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Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1939. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, decorated boards with red cloth spine, 96 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Previous owners signature at top of front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Spine cloth faded. Clean, tight copy. Record # 609176

NY: Harper & Row. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. Includes index and bibliography. Illustrated with 102 plates in full color, many color plates within the text and many diagrams and photographs in black & white. A remainder mark rubberstamped in the shape of a "star" to the bottom edge, otherwise… Read more about this item

New York: Abbeville Press, 1990. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 328 pages, illustrated in color. Minor shelf-wear, else a very neat, clean, tight copy in excellent condition. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Record # 453857

Florence, Italy: Qua D'Arno, 1987. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 156 pages, bilingual texts in English and Spanish, b&w plates and text throughout. Illustrates and describes numerous torture devices including breast rippers, the ever popular rack and iron maiden, heretics fork and many more. Clean copy. Record # 385350

Georgetown KY: Americana Publications, 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, blue cloth with silver lettering and design. 271 pages. Black & white photographs and illustrations. A clean, bright copy. Record # 385155

Hartford CT: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1972. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover. White wraps with color illustration and black lettering; 80 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w and color. Exhibition curator J. Herbert Callister. 49 works in the exhibition. Record # 385080

NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1892. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover. Light blue cloth-covered boards illustrated w/floral porcelain design. Gilt lettering on spine. Classic resource on collecting China and English Porcelains including histories of porcelains, early arts in America, designs, and manufacture. The author tells about her china-collecting experiences and tells the history of the pieces she has… Read more about this item

Princeton NJ: Pyne Press, 1971. 1st reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover. A complete reprint of the Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Copper Weathervanes manufactured by J.W. Fiske, New York. Probably the best reprint ever done of an old weathervane catalog. This catalog features well over 200 black and white illustrations of weathervanes, finials, lightning rods, and stable… Read more about this item

NY: D. Appleton & Co, 1886. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, red-brown boards with gilt lettering and illustration; 269 pages.; richly illustrated by the author. Corners and edges of covers show wear, interior clean and bright. Record # 385043

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1985. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 141 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS ON TITLE PAGE. Sun fading to spine. Clean, tight copy. Record # 610310

Paris: Flammarion, 1977. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 167 pages. Hardcover. Text in French only. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket with wear to edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy. Record # 612299

Chicago: Art Media Resources, Inc., 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 224 pages. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with full color photographs. Bright, clean copy. Record # 612300

Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1925. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. 451 pages. First trade edition, second issue with "The Autograph of Cruikshank" in the list of illustrations placed on page 334. Includes a color frontispiece and 78 other illustrations. Clean copy. Record # 384711

Wilton CT: Canterbury Publishing, 1971. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, blue cloth, stamped with gilt lettering, 96 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings and photos of every conceivable kind of weathervane. Great reference. Clean copy. Record # 384649

Stuttgart GR: Arnoldsche, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Two volumes in a slipcase. Vol. 1: Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 333 pages profusely illustrated in color. German language. Vol. 2: Softcover, 88 pages, the English translation, text only. The colorful scenes from the Comedia dell'arte produce an entrancing vibrancy in the nearly 400 fascinating humorous figurines… Read more about this item

Raleigh NC: TwoMorrows Publishing, 2003. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 160 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Captain Action was introduced in 1966 in the wake of the Batman TV show craze, and quickly received his own DC comic book with art by Wally Wood. Able to assume the identities of 13 famous super-heroes, his initial… Read more about this item

NY: Christie's, 2000. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 315 pages, color illustrations, 302 lots. The sale comprised - Americana: lots 1-158; General Printed Books and Manuscripts: lots 159-302. The Hemingway lots are 286-302, with a short introduction by Michael Reynolds. Clean, bright copy. Record # 384406

Philadelphia: Henry Disston & Sons, 1911. 1st. Softcover. Good/None. Flexible leather covers very worn and chipped, 206 pages, Interior is clean and firm with one loose page, and page 60 looks like a photo of a hammer was cut out, otherwise clean, bright pages. Loaded with b&w photos and illustrations of vintage tools from 1911. This is the… Read more about this item

Privately Printed, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 283 pages. INSCRIBED By AUTHOR on title page. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket spine slightly faded, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. CD inside rear cover. Covers the 40 year production span of the mechanical organs that provided music in the… Read more about this item

New York: Christie's, 1998. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover catalog, 234 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Clean, tight copy. Record # 610904