Philadelphia: American Museum of Photography, [1942]. First Edition. Softcover. Printed slim dark red wraps (5" x 7-1/4"); 16 pages plus covers. Illustrated with a tipped-in portrait of the photography pioneer and a full-page engraving of his establishment.
New York: Boni and Liveright, Inc., (1917) but later. Hardcover. A later printing of this early Modern Library title bound in flexible black cloth with endpapers by Horace Brodzky.
New York: Dim Gray Bar Press, 1996. First Edition. Wraps. Tall slim octavo (5" x 10") hand sewn into papyrus wrappers with paper title label; 8 pages. Copy #78 of 100 numbered copies of this translation SIGNED by Matthews. Accompanied by the similarly bound prospectus (3-5/8" x 5"). This satire.....
London: The Poetry Bookshop, July 1919. First Edition. wraps. Pictorial wraps. Includes poems by D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Sacheverell Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, W. H. Davies, Richard Aldington, Charlotte Mew, and others.
London: The Poetry Bookshop, January 1921. First Edition. wraps. Pictorial wraps. Includes 3 poems by Millay. Also includes poems by Aldous Huxley, Conrad Aiken, W. H. Davies, John Drinkwater, and others.
Chicago: American Medical Association, May 1947. First Edition. Wraps. Printed brown wraps; 521 - 660 pages plus ads. Includes a 4-page article by William C. Still titled "An Electroencephalographic Study of Helen Keller." Still concludes that since Keller's learning and experience is entirely tactile, the recorded differences "may be correlated.....
New York: Random House, (1958). First Edition. Spiral_bound. Uncorrected Proof in light green wraps spiralbound with a white plastic spine of the Pulitzer prize-winning poet's first novel.
New York: Manor Books Inc., 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Just what it says, a satire of Carter, when he was running for president, in the form of a coloring book; 36 pages including covers.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full green, hand-crushed and rolled Florentine morocco leather with gilt stamping on the spine and a gilt-stamped fleuron pattern on the covers copying the design of a book in the library of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Translated from.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Felix Hoffmann. Hardcover. Large octavo (7-1/8" x 11-1/8") bound in two textures of black cloth with gilt lettering and a blind-stamped design of Dracula on the front cover; 448 pages. Introduction by Anthony Boucher. Illustrated with 33 wood engravings, 8 in three-colors, by Felix.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Thomas Hart Benton. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Two quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") volumes bound in decorated grass cloth boards with rawhide spines. Designed by George Macy with introductions by Joseph Henry Jackson and Thomas Craven. The First Illustrated Edition of this Pulitzer Prize winner.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Printing. Original maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated with numerous photographs. This copy is SIGNED by the famous aviator on the blank recto of the frontispiece. Earhart's account of her transatlantic flight when she became the FIRST WOMAN TO.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. This book on the effects of pesticides is a landmark in environmental writing inspiring the movement that led to the banning of DDT and raising awareness of the important connection between humans and their environment which hitherto had been generally taken for.....
9 November 1935. Framed Letter. A short "8 x 10" handwritten letter to his secretary, Isabell Owens, SIGNED in full and dated: "This entitles my secretary Mrs. J. W. Owens to enter my appartment [sic] in the Cambridge Arms at will." Attractively matted and framed with an 8" x 10".....
London, Edinburgh & Glasgow: A. Fullarton & Co, [@1844]. First Edition. Hardcover. Two small folio (8-1/2" x 10-5/8") volumes bound in half brown morocco leather and cloth with matching leather corners, gilt-decorated and lettered spines, marbled edges. Illustrated with a steel-engraved title page and 79 steel-engraved views. Apparently lacking the.....
Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1765. First Edition. Hardcover. The First Baskerville Edition and the Eighth overall. Quarto (9-7/8" x 12-1/2") bound in original blue paper-covered boards with light green paper backing, uncut and mostly unopened; [12], [ii]-xiii, [2], 504, [18]. Gaskell 30 describes that the errata leaf is frequently missing. This.....
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1915]. First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps featuring a hand-colored block print by John Nash. Aldington's first book, a landmark of the Imagist Movement, this copy SIGNED by the poet on the verso of the cover and dated 1917.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. His fourth book. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper and pastedown and SIGNED by the poet to his friends and poets Meryl and Courtney Johnson. Jarrell has also written out the complete poem in the book, "A Sick Child"...
(New York): (Spiral Press), (1964). Antonio Frasconi. First Edition. Hardcover. Marbled boards, 5-1/2" x 7-1/2". Of a total of 500 copies, this is marked "A/C," designating this as the Artist's Copy. Nine fables illustrated with woodcuts printed from Frasconi's original blocks on handmade Goya paper from Japan.
Photograph. Attractive 8" x 10" color photograph of Carter standing before a bookcase and an American flag. SIGNED in the white margin beneath the image "Best Wishes to -- Jimmy Carter."
Photograph. An 8" x 10" photo of Belafonte with his business manager, Jay Kennedy, and another man, apparently producer Sidney Buchman, Kennedy's partner, at a restaurant table from the early to mid-1950s. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Belafonte to Kennedy: "Dad! Dad!! Dad!!! On this day we released ourselves to further.....
Photograph. A 7-5/8" x 9-5/8" photograph of a smiling composer standing over a piano INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Rodgers on the blank margin below the image: "To Arthur Sutton,/Sincerely,/Richard Rodgers." Rodgers, best known for his collaborations with lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, was a composer and lyricist of.....
Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Two folio volumes (10" x 12-1/2") bound in original decorated publisher's morocco leather. Illustrated with 87 beautiful steel engraved views, some 2 per page and with most tissue guards present, and numerous wood engravings. Images are mostly of Europe but a few.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, (1872) and (1874). First Edition. Hardcover. Two folio volumes (10" x 12-1/4") bound in original decorated publisher's morocco leather. Illustrated with 49 beautiful steel engravings, all tissue guards present, and numerous wood engravings. Images include diverse scenes from the Catskills to pre-bridge Golden Gate.....
London: George Virtue, 1842. W. H. Bartlett. First Edition. Hardcover. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in publisher's full heavily gilt-decorated dark brown morocco leather. Complete with a map, a portrait, 2 engraved title pages, and 116 steel-engraved views, all with tissue guards, by W. H. Bartlett.
