Automobile Quarterly Volume 8 No 1,2,3,4
by Bailey, L. Scott (editor)
New York: Automobile Quarterly Inc, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Issued without Dustjacket. As new save for some slight bottom edgewear. Complete run of volume 8.
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Automobile Quarterly Volume 7 No 1,2,3,4
by Bailey, L. Scott (editor)
New York: Automobile Quarterly Inc, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket, as Issued. Complete run of Volume 7. Almost as new except for some slight bottom edgewear.
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SILVER SLIPPERS
by Bailey, Temple. Herford, Oliver (dustjacket art)
NY: Grosset & dunlop, 1928. First or early reprint edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/Very Good -. Reprint edition, bearing Penn Publishing copyright, 1928. Blue cloth covers, leaves heavily toned (pulp stock). Pictoorial dustjacket signed in by O Herford, with the O conjoined to the H, typical of Oliver Hereford, who became best known for authoring and illustrating his own books of comical whimsy, but who also in early days, especially, did commercial artwork, including book publishers.
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Le Belle Epoque; Fifteen Euphoric Years of European History
by Bairati, Eleonora, et al.
NY: Morrow, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Fine in near fine dw. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.
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Motels
by Baker, Geoffrey and Bruno Funaro
NY: Reinhold/Progressive Architecture Library, 1957. Second Printing. Cloth. Near Fine -/Almost Very Good. iv + 265pp. Index. Hundreds of b&w plans, photos, diagrams.
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Original Entertainments and Burlesques for Stage Or School
by Baker, George Melville
Boston: Walter H. Baker, 1898. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good -. Scarce book of six short plays, in its original pictorial paper covers, staple-bound, 189 (1). Some loss to paper over spine at tips. OCLC lists only three editions in 17 libraries worldwide.
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POOR RUSSELL'S ALMANC
by Baker, Russell
NY: Doubleday, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. With Doubelday compliments card with Russell Baker typed on it, paper-clipped to the top of the ffe. Some paperclip residue transferred to half title and pastedown. Dustjacket price-clipped.
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CHOREOGRAPHY BY GEORGE BALANCHINE: A CATALOGUE OF WORKS
by (Balanchine, George. Kirstein, Lincoln (preface by).
NY: The Eakins Press Foundation, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. First edition, limited to 2000 copies. As new copy, in clear acetate wrapper, in light cardboards slipcase as issued. 4to, tan rough-weave cloth, green label w. gilt titles spine, 407, (2). Inscribed by Lincoln Kirstein on the colophon in rear with best wishes to a friend and supporter and dated by him October 1983. The Russian-born Balanchine (1904 - 1983) was the leading choreographer of American ballet... Read More
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LA PUCELLE DE THILHOUSE. Conte drolatique par H. de Balzac manuscrit et enluminé à la main par Léon Lebègue
by Balzac Honoré de. Lebègue, Leon (illustrated by)
Paris: Ch. Carrington, 1901. First Edition Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine. Limited edition, this #113 of 200 copies. 8vo, full grain brown leather with pictorial inset, gilt-ruled surround front and back, xxiv, Illustrated by Léon Lebègue, printed at the presses of A. Lahure in Paris, and watercolored after the artist's originals. A nicely preserved copy with two different owner bookplates on prelims of contemporary American origin.
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Stories of Home and the Mobile Gallery
by Bamberger, Bill and Greg Snyder
Charlotte NC: College of Architecture, University of, 2000. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New. As new, still in shrinkwrap.
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THE NOVELS OF MATTEO BANDELLO BISHOP OF AGEN NOW FIRST DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE AND VERSE BY JOHN PAYNE... (6 volumes complete)
by Bandello, Matteo. Payne, John (translator)
London: Villon Society, 1890. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Printed for private subscription and for private circulation only. Limitation unknown, this set numbered 679 on the half title verso. 8vo, marbled vellum, decorative grid in gilt for bottom half of covers all around, gte, sides untrimmed. Uniformly bound, covers moderately, shallow loss spine head volume 6. Solid bindings, nice internals.
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LITTLE BLACK SAMBO
by Bannerman, Helen. Wehr, Julian (animations) (Movable)
NY: E. P. Dutton, 1943. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. The first edition animated by Julian Wehr. All 7 plates with movable parts operate as issued. The paper surrounding red plastic spiral spine is mostly missing so the covers are separating. Covers are soiled but internals quiet nice. No names or bookplates.
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THE PHANTOM CARAVAN
by Banning, Kendall
Chicago: The Bookfellows. Printed at the Torch Press, 1920. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Private edition, 12mo, paper over boards, title label front cover, in plain dustjacket of same paper as used over covers. With a distinctive double page photogravure frontispiece by eccentric photographer, Lejaren a' Hiller (1880 - 1969). Hiller (born John Hiller in Milwaukee) was an artist and photographer, noted for his highly stylized tableaus, often featuring nubile women and androgynous young men. The frontispiece here depicts nude and... Read More
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VINGT-CINQ COSTUMES POUR LE THÉATRE
by Barbier, George (illustrator). Jaloux, Edmond (preface by)
Paris: Camille Bloch & Jules Meynia, 1927. First Edition Limited. Soft cover. Near Fine. Limited edition, this #129 of 300 numbered copies, printed on blue laid paper. Printed covers with illustrated front cover, title in green, and tissue guards. Includes a mounted etched frontispiece portrait of Barbier by Charles Martin, and 25 mounted colored plates depicting theater costumes with gold and silver highlights. The text and illustrations were printed by Frazier-Soye. In original glassine wrapper, which is tanned... Read More
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Doctor Watt's Imitation of The Psalms of David Corrected and Enlarged By Joel Barlow to Which is Added a Collection of Hymns
by Barlow, Joel
Hartford: Nathanial Patt. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The third edition of Barlow's edition of Watt's psalms, undated c.1810, 16mo, publisher's calf, 26 pages. Front cover detached, leaves uniformly tanned, worn at corners. Ownership name of Catherine M. Prentiss tipped in front pastedown.
