The St. Catherine Press, 1910. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. This Complete Peerage set, a "comprehensive and magisterial work on the titled aristocracy of the British Isles", is the complete second edition published 1910-1940 with the 1998 addenda & corrigenda. It has 14 volumes whereas the first had 8. Volume XII is.....
1983. Hardcover. Lavishly produced history of Sanwa Bank, marking its 50th anniversary in 1983, tracing the history of more than three hundred years of banking in Japan. From banking in the Edo, Meigi, Taisho and Showa periods to the rise of computers. Green cloth covered boards in a green slipcase.....
Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas, 1960. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, with no further printings noted. Faint scuffs and slight wear to edges of sturdy green cloth boards; interior clean and unmarked. ix, 261pp. 9.25 x 6.25"
2015. Hardcover. An homage to the Spanish Guitar Centre, drawing on material collected by the founder Peter Burr and published after his death. Glossy hardcovers, pages bright and unmarked. 428pp. Bilingual. 10.5 x 9.75 x 1.25. As a large, heavy book this order will be packed carefully and may incur.....
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition in unclipped jacket. Wear to corners and head of spine. Slight bumping to corners of bright turquoise covers. Top edge stained grey, slightly faded. Previous owner's initials and date in pencil on the endpaper, along with an evocative.....
Chronicle Books, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A beautifully photographed and extensively researched work on the wardrobe of Frieda Kahlo, begun after the unsealing of her personal dressing room. From the jacket: "Frida Kahlo brought the same rule-breaking genius and eye for vivid color to her personal appearance that she did.....
Cecil Palmer, 1920. Soft cover. A charming story of a brother and sister's musings about life while star-gazing. 6" x 4". Stated first edition. Green paper wrappers with circular yellow pictorial pastedown, dark green titles to front wrapper and spine. Half-title, printer's stamp, full-title, copyright page, 5-68. Condition: Spine of.....
Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition, SIGNED on the half title page by Julia Child. Building upon her television show, Child offers 150 recipes from 26 master chefs, resulting in "a celebration of food in America today". Unclipped glossy jacket with slightest creasing to edges;.....
Pearson, 1997. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Pages are clean and unmarked.
London: Lawler and Quick, 1823. Hardcover. An attack on the gaming clubs of London, controversial when it was published. As in most copies, pages 311-428 were redacted, containing the chapter naming "Evil-disposed persons". Hand coloured frontispiece "La Roulette" depicts fashionable gamblers. Touches on law, mathematics, and morality. Jessel 459. Contemporary.....
Internacional, 1950, San Sebastián. - 30x24. Encuadernación editorial. Ilustrado con 159 láminas en huecograbado, 6 láminas a todo color y 96 fotograbados. 1950. Hardcover. Biography of the spanish painter Ignacio Zuloaga. Comes with Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket is white with a color portrait of Ignacio Zuloaga pasted on the front.....
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. Fred Meyer. Leather Bound. A collection of 7 books, which includes all 5 of the great American author's novels as well as 2 of his short story collections. The books are beautifully leather-bound and illustrated, with clean and unmarked pages. Novels included: This Side.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition, in this case understood to indicate a second state, the first state omitting the statement. The "great Overdog" of Canis Major "roams" rather than "romps through the dark" on page 44, an error corrected in later printings.....
John Howell - Books [Designed and Printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy], 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Original heavy blue jacket, with spine slightly faded. Red cloth and gilt bright. Offsetting to endpapers. Pages bright, unmarked, unopened and apparently unread. Faint spots of foxing to top edge. 10 x 6.25"...
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Joliet: The P.F. Volland Company, 1926. Gruelle, Johnny. Hardcover. Stated "fourteenth edition", in original box. Damage to edges of box, with tears to right side panel and loss to the right side of the lower tray. Slight fading to paper-covered spine. Pages bright. Unpaginated. Introduced as "the Mammy of Raggedy.....
Griffin, Bohn, and Company, 1862. Hardcover. As described by the publishers, the book "completes the series of papers on the lower phases of London Life, so ably commenced by Mr. Henry Mayhew". The book is a "complete account of the Criminal Prisons of London", based on investigations within the prisons.....
The Olympia Press, 1958. Soft cover. After his return from Paris, Henry Miller wrote this novella about his in Paris in the early 1930s, when he and Alfred Perlès shared an apartment in Clichy as struggling writers. Description: Second printing. 6.75" x 4.25". Original grey, black, and yellow wrappers over.....
New York: C. P. Farrell, 1892. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Expanded fifth edition of a collection of selections from the writing and oratory of Robert Ingersoll. The preface declares "The publisher alone is responsible for the selection of material in this volume. It has required no special skill to.....
VANGUARD PRODUCTIONS, 2008. Hardcover. Details in full color the revered, enigmatic universe of artist, Frank Frazzeta. Includes illustrations of comic strips, commercial art, movie poster art, book cover art. Printed during Halloween 2008. Introduction by David Winiewicz. Book is almost like new. Pages are clean and unmarked.
Hardcover. Bright red covers. Bilingual limited edition "book" issued by coin dealers, with each thick leaf offering a portrait and brief account of an emperor's reign, with a mounted coin from the period. 9.25 x 6.25"
London: I.H. for Ed. Brewster, 1628. Hardcover. 8" x 13" 'Joseph Hall, was born July 1 in 1574, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England and died Sept. 8, 1656 in Higham, Norfolk. He was an English bishop, moral philosopher, and satirist, remarkable for his literary versatility and innovations.' Bookplate on pastedown. Minor scuffing.....
HP Books, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An intimate chinese cookbook, celebrating the passing down of recipes through the generations. The dust jacket on this copy has a tear on the top left edge of the spine as well a tear on the back, upper left edge. The dust jacket is.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. Grant, Gordon. 1st Edition. Hardcover. BAL11960. Illustrated covers bright, with small patches of loss to post-apocalyptic orange sky. Spine slightly faded, with slight wear and fraying at the head. Orange illustrated endpapers. Small embossed stamp from prior owner on free endpaper. 181, [1], 6.....
Bluecoat Press, 2021. Hardcover. A record of the extraordinary life and career of the photographer Marilyn Stafford. Illustrated covers, with significant bump to lower outer corner of both the front and back boards and leaving a slight corresponding wave to the lower corner of the pages (see photos). 228pp. 11.....
Los Angeles, CA: Grafton Publishing Company, 1911. Leather Bound. History of California from the early 20th century includes description of its physical beauty, its legends and traditions, the story of the missions, the history of the Spanish and Mexican eras, the Gold Rush, the Bear Flag Republic, and California's admission.....