Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Bricks without Straw

Charles C. Norris · 1938

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Garden City, New York, Doubleday and Company, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper, Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-librar...

Modern Design in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1890-1990

Miller, R. Craig · 1990

$23.20 (€21.05 | £17.56 | ¥3,705)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. 360 illustrations of 125 masterworks of interior design, 211 in full-color, make this a remarkably handsomely produced volume. Illustrated endpapers. A superi...

Jo Delahaut Et la Reliure / En de Boekband

Baronian, Jean-Baptiste et al. · 1986

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Brussel, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, by Credit Communal Gemeentekrediet, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Jo Delahaut homage, a fine and amply illustrated copy, complete with bibliography, displaying his estimable grasp of the book arts, a treatise in bo...

The Pletzl of Paris: Jewish Immigrant Workers of the Belle Epoque

Green, Nancy L. · 1986

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Holmes & Meier, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Table of Contents lists the following: Introduction, List of 3 Maps, 2 Figures, 16 Tables, then chapters as follows: 1. Emigration and Immigration: Push from the East, Pull from the West; 2. Arr...

Claes Oldenburg

Oldenburg, Claes; Nadja Rottner ed. · 2012

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, M.I.T. Press, 2012. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the October Files, being Volume # 13, edited by Nadja Rottner, and with essays by her and by, among others, Joshua Shannon, Yve-Alain Bois, Julia E. Robins, Ellen H...

Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity : A History, 1789-2007

Carter Vaughn Findley · 2010

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Two centuries of Ottoman and Turkish social history and religious history. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, ti...

The Tradition of Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century: Catalogue of an Exhibition 12 November 1979 to 15 February 1980

Callery, Bernadette and Elizabeth Mosimann · 1979

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie-Mellon University, in collaboration with Davis & Warde, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine-looking, structurally sound catalogue of gorgeous book-bindery, edited by Be...

Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image

Tahan, Ilana · 2007

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, The British Library, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Lavishly illustrated with over 145 striking full color examples of Hebrew manuscripts, and written in accessible, fascinating style. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, t...

Le Symbolisme Des Nombres: Essai D'Arithmosophie

Allendy, R. · 1948

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

Paris, Chacornac Freres, 1948. Second Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Extremely scarce in the trade. Perhaps the most famous or influential French spokesperson for homeopathy, born on 19 February 1889, died on 12 July 1942. French psychoanalyst and homeopath, an i...

Himmel Auf Zeit: Die Kultur Der 1920er in Hamburg

Hempel, Dirk and Friederike von Weimar, eds. · 2010

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,111)

Neumunster, Germany, Wachholtz, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 4to 9" - 11" 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 ...

To Be a Good Printer: Our Four Commitments

Donnelley, Gaylord · 1977

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Laid in is a signed letter from the Chairman and President of The Lakeside Press of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Charles W. Lake, Jr., to "Donnelley Retiree" and who knew/knows the author, ...

A Gunter Grass Symposium

Willson, A. Leslie, ed. · 1973

$8.80 (€7.98 | £6.66 | ¥1,405)

Austin, Texas, Published for the Department of Germanic Languages, the University of Texas at Austin by the University of Texas Press, 1973. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine Gunter Grass festschrift, influential and popular, and in nearly As New cond...

The Munshi: A Standard Urdu Grammar, with Exercises and Full Vocabulary, Which Was Officially Recommended for Examinations in Urdu

Haidari, Mohamed Akbar Khan · 1961

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Islamabad, Karachi, Pakistan, Haidari's Oriental Book Depot, 1961. Eighteenth Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and still fairly sturdy. Fine glue-repair between boards and spine, holding strong. Bo...

Counterfeit

Cole, Sonia · 1955

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

London, John Murray, 1955. 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 nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust ja...

Stories of the Steppe

Gorki, Maxim; · 1918

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Boston, Stratford Company, 1918. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Translated from the original Russian by Henry T. Schnittkind and Isaac Goldberg, here are three short stories: "Makar Chudra," "Because of Monotony," and "The Man Who Could Not Die." Sturdy, attractive, tightly ...

Vzducholodi Graf Zeppelin Do Ameriky

Eckenere, Hugo and Rolf Brandt · 1929

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

Praha, Vydal Dr. Eduard Gregr a Syn, 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Illustrated blue and orange wraps, protected by a stiff Mylar jacket. Moderate wear to wraps, clean, tightly...

The Assignation: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates

Oates, Joyce Carol · 1988

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, The Ecco Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine collection of memorable short stories by the National Book Award-winning author of The Falls and The Accursed, Marya, The Gravedigger's Daughter, We Were the Mulaneys, and others. This coll...

Francis George Scott: An Essay on the Occasion of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday 25th January 1955

MacDiarmid, Hugh · 1955

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Edinburgh, Scotland, M. MacDonald, 1955. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers and text-block, mostly just light sunning thereto, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable ...

In Line with Al Hirschfeld

Leopold, David, Guest Curator; King, George G., Executive Director · 1998

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Katonah, New York, Katonah Museum of Art, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Museum exhibit catalog for a show of Hirschfeld's penned line drawings held from January 18 - April 5, 1998 at the Katonah Museum of Art. 40 illustrations overall in black-and-...

Eastman Johnson: Painting America

Carbone, Teresa A. and Patricia Hills; Teresa A. Carbone, ed. · 1999

$21.60 (€19.60 | £16.35 | ¥3,450)

New York / Brooklyn, Rizzoli of New York, for the Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Special contributions by the editor, Teresa A. Carbone, and by Patricia Hills, Jane Weiss, Sarah Burns, and Anne C. Rose. Sterling condition har...