Mexico City College, 1948. Hardcover. Uncommon 1948 yearbook of Mexico City College. Solid and tight in its pictorial laminate boards. Light soiling along the inner hinges, small box cut out at the title page. Tall quarto, apart from the student and faculty portraits dozens and dozens of photos of campus... More about Azteca 1948: The Mexico City College Yearbook
Boston: The Board of Trustees of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, 1919. Original wraps. Uncommon 1919 economic study of the Cambridge Massachusetts subway system. Solid and VG+ in its printed beige wrappers, with several small closed tears along the spine ends and very light creasing at the tips and the... More about Cambridge Subway: Facts and Figures Relative to Its Cost
Harvard University Press, 1885. Original Cloth. A clean, well-preserved copy of the 1885-86 Harvard University Catalogue. VG+ in its crimson cloth, with bright lettering along the front panel and spine. 12mo, 309 pgs. Small, neat signature of a member of the Class of 1887 on the front free endpaper. More about The Harvard University Catalogue 1885-1886
New York: Ikon/Smyrna Press. Original wraps. Late 60s communist poetry anthology published out of New York by Ikon and Smyrna Press. Solid and VG in its printed stapled wrappers, with light chipping along the edges. The text itself has come loose from its stapled binding but is altogether there and..... More about Only Humans with Songs to Sing
Original wraps. Uncommon photo album of St. Augustine, Florida, c. 1900. Billed as the oldest city in the United States (or, more accurately, "the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the U.S."), St. Augustine is obviously rich in history and this album includes a number of its most historic spots... More about St. Augustine (Turn-of-the-Century Photo Album
Nordhauser am Harz, Germany: Heinrich Killinger Verlag, 1925. Decorative Cloth. Wonderful 1925 study in cake-making and cake decorating, with vivid color plates thruout. VG in its decorative beige cloth, with light foxing to the panels (more pronounced at the rear panel) and general light wear at the spine ends and... More about Modeko: Die Moderne Dekorkunst in Der Konditorei (Neue Folge
Princeton University Press, 1983. Cloth. A very impressive copy of the 1983 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. Quarto, 240 black-and-white plates at the rear. More about Antonio Rizzo -- Sculptor and Architect
Tokyo: Shotaro Okada, 1987. Original wraps. An all-but-pristine copy of the 1987 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers. Tall quarto, Weber's lavish black-and-white portraits of boxer Andy Minsker thruout. Also includes the laid-in Japanese caption booklet but lacks the very uncommon glassine dustjacket. More about The Andy Book
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Cloth. SIGNED BY CLARK COOLIDGE on the title page. A solid copy to boot of the 1970 stated 1st edition. Clean and VG (bumping at the the rear panel's lower-edge) in a crisp, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light chipping --and several very small closed... More about Space
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. Hardcover. The 1922 1st --and limited-- edition of this lavish collection of 32 E.O. Hoppe tipped-in portraits of beautful women around the world. #387 of 500 copies issued in its patterned, vellum-backed boards. Solid and VG+, with light rubbing and a bit of light... More about The Book of Fair Women
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1974. INSCRIBED BY ANSEL ADAMS on the half-title. A very solid copy to boot of the 1974 3rd printing. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of light soiling along the rear panel. Quarto, Foreword by Minor White. More about Ansel Adams
London: William Reeves, 1915. 1st. Cloth. Uncommon--and exhaustive-- study of this particular family of stringed instruments (all closely related to the violin). "With biographies of all the most eminent players of every country". 1915 1st edition. Thick octavo, 700 pgs., top-edge gilt. A well-preserved, VG copy in its crimson cloth... More about History of the Violoncello, the Viol De Gamba, Thier Precursors and Collateral Instruments
New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. Cloth. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR FRANCIS DEAK on the front free endpaper. A crisp, very clean copy to boot of the 1928 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in its maroon cloth, with bright, completely unflecked gilt-lettering at the spine. Thick octavo, a remarkably well-preserved copy. More about The Hungarian-Rumanian Land Dispute: A Study of Hungarian Property Rights in Transylvania Under...
Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1985. Original wraps. A solid copy of the 1985 second printing. Tight and VG in its printed yellow wrappers, with light spotting along the spine and at the front panel. Thick octavo, 621 pgs. Vol. 103 in North-Holland's formidable "Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics" series. More about The Lambda Calculus
Oxford, England: B.A.R. (British Archaeological Research), 1983. Original wraps. The 1983 1st edition. Solid and VG in its red wrappers, with neat, clear tape evenly applied at the fore-edges. Quarto, 193 pgs. plus 12 plates. BAR International Series 178. More about Coinage and Finances in the Reign of Domitian A.D. 81-96
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1908. Cloth. 1908 1st edition of this uncommon manual on photographic retouching. Solid and VG+, with mounted plate and vrisp lettering to the front panel and lightly rubbed lettering along the spine. Internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings of any kind... More about The Art of Retouching Systematized
Iowa State University Press, 1980. 1st. Decorative Cloth. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1980 stated 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 172 pgs. Signed by Author. More about Buying and Owning Your Own Airplane
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Cloth. A truly impressive copy of the 1915 1st edition. Tight and unusually crisp, with just a touch of light foxing to the endpapers. And in a bright, price-intact ($1.25), VG- to VG example of the 1st issue pictorial dustjacket. Light chipping... More about The Winning Shot (In Dustjacket
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1944. 1st. Decorative Cloth. The 1944 stated 1st edition, in a crisp example of the wondeful pictorial dustjacket AND the uncommon printed wraparound band. Tight and VG+ in a bright, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket. Octavo, 238 pgs. Charming early study of radio, including dozens of black-and-white photos. More about Modern Radio
Paris: (Musee de l'Homme) Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, 1969. Original wraps. A very solid copy of this 1969 catalogue on Bolivian textiles. Clean and Near Fine in its duotone wrappers. Quarto, dozens of crisp black-and-white plates thruout. More about Textiles Boliviens: Region de Charazani
Joliet, IL: The P.F. Volland Co., 1928. Michael Lipman. Hardcover. A crisp, near-pristine copy of the 1928 stated 5th edition. Tight and Near Fine to Fine in its wonderful pictorial boards. Octavo, beautifully illustrated thruout in rich color by the author. Also includes a very sharp example (with just a.... More about The Chatterlings (In the Publisher's Box
Paris: G. Doin, 1950. Original wraps. The 1950 1st edition. Clean and VG+ in its salmon wrappers, with mild darkening along the spine. Octavo, 397 pgs. plus publisher's ads. More about La Chimioteratogenese Realisation Des Monstruosites Par Des Sunstances Chimiques
Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald: 1928. 1st. 1928 1st edition, #28 of 350 numbered copies. Bound in 1/4 vellum over beige cloth. Solid and clean and VG, with bright gilt-lettering along the spine. The uncommon glassine dustjacket has light chipping at the spine ends but is otherwise well-preserved. Tall quarto... More about A Book of Towers and Other Buildings of Southern Europe
Los Angeles: Falcon Press, 1987. Original Wraps. INSCRIBED BY TIMOTHY LEARY (in huge, loping letters) on the half-title. A sharp copy to boot of the 1987 3rd printing. Crisp and clean and VG+ in its pictorial wrappers. Tall octavo, 138 pgs. "A Manual on the Use of the Human Nervous... More about Info--Psychology (A Revision of Exo--Psychology
