Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/8" X 5 5/8". x, 280pp. Ex-Railroad Branch Library of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of New York City, with associated stamps, labels, and library card. Orange cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in black. Moderate... More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1933. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5". xxx, 243pp. Green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt and publisher's device stamped in blind to upper board. Moderate wear to binding, with bumping and light fraying to extremities, sunning to spine, and light scattered... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1921. Fourth Impression. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/8". 125pp. Lacking dust jacket. Blue paper over boards, stamped in orange to upper board and spine. Mild edgewear to binding, with small tear to bottom corner of upper board and bumping to extremities. Foxing to edges... More
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1923. Hardcover. 8" X 5 5/8". lvi, 776pp. Blue cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, sith bumping to corners and fraying to head of spine. Hinges tender. Toning to endpapers. Previous owner's inscription to front... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1943. First Edition. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". 111pp. Printed, oversize wraps show moderate wear, with sunning and creasing to spine and extremities, small tears to head and tail of spine and edges, and toning. Previous owner's name to front pastedown and pencilled notes... More
Dallas: University Press in Dallas, Southern Methodist University, 1943. Paperback. 9" X 6". 111pp. Printed blue wraps show moderate wear, with sunning to spine and creasing to corners. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very nice 1943 printing of this guide to the Southwest in history and... More
New York: The Literary Guild of America, 1931. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xv, 367pp. Lacking dust jacket. Orange cloth over boards, with upper board stamped with treasure chest in gilt and spine lettered in kind. Moderate edgewear to binding, with sunning to spine. Toning to endpapers featuring map... More
New York: Bramhall House, 1939. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xvii, 366pp. Presumed first printing, with full letter line to copyright page. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, with rubbing to extremities and toning to flaps. Pink cloth over boards, with visage stamped in black to upper... More
New York: Bramhall House, 1952. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 7/8". xvii, 376pp. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, with sunning to spine, rubbing to extremities, and faint scattered rubbing. Orange cloth over boards, with spine lettered in black. Mild edgewear to binding, firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and... More
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 185pp. Ex-U.S. Army, Post Library of Fort Myer, Virginia, with associated stamps and library card envelope. Lacking dust jacket. Gray cloth over boards, with spine lettered in green. Dampstain to bottom corner of upper board, heavy... More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 5/8". xiii, 210pp. Signed by Vincent Starrett. Appears to be from the library of writer Vincent Starrett (1886–1974), with his iconic Sherlockian bookplate, designed by Fridolf Johnson in 1931, to front pastedown and his signature... More
Oviedo: Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1953. Hardcover. 9 5/8" X 6 5/8". 447pp. Text in Spanish. Contemperaneous binding by The National Library Binding Co., with original order form laid in. Red buckram over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild shelfwear to binding, with heavy dust spotting to rear board... More
Chicago: Argonaut Publishers, 1964. Stated First American Edition, also New and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 8 7/8". xvi, 439pp. Rose red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Moderate edgewear to binding, with sunning to spine. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Toning to endpapers. Binding is... More
Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press, 1998. Sixteenth Printing. Hardcover. 10 3/4" X 9". 197pp. Signed by Edward R. Tufte at title page. Notes in ink to endpapers from previous owner attending a lecture by Edward R. Tufte in San Francisco, December 1998: "An Education for Information Design," with annotated information sheet... More
New York: The Judge Company, 1909. Tamerlane Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 4 3/4" each. Various paginations. Set presents nicely with each volume enclosed in protective archival sleeve. Green cloth over boards, with Hellenic silhouette stamped in black to upper boards, likely publisher's device, and two ravens facing each other... More
Salt Lake City, Utah: The Movable Book Society, 2018. Limited Edition. Cards. Box: 9" X 4 7/10" X 6 9/10". Cards: 6" X 8". Issued in honor of the 25th anniversary of The Movable Book Society in a limited edition of only 2,000 copies, this is a special collection of... More
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017. Paperback. 8" X 8". 94pp. Signed by Eve L. Ewing to title page. A beautiful signed copy of Eve L. Ewing's visionary poetry debut. ABOUT ELECTRIC ARCHES: "Original meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice. Electric... More
Toronto: Anansi International, 2018. Hardcover. 14 1/2" X 10 3/4". 128pp. Please note, this copy of The Lost Words is reduced from the publisher's price of $35.00 due to bumps to edges and corners, light dust soiling, a small mark to edge of text block, and other cosmetic flaws. ABOUT THE... More
Koln: Taschen GmbH, 2019. Hardcover. 11 2/5" X 15 3/5". 560pp. Presents nicely in publisher's custom box with carrying handle, still in publisher's wrap. This stunning exploration of the world's most beautiful libraries ("a bibliophilic beauty pageant") by masterful Italian architectural photographer Massimo Listri is sure to please the most... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/8" X 6". ix, 274pp. Bound in red cloth over boards stamped in gilt to upper board and spine. Mild edgewear to binding, with gentle bumping to extremities, dimming to gilt at spine, and a touch of dust soiling... More
Norman, Oklahoma; New York: The University of Oklahoma Press; The MacMillan Company, 1959, 1961, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Each about 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xix, 463pp; x, 354pp; x, 610pp. Each volume first edition, first printing. Moderate wear to dust jackets, The Old-Time Cowhand price-clipped, with occasional small tear... More
Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1947-1961. Hardcover. 14 1/8" X 10 3/4". 60-72 each. Volumes Seventeen, Twenty-One, and Thirty-One are bound in pictorial wraps and are second editions, and Volumes Nineteen, Twenty, and Twenty-One are bound in blue cloth over boards with pictorial title labels to upper boards and are first... More
New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1938. Hardcover. 5 1/2" X 7 1/4". Unpaginated. Ex-Allen Park School Library, with associated stamps. Printed cloth over boards. Heavy wear to binding, with cloth backing spine torn away and spine exposed, soiling, scattered rubbing, fraying, and edges and extremities rubbed to boards. Hinges... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1958. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 7/8". 209pp. Rather heavy wear to price-clipped dust jacket featuring art by Alex Schomburg, with open tears to edges and extremities, scattered rubbing, dust soiling, and sunning to spine. Red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in yellow... More
London; New York: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.; E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1933. Hardcover. 6 7/8" X 4 3/8". 303pp, plus fine fold-out map of Nuremberg and laid in German postcard. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket, with foxing, small tears to extremities, and shallow chipping to... More
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