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1990011917Cambridge: MIT Press 1990. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Ownership copy of Argentinian-born American architect Cesar Pelli 1926-2019 inscribed by editor Goldstein to him and his wife landscape architect Diana Balmori on the ffe: "To Cesar and Diana with much love and thanks for your friendship and suppoty. Barbara 9/90" Fine copy apparently unused. MIT Press unknown books
1981168004New York: Pomegranate Press 1981. Hardcover. VG. Printed paper-covered boards. 160 pp. . 29 pp. 2 color 27 bw plates. This sculptor was born in Iraq and moved to the US in 1971. Text is in Engl;ish and Arabic. This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition's focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas the preservation of shared cultural spaces and the importance of responding to attacks both overt and subtle on artists writers and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content. Pomegranate Press hardcover books
1984130211San Francisco: the authors 1984. 6p. 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at upper left small rust stain on front wrap else very good condition. Group letter demanding readmission to the SWP by Bay Area members who had been expelled for disployalty. Their crime was to remain in the audience during a state convention when two speakers proposed cooperation with Socialist Action; as loyal members they should have publicly denounced the collaborationists on the spot. Reproductions of two expulsion letters and the disloyalty charges filed by Thabo Ntweng are included. From the period of the SWP's self-inflicted frontal lobotomy. the authors unknown books
19509869NY: Macmillan 1950. First edn. 8vop pp. 104. VG in chipped dj. The biography of the nurse who later went to Yale to found the school of nursing. Macmillan unknown books
197466529Lexington: University Press of Kentucky 1974. First US edition. 77 pp w/bibliography & notes. Fine in fine dust jacket that is slightly mis-folded. Translated from the original Spanish and edited by L. Clark Keating and Robert O. Evans. Borges offers a thorough and concise view of England’s literature from afar. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky unknown books
1975037311N.pl: Bob Hymen Hotel Printers of California 1975. 107p. b/w illus. oblong stiff wrappers lightly sunfaded on the spine. Bob Hymen, Hotel Printers of California unknown books
2013181662New York: The Museum of Modern Art 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine. crease to spine top edge; light shelf-wear to lower cover edges. pgs clean & bright; nice sharp copy. red cloth boards w/ blue printing. 144 pgs w/ 104 color 33 duotone and 17 bw illustrations. color pictorial dustjacket w/ printing. Drawn from MoMA's collection American Modern takes a fresh look at the Museum's holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950 and considers the cultural preoccupations of a rapidly changing American society in the first half of the 20th century. Including paintings drawings prints photographs and sculptures American Modern brings together some of the Museum's most celebrated masterworks contextualizing them across mediums and amid lesser-seen but revelatory works by artists who expressed compelling emotional and visual tendencies of the time. The selection of works depicts subjects as diverse as urban and rural landscapes scenes of industry still-life compositions and portraiture and is organized thematically with visual connections trumping strict chronology.--WorldCat. The Museum of Modern Art hardcover books
1980168690Chicago IL: Union League Club of Chicago 1980. Softcover. VG. Color illustrated wraps. 32 pp. 26 color including covers and 25 bw illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition at the Union League Club of Chicago May 2-25 1980 and at six other institutions June 4 1980-Sept. 6 1981. Catalogue lists and annotates 50 works in the exhibition. Union League Club of Chicago unknown books
197478005Boston:: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0395245354 . A later printing. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Houghton Mifflin, hardcover books
194675835Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. VG. 1946. Hardcover in dust jacket. This book is hard-bound in red cloth with blue stamping to the upper cover in a dust jacket with soiling scuffing wear and chipping to the edges with a few closed tears. The covers show some light soiling and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations some in nice bright color. There is a previous owner christmas inscription on the front free end-page. . Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1946TB09949Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1946. First Edition. First printing Very good in decorated red cloth covered boards with the fore edges of the boards discolored & a PON stamped on the end paper. In a very good dust jacket with a price clipped jacket flap light soiling across much of the white background of the jacket and with 1/8" chips at the ends of the spine area. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. 46 pages of text and illustrations. Houghton Mifflin Co. hardcover books
1946192243Houghton Mifflin Company 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Wrapped dust jacket has some small open tears less than 1 inch at top and bottom of spine and front bottom outside edge and some 1 inch closed tears on front top edge. Red cloth boards and binding are good with minor wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. LO Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
198200426scAtona Manitoba Canada: D.W. Friesen & Sons Ltd. 1982. First Edition. Octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt letters xi 373 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Includes bibliographic documentation numerous tables maps and illustrations. “This book tells the story of Altona settled by a small group of pioneers on an original settlement on the prairies in the 1870s. The old Altona Village which was settled in the 1880s graduallly evolved into a modern town. It is an absorbing story well told. The author has researched her book thoroughly from original as well as secondary sources and supplemented this with oral interviews. The book is well illustrated and is complete with index bibliography glossary tables and figures. It is more than a chronological story. Against the background of history the author has also sketched the struggle of the Mennonite pioneers to maintain their identity and at the same time adapt to the current and changing conditions of society around them. And in it we also learn what it is to be Canadian and at the same time to be part of a minority group.†D.W. Friesen & Sons Ltd., 1982. First Edition. hardcover books
