Middlebury College and its Surroundings
Middlebury, VT: R.M. Bailey, Class of '72, and J.C. Harvey, Class of '81, 1881. Hardcover. Good. Bound in leather with covers stamped in illustrated blind and gilt. All edges gilt. Illustrated with twelve albumen photographs of the college, town, and surroundings. Features text poetry accompanying the photographs, with a prefatory poem to alumni. Previous owner has pasted additional period photographs and text to endpapers. Pages in very good condition. Leather has wear to extremities, binding is partially separated... Read More
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Save And Invest ... (poster).; ca. 1918. World War I.
U. S. Government Printing Office. poster. U.S. Treasury Department poster promises War Savings Stamps are the safest investment. Printed in black and blue on a white background. Sheet measures 17 x 24 inches (43 x 61 cm). Fine condition.
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The Asinelli and Garisenda, Towers, Bologna. (print)
London: Henry Bohn, 1843. Very good condition. Original tinted lithograph of these twelfth century towers from Henry Gally Knight's The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy from the Time of Constantine to the Fifteenth Century published in 1843 by Henry Bohn in London. Image size is 10 x 16 3/4 inches. Sheet size is 14 1/2 x 21 1//2 inches. Drawn by Domenico Quaglio II (German, Munich 1787 - 1837 Hohenschwangau, near Fussen) and printed by G. Moore. Dampstain in... Read More
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Photography: the First Eighty Years; 27 October to 1 December 1976
London: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd, 1976. 1st. paperback. very good. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated wraps. Worn at the extremities and spine. Profusely illustrated throughout.
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Yves Klein; With The Void, Full Powers
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center/Hirshhorn, 2010. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Texts by Kerry Brougher, Philippe Vergne, Kaira Cabaña, Klaus Ottmann, and Andria Hickey. Bound in publisher's original blue boards, with blue belly band. All edges blue. Striking design throughout, and thoroughly illustrated in original color and black and white. 8 x 10 inches. 352 pages.
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English Florilegium
New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. As New. First Thus. Cloth. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. ISBN:0-89659-790-3. First Abbeville Press edition. Pp 240 with 50 plates. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by William T. Stearn. Notes on the plates by Christ opher Brickell. Watercolor paintings by Mary Grierson.
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The Aldine Edition Of The British Poets, in fifty-two volumes
London: Bell and Daldy, n. d.. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in half blue morocco and marbled boards with front covers and spines stamped in gilt, and five raised bands. All edges marbled, marble endpapers. A few heads lightly chipped, otherwise fine condition. Each volume measures 4 x 6 1/4 inches. List of authors and images available on request.
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Twelfth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics: Part V, Wisconsin's Resources, Industries and Opportunities
Madison: Democrat Printing Company, 1906. Hardcover. Very good condition. Second Edition. State of Wisconsin 1905-1906.
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A Handbook for Group Study with the Association for Research and Enlightenment
Virginia Beach: Edgar Cayce Publishing Co, 1957. Softcover. Very Good. Bound in gray paper wrappers with cover stamped in blue. Fine except for slight bump to top outer edge and mild sunfade to edges. 6 x 9 inches. 14 pages.
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The James Ford Bell Library: An Annotated Catalog of Original Source Materials Relating to the History of European Expansion, 1400-1800
Minneapolis: James Ford Bell Library/University of Minnesota, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. 622 pages.
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The Natural History Of Birds from the best authors, ancient and modern, Volume I.
Bungay: Brightly & Childs / T. Kinnersly, 1815. Hardcover. Very good. Volume one only (of two). Bound in green cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Cloth is rubbed at the extremities. Occasional foxing throughout. Embellished throughout with 62 plates, accurately hand coloured from nature.
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The Book of the Prophet Isaiah in the King James Version
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1979. Hardcover. Fine. Chaim Gross. Bound in publisher's original quarter leather and brown cloth. Spine and cover stamped in gilt. One of 2000 numbered copies printed at the Press of A. Colish in Mount Vernon. Designed by Bert Clarke with an introduction by Franklin H Littell and water colors painted by Chaim Gross. Fine condition in matching slipcase.
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The Book Of Minnesota: Development, Resources, Enterprise And Beauty Of The North Star State
St. Paul: Pioneer Press, 1903. 1st. Hardcover. Very good condition. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the front cover. Illustrated in black-and-white. Large fold-out color map in rear. Gilt has mostly rubbed away from the well worn front cover. One page taped. Book is 21.75 by 16 by inches.
