London: Bentley's Miscellany, 1840 [January-June]. leather_bound. 540 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Full page illustrations printed recto only by George Cruikshank. Illustrated book plate of George Cukar, who was an American film director and producer (My Fair Lady). Elegantly bound by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Interior contents clean and fresh. Raised..... More
New York: Navy Historical Society, 1917. Hardcover. Four illustrations. Index. A naval officer who served in the navy of the German Confederation before beingreinstated in the US Navy (he was dismissed from the US Navy for having engaged in a duel). Publications of the Naval History Society, Volume VIII. Limited..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1820. Third edition. Hardcover. 67 pages. 23 x 15 cm. First published Edinburgh, 1804. Engraved title page. ABBEY LIFE 91. One colored aquatint, one etching, and three uncolored aquatints. New endpapers, covers rubbed, minor foxing and soiling. More
London: Faber And Faber Limited, 1951. First UK edition. Hardcover. 126 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Clean copy, light owner stamp inside front cover pastedown. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 91 pages. 22 x14 cm. Slight loss at head, nicked at foot dust wrapper. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1947. Hardcover. 80 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Owner inscription free front endpaper. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 57 pages. 22 x14 cm. Note by Edward Mendelson. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 123 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Bookplate "From The Library of Julian Barnes," a prominent English author in his own right. Book label of Myers Co. Booksellers London. Small owner inscription front free endpaper. More
London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1954. First printing. Stiff Wraps. 88 pages. 25.5 x 18 cm. Entitled "The Word and the Machine," Auden discusses the negative effect of the Machine Age on poetry and the poet. More
Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 1893. First edition. Paperback. 24 pages. With quarter-sheet map in two colors of the Cambrian Rocks in the Counties of Temiscouata and Rimouski. Geological Survey Of Canada. More
London: Macmillan And Co., 1879. Second edition. Hardcover. xx, 524 pages. 19 x 13 cm. 39 pages of Macmillan adverts at rear. This first one volume edition, interior generally clean. Appendix and Index. Fold-out Map of Baker's routes. Baker, aggressively opposed to the slave trade was one of the few..... More
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 297 pages. Twenty-five plates, thirty-eight text figures, and eight tables. Glossary. Index. This book attempts to describe the houses of the majority of the rural population of England, particularly in the 16th to 18th centuries. Only the smaller houses of the..... More
London: W.D. & H.O. Wills, ca 1919. Hardcover. 50 color lithograph portraits, each 7 x 3.5 cm presenting a variety of Allied military personnel of the Allied side during World War I: Russian, French, English, Romanian, Belgian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Etc. Reverse of card provides biographical details. All cards bright, clean..... More
London: Collins, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 112 pages. Sixteen color plates and 64 black and white illustrations. With a Foreword by Eric Newton. Index. CHAMBERLAIN 1248. "Tries to give a chart of 20th century painting in Canada. Not an orthodox history of Canadian Art. Covers the work of 27 artists..... More
Np: Np, ca. 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 25.5 x 22.5 cm. 8 page Index. Printed title page with a specimen of a moss wreath and initials apparently cut out and laid down, mostly likely taken from one of Flintoft's (James Flintoff) works. There are 175 specimens, many with more than..... More
New York: Privately Printed, 1925. First edition. Paperback. 14 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies on hand made paper. More
New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 630 pages. 23 x 16.5 cm. Index. Much of these materials concern New York and the eastern seaboard, but a surprising amount covers affairs pertaining not only to the nation as a whole but also to other states and particular regions..... More
Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 544 pages. 24 x 17 cm. Introduction by Douglas S. Freeman. Approximately 125 illustrations. KARPEL B924. "A popular book but still of use." ROOS 3361. More
New York: D. Appleton, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. 189 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Additional vignette title and twenty-three plates. Each design with plans. The latter were available for a modest fee; marketed to "the small farmer, and the laboring man generally." HITCHCOCK 272. KARPEL B233. "An important work covering..... More
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. 286 (2) pages. 29 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 71 of 350. 36 fine auto gravure plates each with a facing leaf of descriptive text. King George V and Queen Mary The historical record of the coronation of their Majesties. London, 1911..... More
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1964. Hardcover. 238 pages. 26.5 x 18 cm. 196 illustrations, black and white photographs. An expanded version of "The Rise of the Skyscraper," published in 1952. Clean, fresh copy. More
Boston: Merrymount Press, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 103 pages. 24. x 15.5 cm. 10 photographic plates with tissue guards, and 2 facsimiles, one folding. Printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press, another tribute to an industrialist which later became Avery-Dennison, a major paper product company. More
Amsterdam: 1989. Hardcover. 392 pages. 28.5 x 24.5 cm. Text in Dutch. Host of color and black and white plates presenting Dutch modern art artists. Index. More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. 271 pages. With 1200 graphic drawings and a large glossary listing 2200 separate items. A good guide for a beginner. More
London: J.C. Bridgewater, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. 22 x 14 cm. 29 pages of text and 21 pages printed recto only of a series of Lithograph Drawings With A Brief Description Of The Insects, most in luminous and iridescent colors. Text provides a “Description Of The Plates,' and more remarkable..... More