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1904011936Philadelphai: Wilmer Atkinson Co 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition small 8vo publisher's green cloth stamped pictorial and titles in red and black. Cover reads BIGGLE HORSE BOOK NUMBER ONE BIGGLE FARM LIBRARY. 128 pages illustrated. Superbly preserved apparently unused copy. Wilmer Atkinson Co hardcover books
1967103744New York: De Capo Press 1967. Hardbound. VG/VG. Black cloth with illustrated dustjacket. 257 pp. profusely illustrated in bw. Includes an original lithograph as the frontispiece. Includes the errata slip at front. A very nice copy of a vital book relating to this artist's work. Lithograph is not signed in pencil. De Capo Press hardcover books
18962051Oakland CA: Jacob Wright Harlan 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. 242 pp with frontispiece decorative endpapers. Original brown cloth with decoration in gilt and black. Small ownership label on front pastedown light general wear to exterior front hinge a bit wobbly; else sound and clean. No dust jacket. Second edition. Personal account of Gold Rush California. Harlan opines in the introduction that "every fact relating to the early settlement of California should be recorded and treasured up; in fact that it is the duty of every pioneer to put in writing his early California experience." Cowan 264-5: "The author came by the overland route as a member of the Boggs-Moran party and upon his arrival joined Fremont's battalion." Jacob Wright Harlan hardcover books
193015221930. Hand colored view 16.5 cm x 26.5 cm Better than very good. Nice hand-colored image likely from T. J. Hileman 1882 - 1945 who for decades photographed in Montana primarily Flathead Lake and Glacier National Park originally for the Great Northern Railway. In 1926 Hileman opened photo studios in Glacier Park Lodge and for many years he produced and sold countless photographs of the area. unknown books
185121515London: James Watson 1851. Hardcover. Good. Second thousand. 100 pp in publisher's purple cloth with blind-stamped decoration. Significant chipping to the spine cloth small water stain on front board paper cracked over front hinge but hinge secure. Foxing to title page only otherwise interally clean binding tight. "George Jacob Holyoake was mainly self-educated and a vigorous campaigner for secularism and freethought during the 19th century. He wrote 160 books and pamphlets and edited several magazines including The Movement and The Reasoner. Holyoake was the last person in England to be imprisoned on a charge of atheism for saying at a public lecture in Cheltenham in 1842 at a time of economic hardship: "If I could have my way I would place the deity on half pay as the Government of this country did its subaltern officers" Humanists UK. James Watson hardcover books
196517812NY:: Taplinger Publishing Co. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Foreword by B. J. Chute. First edition. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper else good in a good edge worn chipped at the spine ends faded along the spine three inch closed edge tear on front panel dust jacket.; 118 pages . Taplinger Publishing Co., hardcover books
1963S8610No place:: Journal of Molecular Biology 1963. 1963. 8vo. 23-42 pp. Figs. tables. Self-wraps. Ownership signature of Norman Horowitz. Fine. RARE. Jacob was one of the most important geneticists of the 20th century. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Andre Lwoff and Jacques Monod for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis. Journal of Molecular Biology, 1963. paperback books
2010404778New York: Rubin Museum of Art 2010. A near-fine copy unmarked and with some modest handling wear to jacket. 4to. 135 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Rubin Museum of Art 5 November 2010 to 11 April 2011. <br/><br/> Rubin Museum of Art hardcover books
1988017030Cambridge MA: Cambridge University Press 1988. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. 240 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear; almost new condition. The unclipped dustjacket has minimal wear to the edges; protected in archival mylar. Contains approximately 200 illustrations. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Cambridge University Press Hardcover books
181431641Elizabethtown: Printed for the Author by R. and P. Canfield 1814. Hardcover. Very good. v 404pp. Contemporary full sheep. Later bookplate on front pastedown contemporary ink name on front free endpaper scattered foxing throughout a good copy. <br/><br/>Sabin 37628 Printed for the Author by R. and P. Canfield hardcover books
1987141527São Paulo Brasil: SESC 1987. Hardcover. VG; museum ex-lib. with plate inside front cover slight corner bumps and very faint sunning to some page edges. Tigh and clean. Glossy white boards with black lettering. 265 pp. with color images throughout. Printing of 3000 copies. Text in Portuguese. With brief essays about Brazilian art on The Main Question of Our Art How to Classify Our Art Art of the 20th Century Divided Art and Creation Some Criteria Realism Somewhat Beyond followed by the images. SESC hardcover books
0424<br/><br/>Kunkel Jacob 1846-1882. The Flirt Polka Characteristique. To Miss Mary A. R. Thomson. Cincinnati: J. J. Dobmeyer & Co. 1867. PN: 189_7. Hand-colored lithographic cover with 3-8pp. music 1p. ads. Lithography by Will P. Nobel del Bising & Gerlach shows an exaggeratedly costumed young woman coyly tilting her head fanning herself while a young young man gazes at her. Light foxing. Reference: Levy has a copy with 3-6pp. music. GLIMG #6. unknown books
193711735New York: Alexander Publishing Co 1937. First edition. Cloth. Fine/poor. 8vo. 664 pp. Beautiful fine clothbound copy. Original dustwrapper is present but with huge chips and loss of paper. This copy INSCRIBED by Hurwitz and dated in 1939. <br/><br/> Alexander Publishing Co hardcover books
