Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Artists in Wood: American Carvers of Cigar-Store Indians, Show Figures and Circus Wagons

Fried, Frederick · 1970

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Clarkson Potter, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. This accessible social history provides 37 biographies of folk artists responsible for cigar-store Indians, tavern signs, cigar store Indians and rodeo and circus wagons. Sturdy, attractive, ...

The American Aesthetic

Nathaniel Alexander Owings · 1969

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Harper & Row, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. S. Dillon Ripley provides an Introduction to this arresting array of aerial photographs (including 16 of full-color), and Owings' text provides a social history of the American aesthetic. Sturdy...

American Porcelain: 1770-1920

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney · 1978

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Easily the to then definitive work devoted exclusively to porcelain made in America, colonial to the Roaring '20s. More than 130 examples of near-pe...

The Robert Lehman Collection, Volume XI: Glass

Lanmon, Dwight P. and Whitehouse David B. · 1993

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; n...

Oriental Carpets

Robert de Calatchi · 1970

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1970. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volume. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-w...

Israel: Years of Crisis Years of Hope

Frister, Roman · 1974

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlightin...

A Century of Books: The Jewish National and University Library, 1892-1992

Baras, Zvi · 1992

$8.80 (€7.98 | £6.66 | ¥1,405)

Jerusalem, Israel, Jewish National & University Library, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Glossy, pictorial wraps...

Juutalainen Kulttuuri

Harviainen, Toimittaneet Tapani and Karl-Johan Illman · 1998

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Helsinki, Finland, Kustannusosakeyhtio Otava, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Uncommonly scarce in the trade, there being no additional copies of this Finnish-language reader in Jewish history and culture available on-line. Sterling condition hardcove...

Emile Zola Et L'Affaire Dreyfus: Lettres Et Manuscrits

Escaut-Marquet, Th · 1987

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, Sotheby's of London, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An unusually fine exemplar of an unusually fascinating auction catalog, consisting of items auctioned off in Monaco in 1987 relevant to the Dreyfus Affair in France at the end of the 19th cen...

Short History of the Highland Brigade and Regiments

Anonymous · 1950

$10.40 (€9.44 | £7.87 | ¥1,661)

Glasgow, Scotland, R.E. Robertson, Ltd., 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Short little 24mo format, bound in blue paper over boards, abraded a bit, with gilt lettering to front cover. Foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Wavell, extolling the virtues of the ...

A Daughter of the Nobility

Borovsky, Natasha · 1985

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper, being warmly inscribed "to Marian Larson, best wishes to a reader with old American and European roots, Natasha B." Sturdy, attractive, tig...

Meetings with Pasternak: A Memoir

Gladkov, Alexander · 1973

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First American Edition, with "B" indicating first printing thereof, as is the wont of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Translated from the or...

English Literature, 1815-1832

Jack, Ian · 1963

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Oxford, England, Oxford University, at the Clarendon Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting no...

Karl Liebknecht, 1871-1919: A Political Biography

Helmut Trotnow · 1984

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Hamden, Connecticut, Archon Books, 1984. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy of the First American Edition of the work published first in Germany in 1980, with unbruised tips, tig...

Writing Dangerously: Mary Mccarthy and Her World

Carol Brightman · 1992

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Clarkson Potter, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear;...

Not Quite Posthumous Letter to My Daughter

Thomas, Caitlin · 1963

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fetching, long letter to the author's 18-year-old daughter. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shel...

Wallace Collection Catalogues: Picture and Drawings (Illustrations), Sixth Edition; Pictures and Drawings (Text with Historical Notes and Illustrations), Sixteenth Edition

Wallace Collection Catalogues; F.J.B. Watson, Director · 1905

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, William Clowes and Sons, Ltd., . Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copies of two exhaustive catalogues of the so-called Wallace Collection, the Sixth Edition having been published originally in 1905 and the Sixte...

The Telescope, Volume 1, Number 9, May, 1894

The California Normal School · 1894

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

San Jose, California, The California Normal School, 1894. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete, having been what appears to be "Class Property," a personal copy of Margaret Carter [?], being the ninth...

George Henry Thomas, the Dependable General: Supreme in Tactics of Strategy and Command

Palumbo, Frank A. · 1983

$8.80 (€7.98 | £6.66 | ¥1,405)

Dayton, Ohio , Morningside Bookshop, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. First Edition, an early contribution to the series of both classics reprinted ...

Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America

Brilliant, Richard · 1997

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Munich, Germany, Prestel, 1997. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps. Additional essay provided by Ellen Sm...