Kaaterskill Books ABAA/ILAB

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction

Salinger, J. D. · 1959

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1959. First edition. Third issue. Cloth. 8vo. Owner's bookplate to front endpaper else a near fine copy with faint soiling to top edge in a very good unclipped dust jacket with a bit of soiling. A handsome copy.

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Keynes, John Maynard · 1920

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First American edition. Cloth. 295 pp. 8vo. A classic work by the towering figure of 20th century economics. A very good copy with rubbed boards, darkened spine, small nick to rear edge. No dust jacket.

Works of Genius: A Catalogue and a Commentary

Jenkins, John H. · 1974

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Austin, Jenkins Co. 1974. First edition. Paper wrappers. n.p. Illus. with b/w photos. 4to. Bookseller catalogue by John Jenkins, former ABAA president, with copious commentaries on one hundred items from early printings of Chaucer to Saul Bellow's Augie March. On Christmas Eve...

And Even Now

Beerbohm, Max · 1920

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, Heinemann, 1920. First edition. Cloth. IX, 320 pp. 8vo. Twenty essays by Beerbohn written between 1910 and 1920. Boards rubbed, spine ends worn, some fraying, rear endpapers toned, label rubbed but extra label in rear, leaves clean, unmarked, overall still a good solid...

Jo. Barclaii Argenis Cum Clave, Hoc Est, Nominum Propriorum Elucidatione Olim Quidem Edita

Barclay, John · 1673

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

Cantabrigiae, ex officina Joann. Hayes, celeberrimae academiae typographi. 1673, impensis Joann. Creed bibliopolae, Cantab. [1674], 1673. Editio ultima correctior & emendatior. Full calf, rebound with new spine and label with original blind embossed and ruled boards. [2], 586 ...

Pascin

(Pascin, Jules). Brodzky, Horace · 1946

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

London, Nicholas and Watson, 1946. First edition. Cloth. Col. frontis, 40 pp. + Plates [64]. Illus. with 64 duotone plates and in-text b/w drawings. Sm. 4to. Preface by James Laver. Jules Pascin [Julius Pincas] (1885-1930) Bulgarian-born American painter and printmaker know bo...

Amusements Serious and Comical and Other Works

Brown, Tom · 1927

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. First edition thus. Full black cloth with gilt decorations. Top edge red. xvii, 476 pp. Illus. with 16 b/w plates from contemporary engravings. 4to. Edited with notes by Arthur L. Hayward. This book, by one of the masters of English wit an...

The Parish-Watson Collection of Mohammadan Potteries

Riefstahl, R. Meyer · 1922

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.90 | ¥15,172)

New York, E. Weyhe, 1922. First printing. Cloth. [G-P], lxix, 259 pp.; Plates. Illus. with color & b/w plates. Folio. Number 233 of 500 copies. Boards rubbed, extremities worn, black tape repair to heel of spine, owner's bookplate to front pastedown, figure 28 loose and trimme...

Fong and the Indians

Theroux, Paul · 1976

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1976. First edition. Cloth. 199 pp. Sm. 8vo. First U.K. edition of the author's second novel (first published in the U.S. in 1968). A very good copy, price-clipped by publisher with publisher's price sticker, in a very good dust jacket.

Summits of Adventure: The Story of Famous Mountain Climbs and Mountain Climbers

Douglas, John Scott · 1955

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

London, Frederick Muller, 1955. First edition. Cloth. xii, 227 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. Sm. 8vo. Neate D39. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket.

Sir Henry Raeburn. Plates on India Paper

Armstrong, Walter; Stevenson, Robert Alan Mowbray; Caw, James Lewis · 1901

$350.00 (€317.54 | £264.88 | ¥55,897)

London, New York, W. Heinemann; Dodd, Mead & Company, 1901. First edition. Red cloth portfolio. 50 leaves. Illus. with b/w plates. 4to. Volume 2 of the limited edition of 110 copies which had two portfolios of duplicate plates, one on India paper and one on Japanese vellum. Th...

Sketches and Cartoons

Gibson, Charles Dana · 1898

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

New York / London, R. H. Russell / John Lane, 1898. First edition. Cloth. [2], 84 pp. [2]. Illus. with 84 b/w drawings. Obl. folio. The first of Gibson's books published in a uniform series. A few faint stains to the boards, some darkening at the edges, wear at the extremities...

Architecture of the Renaissance in England: Illustrated by a Series of Views and Details from Buildings Erected between the Years 1560 - 1635: With Historical and Critical Text. [Four Volumes]

Gotch, John Alfred; Brown, Walter Talbot · 1891

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London, B.T. Batsford, 1891. First edition. Quarter cloth over brown paper-covered board portfolios. xxii, [8], 52 pp.; 64 pp. + Plates. Illus. with 130 [of 145] b/w plates and 180 in-text drawings. Folio. Originally published in six parts. Here condensed into four portfolios,...

The Hispanic Struggle for Social Justice: The Hispanic Experience in the Americas

Cockcroft, James D. · 1994

$28.50 (€25.86 | £21.57 | ¥4,552)

New York, Franklin Watts, 1994. First edition. Cloth. 160 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. Author's copy. Marked Cockcroft's copy on free endpaper else a fine copy in a very good dust jacket.

As the Waltz Was Ending

Butterworth, Emma Macalik · 1982

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York, Four Winds Press, 1982. First edition. Cloth. 187 pp. 8vo. An autobiographical account of a young girl whose ballet career with the Vienna State Opera was interrupted by the invasion of the Nazis and who later had to fight for her life during the Russian occupation. ...

Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism

(Monet, Claude) Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wildenstein, Daniel, txt · 1978

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978. Paper wrappers. 181 pp. Illus. with color plates & b/w photos. Sm. 4to.. A very good crisp copy.

Through Pathless Skies to the North Pole" and "the Discoverer," in the National Geographic Magazine. Volume LLLL, No. 1-6, January-June, 1928

(National Geographic Society). Wyeth, N. C. · 1928

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Washington, D. C. National Geographic Society, 1928. First edition. Half red leather over cloth boards. 766 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos & drawings & maps. 8vo. The two fold-out murals by N. C. Wyeth plus articles on Lindbergh, Dalmatian Days, Bird Banding, adventures on...

Vision of a Collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress / Rare Books and Special Collections Division

Library of Congress. Rare Books and Special Collections Division · 1991

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Washington, D. C. Library of Congress, 1991. First edition. Cloth. xxxv, 427 pp. Illus. with 98 color & b/w plates. Sm. 4to. One hundred essays about The Rosenwald Collection which "constitutes the largest single gathering of rare books at the Library of Congress, and .. repre...

The Library of John Morris: The Reconstruction of a Seventeenth-Century Collection

Birrell, T.A. · 1976

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

(London), Published for the British Library by British Museum Publications, 1976. First edition. Cloth. xxiv, 83 pp. Illus. with 8 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. John Morris (1580-1658) was a wealthy dilettante, ranked among the second wealthiest groups of inhabitants of London. " But d...

Catalogue of the Frances Taylor Pearsons Plimpton Collection of Italian Books and Manuscripts in the Library of Wellesley College

Jackson, Margaret Hastings, compiler · 1929

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1929. First edition. Cloth. xxv, 434 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. Sm. 4to. Signed by the author with her card to front endpaper. Boards rubbed, rear board spotted, still a very good unopened (uncut) copy.