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David Williams, New York, 1893. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. I.P. HICKS. Builders' Guide, Comprising an Easy, Practical System of Estimating Material and Labor, New York: David Williams, 1893.12mo, pp. 160, brown cloth boards with blind-stamped framing gilt lettering on front, illustrated. Plenty of cost estimates that today's builders would fine amusing, such as: base molding, labor rate per foot, 2 cents. With a penciled estimate on the rear endpaper for an unknown project involving labor for 35 cents and 3.5 gallons of oil for $1.75.Condition of this book:Covers scuffed and discolored in spots, top edge darkened with small stains, a few leaves soiled by overall very good and sound. Shipments outside the U.S. may be subject to local taxes. Size: Duodecimo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean,… Read More

McDowell, Obolensky, New York, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Very Good. J.P. DONLEAVY. The Ginger Man, New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958.Octavo, first American edition, preceded by London and Paris releases, pp. xvi, 327, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, stamped figure of a tarot card on front, top edge tinted red. Train-wreck protagonist lives on his own amoral terms in Dublin.Condition of this book:Fine in very good jacket with a short tear in the rear panel. This is the first USA edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Humour; 1950s; Fiction. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55361. .

Photo-Text, Chicago, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. PALTRIDGE, GEORGE H. Photographic Instruction Text, Chicago: Photo-Text Press, 1900.12mo, first and only edition, pp. 237, xvi (ads), black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and upper panel, line drawings. The title says it all: this was basic training for the aspiring professional. See Roosens/Salu 6471.Condition of this book:Boards worn, minor bubbling in lower panel.Leaves clean and tight, edges darkened. Size: 12mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Photography; United States; 1900-1920; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52424. .

Delacorte, New York, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Signed by Author. ROBERT B. PARKER. All Our Yesterdays, New York: Delacorte Press, 1994.Octavo, first edition, pp. 401, paper-covered boards quarter-bound in gray cloth with red lettering lettering to spine, signed on the title page by Parker. Creator of the great Boston detective Spenser leaves him out of this saga of an Irish family.Condition of this book:Fine in fine jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0385304374. ISBN/EAN: 9780385304375. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55223. . 9780385304375

Delacorte, New York, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Signed by Author. ROBERT B. PARKER. A Catskill Eagle, New York: Delacorte Press, 1985.Octavo, first edition, pp. 311, paper-covered boards quarter-bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, signed on the title page by Parker. Spenser gets out of Boston, becomes a fugitive.Condition of this book:Fine in fine jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0385293852. ISBN/EAN: 9780385293853. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55344. . 9780385293853

Delacorte, New York, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. ROBERT B. PARKER. A Catskill Eagle, New York: Delacorte Press, 1985.Octavo, first edition, pp. 311, paper-covered boards quarter-bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spenser gets out of Boston, becomes a fugitive.Condition of this book:Fine in fine jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. ISBN: 0385293852. ISBN/EAN: 9780385293853. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55222. . 9780385293853

Delacorte, New York, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. ROBERT B. PARKER. A Catskill Eagle, New York: Delacorte Press, 1985.Octavo, first edition, pp. 311, paper-covered boards quarter-bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spenser gets out of Boston, becomes a fugitive.Condition of this book:Fine in fine jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55221. .

BBC, London, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. PARR, MARTIN. From A to B, tales of modern motoring, oblong octavo, first British edition, BBC, 1994, unpaginated with about 80 pages, illustrated wraps, color photos by Parr with text by Nicholas Barker. Released to accompany a BBC TV series, this book has become collectible in its own right because of Parr's eccentric subjects and his own authority as a photobook expert.Minor scuffing at bottom edge, else fine. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 72. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Photography; Britain/UK; 1990s; Automobiles & Vehicles. ISBN: 0563369841. ISBN/EAN: 9780563369844. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50085. . 9780563369844

Watch Hill Press, New York, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Asa Cheffetz. HELEN PEARCE. The Enchanted Barn, New York: Watch Hill Press, 1929.Tall octavo, No. 82 of an edition of 100 hand-printed copies, unpaginated 4-page poem, illustrated boards, woodcut frontispiece by Asa Chaffetz, signed in pencil by Cheffetz. Printed by Frederic Warde -- see Ransom Check Lists, Warde No. 110.Condition of this book:Spine cloth worn away but binding is tight. Covers' edges chipped, leaves age-toned, woodcut fine. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Illustrator: Asa Cheffetz. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; United States; 1920s; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not… Read More

St. Martin's, Melbourne, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. RIDLEY PEARSON. Never Look Back, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.Octavo, first edition, pp. 310, orange cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Author's debut thriller; he would have a long and successful career.Condition of this book:Near fine (waterstain on rear panel) in near fine jacket (spine faded, back panel ruffled). Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; United States; 1980s; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0312564759. ISBN/EAN: 9780312564759. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55244. . 9780312564759

John Murray, London, 1808. Early Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. RICHARD PEARSON, M.D. A Practical Synopsis of the Materia Alimentaria and the Materia Medica, London: Baldwin and John Murray, 1808.Octavo, new edition (Pearson used a pseudonym for a version released 10 years earlier), pp. viii, 535, 1 (ad), brown paper-covered boards half bound in brown calf with gilt lettering and rules to spine. Surprisingly rare: not in Garrison-Morton, OCLC and the NUC turn up no copies.Preface says the book is intended to give "a precise account of such substances from the Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral Kingdom, as are used either for food or medicine." Covers nutrition and remedies for various maladies.Condition of this book:Very good with a few stains to the covers and the fore edge, scattered minor foxing throughout. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining… Read More

