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1902D14017New York: D. Appleton and Company 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Gilt-ruled half morocco and moire silk gilt-stamped lettering and ornament in spine compartments 5 raised bands; 8vo; pp. xix 1 407 illustrated throughout. Some light scuffing along joints raised bands and edges of boards; otherwise binding is lovely. Inscription dated 1912 on FFEP otherwise text block is clean and unmarked. <br/><br/> D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
19247506Phildelphia. The Penn Publishing Company. 1924. Bound in gilt titled cloth covered boards with colour pictorial cover plate. 8vo. Illustrated with colour and monochrome plates by Hattie Longstreet. Lengthy ink inscription to ffep from the author. Small tear to lower end of spine. Light scuffing to covers. Corners bumped. Some mild soiling to prelims else a Very Good copy. The Penn Publishing Company. hardcover books
306740Metuchen NJ Scarecrow Press 1985. First edition. 8vo. Edited with a note by Anthony Slide. 50 b/w illustrations. Filmography. Original silver stamped blue/green cloth. Very good-fine. 201 pages. As issured without dust jacket. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Ralston to author Roy Moseley below frontispiece portrait photograph: "To Roy sincerely Esther Ralston. Series: Filmmakers No. 11. Provenance: from the collection of author Roy Moseley. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Metuchen, NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1985. hardcover books
1902693New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1902. Green silk cloth with bold blocked gilt stamped design highlighting a floral motif by "AM" carried over on spine: carried over on spine: the work Alice Cordelia Morse who contributed designs on over a dozen of Singleton's books. Illustrated with photographs. Most of gilt blocked design bold with slight wear in some areas hinges cracked internally very good. <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
19577859Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1957. Octavo 25 x 17.5 cm. 171 pages. Illustrated with drawings on fifteen plates by Henry A. C. Jackson. FIRST EDITION. An extremely useful glossary or dictionary of some 3000 terms relevant to mycological studies. The illustrations are supplied by the great Canadian amateur naturalist Henry A.C. Jackson 1877-1960. Henry was the elder brother of landscape painter A.Y. Jackson and while A.Y. achieved great fame through his art Henry chose to quietly document his mycological journeys in Quebec through copious note taking and watercolor paintings of the collected specimens. After his death in 1960 much of his work was donated to the National Gallery of Canada. In 1979 The National Gallery mounted an exhibition of the watercolors and produced the catalogue Mr. Jackson's Mushrooms which reproduces forty-odd images and accompanies them with excerpts from his field notes. In the original brown cloth gilt titled on the spine. Lacking the dust jacket. Harvard University Press hardcover books
19899015605Harry N Abrams Inc 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original white cloth with spine stamped in black. <br/><br/> Harry N Abrams Inc hardcover books
19899009096New York: Abrams 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in publisher's original white cloth with the spine stamped in black. <br/><br/> Abrams hardcover books
196259572Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. 299pp. cloth boards gilt stamping a clean Very Good copy in a just slightly chipped and stained dj. . Smithsonian Institution hardcover books
196246707Boston Toronto: Little Brown 1962. First edition large slim 8vo pp. 51; near fine in original orange cloth spine slightly discolored in a very good dust jacket. Boldly signed by Leonard Baskin on the front free endpaper. This is Esther Baskin's first book. <br/><br/> Little, Brown hardcover books
190050994London: The Studio 1900. Large 8vo pp. viii 82 ix-xii; 5 color plates; green cloth with decorated title in gilt on upper cover original paper wrappers bound in; textblock shaken boards rubbed owners signature on flyleaf good. Articles on designers from Britain America France Belgium Netherlands and Denmark. <br/><br/> The Studio hardcover books
193156660Baltimore Maryland: The John Hopkins Press 1931. First Edition. Signed presentation from Crooks on a front blank page: "To Jennie Lovingly yours Esther.". Small quarto: dark-red quarter-morocco leather & marbled boards spine stamped in gilt with five raised bands marbled endpapers; 271 pages. The John Hopkins Studies In Romance Literatures And Languages. Extra Volume IV. Very Good bright with very minor wear or scuffing; contents clean & tight. <br/><br/> The John Hopkins Press hardcover books
1909SB1185San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. One of 350 copies unnumbered octavo size 72 pp. Esther Brown Tiffany 1858-1918 a resident of Cambridge Massachusetts was both a writer of prose and a playwright with her plays having been performed by the Cambridge Dramatic Club and the Players of Newton. <br/><br/>This book published in 1909 by Paul Elder and Company under the direction of John Henry Nash can be called a "modern miracle-play". The major characters each have their own "ah-ha" moments which bring them closer to their actual goals of service to God.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Light blue laid paper boards paper labels to front and spine with black lettering and a thin double rule in red cream endpapers fore- and bottom edges uncut frontispiece is an illustration of "The Dream of Life" by Michaelangelo with lettered tissue guard two pages of Historical References explanations at the end limitation statement at the very back of the book.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: We would have graded this book as fine were it not for some slight sunning to the spine. The hinges are solid the text block is strong and square the corners are perfectly sharp the light blue boards barely show any soiling even over 100 years after publication. The volume is free of prior owner markings and the pages are clean and bright.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply please contact seller 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. Paul Elder and Company hardcover books
