The Voice of Venus.
Santa Barbara: Unarius Science of Life, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. 198pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Third edition. The first volume of "The Pulse of Creation" series. More
Santa Barbara: Unarius Science of Life, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. 198pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Third edition. The first volume of "The Pulse of Creation" series. More
New York: Benziger Brothers, 1889. Hardcover. Small 4to. Emerald green cloth with ornate gilt and black lettering and pictorial stamping. 698pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations, 2 heavy stock tissue-guarded full-page plates, marbled endpapers. Very good. Slightly edgeworn (mainly at spine head and tail), else tight and internally near fine; inoffensive archival..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 275pp. Fine/near fine. First edition of the Irish columnist's memoir, signed boldly by her in black ballpoint on an inner flyleaf. More
Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company, 1935. Hardcover. Illustrations by Dwight C. Sturges. Small 4to. Black leather spine and wood-grained paper over boards, slipcase with numbered spine label. 287pp. Top edge gilt. Tipped-in frontispiece, numerous tipped-in illustrations. Very good/very good. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies (this #208) signed by Orcutt..... More
Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company, 1935. Hardcover. Illustrations by Dwight C. Sturges. Small 4to. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 287pp. Frontispiece, numerous line drawings. Near fine/very good. Some jacket edgewear, with numerous small edge chips. First edition, attractive, tight and clean. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 139pp. Illustrations (some color), patterns. Near fine/very good. Handsome first edition. Detailed guide to reproducing eleven American primitive scenes in needlepoint. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. Hardcover. Edited by Edward Callan. 8vo. Brown cloth spine and brown paper over boards, dust jacket. xiii, 295pp. Good plus/good plus. Jacket edgeworn and rubbed; occasional red pencil underlining of text. First edition, a tight and decent copy. More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1958. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 489pp, xii. Maps. Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of mild wear to jacket -- else an exceptionally tight, clean, handsome first edition -- part of editor Allan Nevins and Howard M. Ehrmann's "University..... More
Melbourne, Australia: Time Australia Magazine, 1987. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 127pp. Extensive color illustrations, advertisements. Very good. A tight and attractive "Special Issue 1788-1792" of "Time Australia," the Australian version of this weekly magazine, with a twist: Near the bottom of the colorful front wrapper (an Australian-theme..... More
New York: George Braziller, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. ix, 183pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. First edition. More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1926. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth. 472pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Early (not first) printing, tight and clean and attractive. Not a travelogue so much as political and social commentary. More
Milpitas, CA: The Phan-Vinh Family, 1994. Paperback. Translation by Clara Phan Knudson. Photographs by James A. Smestad. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 234pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Very good. First edition, tight and nice, of this memoir by a Vietnamese engineer and architect who fled to America, with interesting..... More
Los Angeles: McElfresh & Son, [1948]. Paperback. 24mo. Stiff grey wrappers. (7pp), 15pp. Near fine. Probable sole printing of this nifty little guide that allows you to (to cite front wrapper) "View Any Year in 10 Seconds" -- so if you need to know what day of the week it..... More
Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1935. Paperback. Prèface de Marcellin Pellet. 12mo. Stiff tan wrappers. 304pp. Frontispiece, 3 plates. Very good. Pages age toned, but not brittle. Fifth printing of this account of French premier Gambetta's love, handsomely signed and inscribed by Pillias on the front flyleaf and dated June 27, 1936..... More
N.p. International Grapho Analysis Society, Inc., 1952. Hardcover. 8vo. Full black pebble-grained leatherette. 92pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Facsimile of the Dial Press 1926 limited edition of 750 copies -- this edition too limited to 1,239 numbered copies (this copy unnumbered). Originally published as a magazine article, "A Chapter on..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with red spine lettering. viii, 242pp. Very good. Internally fine and with just the faintest of edgewear. A tight, nice first edition of this study of Latin-American affairs during the Cold War by this prominent San Francisco attorney and Under Secretary..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., [1967]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Natural linen spine with orange/clue lettering and orange paper over boards. xii, 371pp. Near fine. Lacks dust jacket. Tight, attractive second printing, with interesting nonauthorial presentation inscription on half-title page from a U.S. Senate staffer to just-elected Senator Adlai E. Stevenson..... More
Minneapolis: Dillon Press, [1970]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Henning B. Jensen. 8vo. Yellow cloth with red lettering, pictorial dust jacket. iv, 301pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear,vwith jaket spine faintly sunned. A tight, quite handsome first edition of this (to cite jacket flap) "bit of sports, art, music, literature..... More
Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, [1921]. Hardcover. 24mo. Brown pebble-grained cloth with black rules and gilt lettering. 323pp. Near fine. Tight and handsome later printing of the 1915 fourth revised edition of this parliamentarian classic, first published in 1876. A title that everybody knows and nobody actually reads -- but..... More
Woburn, MA: Dionne Quint Collectors, 1987. Paperback. 4to. Wrappers with color snapshot tipped to front wrapper, stapled at upper left (as issued). 21pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine. Attractive issue of this interesting, crudely-produced (typed, photocopied) quarterly devoted to the famous Canadian quintuplets (born 1934), the first quints known to have..... More
San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff black wrappers. x, 162pp. Very good. First edition. More
N.p. Privately Printed, 1897. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Half green leather with raised bands and green cloth. xii, 369pp. Top edge gilt. Very good. Leather spine sunned to golden brown. Volume Four only of this 4-volume set, limited to 1000 numbered copies (this volume unnumbered). A tight, handsome first edition in..... More
Peoria: The Manual Arts Press, 1938. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth. vi, 76pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, illustrations. Very good. Ownership name/address on front flyleaf. Reprint of this 1936 text, tight and clean. More
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968. Hardcover. Foreword by Abraham J. Heschel. Small 4to. Grey cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 317pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn and slightly rubbed, with couple of archivally closed (on verso) edge tears. Early (not first) printing, tight and nice. More
Hanover, NH: Charles and Wm. S. Spear, 1810. Hardcover. 12mo. Full calf with gilt spine lettering. viii, 280pp. Good plus. Calf a bit edgeworn and rubbed, else tight and internally very good, with minor age toning; contemporary ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight and nice later American condensation of the..... More