ALEXANDER, SALLY HOBART.

Maggie's Whopper.

NY: Macmillan, (1992). F. (ISBN: 0027002012). Hardcover. Book, First Edition. Small slim quarto, glazed illustrated boards. Unpaginated [ca.30pp.] Illustrated in pastel by Deborah Kogan Ray. DOUBLE SIGNED BY AUTHOR in both BRAILLE and INK SIGNATURE. Fine in fine dust jacket. A fresh, very tight and unread volume in a crisp brilliant dust jacket. Scarce with signature. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 02239

Catalogue: Children's

Keywords: 0027002012 Literature, American, Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Mountains, Education, Blind, Blindness, Sight, Handicap, Vision, Sally, Hobart, Alexander, Children, Children's, Childrens', Illustrated, Maggie, Fiction

ALEXANDRIAN.

Marcel Duchamp.

NY: Crown Publishers, (1977). F. Hardcover. Book, First Edition. Slim quarto, red cloth covered boards. 95pp. including biography, bibliography and index. Illustrated with 42 color and 29 black and white, photographs and reproductions. Printed by Bonfini Press. Fine and unread in fine dust jacket. A pristine copy. AS NEW. As New/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 01901

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Duchamp, Marcel Surrealism, Dada, Abstract, French, Painter, Painting, Cubist, Op Art, Pop Art

ALEXIE, SHERMAN

The Toughest Indian In The World

New York, Grove Press. 2001, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, Octavo, illustrated stiff wraps (trade paperrback). Advance Reader's Edition. Very tight, square, crisp, stiff, clean, fresh, unmarked, unread and unblemished with a flat uncreased spine. Pristine. AS NEW. As New.

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Book number: 09937

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Advance, First, Edition, Alexie, Sherman, Indian, Novel, Fiction, Modern, American, Native, Satire, Humor, Tragedy

ALLEN, GERALD; OLIVER, RICHARD

Architectural Drawing: The Art and the Process

New York.: Whitney Library of Design, 1981. F. (ISBN: 0823070433). Hardcover. Book, First Edition, first printng. Quarto, beige cloth covered boards. 200pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with 174 plans, elevations and drawings with 24 in full color. A book for architects and for art lovers which shows how drawings for buildings constitute an important element in the development of architecture even for buildings which do not get built. An anthology of famous designs and drawings from leading modern architects. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, clean, unblemished dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 05018

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: 0823070433 Architectural Drawing Architecture Design Drafting 0823070433 Designer, Plan, Diagram, Blueprint, Representation, Elevation, Sketch, Anthology, History, French, German, English, Italian, American, Rustic, Urban, Residence, Documentation, Drawin

ALLEN, GERALD; OLIVER, RICHARD

Charles Moore

New York, Whitney Library of Design. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0823073750). Hardcover. Book, First Printing. Square small quarto, grey coated paper covered boards. 127pp. including chronology, Generously illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs, plans, elevations and drawings. A challenging survey and consideration of the work of this highly influential modern american architect. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked volume in a tight, clean, crisp dust jacket. with a couple of very short very closed edge tears. Fine in near fine very good plus dust jacket. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 07401

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: 0823073750 Moore Charles Herbert 1840 1930, Allen, Architect, Residential, Architecture, Houses, Domestic, Architectural, Contemporary, Whitney,

ALLEN, ALBERT H.

Dakota Imprints 1858-1889

NY: Bowker (1947). 1947, F. Hardcover. Book, First Edition. Octavo, dark green cloth. Published for The Bibliographical Society of America. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 00239A

Catalogue: General

Keywords: Bibliography, Books on Books, Dakota, Priting, Publishing, Americana, Reference, History, Print, Publisher, Historical, Midwest, American, South, North, General

ALTHUSSER, LOUIS

For Marx

New York: Pantheon Books, (1969). 1969, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First American Edition. Octavo, brown cloth covered boards with red decorated blindstamped bust of Marx on front board and gilt spine titles. 270pp. including index and glossary. Originally published in France as "Pour Marx" and translated from the French by Ben Brewster. A very tight, sound volume with bright gilt and fresh cloth. A handful of underlined passages. In a price-clipped dust jacket (with new publisher's price-sticker) which is tight, crisp and intact but which is lightly darkened at spine and fore edge (heavy smoker). Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Uncommon. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 05140

Catalogue: Philosophy

Keywords: Althusser, Revolution, Revolutionary, France, French, Marx, Marxism, Marxist, Political, Politics, Theory, Critical, Academic, Politician, Science, Movement, Communist, Communism, Socialism, Socialist, Thinker, Treatise, Post Modern, Mass, Economics, Prod

ALVAREZ, JULIA

A Cafecito Story

White River Junction, VT, Chelsea Green Publishing Co. 2001, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Belkis Ramirez. Book, Octavo, purple cloth spine over white paper covered boards. 53 pp. Publisher's card laid in. Illustrated with about a dozen woodcuts by Dominican Republic artist Belkis Ramirez including the woodcut illustrated dust jacket. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, bright, tight, dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW. As New/As New.

