Hardcover. Washington, 1st, January 11, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages, b&w illustrations, 63 color plates, color frontispiece. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Washington, DC, GPO , 2nd, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1,374 pages. Vol. 2 only (of 2). Front hinge wear, front fly leaf half loose, binding solid. Very good internally.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 419 pags. Illustrated with b/w charts and diagrams. Minor foxing to endpapers and title page. Previous owner's bookplate on front inside cover. Spotting and browning to page edges, water stain at bottom edge on last 100 pages of book. Dark blue/brown texturized cloth, toned, especially on spine and around edges. Rubbing to covers and spine. Edgewear, bottom of spine and bottom right corner of front cover are nibbled. Top corners bumped.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1st, 1863, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 446 pags. Illustrated with b/w charts and diagrams. Foxing to endpapers, title page, and several other pages. Previous owner's bookplate on front flyleaf. Page , especially edges are browned. Dark blue texturized cloth, toned on spine and around edges. Rubbing to covers and spine. Wear to top and bottom of spine. Bottom of the spine is nibbled, along with bottom right corners of front and back boards and bottom right corners of textblock.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 878 pages. Containing chapters titled "Explorations," "United States National Museum," "United States Geological Survey." Black cloth covers, blind-stamped border to front cover, numerous b&w illustrated plates printed on stiff papers. Spine lightly faded, mild rubbing to covers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. Washington, George W. Bowman, 1861, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 448 pages. Brown soiled cloth has embossed design. Hinge is cracked and very loose in back. Previous owner's bookplate front pastedown. Includes articles on roads and bridges, mollusca, archaeology, and the microscope.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., GPO, 1st, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, The operations, expenditures, & conditions of the Institution for the year 1863. Slight wear, fraying to edges of faded spine.
Hardcover. Washington, Cornelius Wendell, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 467 pages. Black cloth, gilt, embossed design, hinge cracked, shelf worn. End papers foxed, minor tanning to pages throughout. Ex-lib. Contains articles on Meteorology, Nature, Art, Physics, etc.
Hardcover. Washington, William A. Harris, 1859, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 448 pages. Black cloth, embossed design, minor spotting. End papers heavily foxed, otherwise internally very good. Ex-lib. Contains articles on Astronomy, Insect Collecting, Atmospheric Electricity, etc.
Hardcover. Washington, Thomas H. Ford, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 450 pages. Black cloth, embossed design, hinge cracked at top and bottom, water damage to front cover. End papers foxed, minor tanning to pages throughout. Ex-lib. Contains articles on Meteorology, Agriculture, Astronomy, etc.
Softcover. Washington, DC, US Government Printing Office, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 526 pages, illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on soft leather cover, marbled edges. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, corner and edge wear and chip, lightly cracked spine on cover, otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., United States Government Printing Office, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Tan cloth covers, dark brown cloth spine, gilt titles, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates. Very slight edgewear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., White House Historical Association, reprint, 2008, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 407 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations and photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor wear and chipping. Otherwise tight and clean copy, illustrated throughout.
Softcover. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 2nd, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with some minor wear to wrapper edges. 224 color plates with 86 black & white illustrations. One of the nation's most unique artistic voices finds expression in this fascinating retrospective of his work, illuminating his groundbreaking work in collages, watercolors, and oils, with examples of his lesser-known landscape painting, sculpture, costume designs, and more.
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Bollingen Foundation, 2nd edition, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages plus plates. B/w illustrations throughout plus additional illustrations of sculpture pasted into the book by the previous owner. Cover boards bound in green cloth, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and gilt design on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of agewear, wrapped in protective clear plastic brodart. Binding tight. Spine straight. Top edge dyed. In very good condition."This is the Third Volume of the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, Which are Delivered Annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington,. The Volumes of Lectures Constitute Number XXXC in Bollingen Series."
Hardcover. New York, Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1846, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Includes biographical sketches of Thomas Crawford, Rembrandt Peale, James DeVeaux, John Trumball, Gilbert Charles Stuart, Benjamin West, Henry Inman, Washington Allston. Brown cloth covers with embossed decorative borders, gilt titles decorative illustration to spine and cover, green patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, 9 b&w tissue-protected engravings. Previous owner's pencil inscription to blank preview page, wear and rubbing to cover edges and spines, cloth covering partially detached from lower portion of spine, noticeable foxing to most pages. A rare book in good condition.
Softcover. Washington DC, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery/Smithsonian, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages, illustrated in color and b&w.