Photo Album Documenting Construction of Plaza Movie Theater

Jacksonville, FL: Munn Photography, 1967. Very good plus.. Album carefully documenting the construction of The Kent Theaters, Plaza "Rocking Chair" Theater on Phillips Highway (U.S. . Hwy #1) in Jacksonville, FL which opened its doors January 27, 1967. Photographs thoroughly detail construction, from groundbreaking to completion: concrete placement, steel erection, masonry, interior construction, placement of the rooftop A/C unit, signage, projector and speaker installation, workers and laborers, as well as finished shots of the theater's interior and exterior.... Read More

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RUSSES ET FRANCAIS

Nancy: E. Ferry, 1893. Very good.. Satirical novelty pamphlet marking the Russian diplomatic visit to Toulon, France during the formation of the Franco-Russian Alliance, a key development in the lead up to World War I. In the late 1880s and early 1890s, Germany allied with Italy and broke its alliance with Russia, leading Russia to seek an alliance with France. The Franco-Russian Alliance formed after two diplomatic visits, first to Kronstadt and then to Toulon. This... Read More

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Collection of More Than 300 Original Photographs Documenting the Construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway

(Chicago): n.p., 1962. Very good.. Richly detailed photo archive of the construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway, which destroyed or isolated the predominantly Black communities of Chicago's South Side. An extensive collection of over 300 photographs documenting one of Chicago's largest-ever infrastructure projects. The twelve-mile, $180 million, fourteen-lane Dan Ryan Expressway was conceived to connect Chicago's southern suburbs with the heart of its downtown. The superhighway's construction, however, had two far-reaching (though not entirely unforeseen) consequences. The first... Read More

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RABBIT MAKES A MONKEY OF LION

by Aardema, Verna; Pinkney, Jerry

New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1989. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing of this adaptation of an Swahili folktale about animal escapades in pursuit of honey, with lush illustrations by award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney. Winner of five Coretta Scott King Awards, five Caldecott Honors, a Caldecott Medal (for THE LION AND THE MOUSE), and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, Jerry Pinkney was a prolific author and illustrator of children's literature, and... Read More

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SIPURI HASHTUYOT HAKI MIDHIMIM BE'ULAM [The Most Amazing Nonsense Stories In The World]

by Abas, Shlomo; Kishca, Michael

Hod Hasharon: Agur Publishing House, 1996. First edition. Very good plus.. Signed first printing of this Israeli collection of absurd and hilarious short stories for children in Hebrew, with equally humorous illustrations. 9.5'' x 5.75''. Original color pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 80 pages. Inscribed by Abas in Hebrew to front flyleaf. Scattered pencil underlining. Binding with light edgewear, bumping to corners and spine ends. Leaves with occasional mild wear to margins. Bright.

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JONATHAN TROY

by Abbey, Edward

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1954. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First printing - and only edition - of Abbey's first book, talked about but rarely seen by Abbey aficionados. Abbey's biography James A. Cahalan describes how embarrassed the author would become about his first novel: "Abbey remained so unhappy with his first novel that he always refused to have it reprinted [...] and left instructions that it not be reprinted after his death.... Read More

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ROLLO LEARNING TO READ

by [Abbot, Jacob]

New York: Samuel Colman, 1839. Very good.. Early edition of the book that made the Rollo series big, intended to instruct the novice American reader by combining a mature vocabulary with a lively series of animal metamorphoses and moral lessons. The hapless and ungrateful Rollo made his first cameo appearance in the rare THE LITTLE SCHOLAR LEARNING TO TALK: A Picture Book for Rollo, by His Father, reissued in 1839 as ROLLO LEARNING TO TALK. ROLLO LEARNING TO... Read More

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THE ARK SAKURA

by Abé, Kobo; Carpenter, Juliet Winters

London: Secker & Warburg, 1988. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First UK edition of this story of a survivalist's attempt to build an ark - (à la Noah, but with people) - by, at the time, "Japan's foremost living novelist." 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original dark blue cloth, silver lettered spine. In original unclipped (£11.95) color pictorial jacket designed by Peter Dyer. Lavender endpapers. [4], 342 pages. Jacket with trace edgewear. Book with light toning to... Read More

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[THE PUPPY WITH RUTH AND URI]

by Abrahami, A.

