(Stichting the Cellist's Companion, Netherlands, 2007). Quarto. ). 697 pages, the original hardcover edition which was issued in a very small print run. This work is the culmination of more than thirty-five years of meticulous compilation of cello repertoire. A catalogue of this scope has never before been published. Approximately... More
La Mirada, Ca:[nd. Ca.1995): Four Ways West, 1995. First Edition. Quarto. . 125 pages, Color pictorial boards. maps on endpapers. It is the objective of this book to present an overall view of operations and motive power of the Colorado & Southern - Southern Division. The final decade of steam... More
Lansing, MI; (2002): Protar House. First Edition. Octavo. 246p. index. bibliography. notes. Signed by author on title page. Issued in a small print run. This is a pristine copy that goes back to when a wood hauler, John Yoast, discovered the lifeless body of John Ringo [also Ringgold], notorious outlaw... More
Lanham, MD; (2002): Hudson Hills Press in Association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Quarto. Second revised edition. vii, 372 pages, illustrations with 189 color plates, 60 black and white. Includes bibliographic references (pages 353-359) and index. While the National Gallery of Art, MOMA, the Art Institute of... More
New York: Devin-Adair, 1959. First Edition. Octavo. 2nd printing. " Inscribed by the author to a collector with the words "for treasure or pleasure" R I Nesmith, Rye, New York. 302 pages, index Bob Nesmith was an expert on all aspects of lost treasure with articles in the major Numismatic... More
Santa Monica, CA; (1984): Bonsai Institute of California. First Edition. Quarto. 442 pages, index, profusely illustrated. The first work by Naka was so successful, this printing was aimed at some of the more advance ways to archive the beauty unique to Bonsai and shows how to cut the branches of... More
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1992. xxii, 636 pages; frontispiece, illustrations (some in color). Part of the African hunting heritage collection, signed by Jim Rikhoff, limited to 1000 copies. OCLC records copies only at the National Sporting Library, Yale and the University of Denver. Includes work by Col. Richard Meinherzhagen, Theodore... More
New York; (1980): Garland STPM Press. First Edition. Small Quarto. First printing. ix, 143 pages, profusely illustrated. Bibliographic references (pages 141-143). A book printed in a small print run for universities, not only are good copies uncommon, this copy has the original dust jacket. Ekman has devoted a long research... More
Washington, DC: G.P.O., 1884. First Edition. Quarto. [8], vii-xxxii, 473 pages, 85 plates (7 double, 5 folded) illustrations (some in color), maps. The largest part is devoted to Hawaiian volcanoes on pages 80-219. Besides maps of all the major islands, it deals with the major eruptions and its effect on... More
Berkeley, California; (1975): Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University By the University of California. First Edition. Quarto. The set is the most comprehensive study of meteorites every made. When it was issued in 1975 at $140.00, universities and science museums were its primary customers. It is indispensable to meteorcists... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1898. Firat Edition. Octavo. xii, 362 pages, [32 leaves of plates] with the folded map. Ella Sykes accompanied her brother Captain Molesworth Sykes who had been asked by the Foreign Office to found a consulate in Kerman and Baluchistan. She writes in the preface: "As I believe that... More
London: Trubner & Co, 1885. Quarto. viii, 32 pages, 2 maps, 13 plates (3 folded). While a brilliant Egyptologist, the scholarship while excellent made assumptions which modern Egyptologists find unconvincing. Bound in printed paper covered boards lettered in black, backed in black cloth, corners worn, covers darkened and finger soiled, label of Lowell city library. More
Worcester, MA: Printed By Isaac Sturtevant for Remark Dunnell, 1814. 16mo. 192 pages. Sharon Block writing in the Journal of American History notes that this is one of the books that terrified and incensed the populace who read about the vicious rapes by the redcoats (p. 116ff.). While courts of... More
Hollis, NH; (1997): Penobscot Press. First Edition. Octavo. . viii, 619 pages, includes bibliographic references (pages 561-564) and index. The town's history was intense with twenty-seven "first families" from the early 18th century until the Gold Rush when those tired of the hard scrabble farming dreamed of Gold, most returned... More
New York. Nd(ca.1927): Brentano's. 16mo. 127 pages. Warren S. Miller's copy. He was the Chairman of Hayden, Miller of Cleveland who joined J.P. Morgan and others at for dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria to discuss how to stop the spread of investor protection laws. Hayden said the laws were paternalistic and... More
(Barmeier & Nikel, Frankfurt, 1968). Octavo. no pagination. circa 234 pages, German text with over 100 illustrations lampooning Adolf Hitler. While these thoughts may have occurred to some in the Third Reich, they would have led to the torture and execution of the writer in the Nazi years. One cartoon... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Octavo. xiv, 2 leaves, [3]-394 pages, frontispiece, illustrations, plates, diagrams. Wallin was among the most important writers in the early 20th Century on education for handicapped children. He was far ahead of his time in espousing the use of eurhythmics to develop auditory faculties in handicapped... More
Youngtown, Ohio: Medical Success Press, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. [1-6] 7-191 pages. Blanchard was a medical doctor who wrote a futuristic history of the United States from the year 2162 back to about his own era as the Great Depression was in its worst early stages. His idea of the... More
London: For William Miller, 1809. First Editions. Folio. In three volumes. The author's personal set with his bookplate and with a small portrait engraving of the Viscount mounted to the first blank leaf. The author and his secretary/ draftsman Henry Salt left England on board the Minerva and embarked on... More
New York: Chautauqua Press, 1886. Small Octavo. (3)pp. publisher's ads, 284pp., with four illustrated star charts following. Illustrated throughout with full page and textual illustrations. The author writes of the telescope, the reflecting telescope and the spectroscope, includes celestial measurements, about the sun and what if does for us, the... More
New York: Dayton and Newman, 1842. First American Edition. Small Octavo. From the last Edinburgh edition, 165(1)pp., 18pp. publisher's ads, illustrated with 21 full page black and white illustrations, some folding. The author presents the motions of the planetary orbs; the early astronomy with a supplementary chapter on the characteristics... More
(New York, 1954): Random House. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 1000 copies numbered and signed by the author. 437pp., The winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. A novel set in the trenches in France during World War One dealing apparently, with a mutiny... More
Chicago; (1975): The University of Chicago Press. First Edition. Quarto. . 219pp., with a foreword by Carl Zigrosser. The definitive catalog raisonne which contains 156 of his best known illustrations along with numerous lesser prints, pattern designs for textiles, and prints made from drawings for woodcuts done in collaboration with... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1992. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to only 200 copies signed by Alderson and Foreman, Beautifully illustrated in color with some highlighted in gold, bound in dark blue cloth, all edges gilt, color pictorial illustration mounted to upper board, spine lettering gilt. A finecopy in fine slipcase... More
Chicago: The Coverdale Press, 1961. Limited Edition. Folio. Limited to 985 copies numbered and signed by the author, with an introduction on the life and work of Johannes Gutenberg by Aloys Ruppel, color portrait frontispiece of Gutenberg, 263pp., (1)pp. colophon, This book was dedicated to Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957) who... More