[De Grazia 1909 - 1982]

De GRAZIA MOODS. In Gold Silver and Precious Gems and Cookies

Tucson: De Grazia Gallery in the Sun, 1974. Artist Proof Edition. SIGNED on the ffep. Grey cloth binding with black and silver title lettering stamped to front board. Black title lettering stamped to spine. 47, [1] pp. Profusley illustrated with colorful illustrations. 12-1/4" x 9-1/4". Bump to spine base. Lay-in flier "Apache Baby". Jacket has wear and some chipping otherwise a VG+ copy in an About Very Good jacket.

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Book number: 33997

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The IMPERIAL PALACE

: . Purple paper wrappers with gilt title lettrering stamped to front wrapper. Purple cloth binding with chinese characters stamped to spine. Slipcase. [3], I - VII, 16 - 9, [8]; Unpaginated. The smaller book has several b/w photopgraphic iamges. The large book is profusely illustrated with photographic iamges in color. 15-1/2" x 12". Fine / Fine.

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Book number: 35007

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Abarbanel, Andrew

LOVING MADLY, LOVING SANELY. How to Keep Your Brain from Ruining Your Love Life

New York: Kensington Books, 1997. 1st edition. Cloth backed boards in dust jacket. 225 pp. 8vo. F/F.

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Book number: 18261

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Abbott, Wilbur Cortez

CONFLICTS With OBLIVION

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1935. 2nd edition. Blue cloth spine with blue paper-wrapped boards. Buff printed dust jacket. 371 pp (including index). 8vo. VG (bpt/pos on tp)/VG (some edgewear/pos on front panel). Essays on Pepys, Disraeli, Monson, Thomas Blood, Cromwell, Sir John Wentworth, Bede & Colonel John Scott of Long Island.

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Book number: 14062

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Abbott, Very Rev. Eric S. - Dean of Westminster

WESTMINSTER ABBEY 900 YEARS. The Commerative Book

(n. p.): The Westerham Press, 1965. White cloth binding. Gold dust jacket. AEG. Illustrated, including fold-outs. 14-5/8" x 7". NF/VG (minor extremity wear).

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Book number: 30217

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[History of Electricity]. Abel, Sir Frederick [1827 - 1902] - Chairman

JOURNAL Of The SOCIETY Of ARTS. Friday, November 21, 1884. No. 1670. Vol. XXXIII

London: , 1884. 1st Printing. Modern plum colored cloth spine over marbled paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title label to front board. [4 (adverts)], 34, [2 (adverts)] pp. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 10" x 6-3/4". Binding - Fine. Textblock - VG (age-toning/blue 'x' in lower left margin of page 1). Abel's Address to the Society concerns the current status of large scale application of electrical lighting.

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Book number: 43325

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[European History]. Abell, Mrs. [Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe, 1802 - 1871]

RECOLLECTIONS Of The EMPEROR NAPOLEON, during the First Three Years of His Captivity on the Island of St. Helena: Including the Time of His Residence at Her Father's House, "The Briars"

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1844. First Edition. Original green publisher's cloth lettered in gilt and with gilt emblem to front board, same emblem stamped in blind to rear board, bees stamped in blind to boards and in gilt to spine. xii, 251, [1], [16, ads] pp. B/w engravings. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5". Wear and slight fraying to extremities; sunning and modest soil to case; light foxing to beginning and end leaves, and occasionally throughout; gutter break at pp 120. Text clean and bright overall. Good condition. A solidly good copy of this first edition from Napoleon's most famous friend at St. Helena. Abell was 13 years old when her father invited Napoleon to stay at "The Briars" while Longwood was being readied for him; she became one of his closest friends and admirers. "Even a look, a tone of the voice, a gesture, in an unreserved moment, will give an insight into the real disposition, which years of a more formal intercourse would fail to convey; and this is particularly the case in the association of a person of mature age with very young people. There is generally a confiding candour and openness about them which invites confidence in return, and which tempts a man of the world to throw off the iron mask of reserve and caution, and to assume once more the simplicity of a little child. This, at least, took place in my intercourse with Napoleon . " (p 233). Institutionally common, though scarce in the trade: we find only one auction record in the last 20 years.

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Book number: 43930

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Abetti, Giorgio

The SUN.; Translated by J. B. Sidgwick

New York: MacMillan, 1957. Blue cloth with gold spine lettering. Yellow dust jacket. 336 pp (including index). Illustrated. 8vo. NF (po name label)/VG (avg wear/po name written on bottom edge of front panel).

