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The Original Watercolor Paintings By John James
Lupetti and Co.
Milano, Italia 1992 First Printing Hardcover Near Fine Fine
small folio approx 11.5" x 13" a minor bump along the for-edge of the block that has also slightly dinged the boards just in that spot, o/w fine. Exceptional copy of one of the scarcest and finest books on the history men's fashion. beautifully printed facsimiles of vintage colors advertisements from 2 centuries men's clothes. Beautifully produced coffee-table book. The dustwrapper is in afresh mylar sleeve. 230p 019032
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TEREZIN.
Severoceske Nakladatelstv
Czechoslovakia 1988 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine Small Folio
298pgs. Black and white, color illustrations. Light Gray boards, black lettering. light toning to edges. Unclipped illustrated jacket has closed tear on spine. photos, text of Terezin from past and present. 107055
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25.00 USD
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Lettre De Lucia
Haiti Solidarite Internationale
Haiti 1993 First Edition Softcvoer Very Good
200pgs. photos. stiff wraps, light creasing to covers, internally fine. French Text. Haitian political dossier written after the miltiary coup of 1991 ousted Jean -Bertrand Aristide from his presidency. 0303251
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35.00 USD
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ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE - 49TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION 1934
Archtiectural League of New York
New Yok 1934 First Edition Spiral Bound Good Small Folio
120pgs. black and white photographs throughout. Examples of architecture and domestic architecture of that year. Gilt and silver endpapers are mottled, offsetting to front cover, and moderate soling to covers, crease on corner of rear cover. internally clean, with light mustiness. Includes Walker and Gillette, Melvin Pratt Spalding, Isabella Pendleton, others. 0304526
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John Marin; Watercolors, Oil Paintings, Etchings
Museum of Modern Art
New York 1936 0302452 Liimited Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Good
102pgs., 47 plates, 6 in color. red, tweed boards. gilt lettering.color fronitspiece. Unclipped jacket (great photo of John Marin on the front panel is very soiled. closed tear on upper edge of front panel, and small chips on rer panel. in fresh mylar sleeve, 0302452
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28.00 USD
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The Fourth Chime
National Broadcasting Company
New York 1944 Limited Edition Hard Cover Very good- No Jacket Large Quarto
174pgs. Black Boards, Gilt lettering. black and whitte photographs throughout. light chips to spine edges, extremities. internatlly clean, unmarked copy. light mustiness. This is a limited Edition, #469 of 1,000 copies. 0304350
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1000 basic chinese character cards with Read Chinese and Speak Chinese
Far Eastern Publications/Yale
New Haven, CT First & Second Printing Before Pub. Good Box Stout Quarto
1000 cards with one character on each card. Cards, which are clean, in two columns, housed in a white box. box has wear at hinges, waterstains on the edtges. Also included is "Read Chinese, Book One, by Fang-hyu Wang, edited by Pao-ch' Lee , 1967and Speak Chinese by M. Gardiner Tewksbury,1968. both have some stains and curling, but serviceable and readable copies. 0304124
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New York City Market Analysis
New Yok 1943 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Folio
unpaginated. Red burlap cloth with silver lettering on front panel, black lettering on creased spine. plastic comb binding. color foldout maps of ecah borough. internally clean. musty odor. Hundreds of black and white photos of every nieghbordhood from all five boroughs, with accompanying maps. The book gives the breakdown of incomes and residential averages, which was useful for marketing. Wonderful look at New york neighborhoods 70 years ago. 0304270
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105.00 USD
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Architectural Forum December 1939
Time Inc.
New York 1940 First Edition Spiral Bound Very Good+ Small Folio
68pgs. Black and white illustrations throughout. Sitff wraps with spiral binding. Black cover, white lettering. slight rubbing to extremities, otherwise fine, unmarked copy. Fabulous examples of the architectural styles of that period, as well as ads for refrigerators, bathroom equipment. Includes articles, illustrations on Parkchester apartments, houses by Gropisu and Breuer, George Howe, others. 0304516
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Munsey's Magazine Vol. 25 (XXV) April 1901
Frank A. Munsey
New York 1901 First Ediiton Leather Good Large Quarto
916pgs. photos, illustrations throughout.Maroon-half leather, maroon boards, raised bands, gilt lruling, lettering on spine.corners are chipped, spine chipped rubbed. inner hinges are reinfroced with heavy archival tape. photos throughout. Chronicle of events at that time, this issue features King Edward VIII, Wall street, evolutionof photography, trip to Egypt, etc. 0304708
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The Eighth Wonder (The Holland Tunnel)
B.F. Sturtevant Co.