1866RLARHIS00CCWPicadilly 1866. Very Good. Larwood Jacob. The History of Sign Boards From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Hotten John Camden. London: Picadilly 1866. 536pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 12mo. Book condition: Very good with rubbed and bumped edges sporadic light foxing and former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Contains a history of business signs with accompanying illustrations. Frontispiece handcolored. Picadilly hardcover books
182828327Concord: N.H. Journal Office 1828. 40pp. Untrimmed tanned with some browning at edges scattered foxing partly loosened two pages a bit creased. At head of title: "Honest Men Inquirers after Truth are requested to read these pages." About Good.<br/><br/> Moore editor and publisher of The New Hampshire Journal was a founder of that State's historical society and a devoted supporter of President J.Q. Adams. This pamphlet bitterly attacks his challenger Andrew Jackson. Moore illustrates his distaste for Jackson with a "Blood & Carnage Ticket" led by Jackson and reciting his qualifications: killing Charles Dickinson in a duel supporting the "infamous" Aaron Burr attempting to "assassinate" Thomas Hart Benton "murder" of the six militia men and "tyranny in the Floridas." <br/>AI 34182 12. Not in Wise & Cronin Miles. N.H. Journal Office unknown books
199084967NY:: Garland Publishing. Very Good. 1990. Hardcover. 0824081757 . First edition. Very good in burgundy cloth. No dust jacket as issued. ; 288 pages . Garland Publishing, hardcover books
199084969NY:: Garland Publishing. Very Good. 1990. Hardcover. 0824081803 . First edition. Very good in burgundy cloth. No dust jacket as issued. ; 290 pages . Garland Publishing, hardcover books
199084968NY:: Garland Publishing. Very Good. 1990. Hardcover. 0824081838 . First edition. Very good in burgundy cloth. No dust jacket as issued. ; 352 pages . Garland Publishing, hardcover books
181736738New York 1817. Printed in typescript completed in manuscript "To the Treasurer of the City of New-York" instructing payment of Fifteen hundred dollars"By order of Common Council." Signed as well by the Comptroller G.N. Bleecker and Clerk. Text surrounded by decorative border. A colorless indented 'X' mark is present evidently to indicate payment resulting in barely noticeable perforation. An attractive and early New York City document. Very Good.<br/><br/> On the otherwise blank verso Anderson's name is signed in ink. unknown books
1994249773Jerusalem: Israel Museum 1994. paperback. very good. Extensively illustrated. xiii 275pp. 4to stiff pictorial wrappers; rear cover slightly scuffed. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum 1994. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Israel Museum unknown books
197626553New York: Vantage Press 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 110pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $4.95 with scattered foxing to extremities and a faint semi-circular scratch to rear panel. The Trinidadian author's first book presenting the essentials of successful professional salesmanship. "The book is aimed at the individual salesman who is ambitious to succeed at his work. But it also considers salesmanship in a broader context - one that demonstrates the need for salesmanship in a mixed economy." Scarce; we find no copies in the trade June 2015 with OCLC showing 2 copies only of these just one in the US St. Johns University. Vantage Press unknown books
1903103097<p>Print folio 11" x 15" chromolithograph color plate LXXXIV archivally matted attached at the top with archive tape. Slight aging; otherwise bright and clean and very attractive. Published in several editions the plates are extremely attractive. Studer 1840-1904 was born in New York City and would become a printer and lithographer. He was also an ornithologist and seems to have been active in this field in the Columbus Ohio area after the Civil War. However it is believed that the plates were based on drawings by Theodore Jasper. The plates while very attractive are believed to be designed to help with identification. This plate LXXXIV which features the Brown Crane shows it in a natural setting. May require extra postage. cornell online library website.</p> The Natural Science Association of America, books
1903103094<p> Print folio 11" x 15" chromolithograph color plate III archivally matted attached at the top with archive tape. Slight aging; otherwise bright and clean and very attractive. Published in several editions the plates are extremely attractive. Studer 1840-1904 was born in New York City and would become a printer and lithographer. He was also an ornithologist and seems to have been active in this field in the Columbus Ohio area after the Civil War. However it is believed that the plates were based on drawings by Theodore Jasper. The plates while very attractive are believed to be designed to help with identification. This plate III which features the White Crane shows it in a natural setting. May require extra postage. cornell online library website. </p> The Natural Science Association of America, books
1903103098Print folio 11" x 15" chromolithograph color plate XLIV archivally matted attached at the top with archive tape. Slight aging; otherwise bright and clean and very attractive. Published in several editions the plates are extremely attractive. Studer 1840-1904 was born in New York City and would become a printer and lithographer. He was also an ornithologist and seems to have been active in this field in the Columbus Ohio area after the Civil War. However it is believed that the plates were based on drawings by Theodore Jasper. The plates while very attractive are believed to be designed to help with identification. This plate XLIV which features the Wood Ibis shows it in a natural setting. May require extra postage. The Natural Science Association of America, books
199748739Rotterdam/ Brookfield: A.A. Balkema 1997. Hardcover. Very good. x 497pp index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> A.A. Balkema hardcover books