Condition: Good

A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster, On Occasion of the Late Earthquakes

By: (Earthquakes) Sherlock, Thomas

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Vertue and Goadby, Stationers at the Royal Exchange : 1750

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200225b

Binding: Wrappers

Condition: Good

One of several editions published in the year of the quake, 1750 (priority unknown.) 12mo, 16 pp. Unbound, as issued. Stitched at left margin, but stitches mostly pulled. ##### In 1750 a series of five earthquakes rocked London. This sermon by Thomas Sherlock warns of a merciful God to a sinful people and lays part of God’s wrath at the feet of a sinful press: "Have not all the Abominations of the publick Stews been open to view by lewd Pictures exposed to Sale at Noon-day? Have not Histories or Romances of the vilest Prostitutes been published, intended merely to display the most execrable s...
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MEXICAN HOUSES a book of photographs & measured drawings - 1st ed., signed by Oscar-winning set designer

By: GARRISON,RICHARD AND GEORGE W RUSTAY

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Architectural Book Publishing : 1930

Edition: 1st edition

Inscription: Signed by Oscar-winning set designer Walter Scott

Seller ID: k200312b

Condition: Good

1st ed, folio, black cloth, gilt titles. Xv [3] 173 pp. A look at the architecture and landscape architecture of early Mexico. From 1925-1929, Garrison and Rustay set out to record a select number of examples of the 'minor domestic architecture' of Mexico. They recorded a limited number of individual buildings through a mixed presentation of photographs, perspective and measured drawings, elevations, floor plans and details to produce a highly useful tool for architects designing Hispanic buildings. Profuse photographic plates, line drawings, and plans. While the book is still in print, the fi...
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The Quantocks and Their Associations. A Paper Read Before the Members of the Bath Literary Club on the 11th December 1871. [Significant, inscribed association copy]

By: NICHOLS, WILLIAM LUKE

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Bath: Printed for Private Circulation : 1873

Edition: 1st ed.

Inscription: Inscribed by author

Seller ID: k190121l

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. 41 [2] i-xxxiii. Tipped in photographic frontispiece of “Wordsworth’s Glen.” [See note below] A talk about the Quantock Hills area of southwest England, where Coleridge and Wordsworth wrote Lyrical Ballads, which Nichols writes about the landscape as well as some of the other "Quantock Poets," including Charles Lamb, Thomas Lovell Beddoes and Charles Lloyd. Gift inscription on FFEP “with the writer’s compliments” to Welsh mathematician, photographer, and painter Rev. Calvert R. Jones, [1804-1877]. We believe Jones m...
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Program for English Premiere of South African production of King Kong: A Jazz Musical

By: African Music and Drama Trust

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, African Music and Drama Trust : 1961

Edition: 1st ed

Seller ID: k210403a

Binding: Stapled wrappers

Condition: Good

London, Princes Theatre 1961 Stapled wrappers.7.25x5” 24pp.#####'King Kong' was a pioneering South African musical inspired by the life and death of the heavyweight boxing champion Ezekiel Dlamini. Billed as a 'Jazz-Opera', the production was first staged in Johannesburg, opening on February 2nd 1959 and went on to take South Africa by storm. Nelson Mandela attended the opening night and is on record as highlighting the show as his favorite musical. 'King Kong' subsequently opened at London's Princes Theatre on February 23rd 1961 and ran for 201 performances.#####With an all-black cast, the pl...
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AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE Volume 43 Jul-Dec 1930

By: AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE

Price: $125.00

Publisher: NY, AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE CORP : 1930

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200128c

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: Good

Six issues of approx. 200 pages each. 1st ed.,8vo, black cloth. Approx. 1200 pp. Articles, photographs, diagrams, and advertisements for city planners and municipal managers and buyers. Hundreds of b/w photos depiciting architecture, roads, and vehicles. Condition: Good; text block is very good, clean and tight. Covers with moderate surface wear and soiling but no significant damage. Ex-libris Los Angelis Public Library with its bookplate affixed inside; penciled price of $8, apparently when withdrawn and sold.
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AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE Volume 8 January-June 1913

By: AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE

Price: $125.00

Publisher: NY, AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE : 1913

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200128d

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: Good

1st ed.,8vo, black cloth. 684 pp. Articles, photographs, diagrams, and advertisements for city planners and municipal managers and buyers. Hundreds of b/w photos depiciting architecture, roads, and vehicles. Ex-libris Warner Brothers Studios research library with its paper seal affixed inside front panel; also ex libris Alfred F. Rosenheim, with his bookplate, -- one of the leading architects in Los Angeles in the early part of the 20th century. His major works include the Hellman Building and Second Church of Christ Scientist. Condition: Good; moderate wear to covers, two large chips at top ...
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Luxurious Bathing: A Sketch

By: Andrew W Tuer

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, London : 1880

Edition: 2d ed.

