Littleton NH: B. W. Kilburn [studio], 1897. Pamphlet. Standard format, two nearly identical views on 3.5x7 inch thick cardstock veneered with a pink printed coating, photos reproduced sepia, these show, ankle-deep in seawater, a 30-ish woman in bulky black swim cloak and leggings, wringing water from hem; she is watched..... More

Cat.No: 228029

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945. Pamphlet. A substantial pamphlet in good shape, and, nested within, a fragile supplementary brochure in very good shape. First item is 10x8 inches with presswork on glazed alkaline stock, consists of 16p. of introductory text printed double-column followed by 56 numbered b&w..... More

Cat.No: 297930

Zaragoza: Tipografia de G. Casafial for the author, 1922. Paperback. 26 [text], 20p.[fullpage "plates", i.e., patterns], paperbound in 11x8 inch stapled signatures, cover text with litho'd green and gold spot colors. Spine is rough with several inches of paper overlay missing, generally somewhat edgeworn, a fair to good copy. More

Cat.No: 225933

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1926. Hardcover. First American edition; 230p., illustrated with a large folded map bound in, numerous b&w plates on glazed inserted stock, and one color reproduction as frontispiece. Hardbound in blue cloth boards gilt and blind. Weathered copy which exhibits much foxing of blanks and slight..... More

Cat.No: 296563

Port Townsend, WA: Loompanics Unlimited, 1983. Paperback. 56p., 5.5x8.5 inches; in very good condition. More

Cat.No: 302443

New York & Tokyo: Walker / Weatherhill, A Weatherhill Book, 1971. Hardcover. vi, 207p., illustrated with many b&w photos reproduced in velvety gravure, plus a fair number of colorphotos, these slightly garish. First edition, hardbound in 8.5x6 inch linen cloth boards titled gilt with decorative impress of Japanese done in..... More

Cat.No: 298481

Philadelphia: the university, 1916. 139-200p., coated paperstock, site and exhibit photos, perfectbound 10x7 inch self-wraps with photodecoration. Spinefold is somewhat abraded with a long chip, private library stamps, good copy. Memorial for Eckley Coxe, museum administration problems, the Asian holdings, Chines statuary, Ishtar's journey to hell, the Bagobo. More

Cat.No: 167937

Laguna Hills CA: Aegean Park Press, Undated, circa 1990. Paperback. Reprint, photo-copied: v, 162p., layout puts each glyph-page facing Spanish-language text plus a kind of grid that further cues the reader. Softbound, a big paperback in 11x8.5 inch plain printed tan wraps, cover shows faintest signs of handling, text within..... More

Cat.No: 235164

no city, CA: Wheeler of California, 1948. Pamphlet. 11p., softbound, a large (9.5x12 inches) pamphlet stapled into decorated wraps. Plates exhibit patterns appropriated for widths 3/4" to 2" (with rather little variation, it seems to us), quite edgeworn and dust-soiled with severe abrasion to spinefold and a penciled ownership. As..... More

Cat.No: 251236

Atglen PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2022. Hardcover. 207p., profuse fullpage color photo-portraits captioned with paragraph-long background, and with prefatory materials by the Lama (1p.) and the photographer (2p.). Hardbound in 9.5 inch-square colorphoto boards lettered in copperfoil. A Library of Congress Duplicate with its non-acquisition rubberstamp to titlepage (applied a little..... More

Cat.No: 303256

Sacramento, Cal. A. J. Yoshida, no date. Photograph. Beveled 9x6 inch matboard mounting with intaglio cartouche in blind enclosing a 5.5x3 inch b&w studio portrait photograph: full-length, young man in Edwardian [?] suit and polished shoes standing before a painted backdrop decorated with window and floral arrangement. Surface of plate..... More

Cat.No: 178513