Hardcover. 1963, New York, George Braziller. 3 volume set. All clean and tight with dust jackets, slight shelf wear in a slip case. Dust jacket on Watts's book has some minor smudges, jacket spine edges are lightly dusty. Long's book has a small damp stain on the dust jacket spine... More
Hardcover. New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1912, 1st edition. Clean, tight-bound 8vo, 488pp, fold-out map in back in excellent condition. Cover in lightly faded, gilt title is a bit rubbed, tips, head and tail are lightly bumped and spine gutter is lightly rubbed. Rough cut pages. More
Scarce & collectible. New York; Citadel Press, 1957, first American edition (Citadel Cookbook Series). Clean, tight 12mo, 192pp, dustjacket in Mylar cover has an open chip out of the top edge of the spine and minor stains on the back with a couple of chips to top front edge. Book... More
Hardcover. Praeger Publ., 1972, first edition. Tall 4to, 288pp, VG/G. Price clipped, has small tears and chips to the edges of the d.j., front and back, a gift inscription and a white sticker that has been placed over a f.o. name, I think, both on the ffe. Otherwise a nice... More
London: Angus & Robertson, 1970, 2nd printing, 0207952469. Hardcover, 8vo, 168pp, index, biblio. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket has a couple of closed tears to edges, price clipped. Ex-private library with pocket and stamp, the usual mild library atrocities. The story of the wild and wooly... More
Maine: Burntcoat corporations, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Heavy, clean, tight 4to, 414pp. Dust jacket shows a few minor scuffs and some rubbing on the spine gutter and a 1/4" scrape across the center spine edge. Book is lightly scuffed on the bottom edge and the front bottom tip and spine... More
Hardcover. California, Collector's Editions, Inc., 1998, first edition. Clean, tight folio, 151pp in a clean tight slip case. Four limited edition giclees, printed on 100% rag paper from Sabzi and also three by Hessam (another Iranian artist of renown) laid in. The life and career of Sabzi. His subjects are... More
Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 164pp, maps on pastedowns, light chipping one corner of d.j. at top back spine. Traces the life history of modern motive power on one railroad, the 11,000 mile system known as the Burlington Lines. More
Virginia: TLC Publishing, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Tall, thin 4to, 128pp. More
Hardcover. New York, Young People's Missionary Movement, first edition,1907. Tightbound, lightly faded cover, some rubbing to spine gutter, tips and spine ends lightly bumped. Forner owner name penned on the ffe, pencilled notation on the ffe from 1939. Very interesting illustrations throughout. Mackay (1849-1890) was a Scottsman and engineering student... More
Hardcover. 1978, stated first edition, Random House, 4to, no page numbers, slight tanning to edges of d.j., but all in all clean, tight and crisp. News article about Sorel laid in. "One of the funniest and truest satirical cartoonists, alive or dead," said the NY Times. Sorel is dedicated to... More
Hardcover. New York, Pretice Hall, 2001, 7th edition. 4to, 388 pp., very clean and tight, very minor bumping to tips. A history and text on the fashion industry in France in the 18th century, and the rest of the world, to the present. Very comprehensive but not dull reading. Includes... More
Morning Sun Books, Inc, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 128pp. Mylar cover. The 118 year old "Katy" was among the last medium sized carriers serving the southwest. More
Hardcover. Toronto, Canada; Royal Ontario Museum, 1977, first edition. Very scarce tall 4to, 370pp, clean and tight. Slight shelf wear to the dust jacket. An international perspective containing 25 articles by specialists from ten countries. Beautifully and copiously illustrated. Textiles reveal the technological achievements and artistic aims of a culture... More
Hawaii: University Press of Hawaii, 1974. No stated. Softcover. Clean, tight, oblong folio, 193pp + 47pp of index, appendices. Published by the Sea Grant College Proram. UNIHI-Seagrant-MR-74-01. Very slight shelf wear to cover. Information regarding the marine formations of Hawaii County, Maui County, City and Country of Honolulu, Kauai County... More
2007. Softcover. New York, Disinformation Company, 2007, revised US edition, previously published in Great Britain. Clean, tight 8vo, 468pp. Illustrated with contemporary Ayahuasca color visions of Peruvian shaman Pablo Amaringo and ancient cave drawings from the Drakensberg caves, Chimera from Heaven Cave in the Karoo, and other cave drawings. An... More
New York: J.B. Ford & Company, 1873. Second edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo., 413pp, front hinge is beginning to crack, but still tight, rear hinge is fine. Greenwood was actually Sara Jane Lippincott (1823-1904). She was a highly respected writer and journalist, contributing stories and poetry to many publicatons of her... More
New York: Barrons Educational Series Inc, 1984. Not stated. Hardcover. Fat, clean, tight 4to, 450pp. Dust jacket in Mylar. An extraordinary book of techniques, equipment, ingredients, and components of French pastry with more than 200 recipes. The definitive work on the classic art of French pastry. Deliciously photographed in color. More
Softcover. New York, Chelsea House, 1983. Clean, tight 8vo, 258pp. Light sun fading to spine, very minor shelf wear. Reissue of the classic nineteenth century treasury of Irish mythology; timelss legends and insight into the Victorian mind. The author was friends with Emily Dickinson, Longfellow, Lowell,and Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Harriettt... More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1972. Second printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight, small 8vo, 266pp. The early 14th century saga. Grettir probably died between 1030-1040. He was a famous outlaw, both cunning and daring. More
Softcover. USA/Canada Dpa-Ita, 2006, first edition, clean, tight 4to, 119pp. Contains more than 220 selected builders' representative large format choice photographs of freight cars. More
New York: Academic Press, 1976. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 206pp, 54 illustrations, 55 tables. F.o. name penned on ffe with stamp. Studies in Archeology Series. Light shelf wear to covers, minor scuffs to tips. More
New York: Abbeville Press, 1982. first edition fourth printing. Hardcover. Tall, heavy, clean folio, 319pp. Very minor shelf wear to jacket. An very nice copy. A gorgeous book loaded with art and illustrations from the monumental world of Disney animation. Hundreds of color photos, history of Disney animation, and information... More
2007. Hardcover. New York; Columbia University Press, 2007, first edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 290pp. An exposed plain stretching 1,000 miles from the Arctic Ocean to the Aleutiuans became exposed between northeast Asia and Alaska 25,000 years ago. That bridge probably brought the first humans to the Americas. The book describes... More
New York: Artabras, 1990. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight, square 4to, 293pp, One tiny chip on top of the spine of the dust jacket. Beautiful photographic essay and essays by a number of western writers of life on western ranches from California to the Rockies and beyond. Terrific... More