
Otto Wagner; The Expanding City: The Beginning of Modern
Architecture. New York, Praeger, 1970. Hundreds of
illustrations, some in color. With dust jacket. $65. SOLD
The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Horizon
Press, 1965 edition. The life-work of Frank Lloyd Wright
with introduction by Wijdeveld and many articles by European architects
and American writers. Fully illustrated in black and white with
plans, drawings and photographs. Printed as the original, on
double-fold pages with specially hinged binding. Oatmeal cloth
with red label to spine. Slip case with label stating "The
Work of Frank Lloyd Wright - The Great Wendingen Edition"
$195.SOLD
A History of Technology; Edited by Singer, Holmyar
and Hall. New York and London, Oxford University. Press,
1954-1958. Five volumes. Five color frontispieces, 204
plates, 8 maps, chronological tables. A "massive study intended to
provide a perspective on the development of technical knowledge . . .
written in plain language." Blue cloth. $350.
Joan Ramsay; Horns in Velvet. The Harbor Press, New
York, 1930. First edition of her first book by the winner of
the Harbor Press Poetry Contest of 1930. $95.
James Lipton; An Exaltation of Larks. New
York, Grossman, 1968. "Terms of venery"
such as "exaltation of larks,: "lepe of leopards,"
"parliament of owls" -- phrases we have come to know as
collective nouns. Plates accompany poetry and prose. $25.00
Alex W. Bealer; The Art of Blacksmithing. A
detailed account of the equipment and techniques developed over 6,000
years. 1976; new and revised edition, with more than 500
illustrations. With dust jacket. $35. SOLD
Thomas Bewick; A General History of Quadrupeds.
London, Ward Lock, 1970. Hardback with dust jacket, figures
engraved on wood. $65. SOLD
Francis Trevelyan Miller; The World in the Air . The
story of flying in pictures, including the "First historic
collection of official prints and photographs from government archives
and private collections recording 5000 years of man's struggles to
conquer the air." New York and London, Putnam's
Sons,1930. Two volumes, blue cloth. $75.
Earl of Birkenhead; Famous Trials of History. High
profile trials in history, including the trial of Mary Queen of Scots.
New York, Clark Boardman, 1929. 2 volumes, blue cloth. $65
Helen MacInnes; Above Suspicion. Signed by the
author. First edition, 4th printing. No dust
jacket. $95.00 SOLD
Anne Morrow Lindbergh; North to the Orient. New
York, Harcourt, Brace, 1935. First edition, first issue in
first state dust jacket of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's account of her
journey to Alaska and along the Arctic Circle to Russia, China and
Japan. $300
William Beckford; Vathek. A new translation by
Herbert Grimsditch; with illustratiosn by Marion V. Dorn; Nonesuch Press,
1929, Limited edition of 1050. This book is # 918.
$60.
T. E Lawrence; Revolt in the Desert. First edition.
New York, Doran Co., 1927. Decorative cloth. No dust
jacket. $200
Edgar Rice Burroughs; Tanar of Pellucidar. .
Metropolitan Book Publishers, 1930. Frontispiece by Paul F.
Berdanier. Blue cloth with front and spine stamped in black.
First edition. No dust jacket. $200 SOLD
Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Marble Faun. Boston,
Ticknor and Field, 1860. First edition 4th or 5th printing.
Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and horizontal
blind-stamped rules to spines. $150.
Jared van Wagenen, Jr.; The Golden Age of Homespun. Cornell
U. Press; 1953; hard cover with dust jacket; 1st edition; signed
by the author. "A readable account of how farms were
created and homes built, and how each family fed, clothed, shod and
warmed itself." $50
The Interpreter's Bible; Edited by George Buttrick et al.;
12 volumes; New York; Abingdon-Cokesbury Press; 1952. $200.
The Wilderness Colors of Tao-Chi; Metropolitan Museum
of Art; orange cloth, in slip case. Illustrates and discusses the
author and his paintings from the mid-17th Century. $50.00
City of Cambridge: A survey and Inventory by the Royal
Commission on Historical Monuments. 1959. Two volumes with
dust jackets and mylar covers. $100.00.
