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1978ref. 37926Newcastle: Blue Oak Press 1978. First trade paperback printing. 105 pp. Two light stains to frontx cover inked notes to recto of last leaf; in all very good in printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Everson on the half-title page “For Sylvia Smith / Best wishes / Bill Everson / May 24 79 / Newcastle.” Newcastle: Blue Oak Press paperback books
1988ref. 19328Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1988. First edition. x 246 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a smudge to the front flap and some light tanning to spine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, unknown books
2003ref. 49666San Francisco CA: Pomegranate 2003. Near Fine/Very Good. San Francisco CA: Pomegranate 2003. First Edition with full number line. Quarto 28.5cm; publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; x116pp.; halftone and full color illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket margins else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed on title page "To Betty w/ heart Betye Saar / 2007." Additionally signed by David C. Driskell. Wonderful art monograph of the late "premier assemblage artist" Betye Saar 1926-2026. "Visiting the racial stereotypes of white artists and illustrators of the past and recasting and changing these racially derisive images into an invasive metaphor for black power is one of the acts of empowerment that Saar has successfully accomplished within the boundaries of cultural subversion" from Driskell's foreword p. vi. Pomegranate unknown books
1995ref. 9032869New York: Weatherhill/Phoenix Art Museum 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Introduction by Pfeiffer director of Frank Lloyd Wright archives. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with spine stamped in gilt cover blind stamped. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Fine except for light stain to bottom inch of spine slight ripple to bottom edge of first twenty pages. 10 x 10 1/4 inches. 313 pages. Weatherhill/Phoenix Art Museum hardcover books
1939ref. 65520New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1939. First edition. 8vo. xxii 2 533 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates line drawings maps. Record book for the largest species of various North American big game animals. Contributors to the text include John C. Phillips Henry Shoemaker. Grancel Fitz James L. Clark Jack O'Connor Carl Rungius Belmore Brown and Kermit Roosevelt among others. Ownership signature of Heyward Cutting on the front endpaper and with his pencil markings in the rear section noting his three recorded trophies of American brown bears taken in Alaska in 1917; Cutting 1890-1926 from a well-to-do New York family earned an early reputation as an explorer and sportsman but was killed in an automobile crash at 35. Very good copy with an excellent association. Original gilt-stamped decorated rust cloth. 6908. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1939ref. 65519New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1939. First edition. 8vo. xxii 2 533 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates line drawings maps. Record book for the largest species of various North American big game animals. Contributors to the text include John C. Phillips Henry Shoemaker Grancel Fitz James L. Clark Jack O'Connor Carl Rungius Belmore Brown and Kermit Roosevelt among others. Inscribed in the year of publication by Bob Bartlett who contributes the 6-page essay "Hunting the Polar Bear" and the 3-page essay "Hunting the Walrus"; Bartlett 1875-1946 was an award-winning artic explorer who commanded the SS Roosevelt on Robert Peary's attempts to reach the North Pole cf. Wikipedia for a short biography. Very good copy with an excellent association. Original gilt-stamped decorated rust cloth illustrated dust jacket. 11266. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1676ref. 020566Paris: Claude Barbin and Simon Benard 1676 & 1677. First Edition. Hardcover. Library stamp on title and first page of dedication no other markings; binding a bit worn spine chipped with partial loss of spine label. Good example of a scarce book. Small octavo 3-3/4" x 6-1/4" in calf; xxxviii 341 17; xvi 71pages. In the 1670s there was a heated debate among Paris intellectuals concerning whether inscriptions for a proposed triumphal arch in honor of Louis XIV should be in Latin or French. In the first work the author one of the first members of the Academy of Inscriptions argues in favor of the use of French for the inscription. Lucas in his work argues for Latin to be used. In the end the arguments were for naught. While there are four triumphal arches still standing in Paris this particular arch was never constructed. Claude Barbin and Simon Benard hardcover books
2002ref. 9026967Minneapolis: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2002. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Presentation signed by Jim Dine to the curator of prints at the Minneapolis Iinsitute of Arts on the half title page. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with the front cover stamped in blind and the spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts hardcover books