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Book number: 08471

Catalogue: Food

Keywords: Belkis Ramirezfiction, Alvarez, Coffee, Cafeine, Cup, Java, Mocha, Espresso, Beverage, Ramirez, Commerce, Trade, Dominican Republic, Growing, Plantation, Brewing, Market, Shipping, Marketing, Industry, Fair Sustainable, Food, Drink, Cuisine, Illustrated

AMBROSI, HANS

Where the Great German Wines Grow: A Guide to the Leading Vineyards

New York, Hastings House. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0803880707). Hardcover. Book, Octavo, burgundy cloth covered boards with white spine titles. 240 pp. including index of Estates. Locations and Vineyards. An comprehensive, authoritative survey of the vast number of vineyards and producers large and small of the great wine regions of Germany. Indispensable to the collector of and drinker of German wines. A very tight, clean, bright, unmarked and unread collector's copy with very fresh cloth in a crisp, sharp, bright, unclipped dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. An exceptional copy. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 08036

Catalogue: Wine & Spirits

Keywords: 0803880707 Wine Making Germany Cooking Beverages

HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA.

The Hispanic Society Of America Handbook, Museum And Library Collections.

NY: Hispanic Society of America, 1938. 1938, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First Edition. Ocatvo, brown blindstamped cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. Mape endpapers. 442pp. with index. Part of a series "Hispanic Notes & Monographs Essays, Studies, and Brief Biographies Issued By The Hispanic Society Of America" A catalogue of all of the holdings of the Society including chapters on Paintings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Glass, Gold and Silverwork, Ironwork, Furniture, Textiles, Laces and Emroideries, Manuscript Maps, Prints, Manuscripts and Books. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Fine without dust jacket as issued. Fine.

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Book number: 01041

Catalogue: General

Keywords: Hispanic, Hispanic-American, Spain, Portugal, Ethnic History, Ethnology, Art, Spanish, Portugese General

AMERINE, M.A.;ROESSLER, EDWARD BIFFER

Wines, Their Sensory Evaluation

San Francisco, W. H. Freeman. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0716705532). Decorative Cloth. Book, Octavo, purple cloth with decorative motif of grape bunches in gilt diamond rules. 230 pp. incluiding index, annotated bibliography and glossary. A landmark work in the history of wine tasting and American wine mwking. Amerine was the father of scientific wine mwking inn California at the famous University of California at Davis faculty. This book was the first and treatise on the scientific evaluation of wine and wine tasting with blind comparative tasting and statistical analysis. Amerine also established the first rigorous vocabulary for wine tasting superseding the flowery anthropomorphic traditional descriptions for carefully researched and identified chemical compounds. A very tight, clean, unmarked volume with fresh cloth and bright gilt, in a tight, bright, clean, price-clipped dust jacket. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 07944

Catalogue: Wine & Spirits

Keywords: 0716705532 Wine Physiological Effect Science Physiology, Tasting, Taster, Statistical, Statistics, Blind, Davis, California, University, Science, Oenology, Viticulture, Notes, Taste, Smell, Comparison, Grape, Color, Nose, Bouquet, Flavor, Vocabulary, Desc

AMERY, COLIN;BROWN, J. CARTER;LACY, BILL N.;ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO;CURTIS, WILLIAM J. R.

The Pritzker Architecture Prize: The First Twenty Years

Boston, Harry N Abrams. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0810943719). Hardcover. Book, Quarto, orange paper covered boards. 207 pp. including index, bibliography and biographical notes on authors. Generously illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs, plans, elevations etc. A tight, clean,b right, fresh volume in a crisp, bright, clean, glossy dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 09395

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: 0810943719

AMES, MARY ELIZABETH

Balanced Recipes Prepared Under The Personal Direction Of Mary Ellis Ames Head Of The Staff Of Pillsbury's Cooking Service

