Pebble in the Sky by Asimov, Isaac - 1990

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly wrinkled and rubbed.. 1984. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0374282471 . Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Signed "Roman Edith Vishniac" on front flyleaf. Edith was Vishniac's wife. 179 photo reproductions. This book represents but a fraction of the photographs of Jewish village life which Vishniac took on various trips to Ruthenia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other parts of Eastern Europe in the 1930s. Vishniac sewed many of the negatives in the lining of his clothes when he came to the US in 1940, and others were safeguarded by his father while in hiding in France during World War II. Vishniac died in 1990. ; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 179 pages .

London: James Fraser. Good; Wear to head and foot of spine, two stains on front boards, foxing . and dampstaining to first and last several leaves, penciled gift . inscription on front free endpaper.. 1831. First Edition. Leather. Halfbound in red leather with red cloth boards. Author name and flourishes stamped in gilt on spine. xi, 320 pp. List of subscribers at front with several printed names pasted in and some stains. According to Wikipedia, William Lewis (1787-1870) was a noted English chess player and instructor, as well as the first person to be described as a chess Grandmaster. He was also one of the operators hidden inside the famous chess-playing automaton, "The Turk", when it toured London. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: HarperCollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0061180092 . Signed by Sendak and Parker in black marker on half-title.The Kraken Edition, edited by Melville scholar Hershel Parker. Illustrated in color by the late Caldecott Medalist Maurice Sendak. xlvi, 449pp. An illustrated “reconstruction of the text that Melville delivered to Harper & Brothers early in January 1852, just as some of the most devastating reviews of Moby-Dick were appearing”, which Melville spitefully revised with criticism of American literary life after receiving a less-than-rosy contract with his publishers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Illustrator .

San Francisco: Chronicle Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. 9780877015284 . Brown cloth. Color photographs, flytyers bibliography, and flytyers address book and index. A discussion of flytying as an art and a science with 43 practicing artisans, and with information on fly-tying materials, design, and craft. Signed by flytyer Dick Talleur, and inscribed by flytyers Cathy & Barry Beck. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 128 pages .

NY: Simon and Schuster. Very Good; Remainder mark on bar code on rear cover.. 2000. Third Printing. Hardcover. 0689840195 . Eight pop-ups depicting landmarks and cultural icons of Brooklyn, New York. Developed by the Brooklyn Public Library and Movable Book Society on the occasion of the exhibition Brooklyn Pops Up: The History of the Movable Book. Pop-ups by Maurice Sendak, Robert Sabuda, David A. Carter and Tor Lokvig, Bruce Foster, Ken Wilson-Max and Keith Finch, Biruta Akerbergs Hansen, Iain Smyth, Chuck Murphy, and Kees Moerbeek and Carlia Dus. All pop-ups and mechanicals are clean and crisp and in good working condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: James Fraser. Good; Wear to head and foot of spine, two stains on front boards, foxing . and dampstaining to first and last several leaves, penciled gift . inscription on front free endpaper.. 1831. First Edition. Leather. Halfbound in red leather with red cloth boards. Author name and flourishes stamped in gilt on spine. xi, 320 pp. List of subscribers at front with several printed names pasted in and some stains. According to Wikipedia, William Lewis (1787-1870) was a noted English chess player and instructor, as well as the first person to be described as a chess Grandmaster. He was also one of the operators hidden inside the famous chess-playing automaton, "The Turk", when it toured London. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: HarperCollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0061180092 . Signed by Sendak and Parker in black marker on half-title.The Kraken Edition, edited by Melville scholar Hershel Parker. Illustrated in color by the late Caldecott Medalist Maurice Sendak. xlvi, 449pp. An illustrated “reconstruction of the text that Melville delivered to Harper & Brothers early in January 1852, just as some of the most devastating reviews of Moby-Dick were appearing”, which Melville spitefully revised with criticism of American literary life after receiving a less-than-rosy contract with his publishers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Illustrator .

Privately Issued. Very Good; Portfolio rubbed.. N.D.. Softcover. Printed glossy card portfolio housing six black and white prints by Hamilton of various scenes of Bahia, Brazil: Candomble, Capoeira, basket carrier, market women, Iemanja spirit, and fisherman. Each print accompanied by a printed sheet in Brazilian Portuguese and English describing the image. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

NY: Harcourt Brace and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Autograph sticker on front jacket . panel.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0151002274 . Signed by illustrator Roberto Innocenti on title page. A lovely illustrated Nutcracker edition. Light green blindstamped cloth. Innocenti is the acclaimed artist who won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration in 2008.; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 135 pages .

Washington DC and Bosto: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket scuffed.. 1987. Hardcover. 0821216864 . ix, 306pp. Photos, index, illustrations, chronology, bibliography. Essays about O'Keeffe's life and art. Published in conjunction with an exhibition first held at the National Gallery of Art November 1, 1987 - February 21, 1988. Off-white cloth binding. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .