Obiter Dicta.
London: Eliot Stock, 1885. Hardcover. A very good plus copy in green beveled boards with some minor wear. Item #113593 More
Price: $35.00
Non-Fiction
Furniture 1 From Prehistoric through Rococo (Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques).
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Part of the Smithsoinan Illustrated Library of Antiques prepared by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. A near fine copy in an about near fine dust jacket with a small one inch closed tear to the top of the front panel, a little discoloration along the top edge of the jacket, and slight edge wear. Item #127511 More
Price: $12.00
The Different West: As Seen by a Transplanted Easterner.
Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg & Co., Publishers, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A very good plus copy with the white spine lettering having mostly flaked off as usual and with some very minor damage to the spine otherwise a very clean copy in a very good plus dust jacket with some chipping to the spine ends and edges as well as some small edge tears and soiling. Very scarce in the dust jacket. Item #119136 More
Price: $125.00
The Leica Lens Book.
Newton Abbot, Devon, United Kingdom: David & Charles Direct, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 160 pages. Includes numerous color photographs. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. A very good reference about the camera lens from Leica. Item #125632 More
Price: $50.00
Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years - Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. Third printing. Large softcover. 198 pages. Catalog for a show that ran May 1 through July 29, 2001. Text by Hamish Bowles, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and Rachel Lambert Mellon. Includes numerous color and black and white images. A very near fine copy in wrappers. Item #124657 More
Price: $12.50
Dangerous Pilgrimages: Transatlantic Mythologies and The Novel.
New York: Viking, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. A very near fine unread copy in a fine dust jacket. Item #105068 More
Price: $12.50
Pike's Peak... or Busted! Frontier Reminiscences of William Hawkins Hedges.
Evanston, IL: The Branding Iron Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 141 pages. Number 9 from an edition of 750 copies. Edited by Brayer. Decoration by David T. Vernon. A fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket that is lightly soiled and tanned at the edges. Scarce in any jacket. Item #126587 More
Price: $50.00
Downtown Chicago In Transition.
Chicago, IL: Chicago's Books Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Joel Daly. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white and color photographs of the rebirth of Chicago. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by both Bronsky and Samors on the front free endpaper in white ink. Item #110023 More
Price: $25.00
On The Firing Line: The Public Life of our Public Figures (Signed First Edition).
New York: Random House, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of some of the transcripts from his television show. An about near fine copy with some minor bumping to the top corner of the rear panel in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Buckley on a bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. Item #111120 More
Price: $30.00
Racing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passage (Signed Limited Edition).
New York: Random House, 1987. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 344 pages. Number 139 from an edition of 353 copies. Buckley's account of his cruise from Honolulu to Papua New Guinea. Includes color photographs by Christopher Little. A fine copy in blue cloth boards and very near fine cloth slipcase and with a laid in annotated sheet from the original manuscript. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Buckley on the limitation page. Item #177450 More
Price: $75.00
The Life of H.R.H. The Duke of Flamborough.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 287 pages. Written by the Duke's valet. Features a footnote to history, arranged, expurgated and edited by Laurence Housman. A very good copy with some slight foxing in an about fair dust jacket with chipping to the spine ends, some other edge tears and wear and tape repairs to the verso. Uncommon in any dust jacket. Item #178254 More
Price: $65.00
Ireland's Case Stated in Reply to Mr. Froude.
New York: P.M. Haverty, Publishers, 1873. Presumed later printing. Hardcover. 238 pages. An about good copy in green cloth binding with gilt lettering but with some rubbing and wear to the board edges, a vintage sticker to the front pastedown, a vintage bookstore embossed stamp to the front free endpaper and lacking the rear free endpaper. Still, a solid copy. Item #124726 More
Price: $25.00
Municipal Housecleaning: The Methods and Experiences of American Cities in Collecting and Disposing of Their Municipal Wastes-Ashes, Rubbish, Garbage, Manure, Sewage, and Street Refuse.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 232 pages. Introduction by Cornelius F. Burns. An about fair ex-library copy with extensive markings, loss to the spine, some bumping to the boards, splitting to the rear hinge, small edge tears to the fore edge of some of the pages and some other wear. No dust jacket. An acceptable reading copy of an uncommon book. Item #172546 More
Price: $20.00
Pictures in the Post: The Story of the Picture Postcard.
