KNOLL CATALOG: STEPHENS SYSTEM
by Stephens, Bill (office design of)
NY: Knoll International. Soft cover. Near Fine. Full color, unpaginated (12 pages) catalog, measuring 8.5" square, of the office system designed by Bill Stephens for Knoll International. Undated, c1980s.
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A Poetry Recital
by Stephens, James
London: MacMillan, 1925. First Edition. Half Cloth. Very Good/Good. jacket soiled with a number of closed tears, small piece missing top spine, internally clean, uncut pages, spine exposed halfway through, some toning endpapers.
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ENGLISH LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: FORD LECTURES, 1903
by Stephen, Leslie
London: Duckworth and Co, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, publisher's polished, tan linen, gilt titles spine, beveled edges, 224p, Duckworth device blind-stamped rear cover. Some light fosxing largely at prelims and rears. Handsome book. Stephen, noted for his literary criticism and mountaineering, perhaps more famous as the father of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Bell.
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BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS 1981 -1986 and OPEN STUDIO (2 titles)
by Stern, Robert A. M (Pelli, Cesar)
NY (and) NY: Rizzoli (and) Monacelli, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Two copies about or by American architect Stern presented by him to Argentinian-born Pelli, the work of both having transformed the look of cities in the US and worldwide and how we see and use urban space. Both copies, as new, from the personal library of Pelli (1926 - 2019). Rueda, Luis R. (editor). ROBERT A. M. STERN; BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS 1981-1985. NY: Rizzoli, 1986.... Read More
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Garden Flowers in Color
by Stevens, G.A.
New York: MacMillan, 1936. First Edition. Cloth. Fine -/Very Good +. toning and foxing to dw, but only a fwe chips, very small piece missing from top of spine.
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An Illustrated Guide To The Flowering Plants Of The Middle Atlantic And New England States
by Stevens, George T.
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First edition, 8vo, green cloth, gilt titles front and spine, 749p, illsutrated. Solid, clean copy.
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Vailima Edition, 26 volumes complete)
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. 1st US Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good +. Limited edition, this #86 of 1030 copies. Blue cloth, sides uncut, paper spine labels variously tanned. Pictures are of only two exemplary volumes but set is complete. Extra shipping charges will apply.
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BALLADS
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A finely preserved copy, charcoal, polished linen, beveled edges, gte, sides untrimmed, 8vo, vi (2) 137 (2). Trace spotting to endpapers, else clean interiors throughout. Solid, very attractive copy. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.
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THE NOVELS AND TALES OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSN (random lot of 10 of 26 vols)
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Pyle, Howard et al. Volumes 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 19, 24. Uniformly bound red cloth, gilt spine titles. Spines dulled/soiled, internals fine, sturdily bound.
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DIOGENES IN LONDON AS WRITTEN BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AND PRINTED FOR THE FIRTS TIME FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BY EWDWIN & ROBERT GRABHORN FOR JOHN HOWELL
by Stevenson, Robert Louis. Hopkins, Ernest Jerome
San Francisco: Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, 1920. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. VG-. Grabhorn's 1920 edition of Stevenson's telling of Diogenes, different from its 1921 edition. This edition has a different introduction by Hopkins (not Vincent Starret) and different title. The colophon of this early version identifies 150 copies, this unnumbered, printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn and bound by Florence Grabhorn. The paper over board covers is a Deco-style free-form,"marblized" pattern printed in black and brown. String-tied, the... Read More
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TRIPTYCH OF ORIGINAL SCRATCHBOARDS FOR STEWARD'S UNPUBLISHED TRANSLATION OF JEAN GENET'S QUERELLE
by STEWARD, SAMUEL (aka PHIL ANDROS, PHIL SPARROW, PHILIP VON CHICAGO, et al.) (GENET, JEAN
No Binding. Fine. Three scratchboards, two 12'x 15", the other 16" x 12", depicting critical scenes from Jean Genet's classic Querelle. Two are uniform in size and are matted and framed in the style of the oblong one, which wads originally matted and framed by the artist. The life of Sam Steward (1909 - 1983), the subject of Justin Spring's biography "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professsor; Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade "(Farrar Strauss... Read More
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Poems of Lake Winnepesaukee
by Stickney, Julia Noyes. (New Hampshire)
Haverhill MA: C. C. Morse & Son, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. Mustard cloth, gilt titles. Light wear to bottom edge front cover. Internals fine. No owner names or markings.
