Hardcover. New York , De Vinne Press, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages. Light blue and white cover. Printed for the Naval History Society. Number 112 of 700 copies. Pages untrimmed. B&w illustration with tissue guard. Worn slipcase. Inside nice and clean. Contains one page insert addressed to Naval History Society members.
Hardcover. New York, LINST/Arno Press, Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. Volume 1 - 1899-1905 - Illustrated with black & white photographs, drawings, and charts. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 1906-1948 - Illustrated with black & white photographs, drawings, and charts. Clean, tight copy. Special Limited Printing of 201 Hand Numbered Copies - this Set being #188.
Softcover. London, 1849, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This is 64 page extract from a larger volume (pages 443 - 506), possibly London Magazine. This is the original printing and features 4 fold-out plans and illustrations, all in excellent condition. Bound in a clear acetate folder.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 878 pages. Rubbing and soiling to covers. Corners bumped. Spotting to top edge.
Softcover. Baltimore, MD, Maryland Historical Society, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Yellow covers with sketch illustrations. Some rubbing and marking, and corners are slightly worn. Staple binding is tight. Pages are in excellent condition. 16 sketch illustrations of costumes, with 40 listed in the catalog. 35 pages.
Hardcover. Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, August 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 395 pages, b&w photographs. Light wear to dust jacket. Smudges on fore-edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Traces the transformation of Venice from an independent state into a cityscape of artists and inventors. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Rough cut fore edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Hardcover. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very slight wear to jacket, small crease front jacket alongside spine, old price sticker to back of jacket. Otherwise very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor creasing and soiling to dust jacket rear. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1871, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 516 pages, hardcover. Orange cloth boards with gilt titling and embellishment to spine and front panel. Embossed and gilt decorations to front panel. Heavy fading to spine with moderate edgewear to top and bottom of the spine. Slight pencil marking to prelim pages. Previous owner's inscription on title page. Front flyleaf slightly loose, binding is tight and intact. Mild age toning and spotting to interior pages, most notably to prelim and rear pages. Fold out map in rear still attached, has moderate wear at top edge as well as some fading. Bumping and slight fraying to board corners. Frontispiece intact. A tight copy.
Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. Softcover. Sunfading to spine and top edge of front wrapper. Price marking in pen to back wrapper. An otherwise clean copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout.
Softcover. Providence, Museum of Art/Rhode Island School of Design, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations. Covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Orion Press, 1st English, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 209 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear. Cover boards bound in Red, white, and blue with white title on spine and black design on front cover. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. A look at Paris during the 4 year period in which they were occupied by German forces in WW2.
NY, Orchard Books, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A photographic history of the Paris subway system and its construction. 90 pages. Library binding.
Hardcover. Canada, Bloomsbury Press, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages, b&w and color illustrations, illustrated end paper. A clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Taftsville, VT, The Countryman Press, 2nd Printing, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Softcover. Very small pen marking to top edge of textblock. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.
Hardcover. London, London Topographical Society, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 61 pages, with illustrations. Tiny stain on front cover, previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise, very clean and tight condition.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue cover boards, black, textured quarter cloth, orange title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In great condition. Parting the Desert is both a transporting narrative and a meditation on the origins of the modern Middle East.
Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Reference for almost 600 photographers who worked in South Carolina. More than 300 b&w illustrations.