THE LONELY DOLL
by Wright, Dare
First edition, early printing,with 1957 date both on copyright and title page of the first title in The Lonely Doll series. Dare Wright's, arguably "offbeat" take on girlhood; even with "modern" sensibilities well-advanced from the 1950s when Dare created the characters and story of Edith and her Teddy Bears, some now perhaps regard it as "edgy". A very nice copy in price-clipped pictorial dustjacket front and back that replicates the covers of the book. With a young girl's bookplate on... Read More
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HOLIDAY FOR EDITH AND THE BEARS
by Wright, Dare
First edition, 1958, of the sequel to "The Lonely Doll" printed the year before and second in the series. An unusual take on girlhood; even with "modern" sensibilities well-advanced from the 1950s when Dare created the characters and story of Edith and her Teddy Bears, some now perhaps regard it as "edgy". Photographed on Okracoke Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. A very nice copy in price-clipped pictorial dustjacket front and back that replicates the photograph on the... Read More
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NATIVE SON
by Wright, Richard
NY: Harper& Brothers, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good -. Solid, clean first edition, with bookplate front pastedown. Blue linen-backed covers. Dustjacket is obviously chipped about edges and some closed splits to flaps,and some intgernal tape repairs head of spine. but an attractive copy now "under mylar" as they say.
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A HISTORY OF CARICATURE AND GROTESQUE IN LITERATURE AND ART
by Wright, Thomas
London: Virtue Brothers & Co, 1865. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo, rebound blue, half leather over blue cloth, gte, wide 8vo,xvi, 494 (1) 32, publisher's catalogue in rear, title in red & black. numerous wood-engraved text illustrations by Frederick William Fairholt. Bound in England, by unidentified binder. Near fine copy with the bookplate of William Maul Measey (1875-1967), Philadelphia corporate attorney and alumnus of University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1898.
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Architectural and Ornamnet Drawings of the 16th to the Early 19th Centuries in the Collection of Teh University of Michigan Museum of Art
by Wunder, Richard P. (intro)
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 0. First Edition (Hardvcover). Brown Cloth Boards. Near Fine. A clean near fine copy of the scarce harcover edition. 19.
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FOUR SEASONS
by Wyeth, Andrew (art of). Goodrich, Lloyd (forward)
NY: Art in America, 1962. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Very Good +. Folio, limited edition 500 copies, 12 single- sheet reproductions by famous American artist Andrew Wyeth loosely placed in folio covered in rough-weave cloth with title label. Oddly, there are two copies of the page folded sheet that has the text, a forward by Lloyd Goodrich (Director of the Whitney Museum of Art), one numbered 499/500, the other 500/500 lower right corner BOTH SIGNBD BY Wyeth. Covers... Read More
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AUNT SAMMY'S RADIO RECIPES REVISED
by (Ruth van Deman and Fanny Walker Yeatman)
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931. 4th Edition. Soft cover. Good+. Green paper covers with Art-Deco style typography. 400 recipes plus 90 dinner menus that were broadcast as Housekeeper Chats by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. In the forward, this edition is referred to as the "fourth enlarged edition". Good copy - small stain front cover and upper corner of last 20 pages stained.
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THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE
by Yeats, W. B. Moore, Thomas Sturge (cover design)
London: Macmillan, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good +. First edition in first issue dustjacket which is soiled with a spine that is browned and missing about half inch at each end. Covers, designed by Moore are quite nice. Moderate wear to cloth at spine ends. Some offsetting to ffe and fly, with an ownership name that looks like Leslie Hogarth dated 1919 upper right corner of half title.
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THE POETRY OF YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO 1955 to 1965
by YEVTUSHENKO, YEVGENY. Reavy, George (introduction)
NY: October House, 1965. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. An apparently unread, unused copy. 54 poems bilingual: Russian and English. Fine internals, near fine dw.
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SunDance Vol.1 No.1 (Apr-May 1972), No.2 (Aug - Sept 1972), No.3 (Nov - Dec 1972)
by Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Richard Boyle, Paul Krassner, et al (contrubutors)
San Francisco: Running Dog Inc, 1972. Soft cover. Good. First three issues of the short lived, San Francisco-based early 1970s culture magazine, an offshoot of Sixties "counterculture" . The issues feature columns by Yoko Ono, two of her pieces illustrated by John Lennon. Large format, leaves toned, dog-eared corners.
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Register of The Colonial Dames of The State of New York 1893- 1913
by (Colonial New York)
New York: Board of Managers, Colonial Dames of New York, 1913. First Edition. Cloth Boards. Very Good/No Dustjacket. Paper labe spine, gilt device front board. 432p. Boords soiled, particularly at edges, still a solid copy.
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CHILDREN AND ARCHITECTURE
by Emily Ann Barnes and Bess. M. Young
NY: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Uncommon treatise written by sixth grade educator Barnes and her assistant about creating curriculum that instructs grade-school students on the rudiments of architecture through historical periods. 8vo, green Art-Deco style design of skyscrapers and titles stamped in gilt, xxii, 353, with index and illustrated with design and photos in b&w and one color plate. Fine, unused copy.
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SO RED THE ROSE
by Young, Stark
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Best-seller Civil War novel, that came before Mitchell's GWTW. 8vo, red cloth, original dustjacket, spine moderately fade, with $2.50 price and stated "Thirteenth Large Printing" rear panel. No ownership names or bookplates.
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ABOUT ALPHABETS: SOME MARGINAL NOTES ON TYPE DESIGN
by Zapf, Hermann
Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1970. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine copy in fine dustjacket of the 1970 edition by MIT Press after the firts of 1960 with a new introduction by typographer and type designer Zapf. Neatly signed by him on the title page in pencil. A lovely copy.
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KNOLL CATALOG: ZAPF SYSTEM
by Zapf, Otto (office design of)
NY: Knoll International. Soft cover. Near Fine. Full color, unpaginated (10 pages) catalog, measuring 8.5" square, of the office system designed by Otto Zapf for Knoll International. Undated, c1980s.
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The Hidden Waterfall
by Zaturenska, Marya
New York: Vanguard Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Almost As New/Almost As New. a beautiful copy, almost as new, not price clipped, no previous owner markings.
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Early American Mills
by Zimiles, Martha and Murray
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1973. First Edition. Cloth. Fine -/Near Fine -. plastic coating on front of dw slightly wrinkled, else fine, clean and tight with no previous owner markings.
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Le Arti che vanno per via nella citta di Venezia inventate ed incise da Gaetano Zompini
by Zompini, , Gaetano
Venezia, 1785. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. Folio, all 60 engraved plates extant plus frontis, depicting Venetians in all manner of everyday life and commerce. Plates remarkably clean, no evidence of foxing. In old boards to which new 3/4 polished, dark brown grain leather has been applied. Library bookplate of the YMCA of the City of New York "from the Niblo Fund" on the pastedown; no other internal markings or numberings. A handsome folio.
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