Best.-Nr. B296908-1Milano 1935. 220pp. 8 color lithographic plates. Prof. illus. partly color. Sm. folio. Orig. wraps. slightly worn. Journalist and politician Arnaldo Mussolini the brother of the dictator Benito Mussolini became managing director of the newspaper founded by his brother Il Popolo dItalia. He co-founded La Revista Illustrata with Manlio Morgagni published monthly as a Fascist mouthpiece. Milano, 1935. paperback books
1940Best.-Nr. 5824San Francisco Calif: Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte 1940. Large octavo 62 pages. Index. Illustrated; printed throughout in black and pale brown. Second Edition originally published under the slightly different title Famous Recipes of Famous People and issued by the Hotel del Monte without Sunset Magazine in 1936. A compilation of celebrity recipes with the recipes attributed to the famous including: Gertrude Stein John Steinbeck Walt Disney J. Edgar Hoover Rube Goldberg and many others. Also includes a section of recipes of well-known chefs of the day with a bias toward California Hotels and the west in general as well as a short section of recipes from the Hotel Del Monte. The playful illustrations by Sinclair Ross alternately reference Hollywood and the frontier West. Endpapers reproduce the autographs of many of the celebrities featured in the book. Publisher's gilt-decorated cream-colored boards near fine. In clean and bright yellow dust jacket printed in blue and orange but with several good-sized chips to the front and rear panels. Dust jacket is good only. Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte hardcover books
1996Best.-Nr. 68483Tokyo: Model Art 1996. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 118pp. Very good in publisher's wraps. Text in Japanese with some English. Model Art paperback books
1997Best.-Nr. 551319Boston: Little Brown and Company 1997. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Gray wrappers. Fine. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 595708Menlo Park California: Lane Publishing 1975. Softcover. Near Fine. Revised edition second printing. Quarto. 96pp. Pictorial wrappers. Small stain on bottom edge on rear wrapper near fine. Lane Publishing unknown books
1990Best.-Nr. 596883Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1990. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Introduction by Richard Ford. Octavo. xxii 374pp. Faint dampstain on pages and cloth boards and spine a good only copy in a good only dust jacket with corresponding dampstains visible internally. Contributions by Edward Allen Richard Bausch Madison Smartt Bell C.S. Godschalk Patricia Henley Pam Houston Siri Hustvedt Denis Johnson Dennis McFarland Steven Millhauser Lorrie Moore Alice Munro Padgett Powell Lore Segal Elizabeth Tallent Christopher Tilghman Joan Wickersham and Joy Williams. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
2007Best.-Nr. 572467Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. Introduction by Edward P. Jones. Light soiling on wrappers near fine. Advance Reading Copy. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill unknown books
2001Best.-Nr. 68139Tokyo: Model Art 2001. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 120pp. Very good in publisher's wraps. Text in Japanese. Model Art paperback books
1998Best.-Nr. 68132Tokyo: Model Art 1998. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 222pp. Pages slightly tanned else very good in publisher's wraps. Text in Japanese. Model Art paperback books
1972Best.-Nr. 81937Chicago: Henry Regnery 1972. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Fine minor scuffing to the boards lacking the dust jacket. Overflowing with photos stats and commentary on all things NFL. Henry Regnery hardcover books
Best.-Nr. B302442-1Chicago White Walls 1986. 128pp. Prof. illus. Lrg. 8vo. Self-wraps. Chicago (White Walls), 1986. paperback books
1943Best.-Nr. 107007Magizine folio illustrated 128 pp. Some cover wear edge folds on some pages not affecting text or images normal aging spine in good shape; about very good. Incredible war coverage and some great advertisements. Cover shows men carring a dead soldier with the flag over his coffin. Time, Inc. books
1971Best.-Nr. 529236Birmingham Alabama: Birmingham Publishing Company 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 400pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in a near fine spine-toned dust jacket with slight edgewear and some spotting. Birmingham Publishing Company hardcover books
1973Best.-Nr. 558782Menlo Park California: Lane Books 1973. Softcover. Near Fine. Later printing. Edited by Sherry Gellner. Quarto. 96pp. Illustrated in black and white from photographs and drawings. Illustrated cardstock wrappers. Light edgewear else near fine. Lane Books unknown books
1926Best.-Nr. 56635New York: Dial Press 1926. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Some pages uncut fine in fine dustwrapper with a few very tiny tears and nicks. Billing itself as "The First Real College Anthology" this contains what were considered the best literary works from fifteen leading mostly Eastern colleges. Among the contributions are several by Walter D. Edmonds and individual contributions by Victoria Lincoln and Clifton P. Fadiman; the rest are mostly by collegians whose literary fates have been shrouded in the mists of time. A lovely copy. Dial Press hardcover books
