New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 584 pages. 31 x 25 cm. 175 artifacts are illustrated and described in detail. Essays. Concordance. Index. More
New York: Sotheby, 1985. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 180 pages. 28 x 21 cm. 154 plates in color, an exhibition first shown at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL. More
New York: United Technologies Corporation, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. XVI pages in text. 34 x 25.5 cm. Eighty full page color plates with dates. Artist Index. Introduction by John H. Dobkin, Director National Academy of Design. More
Sigapore: Sun Tree Publishing Co., 1998. Hardcover. 190 pages. 31 x 23.5 cm. 211 illustrations in color and black and white printed on glossy stock. Ceramics for the After-LIfe. Catalogue. List of Lenders. Glossary. More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857-1859. Thackeray, William Makepeace. First edition, First Issue. 22 x 14 cm. illustrated with forty-eight etched plates by the author; the last work he illustrated for himself. Numerous woodcut vignettes in text, and in the original 24 parts. All plates generally clean and fresh. With advertisements..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 257 pages. 22 x 17.5 cm. First edition. Limited edition, copy 366 of 560 signed by Huxley. Spine sunned, edges of boards slightly faded. printed at the Florence Press with wide text margins. Interior clean. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981. First edition. 206 pages. 34 x 26 cm. 286 illustrations printed on high gloss stock and 226 in full color and one map. Chronology. Index. More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 104 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 103 of 160 signed by Huxley. Sharp, bright copy, bookseller label of Philip P. Duschnes. More
Philadelphia & Toronto: John C. Winston Company, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 209 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. An early work directed by Clarke and the publisher for a juvenile audience. The novel's theme -- As a prize for winning a TV quiz show the protagonist is sent to an orbiting..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 755 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Signed presentation copy in blue ink on half title, "To Clarence Darrow with admiration and regard Upton Sinclair." An historical novel based on the Sacco/Vanzetti trial and a pointed indictment of the American criminal..... More
Munich: Georg Muller Und Eugen Rentsch, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 249 pages. 32.5 x 26 cm. 245 illustrations -- photographs, plans to scale, buildings, interior designs, factories and drawings. Frontispiece of Behrens by Max Libermann with tissue guard. Text in German. Index of Illustrations. Behrens a foundation member of the..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1960. Marini, Marino. First edition. Hardcover. XIX pages in text. 32 x 27.5 cm. Introduction by P.M. Bardi, Director of the Sao Paulo Museum. Limited edition, one of 310 signed and numbered copies, this is copy 232, with an original three color lithograph signed by..... More
Berlin: Rudolf Mosse, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 222 pages. 35 x 24 cm. 4 page Forward by Mendelshohn and all text in German. Approx. 100 plates with last few leaves depicting the structures illustrated -- New York, Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo landmarks. Along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 212 pages. Folio, 41 x 31 cm. Copiously illustrated: photographs, elevations, plans to scale and drawings -- interior and exterior views. KARPEL B1195. "Includes a preface by Owen Wister, and articles by Paul Cret, Edmund Gilchrest, Matlack Price, Arthur Meigs..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, (1931). Rackham, Arthur. First American Trade Edition. Hardcover. 224 pages. 24.5 x 19 cm. Twelve mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards, and numerous in text woodcuts. Printed in the UK for the American trade with Introduction by Harry Williamson. A very fresh bright copy not usually..... More
London: John Murray, 1822. First English Edition. Hardcover. 393, 404 pages. 22 x 23.5 cm. Second printing Vol. II ending on p.404. A series of character sketches by Irving related to members of the Bracebridge family whom Washington once visited -- basically, character sketches of family members. Bound by Carss..... More
Philadelphia: Cary and Hart, 1845. First edition. leather_bound. 300 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Second issue without date on title or copyright date, and without printed title. First appearance of THE PURLOINED LETTER, with twelve steel engraved plates including frontispiece with tissue guards. Also included are works by Emerson, Longfellow..... More
New York: Century, 1904. Parrish, Maxwell. First printing. Hardcover. 270 pages. 26 x 18 cm, a total of fifty-two plates all with lettered tissue guards, with fourteen in color affair Maxwell Parrish. Balance of illustrations from photographs, and from drawings by Malcolm Fraser and E. Denison. List of Books Mentioned..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1955. First American edition. Hardcover. 243 pages. 21 x 14 cm. First American of the British classic named to Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list of English-language novels published during the 20th century. GEKOSKI & GROGAN A2(B). In original unclipped dust wrapper, a few tiny spots..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874. First edition. Hardcover. 398, 462, 552 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Half titles, steel engraved portrait frontispieces in each volume, several plates and wood engravings in text with some light spotting to plates. Bound by Brentano's. Forster knew Dickens intimately since the days of his..... More
London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1841. First Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. 323, 298, 378. 18.5 x 12 cm. Three frontispieces and eleven etched plates by George Cruikshank, Phiz and Robert Jacob Hammerton. Lacks publisher ads. First issue with the error "publisher young" in Dicken's introduction in volume one and imprint of..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. 669 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Additional engraved title. Charles Dickens's first novel was published by Chapman & Hall in monthly installments from March of 1836 until November 1837. The publisher had just started a series of amusing stories dealing with “Cockney..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. leather_bound. 560 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Modern edition in an elegant binding by Maurin, makes for a perfect gift. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral and arabeseque motifs, double gilt border panes, gilt doublures and marbled endpapers. More
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. First edition. Hardcover. 384 pages. 20.5 x 14 cm. Tarkington's first novel and first edition/first state with "eye" and "so pretty" on p.245 and "brain" of Zeus on p.342. Also, in the earliest binding with the ear of corn on the spine pointing..... More
Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1907. XX1V, 62 (5) pages. 18 x 9.5 cm. Engraved frontispiece on Japan vellum and three woodcut designs by Jacob Hood. First Mosher limited issue on Van Gelder paper of the "Old World Edition" that reproduces the 1887 edition. Bound by Hatchards of Picadilly with raised..... More