Richard Gilder: Visionary Investor, Visionary Philanthropist.
New York: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2023. Hardcover. First Edition. 75 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More
New York: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2023. Hardcover. First Edition. 75 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More
Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. viii, 374, vi, 367 pp. 4to. Red cloth publisher's bindings with gold embossed titling to spines, top edge of text blocks gilded. Bumping to corners, slight wear overall, small losses at head of spines. Hinge at rear gutter of Volume I paper has split, still tight to boards with mull intact. "With the Compliments of/James Fessenden" tipped onto half-title page in Volume I. Very Good. More
New York: Grune & Stratton, 1967. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, 557 pp. 4to. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, fading, losses at edges, 2" piece missing from head of spine, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with staining at edges of front boards, entire spine. Pervious owner's signature on first free endpaper, clean within. Good / Good. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1931. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Printing. xi, 230 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has chips, tears, small losses at edges, fading along top edge as well as spine, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine, slight sunning along top edge of front board. Endpapers have darkened from age, interior clean. Very Good / Good. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1936. Hardcover. First Edition. 202 pp. 12mo. Burgundy cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Ex-library with call number label pasted to spine, bookplate on front pastedown, library stamp on copyright page, card pocket and date due slip at rear. Very clean and tight overall. Very Good. More
Dublin, Ireland: Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Ltd., 1902. Hardcover. First Edition. lxiv, 575 pp. 4to. Dark green cloth publisher's binding with gold embossed titling to spine; light wear but quite sharp overall. Dark brown endpapers, penciled notation on half-title page, light spotting to prelims, clean within. Lacking the frontispiece portrait of FitzGerald.
The writings of George Francis FitzGerald (1851 – 1901) published the year following his death. Very Good. More
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1958. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 593 pp. 4to. Ex-library with dust jacket showing some wear and scuffing, call number written on spine, acquisition date stamped on front panel, now in mylar cover. Green cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine, call number in white ink on spine, little indication of ex-library within save for card pocket still affixed to rear pastedown. Very Good / Good. More
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1962. Hardcover. First Edition. First Dover Publications Edition. xxi, 482, vi, 479, xiv, 734 pp. 6 Plates. 8vo. Scuffing to dust jackets from shelf wear, sunning to spines, now in mylar covers. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine, previous owner's date of acquisition in blue ink on front pastedown of each volume, clean within.
First Dover Publications Edition of the 1924 first English Publication of the Third German Edition of Helmholtz's "Handbuch der Physiologischen Optik". Complete in three volumes and bound as two. Very Good / Good. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. Hardcover. Second Edition. xvi, 480, [2 ads] pp. 12mo. Part of the Macmillan Nature Series. Green cloth publisher's binding with gold embossed titling to spine, light wear and scuffing. Dark green endpapers, clean within. Illustrated throughout. Very Good. More
Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2014. Hardcover. 611 pp. Folio.Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Text in English, German, and French. Housed in it's original shipping box with a photo-illustrated front and rear panels. Heavy volume, will require additional cost for shipping.
The title say it all. A lavishly illustrated chronicle of the turn of the American century. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Viking, 2018. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 436 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by the author on the second free endpaper. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 46 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.
The first chapter of Gold's novel about Charlie Chaplin. Produced by Powell's Books as part of their IndieSpensable program with a wraparound label announcing the piece. Printed in a limited edition of 850 copies, this being #841 and signed by Gold at the colophon. Fine. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xi, 315 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by the author on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
Siqueiros, David Alfaro. Mexico: Galleria de Arte Misrachi, 1965. Hardcover. First Edition. 46 pp. Folio. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket with minor chipping and small losses at head of spine, now in mylar cover. Green cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine, quite clean within. Illustrated with both black and white illusrations as well as 32 color plates tipped onto the pages. Text in Spanish and English.
An important catalog of David Alfaro Siqueiros' (1896-1974) work and is inscribed by him on the first free endpaper. Siqueiros was both a revolutionary and an artist and is best known as a muralist ranking up there with his contemporaries, Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. Very Good / Very Good... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 239 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, minor soiling, now in mylar cover. Gray cloth boards with author's name repeated in a blind embossed pattern that fills the front board. Clean within.
Signed by John Lahr on the first free endpaper. Very Good / Good. More
Boston, MA: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. vi, [2], [9]-344 pp. 8vo. 12mo. Brown cloth publisher's binding with gold embossed titling to spine. Wear and scuffing to boards, fraying at head and foot of spine, 7/8" tear starting at head of spine on rear hinge, corners bumped with small losses consistent with use over time. Titling along spine has some fading, somewhat bright overall. Yellow endpapers with 4 pp. catalog inserted at front endpapers with light water staining along head of prelims. Light spotting within. Previous owner's name and date of acquisition in pencil on page preceding title page, "April 26th, 1851". Overall, quite tight to boards. [BAL 7604].
First Issue of this important work in American Letters. First issue..... More
Portland, OR: Poor Claudia & Tale City Press, 2009. Wraps. Limited. Unpag. 8vo. Green paper wraps, clean and crisp.
A mixture of poetry and essays signed by all contributors and the illustrator on the inside front cover flap. Clean, crisp copy. Of the 850 copies printed, this is #506. Fine. More
Motherwell, Robert. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. 380 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Also contains the Catalog Raisonné of Motherwell's prints 1943-1990 by Dorothy C. Belknap. Fine / Fine. More
Klee, Paul. Dallas, TX/New Haven, CT: Dallas Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. 348 pp. Folio. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Fine / Very Good. More
Moore, Henry. Dallas, TX/New Haven, CT: Dallas Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. 323 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.0300089929. Fine / Fine. More
Tinguely, Jean. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. 384 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Westermann, H. C. Chicago/New York: Museum of Contemporary Art/Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. 211 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Catalog from the exhibition of the same name. Fine / Fine. More
Traylor, Bill. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. 192 pp. Oblong 4to. Slight wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Blue remainder mark at foot of text block, clean within. Very Good / Very Good. More
San Rafael, CA: Green Building Press, 2006. Wraps. Second Edition. xxvii, 259 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. Fine. More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. 344 pp. Folio. Minor scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Fine / Fine. More