New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. lxv, 427 pp. 8vo. In the scarce dust jacket that shows considerable wear and tear with losses at the top of the front panel, along its edges, slight soiling, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to front cover and spine which has considerable fading. Interior clean with endpapers sporting a "Sportsman's Map of Alaska" with the various species illustrated where they might be found. Folding map of state in Fine condition inserted into envelope tipped onto rear pastedown. Previous owner's name in black ink on upper left corner of the front pastedown and in blue ink on half-title page. Clean within.
One of the rarest volumes in the WPA..... More

Brock, H. M. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1935. Quarter Leather. Limited Edition. viii, [i], 132 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with very minor darkening to vellum spine. Slipcase last slight wear and scuffing, printed title and copy # written on spine.
Originally published in 1934, this Birthday Edition was published in an edition of 600 copies, signed by the author and illustrator, this being copy #220. Very Good. 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. 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

Wadsworth, Charles E. Boston, MA/Cambridge, England: David R. Godine/Rampant Lion's Press, 1975. Hardcover. First Edition. 123, [1] pp. Folio. Cloth spine with paper covered boards, gold titling to spine. Matching green cloth slipcase is Very Good with light wear.
A marriage of Fry's poetry with twelve (12) collagraph-intaglios by Wadsworth. A beautiful book produced with mould-made paper from the Wookey Hole Mill, Somerset, England; print paper is Umbria, hand made in Italy. Printed in an edition of 220 copies, this being #33 and signed by author and artist on the colophon. Fine. More

Russia: Mockba, 1965. Hard Cover. First Edition. Second Printing, 1966. 647 pp. 8vo. Only Russian Edition of Rockwell Kent's autobiography first published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1955. Dust jacket has minor chips and tears, scuffing, now in mylar cover. Slight bumping to cover boards, minor soiling at edges. Inscription on first free endpaper and note on rear pastedown, both in Russian.
Filled with Kent's illustrations and reproductions of color paintings that supplement the text. A stunning work when it was published in 1955 in the United States. Republished in the Soviet Union in 1965, with the new Russian text working almost seamlessly with the original illustrations [Libman 2875]. It is an extremely rare edition with none appearing in library holdings via OCLC. Very..... More

Van Vliet, Claire. West Burke, VT: The Janus Press, 1971. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. Ten loose signatures, as produced, in an olive green cloth covered clamshell box in Fine condition with paper label at spine.
Lithographs printed from stone on Zerkall Butten paper, text set in Monotype Times New Roman. Lithographs by Claire Van Vliet. 100 copies produced: first ten copies numbered I-X include an extra set of lithographs, this is copy number 58 of the remaining 90 copies, signed by the artist at colophon. Fine. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1878. Hardcover. First Edition. v, 756 pp. 31 plates. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Table of Contents has a horizontal tear mid-page on p.[v], triangular piece missing from lower right corner of p. 163. Interiors clean. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Adams and Day's paper oputlines their discovery that, when illuminated with a candle, that selenium produced a flow of electricity. Current solar panels and other solar charged equipment like desktop calculators were built off this principle.Also contains John..... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1], [1]-312, 16, [8] pp. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
John Herschel (1792-1871) invented this form of photographic reproduction as a way to capture data that was beyond the limits of human vision. Although known in the scientific community, cyanotype photography did not come into commercial use until after Herschel's death when it was capitalized on commercially by..... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [5], [1]-12, [1]-438, [8] pp. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Also contains William Bowman's "On the Structure and Use of the Malpighian Bodies of the Kidney, With Observations on the Circulation Through That Gland" (pp. 57-80) and John Herschel's "On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Vegetable Colours, and on some new Photographic Processes"..... More

New York: The Penguin Press, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 531 pp. 8vo. Clean crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by Alan Greenspan on the title page. Unusual in that most of the signed copies on the market are signed on a bookplate that was then affixed to the book. This book was handled by Greenspan, signed by Greenspan. Fine / Fine. More

New York: Random House, 1978. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 4to. 143 pp. Light scuffing to dust jacket, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Very Good / Very Good. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xix, 249 pp. 4to. Dust jacket tight and bright, now in mylar cover. Light spotting along head of text block, clean within.
Inscribed to previous owner by Dayton Duncan in black ink on half title page, also signed and dated 10/22/1997 in blue ink by Ken Burns. Very Good / Fine. More

New York: Self Published, 2015. Trade paperback. First Edition. First Printing. 328 pp. Clean, crisp copy. Fine. More