Hyde Park 1928 Second Ediition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket
68pgs. 40 black and white illustrations, maps. Brown Cloth, brown lettering,wear to corners, Clean, unmarked text. A very nice copy overall. A fascinating look at the Holland Tuinnel, its construction and completion. With many photos, showing the apparatus used to construct it. 0303301
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20.00 USD
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Writers at Work: Seventh Series
Viking Pr
New York, New York, U.S.A. 1986 0670808881 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fiine Near Fine
8vo. Introduction by John Updike. Book has slight soiling to page block. DJ has minor edgewear. Otherwise fine, clean copy. Price is intact. DJ protected in fresh mylar. 331p 107044
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80.00 USD
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Webster's New International Unabridged Dictionary Second Edition(India Paper Edition)
G & C Merriam Company Publishers
1956 Second Edition Unabridged Hardcover Very Good- Stout Folio
Tan cloth, Unabridged, has finger indexes along foreedge lightly rubbed, wear to the corners. Only last few pages are wrinkled. Internally, it is really clean without the usual wrinkling to the first few pages found on most copies. This copy still has it's bright gilt titling on the front cover and the spine, Several pages have a closed tear on the bottom edge, a few pages in the rear have closed tears at the corners, one page having a chip on the upper edge(No loss of text)Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Overall a very nice copy of the most sought after unabridged dictionary in the world. it has over 600,000 entries, the third edition would have substantially less! 022351
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160.00 USD
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Herbert Bayer. Painter, Designer, Architect.
Reinhold
New York 1967 First Ediiton Hardcover Very Good no Jacket Small Folio
210pgs.illustrated throughout. Blue Cloth, fading to spine. School library stamps on bottom outer page edges, endpapers. a few pages have smudges, front panels evenly soiled. overall a tight, sturdy copy.Bayer, part of the Bauhaus movement, left Germany to live in the U.S.His lower case letter design is recognized as a well known style. 0304798
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40.00 USD
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Terminorum Musicae Index Septem Linguis Redactus
Akademiai Kiado
Budapest 1978 3761805535 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Stout Quarto
798pgs. Red Cloth, gilt lettering. prev. owner signature Siegmund Levarie, renowned musicologist, on front endpaper. light wear to extremities, small spot onf ront panel, internally clean, unmarked copy. Musical terminology in English, French german, Italian, Russian, Hungarian. Polyglot Dictionary of Musical Terms 0303426
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St Thomas Church
St Thomas Church
1965 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good + No dust Jacket
Paper covered boards with red cloth spine, Boards has remnant of sticker on front and mild soiling. Slight edgewear and bumped bottom corners. Last page is a bit loose. Otherwise tight. Nice copy. 106919
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15.00 USD
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Ecole D'art Volume 10
Greenwich Art Syndicate
New York First Edition Softcover Very Good Quarto
unpaginated.Nude woman in color on cover. approx. 50 pages of black and white photographs of nude women, one color centerfold. light soiling to covers, internally clean. Designed as a "School of Art for the artist as well as the novice. 0304527
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A brief story of the Gevaert. Companyand its place in the photographic world of today.
