New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (10¼" x 14¼"), Vol. 1.: 384pp. Vol. 2.: 360pp. Vol. 1.: [2], 488pp. Vol. 2.:414, [2]pp. Black cloth with illustration pasted-on front board and golden color gilt lettering at spine. Pictorial slipcase, black cloth on top and bottom, otherwise printed..... More
London: Martin & Parnham, ca. 1900. 17 loose chromolithographic plates hightened in gold, depicting ancient Israelite sacrificial rites. Includes pictures of the High Priest, the offering of the paschal lamb and the Day of Atonement scapegoat. Housed in original publisher's printed card chemise. Includes explanatory pamphlet. In very good condition..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 210pp., 26 plates in chromolithography, with tissue guards. Original brown cloth with blind-stamped ruling on covers and gilt lettering on spine. Published by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture. Report on the hawks and owls of the United States..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 304pp. Original color photo-illustrated dustjacket over brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece color photograph. Richly illustrated with color photographs, many full page, of nomad tribes and their extraordinary craftsmanship. "Worn by men and women -whose bodies are also..... More
Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. xxiii, 170pp., 55 plates with printed tissue guards, 3 of them in color, including 2 foldouts, 3 foldout maps. Three quarter black cloth over blue boards with gilt ruling and lettering on cover. The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Foundation New..... More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1904. Hardcover. 8vo. lxxx, 584 pp. + adds. Blue cloth binding. Light wear to edges. Head and tail of spine bumped. Ex-libris. Bookplate to endpapers. Light browning to edges of pages not affecting text. Else, in good + condition. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original gilt-titled gray cloth with color plate mounted on front cover, with blue lettering and decoration on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontispiece. Decorative title page. Collection of 24 exquisite poems celebrating womanhood and magnificently illustrated with 19 full-page color..... More
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, (1994). First edition. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. xiv, 343, [3]pp. Original blue cloth with imprinted black cover- and title labels with gold lettering. B/w frontispiece portrait of Spencer Tracy. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Binding in very good, interior in fine..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1949. First edition. 255, (1)pp. Index of recipes. Dust jacket with minor edgewear and spine sun-faded, over pictorial brick cloth with white spine label lettered in black. Each chapter begins with an historiated letter. Just a hint of fraying at head of spine, but still a...... More
New York: The Century Co., 1915. Hardcover. This book is inscribed on a paste-on by the author at the backside of frontispiece, beneath portrayal paste-on: "Yours very sincerely, Eric Fisher Wood. August 2nd, 1915." (Writing on back of paste-on shining through) 8vo. xii. 345pp. Green cloth with embossed gilt lettering..... More