History from Collettes Books

This is the text of a lecture on "work and workers" given by Don Mariano Belmas at a labor center in Madrid in 1893. Belmas was an architect in Madrid in the latter part of the 19th C. Scarce First Edition, pamphlet format, in Good condition. Missing stitching with some edge wear and light toning. Pencil underlining and notations on… Read more about this item

Signed by the author on title page. Limited Edition: #139 of 300 copies. Good, with tight binding and unmarked text. Some edge wear and rubs to covers, sunning to spine, owner's stamp on inside front. A solid, clean copy, and an interesting example of an early self-published book using early 1980s technology: a Commodore 8032 computer! (Read the preface for… Read more about this item

Scarce copy of this exhibit catalog for a show at the Bowling Green State University School of Art, Fine Arts Gallery, Feb. 5-25, 1977. Consists of a softcover portfolio of 20 blacksmith artists in loose leaf format (see cover image and example). Each sheet measures 8.5 x 11", in B&W. Information on artist's education, current position, and exhibitions, with a… Read more about this item

Very Good. Scarce copy of a series of over 30 interviews of townspeople who grew up in or had connections to Paradise Valley, Arizona, including Sandra Day and John O'Conner, Marshall Trimble, Paolo Soleri, William Rehnquist, Judy and Earl Eisenhower, and many others. The interviews were published in 2001 to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the incorporation of the town… Read more about this item

Hard to find hardcover First Edition (1978), printed in the People's Republic of China. A fictional view of the Korean conflict from the Chinese perspective. Text in English. Very Good hardcover in Good dust jacket. Book has tight binding and unmarked text. Light edge wear and rubbing to covers and tips of spine, slight bow to boards. DJ is intact… Read more about this item

1st Ed. (and only edition; 1945) in Good condition with tight binding and unmarked text. Ex-library with usual stamps, stickers, pockets, and notations to covers, edges, pastedowns, and some pages. Rebound in tan buckram (hardcover). Some edge wear, rubs, and scuffs to covers, light toning to edges and pages. A comprehensive work on practical tanning processes circa mid-1940s. 414 pp,… Read more about this item

Uncommon copy of Vol. 10 in the series published by the University of Wroclaw, Institiute of Geography and Regional development (2008). Very Good condition with tight binding, bright covers and unmarked text. Light edge wear and rubs to covers, slightly cocked spine. Includes a laid-in, signed letter from editor Jerzy Wyrzykowski. Pictorial wraps (softcover), 517 pp, 24 cm. [z8]