Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization by Fuller, R. Buckminster - 1962

New York, New York / Bombay, India: Longmans, Green, And Co.. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1902. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 106 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1.2: KB#010210: No Jacket As Issued. Book binding is spine and quarter cream paper with blue cloth boards (with gilt ship embossed on front cover) plus decorated gilt lettered spine. Top edge of page block is gilt. Book is protected in a custom brown cloth gilt-lettered clamshell book box. Copy has prior owner's bookplate (Oliver Brett) neatly affixed to front endpaper and a stamp on front flyleaf, p. 103, and rear endpaper of "College For Working Women", along with a "Bought Davis 1921 and K195" notation at the front. Otherwise, clamshell box, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Has a tissue-protected frontispiece illustration about twenty dancing fairies by Richard Doyle, entitled "Under the Dock Leaves." This… Read More

Patavi (Padua): Petri Mariae Frambotti 3rd edition with large additions.., 1685. Hardcover. Good. Copperplates (frontis of 3 male figures & Minerva on architectural stage + 50 plates & 2 text illustratations by Ruffonus, Gio. Georg or unsigned.. Three Books in One quarto vellum-spined thin pasteboard covers (tips bumped covers damp marked). Engraved title + printed title with woodcut PFM printer's mark (Minerva with owl) +3 full page plates preceding dedication leaf +[6]ppprelims +261p; Titlepage to "Pars Altera Libri Quatuor" with larger PFM Minerva printer's mark signed DR +[6]pp prelims +213pp + [21]pp indices +"Analecta de Re Vestiaria sive exercitationes ad Albert Rubenius Commentarium, accessit dissertatio De Veterum Lucernis" with repeat of printer's mark of 1st titlepage +[10]pp prelims + 155pp +Titlepage to De Veterum Lucernis with printer's mark +39pp +[16]pp index + multi folding copy of a Latin inscription. Neat early MS note in Latin on flyleaf about placing of 2 plates.The plates… Read More

Hurst & Blackett, LONDON, Ltd. Publ. Paternoster House, E. C. ., 1923 HBDJ, 1923. 1st British Edition, VG/GOOD+, Blue Decorated Cloth Hard Cover Boards light Rub, Wear, & Tiny Corner Ding, Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD+ with Lite Soil wear & small chips Tears Edges. . Book is very clean, bright, tight and square. Tiny amount of wear at bottom of spine and bottom corners. Lovely copy. Dust wrapper is not clipped, is faded on the spine. Also has a small piece missing across top of spine (about 1/8" deep) and a rectangular piece about 1"x1/4" missing from top of rear panel. Closed tear about 2" long at bottom of rear panel. Enclosed in protective clear film Mylar . This original dust wrapper is very scarce. Unusual to find such a lovely copy in the original jacket. 5.6 X 3.5 inches Light Wear, Interior Nice Tight with Light FOXing , Wear, Back DJ small Tear Chips, DJ Spine FADE & ends tiny Chipping, , 143 pgs , NO Ads in Back, , then at… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 84x9x127. Signed by author. First edition. Signed and dated by author on half-title page (March, 1994), inscription ('For Dr. Ron Rigli') appears to have been added in a separate hand. Certificate of authenticity from an auction company laid in. 1991 Hard Cover. 119 pp. 8vo.. Translated from the original Russian by Alexis Klimoff. A collection of essays on various topics by the author of Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Orleans, MA: Parnassus Imprints, 1992. Approximately 7 1/4 x 7 1/4". LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies, this being #165. Black paper covered slipcase in fine condition. Illustrated paper wrappers, includes a signed and numbered previously unpublished print laid in which bears the same signature and number as on the colophon of the book, all in fine condition. (Toledano A104a)Edward Gorey (1925 - 2000) was an American artist and writer, best known for his eccentric imagery and stories, often set in Victorian and Edwardian settings. This book covers seven series of Dogear Wryde (an anagram of Gorey's name) postcards and includes: Scenes de Ballet, Menaced Objects, Alms for Oblivion, Interpretive Series, Neglected Murderesses, Tragedies Topiares, and Whatever Next? Some cards are captioned and some are not. A lovely example of the wide range of Gorey artwork and macabre humor

