Shakespeare and Consciousness.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 307 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Brand new copy. Fine. More
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 307 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Brand new copy. Fine. More
Princeton, NJ: Mercer Oak Publishing, 2013. Wraps. First Edition. v, 387 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
Signed by both authors on the title page. Fine. More
New York, NY: Viking, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 383 pp. 4to. Very light wear to dust jacket, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs and reproduced color prints.
A fine book on big game hunting. Fine / Very Good. More
Bunker, Jr., John P. Palermo, ME: John P. Bunker, Jr., 2007. Wraps. First Edition. Third Printing, 2012. 190 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
A scarce title. Signed by the author on the first free endpaper. Fine. More
Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, 1997 & 2000. Wraps. First Edition. Part I: 379 pp. 4to.; Part II: 384 pp. 4to. Both copies have light scuffing from shelf wear, clean within.
Fascinating photographs of common day may over the 40-year period from 1880-1920, with illuminating annotations by the author. An important set for anyone serious about studying Maine's history. Very Good. More
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1897. Hardcover. First Edition. Unpag. Brown cloth covered boards with a color woodblock illustration by Florence Lundborg of a figure playing a pan flute. Light scuffing, clean tight copy with a previous owner's bookplate pasted to front pastedown. Volume contains one year's monthly issues plus the "Epilark," a final sally.
The Lark ran from May 1895 until May 1897, each 16-page issue was a fanciful collection of creative writing, cartoons, and miscellany. Begins with the year's index followed by twelve 16-page issues. Printed on handmade paper variously described as Chinese rice paper, Chinese bamboo fiber paper, and just bamboo paper, the sure thing is that the stock is untrimmed at bottom edges, appears in various weights, and occasionally is so thin..... More
Tremlett, David. New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 1984. Wraps. First Edition. 4to. Eight separate publications houses in a two-piece cardboard box with printed paper covers that replicate, in reverse colors, the design of the Catalog (48 pp.) and Bibliography (36 pp.) housed within. Box in Very Good condition.
There are six pieces commissioned by the Yale Center for British Art in this collection: RIchard Long's "Stones and Suilven/Scotland 1981"; Victor Burgin's "I'Vegno Per Menarvi a l'Altra Riva"; Gilbert and George's "Life Without End. 1982"; Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum Document. Postscriptum. Summer 1983"; Robert McLean's "Piece Peace a Piece of Shit"; and David Tremlett's "Old Tom and Hotel Room" which is signed by him in pencil on the cover. Fine. More
Boroko, New Guinea: Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 81 pp. 4to. Clean, tight copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Caballero, David Rodriquez. La Rioja, Spain: Museum Wurth La Rioja, 2011. Wraps. First Edition. 239, [2] pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
Catalog for an exhibition of the same name at the Museum Wurth La Rioja. Inscribed and signed by the artist on the title page. Also decorated with a small drawing on the second free endpaper, dated 2013. Fine. More
Lee, Doris. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1943. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. 324 pp. 8vo. Wear and chipping to dust jacket, losses to upper left corner of front panel, upper right corner, slight darkening and soiling, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Very Good / Good. More
Cage, John. Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1991. Wraps. First Edition. 16 pp. Oblong 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
A scarce catalog from John Cage's (1912-1992) solo exhibition at the Elvehjem Museum of Art, signed by Cage on the title page. The exhibition was held at the Elvehjem Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison April 6-May 19, 1991. Cage would die the following year. Laid in is an invitation to the opening reception as well as a program from a piano performance of Cage's work by Ellsworth Snyder at the First Unitarian Society in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 6, 1991 -- likely planned as part of the opening event. Fine. More
Calder, Alexander. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Catalog of the exhibition held at the Gagosian Gallery Rome from October 29, 2009 through January 30, 2010. Fine / Fine. More
Callahan, Harry. Providence, RI: Photographic Education Society, 1966-67. Limited Edition. Folio. Fifteen stiff paper boards which consist of one title page and fourteen remaining boards with one mounted black and white photographic print on each. Housed in a black folding case that inserts in a brown paper slipcase with black printed titling that matches the title page; slight fading from sun to the top quarter of the front panel. Clean and crisp within.
