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1995réf. 17872London: Victor Gollancz. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0575061812 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Very Fine condition in Very Fine dust-jacket; Significant Others is a novel about a couple John and Jane who are trying to figure out what their relationship is and if it is still meaningful to them. John is an artist and Jane is a writer and they both find themselves at a loss for what to do with their relationship. They go on a few dates but nothing seems to be clicking for them. They are both in their early thirties and are starting to feel like their time together is running out. They decide to take a trip to Greece and while they are there they finally figure out what their relationship is and they are able to reaffirm their love for each other.; 8vo . Victor Gollancz hardcover books
1992réf. 15276New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0312082320 . A handsome first US edition/first printing in unread Near Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Tiny nick in top of front board and bump to head. Overall a nice copy; After a devastating fire destroys his home teenager Jude has to start over. Homeless and jobless Jude's spirits are broken until he meets a dying tree. The tree offers Jude shelter friendship and a new beginning. Jude forms a bond with the tree and together they start to heal the damage done by the fire.; 8vo . St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1853réf. 81247London: Chapman & Hall 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2 vols. folding map xxviii 343 viii 359p. Original publisher's brown cloth. 20 cm. Ex lib. Boston College. Library markings include internal stampings bookplates etc. as well as a library stamp on page edge and a large black rectangular mark toward bottom of both backstrips beneath which are remnants of an old label. Head of backstrip chipped on Vol. II. Contents sound and clean. Edited from Richardson's journals by Bayle St. John. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
1959réf. 81157London: School of Oriental and African Studies 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. ii 124p. Cloth. 22cm. Backstrip faded. Former owner's name. A few ink underlinings. No Jacket. Typed letter from the International African Institute to a missionary in Tanganyika about helping him get this book. School of Oriental and African Studies hardcover books
1968réf. 71211New York: Da Capo Press 1968. Hardcover. Good. xvi 478p. Red cloth. 22cm. Backstrip faded and somewhat soiled. Page corner creased in first half of book. No Jacket. Reprint of the London edition of 1784. Da Capo Press hardcover books
1861réf. 625560Philadelphia: Lee & Walker 1861. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Notched and worn along the fold from once being bound within an album as a result the insert remains bound within the bifolium a light dampstain at the top of the fore edge of the front cover with corresponding stains throughout and minor soiling throughout still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. The front cover credits the music arrangement to Wm. B. Harvey but C. Everest is credited above the music. Lee & Walker unknown books
1989réf. 235378London: Socialist Platform 1989. Magazine. 50p. wraps previous owner's name on front wrap else very good condition 8.5x11 inches. Covering the Renault strike of May 1947 in France and the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strike. Socialist Platform unknown books
1968réf. 216640New York: Christie Manson & Woods 1968. Softcover. VG-: Some wear to the edges and corners of the wraps. Half an index card with notations glued to the front cover under the title. The pages are loose from the wraps but laid in neatly. The pages remain bound together and easy to read. Yellow wraps with brown text on the front cover. 45 pages; illustrated in black-and-white. Christie, Manson & Woods paperback books
réf. 53540Tokyo 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Nearly fine. 1/1000 unnumbered copy. Quarto. Publisher's black boards dust jacket. Fine in nearly fine dj with slight wear at spine ends and some faint rubbing at extremities; The Clown puzzle fine in original shrinkwrap. Housed in publisher's photo-illustrated box with some light rubbing at the edges. This first book by Terry Richardson was published in conjunction with an exhibition for the Japanese fashion purveyors Hysteric Glamour. A notoriously decadent work but one which nonetheless blacks-out the human genitalia for Japanese aficionados: revelry cats and dogs clowns selfies when they used to be pretentiously referred to as "self portraits" -- what more could you want Signed by the photographer at the title-page. Offered with the companion jigsaw puzzle which depicts a portrait of Toe Jam the Clown also signed at the bottom corner. References: A. Roth ed. The Open Book. Göteborg Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag Göttingen Germany 2004; M. Parr & G. Badger The Photobook: A History Volume 2. hardcover books
1940réf. 36102Chicago: Albert Whitman 1940. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated dustjacket over tan cloth with photograph laid on and white lettering on cover black on spine. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Story and photographic illustrations in black and white of "a charming story with suspense a real plot and pathos acted entirely by puppets and shown in some thirty-seven superb photographs" publisher. DJ and binding with light wear along edges. DJ and binding in good interior in very good condition. Albert Whitman hardcover books
