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Single sheet, folded to form a 9" x 4" booklet. Fine condition. A nicely printed guide to the cruises of the Alaska Line, descriptions of their various trips, vessels, etc. With color illustrations from drawings and photographs. The drawings are in an unmistakable charming 1950s colorful style. The reverse of the sheet opens to reveal a large pictorial route map of Alaska. The vessels shown include the S. S. Aleutian, the S. S. Baranof, and the S. S. Denali.
Alaska. The Alaska Line.
Seattle: Alaska Steamship Company, 1953.
Price: $15.00
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7.5" x 10.5". 24pp. Stapled illustrated glossy wrappers. Mild edge wear, one internal erasure spot; generally near fine condition. Undated; printed circa 1954. This beautifully color printed promotional brochure includes color illustrations on nearly every page, descriptive text about these streamlined "aristocrats of sports cars", details about the various special features available, specifications and statistics, etc.
The Supreme Sunbeam - Talbot 80 & 90. Successors to the Famous Ten and 2 - Litre Models.
London: Rootes, 1954.
Price: $40.00
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7.75" x 5.5". 206pp. Brown cloth, in dust wrapper. Bottom spine tip and corners lightly bumped, else near fine condition. The dust jacket has light edge wear and general rubbing with a -.25" chip from the top spine tip which does not interfere with the lettering or design. Translated from the French by Kay Boyle. Illustrated in black and white from drawings by Charles Sanford.
Don Juan.
Delteil, Joseph.
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931.
Price: $25.00
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7.25" x 4.5". 432pp. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and skull and anchor design. Corners and spine tips a bit worn, mild soiling, ownership signature, else nice VG+ condition. With an engraved title page showing "Gibbs carrying the Dutch Girl on board" and many other full page and vignette woodcut illustrations. This scarce book contains stories of violent adventure on the high seas. With anecdotes on legendary figures such as Alwilda, the female pirate, Captain Kidd, Black Beard, etc.
The Pirates Own Book, or Authentic Narratives of the Lives, Exploits, and Executionsof the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers. With Historical Sketches of the Joassamee, Spanish, Ladrone, West India, Malay, and Algerine Pirates.
Ellms, Charles, anonymous compiler].
Portland & Philadelphia: Sanborn & Carter [AND] Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co., 1837.
Price: $750.00
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12" x 9". Folded once to form a booklet. Mild edge wear, several pencil marks on the interior, else near fine condition. A piano solo by this obscure composer. With great graphics by Teresi showing a futuristic mechanical man about to give himself an oil fix. Since the late 1940s robots have always had a strong hold on the popular imagination. This graphically appealing example of a robot features a whimsical approach that was the norm in the pre- NASA era.
Rusty Robot.
Jacobs, Flora Sherman.
Chicago: Clayton F. Summy Co., 1955.
Price: $20.00
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8" x 6". 411pp. Red cloth, in dust wrapper. Near fine condition. The magnificently designed jacket has a very small bit of edge wear and one small chip on the rear panel.
Havana Bound.
Roberts, Cecil.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1931.
Price: $45.00
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8" x 5.5". 360pp. Green decorated cloth, with gilt lettering. Spine lightly faded, small spot on the bottom of the front board, small but irritating scrape along the fore edge. Despite these issues still a VG+ condition copy. Second printing, issued one month after the first. This copy signed in full by the author along with his trademark pawprint glyph, and additionally signed by his wife and sometime collaborator Julia Seton. Scarce thus. With numerous full page and margin illustrations by the author.
Lives of the Hunted Containing a True Account of the Doings of Five Quadrupeds and Three Birds, and, in Elucidations of the Same, over 200 Drawings.
Seton - Thompson, Ernest.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901.
Price: $250.00
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8" x 5.25". 516pp. Green cloth with glt lettering and black floral designs to the front board. Top edge gilt. A superb, very bright copy with just a touch of rubbing to the spine tips and corners. One of the brightest copies we have seen. With a frontis portrait of Whitman. This edition was the last of the 19th century editions of Whitman's seminal poetry collection.
Leaves of Grass.
Whitman, Walt.
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1900.
Price: $250.00
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16.25" x 24" board. The drawing takes up most of the board. The margins and edges have a small bit of soiling, and there are a few light spots of soiling on the image. There is also a 1" chip on the left margin, away from the image. This drawing depicts two businessmen conversing in an office. It probably appeared as an illustration for a story in the Saturday Evening Post or Cosmopolitan. Brown is perhaps best known for having done the illustrations for Booth Tarkington's novel The Magnificent Ambersons. The drawing is signed and inscribed by Brown on the lower right corner.
Original pencil drawing by noted illustrator / artist Arthur William Brown.
Brown, Arthur William.
1926.
Price: $300.00
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11" x 8.5". 52pp. Color illustrated wrappers. Ownership signature on the front wrapper, other light soiling, else very nice condition. Quite bright given the book's fragile nature. This issue of this scarce journal contains articles on low frequency amplifiers for television, television in germany, shadows, the photo-electric cell, "Scotland sees television!", "feminine reflections", etc.
Television. The Official Organ of the Television Society. Vol. III, No. 25. March, 1930.
Dinsdale, A., editor.
London: Television Press Ltd., 1930.
Price: $100.00
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10.5" x 7". 32pp. Color illustrated glossy paper wrappers. Very light soiling on the front wrapper, else fine condition. This very scarce catalog for Justin cowboy boots includes illustrations by legendary western artist Charles Marion Russell, a prefatory tribute to Russell by Will Rogers, a brief history of the Justin firm and family members, illustrations of Justin boots offered for sale, and an illustrated description of how Justins are made.
Justin Cowboy Boots 1940 - 41.
