Titles starting with W from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1902. 111 pages, and six color illustrated plates by Howard Chandler Christy. Title page, half title, and all text pages ornamented with color art nouveau designs by Margaret Armstrong. Bound in green cloth stamped with Armstrong's vine-scroll design in gilt, lavender and green (Blanck binding A). Bookplate. Light discoloration to endleaves and edges. Negligible rubbing at crown and corners, else an unusually well-preserved copy. BAL 6232. First edition in first bindi... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. First Edition. Cloth. Inscribed by Saul K. Padover to Issai Hosiosky, founder og the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research. ... more information

New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. Dust jacket good only. ... more information

Miyanoshita: Fujiya Hotel, 1964. Combined edition. 22cm; 591 pages on double leaves. Bound in printed fabric flexible covers sewn in Japanese style, and preserved in printed fabric-covered tray case with ivory clasp. Tray case a little tight. Originally published in separate volumes between 1934-1949, text deciphers Japan's social life and customs for anglophone travelers. Illustrated. ... more information

London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head; Dodd, Mead, 1928. First illustrated edition. 25cm; [6], 302 pages, and 12 plates. Bound in black cloth stamped in gilt with image of basilisk. Winged figure on spine. Illustrated endleaves. Bookplates of Canadian bibliophile Lawrence M. Lande. Light wear. Cello tape remains on endleaves. Dust on top edge. No dust jacket. Translated by Alfred Allinson with illustrations and decorations by Frank C. Papé. ... more information

London: The Wellcome Foundation, 1927. First edition. 23 cm; 118 pages, including frontispiece and several plates. Bound in blue cloth stamped in gilt with Egyptian motif on upper board and Wellcome monogram on lower board. A description of the museum and its contents, along with proceedings of the opening ceremonies, where theory of museology was discussed. ... more information

New York: Horizon Press, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Warmly inscribed to the author's colleague at the New School for Social Research, Issai Hosiosky. Inscribed by the author ... more information

Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press International, 1985. First Edition. Cloth. ... more information

New York: Moffat, Yard, 1906. First edition. 20cm; 291 pages and five plates. Illustrations by E. W. Ashe, Frederick Dorr Steele, and Leon Guipon. "Prelude" by Henry Van Dyke. This copy custom bound in full green crushed morocco ruled in gilt. The binding bears the presentation initials L.M. B.S. on the front pastedown, and the binder's initials "K. O'L., 1907" on the rear pastedown. All edges brightly gilt. ... more information

Villemarie: July 31, 1708. 21 x 32 cm; 2 pages, signed by Deschambault as Royal Judge at Montreal, and by Royal Notary Adhémar. Portion cut from lower left, not affecting text, and expertly repaired. Preserved in archival portfolio. The judge rules on a claim on four parcels of beaver that were consigned at Michilmackinac by Robert Réaume to Jacques Charles de Couagne, but that never arrived in Montreal. Couagne protested that he never received the packages in the first place, but Ré... more information

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. 31 cm; 274 pages, illustrated. Bound in full red crushed morocco with gilt-tooled border, gilt-tooled turn-ins, raised bands, and gilt-stamped leather title label by Vianney Bélanger, with the binding dedicated by the binder to the Canadian bibliophile and collector Lawrence Lande in gilt-stamped letters on the lower front turn-in: "Relié par Vianney Bélanger spécialement pour son ami Lawrence Lande." Marlbed endleaves. Or... more information

New York: Appleton & Co., 1873. 25 cm; xii, 730 pages, and engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map, ads. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Bound in original blue cloth with beveled edges, stamped in gilt. Joints and extremities worn; slightly shaken. Edited by Olive Risley Seward ... With two hundred illustrations. ... more information

New York: Peter Weed Books, 1993. Decorative Boards. First published 1962. "Reissued in 1993 ; First Printing," according to copyright page. Follows the adventures of Edna, Harry and Sam on a handcar: "At Wunksieville they rescued an infant who was hanging from a hook intended for mailbags. Signed by Author ... more information

Montreal: McGill University Press, 1965. Printed wraps, stapled. Oblong, 16 x 22 cm; 4 leaves, each illustrated with designs from Cruikshank's Hints to Emigrants (1840). ... more information

New York: The Heritage Press, 1960. 30 cm; 165 pages, and 12 plates of drawings by Ben Zion. Printed in red and black. Black cloth in slipcase, with tiny scratch on front board and wear to seams of slipcase. Main text in Hebrew and English. Selected and translated by Judah Goldin, and illustrated by Ben Zion. ... more information

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1923. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Juvenile fiction based on Caesar's Gallic Wars. ... more information

Montreal: August 27, 1716. 1 leaf folio (35cm); torn at bottom edge with loss of text at lower right of recto and damage to signatures at lower left of verso. Repaired with blank white paper, which has toned to tan. Main text and signatures still present and legible. Condition noted. Reference: Lande, Political Economy of New France, #214. In 1715, the Compagnie du Castor, directed by Nicolas de la Lanouillier, retained the monopoly on the beaver trade in Canada. The company failed to honor its bills ... more information

Washington: Counterpoint Press, 1997. Trade Paperback. ... more information

Chicago, (etc.): Fleming H. Revell, 1903. Fourth edition. 22 cm; 246 pages. All text pages decorated with green art nouveau border frames. Bound in green cloth stamped in gilt with image of sundial. Negligible rubbing at crown only. VG. ... more information

New York: Thames & Hudson, 1987. Cloth. ... more information