Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. vii, 302 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. vii, 302 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xviii, 210 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with the dust jacket in a mylar cover. Fine / fine. More
London: Watts & Co., 1953. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 131 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing to dust jacket, soiling and sunning to spine, short closed tear at base of front panel, small loss at head and foot of spine, now in mylar cover. Very Good / good. More
Taipei, China: Southern Materials Center, Inc. Hardcover. Third Edition. Reprint of the 1968 Third Edition.xxxii, 573 pp. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Steadman, Ralph. Tucson, AZ: Sylph Publications, 2001. Wraps. Limited Edition. xv, 235 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with a color color illustration by Ralph Steadman.
One of 100 trade paperback copies, this being #6, signed by the author and the subject, Charles Bowden, on the title page. The definitive bibliography of Bowden's work up to 1990. Fine. More
New York, NY: Owl Books/Henry Holt, 1996. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing, Owl Books Edition. xvi, 638 pp. 8vo. Minimal wear to cover, now in mylar jacket. Clean and crisp within.
Fascinating work on books and collectors! Fine / very good. More
Baskin, Leonard. London: Andre Deutsch, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 219 pp. 4to. Light wear and darkening to dust jacket from age, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Two handwritten, signed letters (ALS) from Baskin to a boat broker in Camden, Maine, in the original envelopes are laid in.
Signed by Leonard Baskin on the half-title page. Fine / Very Good. More
Los Angeles, CA: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 324 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1854. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 246 pp. 8vo. Green cloth publisher's binding with gold embossed titling to spine, blind embossed boards to cover boards. Light wear and scuffing to boards, bumping to corners. Text pages have darkened slightly from age, overall quite clean, upper right corner of p. 17 is missing, previous owner's blind embossed library stamp at head ot title page. Very Good. More
London: Edward Stanford, 1878. Full Leather. First Edition. Five raised bands, elegant decoration in each panel, burgundy leather patch title, all in gold embossing. Double rule border to front and rear cover. Foot of boards rough and worn, 2" slit starting along hinge at top of rear board. Marbled endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, foredges marbled. Clean and crisp within, 19 plates, 13 maps, some folding. Very Good. More
los Angeles, CA: Dalzell Hatfield, 1946. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 53 pp. 4to. Dust jacket has toning from age, front hinge splitting 2/3 of the way down the spine, small chips at edges, now in mylar cover. Red boards with black titling to cove that matches dust jacket. Spine cloth split along front hinge, binding still tight. Toning to edges of interior pages due to time and quality of paper. [Purcell 58].
A classic Merle Armitage production on the artist, Russell Cowles (1887-1979). Produced in an edition of 1,000 copies, this is #252 and signed by both Cowles and Bear on the colophon. Also inscribed by Bear, "Howe/from/D. Bear" in pencil on the first first free endpaper. Good / good... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. xi, 376 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Cambridge, MA: TidePool Press, 2018. Hardcover. First Edition. xvi, 293 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Long overdue biography of diplomat and museum leader, Douglas Dillon (1909–2003) who served as both President Eisenhower's Amabassador to France and Secretary of the Treasury for the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson Administrations, and was the longtime Chairman of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Board of Trustees. Fine / Fine. More
Hamburg, Germany: Gruner+Jahn, 2001. Wraps. First Edition. 94 pp. each. Folio. Clean, crisp copies. Text in German and English.
Amazing issue of the groundbreaking photo magazine, Spezial Fotografie with each issue devoted to a single photographer:. Fine. More
Bearden, Romare. New York: DC Moore Gallery, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 115 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Very light bumping to corners of cover boards. Clean, tight copy.
Catalog for an important exhibition of the same name celebrating the work of Romare Bearden (1911-1988). Fine. More
Charlottesville, VA: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. 79 pp. Oblong Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by WIlliam L. Beiswanger on the half-title page. Fine / Fine. More
Bengston, Jim. Gottingen, West Germany: European Photography, 1986. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. Oblong Folio. Scuffing to covers from shelf wear, clean within.
Inscribed by Jim Bengston on the first free paper. Very Good. More
Newport News, VA/New Haven, CT: The Mariner's Museum/Yale University Press, 1997. Wraps. First Edition. First Printing. 245 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
Singed by Richard Benson on the title page. Fine. More
Berman, Michael. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2012. First Edition. Vol. I: 75 pp, 4to. Wraps; Vol. II: Unpag, 4to. Hardcover. Both volumes have the same paper covers, although one is hardbound, the other in wraps. No dust jackets, as issued.
A volume of essays on the Gila National Forest and Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico that accompany the hardbound volume of Michael Berman's stunning photographs of that region. Hardbound volume of Berman's photographs signed by him on the half-title page. More
Colorado Springs, CO: The Press at Colorado College, 1974. Wraps. Limited Edition. [28] pp . Oblong 4to. Brown stiff paper covers with title and author's name printed in deep brown on the cover, white stitching at spine much like a Japanese binding.
A simple, yet absolutely stunning production with the bottom of each page deckled with color illustrations that are embossed and carry both color and texture. Signed by Wendell Berry on the final page of the poem under his initials. Designed, printed, and handbound by James Trissel. Produced in an edition of 100 copies, this being #20. Fine. More
Engelland, Timothy. Old Deerfield, MA/Dublin, Ireland: The Deerfield Press/The Gallery Press, 1979. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Unpag. 8vo. Dust jacket is clean and crisp, now in mylar cover. Interior without a blemish.
This publication contains two poems, "The Gift of Gravity" and "Grief." Produced in an edition of 300 copies and signed by Wendell Berry on the colophon. Berry has also inscribed this copy to a previous owner, "For Bob in San Jose-Wendell Berry-12/4/85" Fine / Fine. More
Lyon, France: Bernuset, 1787. Full Leather. First Edition. xxviii, 446, 391, [3] pp. 6 Plates. 8vo. Brown mottled calf contemporary bindings. Considerable wear and scuffing, chipping at edges. Five raised bands with title patches for tilte and volume number, gold embossed floral motifs fill remaining spaces between bands. Marbled endpapers with matching marbling on all three sides of text blocks. First free endpaper of Volume I loose, but still connected. Slight darkening to edges of pages due to age. Contains six folding plates at rear in Fine condition.
An important work in the history of both electricity and meteorology. Pierre Bertholon de Saint-Lazare (1741-1800) was a close friend of Benjamin Franklin and devoted considerable study to electrical phenomena. This publication focuses on the natural phenomena..... More
New York: Random House, 1929. Hard Cover. First Edition. First US Edition. Light scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, minor sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth covered boards with black cloth spine with gold embossed lettering to cover board and spine. Profusely illustrated and limited to an edition of 1040 copies. Very Good / Very Good. More
MacDonald, Thoreau. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1948. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. viii, 246 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small losses at corners, small loss at head of spine, minor chips, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Illustrations by Thoreau MacDonald. Very Good / Very Good. More