1999réf. 29656Tokyo: Little More / Masakazu Takei 1999. First edition. Softcover. vg. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original photographic wrappers. British fashion photographer Terry Richardson produces strikingly beautiful images that sit on the fine line between art and commercialism and is known for his work in W The Face ID and Vogue Hommes International. Son of Bob however explores some edgier and raunchier territory. It is a gleeful show of sex travelogue scenes of an American underbelly amorous masked and caped crusaders professional wrestling fans Harmony Korine excreta genitalia food and assorted candid portraits. These are party nights and hangover mornings an extreme display of confrontational horseplay and rude humor. Citing "America's Funniest Home Videos the amateur shots in Hustler and archival photos from family albums and portraits from school or Woolworth's" as influences Richardson combines these opposing sensibilities into a provocative documentary approach that will indeed push some buttons in addition to finding a ravenous audience. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition. Little More / Masakazu Takei unknown books
1877réf. 23337New York: Virtue & Yorston 1877. First edition. Hardcover. fair. Quarto. 3 vols. complete. VI 446 405 CCXCpp. Original red buckram with title vignettes laid on spines. Colored frontispiece in each volume. Numerous steel engraved plates some being colored. Hundreds of b/w illustrations in text. Popular account of the structure habits and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom quadrupeds birds reptiles fishes shells and insects including the insects destructive to agriculture. Bindings rubbed and soiled. Corners bumped and worn. Spines edges and title labels chipped and worn. Hinges starting. Small closed tears and chipping on edges of few pages. Sections of pages detached from book block on volume I and II but present. Text in English. Overall binding in poor interior in good condition. Virtue & Yorston hardcover books
1961réf. 10860New York: The Humanities Press 1961. g. 8vo. ix 313pp. Green covers title in gold on spine. D/j. Review copy. Good. The Humanities Press unknown books
1828réf. 72381Boston: Richardson and Lord 1828. Paperback. Good. Paperback. Unpaginated. Publisher's wraps foxed overall loss to the extremeties else good. Richardson and Lord paperback books
1975réf. 1415995David & Charles 1975. Hardcover. Octavo 231 pages. In Good condition. Purple dust jacket with blue lettering. Bumping with some material loss to jacket corners. Black boards with gilt lettering. Bumping with minor creasing to spine and corners. Binding is tight. Substantial foxing to jacket page block and page faces. Minor toning to pages. Shelved Rockville ND-M. 1415995. FP New Rockville Stock. David & Charles hardcover books
1901réf. 249757New York: Croscup & Sterling 1901. Limited. hardcover. very good. Life of the Author and Introductions by by William Lyon Phelps. 20 volumes. Illustrated. Handsomely bound in full green morocco spines faded to brown elaborated stamped in gilt with red inlays & inlaid leather doublures by Stikeman. silk moire flyleaves t.e.g. New York: Croscup & Sterling 1901. Limited Edition. Edition de Bibliophile limited to 20 named copies on hand-made Japan paper exclusively for American subscribers and the type distributed. This is the "Aaron Hill" copy Croscup & Sterling unknown books
1847réf. 41623London. 1847. A biography of Queen Louise of Prussia 1776-1810 considered both beautiful and beloved by her people written by a lady. A good portion of the book relates Louise's experiences during the Napoleonic Wars. Modern three-quarter red morocco over cloth spine gilt. Lightly rubbed at extremities. Very minor foxing to portrait. Minor soiling to titlepage. Very good. hardcover books
1903réf. 55317N.p. but likely Chicago. April 1903. Map of Wyoming Oil Lands An interesting promotional map produced by Chicago oil and real estate speculator Charles O. Richardson highlighting the oil-producing areas of Uinta County Wyoming at the dawn of the 20th century. Uinta County is located at the extreme southwestern corner of Wyoming on the border with Utah. At the time this map was produced crude oil was vitally important to both the Standard Oil Company and the Union Pacific Railroad - for the former to refine into gasoline and for the latter to lubricate locomotives. Both entities appear on the present map. The "Index" or key of the map references the first two wells of the Standard Oil Company other oil & gas wells the lands of the Standard Reserve Oil Company the lines for the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad red dashed line the Union Pacific Railroad Main Line solid red line and certain county and other roads. On the far right portion of the sheet is a large schematic cross-section showing "the stratifications of oil sand encountered" in drilling the Union Pacific Oil Well. Oil was known to exist in Wyoming long before the present map since at least the 1830s when Captain Bonneville found an oil spring near Dallas Dome. Uinta County was known to have oil near Hilliard when Fort Bridger was established nearby in 1842 both appear on the present map. Yet this map is one of the earliest depictions of the industry on a promotional piece produced when the railroad the automobile and the motorcycle created explosive demand for oil. Overall the present map is testament to the importance of southwestern Wyoming in the history of the oil industry. Wyoming still ranks in the top ten among oil-producing states in the U.S. A rare map with only four copies reported in OCLC at Yale SMU's DeGolyer Library the University of Utah and the University of Wyoming. Original folds. Slight separations at a few crossfolds few short closed marginal tears. Very good. EBERSTADT 130:609. OCLC 14191520. unknown books
