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"Charles W. Morgan", The: The Story of the Last of the Old Whalers


Dickerman, Marion

Softcover. Old Mystic CT, Marine Museum, N/A, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers, stapled binding, 28 pages with b&w illustrations. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 411918


Price: $13.00 

 

"Pioneer" Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851, The


White, John H.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages (pgs. 241-268 from US National Museum Bulletin 240), b&w illustrations, cream colored paper wraps, stapled binding. From a museum library with light stamping, small stickers on covers. Otherwise clean.

Record # 411933


Price: $15.00 

 

'Allo Good-By


Humphrey, Zephine

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st, 1940, 284 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, has a touch of fading, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Dust jacket price-clipped, has little tanning from age, as well as other agewear (see image). Dj wrapped in protective clear plastic cover. Deckled foreedge. Some tanning to edges, pages clean. Binding tight, spine straight. The Author and her husband travel south to Mexico and instead of hitting the most popular tourist sites, they take an altogether different approach.

Record # 32209


Price: $25.00 

 

(ENTRE NOUS) PAR L'AUTEUR DE MR., MME ET BEBE


Droz, Gustave

Hardcover. Paris, Victor Havard, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Brown leather spine. Marbled boards. Raised bands. Gilt titled spine. Sticker on front paste down from previous owner.

Record # 220735


Price: $13.00 

 

100 Paintings from the Boston Museum


Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Softcover. Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Perfect binding, illustrated with 100 full color plates, introduction by Perry T. Rathbone, index of artists. Light rubbing to covers, crease to bottom front right corner from bending of cover; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806282


Price: $15.00 

 

1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History


Flood, Charles Bracelen

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster/Colophon, 1st Edition, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 521 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Tan, marbled cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In beautiful condition. A masterly re-creation of the last twelve months of Abraham Lincoln's life.

Record # 32459


Price: $19.00 

 

30 Years of American Printmaking, including the 20th National Print Exhibition


Baro, Gene

Softcover. New York, The Brooklyn Museum, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. White covers with black titles and color illustration, perfect binding, foreword by Michael Botwinick, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates, section of artists' statements, glossary of printmaking terms. Slight rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806261


Price: $18.00 

 

30 Years of Painting: William C. Palmer


Gruskin , Alan D. and Harris K. Prior

Softcover. Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1st, 1956, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with brown covers in good condition, with slight wear along the edges. Staple binding shows minor wear but is tight. Pages are glossy, clean and crisp with 13 b/w plates of artist's American landscape paintings. Short introduction at the front, and a 57 work listing. 24 pages.

Record # 807396


Price: $13.00 

 

300 Years of Kitchen collectibles


Franklin, Linda Campbell, Illust. by: Arky, David (Photographer)

Softcover. Florence, AL, Books Americana Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages. Clean illustrated cover, dark with orange writing. Minor rubbing and scratches to rear cover. Black and white illustrations throughout with center section for color photographs. Pages clean and crisp, binding tight. Embossed library stamp on title page.

Record # 806816


Price: $15.00 

 

350 Years of Art and Architecture in Maryland


N/A

Softcover. Baltimore, MD, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy brown cover in great condition. Minor rubbing and almost no wear on edges or corners. Pages are clean and crisp with black and white photographs throughout. Binding is a little creased but still tight. 248 pages.

Record # 806912


Price: $25.00 

 

3M Collection of Contemporary Western Art, The


Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.

Softcover. St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Catalog. Black glossy wrappers with copper metallic titles, perfect binding, front vellum endpaper with metallic titles, features color plates of 44 pieces of art and books available for purchase, with accompanying descriptions, section of biographical sketches of artists. Light rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 807837


Price: $13.00 

 

8 Contemporary American Artists


Milkovich , Michael & Mary Newcome

Softcover. Binghamton, NY, University Art Gallery, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with white covers. Somewhat faded around the edges, and some scratching and rubbing, but mostly in good condition. Staple binding is tight. Pages are clean and crisp, with 8 b/w plates, each plate providing an example of a different artist's work. The types of art vary, and each artist has a listing of other works and other exhibitions in which they have participated.

Record # 807170


Price: $8.00 

 

A Compendious History Of The Rise and Progress Of The Methodist Church Both In Europe and America Consisting Principally Of Selections From Various Approved And Authentic Documents


Meacham, A. G.

Hardcover. New York, Knowlton & Rice, 1st US, 1835, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 500 pages plus 4 page index and errata list. Worn leather binding, light soil and foxing throughout. Still, a solid and presentable copy. Chipped leather label on spine reads Rise & Progress of Methodism. First published in Canada by John Wilson. This appears to be the first American publication of the early denominational history. Meacham was a Vermont-born American Methodist preacher from New York who lived and worked in the Bay of Quinte region in 1832-34. He later moved to Illinois where he also practiced medicine. In 1839 he was expelled from the Conference for immoral conduct.

Record # 415148


Price: $375.00 

 

A Journey into the Universe of Art: From Courbet and Corot to Bacon, Moore and Lindner


Fischer Fine Art Limited

Softcover. London, Fischer Fine Art Limited, 1st, 1977, Dust Jacket: None, 91 pages. Color and B/W reproductions of works by Ernst, Klee, Kandinsky, etc. Pages are faded and a few have come loose from binding. Black fold-out covers are soiled and worn on edges.

Record # 802921


Price: $8.00 

 

A Mirror for Observers


Pangborn, Edgar

Hardcover. New York, Bluejay Books, 1st, Book Club edition, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, very good, has a touch of edge wear and tanning from age. Red cover boards, excellent. Deckled edges, pages clean. Binding tight, spine straight. A compelling SciFi tale that started as a contest of wills, waged between two opposing Martians for the soul of a single human child. Before the end, it threatened all life on both Earth & Mars.

Record # 31698


Price: $11.00 

 

A sense of story: Essays on contemporary writers for children


Townsend, John Rowe

Hardcover. London, 1st edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, blue dust jacket. Clean covers, light edgewear to dust jacket, with faded spine, neat ink underlining to pages 193-199, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, tight binding.

Record # 450679


Price: $12.00 

 

Abstract Painting Redefined


Ratcliff, Carter

Softcover. New York, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Inc., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of abstract paintings from the Louis K. Meisel gallery. 31 pages; 21 black and white plates, each representing an artist. Essay by Carter Ratcliff; introduction by Cie Goulet (curator); foreword by Louis K. Meisel. In very good condition; slight crease along binding on back cover.

Record # 401260


Price: $16.00 

 

Ackermann's Costume Plates: Women's Fashions in England, 1818-1928


Blum (ed.), Stella

Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Stiff blue covers with color illustration, perfect binding, 87 full page b&w plates with accompanying descriptions, glossary. Slight rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806358


Price: $12.00 

 

Ackroyd


Feiffer, Jules

Hardcover. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, First Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles to green cloth spine. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear, now protected with a plastic cover.

Record # 751236


Price: $23.00 

 

Address Delivered at Hartford, Vermont July 4th 1876


Pingree, Samuel E.

Softcover. Plainfield, NJ, Privately Printed by Porter Steele, 1st, Date unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages. Softcover pamphlet. Binding (staple) tight. B/w illustrated frontispiece (see image). A touch of tanning from age throughout. Pages clean and unmarked. Published date unclear, early twentieth century. Wrapper excellent. A speech delivered by Samuel Pingree at the July 4th centennial celebration in Hartford, VT.

Record # 32284


Price: $25.00 

Admission of Vermont into the Union, TheDean, Leon W.

Admission of Vermont into the Union, The


Dean, Leon W.

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Dark green cloth covers, gilt lettering on front. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, light foxing, aging. Tight binding.

Record # 408345


Price: $75.00 

 

Adolph Gottlieb


Gottlieb, Adolph

Softcover. Minnesota, Walker Art Center, 1st, 1963f, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. White and red covers, perfect binding, full-page b&w photographic frontispiece, 29 color and b&w plates, catalog of exhibition, biographical notes, catalogue. Mild rubbing to covers, bottom left corner of catalog slightly warped from water moisture, paper to this front cover corner partially rubbed off; overall a very tight, neat copy.

Record # 806663


Price: $13.00 

 

After Long Silence


Tepper, Sheri S.

Hardcover. New York, Bantam Books, 1st, Book Club edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover. Gray cover boards, navy blue binding tape, light blue title on spine. Covers excellent. Dust jacket unclipped, very good, in wraparound design. Deckled edges. Pages and edges clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape, like new. In this major novel, alien contact and an alliance could bring about the end of a tyrannical dynasty. Perfect addition to any classic SciFi enthusiast's collection.

