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Ny: McBride, Nast & Company, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo, white stamped titles and decorations on green cloth, 54 pp, 8 b&w full page photos. Minor loss to white stamp front cover, else near fine, lacking dustjacket. Incribed by Tabor on the ffe: "To Samuelk Eastman Kimball - not because he needs it but in spite of teh fact that he doesn't G. T. May 1912" Grace Tabor (1874 -1971), according to Wikipedia, was an American landscape architect, designer, writer, and editor. She was one of the first women to identify herself professionally as a landscape architect, and best known as the author on the subjects of landscape design and horticulture. She authored ten garden books, most of which were published between 1910 and 1921. The book has the private library bookplate of Samuel Eastman Kimball, contemporary to the book. Tabor's inscription and the bookplate suggest Mr. Kimball was "of means" with a property that had been very nicely landscaped, indeed. Signed titles of Tabor are scarce. Read More

Kelly-Winterton Press, 2009. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As New. PRESENTATION COPY from artist van Doren to arhcitect Cesar Pelli, inscribed by van Doren on the half title "To Cesar with admiration. Best, Adam 1/31/17" With a ANS on a correspondence card (with envelope) of van Doren as lecturer, residential college seminars at Yale: "Jan 31, 2017 Dear Cesar. Many thanks for sharing your memories of Yale. Best, Adam" Limited edition, 500 copies, signed by van Doren on the colophon. Ten colored plates of van Doren's paintings. AS NEW IN SLIPCASE.

(Second Meza, AZ): The Hopi Action Project (Follow Through), 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. Square 8vo, children's book format. Inscribed by author on ffe, 5/7/79, with his name in English and Hopi alphabet. Afew spots to front panel of dustjacket, else fine all around. Laid-in is a small p[iece of paper in Talaswaima's hand with his name and Arizona mailing address.

Hartford: Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1929. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited edition, this #94 of 375 copies. Beige cloth with titles and pictorial stamped in black, pictorial endpapers, signed by the author on the limitation. Covers slightly soiled, internals neat fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. Norwegian coast tales, boldly graphically and typographically presented. NORWAY.

New York: Doubleday, Doran, and Company, 1928. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good - Near Fine/Very Good -. Decorative endpapers. Front and spine title pastedown. Jacket soiled and stained.

NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, as stated on copyright page. In unlcipped pictorial dustjacket of ocean travelers promenading on oceanliner's deck, drawn in Art-Deco style. Collectible dustjacket, spine slightly tanned. Laid-in is trade bookmark for Boston travel agent Raymond & Whitcomb promoting its 1927 Mediterranean spring cruises.

London: Cape Goliard, 1968. Limited. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. signed by Tarn on title page, numbered 25/50.

New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1969. First US Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Slight soiling jacket. Price clipped.

Aix En Provence: J Fabre, 1930. Second Edition. 12mo. VG+. Both volumes uniformly rebound in red, half leather over floral pattern cloth. Internals toned as expected. A lovely set.

New Haven / NY: H.Mansfield / D.Appleton, 1858. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. VG+. Original, finely-ribbed brown cloth, stamped in blind an gilt, more to spine. Thick octavo, two volumes in one, 317pp, (1) 332, (2). Frontsipiece to both volumes, the second volume with two, the second a hand-colored (of the Emperor of China). Taylor's 1838-40 circumnavigation of the frigate Columbia and John Adams with ports of call in Brazil, Arabia, India, Malaya, China, Siam, Hawaii, Tahiti, Chile, and Peru. Some chipping to brown cloth at extremities, incidental spotting largely confined to front and rear. Owner name and address dated 1978 ffe. Solid binding. A very nice, unsophisticated copy.

University of Florida, 2007. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Catalog for the dual exhibition of photographers Taylor and Uelsmann at the University Galleries, University of Florida, in 2007. Long, narrow oblong, spiral bound. Near fine condition. Uncommon.

Philadelphia: J. W. Moore, 1848. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, 1848, of early, comprehensive, international review of coal, uncommonly found, as is the second 1855 edition. Thick 8vo, blind-stamped, brown pebbled cloth, cxlviii, 754, 3 foldout plates. Cloth split at hinges, moderate surface wear to covers, intermittent light foxing. Firmly bound, a solid, unsophisticated copy. Found in plenty of institutions but rarely on antiquarian book market.

NY: Rider and Driver Publishing Co, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, 4to, brown pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped titles and pictorial pastedown front cover, 399 pages, copiously illustrated. Printed at the Brooklyn Eagle Press, Pages 1- 16 are advertisements for all manner of product and services to horse riders and drivers, the rest an annual compilation of all aspects that relate to the sport. Laid-in is a collection of contemporary news clippings, mostly from NYC dailies, about horses. RIDING CARRIAGES.

NY: Published for the Author by Carlton & Porter, 1856. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated ninth thousandth on title page. Original brown cloth, blind-stampoed front and back, gil to spine, 8vo, 394, (6). Solid copy, moderate wear to covers, lightly foxed here and there. Autobiographical account of preaching to the lowlife in San Francisco who came to California seeking gold.

NY: Technical Advisory Corporation 0. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A beautifully preserved copy of this historic early 20thC plan for a suburban community in Bergen County, New Jersey. Small 4to, blue stiff covers, titles stamped in gilt, 77p, illustrated with 12 plates, 2 foldout tables and large foldout map at rear pasetdown. 193-.

New Britian, Connecticut, U.S.A.: New Press, 1993. First New Press Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Inscribed to Sophie Mumford, widow of Lewis Mumford: "To Sophie Mumfors/ Here's to/ Peace, Grace, and beauty/ with Admiration,/Studs terkel

Hartford, CT: The Prospect Press, 1937. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Near Fine/No Dj. Pictorial map endpapers, small PON at front pastedown. Top spine end slightly chipped; edges and corners sharp, binding bright. Tightly bound. Black and white sketches and photographs throughout. In VG original publisher's cardboard slipcase, with minor rubbing to edges and corners.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. price clipped, else fine, dw clean and unmarked, illustrations bright.

1875. No Binding. Near Fine. Undated note, (circa 1875) two sided, on polished sheet approx 7x4.5" from author Anne Thackeray, daughter of the famous William Makepeace Tackeray, with embossed letterhead with her address in South Kensington, London "8 Southwell Gardens, South Kensington Gentleman I write to acknowledge/ with many thanks the safe/ arrival of the money/ which you have sent me for My Angel. I have / turned it into two fields / at Freshwater wh(ich) I shall/ always look upon as a / part of the American continent (and) consider that / I owe to its bountifulness/ Believe me overflow./ Yours faithfully." Miss Thackeray enthusiastically thanks presumably American buyers for their purchase from her of presumably American rights to publish her first novel "My Angel", published in England in 1875. The proceeds she writes financed purchase of land in Freshwater, a village on the western end of the Isle of Wright. Besides being the birthplace of physicist Robert Hooke, during Thackeray's lifetime… Read More

NY: D. Appleton & Co, 1857. Early US Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated third thousand on the title page. Publisher's brown blind stamped cloth with illustrated vignette and titles stamped in gilt on front, title to spine. Double title pages, illustrated w/ 14 plates throughout text + engravings to title pages. Loss to cloth at spine, edges moderately worn. Thackeray's third Christmas book. From the library of noted biblophiles Sherman P and Anne Lyon Haight with their bookplates pastedown. A vintage, unsophisticated copy in a publisher's decorated binding typical of the period.