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New York: McBride, Nast and Co.. Very Good+. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. House and Garden Making Books Series; (xii), 53 pages; Clean and secure in original light brown cloth binding with decorative stamping in dark brown of a row of cottages with trees and clouds, a garden trowel and stylized letters. Illustrated with b&w photographs. An informative and charming book, nicely designed and executed. OCLC identifier 7391871795 Grace Tabor (1874 -1971) was an American landscape architect, designer, writer, and editor. One of the first women to identify herself professionally as a landscape architect, Tabor was the author of many significant works on landscape design and horticulture. .

Paris: Librairie Mme ve Joubert. Very Good. 1853. Second Edition. Hardcover. 208 pages; Contemporary dark green half morocco over green and black pattern-printed boards, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt -- signed binding by Chatelin (stamp in tiny letters on the upper edge of the blank verso of the front free-endpaper). Minor rubbing and wear to the binding, especially at the corners and at the top of the spine, which is missing the top 2 mm. -- still quite handsome. The text shows light diffuse foxing throughout. Second edition, as stated on the title page. The first edition, published earlier in this same year of 1853, had 2 preliminary leaves and 200 pages and stated on the title page: "Thèse--Faculté des lettres de Paris." [see Carteret, II, p. 380 & Vicaire VII: col. 726-7]. There was a third edition, published in smaller format in 1861, under a slightly different title ('La Fontaine et ses Fables'). The author, whose first real book this… Read More

Washington DC: Broadcasting Publications, Inc.. Very Good. 1940. First Edition. Publishers wrappers. Washington DC: Very Good. 1940 & 2 issues 1939. First Edition. Broadcasting" -- the entire year 1940, two issues per month. Our file lacks the issue published May 15, 1940, but does include issues for November 15 and December 15, 1939. These issues are bound (using spring-steel clips at the gutter margins) with the first group of issues for 1940 (through February) . All have the front covers intact, but all but the issue for February 15, 1940 are lacking the rear covers. The issues for March through June are bound together using another clip, and the issues for July 1 through October 15, 1940, similarly bound using a third clip. The final four issues for the year 1940 are loose as issued in their original printed wrappers. Generally excellent condition, with a very few issues showing minor folds or short tears to the wrappers. "Broadcasting" magazine was founded in… Read More

Washington: Dumbarton Oaks. Near Fine. 2004. Hardcover. Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 57; 308 pages; Contents clean and tight in original green cloth binding, former owner's name on ffep. Contents include: KITZINGER, 1912-2003; SPIESER: Introduction; BARKER: Late Byzantine Thessalonike - A Second City's Challenges and Responses (Appendix 1: Late Byzantine Thessalonike: Chronological Highlights and Appendix 2: Interpretations of the Zealots); BAKIRTZIS: The Urban Continuity and Size of Late Byzantine Thessalonike; CURCIC: The Role of Late Byzantine Thessalonike in Church Architecture in the Balkans; JACOBY: Foreigners and the Urban Economy in Thessalonike, ca. 1150-ca. 1450; NECIPOGLU: The Aristocracy in Late Byzantine Thessalonike: A Case Study of the City's Archontes (Late 14th and Early 15th Centuries); TINNEFELD: Intellectuals in Late Byzantine Thessalonike; MORRISSON: The Emperor, the Saint, and the City: Coinage and Money in Thessalonike from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1965. First American Edition. Hardcover. (viii), 177, (7) pages; Clean and secure in original binding of green cloth spine over olive boards in very nice dustjacket with some wear at spine ends. OCLC 1297023019 Translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett. Ellen Raskin illustrated dust jacket. Tanizaki's tragicomic novel addressing themes of ageing and desire. .

Akron: Akron University Art Museum. Near Fine. 2007. First Edition. Paperback. 20 pages; Clean and tight in original glossy wrappers. An interesting exhibition catalogue of prime photographic works, including contributions by John Coplans, Samuel Fosso, Harry Callahan, Sophie Calle, Dieter Appelt, Gilbert & George, Robert Rauschenberg, etc. .

