James A. Michener: The Beginning Teacher and His Textbooks.
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
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
London: J. Brotherton, J. Hazard,... 1734. Full leather. First Edition. First Abridged Edition. xx, 472, 402 pp. 8vo. Full leather binding with considerable wear and tear, covers detached. Front and rear endpapers also detached, text block tight. Clean within. Dozens folding plates illustrate the papers.
This full volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. Good. More
St. Louis, MO: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 234 pp. Folio. Slight wear to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean within. 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
Eckmair, Frank C. Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 1995. Wraps. Limited Edition. Unpag. 8vo. Heavy, rough paper wraps with exposed, Japanesque stitching at spine. Spine has seen some rubbing of the papers finish. Clean, tight copy and pristine within.
A beautiful production with exqiite wood engravings illustrating different images of "home" for the artist. Printed in an edition of 90 copies, this copy is also signed by Frank C. Eckmair (1930-2012) at the colophon. Very Good. More
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. Hardcover. Eighth Edition. xxxv, 698, xii, 826 pp. 8vo. Brown publisher's binding with gold embossed titling to spine, some scuffing from shelf wear. Text block slightly shaken but still tight to boards, rear pastedown has split along gutter in Volume I, but still tight to text block, tape repair to hinge of rear pastedown on Volume II. Clean within. Very Good. More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1892. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. vii, [1], 533 pp. 8vo. 10 plates, all folding. Rebound in an exquisite three quarter leather binding with brown leather spine with four raised bands, gold embossed titling on black leather patch titles, marbled paper insets to cover boards. Only indication of ex-library status is Japanese ink stamp on the title page. Very clean within.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's (1845-1926) paper in which he descriubes the first systematic analysis of correlation in relation to the normal distribution. Herein he coins the term "coefficient of correlation." Fine. More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1892. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. vii, [1], 533 pp. 8vo. 10 plates, all folding. Original three quarter leather binding with gold lines and titling to spine, call number at base of spine in white ink only indication of ex-library. Considerable wear and scuffing to the covers, losses at head and foot of spine and corners of boards, chipping along front hinge where darker surface leather has flaked off from use.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's (1845-1926) paper in which he describes the first systematic analysis of correlation in relation to the normal distribution. Herein he coins the term "coefficient of correlation." Good. More
Portland, ME: The Southworth Press, 1928. Hardcover. First Edition. xxv, 542 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine, spine has darkened heavily. Interior quite clean. Very Good. More
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1973/1975. Hardcover. Third Edition. Volume 1: Second Printing, 1978. xxi, 868 pp. 8vo. Volume 2: First Printing, 1975. xxiii, 1128. 8vo. Rust cloth bindings with gold embossed titling to spine, gold on Volume 2 spine slightly duller than Volume 1. Clean within. Very Good. More
Eggleston, William. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 2021. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. 97 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Eichenberg, Fritz. New York: Donnell Memorial Library, 1991. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 31 pp. 4to. Gray paper boards with black ribbon binding in the Japanese style with Fritz Eichenberg initials blind embossed on cover. Slight sunning to edge of spine where exposed in the matching slipcase that is in Fine condition. Eichenberg's self portrait serves as the frontispiece.
Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) was a woodcut artist and educator and this volume was created in his memory. Published in an edition of 250 copies and although usually numbered, this copy is penciled "A.E." at the colophon. Printed at the Press of the Sea Turtle in Easthampton, MA, by Harold McGrath. A beautiful remembrance of an exceptional man. Very Good. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1978. Hardcover. First Edition. 263 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Leipzigh, Germany: S. Hirzel, 1917. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 604 pp. 4to. Black cloth binding with gold embossed titling to spine. Ex-library stamp on title page, the only indication of its former life in an institution. Very clean within.
Albert Einstein's (1879-1955) derivation of Planck's law for thermal radiation. Einstein also introduces the possibility of stimulated emission of radiation, the principle behind the laser. Very Good. More
Eisner, Will. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xv, 423 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Will Eisner. Need we say more? Fine / Fine. More
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 265 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
St. Joseph, MI: The Krasl Art Center, 1994. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. 4to. Cream colored dust wrapper that encloses text block in a Japanse style binding.
Catalog for the exhibition of the same name that appears to have been produced in house, consisting of black & white and color copies. The exhibition was held for one month, January 20-February 20, 1994. Laid in is a brochure announcing the exhibition. Fine. More
New York: Carol Southern Books, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Ninth Printing. 248 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. Fine / Fine. More
Shepherd, Thos. H. London: Jones & Co., 1827-1829. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. 160, iii; vi, 12 (Subjects), 172, ii (List of Engravings). Both volumes have red leather spine with five slightly raised bands, gold embossed titling and decoration, losses at head and foot of spine. Volume I front board hanging by one cord, considerable foxing to frontispiece engraving and first title page with engraving of Temple Bar, From the Strand. Volume II front board detached. Marbled endpapers, considerable foxing to frontispiece engraving and first title page with engraving of Sussex Place at Regent's Park; this title page appears to have suffered water damage and was re-backed with another sheet of paper by a binder, second title page undamaged. Light foxing throughout, including the numerous..... More
New York: Kelly-Winterton Press, 1993. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Unpag. 8vo. Beautifully produced small 8vo edition printed paper covers, text block with deckled edge. Emerson's essay, "Friendship" is reprinted as well as a numerous woodcut illustrations by Antonio Frasconi to supplement the text and pay tribute to Joseph Blumenthal.
Printed in "Emerson" type (developed by Joseph Blumenthal) in an edition of 120 copies, this being #90 and signed by both Frasconi (the artist) and Kelly (the printer) at the colophon. Fine. More
Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2008. Trade Paperback. First Edition. xxiii, 456 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Fine. 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
Boston, MA: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1841. Hardcover. First Edition. xl, 552 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth publisher's binding with bling embossed borders to covers, gold embossed titling to spine. Small losses to head and foot of spine, bumping and minor losses to corners. Light foxing within. Folding plate of map of the American southeast and where data was recorded is tipped in between pages 100/111 and in very good condition with a small trear at the upper right hinge and slight foxing.
An important book in early meteorological science by James P. Espy (1785-1860) who was one of the first American meteorologists who developed the convenction theory of storms and, at one time, was known as the "Storm King" for his lectures on..... More
London: Little, Brown, 2019. Hardcover. First Edition. Fifth Printing. xiii, 785 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1945. Hardcover. First Edition. xxxii, 404 pp. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small losses and chips, sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. Tight and bright blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Clean within. Very Good / Good. More