Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 2016. Quarter-Cloth. Limited Edition. xxii, 404 pp. 4to. Quarter-cloth binding with blue coth title patch to spine with gold embossed titling. Folded map tipped in at rear. Custom mylar dust jacket protects the binding.
Produced in an edition of 227 copies, 100 were produced in quarter-cloth and numbered 91-190, this one being #162. Signed by author at end of foreword on p. xix. Fine / Fine. More

Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 2016. Hardcover. Limited Edition. xvii, 302 pp. 4to. Red cloth binding with blind embossed border on front board, gold embossed titling to spine. Head of text block gilded. Dust jacket clean, crisp and in mylar cover.
Produced in an edition of 377 copies, 225 were produced in cloth and numbered 86-310, this one being #98. Signed by author at end of foreword on p. xv. Fine / Fine. More

Milan, Italy: Edizioni del Naviglio, 1969. Hardcover. Limited Edition. [42] pp. 4to. Accordion bound with white cloth front and rear boards and a Sonia Delaunay design gracing the front cover. Extremely clean and crisp within. 27 color lithographs of Delaunay's costume designs. Produced in a limited edition of 150 copies, numbers I-XXV were reserved for the authors, the remaining copies (XXVI-CL) are numbered and signed by both Delaunay and Damase at the colophon, this being #LIX (59). Housed in original scarlet cloth covered clamshell box with "Sonia Delaunay" printed in blue on cover and in Very Good condition with light scuffing and fading from time. OCLC lists only six institutions with a copy in their holdings, quite surprising given Delaunay's work crossing both art and... More

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. Hardcover. Limited Edition. xi, 252 pp. Folio. Red cloth boards with title blind embossed on front board, gold embossed to spine. Housed in matching red cloth slipcase.
Second installment in an exceptional work that both explains the rise in film noir but also features the books that inspired the films. An important refernce work for any bibliophile with an interest in film and mid-century America. Printed in a Deluxe Limited Edition of 110 copies, this is copy #23 and is signed by Kevin Johnson and Guy Maddin on the colophon. Fine. More

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 467, [468]-838 pp. 8vo. Very light stain to foot of spine of Volume Two. Clean, crisp copie housed in the original publisher's slipcase in Good condition with chipping and wear at edges.
Signed by the author and illustrator, Tom Lea on the half-title page. Very Good. More

Lea, Tom. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 244 pp. Light scuffing to dust jacket, small closed tear at top of front panel, 1/4" loss at top of rear panel in center. Color frontispiece illustration, illustrated throughout.
A wonderful book written and illustrated by Southwest Artist Tom Lea, famous for his book "Brave Bulls" and the magisterial two volume history of the King Ranch. Inscribed and signed by author opposite title page "Inscribed for Walter Beinecke with all good wishes." Walter Beinecke was one members of the Beinecke Family that donated the funds to build the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Fine / Very Good. More

Kingsville, TX: King Ranch, Inc. 1986. Wraps. First Edition. 42 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy. Fine. More

New York: Weinstein Books, 2013. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 302 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Light bumping to corners of boards.
Inscribed by former United States Senator Olympia Snowe on the title page. Fine / fine. More

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. Clean, crisp copy. 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 sewn in on the... More

New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, 2002. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 205 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp, never read. Fine / fine. More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1875. Three Quarter Leather. Second Edition. vi, 331 pp., 6 plates, 49 sheets of folding plans, folding color map at read. Dark brown leather spine with five raised bands, gold embossed titling, dark brown leather corners with light scuffing, pebbled brown cloth insets. Marbled endpapers, clean and crisp within. Second and best edition with the addition of "Including Yellowstone National Park" in title. [Howes J245].
Important early documentation of the geology and natural attributes of Yellowstone National Park. Very Good. More

Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1995. Trade Paperback. As. Clean, crisp copy. 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