Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1961. 16th edition, second printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 641pp. Blue cloth cover is somewhat faded as is title. Tips and spine ends are lightly bumped. Used but not abused. Copiously illustrated. THE U.S. Navy's required training manual with everything a sailor needs to know about..... More about The Blue Jackets' Manual; The United States Navy
1971: Lewis Osborne, 1971. first limited edition; No. 211 of 650 printed. hardcover green cloth with gilt wagon and title. Clean, tight 4to, 77pp. The map that should be in the back is missing, but the book is heavily illustrated. Front and rear paste-downs and text illustrations are by Felix... More about Overland to Oregon and in the Indian Wars of 1853; with an account of earlier life in rural...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981. Later printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight, heavy oblong 4to, 548pp, heavily illustrated. Nearly 3000 variations of plain weave, overshot, twill, Monk's belt, and huck weaving. An incredible weaver's reference work full of patterns anad ideas for patterns. Concentrates on four harness weaving. Each weave being... More about The Weaving Book: Patterns and Ideas
Kodansha America, Inc. & The corning Museum of Glass, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight heavy 4to, 480pp. Dust jacket is mylar with faux glass flaps with a couple of small splits (1/4-1/2") at the tips. It is in a thinkk cardboard sli case which is somewhat worn and faded... More about History of Glass in Japan
New York: Simon & Schuster Green Tiger Press, 1991. First edition, second printing. Unknown. Clean, tight folio. Unpaginated. Very collectible and scarce. Book would be fine except for the ghost of an old sticker on the back (see photo). A beautiful story for children, teens and adults about the circle... More about Whisper from the Woods
New York: Clarkson Potter, 2000. First edition. Hardback. Clean, tight square 4to, 240pp. Paul Frederic Bowles, (1910-1999, Tangier, Morocco), "American-born, internationally famous composer, translator, and author of novels and short stories in which violent events and psychological collapse are recounted in a detached and elegant style." He was the most... More about Yesterday's Perfume: An Intimate Memoir of Paul Bowles
Austria: Springer Vienna Architecture, 2009. Probably First English language edition. Softcover. Clean, tight tall 8vo, 249pp. Light shelf wear and tiny curls to front tips. Contains theoreticals discourse, electronic fashion, scientific couture, wearable explorations, sonic landscapes, material, blogs, websites, and much more discussion the "Intersections of design, fashion, science and technology. More about Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology
New York: Doubleday, 1964. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 439pp. Dust jacket has seen better days. It has a number of folds, chips and small open tears some of which have been neatly taped, but d.j. is still in one piece and in Mylar. Book has minimal bumping to bottom of... More about The Complete Book of Tailoring; for people who like to sew
Connecticut: Rohr Publishing Co., 1965. First edition. Spiral_bound in stiff wraps. Very scarce. Clean, tight bound 4to, 96pp. Bottom three rungs of the spiral binding broken, would benefit from a rebinding (Kinko's), and top two are cracking and neatly repaired with tape. Otherwise, tight bound. A professional reference for pattern-making... More about Pattern Drafting & Grading Women's and Misses' Garment Design
New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 1993. Export Edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight-bound 8vo, 1455pp plus 76pp index. Cover is slightly crackced on the outside front but neatly re-enforced on the inside. Some scuffs and bumps to the tips and spine ends front and back. There is a former owner name neatly... More about Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica
New Delhi, India: B. Jain Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 1995. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vos, 1330pp combined. Volume 11 & 12 of a 12-Vol. set, indicies 1 & 2. We also have Vol. 1 & 4. Some light shelf wear to the top edge of the dust jacket. Price is for the... More about The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, Vols.11-12, (Index A-J and Index K-Z
New Delhi, India: B. Jain Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 1995. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 622pp. Volume 4 of a 12-Vol. set. We also have Vol. 1, 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 about The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, Vol.4, (Cundurango hydrocotyle
