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199326170New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1993. Hardcover. 96p. very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. African American poet. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover books
1993157248New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1993. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Ai's fifth collection of poems she went on to win the 1999 National Book Award for "Vice: New and Selected Poems." A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some slight crimping to the base of the spine. W.W. Norton & Company unknown books
199358260NY:: Norton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0393035611 . A collection of poems. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Norton, hardcover books
199283354NY:: Lothrop Lee & Shepard. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0688083196 . First printing. Fine in a near fine light flap creases dust jacket. . Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, hardcover books
1937TB31603New Haven: Yale University Press 1937. First Edition. Both volumes of this two volume set are in fine condition in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spines Both are small quartos of 10 1/4 by 7 1/8 inches. Both are in good unclipped dust jackets with numerous chips and closed tears. Volume I contains 459 pages of text illustrated with a fold-out map and images from black and white photographs. Volume II contains pages 461 to 973 which includes an index to both volumes and is illustrated with maps and images from black and white photographs. Yale University Press hardcover books
19022307813Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press 1902. Third Edition. Third Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by author. Third edition. Ornithologist John B. May's copy with ALS laid in and May's name and 'Cohasset Mass.' on front endpaper. The letter is dated October 25 1932 and thanks May for a copy of Portraits of New England Birds which like this volume included illustrations by Fuertes. 1902 Hard Cover. xc 514 6 pp. Blue cloth gilt titles gold and black bird on front board. 36 plates including a frontispiece zone map and illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes with 601 figures in the text. A profusely illustrated and important birding reference. Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press unknown books
195049264London: James Barrie 1950. Third Printing. PRESENTATION copy INSCRIBED to Florence Scripps Kellogg and SIGNED by the Author with her full signature. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. No dust jacket. Average wear Very Good. All correspondence Very Good. 237 1 pp. Letters accompanied by envelopes: one stamped & mailed from Tunbridge Wells England to Culver City California; the other two unmailed hand delivered. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>"Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith was an English writer and socialite known for her ghost stories and diaries. She also wrote novels and edited a number of anthologies as well as writing for children and on the British Royal family." Wiki <br /> <br />Kellogg a California resident with estates in Altadena & La Jolla who was the widow of Frederick William Kellogg newspaper publisher & Vice-President of the Copley Press. <br /> <br />Here Asquith in her ANs on stationery from the Times Bookshop London dated Oct 5th 1951 sends Kellogg "a copy of one of my books. Please dont lend it to your friends but make them buy it from Scribner's ." In a ANs on personal stationery Asquith thanks Kellogg for sending her Kellogg's book of "charming Poems. I am delighted to have them." published Pasadena ca 1950. The accompanying 3 page Oct 5th '51 ALs on "Cynthia's Home" stationery 15 Queen's Gate Gardens S.W.7 Western 1931 presents the book to "My dear Mrs Kellogg" signed by Asquith's friend Bibs . James Barrie hardcover books
198390970Chicago: Chicago Review Press 1983. Hardcover. 308p. illustrated with some of the white supremacist leaflets thrown against HW's candidacy hardbound first edition in dust jacket. Very good clean copy with a publication announcement laid in. Chicago Review Press hardcover books
194525190New York: Samuel French 1945. Acting edition. Paperback. Very Good. frontis photos 197p. Original wrapper. 19cm. Biographical play about Harriet Beecher Stowe. <br/><br/> Samuel French paperback books
306460New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1943. First edition "A". Small 8vo. frontispiece halftone by the Vandamm Studio. Dust jacket unclipped; short tear. Very good. 212 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. hardcover books
194427506NY: Scribner's 1944. First Edition. 8vo pp. 212. Frontis portrait of Helen Hayes as Harriet Beecher Stowe. VG in little chipped dj. Scribner's unknown books
1975255985Hayward CA: Hayward Centennials Committee 1975. Paperback. vii 184p. wraps 8.25 x 11 inches illus. wraps mildly worn and rubbed "Compliments of Hayward Savings and Loan Association" sticker on front wrap else good condition. Hayward Centennials Committee paperback books
19781293094New York: Stein and Day 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo; VG/VG; tanned spine with blue and black text; jacket has age toning rubbing; boards are strong slightly bowed; textblock has spotting around edges otherwise clean; pp 204. 1293094. Full-priced Rockville. Stein and Day hardcover books