Seller ID: k190218b

Condition: Good

2d ed. [First thus; the true first edition was published in folio form with etchings by another artist.] , 9-1/4”x6”, full vellum binding, gilt titles and decorations, untrimmed pages. 60 pp. [2 advt] Woodcut decorations and ornaments in the text plus eight etchings by Tristam Ellis. Good condition. The covers are soiled with some spotting and chipping; very lightly warped -- though less than commonly found. [A publisher’s slip notice inside states that the book is prone to warping. Losse at the front joint. Prior owner’s bookplate inside front cover. Text block is clean and bright; some of t...
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NAPOLITANO - Fifteen Reproductions of His Work in Oil, Sgraffito, Fresco, Drawing and Mechanical Design.

By: Armitage, Merle & Giovanni Napolitano

Price: $140.00

Publisher: E. Weyhe Publisher, New York : 1935

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: k190212b

Condition: Good

1st ed., limited to 212 signed and numbered copies. Softcover, 50 pp. This brief monograph written and designed by Merle Armitage is still the major work on the Southern California-based artist Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano. An Italian-American figurative modernist, he is best known for his New Deal-era mural commissions for the Los Angeles Museum of Art and other Los Angeles area public works. CONDITION: Good; the text block, plates, and signed lithograph are near fine; the covers are damaged, as usually the case with this notoriously fragile publication: both flaps split at the folds, lacking...
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Manuel du Parfumeur. Troisieme Edition Francaise [Manual of Perfume]

By: Askinson, [George] [W]illiam

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Paris: G. Calmels, Bernard Tignol : 1890

Edition: Third

Seller ID: k200425b

Condition: Good

[1890] 8vo. Original morocco-backed marbled boards, raised bands ruled in gold, gilt titles. 442 pp. Text in French. Odors, essences, extracts & toilet waters, powders, sachets, etc. 30 in-text illustrations -- mostly laboratory equipment. Askinson was an English chemist, and the book was first published in Britain. This French edition was published as #15 in the series: Bibliotheque des Actualites Industrielles. There was also a later U.S. edition. ##### Condition: Edges rubbed, otherwise a very good, tight, clean copy of an uncommon book.
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LOCAL TALES AND HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

By: Bailey, Henry D. B.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: NY: Fishkill Standard : 1874

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: d17121004

Condition: Good

8vo, dark brown cloth, gilt titles on spine. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Bailey tipped in, 431 pages. Slavery, Freedom, and Ghosts in the Hudson River Valley - a mixture of fact and fable. Good. Rubbed at top bottom of spine, corners; bits of newspaper residue on back cover. Newspaper obituaries of Bailey glued to front end papers. Some damp-staining to flyleaf page with tipped portrait but not affecting the photo. Front hinge weak but intact. Text block otherwise clean and tight with no foxing.
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Anltigüedades Mejicanas Falsificadas: Falsificacion y Falsificadores [Faked Mexican Antiques: Counterfeit and Counterfeiters]

By: Batres, Leopoldo

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Mexico: Fidencio S. Soria, : n.d. [c. 1900].

Edition: 1st

Seller ID: k190711d

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

1st ed., small 4to, softcover. 30 pp + 63 b/w photographic plates with tissue guards, including two large folding plates -- the first of which is torn at the attachment. Otherwise a good copy in original wrappers. Covers cracked at spine ends, moderate staining. Except for the damage to the first plate, the text block is very good. A very clean tight copy; prior owner’s name stamp at upper right of title page. with no other noticeable flaws.
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The Horkey

By: Bloomfield, Robert

Price: $57.50

Seller ID: 040301

Condition: Good

1st edition; London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. Pictorial boards with cloth spine. Illustrations by George Cruikshank – note that this is not THE George Cruikshank, but his nephew. Interior is clean and tight. The covers are rubbed at edges, more heavily so at corners.
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Entirely Surrounded. [Inscribed Association Copy]

By: BRACKETT, Charles

Price: $500.00

Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf : 1934

Edition: 1st edi

Inscription: Inscribed on the half-title o Frank Partos, a fell

Seller ID: k210115i

Binding: Yellow cloth

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, yellow cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 247 [1] pp. Charles Brackett practiced law for several years before being hired as drama critic at The New Yorker, on the strength of his short stories for The Saturday Evening Post and his second novel, Week-End. He left New York to work as a Hollywood screenwriter, and had his greatest success in a long-running collaboration with Billy Wilder, including Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend and Sunset Blvd. “Entirely Surrounded” is a humorous novel about nineteen-thirties New Yorkers who holiday in Vermont. Many of the characters are stand-in...
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Nashi Tropiki (Our Tropics)

By: BRUNI, Lev Alexandrovich

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Moskva:, Molodaia Gvardiia : 1931

