New York: Walter Wickiser Gallery, 1995. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 8.5 x 10 inches, 12 pp, with 5 illustrations (4 in color), chronology. Indentation to front wrapper and first page from a paperclip once was, mild bump to one corner, else fine. A recent bio notes that Kobayashis' art..... Item #1990
Hardcover. Very good. Bound manuscript, 9 x 7 inches, in contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards with gilt title and floral decorations on spine. [335] pp, with several charts (two folding) and 86 meticulously drawn illustrations in black ink, as well as a few unfinished pencil drawings. No author name or..... Item #21590
Milwaukee: Geo. Brunder, [1883]. Softcover. Good. 13 cm (ca. 5"), pp 110 , [2] (index); original sewn wrappers, with decorative initials and wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Final leaf (index of songs) and back cover are damaged, with some loss, chipping to corners of front cover; otherwise very good. An uncommon..... Item #21644
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. viii, 366 pp, with 19 steel-engraved plates (portraits and views of the authors' homes), 14 wood-engraved vignettes (of which 7 are printed in color), and 16 facsimiles. A handsome copy in publisher's full morocco with stamped decoration and raised bands..... Item #21559
Austin: University of Texas, 1916. Softcover. Good. 172 pp. Original wrappers present but heavily chipped, front wrapper detached. Binding sound, text unmarked. Old dampstin to lower outer corner of last 65 pp. Relatively scarce report resulting from Texas Governor James E. Ferguson's efforts to have several people he disliked for..... Item #21463
Marceline, MO: Walsworth, 1997. Softcover. Near fine. Exhibition catalogue. 8.5 x 11 inches, approximately 70 pp, with approximately 30 color illustrations. Clean and sound, with very light shelf wear. From the essay: "Long tells a story of endurance in a changing world. He is a thoughtful telling, in an oftentimes dark..... Item #1441
Beverly Hills, CA: Pace Wildenstein, 1996. Softcover. Very Good. 10 illustrated cards in folder, from an Exhibition held in 1996 and 1997. Light shelf wear to folder, cards show very light handling wear. Item #1429
New York: Nohra Haime Gallery, 1988. Softcover. Near Fine. Exhibition catalogue. 8.5 x 10.5 inches, approximately 35 pp, with 10 color illustrations (one foldout). Minimal handling wear. Ten beautiful color plates of Tacla's works with catalogue, exhibitions, bibliography. Item #591
Paris: Institut Néerlandis, 1972. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 8 x 10 inches, approximately 40 pp, with 27 illustrations. Light spotting and shelf wear to wrappers; contents clean. Text is in French. Item #1486
Softcover. Very good. Collection of 25 pieces of sheet music issued as Sunday supplements to the San Francisco Examiner, each 4 pp, 14 x 10.5 inches, printed on thick newsprint. All with the name "R. James" in ink on the cover, a few with short tears at margins or light..... Item #21298
1997: Kunstberatung und Vermittlung Klaus Spermann, Berlin. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 8 x 11.5 inches, 32 pp, with 15 color illustrations, price list laid in. Clean and sound, with light handling wear. Includes work by Juri Gobanov, Vladimir Igoumnov, Alexander Koshin, Anna Rezvanova, and Viktor Vorobjev. Text in in..... Item #691
India: Tourist Traffic Branch, Ministry of Transport, 1953. Softcover. Near fine. Stapled booklet, pp 22 + [10] (appendix), with b/w illustrations from photographs and colored fold-out map. Part of the "See India" series of tourist guides. Clean and sound, with light handling wear to wrappers. Offers infornation how to access..... Item #17726
[New York]: Printed by Snowden for the Box Office of the Opera House, 1851. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Libretto for the Italian version of this opera (first performed in French), with English translation on facing pages. 59 pp, in original printed wrappers. Split in paper at base of spine..... Item #22390
Undated, likely mid-1970s. 34 x 25-inch map showing hundreds of small lots for sale in this subdivision in Weed, near Mount Shasta in Siskyou County. Folding creases, one split along a fold, a few minor notations; very good. Development at Lake Shastina began in 1968 and focused on enticing well-heeled..... Item #21486
Very good. 24" x 17" engraving by Hezekiah Wright Smith (1828-1889) after a painting by Thomas Hicks (1823-1890), matted and mounted on cardboard backing (total dimensions 26.5" x 19"). Printed below image on left: Painted by T. Hicks. N. A.", and on right: "Engraved by H. Wright Smith." Dated to..... Item #22370
11" x 14" photograph showing members of the American Samoan Delegation--headed by famed Machu PIcchu explorer Hiram Bingham--being received by local chiefs, as a Samoan man films the proceedings. A slightly different version of this image (with the Samoan photographer removed) was published in a 1931 U.S. Government report with..... Item #21940
Cincinnati: Tom Jones, 1909. First American Edition. Softcover. Good. [32] pp (6 text, the rest panoramic illustrations from photographs), 5" x 13.23", oblong, string-tied wrappers. Some light soiling to upper corner of title page, otherwise internally very good, but with what appears to be pink, green, and white paint spilled..... Item #22525
New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Sotheby's exhibition and auction catalog from the York Avenue Galleries, April 23-24, 1981. Orignal illustrated wrappers; unpaginated, but approximately 120 pp, extensively illustrated with b/w photos. Some general shelf wear, a few annotations (auction estimates) in the text. Showcases..... Item #14889
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilsatch, Keys & Co., 1860. Soft cover. Very Good. Disbound article, pp 808-825 from Bayard Taylor's Cyclopaedia of Modern Travel: A Record of Adventure, Exploration, and Discovery for the Past Sixty Years. Illustrated with 3 small engravings and one full page map of Assyria and Mesopotamia Illustrating Layard's..... Item #11631
Amsterdam: J.M. Schalekamp, [1896]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. Large folio (16.75 inches), bound in three-quarter paper vellum and blue cloth with lettering and vignette in gilt. 44 pp + 15 plates (including 2 photogravures, 3 autotypes, and 8 original etchings by Phillipe Zilkcen after the brothers Maris). Number 17..... Item #21251
New York, London, Paris: Raphael Tuck & Sons. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. First Edition. Undated, 1890s. 7.25 x 14.5 inches, [14] pp, with glossy color cover, 8 color illustrations, and 19 line drawings. Light soiling to back cover, chip missing from outer paper at corner of front cover, otherwise..... Item #21804
Hackettstown, NJ: E. Winton, Printer, 1860. First Edition. 48 pp, in original illustrated wrappers. Some edgewear, stain to upper right corner of pages, still very good overall. McDade 438. Just a few months after having been roped into an unhappy marriage by his wife's parents, the Reverend Jacob Harden apparently..... Item #19817
Laconia, NH: John J. Lane. Undated, ca. 1892. 32 pp, illustrated with portraits and courtroom scenes. Original pictorial wrappers are missing a few large chips, and there is some staining in the text--mostly minor, but more significant on four pages (though not affecting legibility); good. On July 25, 1891, the..... Item #19813
[Germantown, PA]: [Germantown Print Works]. Textile. Good. An appealing illustrated broadside on cloth bearing a very early appearance of the famous "I cannot tell a lie" cherry tree story. Collins (Threads of History) says it was printed by the Germantown Print Works in Pennsylvania, ca. 1806. The story itself, which..... Item #20532
India: Tourist Traffic Branch, Ministry of Transport, 1954. Softcover. Near fine. Stapled booklet, 24 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs. Part of the "See India" series of tourist guides. Clean and sound, with light handling wear to wrappers. Includes a short history of the city and details on places of..... Item #17723