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Fine Condition/Near Fine. PENN, IRVING. Moments Preserved, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.Folio, first edition, pp. 183, cream-colored cloth boards with black lettering to spine, color and gravure illustration, pamphlet issued for Penn's 1960 show at Iolas Gallery is laid in here. Penn's first book and probably his most enthusiastically collected. Roth, p. 158: "Penn reinvented the classic daytime studio portrait for a more casual time, undercutting its formality but heightening its potential as a revealing performance." Also see Frizot's New History of Photography, p. 550: "The apparent simplicity of Irving Penn's compositions conceals a formal complexity. It is the result of the particular elegance of the model's outline, of the abstract interplay of lines and shapes, of empty and filled space."Condition of this book:Fine in lightly worn, bright… Read More

Godine, Boston, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. PEREC, GEORGES. Life, A User's Manual, Boston: David R. Godine, 1987.Octavo, first English language edition, first American edition, pp. (xvii), 581, quarter-bound in black cloth over gray paper-covered boards, fine copy in near-fine dust jacket. Translated from French by David Bellos.Condition of this book:Near fine dust jacket shows light wear, no tears.All else fine. This is the first USA edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). (xvii), 581. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; France; 1980s; Fiction. ISBN: 0879237007. ISBN/EAN: 9780879237004. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50603. . 9780879237004

Duschnes Crawford, New York, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Leonard Pytlak. The New Colophon, Part 1, New York: Duschnes Crawford, 1948.Quarto, pp. 107, printed boards. Includes an untitled Leonard Pytlak serigraph measuring almost 8x11 inches, commemorating 10 years of serigraphy, a stencil process that succeeded pochoir.Condition of this book:Fine. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Illustrator: Leonard Pytlak. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; United States; 1940s; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55460. .

Pynson Printers, New York, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Emil Ganso. The Colophon, A Book Collectors' Quarterly, Part 13, New York: Pynson Printers, 1933. Quarto, unpaginated, printed boards, parchment wrapper. Includes the Emil Ganso woodcut Bathers, measuring about 7x9 inches on thin japan paper in rich, dark tones. Ganso was a German-born American artist whose work is widely held by museums and print collectors. He's best-known for his erotic figures.Condition of this bookNear fine, touch of soiling at top edge. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Illustrator: Emil Ganso. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; United States; 1930s; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already… Read More

Groton School, Massachusetts, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. [Periodicals.] Third Form Weekly, 31 issues bound together, Massachusetts: Groton School, 1928-29Octavo, 4 to 12 pages per issue, navy cloth boards half-bound in navy morocco, halftone photos, 2 silver gelatin frontispiece photos, a few pencil marks in text. Fine-quality student newspaper; graduating class included Eliot Roosevelt, a future president's son and respected historical writer. Former owners' names (2 Auchinclosses) on free front endpaper.Condition of this book:Spine sunned, with losses at ends, rubbed corners, overall very good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text contains minor marks and annotations. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; United States; 1920s; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not… Read More

Pynson Printers, New York, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Howard Cook. The Colophon, A Book Collectors' Quarterly, Part 3, New York: Pynson Printers, 1930.Quarto, unpaginated, printed boards. Includes the Howard Cook woodcut Paris Night, a street scene measuring about 6x3.75 inches, beautifully printed with deep, rich tones on thin japan paper. Cook was an American artist valued especially for his wood engravings, making this a fine addition to any modern print collection.Condition of this book: The parchment wrapper is floppy, with tears; all else fine. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Illustrator: Howard Cook. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; United States; 1930s; Art & Design. Pictures of this… Read More

Pynson Printers, New York, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. The Colophon, A Book Collector's Quarterly, Part 14, New York: Pynson Printers, 1933.Quarto, unpaginated, printed boards, with newsletter distributed with this issue. Includes the Earl Horter aquatint Bookshop, signed by Horter in pencil. Horter (1880-1940) was a Philadelphia artist, widely collected and the subject of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's show "Mad for Modernism."Condition of this book:Fine, missing the front panel of the parchment wrapper. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; United States; 1930s; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.… Read More

Pynson Printers, New York, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Rockwell Kent. The Colophon, A Book Collector's Quarterly, Part 2, New York: Pynson Printers, 1930.Quarto, unpaginated, printed boards. Includes the Rockwell Kent lithograph called An Unpublished Drawing.Condition of this book: Fine, tears in the parchment wrapper. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Illustrator: Rockwell Kent. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; United States; 1930s; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55453. .

Stone & Kimball, Chicago, 1895. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. [Periodicals.] The Chap-Book Semi-monthly, Chicago: Stone & Kimball, Sept. 15, 1895.12mo, pp. 326-371, wrappers, illustration by George Pissaro, Frank Hazenplug and Fred Richardson."The Chap-Book started a small magazine craze in the U.S. and gave a strong impetus to modern graphic design," says Richard and Elaine Russell's "Vintage Magazines," p. 149. Also, "It was a finely printed, small format literary periodical with avant garde illustrations." Its goal was to promote Stone & Kimball authors, but it is probably best known today for Will Bradley's large, colorful art nouveau posters advertising the magazine.Condition of this book:Very good, some darkening to the covers, covers starting to split at spine. Size: 12mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is… Read More