1988ref. 9025405New York: Houghton Mifflin 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter white cloth and tan boards with the spine stamped in gilt. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1848ref. 61797London: David Bogue 1848. First edition. 12mo. viii 153 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings cut of fish vignettes etc. frontispiece plate of hand-colored flies. Heckscher 357. With an old Liverpool subscriber's library label on the front pastedown; still a very good copy. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth spine ends somewhat worn with gilt-stamped illustrated spine dull. 8708. David Bogue unknown books
1922ref. 9022354New York: D. Appleton 1922. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in the publisher's original brown cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt which has faded but is legilble. Rubbed at the edges and extemities spine and front board chipped at the heel. From the library of R.S. Crane with his signature in pen on the ffep. D. Appleton hardcover books
1954ref. 60628Newport RI: Preservation Society of Newport County 1954. First edition 1/2000 copies. 4to. xiii 216 2 pp. Illustrated portraits plates. Primarily considers furniture including clocks paintings especially portraits and silverware. Very good. Orig. blue-green cloth gilt spine title. #7706. Preservation Society of Newport County unknown books
1980ref. 9010756New York: George Braziller 1980. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped. George Braziller hardcover books
1994ref. 9010757Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Second printing. Author's first book. Milkweed Editions hardcover books
1937ref. 56454East Aurora NY: Roycrofters 1937. First edition. 12mo. 34 pp. Illustrated from photographs ten plates map. Carpenter's 1936 Kenyan safari led by white hunters Donald Ker and Sidney Downey hunting buffalo rhinoceros lion and other game. Czech African Hunting p. 32: "This privately printed work was undoubtedly published in a very small quantity." Original gilt-stamped patterned brown boards ribbon marker. Front joint a little rubbed but a very good untrimmed copy mostly unopened. 2817. Roycrofters unknown books
2003ref. 9006951New York: Simon & Schuster 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. 352 pp. Bound in paper covered boards with the spine stamped in silver. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1934ref. 41286Savannah GA: Review Printing Co 1934. Oblong 4to. 43 pp. printed double-page Chinese style. Original cloth-backed printed boards; paper browned else very good. First edition "souvenir edition" #35 of an unspecified limited edition. An alphabet book of Georgia history told in rhyme it is the "first book printed on newsprint made from Georgia Pine Pulp; cover printed on paper made from Georgia cypress." OCLC locates 12 copies but only three outside Georgia Library of Congress Brown Virginia. Review Printing Co unknown books
1987ref. 9002597Ontario: Camden House 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Ernie Sparks. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and in color. Bound in the publisher's original cream cloth with the title stamped in silver on the spine. Camden House hardcover books
2022ref. RREZSYN00drpSynth History 2022. Fine. Reznor Trent. Synth History Issue 2. Carpenter John; Sato Hiroshi; Slim Fatboy; A-Trak. NP: Synth History 2022. 155pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine with small sticker on rear cover. A collection of interviews with a number of well known and not so well known creators and their use of synths and creative processes. Synth History paperback books
2004ref. RCARFOR00araNew American Library 2004. Very Good. Carpenter Scott. For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut. Stoever Kris. New York: New American Library 2004. 371pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing and bumping. Signed by Carpenter to previous owner on title page. New American Library paperback books
1979ref. UONEEUG01acmfTwayne Publishers 1979. Good. O'Neill Eugene. Eugene O'Neill. Carpenter Frederic I. Boston: Twayne Publishers 1979. 192pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Good with yellowed edges. Pocket in rear endsheet. Twayne Publishers hardcover books
1988ref. UCARGEN00drpHoughton Mifflin Harcourt 1988. Very Good. Carpenter Humphrey. Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1988. 246pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Maroon 1/4 cloth. Book condition: Very good with bumped corners. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with rubbed edges. In DJ protector. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover books
2010ref. UWOOSEL00acmfUniversity of Nebraska 2010. Very Good. Woodhull Victoria. Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull. Carpenter Cari M. Lincoln Nebraska: University of Nebraska 2010. 337pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping. Paper from publisher laid in. University of Nebraska paperback books
1991ref. UCARENC00fpFacts on File 1991. Very Good. Carpenter Allan. The Encyclopedia of the Far West. New York: Facts on File 1991. 544pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly bumped. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Edges lightly bumped. Facts on File hardcover books
1988ref. UCARSER00tpmFaber and Faber 1988. Very Good. Carpenter Humphrey. A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound. London: Faber and Faber 1988. 1005pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently bumped edges. In dust jacket protector. Faber and Faber hardcover books