Search Results: Titles starting with S from 12th Street Books, ABAA

Light foxing and age-toning to textblock and plates alike otherwise fresh and clean. New boards worn. Kongl. Ordens-Tryckeriet Stockholm 1787 Hardback 8vo.[23], 455, [22] pp. Four engraved plates. Foretal, Register (foreword and index).Table and bibliog. Single-volume Swedish edition of the account of the Niebuhr expedition begun in 1761. Scarce with only three copies listed in OCLC (156793368). 20th-century rebind in plain-paper boards with title label on spine. The first leaf of the textblock is the title page so it is likely missing at least one blank. Rear blank present.

Both volumes clean and tight but for tiny in name and date front endpapers, volume one price-clipped dustjacket shows moderate overall soiling, sunned at spine, moderate wear to spine tips and corners, volume two price-clipped dustjacket shows light wear to spine tips, sunned at spine, faint overall soiling. Bollingen Series/Pantheon Books New York 1962 Hardback "Excavations Conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University". Vol. 4, in two parts. Two volumes complete. 4tos, 186pp & 263pp, indices, b&w plates.

Clean, tight book but for mild offsetting to endpapers. In bright dustjacket showing wear to spine and two closed tears front panel. Holt New York 1946 1st Edition Hardback Cloth, tall 8vo. 18pp. Black-cloth-backed red boards, gilt front board and spine, in red and black dustjacket. "A Morality by E.E. Cummings." Short play. Jacket's rear panel features Cummings' famous self-portrait with pipe. Elegantly designed book, printed on laid paper. First printing, so indicated on the copright page. Firmage A21a.

Interior clean but for light age-toning. Binding is sound. Bookplate front pastedown and small private library label front free endpaper. No other library marks. Wale And Curll London 1707 Hardback 16mo. 156pp. Full calf, decorated in blindstamp. Spine gilt. "Albae Gaecae ann.1688." Text is Latin.

Internally clean and fresh. Wraps show light wear with mild offsetting along crown front cover. Backstrip intact, unbroken. N.p. Beirut 1958 Paperback Large 12mo. Stiff wraps. 84pp, notes. With 16-page text in Chinese at rear. "A Chinese Treatise on Scrolls and Forgers." Portrait frontis of the collector, Lu Shih-Hua (1724-1779). Scarce work by the famous Dutch scholar on China. Laid in is a photograph of the author at his desk.

Clean, tight book but for scattered dust-soiling. In bright, clean dustjacket but for wear and light abrasions to spine and spotting to front panel. Stanley Nott London 1935 1st Edition Hardback Cloth 8vo. 77pp. Yellow-cloth boards. Pictorial yellow jacket illustrated by William Johnstone. Scarce in jacket.

Clean, tight book in bright, fine wraps. Some minor soiling. Soft Palette Press Austin 1996 Paperback Wraps 8vo.

Clean, tight book in dustjacket showing light wear and a piece missing at the crown, affecting title. Yale Univ New Haven 1930 1st Edition Hardback Cloth 8vo. 255 pp. With a preface by Llewellyn Jones. Green-cloth boards, gilt spine. In scarce jacket.

Engravings are as new. Portfolio shows offsetting to back cover. Privately Published 1933 Portfolio, 25 x 31cm. Nine unbound leaves in illustrated portfolio from the Library of Miriam Lutcher Stark whose card is attached to the first leaf. Illustrated poems from the artist's collection, engraved. Title page with vignette, two-page intro, four engraved leaves, colophon with vignette. Scarce. In original mailing envelope.

Very clean, sound copy with light edgewear to jacket, one short, closed tear front panel. University of Chicago Chicago 1957 1st US edition Hardback Cloth 8vo. 62 pp. Red cloth in publisher's pictorial dustjacket. Signed by the author 1959 and inscribed: "Best wishes from Thom Gunn, 1959." Scarce early signature.

Very clean, tight book, woven cloth boards fine, transparent dustjacket fine. As new. Sylvester & Orphanos Los Angeles 1978 Signed, Limited Hardback No. 156 of 300 numbered and signed copies. Signed by author at colophon.

Harcourt New York 1951 1st Edition Hardcover Book is clean and solid vut for small ink stamp front endpaper. Dustjacket shows light wear and soiling, 1/2 x 1 piece missing from front panel at crown.

Interior clean, dust-soiling edges. Binding tight and clean with light wear. Dustjacket shows lightest wear and some soiling. Lehmann London 1947 1st Edition Hardcover 8vo, 18pp.

Light edgewear otherwise quite clean and readable. Mount Tom 1868 4to. Six numbers of the weekly Shaker publication by the Oneida and Wallingford Communities, January 20 to February 24, 1868. Vol IV, #45-50, pp [355] -400. Sewn into plain wraps.

western fiction, literature, Harper & Brothers New York 1930 1st Very good blue cloth, lightly bumped & rubbed at corners, spine slightly faded, pages yellowed with minimal foxing to interior, one small stain at top left ffep, in a beautiful, near fine Dust Jacket with its original Wrap Around Band, which states

Clean, tight book but for one spot soiling front inside wrap, paper wraps show light wear to spine tips and corners only. Burning Deck Providence 1973 Paperback No. 128 of 300 copies.

Clean, tight book but for light wear to wraps. Museo Alvaro y T. Carrillo Gil Mexico City 1986 1st Edition Paperback Square 8vo wraps. xxiv, 74 pp. Prologue. Index. Illustrated exhibit catalog in Spanish of young artists in Mexico City with a photo and short biography of each followed by a reproduction of his/her work. Scarce.

Clean, tight ephemeris, corners show light wear only, else clean. The Nickel City Press Buffalo 1994 Paperback

The binding is shaken and there is a stain on the spine which is beginning to fray at the crown. Internally clean and fresh. Knickerbocker Press New York 1916 1st Edition Hardback "Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark". Maroon cloth boards with gilt spine title and gilt top edge. Complete with 150 illustrations, engraved frontis.

Clean and fresh internally. Only light edgewear to glassine which is in a protective sleeve. Waco Village Press Waco 1961 8vo wraps. 26pp. Facsimile of the rare ephemeris, #111 of 300, with a new introduction by Palmer Bradley. Stiff covers with paper label on front. In original glassine.