Chronicle Books, 2002. Hardcover. From the rear panel of the jacket: 'If you didn't know what "matte painting" is, it's because you weren't meant to - until now. In this stunning retrospective, Mark Cotta Vaz and Craig Barron reveal the secret history of a visual effect that is almost as.....
Manila: Operation Brotherhood International, 1974. Hardcover. The definitive history of 'Operation Brotherhood', the Filipino humanitarian project to provide medical care for refugees in Vietnam. From Carlos P. Romulo's foreword: 'It is a meticulously detailed history, and it is not likely to be superseded. As Father Bernad tells the story, it.....
Rizzoli International, 1992. Hardcover. From the jacket: 'New York 1900 examines the cultural and artistic awakening of New York City through a detailed look at the city's architecture and urbanism during the years 1890 to 1915, when the city first acquired distinct sense of itself as the representative American metropolis.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. Hardcover. An early American edition of The Descent of Man. The text is reproduced from the second edition of 1874, presenting the text in a single volume, with Darwin's preface and tables listing the additions and corrections to the second edition. Red cloth.....
New York: David A. Curtis, 1901. Hardcover. Jessel 349 (Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gambling, 1905). Jessel describes it as 'The most elaborate, as it is the most handsome, of the many treatises on this Game'. Extraordinarily detailed study of draw poker, with a colored illustration.....
New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1887. Hardcover. Horr 806; Jessel 1032. A small, concise introduction to the rules of poker, carefully printed. From the introduction: 'The existing and increasing popularity of Draw Poker as a means of amusement to the better classes of American people, and the various methods.....
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1877. Hardcover. 'No sedentary game is more popular, or so generally played for amusement in domestic circles, throughout the wide spread "eminent demense" [sic] of the United States, as Euchre - the Queen of all card-games; and but few, we regret to say it, possess.....
London: John Russell Smith, 1848. Hardcover. Jessel 256: In his Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gambling (1905) Jessel described it as 'A learned and exhaustive work which is still the leading authority of the subject'. Wonderfully illustrated, with images, some in color, of playing cards throughout.....
Canton, Ohio: J.P. Quinn Co, 1912. Hardcover. 'For a quarter of a century the author witnessed and practiced every variety of gambling known to the profession. The next quarter of a century he has devoted to exposing the frauds of the gambler. Starting out in the lecture field, he realized.....
New York: John E. Lovell Company, 1882. Hardcover. Inscribed by the translator. An English translation by M.I. Smithson of the noted French magician Robert-Houdin's Les Tricheries des Grecs dévoilées ; l'art de gagner à tous les jeux, 1861, identified here on the title page as 'Robert Houdin, Prestidigitateur', as sometimes.....
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1868. Hardcover. 'This little volume is issued to supply a want which has long existed, and has only been nominally supplied by the many trashy, wordy and brain-confusing books, which have been thrust before the public under pretence of explaining the mysteries of Artistic Gambling.....
Dick & Fitzgerald, 1869. Hardcover. Jessel 663 describes this work as an abridgment of Green's Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling and Gambling Exposed 'without the moral and religious element. The work is the first I have met with to describe "eucre" (sic) and poker. The author states.....
New York: Judd & Taylor, 1845. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 'The sin of gambling, against which my present efforts are directed, is as great and widely spread as any, which, at this time, exists among us. Scarcely any class of our people are totally exempt from the effects of this deplorable.....
Cambridge: J&J Merrill, 1784. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Second edition of the dissertation that won Richard Hey a prize of 50 guineas from the University of Cambridge. Hey considers 'Pernicious Effects upon the Fortune of the Gamester', 'Misery suffered by him', and 'Harm derived upon others', with duels and suicide considered.....
Paris: De L'Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1779. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A study of gambling, its history and place in society by Jean Dusaulx, French politician and follower of Rousseau. Dusaulx's account is striking for its interest in the psychological character of the gambler, bringing the concerns and approaches of the age.....
Amserdam: Theodore Boeteman, 1697. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The final work published by Gregorio Leti, all of whose books were placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Born in Milan in 1630, Leti traveled and published widely, producing many controversial and influential works as a historian. Having completed an early biography of.....
Steidl, 2003. Hardcover. 11.25" x 9.5". SIGNED 2003 revised edition of Susan Meiselas's groundbreaking work. Accompanied by essays by Sylvia Wolf and Deirdre English, reflecting upon the importance and influence of Meiselas's 1976 work interviewing and photographing women who performed striptease for small town carnivals. Also included is a CD.....
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, 1987. Soft cover. 11.5" x 8.5". A study of all aspects of the oak tree, prepared to accompany an exhibition in 1987, touching on natural history, ecology, art and myth. Richly illustrated in black and white.
Thunder Bay Pr, 2001. Hardcover. 13.5" x 10.25". Handsome Easton Press edition of Brendan Morrissey's study of the American Revolution. Clean and unmarked.
London: Folio Society, 2002. Hardcover. Three volume Folio Society edition of military historian David G. Chandler's exhaustive analysis of Napoleon's strategy and style. Minor scuffs and wear to edges of slipcase and edges of the spines. As a large set may require additional charges for shipping.
Princeton University Press, 2008. Hardcover. 9.5" x 9.75". A clean and unmarked copy, very good in a very good jacket. From the front flap: 'In 1909 the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn launched a monumentally ambitious project: to produce a color photographic record of human life on earth. An.....
Pacific Grove, CA: Lighthouse Writers Guild, 1985. Hardcover. 8.5" x 5.5". Richard Peterson's history of the appearances of Halley's Comet, prepared in anticipation of its most recent appearance in 1986. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Minor scuffs to the font cover, minor wear to the edges.....
Berkeley: Twowindows Press, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully printed selection of the poetry of Harry Crosby (1898-1929), who contributed to early modernist poetry both as a poet and the founder of the Black Sun Press, before dying in a suicide pact with his mistress. With an Introduction by Sy M......
London: John Haviland, 1624. Hardcover. 11.5" x 8" Queen Mary was born on the 8th of December 1542 and died on the 8th February 1587. "Mary's life, marriages, lineage, alleged involvement in plots against Queen Elizabeth, and subsequent execution established her as a divisive and highly romanticized historical character..." Elaborate.....
London: George Bell, 1846. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 8.5" x 5.5" Complete 7 volume set. Volumes are in very good condition with minor wear to covers (see photos where leather has peeled in some places) and minor edgewear. Gilt and marbled endpapers are bright. Bindings are sound.