Huesca: Inst. de Estudios Altoaragoneses, 1989. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 volumes (facsimile and commentary), folios, green leatherette with gilt title and ornaments; 277 leaves (i.e. 554 pp. facsimile), 166 pp. (commentary), slipcase. Beautiful facsimile reproduction of the late 13th century illuminated manuscript. Text outlines the new legal code established...
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1926. First edition. Hardcover. xviii pp. + 84 plates from photographs and drawings, map endpapers; folio, original green cloth with gilt title. Farmhouses, village homes, manors, etc. of Normandy and Brittany, primarily depicted in photographs with a few plates from line drawings. This Richard...
Chicago: Decorators Supply Co., 1906. Original edition. Hardcover. 208 pp., illustrations from photographs on nearly every page; quarto, original blue cloth with titles in red. Images of thousands of cast architectural ornaments.
NY: Mitchell Kennerley, 1938. First edition. Original natural open-weave linen cloth over boards; quarto; unpaginated. 12 aquatint plates, 56 photo plates, map endpapers. A stunning presentation with beautiful color aquatints and rich photogravure plates. Edition limited to 1000 copies.
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp, (1960). First edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth, quarto, vii, 200 pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w photos throughout. The first book on these 5 pioneer California architects: Bernard Maybeck; Irving Gill; Charles & Henry Greene; R. M. Schindler.
Cambridge: MIT Press, (1982). First edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth, quarto, xiii, 466 pp. 100s of b/w photos, plans, drawings.Superficial scuffing to covers, else fine in lightly worn jacket with slight fading to jacket soine. "H. H Richardson is generally considered to be the greatest American architect of the second...
Battle Creek: Joseph Lambert & Co., 1899. First edition. 451 pp., color frontispiece with tissue guard, many engraved illustrations in the text, illustrated advertisement for the Joseph Lambert & Co. Nut Grinder on last page; octavo, original decorative khaki oilcloth covers. A cookbook promoting nuts as a health food. The...
New York: Viking Press, 1931. Second printing. x, 323 pp., frontispiece, endpaper maps; octavo, original purple cloth. A sort of history cum travelogue of the Caucasus region of Europe.
London: Williams & Norgate, (1929). First edition. Hardcover. 112 pp., small octavo, original orange cloth, dustjacket. In his "Vision of Education" J. H. Burns presented ideas regarding education through the unique conceit of an "Internplanetary Conference" featuring speakers from Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and "Others" each sharing their planet's methods...
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1922. Third printing. Hardcover. x, 85 pp., small octavo, original maroon cloth. The founder of the Religious Science Movement's 2nd book.
Washington, DC: C. P. Farrell, 1882. Second printing. Hardcover. 126 pp. 12mo (6.75 x 5 inches), green cloth over thin card, gilt title. This copy ex libris J. Leroy Nickel (1895-1959) with his bookplate to front fixed endpaper. Nickel was known as one of the largest land barons in California...
New York: American Social Hygiene Association, (1924). Third printing. Hardcover. 80 pp., 9 full-page plates, 10 illustrations in the text; octavo, original brown cloth and boards. A thoughful introduction to sex education with the intention of providing parents and teachers with a progressive tool to educate the young in the facts of life.
Atlantic City: the Author, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. 188 pp, octavo, original orange cloth. A system of numerology.
Los Angeles: The Magazine Theosophy, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. [5], 237 pp. + 7-page catalog of Theosophical publications; 12mo (5.75 x 4.25 inches), full limp leather with gilt title and ornament. Rare original edition of this volume on the Bhagavad-Gita by one of the founders of the original Theosophica Society.
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library and Oxford University Press, (1976). First edition. Hardcover. 140 pp. + 114 plates; quarto, original 2-tone green cloth, dustjacket. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Oakland: Oakland Museum, 1985. First edition. Paperback. 128 pp., profusely illustrated, original pictorial wrappers, 10.5 x 9.5 inches. Contributors to the text include Bill Mauldin, Umberto Eco, Joan Roebuck, et al.
London: B.T. Batsford, (1958). First edition. Hardcover. 56 pp, 17 full-page plates; quarto, original green boards, dustjacket. A history of early English Bible printing both in Britain and the United States.
[Arlington, MA: Editions Medicina Rara, 1983]. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. [28] pp; octavo, half leather and boards, slipcase. Publisher's descriptive sheet laid in. Full color facsimile of a unique 13th century illuminated French medical atlas. The original is in the British Library (Codex Sloane 1977). This #85 of 2300 copies printed...
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1951). First edition. Hardcover. xiv, [1], 410; octavo, original black and gray cloth, dustjacket.
Greenwich: Dial Publishing Co., 1922. First edition. Paperback. viii, 553-664, ix-xx pp., 7 full-page illustrations; original printed wrappers 6.5 x 9.75 inches. Includes first publication of Marianne Moore's poem "People's Surroundings"; Hart Crane's "Praise for an Urn." John Eglinton's "Dublin Letter" and Ezra Pound's "Paris Letter" both discuss James Joyce's...
San Francisco: Dr. Otto Mausert, (1936). Second edition. Hardcover. 200 pp. + 10-page catalog of Nature's Herb Co. at rear, frontispiece, text illustrations; octavo, original blue cloth. Formulas for herbal teas and other preparations as well as a materia medica.
San Francisco: Nature's Herb Co., no date (1930s). Original edition. Paperback. 32 pp., green pictorial wrappers, 5.25 x 7.75 inches. Scarce catalogue of herbs and herbal preparations.
Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co., 1867. First edition. Hardcover. 355 pp., illustrated with engraved vignette title page (with title as "Cultivation of the Grape"), headpieces, tailpiece, 40 text figures; octavo, original green cloth with gilt spine title, top edge gilt. Fairly scarce American viticultural work described by Gabler as...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929. Early reprint. Hardcover. [6], 432 pp., octavo, original purple cloth with paper spine label, dustjacket. Huxley's longest novel, an examination of conflicting worldviews, social mores and intellectual ideals amongs a group of characters, some of whom are loosely based on the prominent figures...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1941. "New Impression" Hardcover. [6], 601 pp., octavo, original brown cloth with cover titles in white, dustjacket. Huxley's longest novel, an examination of conflicting worldviews, social mores and intellectual ideals among a group of characters, some of whom are loosely based on the prominent figures in...
