New York: Swann Galleries, 2005-2007. Wraps. First Edition. First Printing. 162, 170, 187 pp. 4to. Light wear and scuffing but very clean with no markings within. Absentee bid sheets removed from Volumes I and II. Prices realized for each auction laid into each volume.
Christian Fechner (1944-2008) was one of the premiere collectors of magic memoribilia. This three part sale, over three years, was one of the largest of its kind and was completed a year before Fechner's death at the age of 64. Very Good. More

New York: Hastings House, 1941. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxvi, 595 pp. 8vo. Dark blue cloth boards with gold embossed title to cover and spine. Front endpapers illustrated with a map of Utah keyed to tours described within, rear ednpapers illustrated with transportation map of the state. No separate map as issued.
A volume in the important WPA American Guide Series. Very Good. More

New York: Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1948. Wraps. First Edition. 219 pp. 4to. Minor soiling to covers, front and rear, small chips at edges. Clean within. Very Good. More

New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 301 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy. Signed by author on second free endpaper. Fine / Fine. More

Pawlet, VT: Claude Fredericks, 1960. wraps. Limited Edition. ix pp. 4to. Loose signatures in brown wraps. Clean and crisp within. Housed in original manila envelope with printer's return address printed on front, small tears at flap.
Printed by Claude Fredericks in an edition of 220 copies. Fine. More

Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xii, 175 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More

New York: Macfadden Books, 1968. Mass Market Paperback. First Edition. 175 pp. 12mo. Light wear and scuffing to covers,faded roung ink stamp at top left on front cover, minor soiling, creasing to spine. Very Good. More

San Diego, CA: Greenleaf Classics, Inc., 1970. Mass Market Paperback. As. 160 pp. 12mo. Light wear and scuffing to covers, minor soiling. Very Good. More

Rio di Janeiro/Salvador, Brazil: Livraria Kosmos Editora Ltda/Fundacao Cultural do Estado da Bahia, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. 146 pp. 4to. Light wear and chipping to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. White glossy cover boards with gray titling to cover and spine. Clean within. Heavily illustrated survey of decorative tiles of the Bahia region of Brazil. Very Good / Very Good. More

New York: Random House, 1939. Illustrated Boards. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. 4to. Color & b/w ills. Cover shows Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket with their shadows looming behind them -- full color on a light brown background. Navy backstrip has yellow lettering on spine. Corners are bumped and rubbed. Some edgewear. Spine cloth rubbed at hinges, slightly sunned. Bright yellow endpapers have articles from the toy workshop in red surrounding Pinocchio. Rear eps lightly soiled. From the Collodi book, this is the movie version of the story of the mischievous wooden puppet. Illustrations. taken from the motion picture. Pages have an occasional light fingerprint. Very Good. More

New York/Norwalk, CT: Abrams Press/Easton Press, 2009. Full Leather. Facsimile Edition. 223 pp. 4to. Full green leather binding with gold stamped title to cover and spine which is decorated with three raised bands; Rockwell illustration of Santa reading letters at a small desk inset on cover. Gold silk ribbon, moire endpapers, all edges gilt.
Easton Press packaged the 2009 reprint edition of as one of their leather bound books. No Easton Press imprint to be found, but perfectly matches their style. Fine. More

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2003. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. xi, 593 pp. 8vo. Four very light spots on head of text block, clean within. Dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Very Good / Fine. More

Easton, PA: American Chemical Society, 1919. Wraps. First Edition. [4], [113]-120, [855]-1030 pp. [4 pp. ads]. 8vo. Green paper covers with slight darkening at edges of front and rear covers from age, 1/2" loss at head of spine. Clean within.
In this 1819 paper Irving Langmuir (1881-1957) proposed a set of eleven postulates describing the arrangement of electrons in shells and layers, and used the postulates to derive the properties of the chemical elements. In the same paper he also coined the term “covalence.” Langmuir was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry.”. Very Good. More