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Government Printing Office, Washington D.C, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. J.E. NOURSE [editor]. Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition Made by Charles F. Hall, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879.Heavy quarto, first edition, pp. l, 644, green buckram library binding, maps, but lacking large folding map in rear, heliotypes and other illustrated plates, library markings to preliminaries. Largely based on Hall's own manuscripts.In addition to exploration, the purpose of the voyage was to solve the mystery of the disappeared Franklin expedition -- to no avail. However, Hall was able to provide a lot of information about Inuit living.Condition of this book:Very clean, foxing, mostly to preliminary leaves. Very sound in library binding. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free… Ler mais

Government Printing Office, Washington D.C, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. J.E. NOURSE [editor]. Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition Made by Charles F. Hall, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879.Heavy quarto, first edition, pp. l, 644, green buckram library binding, maps including large folding map attached to rear pastedown, heliotypes and other illustrated plates, library markings to preliminaries. Largely based on Hall's own manuscripts.In addition to exploration, the purpose of the voyage was to solve the mystery of the disappeared Franklin expedition -- to no avail. However, Hall was able to provide a lot of information about Inuit living.Condition of this book:Damp stain throughout, mostly in upper margin. Foxing, mostly to preliminary leaves. Rear map has some splits along folds, with no loss. Very sound in library binding. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation,… Ler mais

Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLEIN. Manor Houses and Historic Homes of Long Island and Staten Island, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1928.Tall, heavy octavo, limited edition of unspecified limit, pp. xi, 318, printed beige cloth boards, gravure frontispiece and 75 photos printed in so-called Doubletone, a halftone process that looks almost as good as a gravure. Author includes Brooklyn and Queens as part of Long Island. 33 Long Island houses discussed, with another 9 on Staten Island.Condition of this book:Bottom and top edges dust-darkened, clean inside, overall very good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Architecture; United States;… Ler mais

Schiffer, West Chester, 1988. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. EDWARD FABER and STEWART UNGER. American Wristwatches, Five Decades of Style and Design, West Chester: Schiffer, 1988.Heavy quarto, pp. 277, 3 (ads), printed blue cloth boards, color photos, 4-page price guide laid in. Important resource for the collector, curator and dealer.Condition of this book:Jacket lightly worn with a few minor scratches; sunning at edges but overall near fine. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Antiques & Collectibles; United States; Art & Design. ISBN: 0887401465. ISBN/EAN: 9780887401466. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54861. . 9780887401466

Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. EGGLESTON, WILLIAM. William Eggleston's Guide, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1976.Square octavo, first edition, pp. 112, brown pebble-grain leatherette boards with gilt lettering on top and spine, mounted color photo on top. Essay by John Szarkowski. This was the catalog for Eggleston's controversial show at the Museum of Modern Art, which was panned by many critics for its use of color. Considered a breakthrough in photographic art, see Roth pp. 234-5, Parr & Badger v.1 p. 265. They wrote that this show and book 'heralded the birth of colour photography, or more accurately, it marked the moment when it was perceived as artistically respectable.' They add that Szarkowski's essay here is one of his most adroit.Condition of this book: Minor spine slant, age toning at edges. Boards near fine with a few faint areas of rubbing at… Ler mais

St. Onge, Worcester, Mass, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. Inaugural Address, Worcester, Mass.: Achille J. St. Onge, 1954.Miniature (about 2x2.75 inches or 5x7cm), edition limited to 1000 copies, pp. 33, 1 (colophon), halftone frontis portrait, brown calf covers with gilt lettering to front, gilt decoration front and back, all edges gilt. Bradbury, St. Onge 11.Condition of this book: Fine. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Miniature. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Politics & Government; United States; 1950s; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53989. . This booklet or book is lighter than a… Ler mais

Roycrofters, East Aurora, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Fine Condition/Near Fine. FRA ELBERTUS (Elbert Hubbard), Ali Baba, East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1926.Octavo, limited edition, pp. 113, 1 (note), printed boards with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, blind-stamped lettering on front. original dust jacket and box. Hubbard's biography of his alter ego.Condition of this book:Fine in near fine jacket with short splits along joints near spine ends, box cover split at seams. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; United States; 1920s; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon… Ler mais

Heinemann, London, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. PENNELL, ELIZABETH and JOSEPH. The Life of James McNeil Whistler, London: William Heinemann, 1908.Large quartos, No. 8 of a large-paper edition limited to 150, pp. xxvi, 316; xiv, 327, gray boards three-quarter-bound in mustard morocco, illustrated with gravures and halftones, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, signed on the limitation page by Heinemann.Condition of these books:Boards worn at extremities, spines sunned with some discoloration. V2 has a damp stain on the back cover. Overall very good. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Quarto. 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; 1900-1920;… Ler mais

Knopf, New York, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Fine. JAMES ELLROY. White Jazz, New York: Knopf, 1992.Octavo, first edition, pp. 349, 1 (note), paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth with silver lettering and highlighting to spine. Bottomless corruption in L.A.Condition of this book:Near fine with touch of dust at top edge; light sunning at top edge of jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; Fiction. ISBN: 0679414495. ISBN/EAN: 9780679414490. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55225. . 9780679414490

Libroport, Tokyo, 1990. Later Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition/Fine. ED van der ELSKEN. Africa 1957, Tokyo: Libroport, 1990.Square quarto, later edition, unpaginated, wraps with dust jacket, duotone photos, text in Japanese and English. Recomposed for this Japanese edition, the photos show the view of an admitted "innocent, wide-eyed young man discovering the last remaining GARDEN OF EDEN," Elsken says in his introduction. Actually, the place was the Central African Republic, which would be the land of the Emperor Bokassa, a cannibalistic tyrant.Condition of this book:Fine in lightly worn jacket. Size: Quarto. Text is in multiple languages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Photography; Africa; 1950s; Anthropology. ISBN: 4845705192. ISBN/EAN: 9784845705191.… Ler mais

Seghers, Paris, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. ELUARD, PAUL. Corps Memorable, Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1957.Thin quarto, copy No. 709, pp. 35 plus 12 glossy halftone plates, plain boards quarter-bound in light brown wood, dust jacket with front panel image by Pablo Picasso, photos by Lucien Clergue, all text in French. Thirteen poems by Eluard illustrated with Clergue's photos of what may be the same female body, shown from different angles, always headless and in water. See Bertolotti, Books of Nudes, p. 147: "The book shows women looking like Juno, coming out of the waves of the sea as if they were symbolic forms of life."Condition of this book:Jacket bright with wear at corners, no tears, with original acetate overwrap.Leaves clean but a couple are loose, which is typical of this book; images fine. Size: Quarto. Text is in French. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting.… Ler mais

Contrejour, Paris, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. [PIERRE ET GILLLES] L'Odyssee Imaginaire, with introduction by Michel Beltrami, large quarto, first edition, Contrejour, 1988, pp. 78, white cloth boards, double-sided plates. Text en francais.The French photographic team known only by their first names produces highly stylized fantasies that comment on iconic images from Hollywood and the rest of the media, using models that are caked with makeup in a set loaded with hearts and flowers, even if there’s a dead body on the floor. It’s all so sweet. We get the feeling these photos are loaded with inside jokes involving the old Hollywood studio system, but much of the humor flies past our 21st-century heads. This is their first book. Condition of this book:Dust jacket shows light wear, tanning, no tears.Pages clean and tight. Size: Quarto. 78. Text is in French. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner… Ler mais