Minneapolis, MN, Pillsbury Flour Mills Company. 1933, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, First Edition. Octavo, aluminum clamshell box with black decorative title and blindstamped spine titles, with interior spiral binding coils holding individual printed recipes. Each of the 238 recipes is on a separate removable paper 5" x 3" "cards" with each dish titled and complete ingredients and instructions. The recipes are divided by tabbed full page cards (e.g. Bread Cakes, Desserts, Luncheon and Supper Dishes, Meat, Menus, etc.). Each of the cards is printed with sage advice for the totally inexperienced home cook in the manner of early "home economics" theories. Blank "cards" in the front for personal recipes. This volume is in excellent condition. Only one of the blank cards has been used, none of the cards shows wear at the coils, food stains, creases, tears, etc. Inevitable light tanning from the paper stock used. Otherwise, unmarked and virtually unused. The exterior aluminum box is in excellent condition with no loss of color to the solid black streamlined title, and the cover shows only very faint superficial scratches. A great copy of this innovative promotional biniding using the then rare material of aluminum for the cover. Near fine. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 10037

Catalogue: Food

Keywords: Binding, Rare, Fine, Aluminum, Deco, Nourveau, Pillsbury, Flour, Receipes, Receipts,Ames, Mary, Cookbook, Cookery, Cooking, Book, Cook, Test, Kitchen, Promotion, Promotional,Advertisement,, Domestic, Home, Economy, Economics, Home Menus, Desserts, Baking,

AMIS, KINGSLEY (INTRODUCTION)

CYRIL RAY'S COMPLEAT IMBIBER NO. 14

London, Beaumont Books. 1989, First Edition. Cloth. Book, Large octavo, green cloth covered boards. 191 pp. plus notes on contributors. Illustrated. A tight, clean, crisp, unmarked volume with very fresh cloth and bright white unblemished pages, in a crisp, sharp, tight, sparkling dust jacket with one short very closed edgetear right along rear top fore corner Fine in very near fine dust jacket. A great copy. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 08154

Catalogue: Wine & Spirits

Keywords: Imbibe, Wine, Spirits, Ray, Alcohol, Beverage, Drinks, Drinking, Cocktail, Whisky, Rum, Vine, Vineyard, Oenology, Literature, Literary, Kingsley Amis, Kingsley, Food, Dining, Waugh, Restaurant, Cookery, Gourmet, Truffles

[AMIS, KINGSLEY] EDELMANN, ANTON

The Savoy Food and Drink Book

Topsfield, MA, Salem House Publishers. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0881623741). Hardcover. Book, First Edition. Quarto, cream colored cloth covered boards. 224pp. including index. Illustrated throughout with elegant color photographs of the dishes, restaurant and personnel. Introduction by Kingsley Amis. A beautifully photographed and sumptuous book on the historical epitome of dining in London. First opened by Gilbert and Sullivan's producrer and impresario d'Oyley Carte the first manager was Cesar Ritz. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, bright dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. A great copy. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 10114

Catalogue: Food

Keywords: 0881623741 Beverages Food Cooking 0881623741 , Savoy, London, D'Oyley Carte, Savoyard, Cocktail, Bar, Restaurant, Hotel, Dining, Society, English, Historical, History, Edelmann, Ritz, Wine & Spirits

AMMONS, A. R.

Brink Road

New York, W W Norton. 1996, First Edition. Cloth. Book, Octavo, green cloth covered boards with silver titles and spine titles. 230pp. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp bright, dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW. As New/As New.

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Book number: 07579

Keywords: Pulitzer, Ammons, Award, Winner, Winning, Nature, New York, Southern, Modern, Lyric, Natural, Verse, Poet, Poetry, Poems, Cornell

AMMONS, A. R.

Collected Poems 1951-1971.

NY: W.W. Norton Co. (1972). F. (ISBN: 0393042413). Hardcover. Book, First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 396pp. including index of first lines. A fine, tight, clean copy in a near fine dust jacket with clipped tip of bottom corner on foldover but price still intact at top corner and barely perceptible lightening (less than a quarter tone) to spine, else fine. With circular gilt sticker "1973 National Book Award" on front panel. A fine volume in a very near fine dust jacket. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 02361

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: 0393042413 Smmond, Poet, Award, Winning, Prize, National Book Bollingen, Nature, New York, North Carolina, Modern, Literature, American, Verse, Poetry

AMMONS, A. R.

Collected Poems 1951-1971

New York, W.W. Norton. 1972, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, First Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 396pp. including index of first lines . A very fine, tight, clean copy in with very fresh cloth and clear gilt. In dust jacket with clipped tip of bottom corner on foldover but price still intact at top corner and a quarter tone of sunning towards bottom of spine, else fine. National Book Award Winner sticker on front panel. A very fine volume in a quite near fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 09169

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Ammons, Poet, Award, Winning, Prize, National Book Bollingen, Nature, New York, North Carolina, Modern, Literature, American, Verse, Poetry

AMMONS, A. R.

Collected Poems 1951-1971

New York, W.W. Norton. 1972, First Edition. Cloth. Book, First Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 396pp. including index of first lines . A very fine, tight, clean copy in with very fresh cloth and clear gilt. In dust jacket with clipped tip of bottom corner on foldover but price still intact at top corner and a tinge of toning at top edge of front foldover, else fine. A very fine volume in a very near fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy and virtually AS NEW. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 10115

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Ammons, Poet, Award, Winning, Prize, National Book Bollingen, Nature, New York, North Carolina, Modern, Literature, American, Verse, Poetry

AMMONS, A.R.

Garbage

New York, W W Norton. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0393312038). Soft cover. Book, First Edition. Small octavo, light brown stiff wraps. 101pp. Advance Reading Copy, with promotional card laid in. A very tight, crisp and unread copy. Fine. Fine.

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Book number: 04004

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: 0393312038 Ammons, Garbage, Poet, American, Award, Winner, Winning, National Book Modern, Cornell, Verse, Poem, Arc, Advance Copy, First Edition, Modren First, Poetry Reading Arc

AMMONS, A. R.

Glare

New York, W W Norton. 1997, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Octavo, black cloth spine over charcoal grey paper covered boards. 294 pp. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume with sparkling spine gilt and bright white pages, in a very tight, crisp, sharp, sparkling unclipped dust jacket under mylar protector. Fine in fine dust jacket. Flawless. AS NEW. As New/As New.

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Book number: 08051

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Ammons, New York, Cornell, Award, Winner, Winning, National Book Bolingen, Nature, Lyric, American, Modern, Tennessee, Kentucky, Appalachia, Verse

AMMONS, A.R.

Six-Piece Suite

Winston-Salem, NC: Palaemon Press, [1978]. 1978, F. Soft cover. Book, First Edition. 16mo. sewn marbled paper wraps with printed title label. 16pp. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION #171/200. Slight discoloration of the title endemic to this issue due to the glue used, else a pristine, flawless copy. Fine. Fine. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 04199

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Ammons, Limited, Numbered, Signed, Palaemon, Hand, Fine, Small, Press, Special, Modern, First Edition, Modern First, Poet, Nature, Award, Winning, Winner, Prize, National Book Poem, Lyric, Cornell, Southern, Poetry

AMMONS, A. R.

Worldly Hopes

New York, W W Norton. 1982, First Edition. Cloth. Book, Octavo, black cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 51pp. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, bright dust jacket. Laid in is a bookplate SIGNED by Ammons. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS New. As New/As New. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 07346

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Ammons, Cornell, Ithaca, Poetry, Poem, Poet, Nature, Comtemplative, Lyrical, Modern, Award Winning, Winner, Prize, National Book Award, Bollingen, Verse, Signed, First ,Edtition

{AMORY, JOHN H.}

Alnomuc or The Golden Rule: A Tale of the Sea

Cleveland, OH, D.B. Brooks & Brother. 1856. Cloth. Book, Early reprint of the 1937 first edition. 16mo. original blindstamp decorated brown cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 144 pp. Illustrated throughout with 28 full page engravings. A sound, tight, clean volume with unmarked interior and crisp, fine pages. Spine cloth is splitting along one edge and there is a 1/4" of spine cloth lackiing at top but text block very sound. Rubbing at corners. About very good. Very Good.

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Book number: 08995

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fable, Tale, Sea, Ship, Sailor, Alnomuc, Amory, Engraving, Illlustrated, Ohio, Imprint, Early, Brooks, Moral, Homily,

RULE, AMY AND NANCY SOLOMON (EDITORS)

Original Sources: Art and Archives at the Center for Creative Photography

University of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 0938262386). Soft cover. Book, Small quarto, illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). 445 pp. An exhaustive catalogue of details on every modern American photographer of note. Generously illustrated throughout with iconic photographic works in reproduction. A very tight, square, crisp, sharp, stiff, glossy, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. FINE. AS NEW. As New.

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Book number: 09838

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: 0938262386 History, Creative, Art, Photography, Photographers, Photographs, Center, Resources, Archives, Modern, Reference, Details, Information, Catalogue