Country Life Press
Garden City, NY 1939 First Edition Softcover Good Small Quarto
unpaginated, previous owner stamp on title page. beige wraps with orange Trylon and Perisphere.Sepia toned photographs of photography production in the Gevaert Factory in Belgium. Covers are darkened along the edge, foxed with dampstain on rear panel, inside rear cover. several pages in the rear are rippled, musty odor. Published on the occasion of the Gevaert Exhibition in the Belgian pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939. 0304408
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The Holy See and the War in Europe March 1939-August 1940
Herder
Dublin 1968 First English Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good
495pgs. Burgundy Cloth. Bright Gilt lettering. Liftoff on front endpapers, otherwise fine copy. corners square Appears unread. foldouts with facsimile letters. Price-clipped jacket has superficial wear to exteremtiies. in fresh mylar sleeve. This is Volume One of Records and Documents of the Holy See relating to the Second World War. 0303761
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ukiyoe-from matsukata Collection
Japan First Edition Soft Cover Near Fine Large Quarto
Stiff wraps, color covers. 244 wonderfully reproduced color prints of the Ukiyoe style of art. front panel is creased otherwise fine, unmarked copy. 107389
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125.00 USD
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A E Johnson The Russian Ballet
Constable & Company Ltd
London 1913 First Edition Hardcover Very Good
Large 4to in original gilt illustrated tan cloth with a large double-headed eagle embossed in gilt on the cover. This copy has been expertly restored by having had it re-cased and re-backed (in beautiful tan goat skin with raised bands and gilt title and small gilt devices in each panel. With 'London 1913' on the lowest panel. Beautifully illustrated throughout with color and black and white illustrations, by Rene Bull, with the wonderfully executed & printed, tissue-guarded color plates. The tissue-guard on the frontispiece has some creasing. Titlepage printed in red & black. Top edge gilt; others uncut. Silk ribbon page marker. Occasionally only, -and moreso at the prelims there are minor smudges, stains, and/or (occasional) scattered foxing. Anna Pavlova has her own chapter; being the last one in the book. 240 pages. A hard to find classic on Russian Ballet with chapters on the greatest luminaries in Russian ballerinas. 201679
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850.00 USD
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A.F. Mummery My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus
Barrows Mussey
NY 1937 Hardcover Very Good Very Good
16 photo plates. beige cloth 8vo in yellow illustrated unclipped dustwrapper. Light generall dustiness, some marks on endpapers otherwise generally clean and tight. Some even toning to the spine strip of the unclipped dustwrapper (and very minor loss, wear along the top edge of the spine strip) and a little edge toning at the edge of the inner flaps. Looks near fine now in a fresh mylar sleeve. Some light spotting to the foredge of the book. o/w clean and tight. 256pp 201350
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Abbott, Frank Frost English One-Act Plays of Today
Oxford University Press
London 1962 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good
255pgs. light orange cloth, red spine label, gilt lettering. light spots, faint coffe ring, otherwise fine, unmarked copy. Price-clipped jacket has minor edgewear. in fresh mylar sleeve.Includes "The Browning Version" by Rattigan; "A Phoenix too Frequent" by Fry; "The Bespoke Overcoat" by Mankowitz; "The Pen of my Aunt" by Daviot; "Mother's Day" by Priestley; "Trifles" by Glaspell; "The Dock Brief" by Mortimer; and "Lord Byron's Love Letter" by Tennessee Williams. 0301559
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Abbott, R. Tucker American Seashells
Van Nostrand Company Inc.
New York 1954 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ Very Good-
541pgs.illustrated endpapers. Green Cloth, gilt lettering.color, black and white illustrations throughout. tight, clean copy a touch of mustiness, otherwise near fine. Unlcipped jacket has triangular chip on rear panel, smaller chips along extremities. More than 1,500 mollusk varieties are described and identified. in fresh mylar sleeve. 0302225
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Abe, Kobe The Box Man
Alfred A. Knopf
New York 1975 0394491068 2nd printing Hardcover Very Good very Good
178pgs. light green boards, with embossed circular design on front panel.gilt lettering. toning to edges,otherwise square corners,light offsettng to endpapers internally fine. Unclipped jacket a bit worn, with closed tear along edges of rear panel,.in fresh mylar sleeve. Described as a philosophical thriller. 0304413
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Abe, Kobo The Box Man
Random House Inc
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. 1974 0394491068 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine Near Fine
178pgs. Pale blue cloth with shiny embossed circle design. fading to edges of panels. Spine is bright!!!internally book is unread. Jacket has vertical rubs, otherwise no tears or chips. in fresh mylar sleeve. 104184
