The Street of Strange Faces
NY: Caxton House, 1939. 1st edition; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 303 pages; heavily toned pages else a very good, clean, tight copy in a lightly edgechipped dustjacket. More about The Street of Strange Faces
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The Yale Man Up To Date with Character Sketches
New Haven, CT: Price, Lee & Adkins Co., 1894. 16mo.; blue cloth covered, beveled edged boards with gilt decorations and lettering, hardcover; 26 pages; black and white illustrations; last 2 pages have closed tears and some writing in pencil on front free endpaper else a very good tight copy in... More about The Yale Man Up To Date with Character Sketches
La Fiesta Brava The Art Of The Bull Ring
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953. Inscribed, Signed by the author on half-title page; small 4to.; black cloth covered boards, hardcover; 184 pages; black and white illustrations and photographic illustrations; foxed endpapers else very good in edgeworn and soiled boards. More about La Fiesta Brava The Art Of The Bull Ring
A Maritime History of New York
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1941. Stated First Edition; 8vo.; blue cloth covered boards, hardcover; xvii, 341 pages; black and white illustrations; boards are rubbed on corners and heavily sunned especially on spine else very good but lacking dj. More about A Maritime History of New York
France Paris And The Provinces
Parsi, Ode for Clifford Publications, London [1944]. 16 mo.; burgundy cloth covered boards, hardcover; 462 pages; black and white and color illustrations; Gastronomy by Pierre Andrieu; Translated by Marguerite Bigot and Madeleine Blaess; Illustrated by G. Beuville, L. Fircsa, E. Grau-Sala, V. Pilon, G. De Sainte-Croix; binding is lightly shaken... More about France Paris And The Provinces
A Poppy-Garden
NY: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co. (1893). 12mo.; tan cloth covered boards, hardcover; 80 pages; black and white illustrations and frontispiece; non-authorial gift inscription on front free endpaper; boards are lightly soiled else a very good clean, tight copy. More about A Poppy-Garden
Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer’s Comrade
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co (1940). 16mo.; cloth covered boards with pictorial label paste-on, hardcover; 94 pages; red, black and white illustrations; small tear on back endpaper and boards rubbed and slightly soiled else very good. More about Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer’s Comrade
Peter Rabbit’s Christmas Book
NY: Merrimack Publishing Corp (1985). 24mo.; pictorial glossy wraps, softcover; 63 pages; color illustrations; book states “our version of the antique original”; very good. More about Peter Rabbit’s Christmas Book
Christmas Classics favorite writings for the holiday season
Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards, 1976. 32mo.; covered boards, hardcover; black and white and color illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in price clipped else very good dust jacket. More about Christmas Classics favorite writings for the holiday season
The Plaza Its Life and Times
NY: Meredith Press (1967). Stated First edition; 8vo.; blue cloth covered boards with gilt decorations and lettering, hardcover; xii, 244 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; a very good clean, tight copy in a lightly edgeworn and creased dust jacket. More about The Plaza Its Life and Times
Vermont On $500 A Day (More or Less)
Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 1987. 8vo.; glossy pictorial wraps, softcover; 119 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; very good. More about Vermont On $500 A Day (More or Less
The Twelve Principles Of Efficiency
NY: The Engineering Magazine Co., 1913. Stated Third Printing; 12mo.; maroon cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; xviii, 423 pages; former owner’s name and date on front free endpaper in lightly rubbed boards else a very good clean, tight copy. More about The Twelve Principles Of Efficiency
Hundert Gedichte
Berlin: Parkland Verlag (1988). 24 mo. cloth covered boards, small hardcover; 152 pages; pictorial endpapers; lovely color illustrations on almost every other page; German text; a very good iclean tight copy in a very good dustjacket. More about Hundert Gedichte
The Night Before Christmas
NY: William E. Rudge’s Sons for Holiday House, no date [1937]. 24mo.; pictorial boards with cloth spine; color illustrations from woodcuts by Ilse Bischoff; Design by Helen Gentry; Christmas Keepsake; non-authorial gift inscription dated 1939 else very good. More about The Night Before Christmas
New York : a portrait of the city
New York : Portrait of New York Co., 1964. Oblong 8vo.; pictorial stiff wraps with stapled binding, softcover; 46 pages; black and white and sepia photographic illustrations; wraps lightly edgeworn else very good. More about New York : a portrait of the city
Grand Central Terminal and Rockefeller Center : a historic-critical estimate of their significance
[Albany]: The Division, 1974. 4to.; pictorial stiff wraps with stapled binding, softcover; 42 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; water stain on top corner page edge and lightly edgeworn else very good. More about Grand Central Terminal and Rockefeller Center : a historic-critical estimate of their significance
La Mer (The Sea)
Canada: no place, 1989. Small 4to.; glossy blue stiff wraps with gilt lettering, softcover; color photographic illustrations; Text in French and English; lightly edgeworn wraps else very good. More about La Mer (The Sea
Mowgli’s Brothers
Mankato, MN: Creative Editions (1993). 4to.; blue cloth covered boards, hardcover; 63 pages; black and white illustrations based on woodcuts; a very good clean, tight copy in a dust jacket that has sticker remnants on front cover else very good and unclipped. More about Mowgli’s Brothers
Julian or Scenes In Judea
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1895. 8vo; red cloth covered, beveled edged boards with embossed silhouette and gilt lettering and decorations, hardcover; ix, 444 pages with deckled bottom edge and gilt top edge; black and white illustrated plates with tissue guards; top corner is bumped else a very good clean, tight copy. More about Julian or Scenes In Judea
The Practical Book of Decorative Wall-Treatments
Philadephia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1926. 8vo.; decorative cloth covered boards, hardcover; 273 deckled edged pages; includes 8 color illustrations and 206 in black and white; red stain on back cover and boards are rubbed with bumped corners else a very good clean tight copy. More about The Practical Book of Decorative Wall-Treatments
Larmes De Crocodile
Paris: Robert Delpire, no date [ca 1950s]. Oblong 48mo.; cloth backed pictorial boards, hardcover in brown “packing crate” slipcase; green, orange, black and white illustration; French text; lightly rubbed slipcase else very good. More about Larmes De Crocodile
High Rhulain
NY: Philomel Books, (2005). Stated first impression, first edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; cloth backed boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; 341 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket. More about High Rhulain
Miss Twisty Adventures in the Country
New York-Paris: Irene Valira, 1948. 4to., pictorial boards, large hardcover; black and white illustrations by Valira of the adventures of an urban artist who takes a job in the country as a farmhand; edgeworn else a very good clean tight copy. More about Miss Twisty Adventures in the Country
Aladdin U. S. A.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. 1st edition; 8vo.; xvii, 265 pages; blue cloth with gilt lettering; b&w photographic illustrations; from the dust jacket: a fascinating record of the wonderful accomplishments of electricity and of the way it has contributed to American prosperity and progress; very good in edgeworn... More about Aladdin U. S. A
Modern Furniture Making and Design
Peoria: Manual Arts Press (1939). 8vo. cloth covered boards; (viii), 160 pages; black and white illustrations and some photographic illustrations of deco furniture; sunned covers else a very good clean tight copy. More about Modern Furniture Making and Design