[Pittsburgh]: Monument Press, (1974). Limited edition, #42 of 50. Portfolio of loose prints. Folio. [14 unpaginated leaves]. A suite of 10 boldly printed linoleum cuts by American artist George Nama, each depicting an ordinary household object constrained from its normal function by wire or cord binding the critical part of..... More
1971. Limited edition, #926 of 1000. Serigraph. Poster, 22" x 30" Sir Eduardo Paolozzi was a native of Scotland, born of Italian immigrants. He studied art at the Edinburgh College of Art and Slade School of Fine Art. He was a founder of Pop Art, and his seminal 1947 collage..... More
San Bernardino: Southern California Tourist Association, Inc., 1963. Pictorial map. Measures approximately 22" x 35". Single sheet. Colorful perspective pictorial map of Los Angeles and Southern California, looking east-northeast over Catalina Island. Border vignettes, portraits of Father Junipero Serra and Juan Batista de Anza, and many other figures decorate the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. [xiv], 365 pages. Robbins' whimsical second novel, starring the large-thumbed protagonist SIssy Hankshaw. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Robbins on halt-title. More
London: Faber and Faber, (1944). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 54 pages. The first collection of poems by this important but obscure Welsh wartime poet. Lynette Roberts was born in Argentina to Welsh parents, but lived her adult life in Wales. Her work began to appear in magazines and anthologies in..... More
Fishkill: New York Society of the Cincinnati, 2004 & 2008. Color frontispieces, maps. Hardcovers. Quartos. xlii, 659 & xxiv, 359 pages. A pair of extensive references to American Revolutionary War officers, comprising a volume of biographies of every Cincinnati-eligible officer and a second volume detailing the actions of each of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1911. First edition. Original full cloth. Octavo. 144 pages. Groundbreaking work on labor efficiency. Taylor was the first to lay down principles of Scientific Management, which sought to increase industrial efficiency by studying and standardizing the movements of workers and machines. He famously systematized..... More
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854. First Edition. Map. Original cloth. Octavo. 357, ads. pages. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came..... More
Washington: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845. Wood engravings. Disbound. Octavo. 24 pages. Vail was an engineer and inventor who collaborated with Samuel B. Morse in the development and practical application of the telegraph. Some have argued it was actually Vail who invented the telegraphic alphabet named after Morse, but..... More
Annapolis: 1865. Folded sheets, with original envelope. Incredible 6 page manuscript letter from a Civil War Chaplain posted at Annapolis, discussing St. John's College Hospital Chapel, visiting hospitals, and the work of the U.S. Christian Commission in Annapolis during the war. Partial transcript: "At 2 P.M. I preached..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912. First edition. Black and white plates. Original cloth. Octavo. xii, 185 pages. Probably the first book to analyze the naval architecture and design shortcomings in the Titanic, published within a few months of the Titanic disaster. Walker demonstrates that the much earlier ship..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Black and white halftone photographs. Stapled wraps. Octavo. 28 pages. Summarizes the anti-aircraft weapons and capabilities of Italy, France, Germany, England, and the United States in World War I as of April, 1917. Draws conclusions based thereupon this information and what had been learned about..... More
New York: Andy Warhol Books / Grosset & Dunlap, (1979). First edition. Black and white photographs by Andy Warhol. Full cloth. Square quarto. 255 pages. Andy Warhol's book of profiles and good photographs of his many famous friends. "Good photographs" being defined by Warhol as "one that's in focus and..... More
New York: Essential Books, (1945). Black and white photographs. Cloth over boards. Quarto. 246 pages. Gritty collection of Weegee's famous street photographs of New York City in the 1940s. Weegee worked at night with a 4x5 Speed Graphic press camera, closely following a police scanner. He specialized in crime and..... More
[Salt Lake City]: (S.n.), [1925]. Stapled wrappers. Duodecimo. 24 pages. Contains addresses by then Secretary of the Interior Dr. Hubert Work, Commissioner of Reclamation Dr. Elwood Mead, Director of National Parks Stephen T. Mather, Bishop C. W. Nibley, and President Anthony W. Ivins of the Mormon Church. The three U.S...... More