Library of America # 49; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 988 pages; 1990 Library of America # 49. HC/DJ 1st printing of the LOA edition. Very tightly bound, unread copy in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $32.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Publisher's silk bookmark sewn in. Trace shelf evidence to jacket edges. About as new. NF/NF View More...
Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 224 pages; Oversize HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and exceptionally neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket wit publisher's $40 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Lavishly illustrated with color photos. Handsome copy is about as new. F/NF ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 80 pages; Louis Carrier & Co Medium large HC (4to) with large color title panel on paper mounted to cover board. Original blue cloth; spine unlettered, as issued. 1st edition. Square sound copy; gift inscription neatly penned to front illustrated end page. Cloth rubbed and just a little frayed at corners and spine end. Cover title illustration generally bright and clean with a small "half-dime" sized abrasion and a bit of shelf soiling apparent in the whites. A few pages with mild thumb soiling at fore margins and one page opened a bit ro... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 112 pages; Bright, tight and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with $23 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Feels and appears unread and as new. F/F View More...
Color Frontis and b&w drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 116 pages; 1955 A. S. Barnes. HC/DJ 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in original color pictorial dust jacket from art by Wesley Dennis, with publisher's $2.75 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Contents bright and very neat with color frontis and line drawings by Dennis. Superficial shelf trubbing and a few tiny nicks at edges; mild general toning to jacket surfaces, a little more so at rear. VG++/VG View More...
Library of America # 79 & 80; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2274 pages; 1995 Library of America. Two volumes, numbers 79 & 80 in the LOA series. 1198; 1076 pp. Both volumes 1st printings in the dust jacketed version. Very tightly bound, unread copies in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jackets with publisher's $35 issue prices intact to unclipped front flaps. Just trace shelf evidence to jacket edges. Publisher's silk bookmarks sewn in. Handsome and fresh, a definitive collection. About as new. F/NF ... Oversize book likely to require additional charges for expedited or international shipp... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 356 pages; Paperback is tight, bright and fresh in glossy pictorial covers. Just a hint of wear to exteriors. Appears and feels unread; about as new. An uncorrected proof/ advance reader's edition. VG++ View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 178 pages; 1973 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $5.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Trace shelf evidence to jacket edges and a tiny spot of soil to the front edge of the page block. Handsome and well preserved. NF/NF View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages; 1955 Doubleday. HC/DJ. 1st American edition and printing. Square snug and neat in dust jacket with $2.75 issue price intact on unclipped front flap. Light sunning to spine and spine and top edge of front panel; light shelf rubbing to jacket at spine ends. Faint offset toning to endpages. No marks; attractive copy. NF/VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 211 pages; 1968 Doubleday for the Crime Club. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Precedes the UK Hodder 1969 1st UK printing. Square sound and generally neat copy in a uniformly bright, wraparound illustrated dust jacket with publisher's $4.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. No marks. Just superficial shelf rubbing to jacket spine ends and light toning at spine. Usual light toning in the endpaper gutters. A bright, solid and quite attractive copy of the 1st printing. VG++/VG+ View More...
Color Plates; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 607 pages; 1912 Macmillan. Stout small quarto in full blue cloth with elaborate gilt decorative pictorial design to cover and spine. 1st edition thus. Lavishly illustrated with beutiful color plates with lettered tissue guards from art by Warwick Goble. Cloth crimped and rubbed with trace dray at spine ends; a short 2 inch tear to the cloth along the rear joint at crown has been archivally mended with minimal application of PVA. Cloth and gilt at spine a little dulled. Gift inscription to front blank endpage dated Christmas 1912. VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages; Very handsome copy is bright, snug and very neat in original dark green cloth with title lettering very brightly in gilt to spine and in blind to upper board. Just trace shelf rub to cloth at tips. Mounted to the front pastedown is the attractive pictorial bookplate of book collector, Redmond Conyngham, designed and engraved by noted historian of American printmaking, David McNeely Stauffer. An exceptionally nice copy. NF View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; Very handsome copy is bright, snug and very neat in original dark green cloth with title lettering very brightly in gilt to spine and in blind to upper board. Just trace shelf rub to cloth at tips. Mounted to the front pastedown is the attractive pictorial bookplate of book collector, Redmond Conyngham, designed and engraved by noted historian of American printmaking, David McNeely Stauffer. A few pages opened a little roughly at front edge with a few more remaining unopened. An exceptionally nice copy. NF View More...
Color Photographs; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 112 pages; Oversize square format HC. 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound in original light gray paper boards with color photo plate mounted to the upper side; titles stamped in blue and dark gray. Contents bright and fresh; Chelbin's color photographs beautifully reproduced on glossy stock. Trace toning to boards at edges and just superficial shelf evidence to externals. Issued without dst wrapper. VG++ to NF. ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 818 pages; Stout HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Soundly bound in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $35 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Prior owner name penned to front endpage; he has underlined passages on 2 pages in the first chapter , one page heavily so. No other marks observed. Mild thumbing to bottom edge of several early pages; a light stress crease to the bottom corner of the front flyleaf. Just a whisper of shelf evidence to jacket at tips. A solid and attractive copy, marred by heavy underlining to one pa... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 418 pages; Uncorrected Proof in black & white pictorial card stock wraps. Tight, unread copy with just a hint of storage/shelf evidence at tips/ NF copy of the prepublication advance prrof copy. View More...
Maps and charts, folding; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 866 pages; 1949 Charles Scribner's Sons. Stout HC/DJ. 1st printing of the revised single volume edition with a new introduction by Churchill. Soundly bound in original thatch pattern red cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine. This copy retains the original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $7.50 issue price to unclipped front flap. Jacket is rubbed and worn at edges with surface stress; several shallow chips missing from spine ends and edges; there is a small open snag on the rear jacket flap fold and light general toning to the re... View More...
B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 64 pages; [1979] Self-Published; Larry Clark. Oversize hardcover in original glossy photo pictorial dust jacket. This is the 2nd edition of 1979 following the 1971 1st issue but is the first edition in hardcover. Soundly bound and clean; no marks. Dust jacket has shelf rubbing at edges and has a number of closed edge tears of varying lenths. Several of the tears have light to moderate stress creasing adjaent to the tear. A few have judiciously applied japanese transparent kozo paper tape mends. VG+/VG- ... Oversize book may require additional charges for e... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 71 pages; 1st edition, stated. Bright, tight and fresh in a uniformly bright and crispe edged pictorial dust jacket from a design by Joe Brainard. Publisher's $4.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Laid in at front is a clipped page signed by Clark, with bibliographic entry on the verso suggesting it is from a much later title of a signed limited edition. Just a whisper of shelf rub to jacket at edges. A lovely copy. F/NF; Signed by Author View More...
Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 340 pages; HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and exceptionally fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $26.99 isue price intact to unclipped front flap. Feels and appears unread and as new. Illustrated with b&w photos printed on glossy stock. F/F View More...
