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1994128479Paris France: Éditions des Cendres 1994. stiff paper wrappers. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 51 3 pages. Text in French. Reprinted from 1840-1841 and limited to 500 copies. A collection of essays on old books. Éditions des Cendres unknown books
197227019Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall 1972. hardcover. very good. 170pp. 8vo blue cloth d.w. Englewood Cliffs N.J.: Prentice-Hall 1972. Very good.<br/><br/> Prentice-Hall unknown books
1970009788Westport: Greenwood Press 1970. 246p. brown cloth. Reprint of the 1881 edition. Greenwood Press unknown books
197017866Westport: Greenwood Press 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good hardback in publisher's cloth and issued without a jacket. <br/><br/> Greenwood Press hardcover books
197053817np: Cat’s Pajamas Press 1970. First edition. 4to. 34 pp. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. A conceptual publication with poems by John Matthias Terry Stokes R.P. Dickey James Bertolino Victoria McCabe and Douglas Blazek. Drawings by Bertolino and Richard Latta photographs by Jon Palmer. One of 100 copies. (np): Cat’s Pajamas Press unknown books
1967212399Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne 1967. Hardcover. 109p. 7.25x10 inches endpaper maps foreword footnotes very good fine press edition limited to 2350 copies bound in turquoise blue cloth boards and gilt. Lewis Osborne hardcover books
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
1967008476Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne 1967. 109p. b/w illus. original blue cloth. Lewis Osborne unknown books
1994047577Seattle and London: University of Washington Press 1994. xvii 286p. dj. University of Washington Press 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
194439014NY: Harper 1944. Third edn. 8vo pp. 480. Bibliography index. Illustrated with photographs. Signed on slyleaf by the author. VG. Harper unknown books
1980M11610Bergen:: Universitetsforlaget 1980. 1980. Norwegian translation of Structure and Function in Man 3rd ed. 8vo. 640 pp. Illustrations glossary index. Red cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles. Fine. Signed presentation inscription by one of the authors Jacob. ISBN: 8200258408 Universitetsforlaget, (1980). hardcover books
1963158705New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1963. Hardcover. VG- clean tight contents; general shelf wear to covers includine fraying at head of spine bumps to corners and a black streak on front cover; art school ex-lib. with usual marks. Terracotta cloth/boards; gilt lettering on spine. Anatomy of the Cat: xxii 486 pp. with 173 bw figures. Dissection of the Cat: vi 99 pp. with no illustrations. 1963 printing of Anatomy of the Cat Third/enlarged edition by Rush Elliott and 1935 printing of Dissection of the Cat combined together in one volume. The 173 bw figures are by Louise Burridge Jennings. A fascinating study presumably for veterinarians or anyone else who loves cats. Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover books
1990104313New York: William Morrow and Company 1990. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. Seventh volume of the "Incarnations of Immortality" series. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #104313 William Morrow and Company unknown books
194846079New York: R. R. Bowker Company 1948. 1st printing of this issue. Printed paper covers stapled. General wear soiling & age-toning. Some chipping & creasing to rear cover. Ex-lib with stamp to front cover & other such identifiers. About Very Good. 799 - 858 pp. Photographic image of Chicago's 'Booksellers' Row" to front cover. 8vo. 9" x 6" <br/><br/>An early issue of this stalwart publication of the Antiquarian Book Trade published from 1948 - 1967 when it morphed into AB Bookman's Weekly which itself ceased publication in 1999 a victim of the internet. Each published issue documented the ebb & flow of the trade and as such now provide a valuable window into its past operations an attribute today for all practical purposes impossible in this internet age. <br /> <br />Early issues such as this before the Malkins took over the publication are quite uncommon in the trade. R. R. Bowker Company unknown books
