Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum
Lester, James New York, 1994 New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by the author on the title page. First Printing. ix, 240 pp. 8vo. Slight wear to dust jacket, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Clean within.- $30
- $30
History of the Tarrytowns from Ancient Tiimes to the Present
Canning, Jeff; Buxton, Wally Fleischmanns, NY, 1975 Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Signed by Jeff Canning no the first free endpaper. Third Printing, 1993. 348 pp. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.- $25
- $25
The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case
Rashke, Richard Boston, MA, 1981 Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Sigend by the author on the first free endpaper. Fourth Printing. 407 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Clean within.- $35
- $35
Tattooing A to Z: A Guide to Successful Tattooing
Spaulding, Huck Spaulding and Rogers Mfg., Inc, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Naydan, Ted. Huck Spaulding (1928-2003) was a legend in the tattooing world and helped bring tattooing more to the mainstream than when he started in 1949. Spaulding also founded Spaulding and Rogers Mfg., Inc. which continues to produce equipment for the tattoo industry. Third Printing, 1992. 141 pp. 4to. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket with a tape repair a the upper left corner and lower right corner of the front panel, small tears and chipping at edges, now in mylar cover. Black cloth boards with silver embossed titling and cover illustration. Previous owner's name in ink on inside front cover, very clean within.- $75
- $75
Trials of a Trial Lawyer
Morton, Harold C. Privately Published, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The author has written a lengthy inscription on the first free endpaper in the year of publication. ix, 220 pp. 8vo. Budgundy leatherette binding with gold embossed titling to cover and spine, light wear overall. Clean within.- $75
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The Ladies’ New Medical Guide: An Instructor, Counsellor, and Friend in All the Delicate and Wonderful Matters Peculiar to Women
Pancoast, S.; Vanderbeck, C. C. John R. Potter & Company, 1890. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A fascinating publication, dated, but still a window into women's health in the late 19th century. 8, xxxiv, 682 pp. Light tan trade cloth binding with color printed cover and spine. Overall scuffing and light soiling, bumping to corners with minor losses. Clean within. Five chromolithographed plates tipped in at at front showing cutaways of the female body with organ placement, etc. Fifth plate has moveable flaps that show the womb and reproductive organs.- $50
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Fix the Toys
King, Dorothy N. USA, 1950 USA, 1950. First Edition. Readers get to fix the toys by taking the heads (missing one of the original eight) in the "shipping box" and inserting them in the page where the doll needs its head repaired/replaced. No publisher listed for this book, may have been created by a toy company. Unpag. Oblong 8vo. Spiral bound interactive children's book. Housed in its original box that is in Very Good condition.- $75
- $75
Born to Trot
Henry, Marguerite; Dennis, Wesley (Artist) New York, 1950 New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Dennis, Wesley. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Third Printing. 224 pp. 4to. Dust jacket has numerous chips, tears, and losses, now in mylar cover. Brown cloth binding with light wear at edges, clean within.- $25
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Monday-Chats
Saint-Beuve, C. A.; Mathews, William Chicago, IL, 1882 Chicago, IL: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. lxxxvi, 298, [8 ads] pp. 8vo. Green cloth publisher's binding with beveled edges. Gold and black embossed titling to front cover and spine are sharp and crisp. Previous owner's name in pencil on the second free endpaper, clean within.- $40
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East Windsor Heritage: Two Hundred Years of Church and Community History 1752-1952
Potwin, G. Stephen East Windsor, CT, 1952 East Windsor, CT: First Congregational Church, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. History of East Windsor, Connecticut. 63 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to front cover and spine, light scuffing. Previous owner's name on first free endpaper, clean within.- $45
- $45
Moise and the World of Reason
Williams, Tennessee New York, 1975 New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Tennessee Williams on the first free endpaper. First Printing. 190 pp. Minor scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Black cloth boards are clean and tight, same within.- $80
- $80
O King, Live For Ever
Myers, Henry New York, 1953 New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Inscribed by the author on the title page with a handwritten bar of music. 214 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has considerable wear, sunning, chipping, and losses including a piece at the head of the spine, now in mylar cover. Slight darkening of interior pages due to quality of paper, clean overall.- $25
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The Papers of Frederick Law Olmstead: Slavery and the South 1852-1857 (Volume II)
Olmsted, Frederick Law; Beveridge, Charles E. (Editor); McLaughlin, Charles Capen (Editor); Schuyler, David (Editor) Baltimore, MD, 1981 Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xxi, 503 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.- $75
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The Hand of the Architect (La Mano dell’Architetto)
Serrazanetti, Francesca (Editor); Schubert, Matteo (Editor); Boeri, Stefano; Muscogiuri, Marco; Neri, Gabriele; Schubert, Matteo; Serrazanetti, Francesca Italy, 2009 Italy: FAI-Fondo Ambiente Italiano, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A fascinanting book on the creative process for architects, the sketching phase that is so important to the creative process: pencil sketches, watercolors, and computer-derived variations on designs. Explores the creative process of various architects, many Italian, but is International in scope. 247 pp. 4to. Black leatherette cover with white embossed titling to cover boards and spine. This publication has as its basic design a black Moleskine notebook with the elastic strap that holds the book closed along the foredge; the elastic has loosened but is still intact. Text in Italian and English.- $200
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The Heart of Japan: Glimpses of Life and Nature Far From the Travellers’ Track in the Land of the Rising Sun
Brownell, Clarence Ludlow London, 1902 London: Methuen & Co, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, 302, 40 (Ads) pp. 24 Plates. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with golde embossed tilting to cover and spine. Wear and scuffing to spine, some staining, sunning to spine. Some discoloration to endpapers, light foxing within. 24 photographic plates illustrate the volume.- $50
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Vegetation and Scenery in the Metropolitan Reservations of Boston. A Forestry Report Written by Charles Eliot and Presented to the Metropolitan Park Commission, February 15, 1897 by Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot, Landscape Architects
Eliot, Charles Boston, MA, 1898 Boston, MA: Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A fascinating publication by the Olmsted Firm that includes a short report by Eliot but is illustrated by 51 photographic plates that illustrate current conditions at the time of the report. Following the photograhs are six drawings, four of which included a flap that shows current condition and view -- when the flap is folded back it reveals the impact to the view by the selective removal of overgrowth. A stunning way to illustrate the impact of changes that Eliot proposed. 23 pp. 57 Plates. Oblong 8vo. Crisp green cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover. Interior very clean with two ownership stamps on front pastedown and copyright page of Marvin I. Adleman (1933-2017), longtime professor of landscape architecture at Cornell University. Three folding maps at rear tipped in: Stony Brook Reservation, Middlesex Fells, and Blue Hills. Stony Brook Reservation has a small tear at crease and in Very Good condition; two remaining maps are Fine.- $300
- $300