New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiv, 400 [1] pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Brand new. Inscribed by the author on the title page.
Memoir of from United States Senator from Maine, Senate Majority Leader, and Special Envoy to Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Fine / fine. More

New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1932. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. viii, 305 pp. 8vo. Bright orange covers with very light darkening to spine, bumping to corners and light scuffing. Oddly, publisher printed on base of spine, Dodd, Mead & Company, is not the same as Sears Publishing Company printed on title page. Nevertheless, a scarce volume. Very Good. More

Paris: Chez Le Breton, 1760. Full-Leather. A wonderful set in very good condition (some scuffing). Tall 24mos. Tree calf leather, gilt-tooled spine with leather labels, marbled boards. Each vol. has finely engraved frontis and plates. Text in French. Very Good. More

Moser, Barry. New York: Viking Studio, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. First Trade Edition of Barry Moser's Pennroyal Press Edition. First Printing. 994, [9] pp. Folio. Small, 2" closed tear at midpoint of rear flap fold, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Fine / Very Good. More

New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 239 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More

London: Privately Printed, 1904. Quarter Leather. First Edition. Unpaginated. Folio. Some 150 artists are represented from the schools of Giotto, Pollajuolo, Florentine 15th Century, Perugino, Lombard School 15th Century, Parmigiano, North Italian, Venetian School 18th Century, Rembrandt, the Dutch School, Flemish School, Early German, and more. Black & white and sepia-tone illustrations with no foxing. Green cloth cover has fine dark brown leather on corners and spine, set off with gilt rules. Spine has five raised bands with gilt rules and boxes. Gilt title reads "Murray Collection of Drawings 1905." There is a trace of shelfwear on back of spine at bands and upper and lower ends. Corners very lightly bumped, and light wear shows on bottom edge. Endpapers are glossy marbled paper in shades..... More

Adams, Ansel. Washington DC: National Park Service, 2006. Wraps. First Edition. 168 pp, 1164to. Small closed tear at base of front cover. Clean and crisp within.
Management handbook for an important agency in the United States Government. Very Good. More

San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 2015. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 264 pp. Charcoal cloth covered boards with silver titling to spine. Housed in custom slipcase of the same cloth.
Important book on the husband and wife design team of Ernst and Esther Born that traces their lives and career from the East Coast to California. Produced in an edition of 300 copies, this is copy #175 and the 234th publication of The Book Club of California. Fine. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1850. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, [297]-844, 13 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.
William Parson's (1800-1867) paper first identifies the spiral nebulae.  See also our #27509 by Parsons, credited as Lord Oxmantown, in his 1840 article "An Account of Experiments on the Reflecting Telescope" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 130 for the Year 1840 Part II, pp. 503-527), which provided the technology enabling him to identify the spiral nebulae. Also contains Augustus Waller's article, "Experiments on the Section of the Glossopharyngeal and Hypoglossal Nerves of the Frog..."..... More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 25 pp. 88 plates. 4to. Clean, crisp dust jacket in mylar cover. Dark orange rust-colored cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Crisp within.
Eliot Porter (1901-1990) is closely identified with the lavish color photographs reproduced in the various books he published with the Sierra Club. His photographs of the canyons now drowed by the Glenn Canyon Dam, sparked a new resistance against reclamation projects in the 1960s. Porter's mastery of black and white photography can be too easily forgotten; this volume reminds us of that mastery when he turned his lens on the American Southwest, his home over forty years. Signed by Eliot Porter on the title page. Fine / Fine..... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1885. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, [1], 506 pp. 8vo. Green cloth bindings with burgundy title patch and gold titling to spine of each volume, call number handwritten in white ink at base of each spine. Wear and scuffing to both from library use. Ex-library with bookplate and library stamp on title page of each volume, some library stamps within. Numerous plates illustrate articles.
William Henry Preece (1834–1913) confirmed Thomas Edison's experiments demonstrating thermionic emission and coined the term, "Edison effect." Very Good. More

London: J. Johnson, 1775. Full Leather. Second Edition. xxiii, [4], 324, [4] pp. 8vo. Recent full leather binding in 18th century style. Brown leather with five raised bands at spine, burgundy patch title with gold lettering. Light age toning to interior. Previous owner's name in ink and dated 1777 on title page, second small ownership signature on third page with date 1902. Underlining in faded blue ink on pages 133, 178, & 179. Very clean overall. Two folding plates illustrating the apparatus used in the experiments, one tipped in opposite title page, second at end of Appendix at rear.
The first volume in Priestley's three volume work on the study of gases. This volume expands upon his observations reported in Volume 62 (1772) of the..... More