The Physical Basis of Life por Wilson, E.B - 1923

Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2018. cloth, dust jacket. Bookbinding. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 707 pages. Research into the history of the book and bookbinding makes our historical bindings relevant again and makes them better company. Studying and understanding and identifying and describing give us more information to consider when we must make decisions about our historical books. Accumulating this information most affects our great institutional collections, and to an extent, private collections, because the custodians of those collections have often tried to pay attention to issues of rarity and importance beyond content. There is certainly a growing and very welcome and broader interest today about the whole book (text and binding), its materials and structures, and the ways that time and use mark books, all books. Custodians and scholars have both arrived at the point where they realize materiality and marking are equally important, and sometimes are just as important as content, for… Ler mais

This Medal of Honor-winning U.S. Marine Corps officer downed 21 enemy planes in World War Two, making him the fourth ranking USMC fighter Ace. PS, 8" X 10", n.p., n.y. Fine. Handsome, high-quality glossy modern reproduction of a candid WW2-era shot of a smiling Walsh standing in front of his plane, inscribed and signed boldly in black fineline at left center: "Ken Walsh CMH / Lt Col USMC (Ret.) / VMF-124 & 222 / 21- Victories." This is accompanied by an 11" X 14" print, a 1991 reproduction of a pencil portrait of Walsh, his fighter plane and his Medal of Honor, boldly signed in pencil at lower right by noted aviation artist Lonnie Ortega. Near fine.

New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1925 144pgs. Red cloth with color pictorial pastedown; wear and fraying to edges, corners and spine ends, pages thumbed, gift inscription dated 1933 A large collection of Mother Goose nursery rhymes featuring 36 pages illustrated in color as well as gorgeous line art throughout. While undated, the book was chosen by the New York State Library as one of the best books of 1925, "distinguished for originality, charm and technic [sic]." 25-27468. First or Early Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Anne Anderson. Large 4to.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1910 Correct info on copyright page for a 1st Edition. Tan cloth with color pastedown. cloth soiled with fraying to extremities, binding reglued, roughness to edge of first few pages otherwise fresh and clean inside. Each letter of the alphabet is accompanied by a full page color illustration and quatrain relating to Hiawatha and / or Native American life. Scarce.. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by H D Pohl. 4to.

A FINE FIRST EDITON IN DUST JACKET.CRAZY INSCRIPTION AND DRAWING OF A KNIFE

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1884. LeatherBound. Independent of his other books published on Italy! . 16mo., 326 pp., Full tooled leather in fabric slip case. Former owners inscription .

New York: Creative Age Press, Inc. , 1944. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Heinrich Mann's novel about a tyrannical schoolmaster who gets mixed up with a cabaret singer, originally published in German in 1905. The novel was the basis for the 1930 movie, The Blue Angel, starring Marlene Dietrich. Scarce in dust jacket.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 255, [1] pages, in gray cloth, titles to spine, in a pictorial dust jacket.
CONDITION: Slightly cocked, with small stain to lower board, bumping to spine ends. Internally, the pages are lightly toned, probably due to being printed on cheap wartime paper, but are clean and unmarked. The unclipped dust jacket has some chips as well as two one-inch tears where the flaps meet the panels. Some darkening to lower panel. Overall, about Very Good.

Paris & London, Mai 1862. 8vo. (18,2 x 12,0 cm). 31 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts (including 2 full-page).Published for the London World Fair 1862 with map of the exibition halls on the inside front cover. The "Expositions Universelles" or World Fairs were intended to show the latest innovations and inventions. The earliest of these fairs were held in France but were national. The first one of 1798 was the start of eleven national fairs. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies. Callebaut shows different models and explains the technqiue of them. Both full page illustrations of the factory show us what factories looked like at the time. At the 1862 exhibition about 50 types of sewing machine were on show on over 20 stands. M. Callebaut from Paris showed 'several modifications of shuttle sewing machines of the Singer type.' Callebaut was the Singer licencee in France (the only occasion on which the… Ler mais

PULLMAN, Philip. The Ruby in the Smoke. NY: Alfred A. Knopf [1987]. 8vo, [vi] 233pp. Blue half-cloth stamped in silver on spine with red boards. Lower front corner bumped and rubbed, upper edge of same with a few nicks, spine ends lightly rubbed, else a clean, tight copy – Internally fine – in the original color pictorial dust jacket (chipped and torn at base of spine panel, 1½" closed tear at base of rear fold).
First US Edition. The first book in Pullman's Sally Lockhart Quartet. Beware the seven blessings... When she first utters these words, 16-year-old Sally Lockhart doesn't know their meaning. But when an employee of her late father hears them, he dies of fear. Thus begins Sally's terrifying journey into the seamy underworld of Victorian London, in search of clues to her father's mysterious death.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page, a collection of 10 short stories. This is the hard-cover issue; most copies on the market are the paperback issue. In addition, signed copies of any kind are unaccountably scarce in the antiquarian book trade. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches; 215 x 143 mm), 175, [1] pages, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). CONDITION: Fine in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket.