New York: Jacobsen & Co., 1915. Original edition. Hardcover. [4] pp, 183 monochrome plates; quarto, pale green cloth. Molded architectural ornaments of all kinds. More about THE GENERAL CATALOGUE OF JACOBSEN & CO. (Cover title: Architecure and Decorative Ornaments
Fort Collins: State Agricultural College, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 659 pp, profusely illustrated mostly from photoghraphs, octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles. Published in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Colorado's admission to the Union. More about HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE IN COLORADO: A Chronological Record of Progress in the Developement of...
NY: Simon & Schuster, (1971). First edition, first printing. Original green cloth, octavo, 174pp. First issue with top edge stained green. More about REVENGE OF THE LAWN: Stories 1962-1970
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... More about VIDAL MAYOR
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... More about COTTAGES AND MANORS AND OTHER MINOR BUILDINGS OF NORMANDY AND BRITTANY
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. More about ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF PLASTIC ORNAMENTS Cast In Plaster for Interiors and in Composition for...
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. More about FRENCH RIVIERA VILLAGES
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. More about FIVE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTS
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... More about H. H. RICHARDSON: Complete Architectural Works
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. More about TWELVE SECRETS OF THE CAUCASUS
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... More about A VISION OF EDUCATION: Being an Imaginary Verbatim Report of the First Interplanetary Conference
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. More about CREATIVE MIND AND SUCCESS
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... More about A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BIBLE: Being a Popular Account of the Formation and Development of the Canon
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. More about THE WAY LIFE BEGINS: An Introduction to Sex Education
Atlantic City: the Author, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. 188 pp, octavo, original orange cloth. A system of numerology. More about THE DAY OF WISDOM ACCORDING TO NUMBER VIBRATION
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. More about NOTES ON THE BHAGAVAD-GITA: The First Seven Chapters by William Q. Judge, The Remaining Chapters...
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. More about WILLIAM MORRIS AND THE ART OF THE PRINTED BOOK: With Essays on William Morris as Book Collector...
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. More about THE GRAPHIC ART OF CHARLES SCHULZ, THE OAKLAND MUSEUM: A Catalogue of the Retrospective...
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. More about AN OUTLINE OF ANGLO-AMERICAN BIBLE HISTORY
[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... More about La Chirurgie: Codex Sloane 1977. (LIVRE DE CHIRURGIE
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1951). First edition. Hardcover. xiv, [1], 410; octavo, original black and gray cloth, dustjacket. More about VEDANTA FOR MODERN MAN
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... More about THE DIAL, JUNE 1922. (Volume LXXII Number 6
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. More about HERBS FOR HEALTH: A Concise Treatise on Medicinal Herbs, Their Usefulness and Correct Combination...
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. More about HERBS AND MEDICINES FOR HOME USE
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... More about CULTURE OF THE GRAPE