Record # 31706


Price: $11.00 

 

After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe


Huppert, George

Softcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, First Edition, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 169 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with scuffing & light wear to edges. Small spots pp. 37. Map illustration in bw. Tight binding, else clean & unmarked.

Record # 5560156


Price: $10.00 

 

Age of the Cathedrals, The - Art and Society, 980 - 1480


Duby, Georges

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, First Thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages. Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with moderate wear, chipping & tears to corners, now protected with a plastic cover. Light pencil marks from previous owner. Tight binding, sharp corners.

Record # 751334


Price: $19.00 

 

Aged in American Society, The


Drake, Joseph T.

Hardcover. New York, NY, The Ronald Press Company, First Edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 429 pages. Grey cloth covered boards with black printed titles to cover & spine. Light pencil marking throughout. Tight binding, tight signatures.

Record # 6670076


Price: $13.00 

 

Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood


Hughes, Howard

Hardcover. London, I.B. Tauris, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has a crease on back, but excellent otherwise. Deep red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Clean and bright inside, binding tight. In great shape. "Howard Hughes follows Eastwood's craft through over 50 movies. ...Eastwood's story is illustrated with film stills, glimpses behind the scenes and rare poster advertising material."

Record # 31541


Price: $19.00 

 

Air-Raid Warden Was A Spy, The: And Other Tales From Home-Front America in World War II


Breuer, William B.

Hardcover. Hoboken, NJ, john Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Burgundy cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. Breuer recounts over fifty little-known tales of military actions, espionage, and skullduggery on the American home front.

Record # 31821


Price: $15.00 

 

Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema


Goodwin, James

Softcover. Baltimore, MD, The John Hopkins University Press, First Thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean text with tight binding & sharp corners. A nice copy.

Record # 6670037


Price: $15.00 

 

Albert Stewart


Petterson, Richard

Softcover. Claremont, CA, Scripps College, 1st, 1962, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with black and white covers in great condition. Minor rubbing and edges are a little worn. Staple binding is tight. Pages are crisp and unmarked and contain 9 b/w plates, including cover illustrations. Introduction about artist's connection to Scripps College, and a comprehensive listing of his architectural works. Exhibition took place at Lang Galleries.

Record # 807174


Price: $16.00 

 

Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman


Kazanjian, Dodie, Calvin Tomkins

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 385 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. White cover boards (clean), black title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, covered in protective clear plastic. Red remainder mark on top edge. Deckled foreedge. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. In great shape, looks nearly new.

Record # 32117


Price: $19.00 

 

Alexander Hamilton: First American Business Man


Warshow, Robert Irving

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. , 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration on frontispiece. Untrimmed deckled edges. Binding still quite tight. Covers bound in black cloth, blind stamped, gilt title on spine faded. Spine has some fraying to top. Pages and edges have some tanning. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper.

Record # 31385


Price: $13.00 

 

Alfred E. Smith, A Critical Study


Pringle, Henry R.

Hardcover. 4th printing, Macy-Masius Publishers, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 402 pages. Gray covers, gray and gold patterned endpapers, gold labels to spine and front cover with titles, tipped-in b&w frontispiece of Smith's portrait by Wilfred Jones. Light soiling to covers, book plate to paste-down front endpaper, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 808718


Price: $20.00 

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass Carroll, Lewis , Illust. by: Ninon  MacKnight

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass


Carroll, Lewis , Illust. by: Ninon MacKnight

Hardcover. New York, The Platt & Munk , reprint, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, with color illustrated front panel. Two full page color illustrations by Ninon Macknight, and 62 other colored illustrations after the original artist, Sir John Tenniel. Heavy fading and edgewear to board edges and corners, most notably at spine. Spine is threadbare in patches, binding is not affected. Moderate interior fading to front and rear endpapers and flyleaves. Light age spotting to prelim pages. Interior copy and illustrated pages bright and intact. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952346


Price: $38.00 

 

All About Cosmetics: From Factory to Face


Klesper, Walter E.

Hardcover. Wallingford CT, Cosmeticians Research Institute, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (55 pages printed on one side only), dark blue cloth, library binding with gilt lettering on spine. Ex-library with stamping to endpapers, envelope inside rear cover. A reference book with complete formulas for various cosmetics: face creams, lipsticks, rouges, lotions, deodorants, etc. Unusual.

Record # 404704


Price: $25.00 

 

All About Story Book, The


N/A

Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, Co., 1st?, 1929, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Lots of nice color illustrations by many famous illustrators of children's books (such as: John B. Gruelle, Thelma Gooch, Gladys Hall, etc. Shows a good deal of wear. The cover is soiled and chipped, internally the binding is coming apart and there is much foxing, especially tot he preliminary pgs. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Record # 109895


Price: $50.00 

All Jahdu  Storybook, TheHamilton, Virginia, Illust. by: Barry Moser

All Jahdu Storybook, The


Hamilton, Virginia, Illust. by: Barry Moser

Hardcover. San Diego, CA, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publisheres, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 108 pages. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BARRY MOSER ON TITLE PAGE. Stories of the trickster hero Jahdu retold by Virgina Hamilton, lovely full page color illustrations by Barry Moser, orange boards, black cloth spine, pale yellow dust jacket with illustration and mylar protective covering. Clean boards and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding.

Record # 808140


Price: $30.00 

 

All Souls' Rising (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Bell, Madison Smartt

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, First Edition, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 530 pages. Hardcover with illustrated maps to endpapers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Bright dust jacket in very good condition, protected with a plastic cover. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout. A very nice copy.

Record # 751147


Price: $38.00 

 

All the Extant Works of Francois Rabelais Physician


Putnam, Samuel , Illust. by: Jean de Bosschere

Hardcover. New York, Covici Friede Publishers , 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1274 pages across three separate volumes. Full page color and b&w illustrations throughout by Jean de Bosschere. Top edge gilt. Includes eight appendices and extensive notes from translator. Illustrated color frontispiece to each volume. This set #370 of 1300 sets printed. Musty odor, but otherwise each volume is clean and tight.

Record # 857433


Price: $375.00 

 

Along the Riverbank: Chinese Paintings from the C.C. Wang Family Collection


Hearn, Maxwell K., Wen C. Fong

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 174 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, clean and unmarked inside and out. In very good condition. Looks barely read.

Record # 5560141


Price: $19.00 

Ambitious Brew : The Story of American BeerOgle, Maureen

Ambitious Brew : The Story of American Beer


Ogle, Maureen

Hardcover. Orlando, 1st, October 2, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 422 pages. Clean covers and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; an extremely clean, tight copy.

Record # 451794


Price: $20.00 

 

America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation


Goldfield, David

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 632 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, a touch of tanning, and original bookstore price tag on back cover,otherwise very good. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Some tanning to edges, pages clean. Binding tight, spine slightly cocked (shelf wear). In great shape. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. A fresh and original account of the era that transformed the United States forever.

Record # 31824


Price: $19.00 

 

America's munitions 1917-1918


Crowell, Bebedict

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Goverment Printing Office, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 592 pages, b&w illustrations. Ex-library copy with a lot of the usual stamps and markings throughout and also to the spine. Binding is a little shaken and thgere is a gutter crack between pages 400-401. Light wear and fraying to blue cloth covers.

Record # 856945


Price: $63.00 

 

American Antique Toys 1830-1900


Barenholtz, Bernard, Inez McClintock, Bill Holland (Photographs)

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.

Record # 31672


Price: $38.00 

 

American Architecture and Other Writings (2 volumes)


Schuyler, Montgomery

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 volumes: 664 pages total, edited by William H. Jordy and Ralph Coe. Dark gray cloth covers with gilt titles, red dust jacket with b&w illustration, 166 b&w illustrations throughout both volumes. Clean covers, light rubbing and edgewear to dust jackets, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding.

Record # 401455


Price: $50.00 

 

American Art at Harvard


Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

Softcover. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Monotone illustrated covers, perfect binding, red titles, 1500 copies published on occasion of exhibition, 176 b&w plates with accompanying descriptions, preface by Benjamin Rowland, Jr., introduction by Kenyon C. Bolton, III. Light rubbing to coves, clipped article from unknown periodical on exhibition included; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806254


Price: $30.00 

 

American Art Review: March-April 1975


Kellaway Publishing Company

Softcover. Los Angeles, CA, Kellaway Publishing Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 132 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Pages have a touch of tanning at edges, otherwise clean. Binding tight. Wrapper excellent. Magazine.