New York, New York / Bombay, India: Longmans, Green, And Co.. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1902. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 106 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1.2: KB#010210: No Jacket As Issued. Book binding is spine and quarter cream paper with blue cloth boards (with gilt ship embossed on front cover) plus decorated gilt lettered spine. Top edge of page block is gilt. Book is protected in a custom brown cloth gilt-lettered clamshell book box. Copy has prior owner's bookplate (Oliver Brett) neatly affixed to front endpaper and a stamp on front flyleaf, p. 103, and rear endpaper of "College For Working Women", along with a "Bought Davis 1921 and K195" notation at the front. Otherwise, clamshell box, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Has a tissue-protected frontispiece illustration about twenty dancing fairies by Richard Doyle, entitled "Under the Dock Leaves." This… Read More

Patavi (Padua): Petri Mariae Frambotti 3rd edition with large additions.., 1685. Hardcover. Good. Copperplates (frontis of 3 male figures & Minerva on architectural stage + 50 plates & 2 text illustratations by Ruffonus, Gio. Georg or unsigned.. Three Books in One quarto vellum-spined thin pasteboard covers (tips bumped covers damp marked). Engraved title + printed title with woodcut PFM printer's mark (Minerva with owl) +3 full page plates preceding dedication leaf +[6]ppprelims +261p; Titlepage to "Pars Altera Libri Quatuor" with larger PFM Minerva printer's mark signed DR +[6]pp prelims +213pp + [21]pp indices +"Analecta de Re Vestiaria sive exercitationes ad Albert Rubenius Commentarium, accessit dissertatio De Veterum Lucernis" with repeat of printer's mark of 1st titlepage +[10]pp prelims + 155pp +Titlepage to De Veterum Lucernis with printer's mark +39pp +[16]pp index + multi folding copy of a Latin inscription. Neat early MS note in Latin on flyleaf about placing of 2 plates.The plates… Read More

Hurst & Blackett, LONDON, Ltd. Publ. Paternoster House, E. C. ., 1923 HBDJ, 1923. 1st British Edition, VG/GOOD+, Blue Decorated Cloth Hard Cover Boards light Rub, Wear, & Tiny Corner Ding, Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD+ with Lite Soil wear & small chips Tears Edges. . Book is very clean, bright, tight and square. Tiny amount of wear at bottom of spine and bottom corners. Lovely copy. Dust wrapper is not clipped, is faded on the spine. Also has a small piece missing across top of spine (about 1/8" deep) and a rectangular piece about 1"x1/4" missing from top of rear panel. Closed tear about 2" long at bottom of rear panel. Enclosed in protective clear film Mylar . This original dust wrapper is very scarce. Unusual to find such a lovely copy in the original jacket. 5.6 X 3.5 inches Light Wear, Interior Nice Tight with Light FOXing , Wear, Back DJ small Tear Chips, DJ Spine FADE & ends tiny Chipping, , 143 pgs , NO Ads in Back, , then at… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 84x9x127. Signed by author. First edition. Signed and dated by author on half-title page (March, 1994), inscription ('For Dr. Ron Rigli') appears to have been added in a separate hand. Certificate of authenticity from an auction company laid in. 1991 Hard Cover. 119 pp. 8vo.. Translated from the original Russian by Alexis Klimoff. A collection of essays on various topics by the author of Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Orleans, MA: Parnassus Imprints, 1992. Approximately 7 1/4 x 7 1/4". LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies, this being #165. Black paper covered slipcase in fine condition. Illustrated paper wrappers, includes a signed and numbered previously unpublished print laid in which bears the same signature and number as on the colophon of the book, all in fine condition. (Toledano A104a)Edward Gorey (1925 - 2000) was an American artist and writer, best known for his eccentric imagery and stories, often set in Victorian and Edwardian settings. This book covers seven series of Dogear Wryde (an anagram of Gorey's name) postcards and includes: Scenes de Ballet, Menaced Objects, Alms for Oblivion, Interpretive Series, Neglected Murderesses, Tragedies Topiares, and Whatever Next? Some cards are captioned and some are not. A lovely example of the wide range of Gorey artwork and macabre humor