Indian Blankets and Their Makers by George Wharton James - 1937: Exceptional Copy in the Scarce Publisher's Box

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with paper labels, slipcase. 52pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Binding spine and edges ever-so-faintly sunned, else near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this slim tribute volume, boldly signed and Inscribed by Knopf in blue ballpoint on the front flyleaf: "For Carl Haverlin / with sincere regard / Anfred a Knopf / 19 January 1960." (CARL HAVERLIN,1899-1985, was a noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar, radio pioneer and president of Broadcast Music, Inc.) Scarce collection of tributes published by a group of Knopf's friends called "The Book Table," consisting of "a few each of publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, designers and producers of books and book materials." Two side-by-side rear flyleaves bear the boldly inked signatures of six of the book's ten contributors: Novelist Carl Van Vechten (who took the frontispiece portrait), critic/essayist Carl Van Doren, H.L. Mencken, New York Public Library director H.M. Lydenberg,… Read More

London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1746. Folio. An extract of pp. 467-478 of Vol. VI of the third edition of Churchill's Voyages. Bound to style in quarter leather, red leather lettering piece, gilt; marbled paper boards. A near fine copy. Translated from the High-Dutch original. Backhoff traveled from Moscow to China via Siberia in 1654. Wagener traveled throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and America. This account is taken from his diary. He was in China in 1653. The account is quite short. .

1918. Cloth bound in very good condition.. Collection of five hand books on Machine guns: Hand-Book of the Lewis Machine Gun (Airplane Type) Model 1917-18 Caliber .30, Handbook of the Lewis Machine Gun Caliber .30 Model 1917, Handbook of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun Model 1914, Handbook of the Browning Machine Gun Model 1918 (Air Cooled) & Handbook of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun Model 1917 Caliber .30 Water-Cooled, plus Manual of the Automatic Pistol Caliber .45 Model of 1911, also, Field Service Pocket Book United States Army 1917; All bound together in a custom cloth binding (6.25" x 4.75") with original owner's name at the foot of the spine.

New York: Gnome Press, 1941. A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good or Better/Very Good or Better. Very good or better in a very good or better unclipped dust jacket. First issue binding with black cloth and red lettering on spine. Pages browned as is usual due to the poor quality war-time paper that was used. Jacket is first issue with the full address of the publisher on the rear panel and 35 titles listed Wear to extremities with some loss at the corners and spine ends. . Short closed tear, difficult to see, at top of front panel.

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1931. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Reprinted from the Fourth Edition (1730), with a foreword by Prof. Albert Einstein, Nobel Laureate, and an introduction by Prof. E.T. Whittaker, F.R.S. Small octavo: xxviii, [2], 414 p. with textual figures. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Mild foxing along the edges, with some light edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. First published in 1704, Newton's Opticks provides not only a survey of 18th century knowledge about all aspects of light, but also countless number of the author's unique scientific insights.

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with paper labels, slipcase. 52pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Binding spine and edges ever-so-faintly sunned, else near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this slim tribute volume, boldly signed and Inscribed by Knopf in blue ballpoint on the front flyleaf: "For Carl Haverlin / with sincere regard / Anfred a Knopf / 19 January 1960." (CARL HAVERLIN,1899-1985, was a noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar, radio pioneer and president of Broadcast Music, Inc.) Scarce collection of tributes published by a group of Knopf's friends called "The Book Table," consisting of "a few each of publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, designers and producers of books and book materials." Two side-by-side rear flyleaves bear the boldly inked signatures of six of the book's ten contributors: Novelist Carl Van Vechten (who took the frontispiece portrait), critic/essayist Carl Van Doren, H.L. Mencken, New York Public Library director H.M. Lydenberg,… Read More

London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1746. Folio. An extract of pp. 467-478 of Vol. VI of the third edition of Churchill's Voyages. Bound to style in quarter leather, red leather lettering piece, gilt; marbled paper boards. A near fine copy. Translated from the High-Dutch original. Backhoff traveled from Moscow to China via Siberia in 1654. Wagener traveled throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and America. This account is taken from his diary. He was in China in 1653. The account is quite short. .

1918. Cloth bound in very good condition.. Collection of five hand books on Machine guns: Hand-Book of the Lewis Machine Gun (Airplane Type) Model 1917-18 Caliber .30, Handbook of the Lewis Machine Gun Caliber .30 Model 1917, Handbook of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun Model 1914, Handbook of the Browning Machine Gun Model 1918 (Air Cooled) & Handbook of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun Model 1917 Caliber .30 Water-Cooled, plus Manual of the Automatic Pistol Caliber .45 Model of 1911, also, Field Service Pocket Book United States Army 1917; All bound together in a custom cloth binding (6.25" x 4.75") with original owner's name at the foot of the spine.

New York: Gnome Press, 1941. A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good or Better/Very Good or Better. Very good or better in a very good or better unclipped dust jacket. First issue binding with black cloth and red lettering on spine. Pages browned as is usual due to the poor quality war-time paper that was used. Jacket is first issue with the full address of the publisher on the rear panel and 35 titles listed Wear to extremities with some loss at the corners and spine ends. . Short closed tear, difficult to see, at top of front panel.

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1931. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Reprinted from the Fourth Edition (1730), with a foreword by Prof. Albert Einstein, Nobel Laureate, and an introduction by Prof. E.T. Whittaker, F.R.S. Small octavo: xxviii, [2], 414 p. with textual figures. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Mild foxing along the edges, with some light edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. First published in 1704, Newton's Opticks provides not only a survey of 18th century knowledge about all aspects of light, but also countless number of the author's unique scientific insights.