Record # 31838


Price: $19.00 

 

American Art: Paintings from the Amon Carter Museum


Cash, Sarah

Softcover. Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, 1st, 1992, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 59 oversize pages. Numerous color plates. Complete with annotations. Water damage along binding edge.

Record # 806710


Price: $12.00 

 

American Churches


Kennedy, Roger G.

Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent condition. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. A magnificent volume, over 100 churches and temples presented, with 200 superb full-color and 50 black-and-white photographs, illustrating the diversity of this country's religious life.

Record # 32299


Price: $25.00 

 

American Craftsman, The


Williamson, Scott Graham

Hardcover. NY, Crown Pub., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 239 pages. Illustrated with hundreds of black & white photos, contemporary prints. Linen binding with spotting, soil on spine.

Record # 509135


Price: $13.00 

 

American Drawings and Watercolors from The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute


The E.B. Crocker Art Gallery

Paperback. Sacramento, CA, The E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout in b&w. Light rubbing to binding; else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 808849


Price: $15.00 

 

American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum


Barter, Judith

Softcover. Japan, The American Federation of Arts, 1st, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 96 oversize pages featuring 64 color plates. Appendix containing artist biographies. Beautiful cover includes detailed look at "Water Lily and Moth" by John La Farge. Slight wrinkles on lower section of binding edge. Sturdy taupe endpages protect a fine interior.

Record # 806563


Price: $25.00 

 

American Drawings and Watercolors in the Robert Lehman Collection


Clarke, Carol

Hardcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 272 pages. 445 illustrations including 52 plates in full color. Catalogue of Watercolors from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Red cloth. Nice, very well preserved copy in mint condition with tight binding. Looks brand new.

Record # 605064


Price: $48.00 

 

American Film Now: The People, The Power, The Money, The Movies


Monaco, James

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 540 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. In very good shape. Investigates the business and art of the American film in the 1970s, comments on the decade's most interesting writers, directors, producers, actors, and actresses, and suggests ways to restructure the movie industry to insure financial and artistic independence.

Record # 31832


Price: $19.00 

 

American Folk Painters of Three Centuries


Lipman (eds.), Jean and Tom Armstrong

Softcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, Inc./Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages. Covers completely illustrated in full color, white titles, perfect binding, divided into sections by century, then artist, textured dividing pages, profusely illustrated with large beautiful color plates. Very slight rubbing to covers; a clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 401019


Price: $19.00 

 

American Folk Painting: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire III


Virginia Museum

Softcover. Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages. Exhibition catalog compiled by Richard B. Woodward. White covers with color illustration and black titles to front, perfect binding, foreword by R. Peter Mooz, introduction by Mary Black, 51 full-page color plates with accompanying descriptions. 10 different article clippings from various newspapers and magazines regarding exhibition. Light rubbing to covers, front cover just barely separated from first page due to cheap binding adhesive used; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 806433


Price: $20.00 

 

American Fruit Culturist: Containing Practical Directions for the Propagation and Culture of All Fruits Adapted to the United States


Thomas, John J.

Hardcover. New York, William Wood & Co., reprint, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 576 pages, beautiful full color lithograph of fruit as frontispiece, 500 b&w line illustrations. Brick red cloth with black and gilt design. Top 2 inches of spine cloth missing, binding still solid. Gutter cracked at Preface page.

Record # 401987


Price: $50.00 

 

American Furniture 1620-1720


Bishop (Ed), Robert

Softcover. Dearborn, MI, The Edison Institute, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy red covers with minor rubbing and creasing. Staple binding. Exhibition from the Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum. 61 plates, each with individual description. Pages clean and crisp. 33 pages.

Record # 806928


Price: $18.00 

 

American Girl in London, An


Duncan, Sara Jeannette

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 321 pages, with 80 illustrations by F. H. Townsend. Gilt titles. Corner and spine edge wear, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852856


Price: $40.00 

 

American Illustrators: Catalog Four


Goffman, Judy and Alan

Softcover. Blue Bell, PA, Judy & Alan Goffman, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy, tan, illustrated covers in excellent condition, with bottom corner slightly bent. Staple binding is tight, though a little worn. Pages are clean and crisp, a few creases but otherwise in great condition. 11 color plates, including covers, each with a description.

Record # 807053


Price: $30.00 

 

American Illustrators: Catalog Three


Goffman, Judy and Alan

Softcover. Blue Bell, PA, Judy & Alan Goffman, 1st, na, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy illustrated cover in excellent condition. Staple binding is tight. Pages are in great condition, clean and crisp. 37 color plates, including covers, most full page and all in pristine condition, each with a listing.

Record # 807051


Price: $30.00 

 

American Illustrators: Catalog Two


Goffman, Judy and Alan

Softcover. Blue Bell, PA, Judy & Alan Goffman, 1st, na, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy brown covers in great condition. Corners are slightly worn and there are a few creases near the spine. Staple binding is tight, with a little wear on the spine. Pages are in great condition, clean and crisp. 48 plates with 11 of those in color including the cover plates, and each with its own listing.

Record # 807054


Price: $30.00 

 

American Illustrators


Goffman, Judy and Alan

Softcover. Blue Bell, PA, Judy & Alan Goffman, 1st, na, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy brown covers, illustrated with publishers' sticker on front and back. Minor rubbing. Staple binding is tight with a little bit of wear at the top of the spine. Clean and crisp pages with 37 plates, 7 of those in color, including covers, each with a listing.

Record # 807050


Price: $30.00 

 

American Impressionism II


Coe Kerr Gallery

Softcover. New York, New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Stiff covers with full color illustration, perfect binding, featuring the work of 23 American painters, 45 color plates. A very clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Record # 806297


Price: $13.00 

 

American Impressionism


Collins, Amy Fine

Hardcover. New York, Gallery Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Dark blue covers, silver titles to spine, laminate dust jacket with full-color illustration, beautiful full-page color plates. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean covers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Record # 401354


Price: $20.00 

 

American Impressionism


Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

Softcover. Lincoln, Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages. Exhibition catalog. Purple covers with color illustration, perfect binding, foreword by George W. Neubert, preface by John A. Mahey, introduction by William H. Gerdts, essay by Daphne Anderson Deeds, 46 large full-page color plates, exhibition checklist. Mild rubbing to covers, else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806534


Price: $12.00 

 

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House


Meacham, Jon

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 483 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Deckled foreedges. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. Remainder mark (red dot) on bottom edge. In great condition. Andrew Jackson, his close group of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency.

Record # 31802


Price: $15.00 

 

American Literature


Abernethy, Julian W.

Hardcover. New York, Charles E. Merrill Co, reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 514 pages. SIGNED BY ABERNETHY ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Green cloth covers, gilt stamped titles to spine, stamped borders, b&w illustrations throughout. Slight edgewear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding; a very clean, neat copy in great condition.

Record # 808278


Price: $35.00 

 

American Luminism


Adams Davidson Galleries

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Adams Davidson Galleries, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Exhibition catalog, edition of 2000 copies. Tan covers with color illustration, perfect binding, foreword by Ted Cooper, 36 color and b&w plates. Light discoloration to bottom edge of front panel, light rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight copy of catalog.

Record # 807762


Price: $16.00 

 

American Marine Painting


n/a

Softcover. Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibiton catalog. 152 pages. 74 B&W prints. Dark blue stiff wrapper with black mark on bottom right corner of front cover. Slight wear. Frontispiece. Glue of binding visible between frontispiece and cover. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850282


Price: $15.00 

 

American Marine: The Shipping Question in History and Politics


Bates, William W.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, reprint, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages. Spine and corner edge wear. Ex-library usual stamping and residue. Tissue guard on frontispiece. Clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852356


Price: $28.00 

 

American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art


Terra Museum of American Art

Paperback. Evanston, IL, Terra Museum of American Art, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Illustrated throughout in b&w and color. Slight creasing around binding; else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 808840


Price: $12.00 

 

American Naval Prints


U.S. Naval Academy Museum

Softcover. Annapolis, Maryland, U.S. Naval Academy Museum, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. White covers with color illustration, perfect binding, introduction by Robert B. Stein, 65 large b&w plates. Slight wear to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806273


Price: $15.00 

 

American Nights Entertainment


Overton, Grant

NY, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 10 black & white tipped-in portraits of writers. 414 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Re-inforced binding by library book house. Not ex-lib.

