Titles starting with Z from John Michael Lang Fine Books

Boston: The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 1984. Hardcover Octavo. 255pp. Short gift inscription, else a nearly fine copy in a very lightly used dust jacket. This scholarly work is a biography of Zabdiel Boylston Adams, descendent of President John Adams, Civil War surgeon, and public health reformer. ... more information

New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1903. Hardback First edition 7.75" x 5". 318pp. Gray illustrated cloth, gilt lettering. Mild edge wear, else near fine condition. With ten full page illustrations by William L. Hudson, plus the frontispiece. With a foreword by Stephen G. Clow. A novel of a rural postmaster and miller and his daughter. ... more information

Newberg, Oregon: [Privately Published], 1982. Hardcover 10.75" x 8.25". [Appr. 225pp.] Bound in brown hardcover boards. Mild edge wear, else a near fine copy. This detailed genealogical work includes chapters on various branches of the Zehm and Bleisner family trees. With many illustrations after black & white photos and various documents. ... more information

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1927. Hardback First edition 7.5" x 5". 486pp. Blue patterned cloth with a beige cloth spine, in dust wrapper. Mild rubbing to edges, else near fine condition; the distinctive jacket is bright but has a couple chips at the spine tips and a 1/4" hole halfway down the spine along the rear hinge. ... more information

Frankfurt am Main: Bronners , 1938. Hardback 10.75" x 9". Appr. 150pp. Grey cloth, in dustwrapper. Light soiling, else VG+ condition; heavily worn and used jacket. A German propaganda monograph on the uses of spun rayon. Includes many nicely executed black & white photo illustrations. (With German language text.) ... more information

Paris: ADAGP, 2002. 11.25" x 9". 102pp. Color illustrated boards. Near fine condition. A good trade catalog for Zenith watches, movements and accessories. With a price list laid in. This book includes many color illustrations. ... more information

Kettle Falls, Washington: Mennonite Mission, 1916. Paperback 7.25" x 5". 40pp. Stiff brown wrappers with black cloth spine. Mild soiling to wrappers, else near fine condition. "Third Increased and Revised Edition." Scarce, especially in this handsome condition. With songs such as Rock of Ages, and Nearer My God To Thee translated into the Cheyenne Indian language. ... more information

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1943. Hardcover First edition Octavo. 189pp. Near fine in a used jacket. Signed by the author. With illustrations after drawings by Edith Mahier. A collection of poems in southern black dialect. Pipes studied the language of his black customers in the Louisiana swamplands and recorded their tales and voices in this unique book. ... more information

New York: Carlton Press, Inc. , 1973. Hardcover 8" x 5.25". 78pp. Orange cloth lettered in black. Illustrated after b&w photographs and line drawings. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket that is lightly rubbed and faded at the spine with one short tear. A detailed instruction book on the use of zigzag sewing machines. ... more information

(Rockport, Massachusetts): (Rockport Publishers, Inc.), 1995. Hardcover First edition 12" x 9". 208pp. Gray cloth hardback, in dust wrapper. Very light wear to boards, overall near fine condition; the jacket has a bit of edge wear and one short closed tear. This copy signed by company partners Evett Ruffcorn, Daniel Huberty, and Robert Frasca. A good study of the influential achitecture firm. With informative text and many color illustrations. ... more information

Olympia, Washington: Washington Department of Natural Resources, 1977. Paperback 11" x 8.5". 171pp. Light brown paperback. Near fine condition. A detailed technical overview of the distribution of zinc and lead ore deposits in Stevens County, Washington. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966. Hardcover First edition 8.75" x 6". 90pp. Ceam cloth with gilt lettering, in dust wrapper. Mild foxing to boards, else near fine in a lightly used jacket, with a bit of tape repair to the verso. Inscribed and signed by I.B. Singer. With illustrations by legendary artist Maurice Sendak. ... more information

Portland, Oregon: Klassroom Kinetics, 1989. Paperback 11" x 8.5". 142pp. Glossy illustrated paperback. Near fine condition. Second printing. This copy signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. A step by step guide to making these elaborate toy "flip books." ... more information

London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1885. Hardback First American edition 7.5" x 4.75". 269pp., plus ads. Patterned peach colored cloth with gilt lettering and rules. Spine somewhat darkened, else near fine condition. Very uncommon. ... more information

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956. Hardcover Octavo. 538pp. Gray and blue cloth with silver spine lettering. A near fine copy. Kirkland was the son of Caroline Stansbury Kirkland. This book tells the story of a man raised on settlements in rural Illinois who grows simultaneously wealthy and callous until his marriage to a New England schoolteacher makes him become benevolent. Kirkland's first and best novel, it is based on his own settlement observations and has been praised for its rea... more information