London/Riyadh: Croom Helm/University of Riyadh, 1981. Small folio. 147pp in English, 149pp in Arabic. Original photo illustrated tan dust jacket with taupe and black lettering on covers, with black lettering on spine. Umber colored boards with debossed gilt lettering on front cover and spine. End papers illustrated with maps in..... More about Qaryat al-Fau: A Portrait of Pre-Islamic Civilisation in Saudi Arabia
London: Academy Editions, 1988. Hardcover. 4to. 276p. Red cloth with gilt lettering and dj. Profusely illustrated with color and b&w drawings, plans, elevations, models, etc. Includes a brief interview with the architect and a concise curriculum vitae. Like new. More about Basil Al-Bayati, Architect; Basil Al-Bayati
Malibu: Undena Publications, 1988. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. x, 110 (1), xliv pp., 57 plates, key to illustrations in pocket at rear. Original red wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. Bibliotheca Mesopotamica, volume 23. Primary sources and interpretive analysis for the study of Mesopotamian civilization and its influence... More about Studies in the Chronology and Regional Style of Old Babylonian Cylinder Seals
Berlin: Alexander Duncker, 1845. Hardcover. 8vo. 180pp. Modern three quarter cloth over paper boards. Green speckled edges. A humorous work of medieval Hebrew poetry with a German translation by the early thirteenth century rationalist Judah Al-Harizi. This edition is based on a 1281 manuscript of the work. Includes an extensive... More about Die Ersten Makamen aus dem Tachkemoni Oder Divan ds Charisi Nebst Dessen Vorrede
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xix, 306pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over light green cloth with black lettering on cover. Translated by Françoise Delisle; introduction by Havelock Ellis; cover design by Alvin Lustig. "No other writer has so surely captured the poignancy, the mystery, the "out-of-this-world"..... More about The Wanderer
Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 342pp. Blue cloth with dust jacket. Minor staining on front board. Slight rubbing, creasing and scuffing on dj. Signed by previous owner on free front endpaper. "Dieses Buch ist als Lehrbuch für die theologischen Ausbildungsstätten ebenso wie als Lernbuch für das Selbststudium..... More about Der Text des Neuen Testaments: Einführung in die wissenschaftlichen Ausgaben sowie in Theorie...
München: Max Hueber, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 270 (1)pp. Original green cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Textbooks for the Study of Oriental and African Languages, Vol. XII. Persian, also defined as New-Persian is an Iranian language belonging to the family Indo-Germanic languages. Documents reach back to... More about Lesebuch der persischen Sprache
Pittsburgh: James R. Albach, 1857. Hardcover. Large octavo. xl, 1016 pp. Full leather binding protected by modern plastic cover. Bumping to head and foot of spine, as well as a small closed tear to foot of spine. Binding has been reinforced with masking tape. Some pages have been similarly repaired... More about Annals of the West: Embracing a Concise Account of Principal Events which have occurred in the...
Woodstock, NY: Overlook Duckworth, 2004-2005. First edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Vol.1: 637pp. Vol.2: 669pp. Vol.3: 700pp. (4). Black photo-illustrated dust jackets, with white lettering on the covers and spines. Vol. 1 in grey cloth boards, vols 2-3 in black cloth with blind-stamped publishers device on front covers, and gilt lettering on... More about The Collected Plays of Edward Albee (3 vols. complete
Diputacio de Girona / Caixa de Girona / Patronat Municipal "Call de Girona" (1994). First English edition. Softcover. Ex-library. Square octavo. 96pp. Original color photographic wraps. "During their six hundred year presence, the Jews left a great impression here in this country. This book is the first join study of... More about The Jews in Girona
Gorinchem: Nicolas Goetze, 1748-1750. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Marbled paper covered boards. Fascinating Biblical atlas displaying a series of 12 engraved maps of the Holy Land during different historic epics. These maps were drawn by Willem Albert Bachiene, a Dutch preacher, astronomer, and geographer. Each double-page map is inserted... More about Nodig Berigt tot Verklaring der Eerste Landkaarte
Tielt, Utrecht: Lannoo, Tielt, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. 167 pp. Brown blind-stamped cloth with gold lettering on spine in black printed dust jacket. Some text about the artist followed by an abundance of illustrations of his work including reproductions of sketches and photographs of his sculpture. Some scuffing... More about Joris Minne
Berlin: Albert Gleiser A.-G. [1929]. First edition. Softcover. Oblong quarto (9 x 12"). 132pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Illustrated catalogue of the famous Berlin-based furniture store Albert Gleiser, located in Alexanderplatz. The store was a member of the "Verband zur Förderung Deutscher Wohnkultur" (Association for promoting German home decor). Each page... More about Moderne Möbel
Wien: Eduard Hölzel, 1886. Softcover. Half-cloth over heavy cardboard portfolio of the period. String-ties have been added, and taped on inside of front board. Complete in six parts with original wrappers and "Prospect" for each part. Illustrated with 24 captioned chromolithographs in vibrant colors of ceiling- and wall decorations from... More about Plafond- und Wanddecorationen des XVI. bis XIX. Jahrhunderts
New York: Piccolo Press, 2006. Photographs by Tom Grill. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. 212pp. Dark gray cloth with illustrated paste-down and gold lettering on spine housed in gray cloth slipcase. Frontispiece of Neale M. Albert. Chapters are divided into binding categories; traditional, variations, geometric, abstract, representational, gems, flora & fauna, lettering... More about The Neale M. Albert Collection of Miniature Designer Bindings: A Catalog of an Exhibition Held at...
