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(WILLIAMSBURG) A GENTLEMAN OF VIRGINIA. RESTORATION COMEDY.... Richmond: The Dietz Press, 1961. 12mo. Cloth spine, boards, dust jacket. 67 pages. First edition. "Being a Brief & True Account of the Adventures of David Carter Pencible, Esq in Kingsburg, Virginia, during National Restoration Week in May." A spoof of Colonial Williamsburg in the eighteenth century manner of Jonathan Swift. Fi.

(PHILADELPHIA) A NEW HOME FOR AN OLD HOUSE. Philadelphia: Drexel and Co., 1927. 4to. Cloth spine, boards. Frontispiece, (1) pages, 9 plates. First edition. A history of Drexel & Company and the development of Philadelphia's financial district, with illustrations of the firm's buildings and other commercial buildings. Covers worn.

(VIRGINIA) A.P.V.A. SOUVENIR OF THE MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. (Richmond: Walthall Bros.), 1899. Oblong 4to. Printed gilt wrappers, with go tie. 32 pages. A scarce Virginia piece. OCLC only records four copies in American libraries with only three in Virginia - Library of Virginia, Lynchburg Public Library, the University of Virginia. A souvenir program sponsored by the APVA for a production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The program is fill with numerous local Virginia business advertisements primarily in Richmond. Interspersed are photographs of scenes and actors from the production, along with portraits of the APVA committee members overseeing the production as wel as photographs of important historic buildings in Virginia associated with th APVA - the "Old Powder Horn" in Williamsburg, the old church tower at Jamesto Other photographs include sites in Richmond - the Capitol Building, the City Hall Building, and Murphy's Hotel with advertisement. A brief history on the founding of the… Read More

A.T.F. DUPLICATES OF TYPE SPECIMEN BOOKS, ETC. San Diego: Frontier, 1972. 4to. Cloth. 53 leaves. A reprint of the 1934 American Type Founders sales catalogue, with historical notes and comments by Henry Lewis Bullen. Fine.

(AALTO) ALVAR AALTO, 1898-1976. (Helsinki:) Museum of Finnish Architecture, 1978. Square 8vo. Wrappers. 168 pages. Second edition. Catalogue of Aalto's sketches for decorative arts and architecture. Illustra with two hundred and thirty-six photographs and drawings of his work, many in color. Very good.

NEDERLANDSCHE AANNEMING MAATSCHAPPIJ. (ALBUM....) (The Hague: Nederlandsche Aanneming Maatschappij, 1934). Folio. Wrappers. 11 pages. First edition. Issued as a promotional album, this volume is illustrated with one hundred thiry-four photographs showing commercial buildings in various Dutch cities a in Indonesia. There are some interior views. The architects are identified most cases. Wrappers worn.

(ABBEY) CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED LIBRARY...OF MAJOR J.R. ABBEY. Volume III. London: Sotheby, 1967. 233 pages, index, both color and black and white plat Featuring exquisite book bindings from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Many plates. Very good.

(ARCHITECTURAL PERIODICAL) ABC: BEITRAGE ZUM BAUEN. Two volumes. (Baden): Verlag Lars Muller, 1969. Small folio. Portfolio, Stiff wrappers. Unpaginated. Reprint of the original 1924-1928 periodical on modern architecture and city planning. Scarce in any form. First volume enclosed in single wrapper. Sec volume in four wrappers. First wrapper sunned with minor wear, else very goo.

(BIRD & BULL PRESS) ABERCROMBIE, Lascelles. A TOWER IN ITALY. Toronto: Basilike, 1976. 8vo. Wrappers. 32 pages. One of 175 copies. Being a one act play printed by Henry Morris at The Bird & Bull Press in two colors throughout. Fine.

ABERCROMBIE, Patrick, and others. A PLAN FOR BATH. London: Isaac Pitman, 1945. Folio. Cloth. viii, 120 pages, 28 plates. First edition. Urban planning for the post-World War II era. Illustrated with photographs a large folding color map in the rear pocket. Very good.

