Under an Aztec Sun by Doerr, Harriet - 1990

This volume contains a record of the "happenings" at a little white schoolhouse on two days separated by 50 years. It also includes letters from the "outside world" and contributed accounts of blizzards, storms grasshopper blights and fires. Acknowledgements made to local residents for pictures and stories.. special recognition to University Publishing Co.,Lincoln, NE for the use " Nebraska Old and New"and to the Rev Wesley children for use of their book, "A Frontier Life"

New York: Harry N. Abrams, , 1969. 325 fascinating b/w photographs giving a unique and intimate insight in to the Republican and Democratic conventions of 1968. In publisher's blue/green cloth with gilt, inside its dust jacket. Very good condition dust jacket, with lightly bumped corners (one has a very small closed tear shown in photographs). Book itself is in a fine condition. David Douglas Duncan was an American photojournalist renowned for his photographs of combat situations in the Vietnam War, during which he was an officer in the Marine Corps. His camera of choice was the Nikon F. This was Nikon's first SLR camera, and one of the most advanced cameras of its day. 240 pages. 360 x 285 mm (14¼ x 11¼ inches).

A FINE FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET SIGNED BY THE ARTIST

New York: Macmillan, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First Smerican edition. Book is As New, crisp and clean. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright. Illustrated. 8vo. 214 pp. including index.

1 leaf, verso blank. Sydm. Edwards del.; Pub. S. Curtis Walworth, July 1, 1812. F. Sansom Sc. No 1472. A hand-colored engraving of the herb Syringa inodora, or Philadelphus inodora, in the Hydrangea family.

Berlin, Propyläen-Verlag, n.d. (1923?). 57pp. text + 55 full-page facsimiles (several in colour) and 18 facs. of initials in the text. Sm. folio. Halfcloth (rebacked).

Boston: Little, Brown, 1959. First Edition. 2nd State. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. First Edition, second state, with the dedication page tipped in. Just a bit of rubbing to the jacket spine, else both the volume and jacket are near fine in all respects.

Albany, NY, 1902. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. Staple-bound pamphlet. 9"x5 3/4". 8 pp. No wraps as issued. Small chip to upper right corner of first page. Light toning to edges and margins. 1" closed tear at bottom of crease. This is a report read at a New York State conference on penal reform in 1902. It was prepared and presented by committe chariman and progressive reformer Eugene Ambrose Philbin, cowritten by 8 other noted activist leaders, including Josephine Shaw Lowell and William Church Osborn. The report admonishes the presence of politics and profiteering in the administration of prisons and charitable organizations, the first seeds of corruption that have now blossomed into America's billion dollar prison industrial complex. The pamphlet reads today as an early warning and somewhat naive call to action, concluding with the hope that if earnest workers were to make a "black-list, which would contain the names of all politicians who sought to use the alms of the poor for their… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905. First edition. 1905 TWO GEOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF FOSSILS AND MAPS OF ALASKA REFLECT THE US GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT TO SCIENCE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. Two monographs of the United States Geological Survey: Professional Papers 40 and 41, bound together. 11 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black buckram binding, paper labels to spine, bookplate of Library of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences to front paste-down, 214 pp text, 85 lithographic plates with facing descriptive text; 133 pp, publications of the USGS, 3 pp, 20 photographic plates and maps (some folding). ALPHEUS HYATT (1839-1902) became a professor of paleontology and zoology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1870, where he taught for eighteen years, and was professor of biology and zoology at Boston University from 1877 until his death in 1902. He also served as curator of the Boston Society of Natural History. Hyatt studied under Louis… Read More

London: Unit Editions, 2021. 1st ed. Paperback. New/no dj as issued. A long overdue book examining the extraordinary life and work of artist/designer Ed Fella. Ed Fella is revered by many of the leading names in contemporary design. Now, at long last, there is a book that charts Ed's journey from the commercial design studios of 1950s Detroit to his current position as a widely celebrated artist/designer. Ed Fella: A Life in Images makes extensive use of his vast treasure store of visual delight: it showcases flyers, posters, original sketches, drawings, Polaroids and collages, as well as items from Ed's collection of vernacular design. The book makes unrestricted use of Ed's vast archive. David Cabianca, the book's co-author and its instigator, has surveyed the archive in depth. He writes: "Ed Fella's archive is legion. It branches into numerous streams while sustaining a robust trail of examples along the way. Fella's archive exhausts the possibilities one might find in graphic design. Ed Fella… Read More