Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, (1995). First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto, navy blue cloth, xii, 285pp, apps., notes, glossary, index, illus. An authoritative and comprehensive study of Spruance DD 963 class destroyers first introduced in 1975, including coverage of Kidd-class guided-missile destroyers, Ticonderoga-class Aegis cruisers, and never-built variants. Also described are the.....
London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, bright green cloth, 407pp, plum top edge, deckled bottom-edge. First Edition, A series of essays dealing with the development of European literature from the Troubadours to Henry James. Mild foxing to edges, cloth bright, crackling to front endpaper at hinge.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, blue cloth, 230pp. First American Edition, First Printing. First volume in Powell's 12-volume epic "Dance to the Music of Time" chronicling life in twentieth-century England. The novels follow narrator Nicholas Jenkins (Powell himself) and a host of characters, some.....
Mill Creek Entertainment, 2009. DVD. 11 disc set containing the complete television series in 4 seasons and 143 episodes which aired 1955-1960. Richard Greene stars as Robin Hood, Patricia Driscoll as Maid Marion, and Alan Wheatley as the Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin of Loxley and his band of Merry Men protect.....
BBC Video, 2007-2010. DVD. Complete 3-volume set of the BBC series which originally aired 2006-2009 in 3 seasons and 39 episodes with Jonas Armstrong in the title role of Robin Hood, with special features in each series set. This all-action Robin Hood is jam-packed with colorful characters, gripping stories and.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999. Illustrated by Ted Rand. First Edition. Hardover. Small square quarto, 9-3/8 x 9-3/8", glossy pictorial paper over boards, red endpapers, fully illus. in color. First Edition, Presentation copy, inscribed by author and illustrator and dated in year of publication on the first free.....
Burlington, VT: Lund Humphries, 2007. First Edition. Quarto, orange cloth, 160pp, timeline, postscript, eulogy by Saul Bass, notes, biblio., 109 illustrations. The life and work of Will Burtin who fled Nazi Germany 1938 with his Jewish wife and promptly won a contract to design the WPA exhibit at the 1939.....
Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1879. First English Translation. Paperbound. 4-7/16 x 6-5/8”, xvi, 251pp, 7pp ads, paper wrappers with printed parchment dust wrapper overlay. Published from the original 17th century Latin manuscript discovered in London in the year 1872, and translated into French by Isidore Liseux. Now first Translated into English.....
Koln: Walther Konig, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 10-3/8 x 12-1/2", one-half grey cloth, thick white boards, fully illustrated in brilliant color on high gloss paper. First Edition. From a series of 98 works painted on 12 x 10" panes of glass in 2008. Silkscreens of all 98 of the.....
(San Francisco): Kagyu Droden Kunchab Dharma Center, 1977. Pamphlet. Octavo, 5-1/2 x 8-3/8", gilt decorated white glossy wrappers, 32pp, illus. A Tantric Invocation program. Kalu Rinpoche established Kagyu Droden Kunchab, a Kaguy Dharma Center "For the All-Pervasive Benefit of Beings" in San Francisco in 1974. Pamphlet includes an essay on.....
London: Laurence King Publishing, 2015. Softcover. Quarto, stiff pictorial wrappers, 312pp, index, 340 illustrations. The personal stories and most significant works of 75 world graphic designers, including masters of typographic, magazine, poster and film design. Arranged in chronological order, from the earliest innovators like Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) to modernists.....
Walnut Creek, California: Fradema Press, (1993). Softcover. Quarto, 9x12", stiff pictorial wrappers with folding flaps, 208pp, biblio., list of artists, fully illus. in color and black and white. The author, herself a watercolorist and art instructor, identifies and describes the design structure of painted works of art: the elements of.....
New York: Crown - Archetype, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Large octavo, light grey paper over boards, 500pp. Signed by the author on first blank. Robbie Robertson tells the story of his extraordinary personal journey as a musician - from his upbringing on the Six Nations Indian Reservation, his odyssey.....
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2006. DVD, 4 Volume Boxset. Boxset, 4 DVDs of 4 classic Will Rogers comedic sound films, nearly 300 minutes of entertainment. Special features: each DVD includes a unique featurette and restoration comparison. Ambassador Bill (1931) – Will Rogers and Ray Milland turn foreign affairs into.....
New York: The Gallery of Modern Art, 1967. Quarto, 8-1/2 x 11", pictorial wrapper, folded and stapled 8pp, fully illustrated with black & white photographs of the brothers in action, interview, filmography. Program compiled by Raymond Rohauer, Film Curator and Program Director, The Gallery of Modern Art, including interviews with.....
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, viii, rebound in 19th century, red cloth, 115pp, index, 19 hand-colored engraved plates. First Edition. The author's hand-colored etchings feature both the natural and artificial fly "to enable him (the Tyro) to imitate the natural fly correctly".....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover, Deluxe Leather Edition. 6-3/4 x 9-3/4", 3/4 maroon leather, mauve cloth boards, raised bands, top-edge gilt, xxiii, 583pp, apps., index. First Edition. With more than 200 illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and from drawings.....
Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 1/2 burgundy leather, raised bands, pcitorial paper over boards, top-edge gilt, deckled fore and bottom-edges, lix, 354pp, index of authors and titles, index of printers and publishers, list of printers, publishers and booksellers, biblio., erratum, 104 illus. #350 of a......
New York: Abrams, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, black cloth, 192pp, 200 illustrations, 24 in color. Signed by the author on bookplate affixed to verso of first free endpaper.The World of Edward Gorey is the first major book on the American artist, illustrator, writer, and theater designer, perhaps best.....
Tokyo: Shinnipon Calendar Co., 1987. Photographs by Sanford Roth. Softcover. Small square quarto, 8-3/4 x 9-1/2", stiff pictorial wrappers with folding flaps, unpaginated, fully illustrated with photographs on every page. 145 remarkable black & white photographs of James Dean (1931-1955) taken in the year of his death. Limited text in.....
London: Bedford House Gallery, 1975. Softcover. 8x9", stiff white/red wrappers, black & white frontis. portrait of the artist, 7 full-page color plates, one monochrome, of 19 works in the gallery show. Bedford House Gallery exhibition catalogue for a show of the work of painter Marek Zulawski (1908-1985) in October 1975.....
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover in slip-case. Folio, 10 x 12-1/4", light grey/dark grey paper over boards catalogue raisonne entries, concordance, exhibition history, bibliography, index, fully illus., flapless dust wrapper and slip-case. First Edition. Two volume set in slip-case. Volume 1: Prints, Books, Misc.; Volume 2: Essays.....
Brookline, Massachusetts: Concept Publishing Company, 2001. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, light grey cloth, xiv, 252pp, apps., folding Lydian chart laid in. Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept, first described in a self-published pamphlet in 1953, marks a radical expansion of the harmonic language for both composition and analysis, and has contributed to.....
Loveland, Colorado: Interweave Press, 1989. Hardcover. Large octavo, 7-5/8 x 10-1/8", olive green cloth, 248pp, apps., glossary, biblio., index, 14 color photographs, 95 black & white photographs, 70 diagrams and charted designs. A history of hand knitting drawn from literary evidence with a nod to social aspects of the craft.....
New York: Grove Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, off-white paper over boards, xv, 270pp. Signed inscription by the author on half-title. A collection combining 200 previously published and new poems personally selected by Kay Ryan, 16th Poet Laureate of the U.S. Bumped fore-edge both boards, minor crimp tail of.....