196391721NY:: Twayne Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. B001S4C31Q . Black and white photographs throughout. First edition. Brief underlining on one page else very good in a very good moderate edge wear with one small chip two closed edge tears that are tape repaired on verso dust jacket. . Twayne Publishers, hardcover books
196727887Cape Town: University of Cape Town School of Librarianship 1967. First Edition. Octavo 22.5cm.; original pale green staplebound card wrappers; 4ix164pp.; text printed from typescript. Original price rubberstamped to upper wrapper. Fine. Originally presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Higher Certificate in Librarianship 1965. Chapters divided geographically including works from Sudan Ghana Nigeria the Congo and Angola. University of Cape Town School of Librarianship unknown books
1977153091Cleveland OH: The Cleveland Museum of Natural History 1977. First edition. Oblong softcover. 64 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 4 through October 31 1977. Preface by Dr. Harold D. Mahan. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History unknown books
2018171347The Hague: A. Aardewerk 2018. Hardcover. VG. Lilac cloth boards with stamped design and silver stamped lettering. 79 pp. Color illustrations. Contents: The Adam van Vianen Galatea Salt A West Frisian Marriage Casket A Rare Seventeenth Century Oordspul The Van Alphen-de Ruever Inkstand A Superb Pair of Sugar Casters An Elegant Pair of Biscuit Boxes Country Estate Goudestein An Art Nouveau Egyptian Revival Pendant A Stunning Lapis Lazuli Bracelt A Delightful Jade Duck Brooch. A. Aardewerk hardcover books
2001WRCLIT50415Great Bend KS 2001. Numbers 368a&b9 II:2 II:3/4; II:5; II:7 II:8 final number and unnumbered "Farming" issue. Thirteen issues. Quarto. Stapled photocopied sheets. Addressed for mailing else very good to fine. Edited by Esther Sayler. Largely topical issues with poetry contributions. Two issues are inscribed by the editor. unknown books
102596hardcover. illus. 74pp. 8vo cloth. Princeton Univ. Library 1962. vg<br/><br/> unknown books
18543094New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1854. Octavo 369 pages 11 index. Woodcut illustrations throughout. Stated third edition preface originally published by Marsh Capen Lyon and Webb of Boston in 1841. A household manual not a recipe book with sections on care of infants and the sick healthful food cleanliness washing house cleaning kitchen maintenance and more. By the great educator and domestic reformer Catherine Beecher. Some light foxing and soiling throughout. With an early bookplate of the Chelmsford Free Public Library and an older adhesive spine label. Otherwise very good in original publisher's gilt and blind stamped brown cloth. Not in Cagle although there are numerous printings of the Supplement; not in Lowenstein. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover books
18683095New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1868. Octavo 369 pages 11 index. Woodcut illustrations throughout. Stated third edition preface but later printing. Originally published by Marsh Capen Lyon and Webb of boston in 1841. A household manual not a recipe book with sections on care of infants and the sick healthful food cleanliness washing house cleaning kitchen maintenance and more. By the great educator and domestic reformer Catherine Beecher. Some underlining with light foxing and soiling throughout. Otherwise near very good in original publisher's gilt and blind stamped brown cloth.Some fading to spine and wear to the head and foot of spine. not in Cagle although there are numerous printings of the supplement; not in Lowenstein. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover books
261926pamphlet. very good. Illustrated. 6 pages pp. 1019-24 IN: American Journal of Diseases of Children Vol. 54 No. 5. Slim 8vo modern wrappers Chicago 1937. First Edition. Whole number 5 offered entire.<br/><br/> GM 2348.<br/><br/> unknown books
1928224752Boston/New York Houghton Mifflin Company 1928. 1928. First edition so stated. 8vo. Illustrated with 12 woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. Original 1/2 gilt stamped vellum over parchment-backed boards. Very good fresh. Original publisher's black board slipcase with large pictorial paper label some rubbing. No other signatures or bookplates. Number 140 of 220 copies signed by Esther Forbes on the limitation page of which only 200 were for sale. Signed by Authors. F. Hardcover. Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. hardcover books
022244London: 1928: William Heineman. First Edition. Octavo. First issue. Limited to 2000 copies. 228pp. illustrated with twelve wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. The story of Doll Bilby a beautiful and sensitive girl whom popular superstition regards as a witch. A book of horror in which we see witchcraft from the witch's point of view and also from the standpoint of the narrator who implicitly believes in her guilt. A very good copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with some finger soiling and rubbing chipping to head and corners. Kirkus 35. William Heineman unknown books
1928108588Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1928. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-213 214 215: tail piece 216: blank woodcut illustrations by Robert Gibbings original decorated boards with tan cloth shelf back printed paper label affixed to spine panel top edge stained red red endpapers. First trade edition. Novel of witchcraft set in seventeenth century Salem Massachusetts. "A story of Salem in the days of witches and of a mortal girl who took as she believed a fiend to love daring the wrath of God and the vengeance of man for her infernal paramour." - jacket blurb. Bleiler 1978 p. 75. Reginald 05509. A fine copy in near fine pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Robert Gibbings with light edge wear and clipped price. #108588 Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books