New York, NY: Viking, 1988. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. xxxi, 350 pp. 8vo. Slight scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Dust soiling along top edge of cover boards, small blue smudge at top of half title page, clean within.
Inscribed boldly by Senator Mitchell and Senator Cohen on half-title page. Very Good / Very Good. 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
White, Clarence H. New Haven, CT: Princeton University Art Museum/Yale University Press, 2017. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 408 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Extensive catalog of an exhibition that surveyed the work of Clarence H. White, his influence, and the influence he had on art photography at the turn and early years of the twentieth century. Fine / Fine. 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
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.
William Bowman (1816-1892) won the Royal Society of London's Royal Medal for this paper detailing his discovery of a key component of the nephron, now known as "Bowman's Capsule" which is the first step in the kidney's filtration of blood in the process that results in urine. Also..... 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
Albuquerque, NM: The Book Stops Here, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 103 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. 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
Bland, Mita Corsini. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xv, 256 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.
Inscrbied on the title page by author Susan Bartlett Crater. Fine / Fine. 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
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 193 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New Haven, CT: The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 1988/1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printings. 353, 316 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copies with dust jackets in mylar covers. Fine / Fine. More
London: Frances Lincoln, 2004. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 191 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 264 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar covered.
Signed by the author on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Hastings House, 1949. Hardcover. Book of the Month Club Edition. xxii, 1348 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has light wear and chipping, now in mylar cover. Dark blue cloth covr with gold embossed titling to spine and cover board. Clean and tight within. Endpapers illustrated with maps of the continental United States. Very Good / Very Good. More
New York: Hastings House, 1939. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xii, 244 pp. 8vo. Light tan/ivory buckram covers with an illustration of covered wagons sweeping across the cover and wrapping the spine, minor soiling to front, two circular stains at base of rear board. Darkening to front and rear pastedowns due to quality of paper and glue, previous owner's name ink at top left corner of front pastedown. Clean and crisp inside. Small tri-fold map tipped in at rear with light staining along hinge due to the poor quality glue.
One of the early regional guide volumes in the WPA supported American Guide Series. Good. More
New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., 1938. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxix, 244 pp. 8vo. Gray cloth boards with with an illustration of the highway along the Atlantic seaboard printed on cover, light wear to covers and corners. Darkening to front and rear pastedowns due to quality of paper and glue. Clean and crisp inside. Small tri-fold map tipped in at rear has staining along hinge due to the poor quality glue.
One of the early regional guide volumes in the WPA supported American Guide Series. Very Good. More
New York: Hastings House, 1940. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xvii, 531 pp. 8vo. Light blue cloth binding with wear to covers, ex-library with call numbers at base of spine. Library stamps throughout. Large folding map usually inserted in the pocket tipped in at rear is missing.
A volume in the important WPA American Guide Series. Good. More
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1940. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxviii, 559 pp. 8vo. Burgundy cloth binding with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Wear to covers, ex-library with call numbers at base of spine. Front endpapers illustrated by a map of Delaware keyed to tours described within; library stamps throughout. Large folding map usually inserted in the pocket tipped in at rear is missing.
A volume in the important WPA American Guide Series. Good. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxv, 549 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Wear to covers, ex-library with call numbers at base of spine. Front endpapers illustrated by a map of Delaware keyed to tours described within; library stamps throughout. Large folding map usually inserted in the pocket tipped in at rear is missing.
A volume in the important WPA American Guide Series. Good. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. Hardcover. Second Edition. xiv, 300 pp. 8vo. -green cloth binding with dark blue printed titling to cover and spine. Front endpapers illustrated with a map of Idaho indicating tours delineated within. Clean and crisp within.
"Idaho" was the first volume published in the American Guide Series and the most controversial. Other than "Alaska" it was the only volume to list an author, Vardis Fisher, who clashed with the Federal Writers' Project administators had his nam removed from the Second Edition. Very Good / Very Good. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxii, 424 pp. 8vo. Wear and chipping to dustjacket, large loss at base of front panel as well as head of spine, light soiling, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling and little wear or scuffing, front endpapers are decorated with a map of Nebraska, slight yellowing to paper from age. Clean within. Folding map inserted into tipped in envelope at rear cover is in Fine condition but envelope has detached and is laid in.
A volume in the important WPA American Guide Serie. Very Good / Fair. More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947. Hardcover. Second Edition. Third Printing. xxvi, 445 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has minor chips at edges, sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth binding with gold embossed titling to cover board and spine. Front endpapers illustrated with a map of Oklahoma keyed to tours described within, previous owner's name ink on upper right corner of first free endpaper. Large folding map in Fine condition in pocket tipped in at rear. Very Good / Very Good. More
Galena, IL: Community Development Fund of Galena, 1937. Wraps. As. Later Printing, n.d.. 79 pp. 8vo. Slightly lighter blue wraps that than the true first edition of this publication. Clean and crisp within, 15 pages (unpaginated) of black and white photos at rear, Large, color folding map in Fine condition tipped into rear of book.
A reprint of one of the earliest city guides produced as part of the WPA American Guide Series. Very Good. More
