Virginia artist Rudy Wendelin (1910-2000) joined the U.S. Forest Service in the early 1930s and helped launch the Smokey the Bear campaign in the late 1930s - now the lonest running public service campaign in U.S. history. He portrayed Smokey in literally hundreds of promotional pieces which encouraged conservation of... More
Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1848-1858. 3 volumes of 4, volume I containing the Five Books of Moses and the Book of Joshua; volume II containing the historical books from Judges to Esther; volume III containing the poetical and devotional books from Job to Canticles; 8vo; volumes I and II in... More
[Tokyo: Usagiya, ca. 1886]. 8.5" x 9.75", pp. 62; 62 full page woodblock prints depicting an imaginary moon civilization; stab stitched in contemporary if not original cloth, contemporary inscription with a little over 100 characters; light worming, repaired and mostly on margins, covers soiled, very good, in a new folding... More
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1998. First edition, 8vo, pp. 332, [20]; fine in a fine unclipped dust jacket. More
Birmingham: City of Birmingham School of Printing, 1944. Tall 8vo, (11.25" x 7.25"), pp. 13. [3]; 4 photoreproductive plates; gray paper wrappers, edges lightly rubbed, else fine. An account of Baskerville's voyage, after his death, from his intial burial plot to his final resting place. Printed as a project of the College of Arts and Crafts. More
Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, [1993]. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 335, [1]; pictorial paper covers, label taped on spine, else near fine. Includes work by Robert Bly, David Citino, Robert Dana, Alan Davis, Patricia Hampl, and Howard Mohr, among others. More
New York: Random House, 1975. First edition, folio, pp. 60, fine in a lightly toned dust jacket; a picture book, heavily illustrated. More
Cambridge, MA, and London, England: M. I. T. Press, [1969]. 8vo, pp. x, [4], 313, [1]; photoreproductive illustrations throughout; white cloth; small mark to upper cover, crease to dust jacket flap. Very good overall. More
Westfield, Hastings, East Sussex: Helm Information, [2009]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 285, [1]; fine copy in the dust jacket. Published in the Icons of Modern Culture series, edited by David Ellis. More
New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, [1962]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, 180; frontispiece portrait of Thurber (some spotting), illustrations throughout, jacket lightly worn & creased, else very good in original red cloth-backed boards, pictorial dust jacket (clipped). More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1968]. 8vo, pp. 305. [1]; illustrations by the author, very good in original beige cloth, pictorial dust jacket (ligth edgewear, clipped). More
New York: William H. Smith Jr. 1934. First edition, limited to 500 copies, 12mo, pp. 72; fine in original blue paper-covered boards, lettered in black on upper cover and spine, glassine wrapper (lightly chipped at edges). More
Boston: Little, Brown, [1978]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 264; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
Minneapolis: [Ampersand Club], 1991. 12mo, unpaginated; title page printed in red & black; spine a bit darkened, else near fine in original cream wrappers decorated in green and red, cord-tied. A keepsake for an exhibit at the University of Minnesota and the Ampersand Club's Annual Dinner. More
Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1906. Latest edition, 16mo, pp. 194; text in double column; original maroon allegator-textured cloth lettered in gilt, unadorned spine, a.e.g., thumb fore-edge index; 1-inch loss at spine head, previous owner's pencil inscription on ffep, else mostly good and sound. Copyright date 1900. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. Large 4to, pp. 74; illustrations; original pictorial cloth in printed glassine dust jacket; jacket cockled from damp, small tear at upper edge of back jacket cover, cloth edges dampstained; previous owner's inscription on ffep, else interior about fine. Originally published in 1955. More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1980. First edition, large 4to, pp. 224; illustrations in color and black and white throughout; original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; about fine. Review copy. More
London: John Murray, 1917. Third edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 225, [11]; orig. red cloth; spine a bit sunned, contemporary ownership on ffep, else good and sound. Includes the prefaces to the first and second editions. More
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1969. 8vo, pp. viii, [4], 133-198, [5]; illustrations, facsimile reprint; original buff printed wrappers, pencil ownership on upper cover, else near fine. The Augustan Reprint Society Publication no. 138. More
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1987. 8vo, pp. xii, 45; facsimile reprint; original pale grey printed wrappers, near fine. The Augustan Reprint Society Publication no. 243. More
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1958. 8vo, pp. ix, 23, [7], 11, [1]; facsimile reprints, woodcut portrait, introduction printed from typescript; original buff printed wrappers, small tear to spine foot, else very good. Augustan Reprint Society Publication no. 74. Contents include "An Account of One Ann Jefferies," London... More
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1982. 8vo, pp. xv, 50, [5]; original pale grey printed wrappers, upper edge faintly foxed, else mostly very good. The Augustan Reprint Society Publications nos. 212-213. Facsimile reprint of the Strawberry-Hill, 1785 edition. More
[Washington D.C.]: Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group Agency for International Development, 1963. 8vo, pp. vii, 126; map & tables; extremities lightly soiled, else very good in original pictorial tan wrappers. CIA and Southern Illinois only in OCLC. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 259; photographic frontispiece, 4 leaves of plates; original blue cloth over blue boards, gilt spine, in a mostly fine pictorial dust jacket; contemporary signature on front endpaper, otherwise interior fine. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1951. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 382; portrait frontispiece "after a drawing by Parthenope Lady Verney," 3 plates; original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine almost completely worn away; interior fine. More
