Mawe, Thomas, John Abercrombie and Other Gardeners

Every Man His Own Gardener

London, England, J.F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, J. Johnson, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, W. Goldsmith, R. Baldwin, J. Murry, E. Newbery, and W. Lowndes, 1791. Thirteenth Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A still remarkably sturdy, quite attractive, tightly bound hardcover copy of the stated Thirteenth Edition of a popular and influential treatise on gardening, the first edition having been published in 1767. The first publication appeared under the name of "Thomas Mawe &c.", retained here but joined by John Abercrombie, who was considered the real name of the author, depicted at frontispiece portraits of other editions. Abercrombie was the Master Gardener for the Earl of Leeds. Clean, lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Rag paper is supple and bright yet. Full calf leather, with seven gilt rules to spine, and gilt title, rubbed, over burgundy label. Hinges and joints are both tight and firm. Engraved frontispiece is precious, depicting an Englishman digging a hole, watering can at-foot, with ladies and gentlemen in the background; quite fetching. John Abercrombie (1726–1806) was a Scottish horticulturist who is famous for innovations in gardening tools and techniques and taught Botany at the University of Cambridge for a time. He apprenticed at the Royal Gardens at Kew, and at Leicester House (Wikipedia). Frontis matter, 2-616 [24] pp., with a remarkably complete Index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 353511

Catalogue: Gardening

Keywords: gardening The Earl of Leeds Thomas Mawe John Abercrombie

Rattner, Abraham and Henry Miller

Our America

Sunderland, England, Ceolfrith Press / Sunderland Arts Centre, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illustrated, printed covers. Artistically, photographically and otherwise memorializes a trick that Rattner and Miller, best buds since the early '30s, took in a '32 Buick across America in 1940-1941. 28 pp., complete with lists of exhibitions, exhibition checklists, and augmented with black-and-white and some full color reproductions of their work, printed on high-gloss paper. Acknowledgments by Christopher Carrell and Wendy Winfield. Stated First Edition.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 347709

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Travel|exploration|America|Abraham Rattner|Henry Miller

Rattner, Abraham and Henry Miller

Our America

London, Ceolfrith Press / Sunderland Arts Centre, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illustrated, printed covers. Artistically, photographically and otherwise memorializes a trick that Rattner and Miller, best buds since the early '30s, took in a '32 Buick across America in 1940-1941. 28 pp., complete with lists of exhibitions, exhibition checklists, and augmented with black-and-white and some full color reproductions of their work, printed on high-gloss paper. Acknowledgments by Christopher Carrell and Wendy Winfield. Stated First Edition.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 349351

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Travel exploration|America Abraham Rattner Henry Miller

Abrahams, Louis B.

A Manual of Scripture History for Use in Jewish Schools and Families

New York, Bloch Publishing Co., 1907. Third Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Penned by a popular writer Louis Barnett Abrahams (3 October 1839 – 3 June 1918), a British educator, the headmaster of the Jews' Free School in London, and a great popularizer of things Judaic in the U.S. Abrahams was prominent, and articles about him appeared regularly in mainstream British Jewish publications in his lifetime, iA perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Stated Third Edition, revised for and adapted to American use. Printed, illustrated papers over boards, bluish-green cloth-backed. Moderately worn and lightly scuffed edges, tips, else quite bright of interior.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 351333

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Louis B. Abrahams|Judaism Jewish history Jewish culture American Jews

Glenda Abramson

Hebrew Writing of the First World War

London, England, Vallentine Mitchell & Co., Ltd, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade in this condition and state (hardcover, stated First Edition). Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. From the publisher's blurb, "Almost one and a quarter million Jewish soldiers took part in the First World War, spread through the armies on both sides of the conflict. Their numbers were more or less in proportion to the Jewish populations in the countries involved, and sometimes even greater. There is comparatively little writing about this experience in Hebrew. Those who did write novels, poetry, stories, memoirs and diaries in Hebrew were either serving soldiers on the Eastern Front and in Palestine, or civilians who were caught up in the war in one way or another. Their work reflected not only the tribulations of the trenches, but also the hardship suffered by civilians. Most of the Hebrew writers in Europe, including Saul Tchernichowsky, U.Z. Greenberg and Yehuda Ya'ari, confront the Russian pogroms in their work. Starvation, illness and banishment were the lot of the Jews in Jerusalem and the Lower Galilee, and the appalling situation of the Jewish refugees was represented by memoirists, journalists and fiction writers such as Aharon Reuveni, L.A. Orloff and Y.H. Brenner, all caught up in the trials of the wartime yishuv. Woven into their views of the war is a portrait of the major transition taking place in Jewish political culture at the time, and their growing identification with Zionism. Interesting aspects emerge from these texts: Jewish nationalism became a crucial theme in view of what the Jews considered to be the permanent setting of Europe's sun. The texts raise the question of genre: fiction in relation to autobiography. Also the trauma of the war led to an abandonment of the prevailing literary styles and structures, and the Hebrew writers adopted some of the new modernist trends, Expressionism in particular." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxxviii [2], 4-405 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Book number: 353789

