Maxim's: A Mirror of Parisian Life
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.
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.
Silman-James Press, 2014. 4th Edition. Soft cover. Minor bumping and wear to corners, interior clean and unmarked. The fourth edition, revised, updated and expanded of the industry-standard guide. 10 x 7"
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.....
Llewellyn Publications, 1988. Soft cover. Complete set of 24 rune cards with instructional booklet, in original box.
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.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Spalding's autobiography, inscribed to George Fitch, dated December 1943 with a warm inscription and a bar of music. Laid in letter from Spalding to Fitch dated July 1950, in original envelope. Tear to head of clipped dust jacket, with chipping.....
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.
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed, limited edition, no 731 of 1,000, of Coolidge's autobiography, written shortly after he left office. Near fine with minor wear to original slipcase. Beautifully printed, marbled paper boards, blue cloth spine, top edge gilt. 247pp. 9.5 x 6.5"
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.....
MFA Publications - The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2014. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. 11.24 x 9.5". As a large, heavy book, this order may require additional shipping charges.
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.....
Kimbell Art Museum, 2019. Hardcover. Building on the Kimbell Art Museum's exhibition, with images of more than 60 of Monet's paintings after 1913, and a scholarly appraisal of Monet's late years. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. One dog-eared page. 214 pp. 11.5 x 10.5". As a large.....
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.....
Quakertown, Penna: The Philosophical Publishing Co., 1949. Hardcover. Reuben Seinburne Clymer promises 'A full explanation of the laws governing the inner development necessary to attain to Philosphic initiation or mastership together with a detailed account of the priests of AEth or priesthood of Melchizedek'. Minor bumping and scuffs to the.....
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.
DC Comics, 2011. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near fine copy, with minor bumping to the corners. From the back panel: 'Finally available in trade paperback form, this is the tale that brought comics legend Neal Adams to the forefront of a revolution in the world of super-hero storytelling!'. [1]-172 pages.....
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.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. Salg, Bert. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The complete Tuffy Bean series, with all four jackets featuring Bert Salg's illustrations. Narrated by Tuffy Bean himself, the series follows the humorous adventures of the little dog and his friends. As in his 'Jerry Todd' series, Edwards included.....
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.....
Rochester, N.Y. Yawman and Erbe Mfg. Co., 1916. Hardcover. Scarce early guide to changing filing techniques and equipment. From the introduction: 'An up-to-date knowledge of filing systems is indispensable to the competent office assistant, bookkeeper or stenographer. If this knowledge has not been secured at some time during the student's.....
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.....
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Second state of Twain's collection of sketches. The original brick-red paper wrappers are bound in a sturdy early hardcover binding, and so remain remarkably bright and clean. Collated with Johnson's 'Bibliography of Mark Twain'. Twain's name on the title.....
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.....
Street and Smith, 1935. Soft cover. Clues Detective Stories, June 1935, with one novel, two novelletes, five short stories, a 'perfect crime' contest and delightful period advertisements. Chipping to the soft covers, with tears to the edges of the back panel (promoting Camels as the cigarette of choice for champion.....
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.....