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.....
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.....
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.....
The Folio Society, 2020. Hardcover. 9.5" x 6.25". A folio society edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's groundbreaking 1962 work on the history of science. Kuhn argues that significant discoveries (the Copernican revolution, Lavoisier's discovery of oxygen, Einstein's overthrowing of Newtonian physics and Darwin's theory of evolution) were not the result.....
London: Colburn & Co., 1851. Hardcover. 9" x 6" Complete 8 volume set. "A new edition, revised and greatly augmented, embellished with portraits of every queen." Blue-green leather covers beautifully preserved. Light sunning to spine. Light wear to raised bands, head and tail of spine. Note: vol. I p.149-161 there.....
Hacker Art Books, 1980. Hardcover. Contains an overview of Gauguin's history with sculpting from 1873 to 1903, followed by a catalog of his work. There is some wear to the top and bottom of the spine. The corners are bumped, but otherwise pages are clean and unmarked.