Search Results: Titles starting with A from DuBois Rare Books

New York/Philadelphia: J.J. Audubon/J.B. Chevalier, 1844. First Edition, First Printing. Lithograph. Very Good. Hand Colored lithograph from the first Royal Octavo Edition of "The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories."  New York: J. J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier. PLATE #154 from Volume III, First Royal Octavo Edition: "Chestnut-Collared Lark Bunting". Lithographed, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen after original drawn from nature by John J. Audubon. Sheet measurements: 26 cm. x 17.2 cm. Print Condition: visible foxing and/or soiling to areas of print, mild wear to edges and corners, else fine. When considering the somewhat shabby chic nature of our offering here, please pay close attention when making comparisons to other, "cleaner" examples of the same print; concentrate, for example, on the deep, jewel-like pink of the flower featured our print, and make sure that this brilliance of color hasn't been washed out in prints… Read More

Boston: D.C. Heath, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. 297 pp.[+ advertisments, unpaged but xii pages] illustrations ; 19 cm. 12mo. Hardcover. Later printing of first edition of no. 3 of the Nature Reader's Series. Publisher's quarter-cloth and illustrated paper over boards. Book Condition: the news is very positive, this particular 130 year old copy is in remarkably nice condition; covers show wear of course, primarily at corners which are turned and showing raw board in places; upper joint has thin slash to cloth spine but its not more than an inch in length. Other than a few stray smalls on the end papers, the text isn't even marked up! Else fine, as they say.

Arles: Actes Sud, 2000. Edition originale, documentation très complète. Stiff Wraps. Near Fine/Near Fine. 375 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm. Notice et cote du catalogue de la Bibliotheà  que nationale de France Biographies: p. 271-295. Historique 1802-2000: p. 364-367. Index: p. 373-375. .- A travers une sélection de plus de 300 oeuvres, la collection composée par Bruno Decharme et présentée par Abcd (Art Brut Connaissance et Diffusion) rassemble les principaux auteurs d'art brut de la fin du 19e s. à nos jours. In French. An extraordinary book, especially if any type of art brut, outsider art, or folk art holds any interest to you. Superior design and execution. Stiff wraps in an pictorial acetate jacket. Book is in near fine condition, jacket shows a few dings else fine.

New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 236 pages ; 22 cm. A pristine copy. [Prominent (front of dust jacket) blurb by David Foster Wallace].

Fargo: The North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1966. Unnumbered limited edition of 130 copies only. Sewn Binding. Good +. iii, 27 p. ; 22 cm. Softcover. Sewn binding with rust colored heavyweight stock for wraps; with French flaps, lettered in black to the upper cover. Unnumbered limited edition of 130 copies only, printed by The Merrykit Press (owned and operated by Richard Lyons himself-on a small press in his home- for the publisher: The North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies). Book Condition: Good+ only; spine split and largely perished, covers held in place by the French flaps, chipped and frazzled at the edges pretty much all round. The sewn binding is rock solid however and the text block is unmarked and unmarred. The hand-press work is quite beautiful. Scarce, Worldcat shows a mere 7 institutional holdings, five of which are in one or the other Dakota. (**NOTE: The publication date of this title, considered one of Lyon's major works, is often cited in error as 1968, rather than… Read More

Harrison, NY: Delphinium Books, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 192pp. 24cm. Tall 8vo. Hardcover. Publisher's original quarter black cloth over boards,silver lettering to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: superficial shelf wear to panels, crinkling at spine ends with one teeny weeny grain-o-sand size scrape. Signed to ffep but as to limited edition we're calling foul on that and suggesting that there may have been a mix-up with stickers sent and this title got the Signed/Limited Edition stickers when it was meant to only have the Signed, at that point the reading was about to start and the publisher's rep said, wait, technically isn't every single edition limited? I mean otherwise they'd be infinite right? And everyone agreed to just go on with the S/L sticker. A bunch of copies listed is par for the course for limited editions, but we noticed a listing with a remainder mark and somehow that just doesn't seem right.… Read More

np [London], 1760. Copper Engraving. Very Good. Copper engraving on laid paper. Measurement border to border: 22.5 x 17.3 cm. [8.9" x 6.3"]. Sheet measurements: 30 x 20.7 cm. (11.8" x 8.1") Condition: a mild crease which begins just above the "C" in Southern Ocean and winds its way northeast, always staying in the empty void of the Southern Ocean, terminating just below Ascension Island; 1 cm. closed tears at both top and bottom edges, contained within margins, never invading borders; mild foxing in spots and a faint offsetting from what looks to be another map most likely: Good-to-Very Good. A handsome map which we greatly appreciate hasn't had to endure any later hand coloring. Here's a 2001 description from Old World Auctions: "Charming small map of the continent with a decorative cartouche and compass rose. Considerable detail along the coasts with Indian names in the interior. Part of the African continent is shown at right and the Solomon Islands are shown in the Pacific. Several discoveries… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 338pp. including index. 8vo. Green cloth over boards with gilt spine lettering and stamped colophon on front panel. Book condition: Gentle bumping to crown else Fine. Binding is tight and straight. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Price clipped. Crown shows a bit of wear as do the tips and there are two small spots on front panel. Spine slightly soiled. Jacket shows better than VG+ though, colors are bright and unfaded.

New York: The Monacelli Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 1 vol. (223 p.) : nombreuses ill. en noir. ; 29 cm. 4to. Hardcover. Publisher's original black cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine. Book Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very light wear to the extremities, else fine. A sharp copy.

