Search Results: Authors starting with U from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889. Tall thick 8vo. xii, 523, [1] pp. Woodcut engraved title, 109 text woodcut engraved plates, & text illustrations, 2 large folding maps (1 colour). Original publisher’s binding of pictorial cloth on front cover and spine of Alpine view in blues, whites & browns, gilt lettering on spine, green cloth back cover (minor darkening to spine, some minor shelfwear, rubbing), still VG- copy. First edition in English of this copiously illustrated 19th-century geography, topography, and travel guide through the Alps, which is still often used as reference work on the famed mountain range.

Freedom, Beaver County, PA: [The Freedom Casket Co., Manufacturers of Undertakers’ Supplies, 1902]. Oblong 4to. 13 x 10 in. 125 printed photographic plates, each w/ product number printed in lower margin of image, many w/ annotations as to pricing, and even burial notes. Original pebbled cloth post-binder, black ceramic topped screw posts at gutter margin (1 damaged), gilt lettering stamped on front cover, Heinn Company binder manufacturer label on rear pastedown dated 1902 (some minor soiling, edgewear, rubbing & dustsoiling to fore-edges of plates), still VG- copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce Edwardian salesman sample catalogue of caskets, and casket liners supplied by this noted Pennsylvania company at the beginning of the 20th century. The catalogue provides images of over 125 adult and children’s caskets supplied by the Freedom Casket Co., including those in quarter-sawn oak, square oak, Baker metallic grave vaults, rolled steel caskets, black broadcloth covered caskets, and… Read More

St. Louis, MO: Angelica Jacket Co., 1935. 4to. 9 x 12 in. [6], 14, [8], 15-29, [1] pp., 1st 4 pp. on pink colour-tinted paper, colour-illustrated throughout, double-page centerfold illustrations for Angelica wait staff uniforms inserted as landscape folio sheets (minor chipping & tears to fore-edges, corners, minor dustsoiling), still G copy. First edition of this brightly illustrated catalogue for uniforms and service apparel during the Great Depression, featuring stylish uniforms for men and women wait staff, as well as doctors, nurses, hospital attendants, utility dresses, chef’s aprons, and more. With most sewn from durable and long wearing cotton duck cloth, the company presents here multiple service ensembles for kitchen staff, dining rooms and taverns, many with decidedly Art Deco lines and patterns. The company originated in 1878 when Carmine Ostari Angelica (1850-1883) created an entirely new cook’s uniform for her husband Cherubino Angelica (d. 1898) while cooking for the railroad based… Read More

[St. Louis, MO: Angelica Jacket Co., 1929]. 4to. 9 x 12 in. 28 pp. Colour-illustrated title, colour-illustrated throughout, double-page centerfold illustrations for Angelica wait staff uniforms. Colour-illustrated softcovers, Art Deco Cover art w/ montage of wait staff, kitchen staff, and medical uniforms, photo illust. of women working the Angelica Factory on back cover (minor rubbing, edgewear, curling to fore-edge, minor dampsoiling to upper right corner), still G copy. First edition of this brightly illustrated catalogue for uniforms and service apparel during the 1920’s, featuring stylish uniforms for men and women wait staff, as well as doctors, nurses, hospital attendants, utility dresses, chef’s aprons, and more. With most sewn from durable and long wearing cotton duck cloth, the company presents here multiple service ensembles for kitchen staff, dining rooms and taverns, many with decidedly Art Deco lines and patterns. This catalogue presents colour buttons & piping to be added to white… Read More

Vienna, Austrian-Hungary: Photographie und Verlag der concessionirten Wiener Photographen-Association, 1873. Four stereoview albumen photographs sized 6 x 3 in. mounted on printed card stock sized 7 x 3.2 in. w/ photographer’s imprints & text w/in fore-edge borders, printed captions for 3 of four on versos (minor shelfwear, dustsoiling, 1 w/ minor staining to left fore-edge), still a nice set. Four very scarce albumen stereoview photographs visually capturing the Gallery of Fine Arts at the historic 1873 Universal Exhibition of Vienna, which was intended to mark the silver anniversary of Emperor Franz-Joseph I, and far surpassed any of the others in area with 233 hectares, featuring 53,000 exhibitors from 35 countries in 194 pavilions. Featuring the first appearance of the emerging Meiji-era Japan, along with many pavilions promoting the world’s progress in industry, art, education, and agriculture. The massive rotunda featured 70,000 square feet and a huge number of exhibits, including the… Read More

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1999]. 8vo. x, 307, [1] pp. Full green leather, elaborate gilt decoration front & back covers, raised bands & gilt lettering on spine, silk moire endpapers, a.e.g., NF copy, w/ Easton Press notes & COA of witness & Geoffrey P. O’Neill, Publisher w/ printed signatures, signed by Updike on limitation page, from the library of Robert A. Taylor, w/ bookplate on front pastedown. First Easton Press Signed Modern Classics Edition of the first title in the author’s “Rabbit” cycle.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 8vo. 173, [5] pp. Quarter-green cloth over green boards, silver lettrng, w/ d.j. cover art by Ilonka Karasz (slght shlfwr), NF/NF. First edition, stated of this novel set in southeastern Pennsylvania.

[Denver, CO]: W.H. Jackson & Co., Photographers of Rocky Mountain Scenery, [ca. 1885]. Three boudoir albumen photographs sized 4.5 x 7.5 in. mounted on thick photographer’s boards sized 5 x 8 in., titles neatly written within lower margin of negative, photographer’s studio stamp printed on versos, rounded corners (ever so slight toning to fore-edges of boards), NF set with excellent contrast and definition. These three scarce original albumen boudoir photos were amongst William Henry Jackson’s famed views of Colorado’s canyons, rivers, waterfalls, and mountains. The Curicante Needle image was shot along the Denver & Rio Grande Railway Tracks in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Colorado, and has been corrected from similar albumen photos taken and produced by Jackson which dropped off the “n” in Curicante. This view is not present in the Sample Album of Jackson’s work in the Denver Public Library, but is similar to the image later released in his stereoviews of Colorado. The Chipeta… Read More

London: Collins, [1948]. 8vo. 88 pp. Colour-illust. through out, illust. endpapers. Colour-illust. boards, slght shlfwr, VG. Early printing of this delightful children’s tale.