New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1945. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. 47 Plates. Folio. Dust jacket has chips and tears, losses at corners, head and foot of spine now in mylar cover. Rust cloth boards with black embossed titling to cover and spine, slight sunning to spine, evidence of water staining at head of front board. Previous.
An interesting work of photography by Henry Inn, which could be somewhat serious due to its introduction by a sociologist detailing Hawaii's multi-racial background gong back for generations; or as cheesecake with all the photographs depicting pretty young women with their ethnic background listed on the facing page. Nevertheless, significant in that this copy is signed by the author to Eliot Elisofon (1911-1973): "To Eliot Elisofon ALhoa... More

London: The Punch Office, 1846. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. xii, 142 pp. 12mo. Burgundy leather spines and corners, spine leather has faded slightly to brown. Five raised bands to spine, gold embossed tooling to bands, titles, and date at base of each volume, marbled insets to each volume and matching marbled endpapers. Bound by Bartlett of Boston. Red silk ribbon markers. Engraved frontispiece and title page illustration; frontispiece has a 1" piece missing from the upper left corner. Light offsetting to the title page from the illustrations. Very Good. More

Meadows, Kenney. London: The Punch Office, 1847. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. Second Printing. 183 pp. 12mo. Burgundy leather spines and corners, spine leather has faded slightly to brown. Five raised bands to spine, gold embossed tooling to bands, titles, and date at base of each volume, marbled insets to each volume and matching marbled endpapers. Bound by Bartlett of Boston. Original front & rear cover cloth and spine bound in at rear of each volume. Red silk ribbon markers. Engraved frontispiece illustration by Kenney Meadows. Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1852. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-659, [1], 14 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Eighth & Twenty-Ninth Series" (pp. 25-56, 137-159); Charles Wheatstone's "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the Second. On Some Remarkable, and Hitherto Unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision (Continued)" (pp. 1-17); Edward Frankland's “On a New Series of Organic Bodies Containing Metals” (pp. 417-444); George Gabriel Stokes' "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light" (pp.463-562). Very Good. More

Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1950. Wraps. First Edition. 549-746 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean inside and out.
German astrophysicist Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer (1910-1975) proposed that synchrotron radiation eminates from strong magnetic fields in interstellar space rather than radio stars.  Issue also contains Willis E. Lamb, Jr., and Robert C. Retherford's article, “Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom: I” (Physical Review: Volume 79 No. 4 pp. 549–572). Very Good. More

St. Paul, MN: The Ampersand Club, 2005. Soft Cover. First Trade. 44 pp. Frontisportrait. Gray cloth over boards with mounted paper title label on spine and front cover. Set in Bembo type and printed on Zerkall paper by Gaylord Schanilec. From an edition of 626, this is one of 500 copies from the trade edition. Fine. More

Tokyo: Risosha, 1959. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Blue cloth cover boards with Japanese titling in gold. Text all in Japanese. Housed in original brown paper covered slipcase that has the following printed in English on one side, "Mr. & Mrs. Richard Whitney With Compliments of the Author. B. Kure" Slipcase rear panel split at edges but holding on one side. Fine. More

Paris: Claude Barbin, 1690. Full leather. First Edition. Instructions for Fruit and Vegetable Gardens. 4to. Volume I: 1, 6, 16, 522, 2 pp. Volume II: 566, 2 pp. Volume I begins with a 6 page dedication to the King of France, Louis XIV, followed by 16 pages of poems, the first an ode to Pomona by Santolius Victorinus, and a frontispiece engraving of La Quntinye followed by an ode to La Quntinye by Perrault. Volume I contains 3 plates: pp. 32/33 tri-fold plate of the Potager du Roy a Versailles (Kitchen Garden of the King at Versailles), older Japanese paper tape repair at verso width of plate where it was completely separated in half; pp. 304/305 tri-fold plate of 15 illustrations of pruning instructions; pp... More

Cabot, VT: Vermont Stoveside Press, 1967. Wraps. Limited Edition. 29 pp. 16mo. Light gray heavy paper wraps, title printed in black, pamphlet stitch binding. Clean within.
Produced in an edition of 200 coies, this being #73. Signed twice by the author, once on the title page and a second time on the dedication page. Fine. More

New York: Darcie & Corbyn, 1855. Wraps. As. 47, [4 ads] pp. 4to. Light salmon colored wraps with wear, small round stain on upper half of cover, previous owner's name in pencil at top of cover, some staining and chipping at edges but quite nice given the quality of paper and age. Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1882. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, v, [2], [1]-922 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Also see our #27565, Lockyer's "Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in Connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. No. III and IV" (pp. 479-494, 805-8130). Also contains George H. Darwin's "On the Tidal Friction of a Planet Attended by Several Satellites, and on the Evolution of the Solar System" (pp. 491-535). Very Good. More

New York, NY: Time, Inc., 1932. Soft Cover. First Edition. Nothing says Art Deco like Fortune Magazine from the 1930s. Slight scuffing to covers, clean and crisp within. Very Good. More

Magee, Alan. New York, NY: Forum Gallery, 2003. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 222 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by Magee on the second free endpaper. Fine / Fine. More