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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. First American Edition. x, [2], 587, x, [1], 729, 4 pp. 4to. Gray cloth boards with embossed gold, silver, red, and green design of nautical lines, lanterns, etc. on front cover of each volume. Scuffing to front and rear boards from shelf wear, bumping to corners, staining along right edge of Volume II front cover. Top edges gilt, remaining foredges deckled. Light spotting within, otherwise quite clean with a dedication in ink on the front pastedown of Volume I. All plates and four folding maps in front and rear pockets of Volume I are present and in Fine condition.

New York: E. Weyhe, 1935. Limited Edition. Wraps. Very Good/Good. An early, more subtle design by Merle Armitage. Also signficant in its use of a portrait by Brett Weston as the frontispiece. Printed in an edition of 212 copies, only 200 were offered for sale. Unpag. 8vo. Gray/green dust jacket with some soiling, scuffing, minor chips at edges, and front flap detached but laid in, rear flap starting now in mylar cover. Slight staining to the cover boards, interior has some minor foxing and includes a lithograph, signed by Napolitano, #174/212. [Purcell 7].

New York: Abrams, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Nash, David. First Printing. 168 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2006. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Fine. Manzanar National Historic Site was designated on March 3, 1992, to mark the location of Owens Valley Reception Center which opened on June 1, 1942, with the internment of 9,666 Japanese Americans. The site was one of many in the United States created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans over the course of World War II. The site was transferred to the the National Park Service in 1997 by the City of Los Angeles, this report details opportunities for further development and interpretation of the site by the Naitonal Park Service. [6], 291, [36] pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with black wire spiral binding and clear plastic covers.

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The original title that began to set the design standards for what we now view as "Park Service Architecture." Everything from sign standards to amphitheater design, welcome centers, picnic tables, and rustic chandeliers. Includes hundreds of photographic examples as well as measured drawings. This edition was expanded to a three volume publication in 1938 entitled "Park and Recreational Structures." Volume draws on both National Park examples as well as state and regional park facilities. Produced in a limited edition of 2,250 copies, this being copy #1614. v, 246 pp. 4to. Green cloth boards with dark brown embossed titling to cover and spine. Scuffing overall from shelf wear, fraying to head and foot of spine, text block shaken with some pages reinforced. Ex-library with catalog number in pencil on Table of Contents page, "Date Due" slip pasted to rear first free endpaper.

Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Signed by Helen Nearing (1904-1995) on the illustration page preceding the Introduction. The chronicle, in quotes and photographs, of the planning and construction of the back-to-the-land icons Scott and Helen Nearing in Harborside, Maine. First Printing. Unpag. 4to. Minor wear and scuffing to dust jacket, 1" closed tear at head of front panel, now in mylar cover. Previous owner's name and place of purchase written in ink on first free endpaper. Clean within.

San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Printing. vii, 255 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued.

Washington DC: National Conference on State Parks, Inc, 1928. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. xi, 436 pp. 8vo. Gray paper wraps with slight scuffing, minor tanning to spine from sunning. Clean within.

New York: Whitney Library of Design/Watson-Guptill Publications, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 191 pp. 4to. Scuffing, small chips and tears to edges of dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Very clean within.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The title says it all, Neutra's approach to a livable society. ix, 384 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, tiny chips at edges, slight darkening from age, now in mylar cover. Gray cloth boards and clean within.

New York: Tate Publishing/The Drawing Center, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. 284 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

Greenfield Center, NY: The Greenfield Review Press, 1973. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Rose, Wendy. Inscribed on the title page to Richard "Dick" Eberhart (1904-2005) and his wife, Betty in the year of publication. 25 pp. 8vo. Clean, right copy with a stapled binding. Illustrated by Wendy Rose.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1967. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Printing, 1975. 252 pp 10 Folding Plates. 4to. REd cloth bidning with gold embossed titling to cover. Clean within. Ex-library with minimal stamping.

Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bisti, Dmitry. Afanasy Nikitin was one of the first from Europe to visit India between 1466 & 1472. This book chronicles some of the most interesting parts of his journey with engaging illustrations. 66 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with slight bumping to the corners. Clean within.

Greece: Mytilene, Ministry of the Aegean, 2000. First Edition. Manikakis, Vasilis. A scarce monograph of Vasilis Manikakis of Ai Stratis, the small island where he grew up in the southeastern Aegean. Published in an edition of 1,000 copies, OCLC lists in the holdings of one library. 217 pp. Folio. Translucent dust jacket the protects the photographs printed on the cover has slight wear and scuffing, small tears and chips. Slight sunning to spine of cover, otherwise clean and sharp within and out.

London: Ackermann, 1851. Third Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Alken, H.; Rawlins, T. J.. ix, [1], 218 pp. Red leather binding with five raised bands at spine, gold embossed hunting illustrations in compartments not filled with titling, triple gold border to front and rear boards, elaborate gold tooling to turn-ins of front and rear boards. Eighteen hand colored plates, all clean and sharp. Bound by Riviere & Son.

Kingsville, TX: King Ranch, Inc, 1986. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. 42 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy.

Washington DC: AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2004. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Watershed" paper in the discovery of Graphene, Nobel Physics 2010 for Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene" Very light scuffing to covers. Previous owner's address label on front cover, typical for a periodical delivered by mail. Clean and crisp within. Housed in a custom folding case with gold embossed titling to spine.

Washington DC: John L. Pearson, Printer, 1892. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Inscribed, "Compliments of the author/Noyes on the top of the front cover. 46 pp. 8vo. Brown paper wraps with light chipping to corners. Clean within.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. First Paperback Edition. xiii, 751 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.