Tel Aviv: B. Barlevy, 1945. Very good.. Hebrew board book on animals issued by Binyamin Barlevy, the pioneering children's book and game publisher in what would soon become Israel. 6.25'' x 9.5''. Original thick pictorial paper boards with blue cloth spine. Illustrated with color lithographs. [8] pages, including cover versos. Foxed and stained here and there, primarily to covers. Tight and entirely intact.

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DIAGNOSIS AND DETECTION: The Medical Iconography of Sherlock Holmes

by Accardo, Pasquale

Rutherford / Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987. First edition. Fine in fine jacket.. First printing of this monograph on Holmes's questionable diagnostic and deductive methods, by a practicing physician with a pronounced "aversion for detective fiction." 9'' x 6''. Original black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original deep yellow dust jacket. 139, [1] pages. Price tag on front jacket flap. Light edgewear, trace sunning to jacket spine.

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NO LONGER AT EASE

by Achebe, Chinua

London: Heinemann, 1960. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. Scarce first edition of Achebe's second novel, set in contemporary Nigeria and following the grandson of Okonkwo, hero of THINGS FALL APART. NO LONGER AT EASE derives its title from Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" ("But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation"), as the preceding THINGS FALL APART alludes to Yeats; in it, Achebe arranges for his protagonist a quiet, understated catastrophe of colonial... Read More

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THINGS FALL APART

by Achebe, Chinua

London / Melbourne / Toronto: Heinemann, 1958. First printing. Very good in very good jacket.. First edition of the "first classic African novel" (Killam) in Anglophone literature, a work of immense impact on postcolonial literature. First in the Nigerian author's African trilogy, which also includes NO LONGER AT EASE (1960) and ARROW OF GOD (1964), THINGS FALL APART was selected by TIME magazine on one of its "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005," and by the... Read More

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HOPES AND IMPEDIMENTS: Selected Essays

by Achebe, Chinua

New York: Doubleday, 1989. First printing. Very good plus in near fine jacket.. Inscribed first US edition of the celebrated Nigerian author's book of essays, including the much discussed "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" This important collection begins with a quintessential piece of postcolonial criticism, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness," which makes the apparently controversial claim that Conrad's depiction of Africa and its natives was inherently racist -... Read More

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS

by Acker, Kathy

New York: Grove Press, 1983. First printing. Fine in a fine jacket.. First edition of Acker's rewriting and reinterpretation of Charles Dickens's famed coming-of-age novel. Told with Acker's typical sense of experimentation, appropriation, and brutal honesty. Oddly uncommon and a beautiful copy. 8'' x 5''. Publisher's quarter black cloth over black boards. In original unclipped ($14.95) color pictorial jacket designed by Roy Colmer after art by Sue Coe. 128 pages. Bright and sharp overall.

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MARIONETTES: Easy to Make! Fun to Use!

by Ackley, Edith Flack; Flack, Marjorie

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1929. Fine in very good jacket.. Children's activity book with instructions on making marionettes, including pattern sheets for faces and costumes. Quarto. Original cloth. In original dust jacket. Illustrated by Flack in black and white. Inserted into a pocket in the back are full size pattern sheets. 115, [1] pages. Dust jacket soiled.

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HUTU AND KAWA MEET TUATARA

by Acres, Avis

Wellington, New Zealand: A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1956. Near fine.. First edition of the charming story of Kewpie-esque Pohutukawa flower fairies HUTU AND KAWA as they cheer up a lonely reptile. Tuatara are New Zealand's largest reptile, and are a unique species endemic to the islands. They are also the only surviving member of the order Sphenodontia, which could be why this title tuatara was so lonely. In the end, he finds a room to rent, and friends... Read More

