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London: Marion Boyers, 1975. First English Edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth spine lettered in silver. Fine in price clipped illustrated dust wrapper. 356 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Signed presentation copy, "For Ken, Peace, Tim O'Brian." A tale of wilderness survival in the rugged Arrowhead area of Minnesota, his second book -- two brothers caught in a blizzard. His first novel, "If I Die In A Combat Zone," is one of the finest fiction novels on the Vietnam war.

Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon linen cloth. Teg. Fine in fine beige linen slipcase. 149 pages. Folio, 51 x 36 cm. With twelve color plates, 192 black and white text illustrations. Limited edition, copy 384 of 1000. This work presents an exhaustive study of how two twelfth-century Winchester bibles were designed and produced. Appendices. Tables. Indexes. Printed by Eric Buckley.

Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1962. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper. 191 pages. Illustrated edition with drawings by Thornton Oakley and with photographs. The Colonies lacked architects, but not the master-builders whocreated the historic homesteads detailed herein. ROOS 394.

Cape Town: The Rembrandt Van Rijn Foundation for Culture, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 354 pages. 260 monochrome and twelve color illustrations. Index. A survey of more than 370 historical monuments described and arranged according to provinces and regions. Bookplate.

San Francisco: San Francisco Bay Cities Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark beige cloth and tan boards, front cover and spine paper labels. Very good. Unpaginated, 8 leaves. 29.5 x 21.5 cm. Pastedown front cover label noting "This volume has been made specially for Porter Garnett.......February 1929," with hand written inscription on free endpaper, "and Haywood H. Hunt wishes to be remembered by Porter Garnett, who has done much to increase love and production of fine printing." Tipped-in frontispiece of John Henry Nash. A tribute to Nash printed at the request of Perry R. Long, while chairman of the Educational Commission of International Association of Printing House Craftsmen. Laid-in, the business card of Haywood H. Hunt and stationary of the Pacific Society Of Printing House Craftsmen. Fresh copy, covers a trifle dusty.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. 354, 415 pages. 39 x 28.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 500. A total of 865 text figures, photographic plates, a good number are full-paged. List of Subscribers Vol. II. Tipped-in Errata slip Vol. I. CHAMBERLAIN 1716. "A standard well-illustrated work. A list of plates at the beginning of each volume...." Interior contents, plates and text clean and fresh. slight rubbing to backstrip extremities.

London: W.H. Dalton, 1839. Second edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter black morocco over dark green cloth covered boards stamped in blind and gilt. Very good. 8 pages in text. 27.3 x 22 cm. Illustrated with large folding map, 27 x 268 cm., a lithographic panorama by Bracebridge sketched from Nature and on Zinc. Originally published 1836, a fund for building the Anglican Church (now St. Paul's) this edition comprises an entirely new lithograph from a drawing made from a different position near the church of St. Demetrius the Bombardier, and presents a different perspective. Bookseller ink stamp front paste-down, archival tape repair at upper stub. ABBEY LIFE 545. Referencing Mrs. Bracebridge, this edition and noting "Coloured zincograph." BLACKMER 193. Spine worn head and foot.

Cambridge: Baskerville & B. Dod, 1762. Third edition. leather_bound. Full brown morocco, gilt at fore-edge faded. Very good. Unpaginated. 17.5 x 11 cm. Three works in one volume. Title page and contents toned, lacks free front endpaper, some minor chipping at lower fore-edge, no loss of text. Handsome Cambridge style contemporary binding, raised bands, head of spine nicked, back cover with half centimeter imperfection toward spine center GASKELL. 20, 21 and 22.

