100 POCKETS

New York, NY: The Gregg Publishing Co, 1920. First Edition . Hard Cover/3 Volume Set. Collectible - Very Good/None as Issued?. Classic,full 3-volume Set. 1920 First Edition, Gregg Publishing Co, New York. Physical decrription for all 3 books: A) ,Text/Bright & Near New .B) ,Beige linen boards/VG; strong & sound w/edge rubs & surface wear. C), DJ/None (as Issued?. And D), PO name (same) stamped to fEP. Highschool mathematics textbooks; systematic coverage of business applications, geomentry and algebra. BOOK ONE (7th grade text). 222 pgs in 4 chapters: 1, Accurate Rapid Calculation; 2, Everyday Arithmetic in Business;, and 4, Tests of Acheivement. BOOK TWO (8th grade text), 239 pgs in 14 chapters. 1, Form & Measurement; 2, Surfaces of Common Solids; 3, A Study of Triangles; 4, Constructions; 5, Further Study of Triangles; 6, Parallel Lines; 7, Quadrilaterals; 8, Measured & Unmeasured Lines; 9, Review Problems; 10, Similar Figures; 11, Polygons; 12, Cylinders & Circles; 13, Volumes; and 14, Review of Formulas…Read more

New York, NY: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1944. Reprint of 1944 Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/Near New & Bright. Green linen boards/VG; strong & sound wi light edge rubs. DJ/None. PO name to fEP dated 1953. Text book. Course to Classical Chinese by Jacob Joseph Brandt (1869-1944). First published 1927; this is the Unger printing of 1944. 503 pgs with text in Chinese and English. 40 lessons, ending with The Edict of the Chief Executive Marshall Tuan Ch'i-jui at the end of his temporal term in Beijing, 1924.

New York, NY: Brentano's , 1923. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ernst Boerschmann (Author-Photographer). UC Davis/EX-LIB. Text/NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed red linen boards/VG; strong & sound w/light edge rubs & marked fading to upper front & spine. DJ/None. First 1923 Engish language Edition (PO name to front cover verso, is dated "1923-4"). Collection of 288 historic, photographs (dating to onset of World War I in 1914, with captions in English, French, German, Spanish & Italian) of Chinese historical architectural, covering style & construction, from gifted German architect, historian & photographer, Ernst Boerschmann (1873 - 1949) of Berlin Univ. Boerschmann first saw China in 1902 when assigned to the German Army in Shantung province (Germany's sphere of influence formalized 1897 (after British acquisition Hong Kong in 1842) --- aftermath of two Opium Wars (1839 - 1842, & 1856 - 1860) triggered by the Ch'ing Dynasty's attempt to prohibit rampant importation of opium by Western powers…Read more

New York, NY: Weathermark/Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. New/Very Good. Michikazu Sakai (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW. Embossed white boards w/black linen spine/NF w/trace rubs to lower edges. DJ/VG; showing rubs to edges & corner tips, small losses to upper/lower spine; now under mylar. Maps to endpapers. First published in Japanese (Nihon no Dento Pakkeji), 1965; this is the 2nd Printing of the First English translation of 1967, also printed in Japan. Aesthetics in daily life. A visual delight of creative, imaginative designs arising from pragmatic needs of packaging --- a humble necessity transformed into arts and crafts, and then elevated to high art. Here, literally, "wrap", means to do up as a parcel, pack or bundle goods, in kerchiefs (furoshiki), paper, twine, and/or other materials. 223 exhibits photographed by Michikazu Sakai; each with commentary by Hideyuki Oka. Fine copy on the art of living.

Wuhan, China: Renmin Publishers, 1980. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/NEW. Gilt embossed green linen boards/NF, showing trace wear/discoloration to surface. DJ/None (as Issued?) Photographic essay. Chronicle of 30 years, 1950 - 1980, of water control in Hubei Province of central China. Water abounds in Hubei (literally region north of Dongting Lake), additionally the rivers Yangtze and Han converge at provincial capital, Wuhan. A record of harnessing water, building of levees & dams, reservoirs, employing hot springs through photographs. Photos, assembled from many sources, are true to central interest of this volume, is simultaneously a portrait or vignette of 3 decades of social and cultural from the initial establishment of Communist rule onwards. A moment in comparative history to the bustling Hubei Province of today.

