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19671772Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne 1967 First book edition first published serially in the Overland Monthly. Limited to 2350 copies. Foreword by John Barr Tompkins. 109pp. Illustrations from early prints endpaper maps. Turquoise cloth gilt anchor device stamped on front cover. A very fine copy. Stillman's narra tive of his extraordinary trip back home to Baltimore from San Francisco in 1850. He traveled on the ship Plymouth from San Francisco to Realejo port in Nicaragua followed by a canoe trip up-river to the town of Realejo. Then came a long overland trek by horse to the shark infested waters of Lake Nicaragua two abortive attempts to run the length of Lake Nicaragua by native canoe a successful crossing of the lake in a small overloaded schooner another canoe trip down to the sea a trip on the brig Mechanic and finally home on the Polly Hinds. Stillman returned to California in 1856 to live the rest of his life because "There is more intelligence and generous good feeling than in any country I ever saw." Kurutz: 605-c. Lewis Osborne hardcover books
197989750Le Caire: Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale du Caire 1979. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations 14 numbered leaves of plates viii 120p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28cm. Mostly French text with some Arabic. Bibliotheque d'Etudes Coptes tome XV 1979. <br/><br/> Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale du Caire paperback books
190212607New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1902. Hardcover. ex-lib; staining to covers; hinges starting; contents clean and sound; Good- First Edition; 1st Edition . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
197632611New Haven: Yale Univ. Press 1976. Later printing. Cloth. A fine copy. xxii 643 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions and photos. Sm. 4to. Yale Univ. Press hardcover books
8168BURKHARDT Jacob. DER CICERONE. Two volumes. Basel: Benno Schwabe & Co. 1959. 4to. Quarter-leather. xv 486 pages; xi 425 pages. These volumes in German are a part of Burkhardt Gesammelte Werke. Fine. unknown books
193645459Paris: Le Livre Moderne Illustré 1936. Paperback. 157p. text in French illustrations several two-tone very good first edition paperback in cream decorative wraps. Le Livre Moderne Illustré paperback books
1902006710Indianapolis IN: Bowen - Merrill Co. 1902. Indiana Historical Society Publications Volume III Number IV. Very Good wrappers chipped at edges paper loss to wrappers at spine wrappers toned Facsimile letter tipped in at front pages clean and uncut. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bowen - Merrill Co. Paperback books
1957WRCLIT65161London: Andre Deutsch 1957. Small folio. Gray cloth. Portrait frontis 31 full page black and white gravure plates. Introduction by Laurie Lee. Very good in good price-clipped reinforced dust jacket with rubbing at extremities and a few short tears. Bookplate on front pastedown. First edition trade issue. An intimate pictorial survey of the sculptor's work up to this time including photos of Epstein at work and in his home. Andre Deutsch hardcover books
1852241579London: James Waton 1852. Disbound. Holyoake a leader of the English secularist movement in fact he coined the work "secularist" and freethinker became quite well-known as the last person convicted under the English blasphemy laws. He was a tireless social reformer advocating that the government should help the poor and working classes now and not in some future life. His little book "Why do the clergy avoid discussion" resulted in a six night debate between Holyoake and the Rev. Brewis Grant in 1853. Holyoake asserted that the clergy depend upon "railing in the sacred enclosures of their pulpits". James Waton unknown books
175601Wien/Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Jugend und Volk. Softcover. VG. Gray cardboard with darker gray spine black lettering 98 pp color and bw illustrations. Written in German. Children and house fairy tales based on the collection of Brother Grimm. Gerlach's youth library # 1 In this collection the first tale is "Das Tapfere Schneiderlein" Deutscher Verlag für Jugend und Volk paperback books
1902175602Wien/Leipzig: Verlag von Martin Gerlach & Co 1902. Softcover. VG. Brown cardboard with olive green spine black lettering and illustration on front boards 2 94 pp color and bw illustrations. Written in German. Children and house fairy tales based on the collection of Brother Grimm. Photos by Karl Fahringer. Texts composed by Hans Faungruber. In this collection the first tale is "Der Fuchs und das Pferd." Gerlach's youth library # 5. Verlag von Martin Gerlach & Co paperback books
1912175606Wien/Leipzig: Gerlach & Wiedling 1912. Softcover. VG. Green cardboard with black and gilt lettering and illustration on front boards 122 pp color and bw illustrations. Written in German. Children and house fairy tales based on the collection of Brother Grimm. Illustrations by Ernst Liebenauer. In this collection the first tale is "Die Kinder zu Hameln" Gerlach's youth library # 50. Gerlach & Wiedling paperback books
1920175604Wien/Leipzig: Gerlach & Wiedling 1920. Softcover. VG. Tan cardboard with yellow cloth spine black lettering and illustration on front boards 96 pp color and bw illustrations. Written in German. Children and house fairy tales based on the collection of Brother Grimm. Images by Otto Tauschek. Text by Hans Fraungruber. In this collection the first tale is "Konig Droffelbart" Gerlach's youth library # 12. Gerlach & Wiedling paperback books
