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1880rif. 32771Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1880. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with black leaf pattern stamping. 419pp. Very good. Slight bit of mild edgewear; front inner hinge delicate but archivally strengthened. First edition probable first printing. BAL 9589. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
1999rif. 007924Boston: Bulfinch Pr. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Bulfinch Pr. 1999 first printing. Folio 10 3/4" x 12 1/4" 232pp. illustrated with 145 duotones and 30 color photographs. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. . Near Fine. Hard. 1st. 1999. Bulfinch Pr unknown
2000rif. 004415Harry N. Abrams Inc. New York 2000. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 256 pp. 231 illus. 222 in full color. Small gift inscription on inside ffep otherwise a fine copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Portland Art Museum Portland OR February 19-May 31 2000 and the Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth TX July 2-October 1 2000. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York Hardcover
1912rif. 7975N.Y.: Current Literature. Very Good. 1912. Reprint of the Fulton Ed. Hardcover. 7 volumes; 8vo; light brown cloth with dark brown spine labels lettered in gilt; each volume with tissue frontis and text illustrations including drawings and photographs. Minor snags to tops of four spines. Including: The Alhambra; Astoria; Bracebridge Hall; Knickerbocker's New York; Sketch Book Abbotsford; Tales of a Traveler; Wolfert's Roos and other Stories Newstead Abbey. . Current Literature hardcover
1971rif. 9507Near Fine HC no DJ. Black cloth over boards blue spine panels with gilt stamped titles. Bright clean square covers and spine; very faintly shelf-scuffed; tightly bound; bright crisp clean interior. 8vo 555 pp. Benjamin Blom. New York hardcover
2003rif. A00144Albany New York: Albany Institute of History & Art 2003. Paperback. Fine. . 57p. softcover. Color reproductions throughout. Includes the essays "Where's Lilith" by Ken Johnson and "Richard Callner: Artist and Mythmaker" by Tammis K. Groft. Albany Institute of History & Art paperback
1912rif. 38475Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1912. Hardcover. Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Small 8vo. Grey cloth with white lettering and blue decorative and pictorial stamping. 457pp 3pp ads. Color frontispiece 3 full-page color plates map endpapers. Very good. Faintest of edgewear. A tight quite nice first edition of this highly-regarded Civil War fiction with bright and sharp Wyeth color plates. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
2006rif. 0008870Minneapolis Institute Of Art 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 4to 352 pages pictorial boards; translucent printed jacket a bit torn "Vermillion Editions Limited of Minneapolis was a major player in the resurgence of print-making that began taking place in America after World War II - Foreword." Abundantly illustrated it has biographies of its various artists and is a catalogue of their productions. Minneapolis Institute Of Art hardcover
rif. 23946Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press 1965. 80pp. index pp. brown cloth 8vo: ex lib. copy; text has been rebound in sturdy library buckram w/usual markings from a deletion; final two index pp. have been removed; else a clean and complete copy Civil War letters by the Georgia lawyer and farmer Montfort 1823-62. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press hardcover
1995rif. 9444Cheney WA: Eastern Washington University Press 1995. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Green cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Eastern Washington University Press, hardcover
1979rif. 18012Austin TX: Great American Publishing Co. 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. 11.3x8.8x0.8in. Inscribed by Authors. not issued with a dust jacket price guide laid-in; gift inscription in addition to inscription by one of the authors Tom Martin. A wonderful reference with chapters on: Frontier Holsters and Belts John A. Kopec; Spurs Robert O'Dell; Cowboy Chaps John A. Kopec; Cowboy Cuffs Robert O'Dell; The Western Saloon Roger Baker; Gambling in the Old West Robert Doyle; The Express Companies Tom Martin; Advertising Jim Cope; Western Photography Emory A. Cantey Jr.; Rusty Relics John A. Kopec; and The Badge John Bates. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 192pp 2.39lb 11.3x8.8x0.8in Great American Publishing Co. hardcover
1900rif. DEMO015089IBaltimore: John Murphy Company 1900. First edition. printed wrappers. Good . 8vo 77 pages chipped printed wrappers light waterstain on bottom edge Prof. Krapp's doctoral dissertation. A later history of the legend of St. Patrick's Purgatory. Also gives a typical example of the later forms of the legend in the " Vision of William Staunton" here edited for the first time from the two manuscripts of the "Vision" in the British Library. John Murphy Company unknown
