Arising from Bondage: A History of the Indo-Caribbean People.
New York: New York University Press, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 387 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York: New York University Press, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 387 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. Hardcover. First Edition. Fourth Printing. 407 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Clean within.
Sigend by the author on the first free endpaper. Very Good / very good. More
Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1990. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 166 pp. 4to. Light scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear; small, closed tears at head of dust jacket, head and foot of spine as well as head and foot of rear panel, now in mylar cover.
Signed by the author, a granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., on the half-title page. A scarce book on John D. Rockefeller's system of carriage roads built for what is now Acadia National Park. Fine / Good. More
New York: Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc., 1937. Wraps. As. 48 pp. Folio. Orange paper wraps with photograph of Rodgers on front cover. Slight scuffing front and rear, tape repairs to spine where it began to split. Previous owner's name front cover. Clean within. 35 Songs written and popularized by Jimmie Rodgers. Good. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. xvii, 606 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More
Rohd, Gilbert. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiii, 274 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Aultman, Otis A. El Paso, TX: El Paso Public Library Association, 1977. Hardcover. Limited Edition. xiii, [1], 100 plates. Oblong Folio. Includes the usually discarded onionskin dust jacket that has small chip and tears at the edges, losses at the head and spine. Red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine, the subject's logo is replicated on the gray endpapers, clean and crisp within. Photograph prints by Charles H. Binion.
Signed by the author on the half-title page. Published in an edition of 3,000 copies with the plates destroyed after printing. Printing supervised by Lyman E. Dutton and Carl Hertzog. Longtime book designer and printer Carl Hertzog's monogram appears on the colophon. Fine / Good. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. Hardcover. First Edition. Seventh Printing. xiv, 577 pp. 8vo. Light green cloth boards that have faded slightly and darkened at spine from sunning. Clean wihtin.
Inscribed by historian and Kennedy White House insider Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. () on the first free endpaper. Good. More
Sewell, Mark. Sewell Creative, 2019. Hardcover. First Edition. Unpag. Oblong Folio. Printed color photo cover is clean and crisp, slight bum, to upper right corner of front board. No dust jacket, as issued.
Just what it says it is, early morning photographs by photographer Mark Sewell. Fine. More
Greenfield, MA: A. Phelps, 1834. Hardcover. First Edition. First A. Phelps/Greenfield Edition. 71 pp. 32mo. Paper covered boards with printed titling, leather spine. Boards have considerable wear and scuffing front and rear, but title still visible. Leather spine separating from boards and quite crisp, but boards still tight to text block. Foxing to endpapers, front and rear, some minor spotting within, overall darkening to pages from age. Four rear leaves missing small bits at the upper right corner and along foredge, but does not effect text. A hardy little volume.
Originally published in 1821, this volume went through various reprintings, but this is the first Phelps edition. An early juvenile fiction piece in the abolitionist movement. Good... More
Girard, KS: The Appleal to Reason, 1906. Hardcover. First Edition. 142 pp. 8vo. Scuffing and small chips to edges of dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Bright blue cloth boards with white embossed titling to cover board. Interior very clean.
Jackets in this kind of condition for this book are extremely rare. Very Good / Very Good. More
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, 160 pp. Oblong Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Philadelphia, PA: The Society of Architectural Historians, 1991. Wraps. First Edition. 4to. Dark rust paper covers with very light scuffing.
Siry's important article on an early project by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is explored on pp. 235-265. The Abraham Lincoln Center was started by Wright, but finished by Dwight Heald Perkins after Wright's falling out with his uncle and patron, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, over design details. Fine. More
New York: Aperture Foundation, 1979. Wraps. First Edition. Clean, crisp copy. Brand new, still in original shrink wrap.
Contents: People and Ideas -- Wheeling and Dealing at Rochester, Aaron Siskind at 75. Walter Chappell: A Metaflora Portfolio -- Photographs and Text by Walter Chappell. The Island of the Strong Door -- Poem by Alan Garner, Photographs by Paul Caponigro. Paul Caponigro: Stonehenge. On the Recent Photography of Siegfried Halus -- Fragments from a Collectanea
Selected and Arranged by William E. Parker. Alen MacWeeney: An Irish Odyssey -- The Tale of the Tinker, Photographs by Alen MacWeeney, Essay by Valerie Moolman. Laurence Bach: Paros Shards -- Photographs by Laurence Bach, Text by Don Earnest. Fine. More
Morrell, Joyce E. Campobello Island, New Brunswick/Santa Barbara, CA: Friends of the Headharbour Lightstation/Sea Hill Press, Inc., 2014. Hardcover. First Edition. 147 pp. 8vo. Red cloth boards with gold embossed titling. No dust jacket, as issued. A clean, crisp copy.
The delightful and inspiring story, in her own words, of Mary Snell who lost her sighat at the age of seven but lived an active life. This book recounts her early life as the daughter of the second lighthouse keeper at Headharbour Lightstation at the north end of the island of Campobello, summer home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Fine. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. Hardcover. Library Edition. 478, 466, 516 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth publisher bindings with gold embossed titling to spine. Scuffing and bumping to covers of each volume. Each volume has printed yellow endpapers, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, and endpapers that have split at gutter but are still tight to text block. Clean within. Very Good. More
Orono, Maine: The University of Maine Press/The Baxter Society, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 156 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
The Maine "100" Fine / Fine. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, 214 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has considerable darkening, chipping at edges, darkening to spine that has faded titling, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling and profile of Sherlock Holmes on cover. Some darkening and scuffing to covers. Interior quite clean with overall darkening of pages due to quality of paper. Very Good / Good. More
Portland, OR: Timber Press, Inc., 2004. Trade paperback. Fourth Edition. xiv, 546 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with minimal shelf wear at edges. Fine. More
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxv, 358 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1862. First Edition. Extracted from original volume. 21 pp. 4to. Very light toning from age.
George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) conducted groundbreaking research in fluid dynamics, light, fluorescence, polarization, chemical analysis, and opthalmology. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1848. First Edition. Extracted from original volume. 16 pp. 4to. Very light toning from age.
George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) conducted groundbreaking research in fluid dynamics, light, fluorescence, polarization, chemical analysis, and opthalmology. Very Good. More
New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. Hard Cover. First Edition. First US Edition. First Printing. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
London: H. S. Nichols, 1895. Three Quarter Leather. As. xx, 352, 312 pp. Three-Quarter leather binding in white leather that has darkened over time, covers have soiling and spine with five raised bands has darkened considerably with age. Top edges of text block are gilt, clean within. Original burgundy cloth covers bound in at rear of each volume. Very Good. More
White Wolf, Inc., 1995. Wraps. First Edition. 4to. Light scuffing to cover wraps. Minor toning at edge of first free endpaper. Clean within.
A remarkebly scarce publication. Very Good. More