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
Bronxville, NY: Bronxville Centennial Celebration, Inc., 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 351 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York: The Science Press, 1914. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. viii, 624 pp. 8vo. Dark burgundy three-quarter leather bindings with peddled cloth insets to front and rear boards. Considerable scuffing and wear overall. Gold embossed tilting to spine. Interior clean.
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) was an American geneticist and embryologist. This article describes Morgan's theories about the pivotal roles of genese and chromosomes in the process of evolution, which he describes in more detail in his famous 1915 boopk, "The Mechanism of Mendelian Inheritance." Morgan won the Nobel Prize for Physiology of Medicine in 1933. Good. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1932. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, 286 pp. 8vo. Red cloth boards that have darkened slightly at spine due to sunning, titling faded. Clean and crisp within.
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) was an American geneticist and embryologist. This title collects a series of lectures that Morgan gave at Cornell University in 1931 on the topic of the biology of evolution. Morgan won the Nobel Prize for Physiology of Medicine in 1933. Very Good. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Original two-volume set in slipcase. Plain paper dust jackets with tilting only to spine, light scuffing, in mylar covers. Slipcase is missing rear panel and is in Fair condition with many losses and chipping at edges. Illustrations by Bertram Greene, Maps by Erwin Raisz. Fine / Very Good. More
Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1980. Wraps. First Edition. 12 pp. 8vo. Gray wraps with a very slight brightening along the spine and top edge. Two Barry Moser wood engravings printed within, printed by Moser's pressman, Harold McGrath. Publisher's order card laid in. Printed in an edition of 1,000 copies.
Sales catalog that also celebrates the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Pennyroll Press. Fine. More
Moss, Bill. Camden, ME: LLC, 2013. Hardcover. First Edition. 301 pp. Oblong 4to. Cover is a photograph of the subject, Bill Moss, beneath one of his creations. Red cloth spine with black embossed title, no dust jacket as issued.
A biography, memoir, and business biography of Bill Moss (1923-1994), Marilyn Moss, and Moss Tent. A wildly successful business in midcoast Maine. Bill Moss invented the Pop-Tent in 1955, which created huge change in the camping industry.
This copy is inscribed by the author in silver ink on the title page. Fine. More
Sea Cliff, NY: The Absolute Sound, 1973-2005. Wraps. First Edition. 147 issues, missing #5, 133, 140, & 144. Issues progressed over time from stapled 8vo size to its fourth size iteration in 1999 as a standard magazine 4to. This run of 147 issues is in Very Good to Fine condition overall with a few tears to issues here and there are losses to the front of issue #56 and rear of issue #57, as well as the front of that same issue and rear of issue #58 where they stuck together in storage. Issue #151 has a permanent "Courtesy of..." sticker on the front cover. Interiors clean and crisp. Will require additional postage due to weight of set.
The premiere magazine for audiophiles, still in..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1963. Hardcover. First Edition. 1434, LV pp. 4to. Green library binding, ex-library with stamp of "Technical Library, U.S. Naval Propellant Plant, Indian Head, Maryland" on first free endpaper, title page, and final free endpaper. No other library markings present Clean within.
An early paper by James Peebles (b. 1935) who was named a Nobel Laureate in Physics in 2019 for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
Volume also contains J. Tuzo William's article, "Did the Atlantic Close and then Re-Open?? (pp. 676-681) where Wilson first proposes the theory of "Continental Drift." Very Good. More
Pfeiffer, Walter. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 254 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Self Published, 1971. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. 8vo. Stapled sheets with dark ivory covers. A reprint of articles on Vietnam by the writer. Very Good. More
Berkeley, CA: The Friends of The Bancroft Library, 1958. Wraps. First Edition. 15 pp. 4to. Dark heavy ivory paper wraps with slight scuffing from shelf wear. Clean within. Very Good. More
Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1991. Wraps. First Edition. First Dawson's Book Shop edition. 111 pp. 8vo. Green paper wraps. Clean and crisp within.
