1917. ADDISON, Christopher. BRITISH WORKSHOPS AND THE WAR. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917. Limited edition propaganda pamphlet. Illustrated from photographs and charts. 52 pp. Small 8vo., white paper stapled wrappers, printed and illustrated in black to upper panel. Wrappers soiled with penciled scribblings to rear panel and lightly bumped corners..... More
1885. ADDISON, Joseph. ESSAYS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. London: Macmillan, 1885. Chosen and edited by John Richard Green. Frontispiece. 12mo., green calf, gilt spine lettering, borders, perimeter and inner dentelles, a.e.g. Sunned to spine with light shelfwear. Private library blind-stamp to fly-leaf and no other marks. Very good plus... More
1741. ADDISON, Joseph, Esq. THE WORKS OF THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq. In Four Volumes. The Third Edition: with a Compleat Index. London: Printed for J.and R. Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head in the Strand. 1741. Small 4to., in a 20th century library binding of grey cloth, with speckled edges..... More
1940. ADE, George, and John T. McCutcheon. NOTES AND REMINISCENCES. Chicago: The Holiday Press, 1940. 61 pp. + 1 p. 8vo., grey cloth with red morocco gilt label on front cover. One of 275 copies. Faint foxing to endpapers. Tales of the Fourth Estate. Set in the Centaur type of..... More
FE. ADE, George. THE SULTAN OF SULU. An Original Satire in two Acts. New York: R.H. Russell, 1903. First edition. There is a pencil inscription on the front flyleaf. The spine is darkened and the covers soiled, with small chips and tears at the edges. In all, this is a...... More
1930. (ADVERTISEMENT). KAMAKURA KAIHAN HOTEL. Kamakura, Japan. (Tokyo: Inatsu Co.), [N.D., circa 1930]. A single accordian-folded sheet, whose folded size measures 7 1/2 by 3 1/2 (19.2 x 8.9 cm.), with photo illustrations of the hotel and surrounding attractions; the final panel is a map which shows railway and tram..... More
1929. (ADVERTISEMENT FOR JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND). OUR CHILDREN: OUR CHIEF JOY AND OUR GREAT RESPONSIBILITY. [n.p.]: (Bellows-Reeves Co., 1929). 8vo., wrappers, illustrated. A sales pitch for JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND, a part of the "Sylvester System of Child Training", featuring illustrations and sample pages from the JOURNEYS series. Lightly soiled and..... More
1941. (ADVERTISING). NINETEENTH ANNUAL OF ADVERTISING ART. Reproductions of the Exhibits Displayed at the Nineteenth Exhibition of the Art Directors Club of New York, in the Spring of Nineteen Hundred and Forty. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., (1941). 4to., beige cloth; illustrated. Near fine, with slight spots of wear..... More
[ADVERTISING - 20TH CENTURY MATCHBOX COVERS]. [Rinpyō 燐票]. A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 1300 MATCHBOX COVERS, LABELS AND ADVERTISING CARDS DEPICTING A VARIETY OF PRODUCTS, BUSINESSES, AND PASTIMES. A collection of carefully preserved matchbox covers, labels and advertising cards tipped-in to 2 commercially manufactured scrapbook albums. The albums are bound in..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 1. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Do^mon..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 6. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Domon..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 8. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Domon..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 9. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. The issues..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 9. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Domon..... More
[ADVERTISING] SUZUKI Nagai, editor. Shiroto ni mo Kantan ni mo dekiru KAKUSHU KANBAN SOSHOKU NO TSUKURIKATA PRACTICAL METHODS OF BUILDING UP VARIOUS SIGNS AND DISPLAYS. Tokyo: Seibundo Shinkosha, Showa 13 [1938]. Oblong printed wrappers. 18.8 x 26 pp. 32pp+. Sign design for the amateur. Good condition. More
1817. AESOP. FABULAE AESOPI SELECTAE, or, Select Fables of Aesop: With AN English translation, more literal than any yet extant, designed for the reader instruction of beginners in the Latin tongue. By H. Clarke. Baltimore: Published by J. & T. Vance; J. Robinson, Printer, 1817. Parallel texts in Latin and..... More
1917. (AFRICAN STUDIES). VARIA AFRICANA. Edited by Oric Bates Cambridge: The African Dept. of the Peabody Museum of Harvard Univ., 1917-1918. 2 vols. 4to., vol. 1: paper-covered boards backed in cloth. Vol. 2: cloth-covered boards. Illustrated throughout. A near fine set. More
1977. AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER OF UCLA. AFRICAN ARTS 1967-1977. Los Angeles, CA: University of Calfornia, (1977). Wrappers. Very good plus. Art index. More
1801. (AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES). A TRUE ACCOUNT OF A PIOUS NEGRO; to which is added, The Story of Poor Joseph. Dublin: Alex. Stewart, 1801. No. 6 in a series of Evangelical tracts. 8pp + 9pp; bound with "Some Observations on Neglecting the Sabbath Day", Tract #21, 12pp. 16mo., pamphlet, as issued..... More
1888. TEXT AGASSIZ, Alexander. THREE CRUISES OF THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY STEAMER "BLAKE" in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, From 1877 to 1880. Two volumes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1888. xxii..... More
1934. AGEE, James. PERMIT ME VOYAGE. With a foreword by Archibald MacLeish. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. Volume 33 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by Stephen Vincent Benet. First edition of Agee's first book. Slim octavo. 59 pp. Green cloth, lettered in dark green at spine..... More
1934. AGEE, James. PERMIT ME VOYAGE. With a foreword by Archibald MacLeish. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. Volume 33 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by Stephen Vincent Benet. First edition of Agee's first book. Slim octavo. 59 pp. Green cloth, lettered in dark green at spine..... More
1881. [AGRICULTURE] Miyazaki Ryujo. Koeki NOKO ZENSHO 5 vols. Tokyo, n.d.[1881]. Bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Original covers and title labels. 22.7 x 15.5 cm. An extensive guide to the practice of agriculture in the early modern era of Meiji Japan. Largely text, but illustrated throughout in woodcut, some of which in..... More
1971. AIKEN, Conrad. THE CLERK'S JOURNAL. Being the diary of a queer man. An undergraduate poem, together with a brief memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot. New York: The Eakins Press, 1971. First edition. An out of series copy of three hundred numbered copies signed by the author..... More
1953. AIKEN, Conrad. COLLECTED POEMS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. 895 pp. B/w photo frontispiece. 8vo., brown cloth. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with a few nicks to edges, closed 1 inch tear at top of spine, 1/8 inch chip to bottom of spine. Pulitzer winner. More