This first in a series of annual publications was spearheaded by Harry Callahan (1912-1999) who founded the photography program at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1961 and taught there until his retirement in 1977. Callahan would publish an annual publication of the work of his students. This editions includes the..... More
New York: Viking Press, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xviii, 507 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
The second volume in Callow's projected 4 volume biography of Orson Welles. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Random House, 1959. Hardcover. First Edition. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 217 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, slight sunning to the spine, now in mylar cover. Minimal staining to front and rear endpapers due to quality of glue used in production, clean within.
Italo Calvino's (1923-1985) scarce second novel. Very Good / Very Good. More
New York: Random House, 1962. Hardcover. First Edition. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 246 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, 1/4" closed tear at top right corner of front panel, small creases at edges, early price in green ink at head of front flap, now in mylar cover. Very light sunning to top edge of cover boards, partial early paper price tag affixed to first free endpaper, some staining to pastedowns from dust jacket flaps, clean within. Very Good / Very Good. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968. Hardcover. First Edition. First U. S. Edition. First Printing. 153 pp. 8vo. Scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, minor sunning along spine on front panel, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with neon purple titling to spine. Clean within.
Italo Calvino's (1923-1985) novels in first U.S. editions are exceedingly scarce. Very Good / Very GOod. More
Novato, CA: New World Library, 2020. Hardcover. First Edition. First New World Library Edition. First Printing. xviii, 509, xiii, 574 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copies. Brand new. Fine / Fine. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1779, 1780. Quarter Leather. First Edition. iii-vii, [1], 696, [1] pp. 8vo. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
This complete volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. Very Good. More
France: [1790]. Hardcover. As. 46, [2], 19, [1] pp. 12mo. Two small pamphlets bound together in small blue paper covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Pamphlets have been trimmed. Clean within.
Two French imprints centering around the Knights of Malta and the Order of Saint Lazarus which was formed during the Crusades around 1119. This bound set bears the bookseller label of Raymond Clavreuil of Paris and the signature of James J. Algrant (1926-2018). Algrant was the author of "Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem - An up-date to the History of the Order 1983 to 1987" and an historian of these religious/military fraternal organizations. Fine. More
Portsmouth, NH: Portsmouth Marine Society/Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2011. Hardcover. First Edition. xvii, 196 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by J. Dennis Robinson on the title page. FIne / Fine. More
Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press, 1975. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Printing, 1993. 348 pp. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by Jeff Canning no the first free endpaper. Fine / fine. More
Seattle: National Park Service Pacific Northwest Region, 1995. Wraps. First Edition. vii, 210 pp. 4to. Green card stock wraps with black printed titling to cover and spine. Errata slip laid in.
Administrative History of Fort Clatsop, the reconstructed fort that was the location of Lewis & Clark and the Corps of Discovery's winter headquarters in 1805-1806. Fine. More
Albuquerque, NM: Bank Securities, Inc./Calvin Horn Publisher, Inc., 1973. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 143 pp. Folio. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Very Good / Very Good. More
Toronto, Canada: Lumiere Press, 2008. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 67 pp. 8vo. Gray pastepaper covered boards with a design derived from a Caponigro photograph, gray linen cloth spine with gray paper label and silver titling. Clean within, with twenty-three of his photographs, beautifully produced and including one of his most famous photographs, "Running White Deer" as a gatefold. No dust jacket, as issued.
A fascinating set of conversations between Torosian and Paul Caponigro (b. 1932), the renowned photographer, supplemented by many of Caponigro's most iconic images. Signed in pencil on the half-title page by Paul Caponigro, this title was produced in an edition of 225 copies, this being #61. Written, designed, printed, and bound by Michael Torosian. Fine. More