The Cloathing Book 1742
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East Sussex, England: The Naval & Military Press Ltd. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Fine. 1st thus, "A reproduction of The Cloathing Book with 94 coloured British military costume prints". An immaculate, Fine copy in its laminated pictorial boards. Quarto, 94 well-reproduced, vivid color plates on the rectos.
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Revelaciones: The Art of Manuel Alvarez Bravo (The Signed/Limited in Hardback)
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San Diego: Museum of Photographic Arts, 1990. Cloth. Very Good +. #25 OF ONLY 99 COPIES ISSUED IN THE UNCOMMON HARDBACK EDITION (AND STATED 1ST EDITION), EACH SIGNED BY MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO. Tight and VG+ in its gray cloth, with wonderful pictorial onlay at the front panel. Light foxing at the front panel's upper and lower edges and just a bit to the rear panel's lower-edge. Otherwise, very sharp and, internally, clean as could be, with no writing... Read More
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Handbook for Scoutmasters: A Manual of Leadership (2 Vols.)
New York: Boy Scouts of America, 1936. Pictorial cloth. Very Good +. The Third Handbook for Scoutmasters, in 2 volumes. Vol. I is the Fall 1936 1st imprint and Vol. II is the December 1938 3rd imprint. Both volumes solid and VG+ in their light-brown pictorial cloth, with just a touch of very light soiling at the panels. Vol. II has a Boy Scout bookplate ("Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York") at the front pastedown and its... Read More
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Plans for the Northern and Southern River Front -- Saint Louis Missouri
St. Louis: City Plan Commission, 1929. Boards. Very Good +. Handsome copy of the uncommon 1929 1st edition. Solid and VG+ in its light-brown boards, with very mild spotting and rubbing to the panels, and very light wear along the fore-edges and at the tips. Tasteful "National Park Service" bookplate to the front pastedown, otherwise clean as could be internally. Lovely sepia maps (several of them in color, several of them fold-outs) and photos complementing the text. The... Read More
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Third Annual Report of the Board of Health of the Health Department of the City of New York (April 11, 1872 to April 30, 1873
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. 1/2 leather. Very Good. The uncommon 1873 1st edition of this 3rd annual report of New York City's Health Department, spanning April 1872 to April 1873. Tight and VG in its 1/2 dark leather over marbled boards, with raised bands and bright gilt-titling at the spine. Mild wear along the spine crown and the outer hinges, several small, neal former owner stamps internally. Octavo, marbled edges, 3 oversized fold-out maps/charts, several... Read More
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The Finnish Blue Book: The Development of Finnish-Soviet Relations During the Autumn of 1939 Including the Official Documents and the Peace Treaty of March 12, 1940
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1940. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. A solid copy of the 1940 1st edition. And a Review Copy to boot, with the Lippincott Review Slip laid-in. Tight and VG+ in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with very light foxing at the front flap fold and light soiling to the rear panel. Octavo, 120 pgs. plus the 2 fold-out maps at the rear.
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Third Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park (January, 1860)
New York: The Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, 1860. Decorative Cloth. Very Good -. The uncommon 1860 1st edition of this 3rd annual report from the Board of Commissioners of Central Park. Solid and VG- to VG in its light-brown cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the front panel, decorative blindstamping to both panels and small former owner blindstamp at the front free endpaper. vvWear along the spine (including a degree of chipping) and loose but present... Read More
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Hellen van Meene: tout va disparaitre
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Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2009. 1st. Hardcover. Collectible; Fine/Fine. An immaculate copy of the 2009 1st edition. Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Square quarto, crisp color reproductions thruout.
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Nuestra Pintura: Coleccion Pictorica Mexicana de Seguros America
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Seguros America, S.A., 1985. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1985 1st edition of this impressive sampling of Seguros America's Mexican art collection, including magnificent examples by some of the giants of the 20th century, such asTamayo, Oroszco, Siqueros, Rivera, Kahlo, etc. Solid and VG (with light wear to the panels) in a bright, VG dustjacket, with very light creasing and wear at the panel edges. Oblong quarto, 105 pgs. vivid color reproductions thruout.
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The 1964 AB Bookman's Yearbook: The Old & the New
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Newark, NJ: Antiquarian Bookman. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. The 1964 annual AB Bookman's Yearbook. Tight and VG in its printed white wrappers, with very light soiling to the panels. Octavo, 352 pgs., wonderful look at the rare book world in the mid 60s.
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Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy
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London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2000. cloth. Near Fine/Fine. The catalogue based on the March-June 2001 exhibition at London's Royal Academy of Arts. Tight and Near Fine (with just a bit of soiling at the text-block) in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. Oblong quarto, beautifully-reproduced Botticelli drawings thruout.