Charles H. Peck; Edible Fungi of New York 1895-1899. Memoir
of the New York State Museum, No.4, Vol.3, November 1900. Albany,
SUNY, 1900. Contains 25 chromolithographed plates. $100
Eric Sloane; American Barns and Covered Bridges.
New York; Funk and Wagnalls; 1954; later printing; hard cover
with dust jacket. An early book by Sloane including his now famous
sketches of barns and covered bridges. $50
Eric Sloane; A Museum of Early American Tools.
New York; Wlfred Funk; 1946; hard cover with dust jacket; "a
wonderful collection of pen-and-ink sketches illustrating more than a
hundred folk tools and artifacts." $50
Modes & Manners: Ornaments. London & Toronto, Dent
& Sons. 1929. Supplementary volume to von Boehn's great series on
European historic costumes. This volume deals with accessories,
including "lace, fans, gloves, walking-sticks, parasols, jewelry
and trinkets." Sixteen color plates and 241 black and white
photographs and drawings. Decorated cloth. $75.
John Steinbeck; The Red Pony. New York, Viking
Press, 1945. Beige cloth with Wesley Dennis color drawing of the
Red Pony on the front. Front and rear endpapers have watercolor
drawing of running horses. Book contains 11 other color illustrations by
Wesley Dennis. $45 SOLD
Gertrude Aretz; The Elegant Woman from the Rococo Period to Modern
Times. London, Harrap, 1932. With six illustrations in color and 57
in "collotype." The history of feminine elegance from the mid
18th Century, Decorated cloth. $35.
Ben Shahn; Love and Joy About Letters; New York; Grossman
Publishers, 1963. Illustrated throughout including 29 full color
illustrations. In slip case. $65.
Harry T. Peters; Currier & Ives - Print Makers to the American
People; New York, Doubleday, 1942. Profusely illustrated with
Currier & Ives prints in black & white and color. $25.
E.R. and J. Pennell; The Life of James McNeill Whistler;
William Heinemann, London; Lippincott, Phila.; fifth revised edition,
1911.Profusely illustrated. $95.
David Mackenzie; Goat Husbandry; London,
Faber and Faber. Concise and informative book on goat husbandry
including information on goat farming, goat milking and goat breeding.
$22.50. SOLD
Rex Brasher; Birds and Trees of North America: Rowman
& Littlefield, NY, 1962, 4 volumes. 875 full color plates, 1094
species and sub-species of birds; 383 species of trees, with explanatory
text by the artist. Edited and annotated by Elizabeth McGaw. Deluxe
edition, all edges gilt, brown and green morocco with gilt bird on front
boards; Italian paper endpapers. Ex-Library. $385.
C. S. Forester; Captain Horatio Hornblower. Boston,
Little ,Brown, 1939. First edition, later printing, with
illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, with color dust jacket by Wyeth.
Contains Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line and Flying Colours.
$75.
C. S. Forester; Hornblower and the Atropos. Boston,
Little Brown, 1953. First edition, third printing with
dust jacket by Coleman. $75
U.P. Hedrick; The Peaches of New York. Albany,
J.B. Lyon, 1917. A survey of peaches grown in New York state. 92
color plates of varieties of peaches and peach blossoms. $225.00
U.P. Hedrick; The Cherries of New York. Albany,
J.B. Lyon, 1915. A survey of cherries grown in New York state.
56 color plates of varieties of cherries and cherry blossoms.
$225.00

Leonard Cohen; Dance Me to the End of Love; Paintings by Henri
Matisse. Inscribed by Cohen and with two of his stamps.
$200 SOLD
Leonard Cohen; Let Us Compare Mythologies; Signed by the author; 1st
edition with dust jacket. $650. SOLD
Theodore Roosevelt; The Foes of our Own Household. Doran,
New York, 1917; red cloth, gilt titles on spine and boards, 1st edition,
1st issue, no dust jacket. $75.
Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge; Hero Tales from American
History. Stories of George Washington, Daniel Boone,
Gouverneur Morris, the Battle of Trenton, the Conquest of the Northwest
by Lewis & Clark. The Century Co., New York, 1895.
Theodore Roosevelt; An Autobiography. New York,
Macmillan; 1913, 1st edition. $100
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt; Edmund Morris. New
York, Coward McCann, 1979. 1st edition, 3rd impression, with dust
jacket. $95 SOLD