Condition: Very Good

CORPUS ANTIQUITATUM AMERICANENSIUM / MEXICO II / Colecciones Leigh y Museo Frissell de Arte Zapoteca

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cordoba, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico. 1966 : 1966

Seller ID: k190719j

Condition: Very good

4to. Unbound sheets in gray board portfolio with string tie. 91 b/w photographic sheets, several with multiple images prefaced by 121 pages of descriptive annotations in both Spanish and English. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. The second volume of a series written and illustrated by Boos on the ceramic sculptures which appear on the funerary urns of the Precolumbian Zapotec (Oaxacan ) Culture of southern Mexico. Very good: the photographic plates and descriptive pages are fine. Portfolio overs fully intact but with browning to the fold-overs, slight surface wear to both panels, some spotting and wear...
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Dentelles de l'Europe Centrale [Central European Lace]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Librairie Gründ, Paris : 1926

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: k200312c

Condition: Very good

Librairie Gründ, Paris n.d. [1926] 4to, 4 page Introduction & 64 black & white loose b/w photographic plates (complete) in a folder with ties; Folder is brown paper over boards, with fabric spine, black titles on front and spine. Photographic plates of lacework [dentelles] from the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs Paris 1925. Librairie Gründ, also known as "Les éditions Gründ " was a French publishing house started in 1880 by Ernest Gründ and Émile Maguet, specialising in works about art. This work is more commonly found in an edition published in 1926 by A. Levy; there is no title or copyr...
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Aertbeeyinge tot Jedo [Earthquake in Edo (Japan)]. Copper engraving, 1725.

By: Aa, Pieter van der

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Leyden, Aa, Pieter van der : 1725

Edition: Original print

Seller ID: k201019c

Condition: Very Good

Copper engraving. B/w. Overall size approx 19-1/4”x15-1/4”; image size 12-1/2”x9”. An earthquake and erupting volcano in Japan ("Jedo"). A temple falls in ruins while men and women lament in the foreground and are drowned in the raging flood. ##### This print is from the scarce 'La Galerie Agreable du Monde (...). Tome premier des Indes Orientales.', published by Pieter van der Aa, Leyden, c. 1725; reworked from an original plate first published by Arnoldus Montanus in1669. ##### Condition: Very good; a clean and crisp image with wide margins.
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Valley Forge / A Play in Three Acts [Signed Copy]

By: Anderson, Maxwell

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Anderson House : 1934

Edition: 1st ed.

Inscription: Double Signed and Inscribed by Anderson

Seller ID: k18022609

Condition: Very Good

1st ed., 12mo blue cloth. 169 pp. A historical drama of he dark days at Valley Forge when the fortunes of the rebellious colonists were at their lowest ebb. A splendid picture of Washington and his defiant troops. Good+; a very good, clean tight copy but covers lightly faded at extremities; d/w is fair with darkened, rubbed spine, a large 4” closed tear on back, and several smaller open tears front and back. Doubly signed and inscribed by Anderson with a flat signature on the title page and inscription to Hollywood screenwriter Frank Partos on the half-title page. Partos shared an Academy A...
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La Cronología De Ixtlilxóchitl [The Chronology [History] of Ixtlilxóchitl

By: Avilés Solares, José

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Taller Autográfico. Secretaría De La Defensa Nacional, México : 1939

Edition: 1st ed

Seller ID: k191122e

Condition: Very Good

The Art of Armenian Cooking

By: Baboian, Rose

Price: $200.00

Publisher: NY, Doubleday : 1971

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: m200801c

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Stated 1st edition. 8vo, cloth. 264 pp. Dust jacket. Armenian dishes adapted to the modern kitchen - the definitive guide to this centuries-old cuisine. Mark Zanger, a Boston-based food reporter, wrote that Baboian's book "stands out as a model of American ethnic food because she recorded so many traditions" and was the first book to make Turkish Armenian recipes accessible for younger generations of Armenians who spoke only English. No photos or illustrations. The book itself is very good-near fine. The dustjacket is fair only: price-clipped, chipped at edges, with the back panel nearly det...
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CORPUS ANTIQUITATUM AMERICANENSIUM / MEXICO I / Las Urnas Zapotecas en el Real Museo de Ontario.