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Glenda Abramson Hebrew Writing W.W.I. Jewish history History culture

Abramson, Glenda

Modern Hebrew Drama

New York, St Martin's Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Black cloth covers, white lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. A probing account of Israeli theater from 1948-1978. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [8], 9-232 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 346408

Catalogue: Drama & Theater

Keywords: Glenda Abramson|Hebrew drama|Hebrew theater|Jewish culture|Jewish history|drama

Abse, Dannie

Finland, and Other Poems

New York, Oxford University Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. 71 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 356782

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Dannie Abse poems poetry

Acha, Juan

El Antirretrato Del Dr. Villanueva: Ochos Oleos de Fernando Leal Audirac

Mexico City, Mexico, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked, bound in heavy black cloth, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, some wear along top edge. First Edition, First Printing. Big, tall, heavy quarto format. 155 pp. An arresting set of oil paintings presented in "The Anti-Portrait of Dr. Villanueva in Eight Parts," translated from the Spanish. Each oil-painted portrait is reproduced in double- page format and with greater detail in full-page. Bilingual text in Spanish and English. Very good condition.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 352536

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Fernando Leal Audirac Juan Acha

Ackerman, James S.

Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture

Cambridge, University, MIT Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Published by the M.I.T. Press, bound in overlarge octavo format. Bound in grey cloth with gold lettering to spine. xxvii + 561 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 346228

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: architecture|art history|Renaissance art history|Renaissance architecture|James S. Ackerman

Ackerman, Karen

Song and Dance Man

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Caldecott Medal award-winner, with gold foil sticker to front to boot. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. SIGNED by the author Karen Ackerman, and the book is illustrated beautifully by Stephen Gammell. Stated Eighth Printing of the First EditionMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . As New

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Book number: 351164

Catalogue: Children

Keywords: Karen Ackerman Stephen Gammell

Ackley, Clifford S.

Printed Portraits

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. This picture essay on expressive portraiture in prints and photographs is based on an exhibition held in the Print and Drawing Galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts from November 10, 1972, to January 24, 1973. Unpaginated, but 42 fine reproductions in black and white and duotone of the work of artists such as Edward Stieglitz and Israel van Meckenem, Antoine Van Dyk, Rembrandt van Rijn, Joan Miro, Max Beckmann, Paul Cezanne, and many others.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 349362

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: printed portraits|Clifford S. Ackley

Acton, David

A Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking, 1890-1960

New York, W.W. Norton & Co / Worcester Art Museum, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Massively heavy, oversized volume. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, not worn. Bound handsomely in pictorial cloth in a tall quarto format, and with 304 pp. Sumptuously illustrated with full- page plates and illustrations. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . New/New,

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Book number: 353201

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: David Acton printmaking color printmaking art history

Adam, Alice

Alice Adam: Catalogue 3: Woodcuts and Etchings by Emil Nolde

Chicago, Alice Adam, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition softcover copy, staple-bound, of an exhibit catalog sponsored by and written by Alice Adams, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Simple printed wraps, black-and-white reproductions of 17 of Emil Nolde's woodcuts and etchings. Unpaginated, but reproductions are on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 349784

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Alice Adams|Emil Nolde|woodcuts|etchings

Adams, Alice

After You'Ve Gone: Stories

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound handsomely in a two-tone, paper over boards, cloth-backed format, with sharp and distinct lettering to spine, stamped illustration to front cover. From the personal library of two Pacific Northwest booksellers of several decades' duration. 229 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 352445

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: signed Alice Adams short stories First Edition First Printing literature

Adams, Alice

Beautiful Girl: Short Stories

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page. Another fine collection of this beloved writer's short stories. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, little discernible wear, with a bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound handsomely in a two-tone, paper over boards, cloth-backed format, with sharp and distinct lettering to spine, stamped illustration to front cover. From the personal library of two Pacific Northwest booksellers of several decades' duration, Acornbooks Northwest. 242 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 352447

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: signed Alice Adams short stories First Edition First Printing literature