Museum Jean Tingueley Basel: Exposition Inaugurale 1996-1997.
Tingueley, Jean. Wabern-Bern, Switzerland: Benteli Druck AG, 1996. Wraps. First Edition. 191 pp. 4to. Text in German and French. Fine. More
Recent Arrivals
Ceramics of Shimaoka Tatsuzo. Living National Treasure -- A Rertrospective.
Tatsuzo, Shimaoka. La Jolla, CA: Mingei International Museum, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 148 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Engelskmann I Lofoten: A Norwegian Sketchbook.
Clarke, Graham. Oslo, Norway: J. W. Cappelens Forlag A.S., 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. 71 pp. Oblong 12mo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
Acadia National Park: A Centennial Celebration.
Blagden, Jr., Tom. New York: Rizzoli, 2016. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 223 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by the author to previous owner on the second free endpaper. Fine / Fine. More
New Year's Day.
Binghamton, NY: The Bellevue Press, 1978. Broadside. First Edition. 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" postcard printed as a broadside of Ted Kooser's short poem, "New Year's Day"in black ink on a goldenrod field. This was the first printing of the poem by the the man who would become the U.S. Poet Laureate, serving two terms from 2004-2006. Fine. More
American Folk Marquetry: Masterpieces in Wood.
New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 239 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
American Folk Marquetry: Masterpieces in Wood.
New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 239 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with price clipped dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by the then-director of the Museum of American Folk Art, Gerard C. Wertkin to the previous owner. Fine / Fine. More
Daniel Boulud's Café Boulud Cookbook: French-American Recipes for the Home Cook.
New York: Scribner's, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 400 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed, "Happy Cooking! / Daniel Boulud / June 13, 2000" on second free endpaper. Fine / fine. More
The Genius of Nicolai Fechin: Recollections by Forrest Fenn.
Santa Fe, NM: One Horse Land & Cattle Company/Nedra Matteucci Galleries, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 146 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. Dust jacket has a 1" closed tear at upper right corner of rear panel, now in mylar cover. Fine / Very Good. More
New Mexican Tinwork 1840-1940.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxii, 189 pp. Oblong 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
The Age of Intelligent Machines.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. 565 pp. 4to. Dust jacket clean, tight, and in mylar cover. Very light spotting along head of text block, clean within.
Inscribed by Kurzweil on the title page. Very Good / Fine. More
Windmill Weights.
Newark, NJ: Johnson & Simpson, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 98 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by Milt Simpson on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
Success: It's a Beautiful Thing. Lessons on Life and Business from the Founder of Blimpie International.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xii, 242 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by Tony Conza on the half-title page. Fine / Fine. More
Red Flag Cars of China.
Changchun, China: Yilin Graphic Arts Co., c. 1996. First Edition. Unpag. Oblong 4to. Red cloth covers with gold embossed titling in Chinese characters and English.
A China-produced overview of the "Red Flag Cars," which statrted as the official staff cars of the Chinese Communist Party in the late 1950s under Mao Zedong. The Company now exists as the Hongqi brand. This publication contains dozens of photographs, both color and black & white, showing the various models and their evolution. More
Romania at the Moment of Truth.
Paris: Editions Henri Berger, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. 271 pp. 4to. Brown cloth boards with author's signature embossed in white on front board.
Inscribed by Ion Iliescu on the second free endpaper while he was President of Romania (December 26, 1989-November 29, 1996) to Dana Mead (1936-2018), then CEO of Tenneco, a large U.S. conglomerate that had become one of the first U.S. companies to invest in post-communist Romania by opening a large hardwood processing plant. Fine. More
America's First Frogman: the Draper Kauffman Story.
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiv, 221 pp. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by the author to the previous owner's on the title page. Elizabeth Kauffman Bush is the sister of the subject, and wife of Prescott Bush, brother of President George H. W. Bush and uncle of President George W. Bush. Fine / Fine. More
The Real Majority: An Extraordinary Examination of the Americal Electorate.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. First Edition. 347 pp. 8vo. Wear and scufing to dust jacket, closed tear at upper right corner of rear panel, light chipping at edges, now in mylar cover. Some soiling to foredge, minor. Clean within.
