London: Hutchinson, 2005. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo, black paper over boards, 615pp. #196 of a Limited Edition of 1000 copies. Signed by the author on limitation page. Two young men interested in the new disciplines of psychiatry and psychoanalysis open a clinic in turn-of-the-century Austria and grapple with evolving perspectives.....
Wellington: Shoal Bay Press, 1995. Second Edition. Softcover. 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers, 152pp, apps., glossary, biblio., index, fully illustrated. Second Revised Edition. A comprehensive spinning primer with concise instructions and illustrated with over 100 step-by-step photographs and diagrams. Includes a selection of patterns for knitting, crocheting and weaving from handspun.....
Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press, (2011). First Edition. Paperback. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, 97pp. Fine. National Book Award winner 2011. Ms. Finney's poems embrace a "sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of.....
Zurich: Edition Olms, 1985. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth, xii, 463p, illus. In addition to detailing the 67 games and 53 problems that made up the First American Chess Congress, Fiske explores the history and literature of chess in the US through 1859. Acclaimed chess phenom Paul Morphy (1837-1884) won the.....
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, gilt titled brown pebbled cloth with publisher's embossed emblem center of both boards, brown endpapers, xii, 563pp,diagrams, biblio., list of subscribers, accounts, solutions, indexes, 12pp ads, gilt decorated chromolithographic frontis. with tissue guard depicting Paul Morphy's winning game in 68.....
New York: New Directions, 1953. 4 x 4-1/4", wrappers with illustration of Flaubert front panel, 8pp, single staple. Printed at Christmas 1953 for the friends of J. Laughlin and New Directions. "Jacques Barzun has translated the complete text of Dictionnnaire des Idees Recues, and it will be published by New.....
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1994. Hardcover. Quart, 8-1/2 x 11-1/8", blue cloth,702pp, dictionary of painters, bibliography, index, 860 black & white illustrations, 165 colour plates. Combines "Collecting Miniatures" (1979) with the revised and updated biographical details of some 4,400 artists from the "Dictionary of British Miniature Painters" (first published.....
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press, 1999. Illustrated by Saxton Freymann & Joost Elffers. First Edition. Hardcover. Square quarto, 9-7/8 x 10-7/8", glossy pictorial paper over boards, pictorial endpapers, fully illustrated in vivid and moving color. Signed by both artists on the title page. First Edition. A......
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Illustrated by Herbert Tauss. Leatherbound. 6-1/8" x 9-3/8", xix, 570pp, gilt decorated brown full leather, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, moire endpapers, ribbon marker, index of first lines. From the Franklin Library limited edition series "100 Greatest Books of All Time." Edited by.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 taupe cloth, burgundy paper over boards, 230pp. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page. A hundred-year natural history of a meadow in the arid mountains of Colorado/Wyoming interwoven with a family’s struggle to live on an.....
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, (2006). First Edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo, black paper over boards, xx, 1189, afterword, note, index of titles, first lines, and original book sources. A compilation of the collected verse of Allen Ginsberg which includes all the poems from the earlier compilation "Collected Poems 1947-1980" and from.....
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 9-1/4 x 11-3/8", brown cloth, xiv, 194pp, author's annotations, appendixes (5), index of proper names, 19 contemporaneous photographs & images. Original draft facsimile of the groundbreaking and controversial work first published in 1956 by City Lights Books. Very fine, bright.....
Milano: Il Castello, 1991. Second Edition. Softcover. Quarto, 8-1/2 x 11-7/16", stiff pictorial wrappers, 103pp, instruction for folding 24 insects, sprig & leaf, 8pp color illustrations depicting folded menagerie. Graphic instruction on making of origami insects by origami master Alfredo Giunta. Among insects included: fly, common beetle, rhinoceros beetle, tropical.....
Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 10-1/4 x 13-1/8", black cloth, 272pp, decorated endpapers, 500 full-color reproductions. A major retrospective of the work of Milton Glaser executed over the last quarter century - ranging from well known products to newspapers, magazines, toys, textiles, interior design of restaurants.....
New York: Orion Books, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/4", 1/2 red cloth, black paper over boards, xii, 258pp, epilogue, acknowledgements, appendices, chapter notes, bibliography, index, illus. Inscribed on first free endpaper to "Bill..who can ask more questions than I can ever answer..." and signed by Doolittle.....
Kent: Kent State University Press, (2007). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, purple cloth, xix, 293pp, apps., index. The creators of Narnia and Middleearth, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, were close friends and colleagues who met frequently with a community of fellow writers at Oxford in the 1930s and.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 80pp, orange cloth. A stage play taken from the short novel "Envoy Extraordinary" and commissioned by Alastair Sim who played in the lead role - a Roman emperor who hosts a party at his summer home and entertains a discourse on.....
London: Faber and Faber LTD, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 233pp, blue cloth. When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 208pp, red cloth. Golding's third novel. A tale of survival and sanity – and ultimately a discourse on life itself. Uneven fading to cloth, a few small spots of foxing to endpapers and edges, very good in price-extant dust wrapper with.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo, 178pp, light green cloth. First Edition thus. Three short novels show Golding at his playful, ironic and mysterious best. In The Scorpion God we see the world of ancient Egypt at the time of the earliest pharaohs. Clonk Clonk is.....
London: William Pickering, 1839. Leatherbound with fore-edge painting. 4-1/8 x 6-1/2", blue full leather, raised bands, all edges gilt, frontis. engraved portrait of the poet with tissue guard, ribbon marker. With a fore-edge painting of a maritime scene. A crew of six men in a row boat with a sailing.....
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1991. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Collector's Library of Famous Editions. Leatherbound. 6-3/8 x 9-1/2", viii, 190pp, gilt decorated brown full leather, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, moire endpapers, ribbon marker. Collector’s Edition. Charmingly illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including 16 full-page watercolors and 14 line drawings.....
London: Academy Editions, 1995. Softcover. Quarto, 10 x 12", stiff pictorial wrappers with folding flaps, 128pp, over 200 illustrations, mostly in color. Architectural Monographs No 39. The work of Allan Greenberg who uses classical architectural themes in modern contexts. This monograph presents a range of the architect's work including residential.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 5-3/8 7-7/8", red cloth with black train motif spine and front board, 310pp, red top-edge. During a 3-day journey across Europe from Osten to Constantinople, a collection of passengers on the Orient Express come together in one.....
HBO Home Video / Time WArner, 2000. DVD Boxset. Boxset of 4 discs comprising 13 episodes plus special features, including: video interview with Sopranos creator David Chase by Peter Bogdanovich; 2 behind-the-scenes features, web-links and more. Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful daughter. .....