Record # 69066


Price: $12.00 

 

American Painters: with Eighty-three Examples of Their Work Engraved on Wood


Sheldon, G. W.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. b&w illustrations throughout. Blue cloth, small tear to spine, worn, gilt titles and decorations to spine and front cover. Edges gilt. Endpapers in back have cosmetic split, not affecting binding. Previous owner's inscription in front. In very good shape for its age.

Record # 605488


Price: $51.00 

 

American Painting, from the Armory Show to the Depression


Brown, Milton W.

Softcover. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages. Illustrated covers, perfect binding, divided into seven sections organized by historical period, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Mild rubbing to covers, very minor markings to bottom of page block, front top right corner creased from bending; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401011


Price: $15.00 

 

American Paintings from the collection of the Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery


Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

Paperback. Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout in b&w. Slight rubbing to binding, light discoloration on wrappers; else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 808848


Price: $12.00 

 

American Paintings: The Landon Collection


Mint Museum of Art

Softcover. Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. Exhibition catalog. Blue textured covers with gilt titles, perfect binding, 42 color and b&w plates, foreword by Milton A. Bloch, introduction by Henry C. Landon, III, essay by Cheryl A. Palmer. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806275


Price: $30.00 

 

American Paintings


Schwarz

Softcover. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Schwarz, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Perfect binding, front cover completely illustrated in full-color, 47 full-color plates with accompanying descriptions, alphabetical index of authors. Slight wear to cover edges, else a very nice, sharp copy.

Record # 806504


Price: $15.00 

 

American Perspective, An: Nineteenth-Century Art from the collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr.


Wilmerding, John, Linda Ayres and Earl A. Powell

Softcover. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Color illustrated covers, perfect binding, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates. Slight rubbing to covers, minor wear to cover edges and corners, light crease to front lower right corner from bend; otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 806276


Price: $15.00 

 

American Pewter in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston


Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Department of American Decorative Arts & Sculpture

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1st, 1974, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Poor, 119 pages, catalogue of black and white photographic illustrations arranged by state. Includes introduction, bibliography, and checklist of American Pewter in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Book binding in fair condition, small white stains on upper left-hand corner of front cover. Dust jacket shows wear and is ripped at the top of the binding.

Record # 804980


Price: $13.00 

 

American Portrait, The: From the Death of Stuart to the Rise of Sargent


Hennessey, William J.

Softcover. Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Off-white wrappers, perfect binding, 45 b&w plates with accompanying descriptions, catalogue of exhibition. Mild rubbing to wrappers, pages very crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight catalog.

Record # 807709


Price: $10.00 

 

American Primitive Painting


N/A

Softcover. Boston, MA, Childs Gallery, unknown, Not given, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 53 pages. Yellow paper cover with plastic binding. Binding is coming off at the top and the title sticker is slightly torn. Some marking on back cover, but otherwise in good condition. Pages clean and in good condition with reproductions of paintings throughout.

Record # 806818


Price: $25.00 

 

American Realists: Homer to Hopper


Young, Mahonri Sharp

Hardcover. New York, NY, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1977, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Beautiful fully illustrated glossy dust jacket with almost no wear. Pages are in excellent condition, very clean, with many full page reproductions of artists' work. Binding is tight. 208 pages.

Record # 806920


Price: $45.00 

 

American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism 1885-1917


Crunden, Robert M.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 493 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Dust jacket unclipped, some tanning to back cover, very good. Tan cover boards, brown quarter cloth, brown title on spine. Binding tight. Pages clean. Edges have a touch of foxing. Provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to our entry into World War I.

Record # 33506


Price: $15.00 

 

American Self Portraits 1670 - 1973


Van Devanter, Ann C. and Alfred V. Frankenstein, with Shirley S. Simpson

Softcover. Washington, D.C., International Exhibitions Foundation, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Exhibition catalog. Perfect binding, laminate wrappers with color illustration, 4 full-page color plates, 109 full-page b&w plates with accompanying descriptions. Light rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding; a very neat, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 401471


Price: $20.00 

 

American Vineyards


Ensrud, Barbara, Charles E. Dorris (Photography)

Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Taabori & Chang, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped and excellent. Boards bound in green fabric. Clean inside and out. Binding tight. In great shape.

Record # 5560112


Price: $19.00 

 

American West in the Twentieth Century, The: A Bibliography


Etulain, Richard, W. (Editor), Pat Devejian, Jon Hunner, Jacqueline Etulain Partch

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 456 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Cover boards bound in brown leather, gilt title on spine and front cover board. A touch of chipping to cover corners. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition.

Record # 32012


Price: $23.00 

 

Americana Enshrined


N/A

Softcover. Atlanta, Georgia, Great American Gallery, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, White glossy covers in great condition, a few stains on the back. Paper binding is is good condition. Pages are also glossy, clean and crisp. 15 color plates in the catalog, with various color plates before that in the explanatory sections. 43 pages.

Record # 807068


Price: $13.00 

 

Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel


Ward , Mrs. Humphrey (translator)

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, reprint, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, handwritten poem on front end paper. Foxing, soiling to end papers and first few pages. Edges of some pages rough. Binding slightly weak. Else pages clean and crisp.

Record # 401970


Price: $20.00 

 

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Catalogue of the Collection 1972


Amon Carter Museum of Western Art

Softcover. Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 600 pages. Red covers, perfect binding, preface by Mitchell A. Wilder, profusely illustrated with hundreds of b&w plates, general index of work titles and artists. Light rubbing to covers, brown marking to top of page block; overall a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806421


Price: $18.00 

 

An Account of the Celebration of the Diamond Wedding of Dea. Frederick and Harriet North


North, F. A.

Softcover. Hartford, Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1st, 1890, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Pages 59-62 missing. Previous owner's signature on front cover. Edge wear to covers, binding cracked.

Record # 809033


Price: $25.00 

 

An Aperture Monograph


Uelsmann, Jerry N.

Softcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Softcover. Revised (enlarged) edition. Introduction by Peter C. Bunnell. Fables by Russell Edson. Includes a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. One four-color plate and 108 black-and-white illustrations/plates. Wrapper very good, has a touch of tanning, otherwise pristine. Pages clean and bright, binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful shape. Published to accompany museum exhibition, filled with Uelsmann's haunting, surreal photographs.

Record # 31693


Price: $19.00 

 

An Eye on the Modern Century: Selected Letters of Henry McBride


Watson, Steven (Ed.), Catherine J. Morris

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages and edges clean and bright. Red endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. McBride became a towering figure in art criticism during the long career that began in 1913.

Record # 32190


Price: $13.00 

 

An Uncommon Woman: The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm


Paula, Hannah

Softcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 2nd , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 701 pages. Softcover. Wrapper has a touch of fading to spine, otherwise very good, no rips. Pages clean, binding tight. In great shape. Biography of Crown Princess Vicky, daughter of Queen Victoria.

Record # 31811


Price: $15.00 

 

Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, The


Fromm, Erich

Hardcover. New York, NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, First Edition, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 521 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket is price-clipped with some toning to flaps, curled edges & small tears to edges. Tight binding, clean & unmarked.

Record # 6670145


Price: $15.00 

 

Ancient Engineers, The


Sprague De Camp, L.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday & Company. Inc., Reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 408 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards two color design on the spine. Deckled foreedge. Light foxing to top edge. Binding tight. Spine straight. Very good condition.

Record # 33438


Price: $23.00 

 

Ancient Greek Dress


Abrahams, Ethel & Lady Evans and Marie Johnson (ed)

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Argonaut, Inc., Publishers, 1st American, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Dust jacket has a clean illustration and clear text on the back. Small smudge on the back of the dust jacket and minor wear on the edges. Tight binding, with minor rubbing along the spine, and pages in excellent condition.

Record # 806789


Price: $25.00 

 

And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank


Oney, Steve

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 2nd printing, October 7, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 742 pages. Clean covers, slight wear to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 452673


Price: $18.00 

 

Anecdotes of the Habits and Instincts of Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes


Lee, Mrs. R.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Lee & Shepard, Reprint, c. 1884, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 429 pages. Hardcover. Mustard boards with nature vignette to cover and black printed titles. Bright gilt text block & decorative illustration to spine. Light soiling to front board & board edges. Profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. Light toning, tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751441


Price: $38.00 

 

Angels in Art


Clement, Clara Erskine

Boston, MA, L.C. Page and Company, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages including index. Black and white reproductions. Discoloration on spine. Frayed binding separating slightly from top spine. Name of previous owner and date on front endpapers.