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: s220722e

Binding: Stapled wrappers

Condition: Good

7.5x5.75" [19x15cm] 24 pp., original decorative stapled wrappers./////Nashi Tropiki (Our Tropics) is a children's introduction to the geography and agriculture of the Soviet tropics [Batumi, Georgia] made by Russian avant-garde artist Lev Bruni. A masterful work of children's illustration consisting mostly of full-page drawings with limited text./////Our Tropics describes how the fruits eaten by Soviet children are grown in the lush tropics of Batum, in the Soviet state of Georgia. Paintings of Georgian men, women, and children in food production roles such as collecting tea seeds in the stat...
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[Maps / Tunnels] Report on Additional Transportation Facilities Between Alameda and Oakland, California and Serving the Alameda Naval Air Station [Webster Tube]

By: Calif. Dept. of Public Works

Price: $175.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. Dept. of Public Works : 1941

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: k221017c

Condition: Good

8.5x11, looseleaf mimeographed report, 30 pp. plus 14 fold-out exhibits, including two foldout maps depicting Oakland and Alameda and a dozen exhibits displaying technical details of the proposed tunnel and tube.The Posey and Webster Street Tubes are two parallel underwater tunnels connecting the cities of Oakland and Alameda, California, running beneath the Oakland Estuary. Both are immersed tubes, constructed by sinking precast concrete segments to a trench in the Estuary floor, then sealing them together to create a tunnel. The Posey Tube, completed in 1928, carries one-way (Oakland-bound) ...
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

By: Carle, Eric

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Cleveland, World Publishing : 1969

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: jb210906a

Binding: Pictorial cloth

Condition: Good

Oblong quarto, original illustrated cloth over boards. Unpaginated with [28] pp. #####First edition, first printing of this high-point of 20th century childrens' picture books. Complete number-line [1-5 / 73-69] on copyright page, number A3450 at lower corner of rear cover. White spine with black titling.#####The story of a caterpillar's journey toward metamorphosis traveling through a series of die-cut holes in six of the leaves (four of which are trimmed to shorter lengths) before constructing his cocoon and emerging a butterfly. Grolier Children's 100, No. 99.#####CONDITION: Good, lacking t...
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Livre D’Or du Bibliophile. 3 Volumes: 1925, 1926 – 1927, 1928 – 1929

By: Chambre Syndicale des D’Art; Various

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Paris, : Chambre Syndicale des D’Art : 1925

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: s200814a

Condition: Good

Première Année 1925, Deuxième Année 1926-1927, Troisième Année 1928-1929. First editions. All three years published. 4to [10”x12.5”], paper wrappers in printed dust-jackets. Unpaginated, but approx.. 200 pp. each volume. The first volume is limited to printing of 2000 copies and the third volume 1800; the second volume has no designation. Plain sewn wrappers, with volume 1 in library binding with original wrappers bound in. A remarkable publication consisting of announcements of limited edition illustrated books to appear between 1925-29, accompanied by samples from the works. More than 20 ...
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The Founding of Spanish California. The Northwestward Expansion of New Spain, 1687-1783.

By: Chapman, Charles Edward

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Macmillan, New York : 1916

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: k200814c

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles. 485 pp. [4 advts]. Frontispiece of Viceroy of New Spain, plus 6 maps. Condition: Good; a clean copy, with prior owner’s inked name and address on fep and back cover, rear hinge cracked; moderate wear to boards.
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Image for The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy. Translated into English verse by William Mason, M. A. With annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. president of the Royal Academy

The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy. Translated into English verse by William Mason, M. A. With annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. president of the Royal Academy

By: Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy / William Mason

Price: $225.00

Publisher: York, Printed by A. Ward, and sold by J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, [et al.] : 1783

Edition: 1st thus

Seller ID: s200901b

Binding: Vintage rebinding

Condition: Good

1st edition of this translation; 4to, pp. [iii]-xix, [3], 213 [1 Errata sheet]; rebound in modern ¼ leather marbled boards to match contemporary bindings. ##### Du Fresnoy ( 1611-1665) had a modestly successful career as a painter but is best remembered for his Latin poem De arte graphica, first published in Paris in 1684 and containing his observations on the art of painting, including a critical treatise with general advice to students. William Mason (d.1797) spent several years on this new version translated into English couplets. Includes a Preface and a verse Epistle to Sir Joshua Re...
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THE PICTURESQUE WORLD OR, SCENES IN MANY LANDS

By: COLANGE, Leo De (editor)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Estes & Lauriat, Boston : 1878

Edition: 1st

Seller ID: k200830b

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

1st ed. Folio, (10" x 12-1/2"). Vol 1 only (of two); publisher's decorated morocco leather, gilt titles, raised bands, a.e.g. Illustrated with 48 steel engraved views and hundreds of smaller wood engravings comprising mountain, lake, and river scenery, parks, palaces, cathedrals, churches, castles, abbeys, and other views. Vol I containing chapters on Europe: Italy France Russia Belgium Holland, Greece, Spain, Germany. Condition: Good+; Internally Vg; a clean bright copy with occasional light foxing not affecting the plates. FEP cracked. Covers heavily rubbed at corners, surface wear to b...
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