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20.00 USD
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Abe, Kobo Jazz Giants A Visual Retrospective
Billboard Publications
New York 1988 1st Printing Hardcover Fine Near Fine/price-clipped
280pgs.1986. A GREAT COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS of all the Jazz Greats since the beginning. Black and White, and full color photos. Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Miles Davis, Many photos by Well known photographers, including William Claxton. Dark Blue Cloth: Book itself is like new, unmarked, unread. jacket has a trace of wear at extremities. in fresh mylar. 010479
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75.00 USD
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Abelow, Samuel F. History of Brooklyn Jewry
Scheba Publishing Company
Broolyn, NY 1937 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ No dust Jacket Signed by Author
344pgs photos, map. . Dark Red Cloth, gilt lettering. spine edges have a hint of fraying, small ding on upper spine, corners lightly bumped. Autor signature, date on front endpaper. internally fine copy. A wonderful account of the evolution of the Brooklyn Jewish community. Scarce volume, especially in this condition. 0302263
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195.00 USD
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Abrams, Meyer Palestine As I Saw It
Leonard Company
Chicago 1936 First American Edition Hardcover Very Good No Jacket
112pgs.photo frontispiece. 11 photos.. Blue Cloth Gilt lettering. Tight clean copy, some rippling to rear panel. Inscribed by author on front endpaper. Author tells of his experience travelling to Palestine in the 1930's. 103028
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Acocella, Joan Mark Morris
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. 1993 0374202958 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good Quarto Signed and Inscribed By Author
305pgs. black and white photos throughout. Black Boards, white spine w/copper lettering. As new.. Inscribed by author and subject(Mark Morris) on half-title page. Unclipped pictorial jacket wrinkled on upper edge of rear panel. in fresh mylar sleeve 0303949
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Acton, Harold Memoirs of An Aesthete
Viking Press
New York 1970 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good-
388pgs. previous owner name, address on front endpaper, 12 black and white illustrations.ofsetting to front endpaper. lean to the spine, text is clean, unmarked. Unclipped jacket has closed tear on upper edge of front panel and spine extremities. in fresh mylar sleeve. classic autiobiography from this renowned British writer. Laid in are several articles about Harold Acton, as well as a New York Times obituary. 0304893
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Acton, Harold Prince Isidore
Methuen
Feliks Topolski
Great Britain 1950 First English Edition Hardcover Near Fine Very Good
172pgs. marble paper over boards. orange spine, gilt lettering. Beautifully made book about an important figure in Italian history. slight corner wear, otherwise fine copy. Atractive illustrations by Feliks Topolski throughout the book. Unclipped jacket has closed tear on rear panel. otherwise near fine. in fresh mylar sleeve. 105972
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Acton, Harold More Memoirs of an Aesthete
Hamish Hamilton
United Kingdom 1987 0241118972 First Paperback Edition Soft Cover Near Fine
388pgs. color photo on front cover.photos. a hint of edgewear, otherwise excellent condition. Continuation of Memoirs of An Aesthete, from 1939 on. His friendships with Evelyn Waugh, the Sitwells, and other members of English literatry society. 0302429
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Acton, Harold Memoirs of An Aesthete
Methuen
Great Britain 1970 2nd Impression Hard Cover Near Fine No Jacket
415pgs.small sticker ghost on, neat bookplate on front endpaper. frontispiece. Dark Green Cloth, black spine label, gilt lettering. Corners square, 17 black and white illustrations. exceptionally bright copy of this classic autiobiography from this renowned British writer. 0303582
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Acton, Lord Essays on Church and State
Hollis and Carter
London 1952 First English Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good
518pgs.Blue Cloth, black lettering. Paint spot on edge of spine, otherwise a fine, unmarked copy.Price-clipped jacket has edgewear along upper extremity. . in fresh mylar sleeve.Lord Acton fought for the independence of the state from the Church in the mid 1800's. . " Liberal self-governance will fortify the Church, not weaken Her, as She conducts Her spiritual battles. For Her "own everlasting". foundation," 106256
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Adam, George and Pearl A Book About Paris
Harcourt Brace
New York First Edition Hardcover Very good- No dust Jacket Large Quarto
192pgs color frontispiece. 15 black and white, sepia tone illustrations thorughout. .Burgundy Cloth laid paper. Paper spine and front panel labels. Wear to spine edges, corners.internally clean, unmarked circa 1920's. A traveller's look at Paris. The drawings reflect the quiet beauty of the city in a different era. 0303723
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