Andre Deutsch hardcover books
198129903Cincinnati: Program for Cincinnati 1981. First Edition. Square quarto 26cm.; original cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 227pp.; color photo-frontispiece illus. throughout. Dime-sized loss to top edge of upper jacket panel additional chips and short closed tears else Fine in About Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed by the designer to half title: "For Bernarda -- a Buckeye who once was a packet boat pilot -- from Noel & Charles ." From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label tipped to front pastedown. Program for Cincinnati unknown books
1988224572San Francisco: San Francisco AIDS Foundation 1988. Six-panel brochure 3.75x8.5 inches informational brochure illustrations showing how to wear a condom contact numbers very good in red black and white glossy stock. Aimed at heterosexual couples. San Francisco AIDS Foundation unknown books
19891329594Greenwich: Lublin Graphics Publishers 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto; First edition; VG/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine multicolor with black print; DJ has long tear to front flap edge slight edgewear else clean and bright; Boards in green cloth with white print clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; 167 pages illustrated color. Shelf: American Art <br /> <br /> NOTE: Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1329594. FP New Rockville Stock. Lublin Graphics Publishers hardcover books
196531794New York: Sheed and Ward 1965. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; jade green cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 214pp. Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket with a bit of mild shelfwear. Study of woman's role in western society "how modern woman can find fulfillment even in "the split-level trap" and can keep her mind alive and her spirit growing in grace and wisdom" from front flap. Dustjacket designed by Ellen Raskin. Sheed and Ward unknown books
196537919Pasadena CA: Pasadena Art Museum 1965. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Pasadena CA: Pasadena Art Museum 1965. Copious b/w and full color illustrations. 144 pp. Hardcover. Large 8vo size. Off white illustrative paper covered boards. Head heel and corners bumped and moderately worn; former ownerÕs name to front free endpaper. Interior clean and sound. Very good/No dust jacket. Pasadena Art Museum hardcover books
190819010803Toronto: The Copp Clark Company Limited 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Kimball Alonzo. First printing of the Toronto imprint duodecimo size 412 pp. The designs of Margaret Armstrong 1867-1944 utilising the Art Nouveau style and floral patterns were a sensation in the publishing business; Armstrong created over 270 book designs often for the works of well-known authors such as Charles Dickens Robert Louis Stevenson and George Washington Cable. In addition to designing books Armstrong wrote books as well including a comprehensive guide to wildflowers in the American West which she also illustrated.<br/><br/>This novel by George Washington Cable 1844-1925 tells of a romance set in New Orleans during the American Civil War; Cable considered the "first modern southern writer" used his fiction to highlight the injustices of racism in the South and he is considered a precursor to William Faulkner. This volume is a scarce Toronto imprint and has a vintage bookseller's ticket on the rear paste-down endpaper from a book shop in Vancouver B. C.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full red cloth decorative pattern in black light blue and gilt by Margaret Armstrong unsigned with title in gilt on the front board gilt lettering and ornament in black and gilt on the spine frontispiece illustration by Alonzo Kimball with tissue guard title page with black ruled borders black-and-white illustrations by Kimball throughout; duodecimo size 7.5" by 5.25" pagination: i-vi vii-x xi-xii 1-396 397-400. Vintage bookseller's ticket on the rear paste-down endpaper from "G. S. Forsyth & Co. / Booksellers & Stationers / Vancouver B. C."<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards straight corners a strong square text block with solid hinges and the interior is clean and bright; some rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the corners spine is lightly sunned and there is a faded prior owner name on both paste-down endpapers.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Gullans and Espey no. 58.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; 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. The Copp, Clark Company Limited hardcover books
1980157706San Francisco: the Brigade 1980. 8.5x11 inch flyer with reproductions of 10 gay liberation buttons from the 1970s and a police whistle: the latter being the "one we use" the principal tool of the Brigade's anti-violence campaign initiated by community activist Hank Wilson. the Brigade unknown books
2002121910New York: Metropolis Books - Princeton Architectural Press 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Edited by Akiko Busch. Designed by Criswell Lappin. Photo essays by David Carson. A fine copy in illustrated boards without dust jacket as issued. Metropolis Books - Princeton Architectural Press unknown books