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 about The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, Vol. 1 (Abies-Canadenesis Atropinum
Boericke Phatak Boger Lippe Ammen Pulford Cowperthwaite, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight, fat 8vo, 1017pp + blank note pages. Very minor shelf wear, tiny scuff to the front, top tip. Former owner name neatly penned on ffe. Materia medica is the study of the origin and properties of remedial... More about Concordant Materia Medica
New York: Henry Holt, 1942. Probable first edition. Softcover. Tight bound 8vo, 372pp, French flaps to cover. Light shelf wear and some wear and tear to the cover. A good reading copy. This is the story of American Tropical Medicine. The epic of the men from Carlos Finlay, Walter Reed... More about Ambassadors in White
New York: Wm Morrow Co, Not given, ca. 1950s. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo., 192pp. The dust jacket is somewhat shelf worn, edges are somewhat chipped and scuffed. Black cloth cover is in good condition but has light scuffs to tips and light bumping to spine ends. Hinges are... More about The Last Cannibals
London & New York: Seeley & Co., and F. & J. Young & Co., Not stated, ca 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo.387pp, fold out map of "The Punjab, Sind and the Afghan Frontier" in the back is in excellent condition. The cover is lightly faded, somewhat bumped at... More about George Maxwell Gordon; The Pilgrim Missionary of the Punjab
New York: Pictorial Review Co., 1934 Edition. Later printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight-bound 8vo, 481pp w/empty pages for one to write their own recipes in the back. The cover is lightly rubbed and tips and spine ends are somewhat bumped and chipped, pages are all in good shape except pages 108-116... More about Pictorial Review Standard Cook Book
New York: Books, Inc., 1944. Not stated, probably second printing of 1943 first. Hardcover. Fat, blue cloth 8vo, 931pp. Bottom edge is lightly frayed, tips lightly bumped. Light rubbing along spine, slightly faded. Former owner signature neatly penned on the half title. Hinges tight. Great typical 40s color photos on... More about The Lily Wallace New American Cook Book
New Jersey: Quinn & Boden Company, Inc., 1958. Third printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 401pp. The book is slightly soiled aroun d the edges and on the spine, tips and spine ends are very lightly bumped. Dust jacket has several open tears along the top and bottom edges and has... More about The Voyages of Joshua Slocum
Halbert's Family Heritage, 1999. First edition. softcover wraps. Fat 4to, clean and tight. This is not just a genealogy of the Briggs family name, though it has many thousands of entries of Briggs and Briggs offshoots. It is also a history of immigration from Preindustrial Europe to the 1990s. Researchers... More about The New World of Briggs
La Grange, CA: Southern Mines Press, 1985. First edition. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 201pp, light shelf wear and very light soiling to cover. Gift inscription on the 2nd ffe. "from Mom" A combination genealogy, remeniscence, and history of La Loma, Mono Park, El Vista, Mitchell, Garner, Claus, Empire Geer-Albers, McEwen... More about The Way We Were Fifty Years Ago; East of Modesto to Empire and Beyond {California}
Oklahoma: University Of Oklahoma Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 378pp, There is a nasty, dollar-sized sticker scar on the front cover and a like scraped off sticker mark on the ffe. The jacket is otherwise in very nice shape, but is glued to the front and back... More about Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend
New York: Coward-McCan, 1968. First American edition - second impression. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 269pp. Dust jacket shows some moderate shelf wear with a very few tiny chips on the edges. The 65-year-old Navigator's own account of his 226-day lone voyage, including the conquest of Cape Horn with lots of... More about Gipsy Moth Circles the World
New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Clean tight 4to, 255pp. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. History of carpet production and design, Gazetteer from Turkey, The Caucasus, Baluch, Turkoman, East Turkestan, Tibet, China, India, Morocco, Europe, North America (Navajos), Decorative Carpets, Buying & Care and Glossary, Bibliography... More about The Atlas of Rugs and Carpets A Comprehensive Guide for the Buyer and Collector