1849Best.-Nr. 6582London: Bradbury & Evans 1849. First edition. Good . Oblong 280 x 225 cm; 42 leaves and 40 full-page illustrated plates. Title in red and black. In half red crushed morocco over blue marbled paper boards. Doyle's passerine monogram on spine and on upper board. Red leather title label on upper board. All edges gilt. Upper joint quite tender yet holding. Marbled paper a bit scratched and worn at edges. Little or no foxing but occasional thumb marks present. Funny drawings of British people acting the part accompanied by parodies of Pepys. The drawings originally appeared in Punch and are collected here for the first time. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
1964Best.-Nr. 106887Folio Magazine illustrated photos and ads 128 pp. Mailing label some wear normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. Colorful cover featuring all of Johnson's possible running mates. Some coverages of problems in the Middle East. Life Magazine, books
1966Best.-Nr. 106690Folio magazine. illustrated ads. Mailing label on bottom of front cover lower spine a little split but spine mostly OK some normal wear; otherwise very good. Sexy picture of the lovely Loren taken in the mid 1960s. Life Magazine, books
1954Best.-Nr. 106691Folio magazine illustrated ads. Mailing label removed from the bottom of front cover some normal wear; otherwise very good. Sexy picture of Moreno which appears to be signed by her on the front cover. The magazine includes an article about her career. Life Magazine, books
1964Best.-Nr. 106692Folio magazine illustrated ads. Mailing label at the bottom of front cover some normal wear; otherwise very good. Elizabeth Taylor pictured on the front cover related to an article about her in this issue. Life Magazine, books
1926Best.-Nr. 16965New York: The Civic Press 1926. Third Annual Edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. 599pp. Decorated embossed red leather. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Minor scuffing to back board. "A Yearbook for City Town and County Officials and for All Others Interested in Municipal Progress and Public Improvement Activities." Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs charts as well as maps in color and in blue black and white. Tight copy in very good condition. The Civic Press hardcover books
1888Best.-Nr. 78737New York NY.: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1888. Softcover. This issue is soft-bound in tan wrappers with black printing on the covers and spine. The covers show light toning/soiling and wear/chipping to the edges. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations. Contains a very nice article on Columbus Ohio. . Harper & Brothers paperback books
1970Best.-Nr. 129806New York: American Heritage Publishing 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Hardcover is a nice clean copy almost new. Dustwrapper rubbed at spine ends and corners tape repair at spine ends worn. American Heritage Publishing hardcover books
1916Best.-Nr. 45997.1Sommewhere" in France: Printed and Published by Sherwood Forester & Co. Ltd 1916. 1st Printing. Printed self-wrappers wrappers heavier stock sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Signs of use age-toning some foxing. Faint vertical fold-lines. Old muslin strip laid-down along spine fold. Faint pos xxx Robertson to p. 1 top margin. Withal an About Very Good copy of this scarce war-time publication. Unpaginated though 6 pages with page 1 serving as the front cover. With partial original stamped and canceled mailing envelope to a Roberston RNAS Worthy Down Winchester Hants . Typographical embellishments. 8vo. 9-3/4" x 7-1/4" "In early 1916 the 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters was stationed in the front line at Ypres Belgium and came across a printing press abandoned by a Belgian who had in the words of the editor "stood not on the order of his going but gone." A sergeant who had been a printer in peacetime salvaged it and printed a sample page. The Wiper Times itself was named after Tommy slang pronunciation of Ypres." The title of the paper changed as did the location of the publishers. the Somme-Times said to have come from sitting in the middle of this famous battle editing the paper. Wiki / from the preface The WIPER TIMES London 1918. Publication of these trench magazines was held up after February 1918 by the German offensive on the western front in that year but at the end of the War two issues of "The Better Times" were published. The second of these was billed as the "Xmas Peace and Final Number." Wiki. All issues replete with war time humor irony & satire and serve as an example WWI British soldiers attempting to find distraction from a tedious campaign. Uncommon in the trade. Printed and Published by Sherwood, Forester & Co., Ltd unknown books
Best.-Nr. 10618Black & white illus. throughout. 64 pp. Oblong 8vo printed wrappers staple-bound. Ann Arbor MI: 1979. An interesting exhibition catalogue on envelopes exchanged within the mail art network. It opens with “Notes on Correspondence Art” by artist and Fluxus adherent Ken Friedman b. 1949 “Excerpts from A Brief History of Correspondence Art” by Mike Crane and “An Introduction to the Lightworks Envelope Show” by Charlton Burch. The show was first staged at the Ann Arbor Public Library in July 1978 and in Detroit the following May. The list of participants with their addresses includes: Ida Applebroog John Baldessari Anna Banana Peter Below Paolo Bruscky Henryk Bzdok Buster Cleveland Robin Crozier Ko de Jonge Ray di Palma John Evans Peter Frank Jochen Gerz Michael Gibbs Klaus Groh E.F. Higgins Davi Det Hompson Ray Johnson Eleanor Kent Suzanne Lacy Pawel Petasz Barbara Schmidt-Heins Jean-Paul Thenot Endre Tot Gabor Toth Horacio Zabala David Zack etc. etc. With full-page illustrations of the envelopes contributed by Banana Applebroog Cleveland etc. Near fine with the pasted-on miniature envelope still present on the upper wrapper. unknown books