2000rif. 204652Tokyo Japan: Imperial Household Agency 2000. Softcover. VG exlib with sticker on spine embossed stamp on title page. Color illustrated wraps red and white with black and blue text. 3 4-119 pp. features many bw and color illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Sannomaru Sh z kan Feb. 27-Apr. 9 2000 in commemoration of the 400 years of relations between Japan and the Netherlands. Text in Japanese and English. Imperial Household Agency paperback
1961rif. 6446London: Abelard-Schuman 1961. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth price-clipped dust jacket. 254pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a trifle edgeworn. Handsome first edition of this author's first book a tale of the American Dream set in small town Illinois. Nicely inscribed by the author on the title page "To HVP a salt-of-the- / earth person who helped break / me in at Compton's. / With all best wishes / Don Lawson." Lawson served as managing editor of "Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia.". Abelard-Schuman hardcover
2000rif. 010004NY: Norton. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Norton 2000 first printing. 4to. 10 1/4" x 11 1/4" 226pp. illustrated with 200 duotone photographs. Black cloth with silver spine titles. "Jack Leigh has been quietly documenting the people and the landscape of the Southeastern coast a region steeped in history and tradition. The Land I'm Bound To is the photographer's tribute to the richly diverse culture of his native region. His subjects range from solitary oystermen working the fog-shrouded salt marshes of South Carolina to shrimp fishermen at sea to the swamps and marsh flats along Georgia's Ogeechee River." Fine in fine dust jacket. . Fine. Hard. 1st. 2000. Norton unknown
1857rif. 23896Paris: Librairie De Firmin Didot Freres. Fair. Hardcover. 495 pages. Half-leather binding binding is in good condition tiny tear in the cloth. Tiny sticker on the front boards that states "Landy Bookbinde Kilkenny" Former owner's name inside on the title page. Endpapers have some soiling back endpapers have red colored embossing residue in the back. Frontispiece. French text. Text is clean page edges are discolored with a dark area on one side. The author aka Germaine de Steel or Anne Louise Germain de Stael-Hostine was a political and literary intellectual. This novel "Corrine of Italy" Corrine Out L'Italie" had a huge impact on women readers outside of France. Corinne’s heroine broke the mold as a woman and as an artist; she was beautiful imperious highly strung and emotionally vulnerable" . 1857. Librairie De Firmin Didot Freres hardcover
1994rif. 76ccHarvil / Harper Collins 1994. Hardcover. As New/Fine. The jacket is lightly shelf rubbed.Clean.Excellent binding.As new.S.K. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Harvil / Harper Collins hardcover
1945rif. 10068Paris: Editions de la Table Ronde. Near Fine. 1945. Softcover. TEXT IN FRENCH. Number 1034 of 1800 copies. 241pp.; 4to; printed creme wrappers; 6 plates with tissue guards; 2 facsimiles. Bottom of spine chipped. Small blue "emoji" handstamp leading top corner front endpaper. . Editions de la Table Ronde paperback
rif. 63-6727Chicago: Mary Janzen Wilson 1974. Three Typed Letter Sized Pages Stapled. Very Good with minor creasing.Provenance: Frederick G. Ruffner. Chicago: Mary Janzen Wilson, 1974. unknown
1951rif. 000796Jamaica: Instiitute of Jamaica 1951. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Technical coverage of geology of Jamaica. A VERY GOOD COPY FIRST PRIINTING. Includes photos tables and maps.There are two separate maps approx 27 in x 27 in which are folded in a pocket attached to the rear pastedown. Some wear to the soft covers and chipping of spine but still very good. Instiitute of Jamaica Paperback
1947rif. 000304Privately Printed 1947. Book. Soft cover. Privately printed essay on Hesse by the scholar Matzig. IN GERMAN LANGUAGE some darkening of the cover edges still NEAR FINE COPY SIGNED BY MATZIG AND NUMBERED on rear colophon page. Privately Printed paperback
1908rif. 16715Philadelphia PA: Stan V. Henkels 1908. 1st. Soft cover. Very Good. 10.9x8.2x0.6in. red cancel on plates; tiny chipping to head of spine. 908 lots are described 21 illustrated as reduced facsimiles on full-page plates. 93pp 1.16lb 10.9x8.2x0.6in Stan V. Henkels paperback
1937rif. 10717New York: J.B. Lippincott Company 1937. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii 248pp. Very good/very good. Bookplate on front pastedown; minor jacket edgewear. First edition tight and attractive. J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover
2002rif. G0021Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Light wear at corner tips. nice color plates text mostly in Japanese except the essay in English "A Survey of the Ceramic Designs by Masahiro Mori" written by Masanori Moroyama and the List of Works in the exhibition which is also in English. National Museum of Modern Art paperback
2001rif. 043915Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 2001 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition. In the her tenth collection the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship Alice Munro achieves new heights creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager's practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his wife's nursing-home romance. Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage is Munro at her best tirelessly observant serenely free of illusion deeply and gloriously humane. McClelland & Stewart hardcover
