Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 320 pages; 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Burke on the title page, "To Emma / with thanks for your friendship; / [SIGNATURE] / Xmas 2002." Jacket is price clipped from the top corner of the front flap. Otherwise just about as new. NF/VG++; Signed by Author View More...
Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 32 pages; [SIGNED with MLS] Oversize HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Inscribed and signed by the illustrator, Barry Root, on the title page. Laid in at front is short MLS from Root to a patron with original mailing envelope date May 31 2000. The note is written on fine drawing paper and features a small color drawing of the "Messenger." It hanks the recipient for sending along NY Magazine and NY Times reviews of the book; copies of both reviews laid in at front. Also included in the mailing envelope is a longer hand-written postcard from Kimberly Roo... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 309 pages; HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Exceptionally bright and fresh copy in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial jacket with publisher's $25.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Signed by the author to the title page. Handsome copy. F/F; Signed by Author View More...
Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 32 pages; Oversize sqaure format HC/DJ. 3rd printing. Signed by the illustrator to the base of the title page. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Feels and appears unread. Just a whisper of shelf evidence to jacket. F/NF; Signed by Illustrator View More...
Drawings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 37 pages; Circa 1930 reprint in original brown cloth with title lettering and pictorial design to cover in black. Original pale blue paper dust jacket with matching title and illustration design in blue is well worn with spine ends chipped away and remaining portions repaired with period scotch tape mending. Front and rear jacket panels with small nicks at flap fold corners and edges; light general toning to panels, more heavily at spine. Inscribed and signed by Butler on the front endpage with a small pig drawing and dated 1931. Prior owner's pictorial b... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages; [SIGNED] 1999 Commoner Press. 1st edition. Trade size paperback in pictorial title lettered wraps. Signed by the author on the title page. Just trace shelf evidence to cover at top front corner. Sharp fresh copy. VG++ or better; Signed by Author View More...
B&W Photographs; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; [SIGNED] 1967 The Museum of Modern Art. Square format HC/DJ. 1st edition. Clipped signature of Callahan mounted to the bottom third of the half-title page. Snugly bound and neat; no marks. Jacket with trace shelf evidence to edges and light toning to the whites of the jacket. Light offset toning to front flyleaf where a newsclipping had apparently been laid in. Early MOMA Callahan monograph with is mounted signature. VG+/VG; Signed by Illustrator View More...
Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 65 pages; [SIGNED] 1981 Hallmark. Oversize sqaure format paperback in glossy photo illustrated covers with saddle stapled binding. Signed by Callahan on the half-title page. Illustrated throughout with full page reproductions of iconic Callahan photos. Includes a transciption of an interview with Callahan from the 1977 film -"Harry Callahan, a Life in Photography." Trace shelf evidence to covers at tips; tiny nick to paper covers at crown of spine. Two tiny smudges top edge of front cover. Signed 1st in an edition of 4500 copies. VG+; Signed by Author View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; [SIGNED] 1968 Little Brown HC/DJ 1st edition. Warmly inscribed by Hawley to author and fellow prominent Lancaster PA figure, Samuel Slaymaker. Solid clean copy in a clean neat dust jacket with just mild rub at spine ends and edges. VG+/VG; Signed by Author View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 237 pages; Soundly bound in original green cloth with title lettering in gilt to spine and cover, a little dulled at spine.Signed by Campbell on publisher's pictorial label/title list and signed again without inscription to the half title page. Boards just slightly shelf bumped at corners. Contents clean and neat. lacking dust jacket but otherwise about VG; Signed by Author View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 261 pages; 1st TOR paperback printing. Bright tight and fresh with crisp edged covers and flat, uncreased spine. Feels and appears unread and as new. Signed by Card on the title page. NF; Signed by Author View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages; [SIGNED] HC is soundly bound in original turquoise blue cloth with titles in black. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front pastedown. Light flaking to color of cloth at edges and spine ends. Expected light generaly toning to page stock. G++ to VG-; Signed by Author View More...
B&W Photographs, Facsimiles and fFigures; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 520 pages; [SIGNED] 2003 Arsdalen, Bosch & Co. Stout trade sized paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Signed by author on the dedication page. Snugly bound and clean with light shelf wear to cover edges and a light shelf bump top corner of the rear third of the book with resulting superficial stress crease to the top corner of the last 1/3 of the pages. Profusely illustrated with period photographs, facsimiles of print matter. VG-; Signed by Author View More...
Engraved frontis; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 357 pages; 1st edition. Claim of authorship penned to front endpage by H[oratio] Hastings Weld thus : " This book was written for Messrs. Arthur & Carpenter by the undersigned, H. Hastings Weld". Weld's signature appears below this tatement and to the top edge of the extra, illustrated title page. Weld was a newspaperman, author and clergyman active in writing and publishing dusring the time this book was published. No record is found associating his participation in the writing of this history, but the claim of authorship in the man's own ... View More...
Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 624 pages; Inscribed very warmly on the title page to Jere Real and dated 23 April, 1985. The inscription thanks Real for bringing her to Lynchburg in 1984 as a guest and helping her to become the Thornton Writer in Residence for 1985. Jere Real was a professor at Lynchburg College; he coordinated visits and played host to the authors who appeared at the college as part of the Thornton Writer-in-Residence and Guest Reader program. Soundly bound and clean with mild shelf/handling rub to corners and spine ends. Dust jacket stressed and crimped at sp... View More...
Maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 643 pages; [SIGNED] Full leather binding with titles and decorative paneling brightly in gilt. This is the author's copy, from the estate of William Bruce Catton, with his clipped signature mounted to the blank 2nd endpage and his Amtrak ticket laid in. Tightly bound and fresh with all edges gilt, silk bookmark sewn in, hubbed spine and silk moire endleaves. Illustrated with maps. About Fine. ; Signed by One Author View More...
Photographs, diagrams; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 412 pages; Oversize HC in original blue cloth with title lettering in silver to cover and spine. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpage, dated 1948. Cloth at spine a bit toned with mild dulling of the silver spine lettering. Cloth crimped at spine ends with trace fraying. Just a little shaken in the spine. Contents clean and neat; profusely illustrated from photographs, diagrams and drawings. Signed by author. G++ to VG-; Signed by Author View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 144 pages; 1st edition. Snugly bound 4to HC in red 1/4 cloth backed spine and beige paper boards with color photo print mounted to the upper board. Housed in publisher issued, title lettered slipcase. Signed by both Chesser and White Eagle on the title page. Laid in a folder is an 8x10 color print photograph of the image used for the book's cover; commercially printed and signed by Chesser on the reverse side of the image. Tightly bound and fresh. Feels and appears as new. Fine in NF slipcase; Signed by Author & Illustrator View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 143 pages; Signed by Ciardi on the front flyleaf along with a warm personal and again signed inscription to the same page. Square, snug and neat in original title-lettered dust jacket. Light general toning to the pagestock. Just a hint og shelf rub to the cloth at the tips and spine ends. Dust jacket lightly toned. Very mild rub to the jacket edges, with a few tiny nicks. Mild shelf soiling to the whites of the jacket's rear panel. NF/VG++; Signed by Author 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...
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