Hildesheim: Karl Alberti Schablonenfabrick, no date. First edition. Softcover. Oblong Quarto. 6, 6, 5pp. Original illustrated, stapled purple quarter cloth, respectively binder's paper over wraps with silver lettering on covers. Unique series of original decorative designs from Karl Alberti Stencil Manufacturer demonstrating a mix of Bauhaus and Art Deco aesthetics... More about 1. Universal-Spritzserie. 2. Blätter- und Blüten-Spritzserie. 3. Die Küche von heute. 3 Parts,...
New York: Random House, 1933. (Limited ed). Hardcover. Large 8vo. xvi, 262 pp. Green cloth binding. Frontispiece showing sculpted bust of Jeffers. Pages untrimmed. Illustrated with reproductions of covers of Jeffers' work and facsimiles. Cover faded around edges and to spine. Title label peeling. Otherwise, in good condition. 1/487 numbered copies. More about A Bibliography of the Works of Robinson Jeffers
Cleveland: Photographers' Association of America, 1939. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original illustrated spiral-bound wrappers with black lettering on cover. Sixty imaginative b/w photographs including works by George J. Kossuth, Harold A. Willoughby, the studios Advertising Artist, Bernie Studio, Edmondston Studio, Marable Studios, and Zintsmaster Studio, presented to the members... More about Sixty Representative Photographs Exhibited at the 1939 Convention
Leipzig: Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 269 (3)pp. Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on cover. Frontispiece woodcut. Decorative headpiece on title page. Festschrift on the occasion of Immanuel Kant's 200th anniversary. Invitation to event on April 22, 1924 addressed to Professor Dr. Henry Slonimsky laid in, with... More about Immanuel Kant. Festschrift zur Zweiten Jahrhundertfeier seines Geburtstages
Baltimore: The J. H. Furst Company, 1933. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 73, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. This work provides valuable information on the results of the fourth archaeological campaign undertaken at Teill Beit Mirsim in southwestern Judaea, between June and August 1932. It is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w illustrations... More about The Excavation of Tell Beit Mirsim I A: The Bronze Age Pottery of the Fourth Campaign...
Cambridge, Mass, American Schools of Oriental Research, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi,226pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Frontispiece of William Foxwell Albright (1891-1971). "This is the fourth and presumably final listing of the published works of the late Professor W.F. Albright." Prepared..... More about The Published Works of William Foxwell Albright: A Comprehensive Bibliography
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. Heliotype edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes in one. Sm. folio. Unpaginated. Original morocco, gold-stamped on front and back cover. Beveled edges. Gold-decorated spine with raised bands. All gilt edges. Doublures. Marbled endpapers. Ex-libris of Lucy [Doheny] Smith Battson (* see below) on free front... More about The Works of Antonio Canova in Sculpture and Modelling with Descriptions from the Italian of the...
San Jose: The Rosicrucian Order A. M. O. R. C., 1938. Second edition. Hardcover. 4to. xi, (2), 63pp. 9pp. (2). Original red and brown paper boards with illustration and green lettering on the cover. Book of Jasher, sometimes called Pseudo-Jasher, to distinguish it from the Sefer ha Yashar referred to... More about The Book of Jasher One of the Sacred Books of the Bible Long Lost or Undiscovered. Now Offered in...
Antin Press, Inc., (1947). Softcover. 8vo. 71pp. Original printed paper wrappers. Frontispiece tapped-in photograph of Jacob Henry Schiff. Article reprinted from The American Jewish Year Book 23(1921) on occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jacob Schiff. Consists of a laudatory biography of Schiff (1847-1920), a German-American Jewish... More about Jacob H. Schiff
London: Routledge, (1989). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. v,186pp. Blue paper-covered boards with silver lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. G. Alderman's work looks at London Jewry and London government before 1889, London Jewry in the Progressive Era, municipal reaction and the rise of labor, County Hall under labor... More about London Jewry and London Politics 1889-1986