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New York: Braziller, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 127 pages. 26 x 19 cm. Profusely illustrated; plans, drawings and photographs.

Washington DC: GPO, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Very good. Vols. 1-4.. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated: plates {some folding} and diagrams. Vol. I: Report of the commissioner general, list of exhibitors and awards. Vol.II: Fine Arts. Vol. III: Iron and steel, ceramics and glassware. Vol. IV: Chemical processes, mining, machinery, clocks and watches. Backstrip extremities chipped, a few corners worn, gilt front cover medallions, generally sound.

NY: Knopf, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Fine in chipped dust wrapper. 407 pages. 20. 5 x 14 cm. Clean, fresh copy, sequel to RABBIT RUN. Dust wrapper nicked at spine extremities and corners.

New York: Knopf, 1975. Third edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 228 pages.

Chicago: UP 17, 1907. Full black calf. Very good. Teg.. 367 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Appendix. Index. Upton was the music critic for the Chicago Tribune. Interior contents clean, backstrip eroded, but binding tight, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles.

Utica: William E. Gray Company, Nd. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff tan boards with embossed lantern front cover. Fine. 71 pages. 25 x 17.5 cm. "Etruscan Bronze -- so named because first used in a crude form by the inhabitants of ancient Etruria, has long been known to metallurgists, but only in recent years has it been successfully used in the manufacture of lighting fixtures." Mostly with one fixture image per page. Clean, fresh oopy.

New York: Macmillan, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in good, slightly nicked dust wrapper. 462 pages. 24 x 17 cm. Illustrated. From the first skirmishes over the Bozeman in 1866 Trail to the defeat of the Sioux in 1890. Small owner stamp.

London: R. Ackermann, 1815. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. thick buff boards. rebacked in gray cloth. spine paper label. Very good. 14 pages in text. Folio, 37.5 x 30 cm. Half title, 17 hand-colored stipple and engraved plates on "JWhatman Turkey Mill/1821" watermarked wove paper (free endpaper watermarked "Whatman Turkey Mill/1821). Armorial bookplate of George Benson Tatum, of Christ Church, Oxford. Explanation of Dependent and Independent Members, the latter being Nobleman, Gentlemen Commoners, Commoners and Fellow Commoners. Text and plates clean and bright. ABBEY SCENERY 278. MARTIN-HARDIE, pp. 104-106. PRIDEAUX p.331. TOOLEY pp.13-18. Boards rubbed.

Paris: Societe Francaise d'Editions d'Art, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter navy morocco and patterned boards. Teg. Very good. 272 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 690 of 1000, original wrappers designed by Louis Rhead bound-in. Plethora of color tinted and black white text illustrations. French text treats book decoration and the book arts at the turn of the century at the zenith of Art Nouveau influence -- bindings, cover design, commercial printing. Raised bands, spine panels in floral art nouveau motifs, marbled endpapers, rubbing to lower extremities, interior very clean and fresh.

Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1900. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half brown morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Very good. Courboin, Eugene. 281 pages. 4to, 28 x 19 1/2 cm. Twenty illustrations hors texte, pochoir plates (aquarelles) by Eugene Courboin, large fold-outs; plus eighteen full-page reproductions of prints and a host of text illustrations. Limited edition, copy 89 of 1500. History of the methods of transportation from the earliest times to the early days of the automobile. Marbled endpapers, modest extremity rubbing.

Paris: A. Quantin, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter blue morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Very good. Avril, Paul. 138 pages. 27 x 18 cm. Illustrated by Paul Avril: Each page with a process border printed in black, or photogravure border or vignette or various shades of blue, red, green, or brown. This work and "L'Eventail," were meant by Uzanne to provide a comprehensive history of feminine adornment. GORDON RAY 288. "Certainly Avril, who was a witty and ingenious artist, took full advantage of Uzanne's anecdotal chronicle ...... The result is an elegant pastiche of rococo bookmaking......." [THE ART OF THE FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOK 1700-1914]. Raised bands, marbled endpapers, modest extremity rubbing, original wrappers bound-in. Text in French.

Paris: Ancienne Maison Quantin, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter burgundy morocco and marbled boards with matching endpapers. Teg. Near fine. 328 pages. 28.5 x 20.5 cm. Illustrations by Pierre Vidal, 20 eaux-fortes hors texte with tissue guards. Also, a plethora of tipped-in process head and tail pieces, vignettes, and hand-colored plates. Original illustrated wrappers in Art Nouveau style by Leon Rudnicki bound-in, including the backstrip. Edition printed on Japan paper in 'Tirage A Peitit Nombre." GORDON RAY. THE ART OF THE FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOK 331. "In this characteristically diffuse book Uzanne undertook to survey the Parisian woman, describing her history in earlier eras, her various occupations, her place in the world of gallantry, and her psychology." Further, Ray notes, "In all Vidal provided designs for 300 process reproductions in the text, many printed in colors, and twenty plates engraved by F. Masse...........Vidal made far more drawings for `La Femme a Paris' then were… Read More