New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2", black paper over boards, xvii, 737pp, epilogue, appendix, bibiography, index, illus. with 19 plates. It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 6-3/8 x 9-1/2", green cloth, viii, 366pp, notes, index, illus. with 26 plates. What is the function of painting in a commercial society? John Barrell discusses how British artists and writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including Sir.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. 5-1/4 x 8-3/4", black cloth over beveled boards, 312pp, frontis. illustration of a child's map of Kensington Gardens, top-edge gilt. First Edition. First appearance of Peter Pan. A fanciful novel for adults with a darker tone than the delightful children's story about.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Illustrated by F. D. Bedford. Hardcover. 5-3/4 x 8/1/4", elaborate gilt decoration to green cloth, 267pp, frontis. illus., with tissue guard, pictorial title-page, 11 half-tone plates in text by F. D. Bedford. The classic story of Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up.....
New York: Random House, 1972. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, gilt and silver titled red cloth, 308pp, gold endpapers, black top-edge. #34 of 300 copies of the first edition that have been specially bound and signed by the author. A winner of the National Book Award winner comprised of three.....
Seattle: Scala House Press, 2008. First North American Edition. Hardcover. 9-1/8 - 6-1/8", black spine, brown paper over boards, 391pp. First English publication of Slovenian author Vladimir Bartol’s near-forgotten masterpiece based on the life and legend of the original assassin, 11th century Ismaili leader Hasan ibn Sabbah. Fictional Sabbah develops.....
New York: Rizzoli, 2014. First U. S. Edition. 9-1/2 x 12-1/4", 1/2 burgundy cloth, vivid pictorial paper over boards, 274pp, over 200 color plates. The work of contemporary figurative painter Hernan Bas, focusing on his paintings, film stills, and illustrations and featuring 200 color plates and texts by Christian Rattemeyer.....
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1999. First Printing. Spiral metal comb binding with hardcover boards. 6 x 8-3/8", thick pictorial boards, spiral binding, fully illustrated. 12-month nature diary with spaces for daily journaling decorated with intermittent nature illustrations and comments by Marjolein Bastin. Since there are no days or.....
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 8-5/8 x 11-1/4", black boards, xx, 396pp, pictorial endpapers (feathers), 160 dramatic color plates photographed by Michael Radencich illustrating more than 800 flies. Signed by author Pamela Bates Richards "With Best Wishes" on half-title. Edited by Bob Warren, forewords by Keith Fulsher.....
London & New York: The Blackamore Press / Random House, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 5-7/8 x 8-1/4", blue cloth, 125pp, notes, gilt top-edge, deckled fore and bottom-edges, 8 illus. Translated by Ch. Isherwood; Introduction by T. S. Eliot. #304 of a first limited English edition of 400 copies; one of.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2", black boards, xi, 192pp, notes & texts, bibliography, index, 38 black & white text figures & illustrations, photograph credits, appended by 16 color plates. From the dust wrapper flap: Michael Baxandall draws on contemporary cognitive science, eighteenth-century theories of visual.....
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1967. First Edition. Quarto, 9-3/8 x 11-3/8", blue cloth, 210pp, yellow endpapers, biblio., fully illustrated. First Edition. A compete chronological retrospective including over 200 color and black and white reproductions of the artist's paintings, architectural projects, exhibition and graphic designs, which also contains his findings.....
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1990. First Edition. Paperbound. 6 x 9-1/8", stiff pictorial wrappers, 83pp. Presentation inscription to fellow poet Garrett (Hongo) in Port Townsend in 1991: "With much pleasure, affection, and respect" signed by the poet in Port Townsend in July of 1991. Published simulaneously in hardcover.Fine.....
Silver Spring, MD: Adventure House, 2003. First Trade Paperback Edition. 7x10", stiff pictorial wrappers, xix, 195pp, illustrated. Introduction by John Wooley. 13 mysteries featuring no-nonsense Hollywood private eye, Dan Turner. Each story is accompanied by the spot illustrations that accompanied them in Spicy Detective, the pulp magazine that originally published them.A......
New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. 5-7/8 x 9-1/2", beige cloth, red edges, 151pp, illus. Bemelmans' 3rd book, published after two children's books (Hansi & The Golden Basket). The first Madeline books was published in 1939.Bemelmans emigrated from Austria to the United States in.....
Woodbury, NY: Acoustical Society of Americal / American Institute of Physics, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 7-1/2 x 10-5/8", dark blue cloth, viii, 643pp, appendices, references, name & subject indexes, 3pp publisher's ads. The photographs, drawings to the same scale, and architectural and acoustical details on 76 concert halls in 22.....
New York: Philomel Books / Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 2000. Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 9x11", glossy pictorial paper over boards, fully illus. in brilliant color. Presentation copy with signed initial (BHB) and flying heart illustration by the author. Inspired by the question "How many.....
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Leather. Fly Fisherman's Gold Library, Limited Edition of 2500 copies, unnumbered. Fly plates by Dr. Edgar Burke; Drawings by Ivin Sickels 2nd. Originally published in 1947, Bergman's classic offers a wealth of information on bait-fishing, fly-fishing, bait casting, spinning and trolling. Octavo, black and gilt decorated.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, 7-5/8 x 9-1/2", 1/2 black cloth, black paper over boards, 376pp, classified list of compositions, over 100 illustrations, photographs and musical notation. Presentation inscription signed in red ink by the author at Christmastime in year of publication. Bernstein recalls.....
San Francisco: Taylor & Taylor, 1945. Limited Edition. Wrappers. 7-1/4 x 10", salmon wrappers, 16pp, printed on recto only, signed menu laid in. Limited fine press commemorative edition published by Francis P. Farquhar and Edward DeWitt Taylor (Taylor & Taylor Printers of San Francisco) of a letter written by Major.....
Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, Inc., 1987. Limited Edition. Softcover. 6-1/4 x 10-3/4", orange wrappers, blue endpapers, 22pp, deckled edges, illus. front wrapper and title page. 150 copies of this limited edition were printed letterpress on Nideggen paper from handset 12-pt. Italian Old Style at Honeybrook Press by Donnell Hunter who.....
Bogota: Ediciones Lerner LTDA, 1979. Softcover. Small 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers with folding flaps, fully illustrated with black & white photographs and the artist's renderings, one color plate. Signed by the artist on title page in Medellin, 1979. Catalogue of the retrospective expedition of the work of Colombian sculptor Rodrigo.....
London: Dean & Son, (1878). Hardcover. Octavo, 8-3/8 x 5-5/8", green cloth, with gilt chess-board decoration front board, xvi, 248pp, tri-fold frontispiece with illustrations of three chess boards dedicated to chess companion A. P. Barnes (notably representing the author's initials - H. E. B.), yellow endpapers with advertisements, includes 30.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2", green cloth, 287pp, index of titles, index of first lines. The collection includes poems from North & South (1946), A Cold Spring (1955 - winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Questions of Travel (1965 - winner of the.....
London: Blacker, 1855. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original green embossed cloth, xiv, 259pp, fully illus. Moderate foxing, rubbing to cloth front board, contemporaneous ink owner's name title-page, owner's ink stamp front paste-down endpaper, hinges unobtrusively reinforced, original deep brown endpapers, very good. Second and best edition, the previous edition published.....
