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12.5" x 9.5". 56pp. Red spiral binding, with color illustrated boards. Light rubbing, a couple of leaves with a small bit of wear, but generally nice VG+ condition. The rather lurid eye design and lettering on the front board are by legendary graphic artist and dust jacket / book designer Arthur Hawkins, jr. The design is reproduced on the title page. With an introduction by William H. Savin. This marvelous book includes listings of the award jury panel, the exhibit, essays on the art of the poster, poster layout, and dozens of color and black & white illustrations of award winning advertising posters.
1946 Poster Annual.
Hawkins, Arthur].
New York: Outdoor Advertising Incorporated, 1946.
Price: $300.00
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7.75" x 10.5". Color illustrated flexible boards, string bound. 9pp. of English language text preceded by a double page map and seven gravure photographic plates. Faint stamp and a couple faint erasures on the front board, a few small ink and pencil margin marks, one leaf with a small scrape, else nice VG+ condition. This unusual book describes the area around the villages of Kori and Tabayama, the river Tama, intake and supply canals, the Yodobashi water filter beds, the pumping house and offices at Yodobashi, etc. The five color illustration on the front board has a strong arts & crafts flavor. It depicts a traditional Japanese building on a riverbank with trees in the foreground and mountains in the background.
The Water Supply of Tokio.
(Tokio): (K. Ogawa), [Circa 1913].
Price: $300.00
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7.5" x 5". 486pp. Blue patterned cloth with a beige cloth spine, in dust wrapper. Mild rubbing to edges, else near fine condition; the distinctive jacket is bright but has a couple chips at the spine tips and a 1/4" hole halfway down the spine along the rear hinge.
Zelda Marsh.
Norris, Charles G.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1927.
Price: $65.00
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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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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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6" x 8". [58pp.] String - bound gray and blue illustrated wrappers. Mild edge wear, else near fine condition. With photo illustrations of Princess Angeline, Seattle scenes, Father Prefontaine, etc. A poem about Angeline, daughter of Chief Seattle. This book is quite scarce. It is only the second copy we have handled in 20 years of dealing in Seattle and Washington state related material.
Annals of Old Angeline. "Mika Yahoos Delate Kloshe"
Venen, Bertha Piper.
Seattle: Press of Denny - Coryell Co., 1903.
Price: $250.00
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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: $150.00
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