The Raccoon and Mrs. McGinnis.
New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1971. First printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. 45. Color illustrations. More
New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1971. First printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. 45. Color illustrations. More
London: Ginn & Co. Ltd., 1961. Second Printing. Decorated Boards. 12mo, pp. 154. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Fold-out map glued to back cover. An exciting adventure story based on historical accounts of the vikings. More
New York: W.I. Pooley, 1855. First edition. Half-Leather over pictorial boards. 12 Mo, pp. 216, illustrated w/ 20 b/w engravings (designs by Billings, engraved by Tarbell). Very scarce in this condition! More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1859. Twenty-ninth edition. Leather over Boards. 12 mo (5 1/2 X 6 1/2), pp. 172, illustrated with 126 engravings and 20 maps, 4 hand-colored. More
Tokyo: Fukuinkan, 1968. First edition thus. Staplebound Wraps. Oblong Octavo, pp. 27, richly illustrated w/ colr and b/w drawings. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1909. First edition. Decorated Boards. Oblong Octavo, pp. 18. Color illustrations. More
Chicago: The Crimson Press, 1934. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 57, illustrated w/drawings & fold-out color chart. Important work on color aesthetics & psychology by its most competent scholar. More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1973. First edition thus. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 255, illustrated w/ color and b/w plates, includes facsimile of first American edition, 1879. More
London: Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd., n.d. (ca. 1930s). Boards. Octavo, pp. 768 plus 13 pages of ads. Illustrated with 300 b/w images and 16 color plates. A classic British cookbook, released in numerous editions over the years. Mrs. Beeton was a household name, the Fannie Farmer of her day..... More
New York: R. Ranhofer, 1905. Second edition. Original Pebbled Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Lettering. Quarto, pp. 1183. Indexed, illustrated with 800 b/w plates. A very nice copy of the second edition of this popular, self-published cookbook by the former chef of Delmonico's. Contains over 500 complete bills of fare..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1982. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. xxi, 755, indexed. More
Budapest: ICOM, 1986. First edition. Boards. octavo. pp 774. contains terms and expressions useful and important in museum work and science. in 20 languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Esperanto, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Netherlandish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Serbo-croatian, Slovak, and Swedish. More
Assen: Van Gorcum & Comp. N.V., 1959. First edition. Original Black Cloth. 12 mo (5 1/4 X 7 3/4), pp. 273, indexed, frontis engraving, text in Dutch, dictionary in Dutch and Yiddish. An uncommon compendium of Jewish-Dutch proverbs. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. using text of fourth edition. Glossy Pictorial Cover. Octavo, pp. 938, not illustrated. Just what the optometrist ordered! More
Dublin: S. Powell and sold by G. Ewing, 1729. First edition. Cloth over Boards (crimson linen from early 20th century). 12mo; 57 pp (in 4s). With the two fold-out tables after p. 20, but lacking two tables after p. 30. an important and famous (and scarce) book. Despite the two..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. xiv, 427, indexed, ephemera laid in. Ex-library Franziska Porges Hosken (1919 - 2006), with her ownership stamp (Viennese born, Smith College and Harvard School of Design educated - one of the first women to do an advanced degree with Gropius..... More
New York: Reinhold, 1946. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 254, indexed, illustrated w/ b/w photographs. More
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, Bookseller, 1964. Second Printing. Cloth over Boards. Large Quarto, Vol 1 pp. 414, vol 2 pp. 397, vol 3 pp. 397.Ex-lib. Set includes three volumes of this catalogue of holdings. Volume 1 contains the Catalogue through 1776, Volume 2 contains the Catalogue from 1777-1817, and..... More
London: Printed by William Todd, 1805. First edition. Professionally rebound in half leather over green boards. Octavo, pp. 308. Original first edition, not a reprint or print on demand edition. For a fuller description, and for images, consult my website. More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1826. Third edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 184. The text of three letters to the Edinburgh Weekly Journal by Sir Walter Scott, defending the issuing of Scottish bank notes. An important historical text. More
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 253, indexed. More
Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1880. First edition. String Bound Stiff Wraps. Large Octavo, pp. 16 plus introductory solicitation pages. Loose page on Penmanship, Grammar in Rhyme, Multiplication Table, Numeration chart, and Federal Money included. A rare first issue of this late 19th century monthly children's magazine, meant to provide..... More
New York: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1921. First edition. Rebound in library buckram. Octavo, pp. 375, indexed, illustrated w/drawings & frontis engraved portrait of Westinghouse (1846-1914), noted American inventor and manufacturer who invented the air brake and automatic railroad signal devices. More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1947. First edition. Cloth over Boards. 12 Mo (5 x 7 1/2), pp. 128, indexed, illustrated w/ b/w drawings. More
1973. in cardboard package, but loose sheets and panels. quarto. 9 panels and 2 introductory pages. illusion illustrations. rare. Very uncommon exhibition catalog. Appears to be a technological, almost neurological or cognitive look art art and illusion. Interesting piece. More