Record # 500328


Price: $20.00 

 

Anglo-America Relations during the Spanish-American War


Reuter, Bertha Ann

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Dark red cloth covers, gilt titles to spine. Clean covers, through spine slightly faded, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 606707


Price: $25.00 

 

Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood


MacDonald, George

Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop and Co., 1st, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 590 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (plates) throughout. Line illustrations, illustrator uncredited. Covers bound in green fabric, gilt title/design on spine. Cover boards show some age wear, fraying on spine edges and corners. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Previous owners' signatures and address label on endpapers and preliminary page. First few pages, back endpapers, becoming loose from binding but still attached, and title and contents pages are detached but laying within. No pages missing. Edges are age-yellowed. In decent shape for its age.

Record # 30811


Price: $88.00 

 

Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1905


N/A

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.

Record # 302841


Price: $100.00 

 

Another Mouse to Feed


Kraus, Robert, Illust. by: Jose Aruego & Araine Dewey

Hardcover. New York, Windmill/Wanderer Books, 1st, 1980, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated, blue cloth cover. Illustrated in color throughout by Jose Aruego and Araine Dewey. Edge wear to corners of cover, binding, and jacket. Jacket has some small closed tears. Book has an ink inscription to previous owner on title page. Otherwise a clean, tight copy with a lovely story.

Record # 850021


Price: $20.00 

Anthropologists in the FieldJongmans, Dr. D.G. (Editor), Dr. P.C.W. Gutkind (Editor)

Anthropologists in the Field


Jongmans, Dr. D.G. (Editor), Dr. P.C.W. Gutkind (Editor)

Hardcover. The Netherlands, Van Gorcum & Company, 1st edition, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 277 pages. Hardcover. DJ priceclipped. DJ has some agewear with light tanning and foxing. Edges have light foxing, pages clean. Binding good, spine straight. Previous owner's address label on front flyleaf.

Record # 33555


Price: $19.00 

 

Anthropology of Curing in Multiethnic Thailand, An


Golumb, Louis

Softcover. urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st paperback edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Softcover. Illinois Studies in Anthropology No. 15. B/w illustrations. Wrapper very good. Pages unmarked. Binding good. A significant contribution to the ethnology of Thailand and to medical anthropology.

Record # 33513


Price: $23.00 

 

Anti-Slavery Crusade, The: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm


Macy, Jesse

Hardcover. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, reprint, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Minor cover corner wear. Gilt decorated cover, top edge and spine. A very handsome book with clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852558


Price: $10.00 

 

Antique Blob Top Bottles, Central and Southern New England


Lincoln, Gerald David

Softcover. Massachusetts, Gerald David Lincoln, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. White covers with black titles and b&w illustration, perfect binding, profusely illustrated with b&w plates of bottles and accompanying descriptions. Rubbing to covers, spine slightly discolored, previous owner's pen inscription in blue ink to top right corner of title page; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 806468


Price: $20.00 

 

Antiquity of Proverbs, The


Marvin, Dwight Edwards

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, First Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages. Hardcover. Navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Gilt top edge. Light wear to edges, faint, marginal toning to edges throughout. Tight binding, tight signatures, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751272


Price: $31.00 

 

Antonio Gaudi - Master Architect


Nonell, Juan Bassegoda/Melba Levick (Photographer)

Hardcover. New York, NY, Abbeville Press Publishers, First Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth covered boards with silver titles to spine. Full page, full color photography by Melba Levick throughout. Decorative endpapers. Dust jacket in full color, very clean, with light, marginal wear to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751390


Price: $31.00 

 

Apollo, May 1966


Sutton (Ed.), Denys

Softcover. London, Apollo Magazin, Limited, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 405 pages, illustrated throughout. Edgewear and crease on lower front corner. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852743


Price: $12.00 

 

Arapaho Child Life and Its Cultural Background


Hilger, Sister M. Inez

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, 1st Edition, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Some light underlining in a few places. Some foxing/tanning to edges, fading to wrapper, other wise wrapper good. No rips/tears. Binding good. Previous owner's name on front cover (see image).

Record # 33486


Price: $23.00 

 

Architectural Drawing


Field, Wooster Bard

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 161 pages. Gilt title on cover and front board, color illustration on frontispiece and b/w illustrations throughout. Some fraying and wear to spine and corners and edges of boards. Front hinge cracked, binding cracked at pgs 53, 86. Small stain top gutter, pgs. 4, 5. Endpapers and pages lightly yellowed, some foxing on back of half title page. Textbook.

Record # 30079


Price: $50.00 

 

Architectural Handbook: Environmental Analysis, Architectural Programming, Design and Technology, and Construction


Kemper, Alfred M., George J. Hasslein (Foreword)

Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1st Edition, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 591 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations and diagrams throughout. No dust jacket. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Small amount of highlighting on first two pages of Preface, pages clean otherwise. Edges have a touch of light tanning from age. Binding tight, spine straight. In very good condition. An essential book for any architect's library.

Record # 32298


Price: $19.00 

 

Architecture of the Absurd: How "Genius" Disfigured a Practical Art


Silber, John

Hardcover. New York, NY, The Quantuck Lane Press, 1st Edition, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 97 pages. Hardcover. Blue boards with silver titles to spine. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Previous owner's signature to half title page. Tight binding, full color illustrations, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 6670024


Price: $13.00 

 

Architecture Worth Saving in Rensselaer Country, New York


Arch, Bernd Forester M.

Softcover. New York, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Color illustrated covers, perfect binding, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Rubbing to covers; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806279


Price: $20.00 

 

Art Conservation: The Race Against Destruction


Cincinnati Art Museum

Softcover. Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages. White covers with color plate, perfect binding and red titles, 4 full page color plates, numerous b&w plates through out, foreword by Millard F. Rogers, Jr. Light wear to cover; a clean, tight copy.

Record # 805986


Price: $8.00 

 

Art in Craft Media


N/A

Softcover. Brunswick, ME, The President and Trustees of Bowdoin College, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Brown covers with a few scratches and some rubbing, but otherwise in good condition. Staple binding shows through to the pages but is still tight. Edges show wear. Pages in excellent condition with b/w plates on nearly every page. Catalog of artists at the back. 75 pages.

Record # 807028


Price: $8.00 

 

Art in Craft Media


N/A

Softcover. Brunswick, ME, The President and Trustees of Bowdoin College, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Brown covers with rubbing, especially on the back. Staple binding shows through to the paper but is still tight. Wear on edges. Pages in good condition, with b/w plates on almost every page. Catalog of artists at back. 75 pages.

Record # 807029


Price: $8.00 

 

Art in South Carolina 1670-1970


Bilodeau, Francis W.

Softcover. Charleston, SC, The South Carolina Tricentennial Commission, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, White covers with illustration on the front. Embossed print on cover wrapping around the illustration. Rubbing and some marking on covers. Pages are clean and crisp with reproductions of artists' work throughout, mostly in black and white with a few in color. Binding is creased, with some wear at the bottom, but still in good condition. 229 pages.

Record # 806921


Price: $25.00 

 

Art in the United States Capitol


Joint Committee of the Library

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.

Record # 401408


Price: $15.00 

 

Art of Disappearing, The


Smith, John Talbot

Hardcover. New York, NY, Benziger Brothers, 1st, 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in dark green cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover. Pages and edges have tanning from age, as well as some foxing here and there. Binding tight. Spine is slightly cocked. From the Bookman: "The publishers give six reasons why this novel should be read; one of them is 'that its treatment of such maters as the much talked-of Anglo-American alliance, the sentimental description of election issues in New York City, the Mingled satire', etc., etc., etc., 'really make the book a novelist's novel.'"

Record # 32141


Price: $50.00 

 

Art of Enterprise, The: A Pennsylvania Tradition


Welsh, Peter C.

Paperback. Lebanon, PA, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commision, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 71 pages. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edge wear, creases near the binding; else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 808835


Price: $18.00 

 

Art of Interior Decoration, The


Wood, Grace, Emily Burbank

Hardcover. New York, NY, Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. 32 B&W plates. Frontispiece. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine and front. Embossing to front. Top edge gilt, other edges unfinished. Hinges cracked. Binding cracked at page 262 and 186.

Record # 850700


Price: $15.00 

 

Art of Maurice & Charles Prendergast, The


Williams College Museum of Art

Softcover. Williamstown, MA, President and Trustees of Williams College, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with gray covers that form a jacket. In great condition, with only minor fading on the spine. Paper binding is tight. Pages are glossy, clean and crisp. 36 color plates divided between the two artists. Oil painting, tempera painting, and mosaic style work is all represented. Biographical information on the two artists is included at the front.