196077365NY:: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. Part of the I Can Read series. Illustrated by the author. First edition not stated. Previous owner's name on front paste-down else very good in a good a large chip at each upper corner of the front panel a few short closed edge tears with attendant creasing lower corner of front flap is clipped dust jacket. . Harper & Brothers, hardcover books
1942247516New York. : Penn Publishing. 1942. . 1st Edition review copy with publisher’s notice laid onto ffep along with reviewer’s gift note to the president of the Alaska-Yukon Sourdough Association. . Blue cloth. . Covers lightly soiled and shelfworn otherwise a good plus copy. . 8vo. Scarce. Penn Publishing. hardcover books
193746092New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1937. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 556pp. General chipping and shelf-wear to jacket extremities rear panel a bit dust-soiled shallow strip of sunning to cloth spine crown contemporary pencil ownership signature to front free endpaper else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. "Historical Romance" set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
192865150New York: The Macmillan Company 1928. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Color frontispiece with textual photographs and endpaper maps. New York: The Macmillan Company 1928. An early reprint. Lovejoy 1869-1967 was a central figure in early efforts to organize international medical relief in the Near East. She writes about her own experiences and that of other American women working in the medical field. Inscribed by Lovejoy on the half-title. Laid in are a small advertisement for the book noting that royalties from its sale benefit American Women's Hospitals and a clipped book review. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. Faint offsetting to the half-title and verso of the front flyleaf. The spine is lightly faded with some light foxing to the boards. In the scarce dust jacket which is chipped and browned more so along the spine and folds with a slender stain to the spine and tape reinforcement to the verso. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1960W144EMNew York N.Y.: Reinhold Publishing 1960. Original black cloth with white titling. D.J. has faint edge browning and 1/4 inch closed tear at top of upper panel. Lavish amounts of photography used to illustrate. The five architects discussed are Bernard Maybdeck Irving Gill Greene and Greene and R. M. Schindler. Esther McCoy the author worked in Schindler's office and knew Gill's nephew also an architect and interviewed Maybeck. She wrote the catalogues for "Roots of California Contemporary Architecture" and the "Irving Gill Show". Her choices of subjects span the distance from Bernard Maybeck who studied in the Parisian school of L'Ecole des Beaux Arts to R. M. Schindler whose engineering creations stand in stark contrast to Maybeck. An engrossing book and a satisfying read in these terrible days of MacMansions. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 4to. Trade. Reinhold Publishing Hardcover books
1955406571955. McCULLOUGH Morgan Esther. THE FIVE DEVILS OF KILMAINHAM. NY: Coley Taylor Inc. 1955. First Edition. Signed presentation from McCullough on the front endpaper: "Little Mary with love and great admiration for the way she has grown standing in stature through the years. I only wish I could do half so well my Dear. Esther." Very Good; some edgewear small chips & tears d/j. $75.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
195419096New York: Esther Gentle Gallery 1954. Near fine. 9.25" by 4.25". Sheet printed offset recto only with contemporary Gotham Book Mart stamp to verso. Near fine. Mild touch of yellowing to second paragraph; otherwise clean overall. <br/><br/>Promotes Miller's watercolor exhibition at Esther Gentle from Dec. 1 to 15 1954. Previously only shown in Europe and Mexico this was Miller's first Stateside exhibition of his beloved watercolors. Esther Gentle Gallery unknown books
199317191Tempe AZ: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue 1993. 8vo 22 cm 8.75". 4 ff. 175 1 pp. <br><br>Second edition a revised and expanded edition that is vastly different from the original edition published in 1975. The title story and four other stories have been substantially reworked for this edition and also includes four additional stories.<br>Â Â Â Â Portillo T. a native of El Paso Texas is a distinguished playwright fiction writer and poet. A fine copy. Issued without a dust jacket. Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue unknown books
1964129358Boston MA: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little Brown and Company 1964. First edition. Small hardcover. Children's book with text by Shiverick and illustrations by Contable. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with a clip to the bottom corner of the front flap but price still present on the top corner. A clean copy. Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company unknown books
192251730NY: Century 1922. First Edition. 8vo pp. xxii 360. Index. Dark green cloth with decorative stamping in gilt light green and red. A fine copy in little nicked dj. The Author describes the History and Evolution of the Elizabethan Garden it's Plants. From the library of Alta Rockefeller Prentice. Century unknown books
1989173010Los Angeles CA and Cambridge MA: The Museum of Contemporary Art - The MIT Press 1989. First edition. Oblong softcover. 256 pages. Essays by Esther McCoy Thomas S. Hines Helen Searing Kevin Starr Elizabeth A.T. Smith Thomas Hine Reyner Banham and Dolores Hayden. Includes numerous black and white photographs and architectural drawings. A very near fine copy in French style wrappers. The Museum of Contemporary Art - The MIT Press unknown books
198916043New York: Abrams 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Near fine in fine dust wrapper. 552 pages. Small folio 28 x 22 cm. 894 illustrations with 163 in color. Foreword by James N. Wood. Artists Catalogue of Prints Glossary Bibliography Index. History of the legendary print publishers Universal Limited Art Editions ULAE that sparked the revival of printmaking in America. Abrams hardcover books
200343077Budapest 2003. First Edition. Slim octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's glossy photo-illustrated card wrappers yapp edges; 47pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Near Fine condition. Bilingual tourist guidebook text in Hungarian and English. Inscribed and signed by Vécsey in Hungarian on title page. unknown books