New York, NY: The Natural Science Association of America, 1903. Revised Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Leather & Cloth. Near Fine/None (as Issued?). Theodore Jasper (Painter). Text/ NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed maroon linen boards w/leather backstrap & corners/VG; light fading to front leading edge, rubs to edges, surface and noticably, to spine edges. Upper text block in gilt. DJ/None as Issued. Popular account of bird life first published 1873 --- this 1903 edition is a reprint of the of the original edition augmented with the 1886 systematic Table & Index prepared by Frank M. Chapman of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY. Classic reference assembled by popular ornithologist, Jacob Henry Studer (1840 - 1904) with essays from eminent writers on bird life, and, illustrated w/119 colored plates, drawn & painted from nature, by Theodore Jasper (1814 - 1897), from field observations. Rich in study & presentation.

Boston, MA.: Houghton Mifflin, 1940. Limited Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Slipcase. Near Fine/None as Issued. John James Audubon (Artist). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. LIMITED EDITION (1 of 3025 copies, AUTHOR SIGNED. Gilt embossed, illustrated beige linen boards/Fine. Upper text block in gilt. DJ/None as Issued. Black slipcase w/gold paste downs/NF w/edge rubs. Audubon's travel map to endpapers. Frontispiece: 1822 Audubon self-portrait. Collection of first-hand narratives of the great ornithologist John James Audubon (1785 - 1851), less as a naturalist but memoir of his travels among men --- river captains and roustbouts, pioneers and men of letters, Indians and scientists. 238 pgs (last page uncut) w/17 color plates are: 1, Audubon as a Witness; 2, Kentucky Days & Nights; 3, Hunters' Tales; 4, Pioneer Types; 5, Deep South; 6, Four Proud Fowl; 7, Down East for Birds & Subscribers; 8, Out West with Buffalo & Indians; and, 9, Envoi. Botanist, author, and master of prose, Donald Culross Peattie (1898 - 1964)…Read more

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Collectible. Text/Near New. Gilt embossed blue linen boards/NF w/rubs & light fraying to corner tips & upper/lower spine. DJ/None. Gilting to upper text edge. Sound but worn front hinge; first blank endpaper loose. PO name pencilled to 2nd fEP. Closed tears to pg 501, and, 2" loss to pg 503 by hinge. Anthology of American history poems collected and edited by author and librarian Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872 - 1962). In assembling this anthology some were included for "its historical or political interest" because it is an expression of its time and place; these verse are often marked by admirable, spontaneous energy. Others, retropective ballads so to speak ("Paul Revere's Ride", for instance), were chosen because of their power to touch the heart and grip the imagination. A fiery protest against clerical oppessors by John Greenleaf Whittier, 1835, reads: "Just God! and these are they/Who minister at thine alta…Read more

Tokyo, Japan: Paper Museum, 1979. Revised & Enlarged Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Red endpapers. Author Kiyofusa Narita is the Director of the Paper Museum. Tokyo, Japan. Text first introduces Chinese official Ts'ai Lung of the court of Emperor Ho of the Later Han Dynasty, c AD 105, and his techniques and methodology. Chinese methods were introduced to Japan (via Korea) in 610 and soon brittleness was solved through usage of kozo tree bark, laying the basis of Japan's papermaking industry. 6 chapters: 1, A Life of Ts'ai Lung, The Inventor of Paper; 2, A Brief History of Japanese Hand-Made Paper; 3, Making Paper by Hand in Japan; 4, Suminagashi, Ink-Floating Paper or Marbled Paper; 5. Patterned Paper, Ebosho & Watermarked Paper; and, The First Marchine-Made Paper in Japn.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Fourth Edition, w/Two Supplements . Hard Cover/3 Volumes. Near Fine/No Jackets. Classic, multi-volume study of spoken American Language (or, "Americanism" ) by Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956), journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic & scholar of American English. A frolic in linguistics in 3 volumes. Physical condition for of all three books: (a) Text/NEW & Bright; (b) Gilt embossed linen boards; (c) Upper text block dyed; (d) DJ/None; and (e) Trace shelf soiling to text edges. Particulars are: VOLUME 1: THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE, An Inquiry Into The Development of English in the United States: (first published 1919), 4th corrected, enlarged & rewritten edition (virtually a new book), 13th printing of 1955 w/ blue linen boards; 769 pgs, 12 chapters & separately paginated Index. VOLUME 2: SUPPLEMENT I, w/black linen boards (first published 1945), 5th printing of 1952; 739 pgs, 6 chapters followed by List of Words & Phrases & Index. VOLUME 3: SUPPLEMENT II, w/black l…Read more