Record # 807194


Price: $16.00 

 

Art of Oceania, Africa, and the Americas from the Museum of Primitive Art


Metropolitan Museum of Art

Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Laminate wrappers completely illustrated in color, perfect binding, profusely illustrated with b&w plates, foreword by Thomas P. F. Hoving, preface by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, essays by multiple authors. Slight rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 808315


Price: $15.00 

 

Art of Sculpture, The: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts for 1954


Read, Herbert

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."

Record # 32238


Price: $25.00 

 

Art of Synthesis


Leo, Alan

Hardcover. London, L. N. Fowler & Co. Ltd., reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Volume four of Alan Leo's "Astrology for All" Series. Green cloth covers, silver titles to spine, green dust jacket, b&w illustrations. Clean covers, slight wear to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 808694


Price: $15.00 

 

Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays


Haycraft, Howard

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 545 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title stamped on spine and front cover. A touch of fraying to top and bottom of spine and corners of covers. Top edge dyed red. Some light age tanning to pages and edges. Binding tight, spine straight. Ogden Nash, Earl Stanley Gardner, Ben Hecht, Anthony Bouche and many others.

Record # 31648


Price: $38.00 

 

Art Text-Books: Classic and Italian Painting


Poynter, Edward J., Percy R. Head

Hardcover. London, Richard Clay & Sons, Reprint, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. 76 B&W illustrations. Tissue-protected frontispiece. Blue cloth cover with fraying to spine. Soiling to edges. Previous owner signature. Binding cracked at various places.

Record # 850728


Price: $18.00 

 

Art Treasures of the Peking Museum


Fourcade, Francios (Text)

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 177 pages. Hardcover. Full color tipped-in plates throughout. Tan cloth hardcover with tipped-in plate (has fallen off and is laid in) to front cover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Dj and edges have a touch of tanning. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape.

Record # 31739


Price: $25.00 

 

Artburn


Conal, Robbie (Illustrator)

Softcover. New York, RDV Books, 1st, July 1, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages. Preface by Howard Zinn. White covers with color illustration, perfect binding, profusely illustrated with color and b&w graphic art. Slight rubbing to covers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452666


Price: $20.00 

 

Artculture: Essays on the Post-Modern


Davis, Douglas

Softcover. New York, Harper & Row, First, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Series of essays with b&w photographs throughout. Front cover in black and white with black, white, and red lettering. In very good condition, some rubbing to both covers but clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 806808


Price: $12.00 

 

Artful Toil: Artistic Innovation in an Age of Enterprise


Seidler, Jan

Softcover. North Brookfield, MA, Brockton Art Center, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pink covers with rubbing and minor indentations. Bottom edge is sunned and bent. Staple binding and edges in good condition, binding tight. Pages in good condition with minor rubbing. 6 b/w plates and much accompanying text on items in the exhibition. 31 pages.

Record # 807023


Price: $8.00 

 

Arthur B. Davies, 1862-1928: A Centennial Exhibition


N/A

Softcover. Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Brown covers with a few scratches on the front and minor wear to the edges. A bit faded toward the spine, but spine and binding are in good condition. Pages clean and crisp. 24 b/w plates with 84 catalog listings. 40 pages.

Record # 807059


Price: $13.00 

 

Arthur B. Davies, 1862-1928: A Centennial Exhibition


N/A

Softcover. Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Brown covers with a few scratches and minor wear to the corners. A bit faded toward the spine, but spine and binding are in good condition. Pages clean and crisp. 24 b/w plates with 84 catalog listings. 40 pages.

Record # 807058


Price: $13.00 

 

Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (Cambridge Film Handbooks)


Friedman, Lester D. (Editor)

Softcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st paperback, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good. Binding tight. Some light (erasable) penciling throughout and previous owner's name on front flyleaf, otherwise clean and bright inside. In great shape. "...includes freshly commissioned essays by leading scholars of Arthur Penn's work, as well as contributions from Penn himself and scriptwriter David Newman. "

Record # 31540


Price: $15.00 

 

Arthur's Temptation or the Lost Goblet


Forrester, Francis

Hardcover. Boston, Brown & Taggard, rep., 1862, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, From the Uncle Toby's Library Series. Black & white illust. 64 pages. Embossed red cloth. Binding shaken, front hinge tender

Record # 68918


Price: $15.00 

 

Artificial Minds


Franklin, Stan

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 449 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Some foxing to edges and endpapers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. In great shape. Stan Franklin is the perfect tour guide through the contemporary interdisciplinary matrix of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, artificial neural networks, artificial life, and robotics that is producing a new paradigm of mind.

Record # 31551


Price: $19.00 

 

Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century America


Baigell, Matthew

Softcover. New York/London, Cambridge University Press, 1st Paperback Edition, 2001, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. This is a new book. Binding tight. Wrapper glossy, excellent. Pages clean and bright. Baigell examines the work of a variety of artists, including Edward Hopper, Thomas Hart Benton, Ben Shahn, and Frank Stella, relating their art works closely to the social and cultural contexts in which they were created.

Record # 33467


Price: $15.00 

 

Aspects of a Collection: 18th and 19th Century American Painting from The Newark Museum


The Newark Museum

Softcover. Newark, NJ, The Newark Museum, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. Some rubbing on wrappers and binding, some writing inside, else a good copy.

Record # 808736


Price: $12.00 

 

Assault on Mount Everest 1922, The


Bruce, Brigadier-General Hon. C. G.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages, with black & white photo plates and two pull-out maps in rear. Gilt titles on blue cloth board. All plates intact and bright. Light corner bumps and edge wear, spine edge fray, binding cracked on front endpaper but no loose pages. Some faint spotting on top edge and light edge brown. Overall, clean and bright copy.

Record # 854859


Price: $350.00 

 

Astrophil and Stella


Sidney, Philip/Max Putzel

Softcover. Garden City, Anchor Books, First Edition, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Softcover with illustrated wraps, lightly age toned. Soil toning to spine. Pencil marks throughout. A very nice, collectible copy, with sharp corners & tight binding.

Record # 751192


Price: $25.00 

 

At the Helm of the Nation: Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the Philippine Republic and the Commonwealth


Fonacier, Consuelo V. and Leticia Ramos Shahani

Hardcover. Philippines, National Media Production Center, Republic of the Philippines, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. Compiled by Consuelo V. Fonacier, introduction by Leticia Ramos Shsani. Brown cloth covers, silver titles to spine and front cover, orange dust jacket, b&w illustrations throughout. Discoloration to dust jacket spine, light rubbing to dust jacket edges, tight binding, pages crisp and unmarked; a clean, neat copy in great condition.

Record # 851265


Price: $28.00 

 

At the Water's Edge: Muskoka's Boathouses


de Visser, John, Judy Ross

Hardcover. Erin, Ontario, Boston Mills Press, Reprint, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Previous bookstore price tag on back cover. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine, a touch of chipping to top and bottom of spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean. In beautiful condition. with 180 exceptional color photographs, At Water's Edge offers a privileged and exclusive look at boathouse life and style in incomparable Muskoka.

Record # 32379


Price: $23.00 

 

Atat

Hardcover. London, England, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 542 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has a touch of age wear at top of back cover (see image), unclipped, very good. Top edge dyed. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great shape. This important and absorbing biography will fill many gaps in our knowledge of the man who created modern Turkey and changed the course of European history.

Record # 32185


Price: $23.00 

 

Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy


Richard M. McMurry

Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2000, 229 pages. Hardcover. Great Campaigns of the Civil War series. B/w illustrations. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean. Looks nearly new and barely read. In great shape. McMurry examines the Atlanta campaign as a political and military unity in the context of the greater struggle of the war itself.

Record # 31795


Price: $25.00 

 

Audrey Flack, Works on Paper 1950-1980


University of South Florida Art Galleries

Softcover. Tampa, Florida, University of South Florida Art Galleries, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 35 pages. Exhibition catalog. Black wrappers, perfect binding, large color plate to front, 6 large color plates, essay and notes on works by Linnea S. Dietrich, checklist of exhibition. Very slight rubbing to wrappers, stiff binding, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight catalog in great condition.

Record # 807910


Price: $22.00 

 

August F. Lundberg: A Retrospective Exhibition


Adams, Davidson Galleries

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Adam, Davidson Galleries, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. White laminate wrappers, perfect binding, 15 color plates including illustration to front cover, 25 b&w plates, 3 photographic portraits of Lundbert, chronology, biographical essay. Mild rubbing to wrappers, previous owner's signature to top right corner of front endpaper, title page and following page detached from binding; otherwise a very clean, tight catalog.

