London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1947. Later revised edition with a new Preface and Additional Chapter. Hardcover. Clean, tight, small 8vo, 299pp. Blue cloth with red lettering. Light shelf wear, map pastedowns. The log of a ship's surgeon in a voyage from Liverpool through the Mediterranean, to the Arabian Sea..... More
1992. Hardcover. London. Hippocrene Books, 1991, first edition, clean, tight 4to, 168pp, illustrated. Sun worship was central to ancient European religions from Neolithic to Roman times. Sun cults revered the solar disk as an elemental force, ruler of the world, bringer of fertility or death. This is the first comprehensive..... More
New Delhi, India: B. Jain Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 1995. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 622pp. Volume 1 of a 12-Vol. set. We also have Vol. 4, and the indices Vols. 11-12. Some light shelf wear to the top edge of the dust jacket. A record of the positive effects of drugs..... More
New York: H.W. Gray Co. sold agents for Novello & Co., Ltd., 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 294pp, illustrated. F.O. inscription on ffe, some light bumping to spine ends and tips. Otherwise very nice for age. A scarce and unusual book for music book collectors and organists. The..... More
Galahad Books, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Square 4to, 296pp +index & photo credits, only slight chipping to top edge and some minor soiling to the d.j. A photographic chronicle of the change from the power of stream to the pulse of diesel in American Railroads. More
New York: Vendome Press, 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. Heavy, tight bound, oblong 4to, 232pp. Small tear to top edge at spine head otherwise d.j. (in Mylar) would be fine. A colorfully photographed world of the most beautiful of beautiful trains from the Orient Express to the TGV; the interiors..... More
New York: Rigby Publishing, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. New York, Rigby Publishing, 1970, first edition. Clean, tight 4to, 87pp, one ripple in the d.j. across the mid-back. Signed by the author on the ffe. Profuse color illustrations of some amazingly interesting art work. More
Hardcover. London; George Routledge & Sons, 1888, 2nd edition. Tight 8vo, gilded edges, 398pp, first few and last few are very lightly foxed. Cover is very light concave. Spine slightly sun tanned. Some extraordinary illustrations by John Pedder, H. Sheppard Dale, George Bicham, and the author. A well written, not-at-all..... More
1984, 1st., California Native Plant Society, 0943460107. Softcover, 4to, 174pp, VG but cover is lightly soiled. More
Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 173pp. Dust jacket has some chipping and a few small tears to edges. A missionary with a sense of humor, how unusual. A Chicago westsider pastor who goes to the wilds of Zululand and is completely amazed at the..... More
Knopf, 2000. Second edition. Hardcover. Tall 4to, clean and tight, 430pp, very slight wrinkle to bottom back spine of d.j. otherwise near fine. 150 recipes and 328 full-color photos of Julia and Jacque cooking their favorite recipes at home. The accumulated wisdom of two culinary giants as they cook, reminisce..... 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
New York: Grossett and Dunlap, 1919. Second printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 260pp, Lightly bumped at top and bottom of spine. Very ligh shelf wear. Good reading copy. More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1911. Frederick Remington. Third edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 263pp, some of the pages are uncut, others rough cut rather slopily. illustrations are by Fredrick Remington and H. C. Christy. Front hinge is cracking. Tips and spine ends are slightly bumped. Contents cover several wars; The..... More
Hardcover. John van Voorst, publ., 1851, first edition. Small 8vo, 166pp, Inscribed by the author to "R. Bickenstock, Esq., 8 July 1851", green levant, embossed, spine cover missing, o/w intact, tight with some bumping, A little tanning, front edge is rough cut, front & back hinges cracking, but still attached..... More
Arkham House Publishers, 2001. First edition (of only 4000) printed. Hardcover. Scarce. Clean, tight, fat 8vo, 423pp. Very light shelf wear. Includes an ineresting photo gallery, essays by and about Prie, a bibliography of his works, and an index. Pricce was a prolific writer during the days of pulp magazine..... More
1987, Weathervane Books/Crown, 0517632292. Clean, tight folio with very light shelf wear and a pencilled mark on the bottom edge. Absolutely lovely color and black and white drawing and text about the wading birds and allied marsh birds of the North American continent north of Mexico. Herons, egrets, bittern, ibises..... More
New York: Crescent Books, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight folio, 112pp. American Art Series. Book is near fine and dust jacket shows only very, very minor shelf wear. Contains 80+ of Alfred Steiglitz's (1864-1946) black and white photographs. His prolific, elegant photography and his technical advances put him in..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, not paginated as the book is two books-in-one with Good Faeries upright and Bad Faeries upside down. In this sequel to the international best seller Faeries, Froud rescues pixies, gnomes, and other faeries from the isolation of the..... More
London: 1927. First edition. Hardcover. London; The Studio Limited, 1927, first edition. Very scarce London/Berlin Edition. Clean and tight 4to, 56pp plus 120 magnificent plates in photogravure, 8 in color. Slight bumping to tips and spine tail. Cover lightly faded, spine and back cover sunned and slightly rubbed. Scans available..... More
Ohio: Beckett Paper Company, 1923. Second printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 19pp + many photos. Commemorative copy book plate on the front inside cover to "Mae Simpson from the Beckett Paper Company 1848-1923" , somewhat worn and lightly bumped tips and spine tail. Light fading to front cover. Lots of..... More
Hardcover. Sydney, et al. Angus and Robertson, 1956, 4th edition revised. HB, tall 8vo, some fading and very small top edge tear to d.j. o/w clean and tight. 67 Really beautiful plates, 3-4 flowers to a plate, 250 of Austrailia's unique and amazing flora by Adam Forster. Complete key to..... More
Oxford: Clarendon PRess, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Scarce, Collectible, tight bound 8vo, 216pp. Cover is soiled and faded with two spots on the bottom front edge, spine is lightly soiled and moderately bumped head and tail. Tips are somewhat bumped. However, the book is tight and clean except for the..... More
San Francisco: Jerry Duke Publishing. Softcover. Unique, clean, tight 8vo pamphlet-style, 64pp. Illustrated. A well-illustrated discussion of social dancing among the Cajun people in Southwestern Louisiana and Southeastern Texas. An historical and folkloristic study describing and analyzing the dances of the Cajuns back to 1887. More
1935, HB, cloth bound 4to, 300pp, good for age. Binding tight and cover is faded, somewhat bumped and scuffed. Interior is in excellent condition, but fold-out index at the back which provides details of each photograph is, sadly, missing (which is reflected in the price). The photos are amazing of..... More