Paris: An VIII. Very Good+. 1800. Second Edition. Hardcover. 1 p.l., 8, 126 & (8, ads) pages; Contemporary binding: black (roan?) leather spine over black pattern-printed boards, flat spine with title and modest decorative stamping in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges of the text block decoratively sprinkled. A lovely binding of the early French Republic era, showing only minor rubbing along the edges (a bit of pinching at the center of the fore-edges of the covers -- probably tied up with string at some point). A fresh, pleasant copy, with a few leaves showing irregular deckle edges (and very thin paper on the second, "Italian" title page). This is a charming translation into French of a poem written by Luigi Tansillo, (first published in 1534). The author was born in Venosa in 1510 and died in 1568 in Teano (Caserta). He functioned both as a soldier in the armies of several rulers, among them Emperor Charles V and Don Pedro of Toledo, and as a court poet... not a common… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Doran, & Co. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1937. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Autograph; INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title. A novel about Mr. Rumbin, a New York art dealer, whose primary ambition is to move to Fifty-Seventh Street, his assistant Howard Cattlet and his secretary Georgina Horne. Tarkington was a connoisseur of antique furniture and paintings. He drew extensively from his dealings with the Silberman brothers of New York in writing this book. ; Signed by Author; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Original owner's name on ffep (dated 1927), toning to endpapers and foxing to foredge of pages. Dustjacket has some foxing and is toned at spine. The dustjacket has shallow chipping along top edge, corners and base of spine, faint stain at spine, tiny scratch at bottom of Ford Madox Ford's name on spine of dustjacket. Very scarce in dustjacket. A thirty-ish newspaperwoman from Dakota is assigned to cover the activities of Crystal Clemente after only one day on the staff of a Chicago newspaper. Through Crystal, a delightfully decadent socialite with an over-imaginative mother, the reporter is introduced to all that is chic and show in Chicago society. Taking place in the 1920s, One Crystal and a Mother is a tongue-in-cheek interpretation of the newly liberated Jazz Age woman. Wonderful review by Ford Madox Ford excerpted on DJ -- "Taylor's book is entirely admirable and… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean and tight in original plum cloth binding; dustjacket has some minor shallow chipping at spine ends, otherwise bright and fresh. Very scarce in dustjacket. A thirty-ish newspaperwoman from Dakota is assigned to cover the activities of Crystal Clemente after only one day on the staff of a Chicago newspaper. Through Crystal, a delightfully decadent socialite with an over-imaginative mother, the reporter is introduced to all that is chic and show in Chicago society. Taking place in the 1920s, One Crystal and a Mother is a tongue-in-cheek interpretation of the newly liberated Jazz Age woman. Wonderful review by Ford Madox Ford excerpted on DJ -- "Taylor's book is entirely admirable and absolutely astonishing. I have been reading manuscripts for ages past and I certainly never came across a first, or an early, novel that had one half its brilliance, its insight into… Read More

London: Hutchinson & Co.. Very Good. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 248 pages; INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on ffep -- "To my dear Godson / Coleman Jennings ' with the author's / affectionate respect / Jas B Taylor / 10/3/39" OCLC 504593501 Edited by Henry O'Kelly Webber. With 25 illustrations. Toning to titlepage from laid-in news clipping (a review of the book from the Cape Times, Apr. 8, 1939), otherwise clean and secure in orignal brown cloth binding. James Benjamin Taylor (1860 – 1944) was a South African Randlord (Rand Baron). Jim B. Taylor followed a familiar late 19th century route to great wealth – diamonds in Kimberley, gold in Barberton and Pilgrim's Rest and ending up on the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He became a confidant of President Paul Kruger of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and acted as intermediary between Kruger's government and the mining industry, making him privy to the political machinations leading to… Read More

Boston: Published and sold by James Loring. Very Good+. 1827. First American Edition. Hardcover. 114 & [2] pages; Original publisher's binding: boards, with the front board printed with a duplicate of the title page, green calf spine, "paneled" with pairs of gilt rules, title lettered in gilt directly in the second panel. Wood-engraved frontispiece plate signed by "H" [= Alonzo Hartwell]. First published at London by Taylor and Hessey in 1817 under the title: "Correspondence between a mother and her daughter at school." First American edition. OCLC Number: 191257598 (12 locations); Shoemaker 30762; Stewart, C.D. 'Taylors of Ongar' A20j. "Mrs. Taylor" (1757-1830) was the wife of Isaac Taylor of Ongar, an engraver and later a dissenting minister. Together, Ann and Isaac Taylor were the progenators of an extensive literary family, of which the best known member today is probably their daughter Jane, who wrote the words for the… Read More

St. Louis: Pet Milk Company. Very Good. 1956. Pamphlet. Form No. 9981; 15 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. Recipes include Cherry Cobbler, Date Pudding, Egg and Cheese Scallop, Chicken Baked Pork Chops, Peach Meringue Cake, etc. .