Record # 807491


Price: $8.00 

 

Autobiography by Eric Gill


Gill, Eric

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, Reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light sunfade to spine edge. Red top edge. Frontis illustration, Eric Gill, Self Portrait (1927), in black & white. Black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's stamp to front flyleaf. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751210


Price: $19.00 

 

Autobiography of Rev. James B. Finley; or, Pioneer Life in the West


Strickland (Editor), W. P.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, OH, Jennings and Graham, First Edition, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover. Blue embossed boards with some soiling, scuffing & wear to edges. Gilt titles to spine. Fraying to crown & heel. of spine Heavy foxing to preliminary pages, spotting throughout. Frontis illustration, James B. Finley, & engravings in b/w. Tight binding.

Record # 751367


Price: $63.00 

 

Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, Containing Memorials of the Men and Events of His Time


Carlyle, Alexander

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, First Edition, 1861, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 471 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with embossed & textured boards. Gilt titles to spine. Light sunfade to spine. Light fraying to spine head & heel. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf & pencil marks to last page. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Light toning to edges throughout. Tight binding, tight signatures & frontis illustration in bw protected with a tissue guard.

Record # 751319


Price: $23.00 

 

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The


Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Hardcover. Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Small format book measures - 5 1/4" X 4". Leather spine with raised bands. Title in gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners. Marbled boards and endpapers. Previous owners name stamped on front endpaper. Light foxing to preliminary pages and last 4 pages of index. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610381


Price: $50.00 

 

AUTOUR D'UNE SOURCE


Droz, Gustave

Hardcover. Paris, Victor Havard, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. Brown leather spine. Marbled boards. Raised bands. Gilt titled spine. Very good. Sticker on front paste down from previous owner.

Record # 220734


Price: $13.00 

 

AUTOUR DU DIVORCE


Gyp

Hardcover. Paris, Calmann Levy, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages. Brown leather spine. Marbled boards. Raised bands. Gilt titled spine. Sticker on front paste down from previous owner.

Record # 220744


Price: $13.00 

 

AUTOUR DU MARIAGE


Gyp

Hardcover. Paris, Calmann Levy, 1884, Book: Very Good, 389 pages. Brown leather spine. Marbled boards. Raised bands. Gilt titled spine. Sticker on front paste down from previous owner.

Record # 220743


Price: $13.00 

 

Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells


Iyer, Pico

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st edition, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages. Hardcover. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Mustard cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and gilt design on front cover board. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and bright. Decorated endpapers. In beautiful, like-new condition. Lyrical, rooted and intimate, Autumn Light gives us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance.

Record # 32321


Price: $19.00 

 

Awards in the Visual Arts 1: an exhibition of works by recipients of the first annual Awards in the Visual Arts Fellowships


National Museum of American Art

Softcover. Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages. Exhibition catalog. Black glossy wrappers with silver graphic design, perfect binding, foreword by Ted Potter, catalogue of the exhibition, 21 large color and b&w plates of artists' work and photographic portraits, catalogue of exhibition. Mild rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807929


Price: $10.00 

 

Away Went Galloper


Baker, Margaret J.

Chicago, Encyclopedia Britannica Press, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 126 pages. Black & white illustrations by Norman Thelwell. Library binding. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket has light edgewar.

Record # 205009


Price: $12.00 

 

BABOLAIN


Droz, Gustave

Hardcover. Paris, Victor Havard, 1881, Book: Very Good, 336 pages. Brown leather spine. Marbled boards and end pages. Raised bands. Gilt titled spine. Some stains on title page. Sticker on front paste down from previous owner.

Record # 220733


Price: $13.00 

Baegu: Social and Ecological Organization in Malaita, Solomon Islands (Illinois Studies in Anthropology No. 8)Ross, Harold M.

Baegu: Social and Ecological Organization in Malaita, Solomon Islands (Illinois Studies in Anthropology No. 8)


Ross, Harold M.

Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st Edition, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good, has some fading to spine (shelf wear). Pages clean. Binding good. Malaita is nearly unique among the Pacific Islands outside New Guinea in that it has a significant population still trying to maintain a traditional way of life.

Record # 33561


Price: $19.00 

 

Baja Oklahoma (SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Jenkins, Dan

Hardcover. New York, Athenium, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 Pages. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Brown boards (small nick on top edge of front cover) with red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Top edge dyed. Some foxing to edges, pages clean. Binding tight. In very good condition.

Record # 31485


Price: $31.00 

 

Balthus


Klossowski de Rola, Stanislas , Illust. by: Balthus

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Career retrospective of famed artist. Many color plates throughout. Edgewear to dust jacket, mostly top edge. Rubbing to dust jacket. Slightly cocked binding. Remainder stamp to bottom copy edge. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Otherwise, unmarked. A bright and clean copy.

Record # 951227


Price: $44.00 

 

Barbi or The Charcoal Burner's Daughter: Comic Opera in Two Acts, Libretto and Piano Score (Transcribed from the Original Notebooks and Translated into English)


Ludwig, Otto, Ida Washington (Transcription into English)

Softcover. Weybridge, VT, Cherry Tree Books, 1st Edition, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Softcover, plastic spiral-bound. Green covers, excellent. Pages clean and white, binding excellent. Clean, beautiful copy.

Record # 32904


Price: $50.00 

 

Bargaining For Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876 - 1938


Bates, Barbara

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, Second Printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 435 pages. Softcover with illustration to cover & light, marginal wear to edges. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 5560145


Price: $19.00 

 

Barn Book, The: Creative Conversions for Country Living


Corbett-Winder, Kate, David Permiter (Photography)

Hardcover. North Pomfret, Vermont, Trafalgar Square Publishing, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Forward by Robert Redford. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, very good, a touch of chipping at top of spine. Covers brown, excellent, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, pages clean and bright. In great shape. A tour of 26 working farm buildings that have been converted into private homes.

Record # 31381


Price: $31.00 

 

Battered Stars, The: One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaign From the Home Front in Vermont to the Battlefields of Virginia (INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Coffin, Howard

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Countryman Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Deckled foreedge. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean, binding tight. Spine straight. looks barely read and nearly new. Coffin tells the story of the people at home, of the granite-like resolve; as well as the wartime scenes as they appear today.

Record # 31806


Price: $25.00 

Battered Stars, The: One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaign, From the Home Front in Vermont to the Battlefields of VirginiaCoffin, Howrad

Battered Stars, The: One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaign, From the Home Front in Vermont to the Battlefields of Virginia


Coffin, Howrad

Hardcover. Woodstock, Vermont, Countryman Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. SIGNED BY COFFIN ON TITLE PAGE. Blue boards, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket, illustrated throughout with b&w plates. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 808058


Price: $40.00 

 

Battle and other poems


Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson

Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Minor staining and tearing to few pages. Covers with very minor surface wear. Minor creasing to top and bottom of binding. Overall very tight and clean copy.

Record # 401894


Price: $20.00 

 

Battle from the Start, A: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest


Wills, Brian Steel

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages. Hardcover. Tan cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. Decorated endpapers. In great shape. The biography of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Record # 31796


Price: $15.00 

 

Battle of Lake Erie, The: And Reminiscences of the Flagships "Lawrence" and "Niagara"


Dobbins, Captain W. W.

Hardcover. Erie, Pennsylvania, Ashby Printing Company, reprint, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages, with preface and biographical sketch of the life of Oliver Hazard Perry by John Elmer Reed. Minor spine edge and cover corner wear. Gilt title on cover and spine. Very clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852544


Price: $40.00 

 

Battles of the United States, by Sea and Land: Embracing Those of the Revolutionary and Indian Wars, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War: With Important Official Documents (vol. 1 & 2)


Dawson, Henry B.

Hardcover. New York, Johnson, Fry and Co., 1st, 1858, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 746 and 530 pages. Green cloth, half leather binding, raised bands, gilt. Heavy wear to spine and edges, pieces of spine missing. Shelf wear to cover. Illustrated with numerous black & white, tissue guarded, steel engravings by Alonzo Chappel. Ex-lib with usual markings.

Record # 220897


Price: $128.00 

 

Beautiful Brandon


N/A

Softcover. Brandon, VT, Brandon Improvement Association, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Softcover. Staple binding. B/w illustrations (plates) throughout. Brown construction paper wrapper (agewear), orange title and decoration on front cover. Formerly on exhibit at Shelburne Museum, with stamp of proprietorship on front flyleaf. Just a touch of tanning to pages and edges, otherwise clean and unmarked. Beautiful photo-illustrated promotional travel book highlighting the sites of downtown Brandon, VT, circa 1910. Collector's delight.