200475032México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia 2004. 19x19 cm. Colección Alquimia. Traducción Isabel Victoria Anaya Ferreira 278ip b/w and color plates facs. ports. appens. bibl. cat. bibl. color fldg. wrps AUGMENTED REVISED AND EXTENDED SPANISH EDITION. Little has been said about Hercule Florence his research and inventions until this presentation. A lost genius in the Sao Paulo hinterland he was an excellent draftsman and painter and invented photography in an independent isolated manner in 1833. According to his diary the idea of printing by light came to him on August 15 1832 he was familiar with the camera obscura. His experiments are noted in 5 handwritten diaries. There are many who feel that he invented photography and never was given credit. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000. Primera edición en español modificada y aumentada. Libro dedicado al estudio de la labor de Hercule Florence precursor y descubridor de la fotografía y famoso recopilador de la expedición al Brasil. Este libro presenta parte de sus notas como expedicionario y descripciones de su libro de notas sobre fotografía. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia unknown books
19102194880Rand McNally & Company Publishers 1910. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Boards rubbed stain to top corner of front board and corresponding faint stain to page margin does not affect illustrations or text. 1910 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. Unpaginated. Verse and color illustrations progressing through each letter of the alphabet designed to teach young readers about Native American culture. Illustrated by H.D. Pohl. Rand McNally & Company Publishers hardcover books
1939022054New York: Hispanic Society of America 1939. xliii 417p. 432 b/w illus. original burgundy cloth Hispanic notes & monographs: Peninsular series. Hispanic Society of America unknown books
WN55099New York: Random House Original brown cloth patterned with objects photographically reproduced in black. The gilt "3 balls" have been quite rubbed and while faint are nevertheless discernable on the upper board. The authors are a husband and wife team who collaborated with Charles Samuels. There is botanical offsetting between pps. 54 and 55 the botanical culprit being absent but probably an aster-like flower. The inscription is long and personal and dedicated to the P.M.C. classmate of Mr. Simpson's. A personal account of the Simpson's long and happy life in the pawnshop business written in a lively style and with a flourish. Probably the only book written on "hockshops" om exostemce/. Inscribed By Author. First Edition So Stated. Cloth. Very Good/NoDJ. 8vo. Trade. Random House Hardcover books
1954291371New York.: Random House. 1954. 1st Edition. Brown cloth black and gilt decorations top edge stained brown pictorial endpapers. . Very good on a very good dust jacket with some edgewear. 21x14 cm. . “The fabulous story of the ‘emperors of pawnbroking’â€. weight: 1.2 lb. 6 pages illustrations. Random House. hardcover books
199165374Los Angeles: Pelican 1991. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Pelican unknown books
2008124719New Brunswick New Jersey: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum Rutgers The State University of New Jersey 2008. Softcover. VG. Color illus. wraps; 90 pp.; 45 color and duotone figures. Accompanied a 2008 exhibition of work by French artist Honore Daumier 1808-1879. "Highlights both Daumier's crucial role as a sculptor and lithographer within the Romantic and Realist traditions of nineteenth-century French art as well as his captivating genre scenes made after the political journal La Caricature ceased publication in 1835." foreword With illustrated essays by Florence Quideau and Edouard Paper. The exhibition checklist cites 105 pieces and many are pictured here. Includes an artist chronology and selected bibliography. A scarce catalogue. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey paperback books
194360362New York: Random House 1943. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. illustrations 250p. Cloth. dj minor soil and a few tiny chips. 22cm. Children's book. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
1943224901New York Random House 1943. 1943. First edition first printing so stated. 8vo 6" x 8 3/4". Illustrated by Charlotte Anna Chase. Dust jacket price clipped.Very good. No signatures or bookplates. F. Hardcover. New York, Random House 1943. hardcover books
37407New York: Lowell Coryell & Company n. d. 1st US edition ca 1892. Original publisher's light brown fine-weave cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & front board. Light-to-modest binding wear. Period poi to ffep. "M533" written on copyright page. A VG copy. 324 pp. Crown 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/> Lowell, Coryell & Company hardcover books
1942201196San Francisco: Flores Paramount Press 1942. 43p. 9x12 inches coated buff paperstock throughout with contemporary b&w photos credited to Gabriel Moulin Studio architect's floorplans Martin Rist was the architect and facsimiles of old plate maps and period newsclippings very good booklet in stapled green wraps with titling gilt a little crimped from handling staples slightly rusty. Describes the new church and the historical background. Flores Paramount Press unknown books
1914217340New York: Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co 1914. 6p. 10.5x13.5 inch sheet musicheavily-worn in pictorial wraps with a picture of male impersonator Tempest on the front in male drag. Tempest's first name was various spelled Florenze and Florence; after WWI she usually seems to be listed as 'Florence.' She and her sister Marion Sunshine appeared as Tempest and Sunshine with Flo usually assaying the "male" roles. Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co unknown books