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Georgia O'Keeffe A Portrait By Alfred Stieglitz
by STIEGLITZ, Alfred. Georgia O'Keefe (introduction by)
NY: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art/ Viking Press, 1978, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. An apparently unused copy, fine in near fine, price-clipped dustjakcet in slipcase. A collectible copy. No names/bookplates.
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42nd Street
by Stone, Martin et al.
New York: 42nd Street Redevelopment Corporation, 1978. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine -/No Dustjacket. a bit of rubbing at spine, else fine.
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MISSOURI CANARY
by Stong, Phil ( story by). Wiese, Kurt (pictures by)
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good -. A solid first edition copy, modestly worn on bottom edge in pictorial unclipped dustjacket matching book covers that is worn around all edges with some shallow edge loss here and there. Clean internals, no names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus.
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Shakespeare in Love
by Stoppard, Tom and Mark Norman
Np: Np (Mirimax Films), 1997. 2-hole Rivet. Almost As New/No Jacket. Release script (i.e. as released to theaters in final edit) presumably published for and distributed by Mirimax to members of the Screenwriter's Guild to garner support for Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay.
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THE SHOREBIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
by Stout, Gardner D. (editor and sponsor); Matthiessen, Peter (text by); Palmer, Ralph S. (species accounts by)
New York: The Viking Press, 1967. Limited First Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine -. Clem, Robert Verity. Limited edition of 350 copies, this #256. Signed by all four contributors on the limitation . Full leather. Prospectus laid-in. Near fine copy, in original publisher's cloth slipcase.
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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Boston: Houghtgon Mifflin, 1899. Early Printing of New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Rust-colored cloth stamped in black on front and gilt and black on spine. 8vo, xlii, 499, 12. Some rolling to cloth head of spine, else a much better than very good copy. Druggists & Pharmacists, Books & Stationary stamp of Crossland Bro's of St. Clairsville, Ohio bottom right corner ffe. Stated new edition title page with 1887 date with slipped 7, last copyright date 1879.... Read More
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Little Pussy Willow" Parts I and II in OUR YOUNG FOLKS
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher et al.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good +. Two copies of Our Young Folks - Sept and Oct 1866 - that contain the first tow parts of Stowe's Little Pussy Willow, published in book form in 1870. Better than very good condition.
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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, OR LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Boston: John P Jewett & Company, 1852. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. A pairing of Twentieth Thousand copies, similar but bound by different binders. The same gilt-pressed pictorial on the front covers, but blind-pressed with different patterns. The brown cloth is different: one narrowly ribbed, the other pebbled. The gilt titles on the spine are the same typeface but positioned differently. Spines slightly cocked in both, and both show obvious wear to cloth particularly at hinges and spine tips.... Read More
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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; OR, LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher. (Cleaveland, Moses)
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A later printing (1894) of "A New Edition, with Illustrations and a Bibliography of the Work by George Bullen" (1878). 8vo, publishers plain green cloth, black-endpapers, with evidence of past reinforcement of hinges, front and rear. Hartford bookstore ticket rear pastedown. Inscribed: "Harriet Beecher Stowe/ written for/ Miss Cleaveland/ June 30, 1895" PROVENANCE: Heirs of the Cleaveland family, whose genealogy goes back to colonial Connecticut. Penciled in the inscription... Read More
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Paul Strand A Retrospective Monograph The Years 1915 - 1968
by Strand, Paul
NY: Aperture, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. First edition of one volume version combing the volumes of 1915 - 1946 and 1950 - 1968. Some soiling and wear about edges, still firmly bound. No names inscriptions or bookplates.
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Prose: Four Poems
by Strand, Strand
Sweden, Maine: Ives Street Press, 1987. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. Josef Albers. Copy # 164/187, Signed by author in black ink. Limited ed. 16 pp, 10" x 7". Fine gray cloth binding.
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ROBERT DODSLEY, POET, PUBLISHER & PLAYRIGHT
by Straus, Ralph
London: John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. Red linen covers faded, sound binding. Solid reference copy. All about Dodsley (1703 - 1764) and the Goldsmith crowd. Especially interesting is Bodley Head's 16-page publisher list in rear.
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The German Single-leaf Woodcut 1500-1550 (complete set)
by Max Geisberg. (Revised by Walter S. Strauss)
NY: Hacker Art Books, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Four volumes, each near fine - apparently unused. No PON, bookplates, etc.
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