Recent Arrivals
Rockwellkentiana: Few Words and Many Pictures.
Kent, Rockwell. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1933. Hard Cover. First Edition. 64 pp. 4to. Wear and staining to covers, including glass ring stain to cover board, light loss to upper right corner of cover board. Age toning to endpapers, previous owner's bookplate on first free endpaper, bookseller tag at upper left corner of front pastedown.
Text by Rockwell Kent, bibliography by Carl Zigrosser which represents the first catalog raisonne of Kent's work. Good. More
Talitha Cumi: A Story of Freedom Through Christian Science.
Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1904. Hardcover. First Edition. 417 pp. 8vo. Brown decorative board with image of the heroine embossed on the front cover as well as a flower on the spine, gold embossed titling to both and minor bumping to corners. Foredge deckled, clean within.
Singed by the author on the first free endpaper in year of publication, "With the Compliments/of the Author./November 16, 1904" Very Good. More
Remembering Miss O'Keeffe: Stories from Abiquiu.
Wood, Myron (Photographer). Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2012. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 63 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. Fine / Fine. More
Grolier 2000: A Further Grolier Club Biographical Retrospective in Celebration of the Millenium.
New York: The Grolier Club, 2000. Hardcover. Limited Edition. XIX, 424 pp. 4to. Red cloth boards with an ivory buckram spine and a black patch label with gold embossed title. Housed in custom slipcase constructed of same red cloth and printed paper cover. Wonderful collection of biographies of former Grolier Club members, from collectors to printers.
One of the 250 specially bound copies from an edition of 750. Fine. More
Dreams in Dust: The Pastels of Lucas Samaras.
Samaras, Lucas. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 2016. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 95 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy of the catalog of the Morgan's exhibition of the same name. No dust jacket as issued. Fine. More
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits.
Auburn, VA: Gazelles Inc., 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Later Printing. xxvi, 150 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Fine / Fine. More
The 80/20 Individual.
New York: Currency Doubleday, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 247 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing to covers, crisp within. Fine / Fine. More
I F**KING LOVE THAT COMPANY: How a New Generation of Brand Builders Is Defining the Post-Amazon World.
Ithaca, NY: Paramount Market Publishing, Inc., 2014. Trade paperback. First Edition. 71 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Brand new! Fine. More
Reprints of Publications on Viet Nam 1966-1970.
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
Speak Up With Confidence: How to Prepare, Learn, and Deliver Effective Speeches.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1982. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Printing. 152 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by Jack Valenti on the half-title page. Fine / Fine. More
Waterborne.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 397 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by author on title page. Fine / Fine. More
The News from Paraguay.
New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2004. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 248 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp, never read and in mylar cover. Winner of the National Book Award for 2004.
Inscribed by Lily Tuck on title page. Fine / Fine. More
Preserving Capital and Making it Grow.
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 274 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket crisp and in mylar cover. Very minor spotting to foredges. Interior clean and crisp.
Signed by John Train on the title page. Very good / Fine. More
Winthrop W. Aldrich: Lawyer Banker Diplomat.
Boston, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1968. Hardcover. First Edition. x, [2], 536 pp. 8vo. Deep yellow dust jacket with chips, tears, losses,sunning to spine, and staining, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with slight rubbing from use. Light spots of staining on foredges.
Winthrop Williams Aldrich (1885-1974) was Ambassador to the Court of St. James from 1953 to 1957. Aldrich was also the brother of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Very Good / fair. More
The Mosher Books: A List of Books in Belles Lettres Issued in Choice and Limited Editions MDCCCXCI-MDCCCCXIII.
Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1913. Wraps. First Edition. 79 [80] pp. 8vo. Green paper wraps, in a yapped design, with minor chippng. Interior clean and tight. [Bishop 257]. Very Good. More
Twenty-One Years of The Anthoensen Press 1947-1967: A Bibliographical Catalog.
Portland, ME: The Anthoensen Press, 1971. Wraps. Limited Edition. 75 pp. 8vo. Light blue paper wraps with some minor soiling from age. Clean within.
Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Very Good. More
The Collectible Maxfield Parrish.
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 204 pp. Folio. Dust jacket has minor sunning along base of dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Fine / Very Good. More
The Private Presses.
Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, Inc., 1969. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 240 pp. 8vo. Scuffing to dust jacket, some staining, small closed tear at upper left corner of front panel, now in mylar cover. Some stainng to foredge, clean within.
A survey of the work of the following presses: Daniel, Kelmscott, Vale, Eragny, Ashendene, Essex House, Doves, Golden Cockerel, Gregynog, and Shakespeare Head. Fine / very good. More
Fashionable Selby.
New York: Abrams, 2014. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 345 pp. 4to. Very light scuffing to cover, clean and crisp within. No dust jacket as issued.
Signed boldly in black marker by Selby on the first free endpaper. Very Good. More
My Father Who Is On Earth.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1946. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 195 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket is clean and tight with very minor sunning to the spine, now in mylar cover. Front cover design very reminiscent of his father, Frank Lloyd Wright's style, also the "Father" referenced in the title. Includes the complete text of "The House Beautiful" by William Gannet published as a limited edition by Wright client, William Winslow, in 1896 and illustrated by Frank Lloyd Wright. [Sweeney 648]. Signed by John Lloyd Wright on the half-title page.
The second son of Frank Lloyd Wright and Catherine Tobin Wright, John Lloyd Wright (1892-1927), like is elder brother Lloyd (Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.) followed their father into the profession of architecture. Like so..... More
Good-Bye, Mr. Chips.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 126 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing to dust jacket with small stain at upper left corner of front which wraps a bit to the spine, tiny tear here and there along the edges, small loss at head of spine, now in mylar cover. Yellow cloth boards with blue embossed titling to cover and spine, clean and crisp within.
The basis for two movies (1939 & 1969) for which Robert Donat won the Oscar for Best Actor at the 1940 Oscars, beating out Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Mickey Rooney, and Jimmy Stewart. Fine / Very Good. More
Professional Magic for Amateurs.
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1947. Hardcover. First Edition. xvi, 225 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing and wear to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Very minor wear to the cover boards, clean within. Very Good / Very Good. More
My Antonia.
Brenda, W. T. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiii [i], 418 [419] pp. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with warm orange titling to cover and spine. Slight sunning to spine, general wear overall, bumping to corners including harder compression bump to the front boards lower right corner, minor fraying to head and foot of spine. Interior quite clean with previous owner's name in blue ink on first free endpaper as well as a heavy erasure mark and a small loss at upper right corner of leaf, "Peabody Book Shop, Baltimore" bookseller's label at base of front pastedown near gutter. Contains first state printing of illustrations by W. T. Brenda on glossy stock. Very Good. More
Magical Experiments or Science in Play.
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, Publisher, 1894. Hardcover. First Edition. First American Edition. 329 pp. 8vo. Light grayish-pink decorative cloth binding with embossed titling in gold and black, slight wear and scuffing, spine has minor sunning. Interior clean and crisp with a penciled initial on the upper left corner of the front pastedown. Laid in is a 15 pp magic catalog, "Complete Manual for Adams' Real Magic Sets" printed on very low quality paper and in tenuous condition.
A very interesting early book on table magic focused on easy science experiments or demonstrations. Very Good. More