Record # 32280


Price: $44.00 

 

Becoming The Villainess


Gailey, Jeannine Hall

Softcover. Bowling Green, Kentucky, Steel Toe Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 85 pages. 1st published collection of poems by author. White laminate covers with color illustration, perfect binding. Covers and pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight collection of poems in great condition.

Record # 807089


Price: $15.00 

 

Bed, The


N/A

Softcover. New York, NY, Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsmen's Council, 1st, 1966, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Purple covers with very little wear, only minor rubbing along the edges. Staple binding. Pages are clean and crisp. 52 b/w plates.

Record # 806973


Price: $18.00 

 

Beethoven For A Later Age: Living with the String Quartets


Dusinberre, Edward

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Hardcover. B/w illusrations. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Brown cover boards, red title on spine. Binding tight, pages and edges clean and bright. Like new. "Edward Dusinberre, first violinist of the renowned Tak

Price: $15.00 

 

Before Cortes: Sculpture of Middle America


Easby, Elizabeth Kennedy and John F. Scott

Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages. Perfect binding, color illustration to covers, profusely illustrated with color and sepia plates, foreword by Thomas P. F. Hoving, preface by Dudley T. Easby, Jr. Rubbing to covers, otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 808296


Price: $15.00 

 

Beginnings: A University Art Museum Collects


University of Kentucky Art Museum

Softcover. Kentucky, University of Kentucky Art Museum, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages. Catalog for University of Kentucky Art Museum's inaugural exhibition. Covers illustrated in b&w, perfect binding, introduction by Priscilla Colt, catalog of 227 items, profusely illustrated with b&w plates of items from exhibition. Very slight wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 806483


Price: $20.00 

 

Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection


Hughes, Roger N. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Berlin, Germany, Springer-Verlag, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 887 pages. NATO ASI Series/Series F: Ecological Sciences. "Proceedings of the NATO advanced Research Workshop on Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection held at Gregynog, Wales, United Kingdom, July 17-21, 1989." Previous owner's name stamped on top of title page and bottom edge. Decorated, glossy cover boards. Binding tight. Slight tanning from age throughout. This uniquely broad synthesis captures the state of the art in the study of diet selection of diverse trophic groups, from carnivores, herbivores, micro-algal grazers, to filter-feeders and detritus-feeders, then prescribes new objectives in theoretical development and research.

Record # 31747


Price: $100.00 

Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of SteelScott, John

Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel


Scott, John

Softcover. Bloomington, [Ind.], Indiana University Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to pictorial wrappers, minor crease to spine not affecting binding. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453556


Price: $12.00 

 

Beneficiary, The: Fortune, Misfortune and the Story of My Father


Scott, Janny

Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 2233084


Price: $15.00 

 

Beneventan Chant, The (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Kelly, Thomas Forrest

Hardcover. London, England, Cambridge University Press, 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, some light agewear on back cover, gilt title on green on spine and front cover board. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright. In very good condition. '

Record # 32376


Price: $50.00 

 

Benjamin Robert Haydon: Historical Painter


Olney, Clarke

Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate and stamp on front endpapers. Dust jacket price clipped, has a touch of agewear, wrapped in protective plastic cover. Pages and edges have slight tanning from age. Pages otherwise unmarked and clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age. The author's purpose is to evaluate Haydon's place in the history of art, to indicate his importance as a pioneer in social concepts of art, and to describe his success and failure as a painter and as a man.

Record # 32183


Price: $23.00 

 

Berlin Rising: Biography of a City


Read, Anthony, David Fisher

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Red cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title stamped on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. History of the German city, Berlin.

Record # 31650


Price: $15.00 

 

Bernard Durin: Beetles and Other Insects


Durin, Bernard/Lothar Schirmer (Editor) & Gerhard Scherer (Introduction)

Hardcover. Schirmer/Mosel, Fourth Expanded Edition, 2013, 138 pages. Hardcover, coffee table sized. Taupe cloth covered boards with silver titles to spine. Stunning full page, full color illustrations by Bernard Durin throughout. Features text by Gerhard Scherer, Michael Balke & Lothar Schirmer among others. Bright dust jacket with light wear to edges & full color illustration. This is a very nice copy, tight binding, clean inside and out.

Record # 751458


Price: $50.00 

 

Bernard Shaw: The Lure of Fantasy 1918-1950 Volume III


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 544 pages. Hardcover. Volume III. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue textured cover boards, navy blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. In this, the final volume of Halroyd's mammoth Shaw biography, the story opens with G.B.S. campaigning in the general election of 1918 and gradually unveils him in his various roles as conjurer, fabulist, and seer.

Record # 32456


Price: $25.00 

 

Beside Lake Beautiful


Quayle, William A.

Hardcover. New York, Abingdon Pres, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Green cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, profusely illustrated with b&w photographic plates. Slight rubbing to cover edges, stiff binding, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 808286


Price: $20.00 

 

Best of Friends

Softcover. New York, NY, Museum of American Folk Art, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy black covers with minor rubbing and scratching. Staple binding with clear wear along the spine. Newspaper clippings laid-in. 20 plates, 104 listed.

Record # 806931


Price: $13.00 

 

Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story, The


O'Brien, Edward J. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Small, Maynard & Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 389 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in dark blue, gilt title stamped on spine and front cover. Spine slightly cocked. Binding tight. Some tanning from age to pages and edges. A collection of 20 short stories published in 1922, from authors F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Oppenheim and many others.

Record # 31639


Price: $25.00 

 

Between Continents/Between Seas: Precolumbian Art of Costa Rica


Abel-Vidor, Suzanne, Ronald L. Bishop, Warwick Bray, and others

Softcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pags, illustrated throughout. Light edgewear and crease to wrappers. Otherwise, in very good condition with clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852638


Price: $25.00 

 

Between the Lines: Ladies and Letters at the Clark


Ludig, Sandra G.

Softcover. Dalton, MA, Sandra G. Ludig, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with glossy white covers with color plate. Previous price sticker and slight warping on cover. Staple binding is tight, pages unmarked. 10 b/w plates of various artists' works, mainly French, on the theme of the letter in visual art. 38 item exhibition listing and a paragraph explication of each work. Introduction to the theme of the works. 39 pages.

Record # 807435


Price: $8.00 

 

Beverly Pepper, New Work 1981-1982


Andre Emmerich Gallery, Inc.

Softcover. New York, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Inc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 17 pages. Illustrated wrappers, perfect binding, 8 color and 2 b&w plates, biographical notes. Very slight wear to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight catalog.

Record # 807861


Price: $10.00 

Beyond DesirePirotte, Philippe

Beyond Desire


Pirotte, Philippe

Hardcover. Antwerpen, Ludion, 2005, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages, color photographs throughout. Spotless copy with tight binding.

Record # 455508


Price: $18.00 

 

Beyond the Canvas: Artists of the Seventies and Eighties


Gorgoni, Gianfranco

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages. Beautifull b&w and color plates throughout. The modern artist through the eyes of the photographer. Fantastic pictures capturing some of the greatest of our time. Black cloth. Folio. Dust jacket with minimal edgewear, very nice copy with tight binding.

Record # 605116


Price: $38.00 

Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for American's Independent BusinessesMitchell, Stacy

Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for American's Independent Businesses


Mitchell, Stacy

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Yellow cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, and how a growing number of communities and independent business are effectively fighting back.

Record # 32913


Price: $19.00 

 

Bilder aus der Neuen Welt: Amerikanische Malerei des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts


Gaehtgens, Thomas W.

Hardcover. Munich, Germany, Prestel - Verlag, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Text in German. Perfect binding, laminate wrappers fully illustrated in color, 88 full-color plates, profusely illustrated with color and b&w figures throughout text, essays by multiple authors. Very slight rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding.

Record # 401388


Price: $25.00 

 

Billy Bedamned, Long Gone By


Beatty,, Patricia

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Lib-binding. Dj price clipped

Record # 61106


Price: $12.00 

 

Billy Watson's Croker Sack (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Burroughs, Franklin

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, First Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to front flyleaf. Dust jacket with light wear & price-clipped. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751157


Price: $50.00 

 

Bin Ladens, The: An Arabian Family in the American Century


Coll, Steve

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 671 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and decoration on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, has small tear (3/4") at top of spine, otherwise excellent shape (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Page and edges clean and bright. Meticulously researched, colorful, shocking, entertaining, and disturbing narrative of global integration and its limitations.

Record # 32335


Price: $15.00 


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