1934réf. 14884Glendale Ca. 1934. An Arthur Clark Co. production. Settlement of the West including material on the Mormons Indians prospectors etc. 506pp. Maps. Cloth t.e.g. Cloth bit soiled and rubbed ownership signature. Internally fine partly unopened. ADAMS HERD 1890. HOWES R261. hardcover books
1849réf. 57547New York: William H. Richardson 1849. Scarce Mexican-American War Journal and Santa Fe Trail Overland The second printing of the third edition of this work after the very rare first edition of 1847 and the second edition of 1848. Richardson's Journal is considered one of the most reliable and valuable works on the Doniphan expedition and New Mexico during the Mexican-American War and beginning with the second edition it was accompanied by a facsimile letter written by Doniphan praising it for its accuracy. Richardson enlisted as a mounted volunteer due to patriotism engendered on the 4th of July in Carrollton Missouri. He took part in Doniphan's expedition over the Santa Fe Trail in the fall of 1846 heading south to El Paso by the first of the New Year then on to Chihuahua and eventually to Matamoros where the command shipped by boat to New Orleans. By July 10 1847 Richardson was back home in Anne Arundel County Maryland having completed a journey of over 5500 miles. The Mexican-American War is generally considered the first American war to receive extensive media coverage and public demand for news and information about the conflict was insatiable. The first edition of this fascinating and quite popular journal-cum-overland was published before the end of 1847 in Baltimore and it went through two more editions and four more printings by 1850. OCLC records this second printing of the third edition at eleven institutions and all editions are scarce in the market. Original pictorial wrappers. Slightly chipped at foot of spine. Light scattered foxing and staining. A very good copy. HOWES R262 "aa." WAGNER-CAMP 137:4. GRAFF FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 33 1st ed. CLARK II: 164. TUTOROW 2630. HAFERKORN p.50. RITTENHOUSE 480 note. SABIN 71093. unknown books
1885réf. M4136LVIn:: Scientific American Supplement No. 476 February 14 1885. 1885. 410 x 288 mm. Folio. 7602-7605 pp. Entire issue: 7591-7606 pp. Illus. Self wraps; paper lightly browned small stain on top page. Very good. This article contains the text of a lecture given to the Society of Arts London December 18 1884. It provides a short history of the subject "the lethal process" a table of anesthetic gases and vapors showing their chemical properties and 5 figures illustrating lethal chamber used in the euthanasia of animals. Richardson "spent many years in attempts to relieve pain among men by discovering and adapting substances capable of producing general or local anaesthesis and among animals by more humane methods of slaughter. He brought into use no less that fourteen anaesthetics of which methylene bichloride is the best known and he invented the first double-valved mouthpiece for use in the administration of chloroform. He also produced local insensibility be freezing the part with an ether spray and he gave animals euthanasia by means of a lethal chamber." DNB Vol. XXII Supplement p. 1170. Sir Benjamin Richardson contributed widely to the history of medicine whose important work Disciples of Aesculapius was published in 1900. See: Garrison History of medicine p. 885; Garrison and Morton 6721. In addition this issue of the Scientific American Supplement contains two articles related to anesthesia entitled "The kola-nut" and "Cultivation of the coca plant in the United States" both related the production and use of cocaine as an anesthetic agent. Scientific American Supplement, No. 476, (February 14, 1885). paperback books
1970réf. M8418New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons 1970. 1970. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. vii 323 pp. 23 figs. glossary indexes. Black cloth dust-jacket. Very good. Charles Scribner's Sons, (1970). hardcover books
1893réf. 72262Marcate: Keble Typo 1893. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 40pp. Ink name on second prelim spine darkened with some minor wear to the extremities else very good in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Keble, Typo hardcover books
1852réf. 39873New York: Harper & Brothers 1852. New York: Harper & Brothers 1852. . 516 12 adverts pp. "A Journal of a Boat-Voyage Through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea in Search of the Discovery Ships under Command of Sir John Franklin. With an Appendix on the Physical Geography of North America." Journal of Richardson's expedition down the Mackenzie River and eastward along the coast to Coppermine River. Chapters of Eskimoa Kutchin Cree and Chipewayan Indians. - Arctic Bib 14489. This is the American edition of a book first published in London the year before. The text is identical but it does not have the plates of the English edition. Text foxed original cloth binding faded. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
réf. 39153RICHARDSON C.J. PICTURESQUE DESIGNS FOR MANSIONS VILLAS LODGES. London: Atchley 1870. 8vo. Publisher's cloth top edge gilt. Frontispiece ii vi 402 4 pages. First edition. Published a year prior Richardson's death Picturesque Designs contains plans for cottages villas and mansions. As a working architect many of these homes were actually built. Although atypical of prevailing Victorian designs Picturesque Designs was very popular reprinted in England and America under this title and as The Englishman's House. Professionally rebacked with original spine used as an overlay else very good. 39153. unknown books