By: BOOS, FRANK

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cordoba, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia : 1964

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k190719i

Condition: Very Good

4to. Unbound sheets in gray board portfolio. 32 b/w photographic sheets, several with multiple images prefaced by approximately 50 pages of descriptive annotations in both Spanish and English. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. The first volume of a series written and illustrated by Boos on the ceramic sculptures which appear on the funerary urns of the Precolumbian Zapotec (Oaxacan ) Culture of southern Mexico. Plates and sheets are fine. Very good: the photographic plates are virtually pristine, with just a bit of toning to the binding edge of several of the descriptive pages. Covers fully intact but w...
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The Volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa: their variously recorded history to the present time.

By: BRIGHAM, William T.

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press : 1909

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: k190114d

Condition: Very Good

4to. Tan cloth with black lettering. [vii, 222 p. illus., pl. xli-lxvii] color frontispiece, 26 b&w plates, numerous text illustrations. First edition. Separately published as Vol II No. 4 in the Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. William Tufts Brigham (1841-1926) was curator of the museum and wrote on all aspects of Hawaiian culture and natural history. This work is a history of the recorded eruptions of the volcanoes and is comprehensive in its coverage of sources and past accounts of volcanic activity. Condition: ex-lib but in very goo...
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A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution....

By: Charles Duff

Price: $62.50

Publisher: Hale, Cushman & Flint, New York : 1929

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200325a

Condition: Very good

FULL TITLE: A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution, and Containing Much Useful Information on Neck-Breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; As Well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an Account of the Late MR. Berry's Method of Killing and His Working List of Drops; To Which Is Added a Hangman's Ready Reckoner and Certain Other Items of Interest; All Very Proper to Be Read and Kept in Every Family ##### New York: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1929. First Edition. 16mo; Black cloth with printed spine label. 129pp + hangm...
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Birch Bark Poems, Vol. 1.

By: Charles F. Lummis

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Chillicothe, OH, Charles Lummis : 1884

Edition: 2d edition

Seller ID: k200613a

Condition: Very good

2d edition. 8 pp. 2.5”x3”, stitched, illustrated wrappers. (12) pp. A collection of small poems written in the transcendental style, Birch Bark Poems is printed entirely on thin and delicate birch bark, with engravings of birch trees on front and back. Lummis cut the bark from the trees, set the type, and did the printing. This is a later printing [ninth thousand] of the second edition. First published while Lummis was working for a small publishing firm in New Hampshire, the first printing (1878) was only a dozen or so copies. This allowed Lummis to work out the medium's eccentricities. Th...
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Manual of the Corporation [Common Council] of the City of New York, for 1866

By: D. T. Valentine

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Edmund Jones & Co., NY : 1866

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200329a

Condition: Very good

1st ed., 12mo.. [xvi], 820 pp. Color chromolith title page and 12 city views [4 folding] plus dozens of b/w engravings, 2 folding maps, 2 folding charts, 2 folding signature facsimiles. Rebound in modern tan library binding. The "Manuals of the Corporation" [contain extensive historical and contemporary records of New York City and are an indispensable source of early New York City history. Valentine (1801-1869) served as the Deputy to the Clerk of the Common Council for thirty-seven years. He published these books annually between 1841-1866; they include detailed information on the meeti...
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Songs of Childhood

By: De La Mare, Walter

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co., London : 1923

Seller ID: k180228g

Condition: Very good

First thus. 8vo, half vellum, gilt lettering. The deluxe edition, limited to 310 copies signed y de la Mare. Illustrated with 8 full-page mounted color plates by Estella Canziani. A very good copy with lower corners heavily rubbed, some light soiling, bookplate inside front cover, pencil erasures on front flyleaves. Pristine text block. Lacking dustjacket.
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The Way of the Whirlwind [ in d/w]

By: Durack, Mary and Elizabeth

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Consolidated Press, Sydney : 1943

Edition: 2d printing

Seller ID: k200115d

Condition: Very good

Script: Original Screenplay / Scenario for the Tod Browning/Lon Chaney film “West of Zanzibar”; MGM, 1928.

By: Elliott Clawson

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Metro Golden Mayer Studios : 1928

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200110d

Condition: Very good

Scenario by Elliott Clawson [Cover dated June 14, 1928 ; on page 1 dated June 7] Pale yellow covers, paper label with MGM logo; stamped “file copy”; two-hole punched, brass brads. No. 1666 stamped upper right corner; no. 3580 on the label. Lower right corner: “Script Okayed” by [producer] Mr. [Irving] Thalberg. June 14. 1928. 85 pages mimeographed in black ink. Title page integrated with first lines of text. West of Zanzibar is a 1928 silent film directed by Tod Browning. The screenplay concerns the vengefulness of a cuckolded magician (Chaney) paralyzed in a brawl with his rival (L...
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Rencontres