Philadelphia: Published by Collins and Croft. William Brown, printer. Very Good-. 1822. First American Edition. Hardcover. [4], 173, [2, blank] pages; Publisher's original grey paper-covered boards, somewhat later white fabric spine, edges uncut. A complete copy, with half title and a conjugate blank leaf following the final page - (forming an unopened pair across the top edges). There are faint splash stains on the boards, particularly the rear, and there is some light toning and scattered diffuse foxing throughout; mid-nineteenth century bookplate: "ALUMNI LIBRARY / THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, / Princeton, N.J." mounted to the front paste-down. Below this is mounted another printed label, marked with "Case, Shelf, and Book" numbers. Both these bookplates are crossed-stamped "DISCARD." There are no other stamps, perforations, card pockets, etc. This is one of two American editions published in 1822 of "Retrospection" by Mrs. Taylor; the first… Read More

Weisbaden: Printed for the author. Very Good. 1964. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Drawings; 82 pages; Original printed wrappers. A charming book written for families of American servicement stationed overseas in Europe (especially Germany). Filled with sage advice and humorous anecdotes. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Bruxelles - Brussels: Office de Publicité (Imprimerie J. Janssens). Very Good+. 1900. Second Edition. Hardcover. 102 & [1] pages; Bound in black crushed levant morocco, marbled endpapers, edges trimmed rough. The handsome binding has the binder's stamp "Rel. D. Robyn" in tiny letters on the blank recto of the rear free endpaper. Publisher's original pale yellow printed wrappers bound in. Frontispiece portrait of Pierre Tempels (depicting a sculpted plaque). Scarce second edition of this important contribution to the literature of Belgian free masonry. The long-lived author, Pierre Tempels [1825-1923] was Auditeur général militaire de l'armée Belge. There is handsome graphic evidence of his Masonic contributions in the form of a portrait medallion, issued in 1921. Binding handsome and clean. This undated second edition appeared circa 1900 - the text may never have been allowed to pass out of print. This is the first edition to… Read More

Bruxelles - Brussels: Librairie Européenne C. Muquardt. Very Good. 1888. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 62 & [1] pages; Bound in black half crushed levant morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, edges untrimmed. Publisher's original yellow printed wrappers bound in. Scarce first edition, published anonymously, of this important contribution to the literature of Belgian free masonry. The long-lived author, Pierre Tempels [1825-1923] was Auditeur général militaire de l'armée Belge. There is handsome graphic evidence of his Masonic contributions in the form of a portrait medallion, issued in 1921. Binding handsome and clean, the wrappers have minor edge wear and small tears (particularly the rear wrapper) and one leaf has a long interior (closed) tear, without loss. First of several editions - the text may never have been allowed to pass out of print. Subsequent editions have the author's name specified, but this 1888 first… Read More

Arlington: Privately Printed. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 200 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial boards in dustjacket with some edgewear and chipping at extremeties. Compiled from a series of a hundred articles which appeared weekly beginning in March 1957 on the editorial page of the Northern Virginia Sun. Illustrated with 190 photographs. .

Arlington: Privately Printed. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 200 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial boards in dustjacket with some edgewear and chipping at extremeties. Compiled from a series of a hundred articles which appeared weekly beginning in March 1957 on the editorial page of the Northern Virginia Sun. Illustrated with 190 photographs. .

London And New York: MacMillan. Very Good. 1893. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. xiii, (3), 374, (20) pages; Unmarked and secure in original dark green cloth binding with extensive gilt tooled decoration at spine and front board in a swirling pattern of acorns and leaves; dark green endpapers; all edges gilt; scattered foxing -- mostly limited to the blank versos of the endpapers and first and last few leaves of the text; light wear at corners. A very nice example of this lovely Victorian book presenting Tennyson's poems, accompanied by more than 50 wonderful woodcut illustrations after works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, J. E. Millais, W. H. Hunt, and other Pre-Raphaelites. The first edition of this book was published by E. Moxon in 1857. Simon Cooke's book 'The Moxon Tennyson: A Landmark in Victorian Illustration' (2021) asserts the Moxon edition was extremely influential, changing book design in fundamental ways. Some suggest it dramatically redefined the relationship… Read More