Baby Tattoo Books, 2016. Hardcover. 12"x12". Limited to a run of 2,000 copies, this beautifully printed collection commemorates the exhibition organized by the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art to mark the first ten years of Hi-Fructose. The book includes work from all 51 artists included in the exhibition. With an.....
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1929. Hardcover. 7.5"x5.25". 'Virginia Sullivan (Tomlinson) who wrote this book - whose book this is - Salutes you! June 1929' A signed copy of a rarely encountered work. An entertaining mystery, comic adventure and romance set aboard a cruise ship. When the heroine Dennis takes a......
London: Viking, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 9"x5.5". A first edition, first printing of the first novel in Kerr's Berlin Noir Trilogy, introducing the detective Bernie Gunther. Kerr exploits the conventions of the hardboiled detective genre by placing his private detective in Nazi Berlin - attempting to find missing people in.....
Andesite Press, 2015. Hardcover. Third edition. 1947.
Packt Publishing, 2013. Paperback. Clean and unmarked, almost like new.
New English Library, 1979. Hardcover. Clean and unmarked, except for owner's name on FEP.
Gaia Books, 1999. Paperback. Almost like new. Clean and unmarked.
Rowland Ward Publications, 2006. Hardcover. This most long-lasting work by British taxidermist Rowland Ward became a "who's who" of big game hunting among celebrities. This is the 27th edition of 2006, with both volumes numbered out of 1500. 11" x 8 ½". Brown cloth boards with gilt titles to front.....
Opus Arte, 2006. DVD. 6.75"x5.5"x7.75". Recordings of 11 complete operas on twelve discs, from archive recordings of performances from the Teatro alla Scala. All discs and pamphlets are present. A great opportunity to view both old favorites and rarely performed operas. Includes: Verdi, 'I Vespri Siciani'; Verdi 'I due Foscari';.....
Gemstone Publishing, 2007. Hardcover. Volumes one and two of the deluxe, special edition from the Entertaining Comics archives, with leather covers, a clamshell box, and a set of archivist's white cotton gloves. Volume one contains the complete issues one through six, volume two issues seven through twelve. Volume one is.....
Univ of Washington Press, 1985. Hardcover. 9"x11.5". From the dust jacket: 'This major monograph traces the development of several themes and styles that characterize Thiebaud's complex oeuvre. As a young California artist, he explored elements of Abstract Expressionism in the fifties, and won international acclaim in the sixties for his.....
Tuttle Publishing, 2001. Soft cover. 6"x 9". A collection of essays on Filipino martial arts by a selection of experts. From the back cover: 'For centuries, Filipino martial arts have played integral and often momentous roles in the history of the Philippines and in the survival of the Filipino people.....
1934. Hardcover. Forty-two issues of the magazine 'Leica Photography' published in New York, bound in three sturdy volumes. These offer wonderful documentation of the early twentieth-century photography, with advertisements, announcements of new technology, correspondence and, of course, photographs. These early issues include the magazine's first color covers (May 1937). During.....
McGraw-Hill, 1980. Hardcover. 8.5"x5.5". The first English translation (by Jonathan Ott) of Hofmann's account of his 'problem child'. As a research chemist in Basel, Hofmann first synthesized LSD in 1938, set aside the project for several years, before reexamining it in 1943, when he accidentally absorbed a small amount through.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 9"x6". The first edition, sixth printing, of Robert Frost's Collected Poems, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize in 1931. With a portrait of the author and a reproduction of his signature as a frontispiece. The dust jacket, which.....
Concord, New Hampshire. William B, Ewart, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 9.75"x6.25". A festschrift prepared to mark the occasion of Mary Sarton's 80th birthday. 150 copies were printed.Most were bound in maroon wrappers; 15, of which this is one, were specially bound in half leather. Loosely inserted is a typed note.....
Marysville, Kansas. Published by the Author, 1938. Soft cover. 8.75"x6". An account of one of the first groups of '49ers who made the difficult journey to California, and were said to have given Death Valley its name. 130 pages, illustrated with photos including frontispiece of the author and one pullout.....
Santa Barbara: El Mochuelo Gallery, 1964. Hardcover. 13"x11.5". A beautifully printed collection of photographs, selected by Callahan and reproduced using 300-line screen offset process on Warren's Offset Enamel paper by the Meriden Gravure Company. The collection is included by Andrew Roth in 'The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books.....
Totowa New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 1981. Hardcover. 8.5"x5.75". A collection of five recollections of Wittgenstein by those who knew him: his sister Hermine, Fania Pascal, F.R. Leavis, John King, M. O'C. Drury. No dustjacket, red cloth binding, in fine condition.
Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris's Widow and Brothers, 1816. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. An early guide to fly-fishing, 'Illustrated by Coloured Plates Representing Upwards of Forty of the Most Useful Flies, Accurately Copied from Nature'. Described by Westwood & Satchell as 'One of the text books.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1936. Hardcover. 8.5"x5.5". A later edition of her first collection, SIGNED by the author on the free endpaper. In 1912 the twenty-year old Millay entered her poem 'Renascence' into the poetry contest, 'The Lyric Year'. Although it was widely considered the best.....
Springer, 2003. Soft cover. 9.5x7". An English translation of Fibonacci's 1202 work on mathematics, which introduced Arabic numerals and methods to Europe. From the series 'Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Like New.
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1971. Hardcover. 8.75x5.5". Copiously illustrated examination of ancient Greek burial customs, drawing on the considerable expertise of Kurtz and Boardman. Book and dust jacket in very good condition.
Wiley-Interscience, 2008. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 9.5x6.25". From the back cover: 'The most practical, up-to-date guide to modeling and analyzing time-to-event date -- now in a valuable new edition'. Like new.
Berkeley: Privately Printed, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 9.5x6.5". The autobiography of the artist Jennie Vennerström Cannon, who played a key role promoting the interests of women artists in Carmel and Berkeley, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper. Includes a collection of material relating to Cannon: a photograph.....