ABERCROMBIE, Patrick, and others. TOWN PLANNING REPORT. (Dublin:) (1941). 4to. Cloth. 62 pages. First edition. Planning report for Dublin and its environs. Cover lightly soiled.

ABERCROMBIE, Patrick, and Richard Nickson. WARWICK, ITS PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT. London: Warwick Borough Council, (1949). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. Folding frontispiece plate, 152 pages, 4 colored folding plates. First edition. Post-war renovation, integrating modern structures with the original town buildings. Dust jacket chipped, else very good.

ABERCROMBIE, Patrick, and Sydney A. Kelly. CUMBRIAN REGIONAL PLANNING SCHEME. Liverpool: University Press, 1932. 4to. Cloth spine, boards. Frontispiece, xviii, 220 pages, 18 plates, 19 maps. First edition. A comprehensive urban planning study with numerous text illustrations and map Cover soiled.

ABNEY, W. de W. COLOUR MEASUREMENT AND MIXTURE. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1891. Small 8vo. Publishe red cloth. Frontispiece, 207, (6) pages. First edition. Part of the "Romance of Science" series--a study of color theory in light written by William Abney one of the founders of modern photography. With forty-five illustrations in the text. Very good.

ABT, Jeffrey. THE PRINTER'S CRAFT. Chicago: Regenstein Library, (1982). Oblong 8vo. Wrappers. First edition. An exhibition selected from the R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company collection. Fi.

ROYAL ACADEMY PICTURES. 1908. London: Cassell and Company, 1908. Small folio. Cloth, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, 160, (4) pages. First edition. "Illustrating the Hundred and Fortieth Exhibition of the Royal Academy." Bot hinges internally cracked, frontispiece detached, ex-library copy, edgewear.

ROYAL ACADEMY PICTURES. 1893. London: Cassell and Company, 1893. Small folio. Cloth, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, 208, (4) pages. First edition. Including reproductions of paintings by G.A. Storey, Henry Moore, George Cockram, and others. Ex-library copy, binding worn, inscription in ink on fr free endpaper, several leaves detached.

(TAPESTRIES) ACKERMAN, Phyllis. A CATALOG OF THE TAPESTRIES IN THE COLLECTI OF FRANK GAIR MACOMBER. N.P.: n.d. Folio. Quarter-vellum. (iv), vi, (iii), 107 pages, 24 plates. Fir edition. One of 50 copies. Tapestries from the middle of the fifteenth century to the end of the eighteenth. The collection regards them as both an industry and an art. Sho tear at head of spine, boards rubbed, internally very good.

(TRADE CATALOGUE) ACME CHAIR COMPANY. FOLDING FURNITURE. Reading, Michigan: 1910s. Oblong 8vo. Wrappers. 48 pages. First edition. Catalogue Fifteen by the firm, illustrated and with substantial descriptions. Included are folding chairs, lawn seats, and camp chairs, along wih folding tables, all using maple, beech, and oak woods. Rare. No copy of any Acme catalogue is cited by OCLC. Two other examples from the firm are listed by McKinstry as being in Winterthur. Fine.

(PAINT-SALESMAN'S COUNTER DISPLAY SAMPLE) ACME WHITE LEAD AND COLOR WORKS. COMBINATION OF COLORS OF NEW ERA HIGH-GRADE PREPARED PAINTS. Detroit: Acme White Lead and Color Works, (circa 1895). Oak wood display cas (19 x 5 1/2 x 16 inches), w/ glass viewing window mounted in front containing linen scroll with 22 color plates (each plate 14 1/2 x 12 inches) mounted and wound between two rollers each of which is controlled by an exterior nickel plated handle. Celluloid labels carefully mounted on all sides of the glass window with metal pins. First edition. An exceedingly rare example of a salesman's counter display, advertising exterior color schemes of paints and trims for Victorian Era homes. The hous illustrated in this ingenious piece are composed primarily of Queen Anne Victorians (Queen Anne Revival). Twenty-two paint schemes are presented in t piece, including two-tone Flesh tones & Gray upper & lower siding, with Dark Green trim and Red roof; French Gray siding with Bronze Green roof; Light Oli… Read More