New York: Viking Press; Penguin Books, 1982. Hardcover. Centennial Edition. 224 p.; 21 cm. Red cloth spine with gilt spine title; liht brown paper over boards. Red endpapers. Dust jacket with portrait of the author on the back section. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012. Hardcover. viii, [2], 230 p.; 22 cm. Brown cover with gilt spine title. Dust jacket designed by Jessica Hische. Stated First Edition. An amusing and perceptive about about how to live. Book and dust jacket are in Fine Condition: clean and bright... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. Hardcover. xi, 5], 168 p.; 21 cm. Light orange cloth with red spine title and cover illustration. Dust jacket. "What the pursuit of happiness has actually meant to the American people as one of their inalienable rights is the trail which Mr. Jones explores in..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952. Hardcover. x, 354p., frontispiece, 1 leaf of a map (folded); 22 cm. Dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. No dust jacket. In Near Fine Condition: upper corners of cover are bumped; clean and tight. More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1959. Paperback. 20 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Stapled. Cover title. Models, drawings, and photographs of four proposed or newly erected buildings: National Opera House in Sydney, Australia (Jorn Utzon); Notre Dame de Royan, France (Guillaume Gillet); First Presbyterian Church, Stamford, Conn. (Harrison and Abramovitz);..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1955. Paperback. [6], 23 p., frontispiece: illustrations; 24 cm. Off-white paper cover with black spine title and embossed gilt-edged cover title. Contains 23 etchings and drypoints reproduced in the original size, identified with the official numbers from the catalog used by Carl O. Schniewind..... More
![Item #009645 The Shape of Things to Come [provenance: Robert W. Bagnall]. H. G. Wells](/pictures/thumb/009645.jpg?v=1675456869)
New York: Macmillan Co., 1933. Hardcover. ix, [1], 431 p.; 22 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. First edition ("Published September, 1933"). H. G. Wells' famous future history of the world. Bookplate of Robert W. Bagnall on front fixed endpaper. Robert W. Bagnall..... More
Baltimore: Schneidereith & Sons, 1940. Hardcover. 23, [1] p., frontispiece portrait of Gutenberg, [4] p. of illustrations; 21 cm. Dark brown cloth spine and red-brown paper over boards; gilt spine and cover titles. Red-brown endpapers. Printed in red and black. This is no. 51 of a limited edition of 750..... More
Princeton, NJ: Queenston Press, 1978. Paperback. [36] p.: black-and-white photographs; 20 cm. Paperback with continuous illustration running from back to front; stapled. Published in conjunction with a portfolio containing the 16 prints. This contains black-and-white photographs of the prints and the artists who made them: Judith K. Brodsky, Yvonne Burk..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1965. Paperback. 51, [5] p.: illustrations (some color); 24 cm. Paperback. "In collaboration with the City Art Museum of St. Louis, the Contemporary Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum, the Pasadena Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art." Catalog to accompany an..... More
![Item #009641 The Conqueror: A Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton [signed by author]....](/pictures/thumb/009641.jpg?v=1675456868)
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1916. Hardcover. 29th printing. xii, 536 p., frontispiece portrait of Hamilton; 20 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine and cover titles; black-and-white paste-down on front cover from the John Trumbull portrait of Hamilton reproduced in the frontispiece. No dust jacket. Signed by the author..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Hardcover. [2], 399, [3] p.: tables, illustrations; 22 cm. Black cover with gilt spine title and small illustration on front cover. Dust jacket with illustration by Chip Kidd. No price on dust jacket. Book club edition. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight..... More
Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1977. Paperback. 32 p.: black-and-white photographs; 18 x 26 cm. White paperback cover printed in black; stapled. Publications of the American Folklife Center, no. 2. Contains photographs, floor plans, and information about life in the southern Georgia counties of Worth, Turner, Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1957. Paperback. 39 p., color frontispiece: black-and-white illustrations;24 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes references to the catalogues of Munch's prints by Gustav Schiefter. In Near Fine Condition: closed 3-cm. tear in cover, 4 cm. below head of spine; clean and bright... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1953. Paperback. Second edition, revised. 48 p.: many black-and-white illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with white cover; black and red cover title and illustration by Paul Rand; stapled. Based on an exhibition of the same name presented by the Museum of Modern Art in 1949..... More
Princeton; London: Princeton University Press; Oxford University Press, 1916. Hardcover. [4], 13 p.: in-text drawings; 21 cm. Light grey cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. This is the fifth volume in Princeton's Vespucci Reprints, Texts and Studies. Small stamp on title page verso: "Bequeathed by Leonard L. Mackall." Mundus..... More
Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1950. Paperback. 98, [2] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Green card covers printed in black. American artist William Sommer (1867-1949) spent most of his career in and near Cleveland, Ohio, and was one of the founders of the artists' group the Kokoon Arts Club. Includes 50..... More
London: Esther Fitzgerald, 2003. Paperback. [52] p. (one folded): color illustrations; 30 cm. Off-white card cover; brown spine and cover titles. Descriptions and color illustrations of 29 rare textiles being offered by Esther Fitzgerald, from Peru, Tibet, Alsace, India, Uzbekistan, Transcaucasus, Turkmanistan, Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria..... More
![Item #009633 In the Day's Work by Daniel Berkeley Updike [Gift Inscription by Cecilia Beaux]....](/pictures/thumb/009633.jpg?v=1675456867)
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1924. Hardcover. [10], 69, [1] p.; 22 cm. Beige cloth spine with gilt spine title; marbled brown paper over boards. Top page edges gilt. Bookplate of Raymond Dexter Havens (1880-1954) on front fixed endpaper. Havens received his Ph.D. in English from Harvard University in 1908..... More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1930. Hardcover. [6], 194, [2] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Black cloth spine; white paper over boards with black cover title. Includes index. One of a limited edition of 2,000 copies printed in Nov. 1930. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. In Very Good-..... More
![Item #009631 Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel [Book 2 of the Wolf Hall Trilogy]. Hilary Mantel](/pictures/thumb/009631.jpg?v=1674859348)
New York: Picador / Henry Holt and Co., 2021. Paperback. [22], 406, [2] p.; 21 cm. Paperback. Hilary Mantal's rivoting imagining of the Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn relationship, and the machinations of Thomas Cromwell. In Near Fine Condition: front cover does not lie flat; clean and tight... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. Hardcover. [8], 321, [5] p.; 22 cm. Blue cover with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The 14th title in the Bruno, Chief of Police, mysteries set in France. Book is in Near Fine- Condition: slightly cocked; small ding in the upper edge of..... More
New York: Doubleday, 2022. Hardcover. xii, [2], 149, [5] p., [16] p. of illustrations; 24 cm. Brown cover with gilt spine title. Maps on endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. The search for the headwaters of the Nile River by British explorers Richard Burton (1821-1890) and John Speke (1827-1864), and guide Sidi..... More
New York: Random House, 2020. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 476, [2] p.; 24 cm. Grey cover with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. "Beyond race, class, or other factors, a powerful caste system influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi..... More
Washington, D.C. Underwood & Underwood, 1921. A group of 10 black-and-white photographs of members of the Kappa Alpha Phi fraternity in Washington, D.C. Kappa Alpha Phi was a foreign service fraternity founded in 1920 at Georgetown University; it became inactive in the mid 1960s. This group of photographs consists of..... More