(1981).. (1981).. Good. - Quarto, 12 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled black wraps. 12 pages, profusely illustrated throughout in color and black & white. There are several pinholes through the 4 corners of the program. Good.
Includes an essay entitled "The Police and the 'Golden Age of Saturn'" and playful biographies of Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers. View More...
Circa [1890].. [1890].. Very good. - sc The 7 inch high by 9 inch wide brightly colored image is cut out from an unknown original source, possibly a promotional hand-out, and mounted onto corrugated board. A few tears within the image are thus reinforced by the mount. A small piece is out from the front of the engine. The superb image depicts the elevated over a busy City street, where pedestrians stroll next to horsedrawn carriages and the horsedrawn Harlem 4th Ave R.R.C. trolley. Attractively framed under glass. View More...
Kenosha, WI: Samuel Lowe Company, circa [1945].. [1945].. Good. - Oblong quarto, stapled color pictorial wraps. Lightly soiled & chipped with the bottom corners lightly creased. [12] leaves, including 4 leaves of figures & objects depicted in color to be cut out & pasted onto 8 leaves of B&W outlined shapes. The B&W leaves are darkened with 2 small pencil notations on 1 of them; there is a tiny chip out of the front edge of each of the last 2 leaves. Good. View More...
Circa, [1910].. [1910].. Very good. - sc A 9-3/4 inch high by 7 inch wide Japanese color woodblock print for fabric designs. The print consists of 2 woodblock illustrations, one depicts yellow berries on colorful fans floating on swirling black & white water with white leaves, the other is of colorful geometrical shapes & leaves. Annotations in Japanese calligraphy are printed at the right of the top illustration and above the bottom image. Stab marks along the right edge of the print, not affecting the images, would indicate that this print was once bound. There is some slight soiling and cre... View More...
Circa, [1910].. [1910].. Very good. - sc A 9-3/4 inch high by 7 inch wide Japanese color woodblock print for fabric designs. The print consists of 2 woodblock illustrations, one depicts fragile plants and fronds on a black background, the other colored spheres with radiant beams on a black background. Annotations in Japanese calligraphy are printed at the right of the top illustration and above the bottom image. Stab marks along the right edge of the print, not affecting the images, would indicate that this print was once bound. A beautiful and delicate color woodblock print mounted with archi... View More...
Mexico: (Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia), 1946.. 1946.. Good. - Small quarto, 9-3/8 inches high by 7 inches wide. Softcovers, bound in color pictorial tan wraps titled in red & black with a color illustration on the front cover. The covers are creased and darkened. 11 pages of text are followed by a color plate and 94 pages of photographic illustrations. The endpapers are slightly foxed and one signature is pulled. Good. View More...
New Haven, CT: Yale University Library, 1960.. 1960.. Very good. - Octavo, cloth titled in gilt. Slightly dusty. 522 pages. Illustrated with black & white facsimiles. Near fine.
New York: Hotel Booklet Company, (1912).. (1912).. Very good. - Octavo, 7-1/4 inches high by 2-3/4 inches wide. Softcovers bound in white wraps illustrated and decorated in red and black. The top corner of the rear cover is creased. 40 pages, with photographic illustrations and a folding map of the united States and lower Canada depicting quality hotels throughout the US and Montreal. Very good. View More...
[Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa], 1994.. 1994.. Fine. - Octavo, six-page tri-fold with photographic portraits and a tipped-in paper sample. Near fine. View More...
Wien: Hugo Heller & Cie, 1915.. 1915.. Fair. - Small quarto [7-1/4 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in decorative tan & green wraps designed by Grete Wolf. The binding is bumped, rubbed & soiled with a stain to the rear wrap. There is a progressively darker stain to the front margin of each of the last 9 leaves, slightly overlapping the text. There are additional small stains & light soiling & there are tiny tears & a crease to be bottom margin of pages 13/14. A number of page corners are bumped. Good.
Later printing. The text is in German. View More...
(U. K.: B. B. Ltd.), circa [1955].. [1955].. Good. - Octavo, color pictorial wraps. There are light scoremarks [imprint of writing] on the front wrap & the corners of the wraps are lightly creased. [10] pp., including inside wraps. 4 color illustrations & textual illustrations in B&W. The edges of the pages are very slightly darkened & the top page corners are lightly creased. Very good.
Two children and their terrier go for a picnic on the beach. View More...
