William Blackmore: Early Financing of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway and Ancillary Land Companies: 1871-1878
Denver: Bradford Robinson, 1949. 9.25 x 6.5 inches. 333 pages. Boards. First edition.
Denver: Bradford Robinson, 1949. 9.25 x 6.5 inches. 333 pages. Boards. First edition.
One page, 12mo. Adhesion along blank rear right side, where removed from an album. In fine condition. A signed quotation from Frederika Bremer: “’The shadow of God wanders through nature’” but in the noble heart, in the happy home his spirit loves to dwell. Fredrika Bremer” The quotation comes from.....
New York: Tompkins Square Press, 1967. 12mo. 62 pages. Portrait frontispiece by Bob Ellison. Original cloth, cover design by Renie Perkins. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies, this out-of-series. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on the limitation leaf: "For Sam, w/ best love Ray Bremser." this was the.....
New York: Harper Collins, 1985. 8.5 x 7.25 inches. 89, [7] pages. Black-and-white photographs by George Ancona. Glazed pictorial boards. Inscribed by Brenner on the half-title: "To Steven – Another snakelover! Barbara Brenner." The first edition was published in 1970 by Addison-Wesley. Both are suprisingly uncommon.
Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817. 8vo. Contemporary half leather.
London: Ridinghouse, 2014. 10.75 x 8 inches. 432 pages. Illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. First edition. "Rose English emerged from the Conceptual art, dance and feminist scenes of 1970s Britain to become one of the most internationally influential performance artists working today. This comprehensive exhibition catalog documents her 40-year.....
New York: Aperture, 2007. First edition, first printing, special proof copy. 13.25 x 10 inches. Color reproductions of Breuer's camera-less photography. Original boards; clamshell box. Signed and numbered P/P (?) on the colophon, with a Polaroid print laid-in. This is apparently a special copy in a pictorial folding clamshell box.....
New York: Roth / Horowitz, 2000. 4to. Color plates. Cloth; French-fold printed wrapper; board slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies of the trade issue.
Phaidon, 1966. 206 pp. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket.
Ashland: Lewis Osborne, 1970. Introduction by David Lavender. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; plain dust wrapper. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION, number 317 of 1400 copies.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1951. 8vo. Original black cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. Best known for containing the first book appearance of the Frank Rooney story, "Cyclists' Raid" (originally publisher in Harper's). It was the basis for the first biker movie, "The Wild One," produced by Stanley Kramer, directed by.....
New York: George P. Putnam & Co., 1853. 8vo (7.25 x 5 inches). viii, 179 pages. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, BAL printing C with cancel title-page dated 1853. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.c(1). See Hill 183 for the first British edition.
American Photographic Pub Co, 1951. The second printing. Small 4to. 81pp. Spiral bound.
Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., [1960]. First edition. 8vo. Photographic illustrations, diagrams in text. Original black cloth; original printed dust jacket. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author: "To Roy with best wishes from Louis Brinberg". Brinberg was a cardiologist and researcher at Mount Sinai Hospital in.....
New York: Privately Printed, 1929. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Large 8vo. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Original pictorial dark gray wrappers over stiff wrapper (inch piece chipped from heel of spine); in a maroon half-morocco slipcase. First (and only) edition of the author's first book, a collection of.....
Boston: J. B. Millet Company, [1897-98]. 10 volumes, folio (398 x 295 mm). 10 color collotype frontispieces of flowers by Kazumasa Ogawa, 30 hand-colored albumen photographs by Tamamura Kozaburo mounted with printed tissue guards, numerous halftone photographic illustrations. Original silk printed in color and gilt over beveled boards in varying.....
New York: Delacorte Press / A Seymour Lawrence Book, 1971. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Thick 8vo. Original two-toned cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by Brinnin on the half-title beneath the printed title: "For Jack who always Wanted on the Voyage, with love from John.....
New York: Mantis, 2007. Oblong (8.5 x 12 inches). Original black cloth; folding case covered in red silk from India. Signed in gold ink on the half-title. One of 1,000 unnumbered copies. This is the original work created in India that led to her Academy Award-winning documentary Born into Brothel.....
London: The British Library, 1982. Second, revised edition. 4to. 24 pages. Original printed wrappers. Second, revised edition (the first was published in 1978). Detailing the foundation collections (Cotton, Harley, Sloane) and the other special collections (including Royal, Landsdowne, Hargrave, Stowe, Ashley and Yates Thompson). Also outlined are charters and rolls;.....
London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2007. 4to. 143 pages. Color photographs. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. "This is a profile of international artists who place craft at the heart of their practice, transforming everyday subjects and ordinary materials into works that are out of the ordinary" (the publisher).
Oslo: H. Aschehoug, 1944. 4to. 117 pages, including a number of illustrations. A very good copy in original printed paper wrappers.
New York: Jim Brodey Books, 1977. 4to. Side-stapled wrappers. First edition, one of only 100 copies published on the occasion of Brodey's reading with Allen Ginsberg, 8 December 1977 at New Norming Bookstore. Cover photos by James Hamilton, special attire by Ed Berghoff. Introduction by John Godfrey.
London: Longman, Brown, et al, 1842. Third edition. 8vo. Original cloth.
New York: Harper & Row, [1973]. 8vo. 172 pages. Purple and black cloth; printed dust jacket. First U.S. edition. Translated by George Kline and with a foreword by W. H. Auden, "After reading Professor Kline's translations, I have no hesitation in declaring that, in Russian, Joseph Brodsky must be a......
James L. Weil, 1990. 8vo. 3 pages. Sewn in printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, one of 50 copies.