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TINA BARNEY PHOTOGRAPHS - THEATER OF MANNERS
by Barney, Tina (photographs). Tina Barney and Andy Grundberg
Berlin/ NY: Scalo, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. WASPS at home in Watch Hill RI and other places they go. at everyday stuff with family and friends in the 1970s-90s. Keen social and photographic eye for picturing what Barney knows. Inscribed on thetitle page by Barney to, apparently, a close friend recalling their time abroad together. Near fine copy in near fine dustjacket.
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The Spy Unmasked; Or, Memoirs of Enoch Crosby, Alias Harvey Birch, The Hero of Mr. Cooper's Tale of the Neutral Ground: Being an Authentic Account of the Secret Services Which He Rendered His Country During the Revolutionary War. (Taken from his own lips, in short-hand.) Comprising Many Interesting Facts and Anecdotes, Never Before Published
by Barnum, H.L. (Cooper, James Fenimore)
NY: Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1828. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. A totally unsophisticated copy in its original binding. Cloth spine with paper title label over paper covered boards. 8vo, xvi, 3-296 (4), with frontispiece engraving of Harvey Birch and 5 plates (incl map of Westchester County in text. Basis for James Fenimore Cooper's THE SPY; Enoch Crosby (1750-1835) was spy for the Americans during the Revolutionary War, working for John Jay. Front cover very loosely held... Read More
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The 19th-Century Journals and Paintings of William Pope
by Barrett, Harry B.; Lansdowne, J. Fenwick (Introduction and Commentary by)
Toronto: M. F. Feheley, 1976. Brown Cloth. Fine -/Fine -. Edges and corners sharp on binding and dw. Color paintings and illustrations throughout.
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The Little White Bird or Adventures In Kensington Gardens
by Barrie, J. M.
Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company Limited, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Canadian edition from US plates. Near fine copy all around, save for the lightest foxing endpapers, prelims and rears. No names/bookplates/ inscriptions and desirable thus. A collectible copy.
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PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS Retold by May Byron for Little People with the Permission of the Author
by Barrie, J. M. May Byrn (retold by)
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Early Printing Thus. Hardcover. Very Good -/Very Good -. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). Early printing of the Peter Pan story in Scribner's "Little People" edition with Rackham's famous illustrations - 5 colored plates, 15 line drawing in text. Green cloth covers, titles stamped in darker green. Pictoial dustjacket, prce-clipped, soiled and showing some loss about edges. Still, fairly presentable.
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MY LADY NICOTINE A STUDY IN SMOKE
by Barrie, J. M. Presendergast, M. B. (illustrations by)
Boston: Knight and Millet. Presumed First or Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. With no date on title page or copyright date anywhere, this would presumably be an American first or early printing in a variant binding of brown suede with pictorial pressed in dark brown and title in gilt, gte, xiii,276, illustrated including 3 pages with color (title page with green border and illustrations on page 1 and 276 in red. Floral-patterned endpapers in gold and brown, hinges... Read More
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Bartholomew's War Map of Italy and the Balkan States
by Bartholomew, John & Co. (World War I)
Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Co/ The Geographical Institute, 1915. Hardcover. NF. Rare World War I map, undated but circa 1915, showing Italy and Switzerland plus all nations and nation-states in the Balkans before post war treaties: Austria hungary, Roumania, Russia (just the part around Odessa on rthe Black Sea), Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey (just the west side of the Bosphorus) and Asia Minor (what is now Turkey to the west of the Bosphorus). Insets around perimeter... Read More
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PHILIPS' HANDY ATLAS OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND
by Bartholomew, John
London: George Philip & Son, 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, gilt titles and device. 40 maps, index, adverts. All plates extant. Spine a tad sunned, ands chipped with shallow loss at ends. Better than very good copy. Solidly bound, clean internals.
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Arcimboldo
by Barthes, Rolando
Milan: Franco Maria Ricci, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Book as new. Slipcase with slight abrasion to upper corner.
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The Typographich Treasures of Europe and a Study of Contemporaneous Book Production in Great Britain, France , Italy, Germany, Holland and Belgium, with an Addendum By J. W. Muller Giving the Principal Dates and Personages in Printing History
by Bartlett, Edward Everett
NY: G. P . Putnam's Sons, 1925. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio, half-linen spine over paper-backed boards, spine soiled, corners worn, internals in fine, clean condition. 185 pages, #27 of 585 copies, printed on Rives Paper (sides untrtimmed) at Bartlett Orr Press, NY - a handsome production.
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