By: Fargue Léon-Paul [Jean-Gabriel Daragnès]

Price: $475.00

Publisher: Paris, Daragnès : 1954

Edition: 1st edition, limited to 140 copies

Seller ID: s200628f

Binding: Loose signatures in chemise and slipcase

Condition: Very good

Rencontres [Meetings] Bois en couleurs de Jean-Gabriel Daragnès. Avant propos de Colette, Portraits par A. D. de Segonzac [Colored woodcuts by Jean-Gabriel Daragnes, Foreword by Colette, Portraits by A. D. de Segonzac. ##### Paris, Daragnès, 1954. 4to, 33cmx26cm. [2ff.], 118pp., [3ff.] Copy no. 68 of 140. Orange boards, white vellum spine with gilt lettering. Card slipcase. Fargue’s homage to his long friendship with Daragnes -- published after both their death’s by the latter’s wife. Fargue died in 1947; Daragnes in 1950. The text is previously unpublished and is illustrated with a suit...
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Stockton Boyhood/ Being the Reminiscences of Carl Ewald Grunsky

By: Grunsky, Carl Ewald

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Friends of the Bancroft Library, The : 1959

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 000282

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Limited to 800 copies. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Sm. 4to; 134 pp., illus. Essays written at the end of Grunsky's life about his early years in Stockton, California, and studying engineering in Germany. Grunsky was an important Civil Engineer, working on the Panama Canal and the improvement of port facilities in California.
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Archeological Researches of Costa Rica

By: HARTMAN, C. V. [Carl Vilhelm]

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Stockholm: Ivr Haeggstroms Boktryckeri. The Royal Ethnographical Museum in Stockholm. : 1901

Edition: 1st

Seller ID: k190711g

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1st ed., folio, cream cloth. 196 pp. plus map, two folded plans, and 87 full-page photographic plates by J. Cederquis, mostly b/w but some in color. Each plate has multiple objects depicted, printed on one side and each preceded by an identifying sheet containing the plate number and a brief description. . Profusely illustrated with more photos and drawings in the text. Not to be confused with Hartman’s later work, published by the Carnegie Institute, “Archeological Researches on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica.” This first work covers his researches on the east coast and on the highland ...
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The Railway Magazine, and Annals of Science, New [Second] Series], A complete run of Nos. 1-10 in a single volume [March 1836 to December 1836]

By: Herapath, John.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: England, The Railway Magazine : 1837

Edition: 1st thus

Seller ID: cs210331a

Binding: 1/4 leather

Condition: Very good

The Railway Magazine, and Annals of Science, New [Second] Series], A complete run of Nos. 1-10 in a single volume [March 1836 to December 1836], consecutive pagination. “Containing Copious Accounts of All Railways at Home and Abroad, Notices of Inventions, and Scientific Discoveries” 1st ed., thus. Previously published in parts. 8vo, pp. viii, 480, [4 (index)]. 7 folding engraved maps and plates, the map of Harwich Railway with hand-coloring, but with a 4” closed tear. CONDITION: Very good. Modern binding, green/black pebbled leather, gilt titles on spine, deckled foredge. Prior owner’s blind-...
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[Black Fury] Archive of film-related correspondence by Sacco-Vanzetti/Nuremberg Justice Michael A. Musmanno

By: Hon. Michael A. Musmanno / Bruce Lockwood

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: n.p, n.p. : 1935

Seller ID: k210726g

Condition: Very Good

[Black Fury] Archive of film-related correspondence by Sacco-Vanzetti/Nuremberg Justice Michael A. Musmanno#####A remarkable archive of nearly 41 original letters from noted judge/author/screenwriter Michael A. Musmanno concerning the 1935 Warner Brothers film "Black Fury" starring Paul Muni. The letters are written to his ghostwriter/script doctor/amanuensis Bruce Lockwood. With another five letters from Lockwood to Musmanno. #####The film was based on an actual 1929 incident in whichJohn Barkoski, a miner agitating for recognition of theUnited Mine Workers of America, was beaten to death by...
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Arthur Rackham: His Life and Work

By: Hudson, Derek

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann : 1960

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 000327

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

1st edition of the classic biography of Rackham, including 32 tipped-in color plates and numerous b&w drawings in-line with text. Bibliography and checklists. APPENDIX A Bibliography, APPENDIX B Drawings and paintings in Collections, APPENDIX C The Printed Work of Arthur Rackham. D/w soiled with several large closed tears, one open tear
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