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Udumbara (Summer 1978)
Minneapolis: Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, 1978. paperback. Near fine condition. One of 400 copies hand set and printed on handmade paper. Uncut. Minor wear to the extremities.
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Photograms Of The Year 1942
London: Illiffe and Sons, 1942. Paperback. Very good. Edited by F.J.Mortimer. Includes photos by Rosalind Maingot and Dr. Max Thorek. Green paper wraps have separated and are somewhat soiled and worn at extremeties. Interior intact.
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Getting Ready For The Victory Loan... (poster).; World War I.
poster. VICTORY LOAN PICTORIAL NEWS poster with a black-and-white photographic image of the presses at work above a text, printed in black on a white background, that encourages buying Liberty Bonds. Sheet measures 14 x 17 inches (35.5 x 43 cm). Few small (less than half inch) closed tears, one horizontal fold, otherwise fine condition.
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Church Psalmist; or, Psalms and Hymns, Designed for the Public, Social, and Private Use of Evangelical Christians. Containing, also, Directions for Musical Expression. With Supplement
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, 1847. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in full leather, covers stamped and decorated in blind, spine stamped in gilt. Rubbed at the edges and extremities. All edges gilt. Previous owners name in ink on the ffep.
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Seacoast Artillery, Basic Tacticsand Techniques
Harrisburg: Military Service Publishing Company, 1944. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 891 pp. including illustrations, tables, diagrams. Envelopewith folded map and two protractors laid in at the back.Dust jacket is chipped at the edges with a few tears.
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The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1961; Selected from 1960
Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. 1st. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Bound in publisher's original blue and green cloth with spine stamped in black and cover stamped in black and red. Minor wear to extremities. Half-inch chip to head of dust jacket spine, quarter inch chip to top of back dust jacket cover. Text block tight and bright. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. 358 pages.
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Korea: It's Land, People And Culture of All Ages
Seoul, Korea: Hakwon-Sa, Ltd, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrated in black and white, and color, with fold-out color map. Comes in board slipcase with yellow and black spine labe. Book is near fine except for missing front free endpaper. Dust jacket has wear to extremities, front interior flap has a tear. 7 1/2 x 10 inches. 718 pages.
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Martin Luther: Treasures of the Reformation
Dresden: Sandstein, 2017. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated throughout in color. A beautiful presentation of a fascinating exhibit. 9 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches. 503 pages.
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Four Old Plays: Three Interludes : Thersytes Jack Jugler and Heywoods Pardoner and Frere : and Jocasta a Tragedy by Gascoigne and Kinwelmarsh with an Introduction and Notes
Cambridge, UK: George Nichols, 1848. Hardcover. Very good condition. Bound in cloth with a partial paper spine label stamped in black. Previous owner's bookplate has been removed from the front pastedown endpaper. Some loss of cloth at the head and heel of the spine.
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Graphis magazine; 1956-1975, 1984, 1988, 1992
Zurich: Graphis Press Corp, 1992. Hardcover. Fine. International journal of graphic and applied art. Every issue from 1956-1975 (Nos. 65-171) except 131, 135, 160, and 161. Also includes nos. 231 from 1984, 254 and 256 from 1988, and no. 281 from 1992. Issues from 1957-66 and 1969-70 bound in eleven volumes, in brown cloth with spines stamped in white. All other issues bound in publisher's original illustrated wrappers. Densely illustrated with color and black and white photographic reproductions.... Read More
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America's Food Pledge : 20 Million Tons (poster)
poster. Fine Condition. U.S. Food Administration reminds Americans to save food in order to feed a growing number of hungry European Allies. Printed in red and black on a white background. Poster measures 20 x 30 inches (51 x 76 cm).
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American Poetry 1927; A Miscellany
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in the publsher's original green cloth covered boards, cover and spine stamped in gilt. Cloth is slightly soild and shelf worn at the extremities. Includes works from Leonie Adams, Conrad Aiken, Willliam Rose Benet, Nathalia Crane, H. D., John Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers, Alfred Kreymborg, Vachel Lindsay, Archibald Maclesh, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, Jean Starr Untermeyer, Luis Untermeyer, Elinor Wylie.
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