Bedford, England & Chester Springs, PA: Gordon Fraser & Dufour Editions Inc., 1959. First edition. Hardcover. A variant edition with a sticker affixed to the front pastedown from Dufour Editions. A fine and tight copy in a price clipped very near fine dust jacket that has a U.S. dollars price stamped on the front flap. Item #108096 More
Price: $35.00
Motherland: Beyond The Holocaust A Daughter's Journey To Reclaim The Past (Signed First Edition).
New York: Viking, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 190 pages. A clean near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some sunning to the spine and a small tear and crimp to the bottom of the rear panel. Signed and very warmly inscribed by Chapman on the title page in the year of publication. A nice association copy as the recipient was Lois Wille who was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago journalist. Item #166894 More
Price: $15.00
Alexis De Tocqueville Et Les Etats-Unis.
Paris: Les Editions France Amerique, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Text in French. A clean near fine copy in paper covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket. Item #176917 More
Price: $25.00
The Grand American Avenue 1850-1920.
San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Published in conjunction with a traveling show that rand April 14 through July 10, 1994 in Washington, D.C. and then went on to New Orleans, Chicago, IL, and New York for additional dates. Essays by Mosette Broderick, Francis R. Kowsky, Thomas W. Brunk, Jan Cigliano, Mary Allic Molloy, S. Frederick Starr, Sue Kohler, Stephen Fox, Charles Savage, Richard Guy Wilson, William S. Worley, and Thomas S. Hines. Includes numerous black and white illustrations. A tight very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Item #124249 More
Price: $65.00
Desert Eves: An Indian Paradise.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Text by Catherine Clement. Includes more than 200 color photographs by Hans Silvester. A tight very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket that has as slight crease to the top of the front panel. Item #126709 More
Price: $30.00
Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century (Signed First Edition).
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. First edition. Softcover. 408 pages. A clean very near fine copy in wrappers. Signed and inscribed by Clifford to author and publisher Clayton Eshleman and his wife Caryl. A nice association copy of an uncommon book to find signed. Item #172316 More
Price: $35.00
The Eighteenth Century: Europe in the Age of Enlightenment.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969. First edition. Oversized hardcover. Text by Alfred Cobban, John Summerson, W.H.G. Armytage, D.C. Coleman, K.G. Davies, J.R. Western, L.D. Ettlinger, Robert Shackleton, and Olwen H. Hufton. Includes 589 illustrations with 173 in color. A tight close to near fine copy with the pages toned but otherwise a nice copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some minor wear and a few small edge tears. Item #123420 More
Price: $25.00
My Contemporaries.
Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company, 1968. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. 185 pages. Edited and with an introduction by Margaret Crosland. A collection of reminiscences about his friends which included: Picasso, Proust, Colette, Modigliani, Chaplin and many others. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. Item #170685 More
Price: $25.00
Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things.
New York: Doubleday, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A very good plus copy copy with some very minor stains to the top edge in a near fine dust jacket. Item #113599 More
Price: $10.00
Movement in Two Dimensions: A Study of the Animated and Projected Pictures Which Preceded the Invention of Cinematography.
London: Hutchinson & Company, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. A clean and tight fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a crease to the front flap. A very fresh copy. Item #108112 More
Price: $30.00
The Americans: Fifty Talks on our life and times (Signed First Edition).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 272 pages. A tight near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with sunning to the spine and edges and with some other minor wear. Signed and warmly inscribed by Cooke on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. A nice association copy as the recipient was Lois Wille who was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago journalist. Item #166895 More
Price: $20.00
Six Men (Signed Limited Edition).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 205 pages. Number 196 from an edition of 400 specially bound copies. Features Cooke's look at: Charles Chaplin, H.L. Mencken, Humphrey Bogart, Adlai Stevenson, Bertrand russell, and Edward VIII. A fine copy in a near fine slipcase with some very minor wear. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Cooke on the limitation page. Item #177382 More
Price: $25.00