A reprint with a new Preface of the book that Powell first published in 1951. Fine. More
Dallas, TX: Degoyler Library, Southern Methodist University, 1990. Hardcover. Limited Edition. xvi, 123 pp. Light tan buckram boards with an illustration of a compass pointing southwest printed on paper and inset into the cover. Clean within. No dust jacket as issued. Fine. More
California: California Private Academic Libraries, 1988. Wraps. Limited Edition. 32 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy in ivory wraps.
Printed in an edition of 150 copies for the joint meeting of the Zamorano & Roxburghe Clubs held in San Francisco October 1-2, 1988. Printed by Peter Koch of Oakland, California. Fine. More
Berkeley, CA: Peacock Press, 1965. Wraps. First Edition. 15, [4 ads] pp. 24mo. Stiff orange wraps and clean within.
A reprint, in small book form, of Powell's ode to the small book originally published in the New York Times on December 6, 1964. Signed by Powell on the title page. Contains original mailing envelope in which it was sent to Roger Larson, MD, (1924-2013) who later went on to write "Controversial James: An Essay on the Life and Work of George Wharton James" published by the Book Club of California in 1991 and with a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Larson cites Powell as his inspiration and the person who nudged him repeatedly to write the book. An interesting association copy. Fine... More
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. xi, 95 pp. 12mo. Light dust staining along head of text block. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Very Good / Fine. More
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1987. Wraps. First Edition. Second Printing, 1989. 25 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with light age toning along spine on rear panel.
A wonderful address by Powell on the joys of books and libraries. Designed by his lifelong friend and collaborator Ward Ritchie and bawdily inscribed to Ritchie's companion, actress and fine press printer Gloria Stuart. Powell grew up with Ward Ritchie (fellow bookman and printer extraordinaire) in Southern California where the two of them were part of an intimate group in the late 1920s and early 1930s that included M.F.K. Fisher, Gloria Stuart and her first husband, sculptor Gordon Newell. Fine. More
Los Angeles, CA: The Zamorano Club, 1961. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 107 pp. 4to. Blue printed paper wraps with black cloth spine with titling embossed in gold. Heavy divot at head of spine across top of boards and text block has left an unsightly tear front and rear. Slightwavering of paper at text block due to the blow making it a nice reading copy.
Printed in an edition of 500 copies with, in addition to being an essay contributor, Ward Ritchie one of the printers along with Saul Marks, Gordon Holmquist, and Grant Dahlstrom. Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1877. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, v, 569 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gold embossed titling to spine.
Rayleigh's seminal analysis of the perception of sound. Basis for his famous book on the topic "The Theory of Sound" (1877/1878). Fine. More
Syracuse, NY: Privately Published, 1917. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 437 pp. 8vo. Red cloth boards with blind and embossed border to front and rear boards, gold embossed titling to spine; minor wear to covers. Previous owner's signature and ownership stamp within, ex-library stamp at base of copyright page. A very clean copy with a small rough spot at head of half-title page where that page and first free endpaper and stuck together at some point.
Fascinating work on the various stone and clay building materials, how they are quarried, made, shaped, and installed. Heavily illustrated with 303 copper halftones and 10 zinc etchings. An important reference item for anyone interested in restoration or architectural history. Signed by Richardson, "With compliments of/the Author" Very Good... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. First American Edition. First Printing. 326 pp. Clean, crisp copy. Fine / Fine. More
London: Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd., 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 453 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Heavy item, may require additional postage. Fine / Fine. More
Robinson, Irene. Los Angeles, CA: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1958. Trade paperback. First Edition. First Trade Paperback Edition. 86 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with very minor wear from reading, now in custom mylar jacket.
The popularity of the limited edition hardcover version of this title led the authors to publisher a less expensive version in black and white with a paper cover. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell on the title page. Fine. More
New York/Norwalk, CT: Abrams Press/Easton Press, 2009. Full Leather. Facsimile Edition. 223 pp. 4to. Full green leather binding with gold stamped title to cover and spine which is decorated with three raised bands; Rockwell illustration of Santa reading letters at a small desk inset on cover. Gold silk ribbon, moire endpapers, all edges gilt.
Easton Press packaged the 2009 reprint edition of as one of their leather bound books. No Easton Press imprint to be found, but perfectly matches their style. Fine. More