New York: Radcraft publications, 1946. First Edition, First Printing. Staplebound. Very Good. 64 pages, illustrations. Thin 8to in flexible cardboard wraps. Scarce 1st printing. Book Conditon: covers soiled, dampstain to bottom edge of front cover. Creasing, with moderate wear to the covers. Text block in much fresher shape. Overall, a respectable copy of this scarce 1st edition. Topics covered include r.f. circuits, audio circuits, sound equipment, power supplies, frequency modulation and more.

New York: Coward, McCann, Inc, 1935. First Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good -. 104 pages plates, portrait group, folded plans. 23 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original green colored cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Book Condition: spine ends gently pushed, gilt lettering to spine shows mild dulling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: largely intact with chipping and tears mostly to the edges and spine ends; spine and top edge toned. "With illustrations and 4 specially prepared maps." With a Preface by Edith Olivier and a Note by J.W. Dunne.

New York: New Directions, 1955. First American edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Dust jacket shows sunning to spine faint dampstaining to edges and wear to extremities, most notably to spine ends and flap edges.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1910. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 327 pp. (including the appendices: useful tables, glossary, some French aeronautical terms, an aeronautical bibliography, index) illustrations, plates. 20 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original red cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine front cover with armorial gilt decoration to front cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Spine ends gently pushed, mild wear to extremites, some toning to covers, with hinges just starting; binding sound. Small sticker with "1910" on spine. Thirty two full page duotone plates, and 41 diagrams and charts. It's easy to forget that while the Wright brothers achieved controlled flight in a heavier than aircraft in 1903, those flights were very short; they didn't fly in a complete circle until 1904 and it wasn't until 1908 that they finally convinced skeptics in the U.S. and Europe that they had indeed achieved meaningful milestones of flight. By 1910 there were dozens, if not hundreds,… Read More

Tokyo: Shukyosha, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine. 3 preliminary leaves, 326 pages, 1 leaf 18 x 10 cm. 16mo. Hardcover. Publisher's original deep wine red cloth over boards, lettering to front cover. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. A clever, nicely preserved copy. We have a fondness for the Dictionaries & Grammars category, especially since out of all the printed book categories their days would seem to among the most desperately numbered. We'd never heard of an Aeronautical glossary per se so we were delighted when we tumbled onto a few. That is until we really started pondering who these little pocket guides were actually for. English is the lingua franca of civilian aviation, they had to pick one and English seemed to do nicely. America does make most of the planes, so there's that. So leafing through the pages and coming across the Japanese translation for, say, "emergency alighting area", or "amount of gas leakage", in 7 point type casts the urgency of need for something exactly… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. First Edition, First Printing so stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good -. 368 p. ; 22 cm. Rust colored cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine and front cover. Book Condition: Spine ends bumped else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Chipped with some loss at spine and tips, fading to spine, wear to extremities with a nic to the edges here and there.

Bloomfield Hills, Mich: Bruccoli Clark, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/None Issued. 26 p. ; 24 cm. Blue and grey cloth over boards, front cover ruled in gilt, with paper label. "This first edition ... is limited to 500 copies signed by Robert Coover. Copies numbered 1-450 are for sale and I-L are reserved for the author and publisher." This is numbered copy 83. Signed by author.

New York: Knopf, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. vii, 316 pages : 1 portrait ; 20 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original navy blue cloth over boards, lettering in gilt and silver, to spine and front cover, deep purple topstain. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A sharp copy. Possibly the nicest condition of any Updike book we've ever handled; and while we're not saying we've handled millions of Updike books, we've handled a few.

Barcelona: Ajoblanco Ediciones, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. [not to be confused with 2004 reprints of first six issues]. Staplebound. Very Good. 24pp. 33 cm x 24 cm. Tall Folio. Staplebound magazine on flimsy paper-b&w graphics. Condition: Very Good at least. Ephemeral, fragile item in lovely condition with splash to upper cover which is a little grotty, v. light toning to page edges and faint wear to extremities. Ajoblanco. Spain. (from "One of the great magazines who included philosophers, poets, architects, artists, comic drawers related with the contra cultural scene of Barcelona in the 70's. They got together in the same project of political opposition as others against Franco regime. Together politics, other interests were of social context such as environmentalism, anti-psychiatry, collectivism, gay movement etc. It achieved up to 1 million readers in 1977. It was directed by José Ribas." Issue no. 1 "coordinado": Pepe Ribas, Toni Puig, Claudi Montana...etc. etc. Issue no. 1… Read More

Stockholm: A. Bonniers, 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Very Good. 242 pages illustrations, color plates, portraits 32 cm. Small folio. Wraps. Book Condition: Chipped at spine ends with wear to extremities.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 119 pages : 112 illustrations 16 in color. 27 cm., small 4to. Hardcover. Publisher's original quarter bound black cloth and taupe colored linen over boards, gilt spine lettering. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine; interior pristine and unmarked. Dust Jacket Condition: very light wear to the extremities and a kind of marshmallow over the campfire golden brown toning to spine and edges. A sharp copy. Called for erratta slip laid in. The catalog of a comprehensive exhibition of Giacometti's work organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1965 Exhibition held at Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 9th-October 10th 1965 ; The Art Institute of Chicago, November 5th-December 12th 1965 ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 11th-February 20th 1966 ; San Francisco Museum of Art, March 10th-April 24th 1966.