1990118930Paris: Flammarion 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Text in English. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Flammarion unknown books
1990171390New York: Rizzoli 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 288 pages. Text by Yvonne Brunhammer and Suzanne Tise. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A tight near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some edge tears and wear. A very good reference book. Rizzoli unknown books
1951174311Cincinnati OH: Zebra Press 1951. First edition. Softcovers. The third and final issue of this legendary magazine which was edited by Frank Zachary and George S. Rosenthal and with art design and direction by Alexey Brodovitch. This issued featured articles on Ben Shahn stereoscopy but lacking the 3-D glasses Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographs of Asia Jackson Pollock as photographed by Hans Naumuth and a look at Alexander Calder with images by Herbert Matter. An about very good copy in wrappers with the spine missing soiling to the wrappers some tears and some wear to the corners and edges. Internally a clean copy. Zebra Press unknown books
199130824Richmond MA: Mad River Press 1991. First edition. Loose Sheets. Fine. Very large single sheet of paper 46 x 77cm wide framed under glass of a beautifully illustrated broadside poem by Pablo Neruda from his Twenty love poems & a song of despair. Translated by W. S. Merwin. With artwork and design by Julio Granda. With English and Spanish on alternate lines. One of 225 hand-numbered copies SIGNED BY MERWIN AND GRANDA. Fine condition. Due to the size and weight of this item additional shipping charges will apply over standard rates. Mad River Press unknown books
2005RBRECAT00tmGreen Cat Press 2005. Fine. Brewer Kenneth W. Cat Dander. Broadside. Makov design Susan; Eddington design Patrick. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press 2005. #21 of 30 on cream paper. Illustrated. 16.5 x 38 cm on 27.5 x 48 cream paper. Broadside. Signed by author. Book condition: Fine. Signed by Brewer Makov and Eddington. Green Cat Press unknown books
197342869Ames IA: Design Center Gallery Iowa State Univ. 1973. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with gallery address label and small sticker on front wrapper. Unpaged 12 pp. Illus. with b/w plates and photos. 8vo. Vernon Brejcha was the Artist in Residence May 1-5. In cooperation with the Department of Ceramic Engineering Iowa State University. Design Center Gallery Iowa State Univ. unknown books
195728628Iceland: Birtingur 1957. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wide bound wrappers. First issue of this magazine of art culture and design edited by Einar Bragi out of Iceland. 105 pp. Text in Icelandic. A very good copy with slight crease to rear cover. Notable early design work by Diter Rot. Quite scarce. Birtingur paperback books
1908WRCLIT75787Newburyport: Towle Mfg. Co. 1908. 74pp. Large octavo. Decorated wrappers printed in red and black derived from a design by Will Bradley. Heavily illustrated. Surface loss to spine toward toe with neat repairs to upper joint; still a very good clean copy. Fifth edition. The design of both the wrapper and the typography is indebted to Bradley's original 40pp. 1897 printing at his Wayside Press. Towle's advertising booklet subtitle advises it is "intended to Delineate and Describe some Quaint and Historic Places in Newburyport and Vicinity and show the Origin and Beauty of the Colonial Pattern of Silverware." BAMBACE p.201 ref. Towle Mfg. Co. unknown books
2004RBRAONC00tmGreen Cat Press 2004. Fine. Bradbury Ray. Once the Years Were Numerous and the Funerals Few. Broadside. Makov design and illustration Susan; Eddington design and illustration Patrick. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press 2004. #32 of 70 on eggshell paper. Illustrated. 19 x 35 cm on 28 x 47 cm eggshell paper. Broadside. Signed by author. Book condition: Fine. Signed by Bradbury Makov and Eddington. Green Cat Press unknown books
1992118975Los Angeles CA & Boston MA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with Bulfinch Press/ Little Brown and Company 1992. First paperback edition. Softcover. 255 pages. Foreword by Earl A. Powell III. Preface by Max Palevsky. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A tight very near fine copy in wrappers. Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with Bulfinch Press/ Little, Brown and Company unknown books
199731139Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0876331177 . Color photographs throughout by Lynn Rosenthal. First edition. About fine in a fine dust jacket. . Philadelphia Museum of Art hardcover books
1923012435Honlulu: Patten Company 1923. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Distinctive grass-woven patterned covers designed by Jean Bernard Schiffers with inset for title and author front cover. Gift inscription from Hawaii ffe. Illustrated with woodcuts by John Poole and decorations by A. S. Macleod. A lovely production in a folksy kind of way. Patten Company hardcover books
1962227699Lowestoft: Scorpion Press 1962. Hardcover. 33p. illustrated endpapers #17/50 signed by the author first edition in black buckram boards and gilt and unclipped dj. Young 324. Scorpion Press hardcover books