[Fort Worth, Texas]: H. J. Justin and Sons, Inc., 1940.
Price: $175.00
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Octavo. 458pp. Sixth edition. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. The binding is very nice and bright, with just a touch of wear to the spine tips. Internally the book has two small ownership labels on the first leaf and a light bit of foxing to the first two leaves. The final leaf of the preface is supplied in facsmile.
The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle For Life.
Darwin, Charles.
London: John Murray, 1885.
Price: $550.00
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8.25" x 5.75". 39pp. Illustrated hardcover in dust wrapper. Spine tips and edges are worn, else near fine condition. Dust jacket has some edge wear and two .5" closed tears on corner and spine, else VG+ condition. Illustrated with line drawings by the author.
Hiawatta and De night in De Front From Chreesmas.
Gross, Milt.
New York: Doubleday, 1950.
Price: $45.00
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7.5" x 5.25". 171pp. Illustrated hardcover with gilt lettering. Illustrated with black and white drawings by the author.
Souls of the Infinite: An Outline of the Truth.
Griggs, Dr. S. E.
New York: The Metropolitan Press, 1911.
Price: $75.00
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8.5" x 5.25". 192pp. Red cloth hardback, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; the jacket is priced clipped and has two price stickers affixed to it. Third printing; originally published in 1937. An entertaining anecdotal history of Seattle, framed in Ms. Bass' accounts of how some of the oldest streets in the city were named. Includes many illustrations after drawings by Florenz Clark.
Pig - Tail Days in Old Seattle.
Bass, Sophie Frye.
Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort , 1973.
Price: $20.00
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8" x 5". 30pp. Gray cloth hardback with gilt spine lettering, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket which has just a touch of wear to the spine tip. With the $5.95 price intact on the jacket flap. This example is a review copy, with the FSG slip laid in, as well as a separate publisher's slip showing one of the Sendak illustrations. Also laid in to this copy is a bookplate signed by Sendak. (It is NOT mounted into the book.) The book is a charming children's tale, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak. See Hanrahan A 95.
Fly By Night.
Jarrell, Randall. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1976.
Price: $150.00
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10" x 6.5". 157pp. Blue printed paperback with white lettering, black cloth spine. Small scrape on the spine, else nice VG+ condition. With many black & white photo illustrations. This report includes a history of the commission, a detailed statement of all disbursements, summaries of exposition receipts and disbursements, descriptions and costs of buildings and major exhibits, etc. See Tourville 156.
The Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition Commission of the State of Washington.
Seattle: The Pacific Press, Inc., 1910.
Price: $150.00
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9" x 5.75". 299pp., with index, etc. Fine condition in a lightly edge worn and rubbed dust jacket. With illustrations after old photographs, drawings, maps, etc. An authoritative history of the American southwestern tribe. With much on the tribe's history in the era before western encroachment, the tribe's wars with the U.S. government, Kit Carson, reservations, and the tribe's role in modern America.
The Navajos.
Underhill, Ruth M.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1956.
Price: $20.00
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8" x 5". 435pp. Orange cloth, lettering in gilt. A very good+ copy, a trace of soiling to lower board edges and endpapers, otherwise a clean copy. Dust jacket is good+, chipping to spine ends and edges, light overall soiling. A novel set in the milieu of the textile mills of Yorkshire.
A Modern Tragedy.
Bentley, Phyllis.
New York : The Macmillan Company, 1934.
Price: $15.00
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Octavo. 143pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket. This copy signed and inscribed by Wolfe with his typical calligraphic flourish.
From Bauhaus to Our House.
Wolfe, Tom.
New York: Farrar Staus Giroux (1981).
Price: $150.00
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Single 8.25" x 5.5" leaf. With a blue, orange, silver, green and gilt papal seal at the top of the page, and a papal blind stamp at the bottom left. Centered on the page is the finely calligraphed text: "To our faithful Sons and Daughters of the English - speaking world, in their unswerving devotion to Christ and His Church, We impart from Our heart, as a token of Our special paternal affection, the Apostolic Blessing. [signed] Pius pp XII." The left edge of the sheet has mild wear, otherwise this item is in fine condition.
Apostolic Blessing, Signed by Pope Pius XII.
Pius XII. [Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli].
[Circa 1950].
Price: $750.00
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Octavo. 271pp., including index. Bound in black cloth, with gilt lettering and cover device. The lettering on the spine is rubbed, and the lettering on the front board is chipped. There is also some light edge wear and rubbing, most notably at the corners. There is one spot of heavy internal soiling, in the margin of page 109. The rare pictorial dust jacket has considerable wear to the joints and edges, but only small edge chipping. Overall an excellent collector's copy of an important and very uncommon book. With four plates and six illustrations in the text. Michael L. Ciancone in his landmark bibliography "The Literary Legacy of the Space Age" : "The first book in English devoted to rocketry and space travel, by one of the founders and the first president of the American Interplanetary Society. Written in three parts - "The Rocket" (a discussion of the history of rocketry), "The Flight into Space" (a fictional account of a space voyage), and "New Worlds" (addressing challenges and prospects of space flight)." With an introduction by Dr. H. H. Sheldon.
The Conquest of Space.
Lasser, David.
New York: Penguin Press, 1931.
Price: $850.00
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Octavo. 289pp. Near fine in a nice jacket with one short closed tear. "An absorbing survey of Asian theatre...discussing the cultural and historical diversity of the theatrical art of the easet, explaining the background and meaning of conventions which often seem remote and incomprehensible to the western viewer." With a good section of illustrations after b&w photographs, drawings, etc.
The Theatre in Asia.
Scott, A.C.
New York : Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., 1972.
Price: $20.00
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