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Book number: 13800

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[Sociology]. Accampo, Elinor

INDUSTRIALIZATION, FAMILY LIFE, And CLASS RELATIONS. Saint Chamond, 1815 - 1914

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 1st edition. 301 pp (including index), 8vo. NF/VG+ (sp sunned).

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Book number: 10736

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Ackerman, Franz; ter Heijne, Mathilde; Tal R; Sasse, Jorg; Scheibitz, Thomas

IMAGINATE BECOMES REALITY. An Exhibition Cycle Focusing on the Pictorial Understanding of Current Art.; Part I. Expanded Paint Tools

Munchen: Sammlung Goetz, 2005. 1st Edition. White composition binding with graphics in black, lettering in reddish-brown. 183, [1] pp. Text in German & English. Illustrated, primarily in color. 9-5/8" x 6-13/16". Little wear, a Nr Fine copy.

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Book number: 50191

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Adam, George [b. 1846]

EARTHQUAKES. An Astronomical Question. With ALs

San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co. Printers, 1906. 1st printing. Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 15, [1] pp. Attached to the front wrapper is an ALs from Adam to the editor of Astronomical Notes, asking for 'careful consideration'. Illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Pamphlet - VG+. ALs with split along fold, otherwise VG. The author attempts to explain the cause of Earthquakes as having an extraterrestrial casual factor, a study no doubt inspired by the [then] recent event in San Francisco. OCLC records just 5 cc.

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Book number: 33035

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[Adams, Ansel. 1902 - 1984]. Alinder, James & Szarkowski, John - Compilers

ANSEL ADAMS: Classic Images

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1985. 1st hardback edition. Black cloth binding with silver stamped lettering. Red dust jacket. Book designed by Adrian Wilson. 111, [1] pp. Illustrated with 76 of Adams' b&w photographic images. 8vo. NF/VG (some rubs).

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Book number: 31722

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[Naval Aviation History / Vietnam War Era]. Adams, Rick (?)

NAVAL AVIATOR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, 1968 - 1971

Divers places, including San Francisco & Corpus Christi: , 1971. Red faux-leather commercial photograph album, red cord tie. "Photographs" gilt stamped to front cover, with gilt stamped geometric design to upper left. Album with 30 leaves of black mounting paper, 27 with ~ 250+ [mostly] color snapshot-style photographs, attached at top, many with captions to verso. Some loose & laid-in. Album: 11" x 14". Photographs: 3-1/2" x 3-1/2". Modest wear to album covers, VG+. Most photographs VG+. Like most young men in the late 60s / early 70s that pursued a career in Naval Aviation, the compiler of this album was focused primarily on three things: Airplanes, cars & members of the opposite sex. Mr Adams (?) was a Corvette fan, apparently owning a 1968 big-block. We find images from VT-10, as well as VT-29, in Corpus Cristi TX, places where he was, no doubt, stationed during flight training. We find pictures of Ms Anita Deppe [amongst many, many others], and from a Disneyland souvenir, we surmise she was a girlfriend from this period. An interesting pictorial record of a young naval avaitor's budding carreer, at the height of the Vietnam war [which, surprisingly enough, gets no mention whatsoever in this young man's album].

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Book number: 45612

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Adams, Ansel ]. Szarkowski, John - Contributor

The PORTFOLIOS OF ANSEL ADAMS.; Introduction by John Szarkowski

New York: New York Graphic Society, 1984. Later printing. Black cloth binding. Pictorial dust jacket. Black & white photographic images throughout. Small 4to. VG (slight lean)/VG (yellowing of spine and upper edge).

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Book number: 21009.1

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Adams, Ansel [1902 - 1984]. Baker, Robert - Contributor

The PRINT. The New Ansel Adams Photography Series. Book 3

Boston: Little Brown and Company. A New York Graphic Society Book, 1983. 1st edition thus. INSCRIBED by Adams [dated 2-19-84], and underneath signed by his wife, Virginia. Black cloth binding with silver stamped title lettering to spine. Dust jacket. x, [2], 210 pp (including Index). Profusely illustrated. 8vo. Some pen underlining to pp 98-99, otherwise a Nr Fine copy in a VG+ jacket which has just a bit of wear to spine panel crown. Laid-in is a 4-page invitational card to "Ansel Adams / A Celebration / May 11, 1984 / Sunset Center Theatre / Carmel-by-the-Sea", which has Adam's photograph of Half Dome on the front. Unfortunately, Adams died April 22nd.

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Book number: 32532

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