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972.. 1972.. Very good. - Quarto [12-3/4 inches high by 10-1/2 inches wide], white buckram, in a dust wrapper. The book is housed in a gray cardboard slipcase. The binding is lightly bumped. There is a small dent to the spine & the tail of the spine & the bottom corner of the front cover are lightly stained. The dust jacket is rubbed & lightly chipped. The slipcase is darkened with some light staining. [v] & 217 illustrations, most of them full- or double-page in color and black & white. A folding list of the illustrations in Chinese is tipped onto the rear en... View More...
Compiled by Order of the Consistory, 1896.. 1896.. Fair. - Quarto, 11-3/4 inches high by 9-1/2 inches high. Pebbled burgundy cloth titled & decorated in gilt on the front cover. The covers are rubbed and faded along the edges and the spine. The corners and head and tail of the spine are worn with some chipping and pieces of cloth out from the spine. A numbered label is affixed to the bottom of the front cover. 93 & [1] pages, with profuse illustrations throughout, including 12 full-page plates. Ex-library, withdrawn by the Minnesota Historical Scoiety with their canceled bookplate on the front... View More...
London, Paris and New York: Cassell, Peter, Galpin & Co., circa, [1880].. [1880].. Good. - Octavo, pictorial green cloth illustrated in black on front cover with the illustration of a man of Asian appearance looking through a telescope. Titled in green within a gilt fan on the front cover, and in gilt on spine. The covers are rubbed and bumped with some wear to head & tail of the spine. 160 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, pictorial headpieces 3 full-page plates and textual illustrations. The leaves are slightly soiled, and a small piece is clipped out from the bottom co... View More...
Zurich: L'Art Ancien S.A. / Bern: Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1968.. 1968.. Very good. - Large octavo, tan decorative wraps. Spine & extremities darkened. Unnumbered pages & 27 pp. of B&W illustrations. Also with full-page & textual illustrations in the body of the catalogue. Very good.
750 items are catalogued. The text is in German. View More...
New York: 1886.. 1886.. Fair. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial tan & black wraps. The wraps are bumped, rubbed & soiled. The front wrap is chipped around the edges with a long tear & crease to the top edge & with small pieces out, affecting the titling. There are several light stains to the wrap, affecting several letters of the titling. 26 & [2] pages. The front edges of several leaves are lightly chipped & the bottom page corners are bumped. Some page edges are slightly darkened. The contents are good. The illustrations on the wraps depict the University of the City of New York, the U... View More...
Chicago/NY: M. A. Donohue & Company, circa [1920].. [1920].. Fair. - Small quarto, tan tape backed paper-covered pictorial boards (soiled; paper chipped along front edges with small pieces out). 24 pages (pages darkened with top half detached from staple; front pastedown stained; small stains to title page; illustration on verso of title partially colored by a child). Color pictorial front pastedown, B&W vignettes on title & verso of title, & 10 full-page illustrations, 3 of them in color. Fair.
The color plates illustrate wolves, the red deer and a kangaroo. View More...
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Co., circa [1945].. [1945].. Good. - Quarto, 12 inches high by 9-7/8 inches wide. Softcover, color pictorial stiff wraps. The covers are rubbed and slightly soiled, with a couple of small chips at edges. The spine has early brown vinyl tape repair. Capital and lower case alphabets and numbers are printed on the pastedowns. 12 pages printed on linen, illustrated with 10 full-page and one double-page color lithograph, with caption. Stated "Indestructible" by the publisher on the front cover, the contents have but a few minor creases and minor soilin... View More...
Akron, OH: The Saalfield Pub. Co., circa [1930].. [1930].. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial simulated linen wrappers [Linentex]. There is some staining to the top & bottom edges of the rear wrap. [6] pages, including inside wraps, printed in blue ink on Linentex. 3 textual illustrations in blue & 2 full-page color illustrations. There are 2 tiny pink stains to the inside front wrap & 1 small, light stain to the inside rear wrap. There is a gift inscription with dates of the school year 1931-1932 at the top of the inside front wrap. Very good. The games included are baseball, ... View More...
Washington, DC: The United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, [1920].. [1920].. Good. - Small quarto, 10-3/8 inches high by 8 inches wide. Softcover, bound in dark green wraps printed & decorated in tan. The wraps are rubbed & lightly soiled & chipped around the edges with pieces out. [41] pages. Profuse full-page illustrations in brown & white. There is some light soiling & creasing to the contents. Good. Scarce.A wonderful pictorial book issued in the years following the First World War depicting the amenities on ships flying the American flag. These include ships of The Uni... View More...