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ADAMS'S NEW ARITHMETIC

by Adams, Daniel

New Hampshire: J. & J. W. Prentiss, 1827. First printing. Very good minus.. First edition of this late Regency arithmetic textbook for American schools - by the author of THE SCHOLAR'S ARITHMETIC, one of the era's most popular mathematical textbooks. 4.5" x 6.75" Original brown quarter calf with green typographically printed paper boards. 264 pages. Previous owner names/notes to endpapers. Rubbing to spine, large abrasion with some paper loss to front board, some chipping and bumping to corners.... Read More

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THE SCHOLAR'S ARITHMETIC: OR, FEDERAL ACCOUNTANT

by Adams, Daniel

Leominster, Massachusetts: Adams & Wilder, 1802. Good plus.. Second revised edition of one of the most popular mathematical textbooks in the early United States, with extensive contemporary figuring. "Judged by the number of editions produced, [THE SCHOLAR'S ARITHMETIC] attained second place in popularity among the arithmetics published in America in the period from 1800 to 1825," says historian Louis C. Karpinski (133). He further notes that, though Daniel Adams included blanks under the problems for readers to do... Read More

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LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING

by Adams, Douglas

New York: Harmony Books, 1982. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Inscribed association first US edition of the first, but not the last, conclusion to the five-book Hitchhiker's trilogy, presented by Adams at Toronto's International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront to Greg Gatenby, the Festival's founding artistic director. The plot of the third Hitchhiker's book was once intended for a multi-part Doctor Who arc (rejected); though it was later subjected to a radio adaptation, it was never produced... Read More

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JOLLY OLD SPORTS

by Adams, Frank

London, Glasgow, Bombay: Blackie and Son Limited, 1915. Very good plus.. First edition of this attractive collection of three humorous rhymes about hunting and fishing, with vibrant illustrations by Frank Adams. Noted for his skill as a landscape painter, Frank Adams gives his amusing illustrations a lush sense of depth, and his cheerful characters are evocative of Cecil Aldin. Containing the rhymes of the Three Jolly Huntsmen; The Little Man and His Gun; and Three Jolly Fisherman. Quite... Read More

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THE STORY OF MOTHER GOOSE

by Adams, Frank

London, Glasgow, Bombay: Blackie and Son Limited, 1911. Near fine.. First edition of this evocatively illustrated MOTHER GOOSE book, a scarce and highly-sought version in particularly nice condition. Noted for his skill as a landscape painter, Frank Adams gives his lovely nursery rhyme illustrations a lush sense of depth, and his cheerful characters are evocative of Cecil Aldin. A lovely edition, with an amusing gift inscription in French. 11'' x 8.25''. Original red cloth-backed boards with color pictorial... Read More

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ABC PICTURE BOOK

by Adams, George A.; Henning, Paul

New York: The Platt & Munk Co. Inc, 1947. First edition. Very good.. First printing of this interesting photographic alphabet, some of the compositions quite surreal. 6.75'' x 6.75''. Original red cloth boards. No dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [56] pages. Binding with light bumping to corners and spine ends, faint soil. Leaves with occasional shallow creases and tiny abrasions; "W" illustration with faint crayon scribbling. Sound and bright.

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HENRY ADAMS : Selected Letters

by Adams, Henry; Samuels, Ernest

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1992. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of this collection carefully selected from Samuels's monumental and authoritative larger six-volume set of Adams's letters. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt. In original dust jacket. 587, [1] pages. Only minor wear to jacket.

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CLARENCE GOES OUT WEST AND MEETS A PURPLE HORSE

by Adams, Jean Ekman

Flagstaff: Rising Moon, 2000. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Inscribed early printing of this charming tale of a city pig on vacation Out West, and the unusual friend he makes at the ranch. 9'' x 10.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($15.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [36] pages. Inscribed by Adams to title page "For Nancy! / Happy Trails from / Clarence & Smoky!" Jacket with a hint of soil. Tight.

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THE CHAS ADDAMS MOTHER GOOSE

by Addams, Charles

n.p.: Windmill & Dutton, 1967. Fine.. First paperback edition of this collection from the NEW YORKER artist's gothic interpretations of classic nursery rhymes. 12'' x 9''. Original color pictorial wrappers. [56] pages. Only light edgewear.

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