199229839Huntington WV: Aegina Press Inc 1992. First Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; illustrated wrappers; 82 4pp; illus. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their bookplate to verso of front wrapper and inscribed to Bernarda on the front endpaper: "For Bernarda With great respect and admiration / Dave." Additionally signed by Herrstrom on the title page. Hint of sunning to spine else Fine. Collection of poems based on Biblical stories illustrated throughout by Jacob Landau. Aegina Press, Inc unknown books
1973112204Ramat Gan Israel: Bar-Ilan University 1973. Hardbound. Good with only general shelf wear. Green boards with cream and green dj with green lettering; 260 pp. plus 64 pp. with 40 bw photographs. The main text 260 pp. is printed back-to-front in Hebrew with part of the text in Arabic along with English transliterations and pronunciations of a few words. The remainder of the book the 64 pp. in the "front" part is in English. The book is a series of essays and some simply are written in Hebrew and some in English. None are in both languages. A very enlightening book. Bar-Ilan University hardcover books
1970183390Pittsburgh PA: Carnegie Museum 1970. Softcover. VG light shelfwear to wraps pages are clean and clear. Tan and brown wraps; 186 pp bw illustrations throughout. With an appendix Animal remains from archaeological excavations at Fort Ligonier by John E. Guilday. Carnegie Museum unknown books
19331668891933. CHERNYKOV Iakov. Arkhitekturniie Fantazii Architectural Fictions. 102 pp. Illustrated with numerous textual illustrations and 101 colour plates. Small folio 300 x 200 mm bound in original blue embossed cloth. Leningrad: "Meshdunarodnaja Kniga" Leningrad Section 1933. First Edition of this landmark work of Soviet architectural fantasies lavishly illustrated with dramatic designs of possible cities factories monumental buildings and more. This is the best and most important publication by Chernykov and one of the most exciting books on architecture issued in the twentieth century "an amazing compendium of one hundred and one coloured inventions which still excite the imagination today. The verdict must surely be that Tchernykov's almost unlimited imagination for architectural forms provides a pattern book for modernist architecture rather than a repertoire of viable designs" Compton Russian Avant-Garde Books 143-4. Published in collaboration with D. Kopanitzin and E. Pavlova this first edition was limited to 3000 copies although very few now exist in permanent or private collections. Binding with some minor professional restoration overall in excellent condition. Senkevitch Soviet Architecture 1917-1967 Charlottesville 1974 205. Centre Pompidou Paris-Moscou 1900-1930 Paris 1979 567. Andel Avant Garde Page Design 301-302. hardcover books
1944283739New York. : American Federation for Polish Jews. 1944. . Pictorial stiff wraps. . Covers soiled and dampstained text block taped into cover marginal dampstain to pages otherwise a good reading copy. . 8vo. American Federation for Polish Jews. paperback books
19671771Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne 1967 1st book edition. Limited to 1950 copies. Frontis portrait illustrations endpaper map. Pictorial gilt-stamped blue cloth. Light fading to covers. A near fine copy. Foreward by Kenneth M. Johnson. An account of Stillman's voyage mainly drawn from his letters to friends and his journal. Lewis Osborne hardcover books
19679219Palo Alto: Lewis Osbourne 1967. Hardcover. Orig.blue cloth with front cover illustration in gilt. Very good. 92 pages. Illustrated. Foreword by Kenneth Johnson. The voyage of the "Pacific" took 194 days. There were other notable passengers who were to leave their mark on California history: Mark Hopkins John Ross Browne and A.S. Marvin. Limited edition copy 1437 of 1950. Lewis Osbourne hardcover books
196741272Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne 1967. 1st edition thus. LIMITED to 1950 copies of which this is #397. Blue cloth binding gilt stamped lettering and design to spine and front board. Plain white paper DJ. Map illustrated front endpapers. A Near Fine example in a lightly tanned and worn DJ. 92 pp. Many b/w intratextual illustrations throughout. 11-3/4" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/> Lewis Osborne hardcover books
2000170367Esbo: Schildts 2000. Hardcover. VG-/VG- crease to front cover minor corner and edge wear to book and dust jacket. Black boards with silver spine lettering and design. Glossy black and illustrated dust jacket with gray lettering. 410 pp. BW and color illustrations. Tanslated by Hildi Hawkins and Juri Kokkonen. Schildts hardcover books
1964030930New York London: Thomas Yoseloff 1964. 71p. 2 colored and 46 monochrome plates dj quarto format. Thomas Yoseloff unknown books