James Purdy.
[London:]: Vision, [1976]. First edition. Corners bumped. Very good in very good d.j. Jacket has small tear at top of front cover and a little edgewear. Boards. Octavo.
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Paris: Chez Panckoucke/Moutard, 1779. First edition. Title-page vignette, woodcut headbands and tail-pieces. Corners rubbed, some light wear at spine ends. Overall a very good, clean copy. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, edges stained red. Twelvemo. xxxiv, vi, 559, [5] pp. An interesting biographical sourcebook, containing eulogies for Massillon, Despréaux, l’Abbé.....
Automatic Digital Calculators.
London: Butterworths Scientific Publications, 1953. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Slight discoloration to spine of d.j. Green cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. [viii], [232] pp. The Booths developed the Automatic Relay Computer (ARC) in England during the late 1940s, as well as a......
The Philosophy of Samuel Alexander: Idealism in 'Space, Time and Deity.'
New York: Humanities Press, 1964. First edition. Near fine in price-clipped, very good d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
Plant, Animal & Anatomical Illustration in Art & Science: a bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day.
Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies in association with Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Detroit, 1990. First edition. Fine in fine d.j. Boards. Quarto. 450 pp.
Metaphysics and Explanation. Proceedings of the 1964 Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy.
Pittsburgh: Univ. or Pittsburgh Press, [19660. First edition. Light shelfwear. Very good+ in like d.j. A little fading to d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
Moat Defensive: A History of the Waters of the Nore Command 55 BC to 1961.
London: Arthur Barker Limited, [1963]. First edition. Very good+ in price-clipped d.j. with one substantial chip on back cover (1/2" x 3/4"). Boards. Octavo.
History of Scottish Medicine.
London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1932. Second and best edition. Classic work. Colored frontis. in Vol. I, black and white frontis. in Vol. 2. Full- and partial-page illustrations in text. Minor toning to spines, minor shelfwear. A very good set. Cloth. Top edge gilt. Two volumes, octavo.
Vestidos tipicos de Espana. Recopilados, dibujados, coloridos y comentados por
Barcelona: Editorial “Orbis”, [1936]. First edition. Hinges of case cracked, but sound. Text and illustrations in excellent condition. In full tan cloth folding case, stamped in red. Editorial “Orbis”, 28, [2] pp. + 110 full color pochoir plates of Spanish costumes. A comprehensive survey of Spanish native costume, from peasant.....
Four from 'Only in America.
Phoenix: D'Ambrosio, 1995. One of fifty copies. Decorative borders and initial letters, flag vignettes in blue and red. Designed and produced by Joseph D'Ambrosio using computer typesetting and a combination of laser and letterpress printing. A fine copy. Quarter dark blue morocco over blue cloth boards, spine leather cut-out to.....
Al Aaraaf.
[Sherman Oaks:]: Livre d'Art by D'Ambrosio, 1995. One of fifty copies printed letterpress on Lana Royal Classic paper. Signed on the title-page by D'Ambrosio. Printed letterpress in black and purple with woodcut backgrounds in various colors, several pages with embossed margins. A fine copy. Trapezoidal shape binding in quarter blue.....
Olympe and Henriette. With an introduction by Patrick magarick and handmade paper by Madeleine Pestiaux.
[Beachwood, Ohio:]: Livre d’Art by D’Ambrosio, 1992. Copy Number 58 of 75 copies and ten artist’s proofs, signed by D’Ambrosio. An ingeniously designed book, employing cut-outs, three-dimensional effects, scalloped edges, and serigraph designs. Printed on Madeleine Pestiaux’s “Misty Rose” handmade paper, using a Vandercook No. 4 proof press, with Van.....
Nineteen Years and Counting. A Retrospective Bibliography, 1969-1988.
[Sherman Oaks, California:]: Joseph D'Ambrosio, 1989. One of seventy-five copies, signed by D’Ambrosio, who wrote, designed, and printed this work. The bibliography described forty-four of the printer’s works. Sixty tipped-in color photographs. Gray leather over handmade marbled boards, with an overlay of polished copper. A remarkably fine copy in gray.....
Thomas Aquinas.
Westminster, Maryland: The Newman Bookshop, 1944. Second printing. Former owner's ink signature. Otherwise very good in very good jacket. Jacket has a bit of light browning. Cloth. Octavo.
Spirit and Vision: Images of Ranchos de Taos Church.
Santa Fe: The Museum of New Mexico Press, [1988]. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Suzan Campbell. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Quarto.
The Acropolis of Athens.
New York: Macmillan, 1908. First edition. Plates, photographs in text. Spine a bit faded. Very good. Cloth. Octavo.
The History of the Life and Death of Our Blessed Saviour.
Southampton: Printed and Sold by T. Baker... 1794. First edition. A second edition was published by Rivington in 1801. The present work appears to be the author’s only publication. Some splitting to hinges at head and tail. Blue speckled edges. Some minor toning to leaves but overall a near-fine copy.....
Kant's Solution for Verification in Metaphysics.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1966]. First edition. Very good in very good d.j. D.j. has browned spine and is price-clipped. Cloth. Octavo.
The Classic Trains.
[Milwaukee:]: Kalmbach, [1964]. First edition. Color illustrations, including fold-outs. Black and white illustrations in text. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has a small chip near the top of the front cover, and a little browning at spine. Green cloth. Quarto.
Chad Hanna.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1940. First edition. Fine in near fine d.j. with price intact. Signed by the author. Cloth. Octavo.
A Peculiar Fate: Metaphysics and World-History in Kant.
Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, [1991]. First edition. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
Bookbinding in Early America: Seven Essays on Masters and Methods. With catalogues of bookbinding tools prepared by Willman Spawn.
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1986. First edition. Fine. Cloth. Octavo.
A Histor of the Eragny Press 1894-1914.
[New Castle, Delaware, and London:]: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004. First edition. Text illustrations. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Quarto. 240 pp.
Art and the Social Order.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1947]. First edition, review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Fine in lightly chipped, very good d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
Windyhaugh.
New York: Appleton, 1899. First United States edition. Published in London and Edinburgh in 1898. Binding slightly shaken. Some light toning but overall pages are clean. Ink signature of “E.W. Beck” and small numerical library stamp on front free endpaper. A lovely, near-fine, bright copy in a good original dust.....