Assouline, 2011. Hardcover. A richly illustrated history of the famous venue, including a selection of recipes. Red cloth cover. A previous owner has dog-eared a number of pages.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. Provensen, Alice; Provensen, Martin. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED first edition of the classic cook book by James Beard, with Alice and Martin Provensen's illustrations. Evan Jones, Beard's biographer, described the Fireside Cook Book as "the most lavishly produced American cookbook to date." Minor wear.....

The Club of Odd Volumes, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 500. A presentation copy from Adams to the collector George Fitch, with a laid in Christmas card (from the Pierpont Morgan Library) to "George and Muriel" from "Betty and Fred". Fine in slipcase. $75.

London: John Lehmann, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First English Edition. Near fine in a very good, unclipped jacket (6s. net). Darkening of spine of jacket, minor soiling to back panel of jacket. Orange covers bright, 62 clean and unmarked pages.

Fleet-Street: Bernard Lintott, 1710. Hardcover. The first volume of Lintott's Collection of Poems in Two Volumes collects, for the first time, "Venus and Adonis", "The Rape of Lucrece", "The Passionate Pilgrim" and "Some Sonnets Set to Sundry Notes of Musick". The second adds the most accurate early edition of all.....

Thames & Hudson, 2012. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Like new softcover with reproductions and description of a series of wall paintings from the Lukhang, the private meditation chamber of the Dalai Lamas. With 180 illustrations, 150 in color. 216pp. 12.5 x 9.5". As a larger book, this item might require.....

San Francisco, California: Privately Printed for His Friends by Harry W. Porte, 1935. Soft cover. An idiosyncratic work of California history, beautifully printed by Harry W. Porte, with a gift inscription from the same (Sincerest regards, Hen. Porte). [4], 1-12 pp, with reproductions from manuscripts then held in private collections.....

SRI International, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition (revised) history of the Stanford Research Institute, with a focus on a selection of influential projects. Minor wear to jacket, minor bumping of corners, interior is clean, bright, and unmarked.

Tokyo: Ikeda Publishing Co., 1959. Hardcover. The first, limited edition of Dr. Soichi Ichida's study of the Dragon Stamps of Japan, with a sheet of 'Addenda and additional explanations' and an envelope with eleven loose plates. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown (Benjamin Mark Landis), fading to the paper.....

Chapman & Hall, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Volume 1, no.1-4, of the literary magazine edited by Clifford Bax and Austin Osman Spare, bound the publisher's boards. While the boards show a century of wear, they have protected the interior wonderfully, including the original front wrappers of each number and the.....

London: John Murray; John Hunt; James Cawthorn. Hardcover. Three volume 'set' of Byron's works assembled by the nineteenth-century English politician John Hodgetts Hodgetts Foley. Having acquired the third volume of John Murray's 1819 three volume 'Works of Lord Byron' he bound later works (and one earlier) to almost match. While.....

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1869. Hardcover. Josiah Gilbert's richly illustrated combination of travel book and art history, building upon his previous travels in the Dolomite Mountains. From his preface: 'The charm is due to a touch of Italian softness tempering Alpine severity and Dolomite grandeur. The interest centres in.....

1951: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of The Presidential Cookbook. From the jacket: 'The Presidential Cookbook is not only an interesting, anecdotal account of the managing of what we, in its time, the most important household in the world, but also a sound cookbook.....