Park Forest, IL: The Prairie School Press, 1963. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition. Unpag. Folio. Green cloth boards with brown cloth over spine that wraps 1/3 of the way to front and rear boards, gold embossed titling to spine and rear board. Top edge gilt. Small bump 1-1/2" above foot of spine. Prospectus laid in. Housed in custom green cloth slipcase.
A stunning copy of the facsimile edition of "The House Beautiful" produced by William Winslow and his Auvergne Press in 1896/1897. Winslow was a client of Frank Lloyd Wright and enlisted Wright to create the intricate designs that adorn each page. Winslow's original edition was bound with a brown leather spine, here reproduced in cloth. A faithful facsimile, this edition even includes the fourteen page booklet..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xix, 712 pp. 8vo. Clean, crsip copy with dust jacket in myalr cover. Signed by Robert Caro in heavy blue ink on title page. Fine / Fine. More

Horgan, Paul. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1956. Three Quarter Leather. Limited Edition. xiii, 363 pp. Three quarter brown leather binding with beige cloth insets, gold titling to spine. Map illustrated endpapers of the Southwest with a New Mexico inset. Color frontispiece by Paul Hogan tipped in. Clean, tight copy. Original slipcase in Very Good Condition with light wear at edges, title label (copy number hand written) pasted to front panel. Produced in an edition of 375 copies, this being #257 and signed by Horgan at the colophon. Fine. More

Weston, Edward. Yosemite National Park, CA / Boston, MA: Virginia Adams / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. Comb Binding. First Edition. 79, [1] pp. Folio. Unpag. Cardboard covers with white plastic comb binding. Notorious for cover boards separating from spine, which this one has with the front and rear boards detached. Chipping and wear to both boards with losses at corners, creasing. Light foxing to first free endpaper, clean within. Illustrated with 30 plates of Weston's work in black & white. A very slight musty smell to the volume, photographs exquisite.
An important book in that it was Weston's last and includes the last photograph he ever took, #19, "Eroded Rocks, South Shore, 1948." Also significant in that it was published by Ansel Adams wife, Virginia..... More

Self Published, 2017. Trade paperback. First Edition. 254 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Fine. More

New York: HarperBusiness, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. xix, 235 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by Peter Drucker on the first free endpaper. Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005) was the foremost management thinker of the 20th century who wrote extensively on management, managing oneself, and overall challenges facing society with the growth of the modern corporation. Drucker was also known as the "Father" of modern management. It was not often that Drucker signed books, he was not one for book tours or for leaving his home in Claremont, California -- those seeking his advice came to him. Fine / Very Good. More

London: Harding, Mavor and Lepard, 1823-1834. Full leather. First Edition. 4to. Brown leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy and black leather patch titles to spine of each volume. Each binding has boards that are splitting at hinge, wear and chipping to edges. Three line gold border to front and rear covers, elaborate dentelles to front and rear pastedowns, marbled endpapers, previous owner's bookplate on pastedown of each volume. Light foxing throughout, almost all portraits have ghosted onto the tissue guard protecting each. Very Good. More

Tahoma, CA: L & L Publishing, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. x, 380 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by author in year of publication on first free endpaper. A compendium of tricks exclusively published for magicians working the restaurant trade. Fascinating! Fine / fine. More

Cabot, VT: Vermont Stoveside Press, 1967. Wraps. Limited Edition. 1 pp. 8vo. Single piece of heavy stock paper folded in half and printed all sides.
Produced in an edition of 250 copies, this being copy #9. Signed by author in red ink at base of third page. Fine. More

Willcox, Sandy. Cabot, VT: Vermont Stoveside Press, 1967. Wraps. Limited Edition. 25 pp. 8vo. Heavy red paper wraps, pamphlet stitched. Clean within. A crisp, well designed book.
Produced in an edition of 250 copies, this is a variant in that it is marked "Press Proof" Printed in handset Bodoni on an 8x12 foot treadled platen press, hand-bound by the printers and poet. Fine. More

Sinclair Hitchings, 2009. Broadside. First Edition. 12-1/4 x 14-1/2" Designed by Stephen Stinehour. Printed in typeface Minion, display lettering in Braggadocio on Mohawk Superfine paper.
Published for a meeting in 2009 for the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston. Fine. More

Sinclair Hitchings, 2010. Broadside. First Edition. 9 1/2 by 13 inches of David McCord's Oregon published by Sinclair Hitchings in memory of David McCord and Ray Nash. This is the facsimile edition by Stephen Stinehour. The original edition was printed for the Massachusetts Historical Society by the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont in 1959 and was designed by Ray Nash. Fine. More

Coleman, Nancy L. Lancaster, PA: Pennsylvania Farm Museum, 1977. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Unpag. 16mo. A simple binding with blue cloth boards with gold embossed frog on upper left corner of front board, green printed endpapers. Poetry, prose, and woodcuts by the author/artist celebrating the present and past of The Landis Valley.
Text printed in 12 pt. Latin Antique and printed on a c. 1825 press at the Pennsylvania Farm Museum in an edition of 50 copies, this being #9 and signed by the artist at the colophon. Fine. More