New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1998. E.H. Shepard. First Omnibus Edition, First Printing. Decorated and gilt stamped cloth. 4to, cloth with gilt lettering, profusely illustrated in color and B&W by E. H. Shepard, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with illustration by Shepard, 211 pages. "This deluxe volume brings together all... More
New York: Columbia University Press. First Edition. Cloth. Tall 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine and cover, XXX pages. Excellent condition overall. Very useful study. Previous owner's name, etc., on free front endpaper. More
Germany: Unknown, 19th century. Handwritten copy of early music with titles written principally in German, though using Italian musical terminology throughout (e.g., Overtura, Moderato, Allegretto grasioso, etc.), Cloth and boards. Small oblong 4to (13 1/2" x 10"), with a thin (1" each side; 1/2" wide at the spine) leather calf... More
Time & Newsweek magazine covers, 1969-1974. Time cover art & photos. Covers. Colored sheets. SIX SIGNED 4to Images (Photographs and one Painting Reproduction) each by a key participant--Gerald R. Ford, Henry Kissinger, John Dean, Judge John J. Sirica, Senator Jacob Javits, and Archibald Cox--involved in the Watergate hearings and their... More
London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., Ltd., c.1880. John Leech. Later edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Folio, red pictorial cloth with gold & black lettering & gold embossed boy throwing carving knives at a butler while a dog looks on, profusely illustrated with Leech's B&W contributions to Punch, all edges gilt... More
Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1980. Seventh Printing. Decorated boards. 8vo, light yellow boards with Shogi pieces in black, illustrated with numerous clear examples of play, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), 99 pages + [1] Afterword by Yasuharu Oyama, Sogi Meijin (Japanese Champion) & punch-out card. If... More
New York: Berman House, Inc., N.D. [c.1996]. American Edition Reprinted from R. Joseph Hertz's edition of the Authorized Daily Prayer Book. Boards. 8vo, black boards with gold lettering on spine and an ivory-colored panel with particulars on front cover, 128 pages. Rabbi Joseph Hertz (1872-1946) was a Hungarian-born Conservative rabbi... More
London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1913. Second Edition. Cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, 8vo, dark green original publisher's cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected, xi + 186 pages + [2] Advertisements for Frazer's books. Embossed seal stating "Presentation Copy" on lower right corner of title page. Contains the important essay "The Scope... More
London New York: George Allen, 1903. John Ruskin. Library Edition. Cloth. Short VERY thick 4tos (10" x 6 3/4"), brown buckram with gold lettering on spine and escutcheon of John Ruskin on front cover, sumptuously illustrated, finest linen paper and engraved lithographic plates, deckle edges, thirty-eight [38] volumes. The production... More
London: Williams and Norgate, 1876. First English Edition. Blind-stamped cloth. 5 vols., 8vos, publisher's brown original embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind-stamped rules and embellishments on front covers, A remarkably insightful and important study--too often neglected--of the life of Jesus by one of the great German New Testament... More
St. Louis: The C. V. Mosby Company, 1937. Photographs. First American Edition. Cloth. 3 volumes, small 4tos (10" x 7 1/2"), green original publisher's cloth with gilt stamping on spine and cover (faded), profusely illustrated with more than 1,000 B&W photographs of native peoples and anatomical studies plus seven color... More
New York Chicago San Francisco et al. McGraw-Hill. Marta McDowell, photos. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth with gold spine lettering over light green boards, profusely illustrated with B&W photos, maps, sketches of plants, and colorful quotes of ED's poems, maroon endpapers, viii + 218 pages... More
New York: Bramhall House, 1941. Tom Lea. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, beige buckram with brown spine lettering & brand "JFD" of the author on front cover, profusely illustrated by Tom Lea, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) with Tom Lea's mural of a stampede, xxiii + [ii] + [388] pages. Exceptional Condition... More
Maps. Cloth and boards. 8vo, black cloth over tan boards, illustrated with a few B&W maps, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with a young woman's face superimposed on a map, [viii] + 292 pages. Apart from a gift inscription on the free front endpaper, Exceptional Condition! "The book is an excellent... More
Half-tones. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Small 8vo, navy blue vertically-ribbed cloth over similar boards, profusely illustrated with B&W half-tones throughout text & a frontispiece depicting a carved sperm whale, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) depicting four different whales in color, pictorial endpapers with B&W engravings of whales, [ix] + 453... More
Miami, Florida: E. A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., [1976]. Photos. First Edition. Boards. SIGNED by both Authors, red boards, profusely illustrated with B&W photos of Chicago, photographic dust jacket (clipped) of city scenes, pictorial endpapers of a bird's-eye view of the city, 204 pages. Excellent Condition internally; dust jacket has become... More
New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday, 1990. First Edition. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author, thick 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold spine lettering over black boards, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) with large type & flames appearing in "NEWS," red endpapers, [viii] + 564 pages. Exceptional Condition! An Exciting... More
Wisconsin: Serrell & Simons, 1997. First Edition. Boards. SIGNED Presentation Copy by the Author, 8vo, black boards with gold spine lettering, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with cartoonish "The Confetti Kid!" in red against a bright yellow star, [viii] +357 pages + [3]. INSCRIBED by the Author on the half-title... More
Paris: Paris Art Center / Musee de la Seita, 1985. Period B&W photographs. First Edition. Cloth. Oblong 4to, blue cloth, profusely illustrated with photographs, 381 pages. Text in French & corresponding English. 7 lbs. An important survey of architecture in Chicago. This is the catalogue of an exhibit held at... More
New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company / A Crossroad Herder Book, 1997. Photographs. First Edition. Cloth. Folio (13 1/4" x 10"), blue cloth with gold spine lettering, profusely illustrated with color and B&W photographs, translated from the German by Peter Heinegg, 272 pages. 4# 14 oz. Magnificient study in Exceptional... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Photographs. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, black cloth with silver spine lettering, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) depicting an early engraving of ancient Egypt, 240 pages + 8 B&W glossy plates. "In the past hundred years the dry sands of Egypt have presented the world of classical scholarship... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1884. Elihu Vedder. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Square 8vo, elaborately embossed and gilded gray cloth with vertical gold spine lettering enclosed by tiny grape leaves; the bevelled front cover has a large gilt-ruled border surrounding the rectalinearly-enclosed title "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám," with... More
Heidelberg: Julius Groos, 1918. Engravings. First Edition--text in German facing Italian. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. 8vo, red leather with gilt stamping, illustrated with B&W engravings, 640 pages--German text & commentary with Dante's original Italian facing German translations. An attractive leather-bound, lightly illustrated, very scholarly edition of Dante's Divine Comedy... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917. First Edition. Cloth. 2 volumes, tall 8vos, gray cloth with gilt spine lettering and rectangular "tablet" with title on cover, xix + [i] + [1-2], 3- 325 + [vii] + 326-733 pages. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. An important title. (Compare, for example... More
Chicago: The Book House for Children Publishers, 1925. Katharine Sturges. First Edition. Pictorial cloth. 4to, black cloth with gold lettering and a circular painting of a Japanese girl petting a deer on the front cover (Mylar-protected), red endpapers with flying cranes, 191 + [1] pages. Charming illustrations and text. "Japanese poetry... More