
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