Recent Arrivals from The Chatham Bookseller, LLC

Madison, N.J.: The Madison Bicentennial Heritage Committee, 1985. 354 pp. Brick-colored cloth with gold lettering and design on front and spine. Clean, square and tight throughout. A touch of rubbing to the spine edges. The unclipped pictorial dust jacket has closed tears to the front and rear panels, and shelf wear. DJ is in a… Read more about this item

A´llami Ko¨nyvterjeszto? Va´llalat, 1985. 140pp.illustrations. Textured white leather boards, gilt titles on black spine label, gilt decorations to spine and front board. Binding tight, spine straight, corners solid. Pages clean and unmarked throughout. Pamphlet in pocket at back of volume. Pamphlet contains essays in Hungarian, English, and German, by Vida Maria, Kadar Zoltan, and Jantsits Gabriella. Reproduction of the… Read more about this item

Paris: D'Omphale, 1952. A suite of 25 poems, 28 drypoint drawings. 2 full page etchings. Portfolio format. . white binding.There is foxing on the extremities of the page of the lst etching, more on the rear chemise, gold lettering and darkeneing on the spine, This is a limited, numbered edition, this being 180 of 190 copies..… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Three volumes,423pp, 352pp.440pp. Foldout map appears in the back of each .. previous owner bookplate. Volume I is The Fellowship of the Ring, "Revised Edition" (front dj), "Second Edition" (title page), 11th printing, black boards, orange and gilt eye symbol is bright, foxing to the endpapers, overall clean, unmarked copy. Price-clipped orange color… Read more about this item

New York: Morrow, 1934. 304 pp. Black boards show minimal shelf-wear. Binding is square and snug. Light age-toning to top of text block. Pictorial, unclipped dust jacket has a tear at top of spine plus some creasing and light scuffing at bottom of front panel; author's photo on back. Interior is somewhat toned but unmarked throughout. Book set… Read more about this item

Helsinki, Finland: Eurographica, 1988. light gray fabric wrappers. Michelangelo paper. like new. Reproductions of the manuscript of two new poems are present. A beautifully produced work. This is one of 350 signed, limited copies, this is #35.Signed and dated by Stephen Spender on the title page. This notable poet of mid-20th century was an ally for causes that… Read more about this item

Redwood City, Calif.: Addison-Wesley, 1991. 344pp. White pictorial boards with black and red lettering. Minor crease to the bottom spine edge, otherwise an unread, fine copy. "Offering accessible and nuanced coverage, Richard W. Hamming discusses theories of probability with unique clarity and depth. Topics covered include the basic philosophical assumptions, the nature of stochastic methods, and Shannon entropy. One of… Read more about this item

U.S.A.: Dan Buckley, 2015. 3 Vols. Vol 1 862pp. Vol 2 841pp. Vol 3 1116pp. Black boards, dark gray titles and silhouette illustrations on front board of each volume. All bindings tight, with straight spines, square corners and bright, clean, unmarked pages. Small spot of shelfwear to lower front page ends of volume 1. Dust jackets are… Read more about this item

Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2010. 269pp.black and white illustrations. Black boards, bold silver lettering on the spine. illustrated endpapers. This is a signed, numbered, limited first edition one of 500 copies, this being #29 as stated on the limitation page. This is unread, as new. "The Dark is Rising is a captivating fantasy novel by Susan Cooper. It follows… Read more about this item

Boston: Beacon Press, 1955. 175pp. Red cloth boards, black titles on spine. Faint, irregular pattern of black residue from old Brodart cover at top and bottom edges of boards. Same pattern apparent on endpapers, where jacket flaps fold inside book. A clean, tight copy of the book itself beyond that. There is toning to the pages, and one small, faint… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1975. 216pp. Brown boards, Bold, bright gilt lettering on the spine. Double-page illustrations by Alan E. Cober. A touch of offsetting to the endpapers, otherwise a like nw copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has very minor toning, otherwise like new in fresh mylar. "The Dark is Rising is a captivating fantasy novel by Susan Cooper. It follows… Read more about this item

New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928. 203pp. frontispiece. Attractive bookplate on the front pastedown.Patterned colored boards, black spine. 20 black and white plates. Superficial scratches to the boards, with wear to the very rubbed spine and spine extremities and corners of the boards.. There is residue from a removed pastedown on the rear endpapers. The text and illustrations are… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977. 269pp. Black boards, Gilt lettering, bold red decorations on the spine. Joan Didion's black sharpie signature on the front free endpaper. The number line on the copyright page starts with "1" indicating a true first edition, first printing. Light toning to the spine edges, otherwise an internally fine, unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial… Read more about this item

Dearborn, MI: Ford Motor Company , 1950. 799pp. Green wraps. Five binder holes. Hundreds of illustrations throughout. the spine leans, minor creasing to othe front panel, otherwise an unmarked, very clean copy. This is a very thorough catalogue of the Chassis parts and acessories for passenger cars 1928 thru 1948, Trucks 1928 thru 1947. (Form 3633). First Edition. Softcover. Very… Read more about this item

New York: Aperture, 2008. 152pp. In original shrink wrap. Italian photographer, writer, and curator Ghirri’s photos in a handsome Aperture edition, with preface by William Eggleston and an essay by Germano Celant. Ghirri sought a language for seeing and describing the everyday landscape freshly and unromantically, without cliché. Like his counterparts in Italian cinema (Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini,… Read more about this item

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1903. 152pp.frontispiece, 46 black and white illustrations. Yellow-green cloth boards, black titles and darker green decoration on spine and front board. Spine darkened, but titles legible. Binding tight, spine straight, corners solid. Pages clean and unmarked. Uncommon in this, the first, edition. Botsford Comstock was a nature education pioneer, as well as an acclaimed author and… Read more about this item

London Paris New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. 160pp. circa 1880. Full oxblood tree leather, gilt ruling. Gilt decorated spine, five raised bands. All Edges gilt. The upper spine has chipped edge, a closed tear with scuffing on the bottom edge. There is moderate foxing to the pages. 40 exquisite chromolithographs by F. Edward Hulme with tissue guards.… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1887. 624 pp. in total. Dark green boards have some shelf-wear and rubbing to the extremities in particular. The bindings and hinges of the books are quite strong and sound. The interiors are lightly toned from age with some foxing throughout. Dark gray endpapers with 1.5" bookseller sticker from W.B. Clarke & Co. Booksellers… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1969. 75pgs. Black Cloth, silver lettering. Stated First printing. 75 full page black and white photographs. Prev. owner name on the front free endpaper. The unclipped pictorial jacket has a 1" chip on the upper right corner of the rear panel.. in mylar sleeve. "Commissioned by the New York State Council of the Arts, "The… Read more about this item

New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937. 255pp. Aqua blue cloth, embossed gilt lettering, leaf design.Sunfading to the spine and extremities of the panels, offsetting. to the front endpaper, othewise the text block is vrrtually unread. there is no additional print history, indicating a true American first edition, first printing. Unclipped pictorial jacket has the original $2.50 price on the… Read more about this item