Hardcover. Whitman Pub Llc, 2nd, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Watkins-Glen, New York, American Life Foundation, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 137 pages, b&w illustrations. Cream pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear to edges and spine, and small stain to front cover, else a very nice, tight, crisp copy.
Hardcover. Florence, Albama, House of Collectibles, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 271 pages, illustrated throughout with over 1150 plates in b&w, showing over 600 types of utensils and implements. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to covers, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, features wraparound design, and has some fading at spine (shelfwear), but otherwise very good. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, fading at edges and frayed in a couple of spots at bottom edges of covers. Gilt title stamped on spine. Some slight tanning from age to pages and edges, but otherwise clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age. Book features the extensive and remarkable toy collection of Bernard Barenholtz, the stories of it's origin and commentaries on the individual toys and their manufacture.
Hardcover. NEW CAVENDISH BOOKS, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages, plus index in rear. Color photographs by Bill Holland throughout, including pull-out pages on steam trains. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright.
NY, Thomas Nelson, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 476 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Dust jacket with light edgewear, wrinkle to rear panel, price-clipped. Otherwise bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 193 pages, 183 illustrations, including four tipped-in color plates. Early pictorial study of previously neglected folk Americana, including ship figureheads, weathervanes, cigar-store figures, trade signs, circus and carousel carvings, toys, decoys, and garden sculpture. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Softcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 133 pages, b&w and color photographs, large color photograph on cover. Light wear to edges and spine, very minor sticker residue on front top right corner; book in clean, tight condition.
NY, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY DOWNS on title page. Foreword by Henry Francis DuPont. 10 color photos of period rooms. 401 black & white plates of furniture styles. Minor edgewear to bottom edges, Minor vertical crimp to spine covering.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 497 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrated primarily with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with short closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, 192 pages with 90 color illustrations and 158 black and white illustrations. Still in publisher's original shrinkwrap. In fine condition.
Hardcover. New York , The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 92 pages. Orange cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has light wear to edges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Light foxing on top edge. Faint stain on front endpage, otherwise inside is bright and clean with many color and b&w photographs throughout. A nice copy.
Softcover. Belle Mead, NJ, Privately published, 3rd, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with b&w drawings of candy containers. Spiralbound. Red wrappers. Light wear to edges, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, else a very nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, American Heritage Publishing Co, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages, 400 pages. Burgundy cloth covers with small embossed emblem of an eagle to the bottom front covers, gilt lettering to spines, illustrated endpapers, numerous b&w and color illustrations, color illustrated slip covers for each volume. Light wear to slip covers, previous owner's pencil inscription to half title page of volume 1; overall very clean, tight copies.
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, Inc, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Gray cloth spine with green paper boards and red title. Green pictorial dust jacket with light wear and small closed tear to lower edge of spine
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear, scuffing, small tear to lower bottom of jacket and tape repair to lower spine. Copy itself clean and tight.
Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in a cardboard slipcase, 344, 300 pages. Illustrated with b&w photographs throughout. Vol. 1 covers New England, Vol. 2 - The Middle Colonies and the South. Clean, tight copies.
Softcover. New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1054 lots, illustrated in b&w. Softcover with wear and rubbing to covers and spine, tears to spine, else in good condition.
Softcover. New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 826 lots, illustrated in b&w. Softcover with wear and rubbing to covers and spine, tears to spine, else in good condition.
Softcover. New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 580 lots, illustrated in b&w. Softcover with wear and rubbing to covers and spine, tears to spine, else in good condition.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Library, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 522 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Catalogue of the Monroe, Wakeman, and Holman collection of the Pequot Library in Southport, CT. Minor rubbing and edgewear to boards. With black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.