Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1972. Pictorial wrappers. The uncommon catalogue based on the June-July exhibition at Jerusalem's Israel Museum. Solid and VG+ to Near Fine in its stapled pictorial wrappers, with very light offsetting at the panel edges. More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1968. Hardcover. A nice Association copy: WARMLY INSCRIBED BY NEW YORK CONGRESSMAN HERBERT TENZER (1905-1993) TO CHARLES H. SILVER, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND PRESIDENT OF BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER. Tenzer's tribute to Charles Silver's patriotism is recorded in..... More
Original wraps. Crisp, clean photograph of Robert De Niro, posing in front of his cab in his Vietnam jacket and sporting his new mohawk, in Martin Scorcese's timeless 1976 film "Taxi Driver". Signed by De Niro in a clear blue marker across the photograph. All-but-pristine except for a small former..... More
Toldeo, Ohio: Isaac D. Smead & Co., 1889. Cloth. The uncommon 1889 original printing, including a 66 pg. booklet ("A Partial List of Buildings Warmed and Ventilated by the Smead System -- With Some Official Reports from Boards of Education, Committees, Etc."). Solid and VG+ in its dark-green cloth, with..... More
Gottingen, West Germany: Andreas Muller-Pohle, 1980-1987. Original wraps. An impressive selection of the earliest issues of this photographic quarterly, published out of Gottingen, West Germany. 28 of the first 30 issues, including issue #1 from Jan-March 1980. All 28 issues are clean, bright and Near Fine to Fine in their..... More
New York: Press of the American Institute of Architects, Inc., 1926. Boards. The uncommon 1926 1st edition. A superb copy. Tight and Near Fine in its light-green boards, with mounted titling at the front panel. Just a touch of very minor scuffing to the rear panel, otherwise sharp as could..... More
New York: New Directions, 1954. Cloth. INSCRIBED BY CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of this attractive 1954 American re-issue, "with a new Preface by the author". Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with light wear to the tips and..... More
London: The Zoological Society of London, 1902. Original Wraps. The 1902 1st appearance in book form, published in its original blue wrappers by the Zoological Society of London. Re-bound (with new endsheets but with original covers bound-in) in navy-blue cloth, with gilt-titling to the spine. Clean and well-preserved and solidly..... More
Gottingen, Germany: 2009, 2009. Cloth. A pristine copy of the 2009 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. Thick, tall quarto, 329 pgs., beautiful color reproductions thruout. More
New York: George Forman, 1812. Three-Quarter Leather. 1812 second edition, with corrections. John A. Graham was an early 19th century "Counsellor and Advocate in All the High Courts, and One of the Masters in Chancery for the State of New York". A very sharp copy, handsomely rebound in 3/4 navy-blue..... More
New York: Stein and Day, 1971. Boards. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY COLONEL HUBERT FAUNTLEROY JULIAN ("THE BLACK EAGLE") on the half -title. A solid copy to boot of the 1971 1st edition of this biography of both "the first black parachutist" and "the first black licensed pilot". Clean and Near Fine..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. 1st. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY LORRAINE SHERWOOD on the front free endaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1946 1st edition (with the Scribner 'A' on the copyright page). Tight and VG+ in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with very light soiling to the..... More
New York: Corinthian Publications, Inc., 1952. 1st. Cloth. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on Vol. 1's front free endpaper. A well-preserved example to boot of the complete 3 volume set. All 3 volumes crisp and VG+ in bright, price-intact, VG dustjackets, with light soiling at the front panel of volume 1..... More
Paris: Fontaine, 1946. 1st. Original Wraps. The 23rd volume in the wonderful "L'Age D'Or" series, issued out of Paris in 1946. Clean and VG+ (with very light wear at the spine crown) in its dark-gray, pictorial wrappers. 64mo (miniature), 26 pgs. More
New York: PMc Publishing, 2007. A handsome copy of the 2007 stated 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its pictorial leatherette. INSCRIBED BY PATRICK MCMULLAN on the title page. Given the weight of this title, the binding is a bit shaken but is still perfectly sturdy. Folio, McMullan's exuberant..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1967. Ashley Bryan. Cloth. The 1967 1st edition of this collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore, the 1913 Nobel Prize winner in poetry. Edited by Richard Lewis and wonderfully illustrated throughout in rich color by Ashley Bryan. Soid and VG (light spotting along the panels) in a...... More
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1861. Decorative Cloth. An unusually tight, well-preserved copy of the 1861 true 1st edition. Clean and VG+ to Near Fine in the publisher's original bevelled, chocolate-brown boards, with bright gilt-titling along the spine and decorative blindstamping and rule to the panels. Impressive albumen, oval-shaped portrait..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973. 1st. Cloth. A beautiful copy of the 1973 stated first edition. ****NOT AN EX-LIBRARY****. VG+ in a bright, VG+ dustjacket with its original price of $4.95 intact. Minor, negligible chipping along the foot of the jacket spine. Octavo, oblong, unpaginated. With wonderful illustrations by the author himself..... More
RAM: Black Liberation Front of the U.S.A., 1965. Pictorial wrappers. Uncommon 1965 collection of a number of the "radical" writings of Civil Rights leader Robert Williams (1925-1996), a firebrand in both the local labor union and within the NAACP of Monroe, North Carolina. Williams, who took "a militant stance against..... More
New York: An Olympic Foto-Reader (B.B. Sales Co.), 1968. 1st. Original Wraps. 1968 novelization--with over 60 photographs--of wild, orgiastic, LSD-fueled weekend for a club of bikers and their women. A bright, clean, Near Fine copy in its original pictorial wrappers. One very small and neat publisher's gash running thru the..... More
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1956. Cloth. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR SAMUEL SANDMEL on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1956 1st edition. Clean and VG in its grey boards, with light bowing to the front panel and very light wear along the spine crown..... More
Philadelphia: John Winston, 1914. Charles Folkard. Decorative Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1914 1st thus, with the 12 gorgeous Charles Folkard tipped-in color illustrations. Folio, purple gilt pictorial cloth, light fading on edges and a few tiny marks on the endpapers, else Near Fine. The plates, on heavy..... More
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1933. Cloth. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY TONY WONS on the front free endpaper. A sharp copy to boot of the 1933-34 edition of "Tony's Scrap Book". Solid and VG+ in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine example of the wonderful art deco dustjacket, with one small closed tear..... More
New York: Times Books, 1988. Boards. INSCRIBED BY WALT FRAZIER AND ALSO SIGNED BY EARL "THE PEARL" MONROE on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1988 stated 1st edition, 2nd issue. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Octavo, a number of..... More