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Ceiling Designs from the Dunhuang Caves (Gansu Province, China)
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China, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine. A bound portfolio of 20 remarkable silkscreened plates of ceiling designs from the Dunhuang Caves in Gansu Province, China. Also known as "The Mogao Caves" (or the "Thousand Buddha Grottoes"), these sacred caves are essentially shrines of Buddhist art temples and form a system of 492 temples southeast of the center of Dunhuang, which is "an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu Province". The... Read More
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Hospital Transports. A Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded from the Peninsula of Virginia in the Summer of 1862
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Cloth. Very Good +. A tight, solid example of the 1863 1st edition. Clean and VG+ to Near Fine in its dark-green, pebbled cloth, with very light spotting to the rear panel, light wear along the spine crown and very light foxing at the preliminaries. 12mo, 167 pgs.
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Monthly Grocer and Price Current (October 1896)
New York: Siegel-Cooper Co, 1896. Original wraps. Very Good -. October 1896 trade catalogue of the giant New York and Chicago grocery distributor Siegel-Cooper Company. Bright and VG- in its stapled pictorial wrappers, with light creasing and dog-earring to the panels, and light soiling and creasing to a number of the pages. Hundreds of itemized food products --along with their stunningly low prices-- throughout. Trade ads for virgin olive oil and cereals (The Hazel Pure Food Co.) at... Read More
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Marcel Breuer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. Original wraps. Very Good. A crisp copy of the uncommon catalogue based on the November 1972-January 1973 exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Clean and VG+ in its fragile pictorial wrappers, with the first of 2 brightly-colored endsheets (the blue one) present but loose.
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Catalogue of a Notable Collection of Etchings by August Lepere
New York: M. Knoedler, 1920. Original wraps. Near Fine. The uncommon 1920 catalogue --in fact the catalogue raisonne up to 1915-- of the French painter and etcher Louis-Auguste Lepere (1849-1918). A clean, sharp example. Crisp and Near Fine in its stapled beige wrappers.
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Josef Sudek: Sixty Pigment Prints from the Artist's Estate
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New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 1998. Cloth. Collectible; Fine. An immaculate copy of this 1998 catalogue. As New in its permabound, pictorial cloth. Based on the Oct. 1998 Sudek exhibit at the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in New York. Quarto, 160 pgs.
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Helen Frankenthaler
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New York: Galeria Joan Prats, Ltd, 1988. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. First Edition. An immaculate copy of this 1988 catalogue. Bright and Fine in its original wraps. A "presentation of monotypes and prints by Helen Frankenthaler executed at Poligrafa workshop, Parets del Valles, Barcelona. The presentation was held at the Galeria Joan Prats in New York, May 1988
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John Whopper the Newsboy
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New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1935. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1935 1st thus (based on the 1870 original edition). Solid and VG+ in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light chipping at the spine crown. 16mo, 120 pgs. Children's fantasy --with shades of Alice in Wonderland.
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Long Island Gazetteer: A Guide to Historic Places
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Brooklyn, New York: The Eagle Library, Inc, 1939. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1939 1st edition, compiled and edited by Arthur R. Macoskey. Tight and VG+ in its original orange cloth, with bright lettering to the panels and spine. Octavo, 144 pgs.
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The "Bull" Durham Baseball Guide (1911)
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Boston: The Baseball Publishing Co, 1911. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. First Thus. A handsome copy of the 1911 "Bull" Durham Baseball Guide, the 2nd year this annual was issued. A complete, thorough rundown of the 1910 season, with dozens and dozens of photos. Crisp and clean in its stapled, pictorial wrappers. Still tightly-bound, free of any internal writing or markings. 16mo., 128 pgs. The text opens with generous coverage of the 1910 World Series (the Philadelphia Athletics... Read More
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Le Musee Des Theatres
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Paris: Chez Lefuel, Libraire-Relieur, 1822. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. Beautiful 1822 celebration of the French theatre in all its variety, with 12 gorgeous full-page, handcolored plates (and accompanying tissue guards) complementing the text. Well-preserved and VG in its half-cloth (dark green) over decorative marbled boards. Also lightly-nicked original leather title label at spine. Text is very clean, with minimal foxing and no writing or markings of any kind. 64mo, 180 pgs. plus wonderful French calendar for... Read More
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The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower (Vols. I-XVII)
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Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine. The first 17 volumes (of 21 total) of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower. Published between 1971and 1996 and spanning the "War Years" thru the "Middle Way" of his Presidency, these 17 volumes represent his rise as militarty commander in Europe thru his post-War Presidency of Columbia and onto his consolidation of political power and his election and tenure as President. Vols. I-V are 1971 2nd printings and Vols.... Read More
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Automobile Year: The Annual Automobile Review (No. 5--1957/1958)
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Lausanne, Switzerland: Edita S.A., 1958. Hardcover. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. The 1957/58 edition of this impressive annual Review. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light wear at the spine base and several small closed tears --and light creasing-- along the panel edges. Tall quarto, crisp black-and-white and wonderful color plates thruout.
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Official National Basketball Association Guide 1958-1959
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St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1958. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. A clean, crisp copy of the 1958-59 season Official National Basketball Association Guide. Digest-sized, published by the Sporting News out of St. Louis. Bright and VG in its pictorial wrappers, with very light staining at rear panel and small former owner stamp at title page. Bob Pettit on the cover shooting a razor-sharp jum shot.
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