Dayton, OH: Assouline Publishing / Smithsonian - Cooper-Hewitt, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 288pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition of this wonderful survey of how people ate and the tools they used for the last five hundred years. Bound in brown cloth with titles blind-stamped on front board and spine.... More
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, 1896. 1st Edition. Cloth. Two Volumes, 8vo., 303pp., 309pp. Beautiful First Edition of this translation from the 15th Italian edition of this classic; part history lesson, part travelogue. Bound in green cloth with titles and ornate decoration on front boards and spines. Top edge gilt. Red..... More
New York: Pantheon, 1994. First Edition, Thus. Hardcover. Tall slim 8vo., 112pp, Beautiful Stated First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence of this newly issued edition illustrated by Art Spiegelman. This is the second state with the correction to included the last two lines of text. Square, tight and..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899. 1st Edition. Decorative Cloth. 8vo., 308pp. Beautiful First Edition of this lost race story. Bound in publisher's brick colored cloth with titles in gilt and decoration in black on front board and spine. Illustrations by the author. Tissue-guarded frontis by William Reader. Though unsigned..... More
London: Grant Richards, 1908. 1st Edition. Decorative Cloth. 8vo., 383pp. plus 15pp. publisher's catalog in rear. Solid First British Edition with no other printings listed. Published in the US by Bobbs-Merrill in the same year. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with titles in red and black on front board..... More
New York CIty: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo., 632pp. Beautiful First Printing of this "De Luxe" illustrated edition of the author's first book. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of wear and toning to the heel and bottom edge. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket..... More