20026190Portland ME: Ascensius Press/Ornaflat Publishing 2002. Limited Edition Fascimile Reproduction. Stiff Wraps. Fine in Fine DJ. Tight bright and unmarrd. DJ bright and clean. White cardstock stiff wraps. 12mo. 38pp plus np plates. Illus. b/w plates. Numbered limited edition. <br/><br/>Explores a curious lawsuit regarding the buried treasure of renowned Pirate Captain Kidd and a cast of characters from Cotton Mather Fredrick Law Olmsted Lady Dunmore John Jacob Astor. Photographic illustrations reproduce several paintings frontispiece shows John Jacob Astor dressed in the regalia of a Fur Trapper of 1813 and there is also a reproduction of a letter from F.L. Olmsted. A new issue of the minor classic story by Franklin H. Head founder of the Chicago Liars Club telling the tale of Frederick Law Olmsted"s $5000000 lawsuit against John Jacob Astor in 1898 for his theft of the Pirate Captain Kidd's treasure. A hoax that has at various times been taken as true. The colophon is inaccurate: the 400 "trade edition" copies were never printed and only 50 of the 100 listed hand-bound copies on hand-made paper were printed. Ascensius Press/Ornaflat Publishing paperback books
20037HOLTZAPFFEL John Jacob. THE PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE OF ORNAMENTAL OR COMPLEX TURNING. New York: Dover 1973 8vo. Cloth dust jacket. xxiv 656 pages. Being a reprint of this definitive book on ornamental and complex turning originally published as volume five of the 1894 edition of Turning and Mechanical Manipulation. It is an incredible text book based on the Holtzapp family's work in perfecting their craft over a period of one hundred and thir years. Very good. unknown books
1973113439Chicago IL: The Wine Press 1973. First edition. Broadside. Measures 11" x 17." One of only 90 numbered copies with this being number 28. A near fine copy. Signed by Jacob. Uncommon with only 4 copies listed in OCLC. The Wine Press unknown books
193776774London: George G. Harrap & Co. LTD. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1937. First Edition. Hardback in DJ. 9 by 6 inches in green cloth with gilt titlling corners bumped with foxing to the page edges. The dj is worn and stained but whole. . George G. Harrap & Co. LTD. hardcover books
1893S11179Stuttgart:: J.G. Cotta'Schen Buchhandlung 1893. 1893. 8vo. xvi 503 1. Frontispiece 1 plate 12 figures index. Quarter navy blue cloth over tawny paper-backed boards; top front cover dented corners worn but generally very good. J.G. Cotta'Schen Buchhandlung, 1893. hardcover books
6708London Robert Cocks 1860. 2nd edition. Publisher's blind-stamped pebbled cloth professionally rebacked with the original gilt lettered spine retained new endpapers vii 92 4 pp. 3 full-page plates. Scattered light foxing cloth chipped at the head and heel of the spine else very good. <br/><br/> London, Robert Cocks, 1860. hardcover books
030642London 1996: National Portrait Gallery. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. remainder mark at top edge and on first white page. Contents; Foreword introduction bibliography Attitudes to picture framing in Britain and abroad techinques and practice development of the framesurvey of picture frames in the National Portrait Gallerynotes glossary and frame sections general index. 224 p. National Portrait Gallery unknown books
1958198063NEW YORK MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY 1958 1958. DUST JACKET PRICE CLIPPED; ACTRESS STEFFI SIDNEY'S COPY; PICTORIAL ENDPAPERS. FIRST EDITION SO STATED VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. NEW YORK, MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, 1958 hardcover books
2008115210.1Zwolle Netherlands: Waanders Uitgevers 2008. Softcover. VG. Black wraps with color illus.; 270 pp.; 270 color and bw figures 57 color and duotone plates. Text in Dutch; Accompanied an exhibition held at the Museum Het Rembrandthuis in Amsterdam and the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aken where the exhibition was titled "Der grosse Virtuose Jacob Becker 1608/9 - 1651"; Extensive annotations. Waanders Uitgevers paperback books
1934WRCLIT70311New York: Liveright 1934. Decorated cloth. First U.S. edition of the posthumously published final volume of the trilogy translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. About fine in very faintly used dust jacket with tiny edge tear. Liveright hardcover books
1960WN4211New York: Columbia University Press 1960. Original brownish red cloth with gilt titling. Author inscription on ffep in which inscribee has crossed out his details and did likewise on front pastedown. Top edge stained. Jacket chipped and a bit worn on edges and flap folds. This is biography of a conflicted scientist who has remained in the background of the Darwinian debate. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Columbia University Press Hardcover books
198531885Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 1985. Softcover. VG- light wear and bumping to cover edges THIS IS NOT A HARDCOVER BOOK. Black and color illustrated wraps. 152 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1985 exhibition of work by American artist Gordon Matta-Clark 1943-1978. With an essay by Robert Pincus-Witten a variety of interviews with others a chronology exhibitions history and bibliography. The annotated and illustrated catalogue addresses quite a number of site-specific pieces and installations among other work. A solid treatment of this artist. One of 5000 copies. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago unknown books