Inscribed to the previous owner by Richard Scammon on half-title page, previous owner's name also in ink on first free endpaper. Very Good / Very Good. More
Building with Nature: Inspiration for the Arts & Crafts Home.
Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2005. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. xii, 229 pp. 4to. Light scuffing to dust jacket, price clipped and in mylar cover.
Signed by the author on the half-title page. Very Good / Very Good. More
The Angler in India or The Mighty Mahseer. Being the incorporated 3rd edition of The Angler in Northern India and The Mighty Mahseer.
New Delhi, India: Natraj Publishers, 1993. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition. xv, 786, viii pp. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover.
A reprint of the 1923 edition. Very Good / Very Good. More
Midnight's Children.
New York: Everyman's Library, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. First Everyman's Library Edition. xxxi, 589 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover.
Signed by Salman Rushdie on the title page. Fine / Very Good. More
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974. Hardcover. First Edition. 271 pgs. 8vo. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Light wear to dust jacket at corners, small tear at foot of spine, minor soiling, barely noticeable, now in mylar cover. Clean within.
An interesting combination. Meets the point of a First Printing, with full number page on last page, but has blind stamp bookmark square on rear board, no pice on dust jacket. Signed by Annie Dillard on title page. Fine / Very Good. More
Spiritually Moving: A Collection of American Folk Art Sculpture.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. Elephant Folio. Clean, crisp extravagantly illustrated volume of one person's collection. Laid in is a 16 pp. catalog of black and white images that provides the background information for each of the series of color photographs of the same objects in the book. Slipcase in fine condition, decorated with same photographs that illustrate the dust jacket, front and rear.
Signed by Geismar and Kahn in year of publication on second free endpaper. Fine / Fine. More
Berenice Abbott: Portaits, The American Scene, Science; New York (2 Volumes).
Abbott, Berenice. Gottingen, Germany: Steidl/Commerce Graphics, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 263, 315 pp. Folio. Gray cloth boards with black and white photographs by Abbott, inset into the front cover of both and directly above Berenice Abbott's signature embossed in white. White embossed titling to spine. Interiors clean, like new. Light gray cloth slipcase with Abbott's signature embossed in black on both sides. Very light soil mark on top of slipcase.
Important publication by the highly respected printer, Gerhard Steidl, a favorite of the late designer, Karl Lagerfeld. A production that was both brilliantly conceived and printed. Fine. More
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, ou Lettres Recueillies dans une Société, & publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres.
Amsterdam/Paris: Duranc Neveu, 1782. Full Leather. First Edition. Second Printing. [5]-248; [5]-242; [5]-231; [5]-257 pp. 8vo. Four volumes bound in two. Contemporary calf binding with considerable wear, hinges beginning to split due to the age and the leather that was not well oiled in its 238 years, but still tight to spine and boards. Marbled endpapers. Title patch missing from Volume I. Interior very clean. Gift inscription in very light ink on second free endpaper of bound Volume 2.
State "B" or second printing as identified by Max Brun, meets all first printing attributes except that the editor's note on the final page of Volume 4 is set in 16 lines instead of the 15 lines as it was in the first printing (Brun, Max..... More
Eliot Porter's Southwest.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 25 pp. 88 plates. 4to. Clean, crisp dust jacket in mylar cover. Dark orange rust-colored cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Crisp within.
Eliot Porter (1901-1990) is closely identified with the lavish color photographs reproduced in the various books he published with the Sierra Club. His photographs of the canyons now drowed by the Glenn Canyon Dam, sparked a new resistance against reclamation projects in the 1960s. Porter's mastery of black and white photography can be too easily forgotten; this volume reminds us of that mastery when he turned his lens on the American Southwest, his home over forty years. Signed by Eliot Porter on the title page. Fine / Fine..... More