London: Sold by the Housekeeper at the Society's House in the Adelphi, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. Later, quarter light green cloth and darker green boards. Very good. 72 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. T.C. Hansard's Plan for a Typographic Bank Note; finely engraved plate of a Bank of England £1 note design submitted by Thomas Ransom; an exceptional engraved plate of bank note design elements submitted by R.H. Solly; an engraved folding plate of a printing press for bank notes also submitted by Solly; and 2 finely engraved steel-printed plates of geometric designs submitted by Richard Williamson. A landmark work. In the three or four years preceding publication, "convictions before the criminal courts for the circulation of Forgeries of the Bank of England Note" had risen precipitously, resulting in the "increasing reluctance of Juries to visit with the extreme penalty of the law." The committee's findings, largely penned by Thomas Curson Hansard, had great impact on the course of anti-counterfeiting… Read More

Tokyo: Office of the Engineer General Headquarters, Far East Command, 1949. First edition. Paperback. Orig. buff, stapled stiff wrappers. Very good. 2 Vols.. 81 and 205 pages. 27 1/2 x 36 cm. Geology prepared by Geological Surveys Branch Intelligence Division Office of the Engineer, and Engineering prepared by Design Branch Engineering and Operations Division. Vol. I with two foldout maps at rear pocket -- one aerial and one topographic -- also details "Principal Earthquakes in Japan from 559 AD through 1948. Forty-six figures and 291 figures respectively : maps, photographs, drawings, tables, etc. The Japanese Islands along the western side of the circum-Pacific seismic belt have been subject to particularly severe disturbances within historic time. Printed on quality glossy stock, cover soiling, minor nicks fore-edge Vol.I.

Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991. Hardcover. Orig. light brown cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper.. 170 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. 105 illustrations. Glossary. Index.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1943. Hardcover. Orig. light green cloth, faux leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Very good in original publisher's tan board slipcase. 2 vols. Curry, John Steuart. 285 & 353 pages respectively. 21 x 14 cm. Colored frontispieces and black and white illustrations by John Steuart Curry. Two classic horse tales for young adults. Bright, very fresh set, slight sunning to spines.

New York: Rizzoli, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. 263 pages. 28 x 22.5 cm. Introduction by Dean James S. Polshek. More than 200 illustrations including twenty-four in full-color. A centennial celebration of The Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, this book commemorates the occasion with a series of essays by Columbia faculty and graduate students.

Berkeley: Tamalpais Press, 1962. Wraps. Orig. publisher's gray/green wrappers printed in red, and saddle sewn. Fine. 3 pages in text. 34 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 22 of 100 issued with a leaf having one or more woodcuts and reserved for the members of The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. The original leaf from Jacobus de Voragine's Legendario de Sancti in double columns printed recto and verso contains one woodcut illustration in the text. The leaf book herein is from an imperfect broken copy.

Florence: Leo S. Olschi, 1926. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. parchment over wrappers. Very good. 80 pages in text. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. With 344 illustrations on 220 plates with one in color, three in bistre, plus 15 figures in the text, two in color. Printed in red and black, interior contents: text and plates fresh and bright. Scholarly review covering England, Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Pays-Bas. Small nick lower front cover center, slight toning at cover margins.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and boards. Near fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. 341 pages. More than 150 photographs. Bibliography. Index. The author argues that each of these capitals was a deliberate work of art, and proposes a different use to which the streets were put in each of these cities.

London: Faber and Faber, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. ruby cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper. 71 pages in text .8vo, 24 x 14 cm. More than 100 illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Index of Goldsmiths and Their Marks.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. parchment boards, beveled edges, black leather spine label printed in gilt. Fine in slightly worn original brown slipcase with printed spine label. 198 pages. 26 x 19.5 cm. Limited Edition, copy 390 of 775 signed by O'Neill. Text printed in blue and black. This work won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1929, and was the basis for the MGM 1932 film starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable. Unopened, bookplate front cover pastedown.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover. Orig. cambridge gray boards with front cover and spine paper labels. Fine in fine matching slipcase. Baskin, Leonard. 153 pages. 29 x 18.5 cm. Introduction by Irma Jaffe. With drawings by Leonard Baskin, and with an original lithograph by Leonard Baskin of "Hickey," the main character in the play. Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club laid-in. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Leonard Baskin. Newman & Wiche 525. As new copy.

Brussels: Academie Royale de Belgique, 1959. First edition. Wraps. Orig. gray printed wrappers, plates are laid-in loose as issued. Very good. 2 vols. 435 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. Philip the Handsome, the first Habsburg monarch in Spain, and the progenitor of every later monarch of Spain. This is Tome X, No. 5 of the publications of the Academy. Second volume of 77 black and white plates printed recto only. Text in Dutch, text mostly unopened.