A Town and Country Plan for Surrey
New Malden: 1943. Pamphlet. 24p., staplebound 5x8 inches; b&w maps, rubberstamp on front wrap, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 277181
New Malden: 1943. Pamphlet. 24p., staplebound 5x8 inches; b&w maps, rubberstamp on front wrap, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 277181
Santa Rosa, CA: Read Me Books, a division of Vision Books International, 1996. Paperback. [24p.], 8.5x11 inches; staplebound pictorial wraps, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 305429
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Hardcover. xi, 178p., titling tipped-in spine and front board; color frontispiece, b&w plates, spine sunned, lacking dust jacket, corners a bit bumped, otherwise very good. "Art? No. A great book? No. Yet a very exceptional one. And but for a lack of poetry, a...... More
Cat.No: 311094
White Plains NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., Publisher, 1966. Paperback. 207p., softbound in 8x5 inch plain green wraps lettered white. A little edgeworn with toned rear-cover margins within plus faint toning externally, an else sound, clean, unmarked copy. A celebrated quote (circa 1930) from the author: "The revolution of 1911 was..... More
Cat.No: 296340
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1946. Hardcover. 210p., first American edition with Rinehart logo on verso of title page, hardbound in 8x5 inch red-orange cloth boards titled in black and bronze. Crisp and clean, top edge tinted a dull green, lacks the dust jacket but is else in tip-top condition..... More
Cat.No: 180944
Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1995. 247p., profuse color photography, captioned and coordinated with the texts, 11x8.5 inch color wraps, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 168226
San Francisco: William Stout, Publishers, 2003. Hardcover. xvii, 283p., a fine big coffeetable of a book with all the bells and whistles of modern fine press, including two glossy sheets placed at the endpapers fore and aft (to prevent adhesions? hardly; ask Mr Stout, who is hands-on in the production..... More
Cat.No: 289783
Bowie MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1994. Paperback. xx, 130p., illustrated with a few period portrait photographs, softbound first edition in 8.5x5.5 inch decorated wraps. Nice clean copy, signed by the author on his titlepage. Mixed loyalties, often inviting hostility, violence and murder, in a particular Virginia county. Unionist Virginians tended..... More
Cat.No: 317851
London: LAB / Latin America Bureau, 1994. Paperback. 75p., illustrated with numerous b&w photos plus a colorphoto section, several line maps, a softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch glazed cardstock wraps. Nicely-designed book in very good condition: mildest external edgewear else completely clean, sound and unmarked. In focus series. First edition was..... More
Cat.No: 239562
Washington DC: GPO, 1939. Pamphlet. 32p., stapled wraps, 5.75x9 inches, previous owner's name penned on title page, top corner of rear wrap dog-eared, else very good condition. US. Works Progress Administration. Social problems no. 3. More
Cat.No: 42545
Pajaro CA: the editor, 2016. Pamphlet. 50p, a neatly-made copyshop zine swarming with intelligently-collaged info-bits, for instance album covers reproduced shrunk to inch-square red and green images (most pages color-enhanced, more than doubling Villalobos' printing costs), softbound, a pamphlet in 8x5 inch printed wraps. Covers lightly smudged, unmarked and sound..... More
Cat.No: 233250
Madrid: Imprenta de Fortanet, 1881. Hardcover. xiii, 281p., text in Spanish, nineteenth century Spanish translation of all four books of the poem in one volume; very worn, insect-nibbled tan cloth (now toned) over severely edgeworn boards, spine titling in gilt is quite dim. As is. Virgil's "Georgics" in Spanish. More
Cat.No: 192536
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about twenty pages, huge (13x9 inch) program printed in vivid color photography on cardstock leaves, staplebound, with an inserted 4p. brochure (12x8 inches) featuring 34 vignette b&w portraits of cast and crew plus technical stuff). High end production qualities, nearly immaculate, with..... More
Cat.No: 310210
San Francisco: Strawberry Hill Press, 1984. 191p., vintage illustrations, photos, lightly foxed on edges, first edition in pictorial wraps. Autobiography and reminiscences of a Kansas-born, Oregonian who settled in California in the 1960s. Signed and dated January 28, 1988 by author, with a holograph letter on the author's letterhead in..... More
Cat.No: 107010
Atlanta: Wall Tone, 1980. [8p.], wraps, signed by Wall Tone, very good condition, 3.75x4.75 inches. "A special edition of maganada for the edification of urban sophisticates in neorural legislation" - title page. More
Cat.No: 262425
Yreka: Yreka Western Railroad, 1966. Paperback. 21p., coated paperstock with plenty of period site and equipment photos, and a line map; softbound, stapled 8.5x5.5 inch wraps, a clean sound very good copy. From the introduction: "Shortline railroad with less than eight miles of mainline track, independently owned and catiering to..... More
Cat.No: 184577
Hong Kong: Centre for Translation Projects, the Chinese University of Hong Kong; [clothbound distributor University of Washington Press], 1976. Hardcover. 216p., coated alkaline paperstock, numerous b&w illustrations with a few color plates and vignettes, hardbound, 10.5x8 inch boards gilt in dust jacket. The book itself is sound, clean, unmarked, unblemished..... More
Cat.No: 252946
Oakland: Krowsworkbooks, 2013. Paperback. 56p., profuse color photographic portraits and site scenes (well-reproduced) in oblong 7.5x10.5 inch colorphoto wraps. Signed by Milly West on the titlepage. Nice copy, no signs of wear, no ownership or other markings except for the author's signature. More
Cat.No: 226794
Buenos Aires: Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, 1988. Pamphlet. [2], 45, [9]pp., wraps. Stamped on front cover: “Withdrawn.” Documentos de Trabajo, 103. Historical sociology. A study of Volga German and Jewish immigrants who settled and worked in rural Argentina in the 19th century. More
Cat.No: 303552
Bringsty, Worcester: Self-published by the author, 1987. Paperback. x, 237p., thoroughly illustrated with numerous plat maps and vintage photography, an uncommonly detailed treatment of a smallish, very old town. Sophisticated presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock and softbound in 9.5x7 inch colorphoto wraps (aerial photos decorated both front & back covers)..... More
Cat.No: 236340
Logan IA: The Perfection Form Company - A Trail Blazer Book- Wraparound, 1979. Pamphlet. One of the stories in Wright's Eight Men, supplied with readers' helps for a middle-school classroom. 37p., softbound in 7.5x5 inch stapled wraps, quite sound and clean and marked only by institutional stamps ("8th grade" +..... More
Cat.No: 312261
Taipei: Pretty Art Center 綺麗藝術中心有限公司, 1994. Paperback. 99 p., 10.5x9.5 in, color-printed album of 26 oil paintings, back cover with crease, else in very good condition. Text in traditional Chinese. A collection of the artist's paintings of rural scenes and natural landscapes. More
Cat.No: 259608
New York: Abbey Press, 1901. Hardcover. 105, [1]p., boards. Bound in publisher’s green cloth, stamped in silver on front cover and spine. Title page in red and black. Very Good. Author’s account of his 5 years as a banker in a small town in southeastern Louisiana. With various thoughts on..... More
Cat.No: 317858
Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill, n.d., early 1940s. Pamphlet. [41]p. plus publisher's menu (to 43), stapled yellow wraps, 5x7.5 inches; covers slightly edgeworn and irregularly toned, with mild dust-soil and a touch of foxing, a good copy: sound, else clean and unmarked. Pendle Hill Pamphlet Number Nineteen. Young and her husband..... More
Cat.No: 312496