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Old Waldorf Bar Days: With the Cognomina and Composition of Four Hundred and Ninety-one Appealing...

Old Waldorf Bar Days: With the Cognomina and Composition of Four Hundred and Ninety-one Appealing Appetizers and Salutary Potations Long Known, Admired and Served at the Famous Big Brass Rail;...also... A Glossary for the Use of Antiquarians and Students of American Mores

New York: Aventine Press, 1931. First Edition. Octavo. 242 pp. Black and white illustrations. Silver boards stamped in black. Bookplate of journalist and editor Fulton Oursler to front pastedown, of note in particular as Oursler was the editor of Liberty magazine in 1939 when it ran a piece..... More

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Cornhuskers. Carl Sandburg
"I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of its women, gave me a song and a slogan."

Cornhuskers

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. First Edition, First State with "3" to bottom of third page present and $1.30 net price for Chicago Poems facing title page. Octavo. 147 pages + 2 pages publisher's advertisements. Printed dust jacket with $1.30 price to spine. Light brown boards stamped in..... More

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Claes Oldenburg: Proposals for Monuments and Buildings 1965-69. Claes Oldenburg, Paul Carroll
"To make monuments in a new city is to use that city as a studio."

Claes Oldenburg: Proposals for Monuments and Buildings 1965-69

Chicago: Big Table Publishing Company, 1969. First Edition. Oblong Quarto (24x26x2cm); 196pp, including bibliography. Reproduction of 50+ proposal drawings, with 16 full-page color plates. White, unclipped, plastic-laminated jacket with lettering in black on spine and front (reversed, à la Leonardo, on the backside). Volume itself bound in flecked ivory..... More

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Composite Book-Plates, 1897-8. E. Bengough Ricketts, Theodore Spicer Simson, Frank Bramley

Composite Book-Plates, 1897-8

London: Edward Arnold, 1898. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's green cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; ca. 110pp.; chiefly illus. Boards rather rubbed with exposure at corners and minor fraying at spine ends, dampstain to rear cover not bleeding into textblock, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, else Good or better..... More

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The House of Adam Smith. Eli Ginzberg

The House of Adam Smith

New York: Columbia University Press, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (22.5x15x2.5cm); 269pp. Plain khaki paper jacket with red printing. Volume in warm beige linen, black spine stamping; University of Columbia emblem stamped in blind on front panel with additional blind-stamped border. Textblock top edge speckled in blue. Ex-library with institutional..... More

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Inside the Endless House: Art, People and Architecture, a Journal. Frederick Kiesler
"There in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, in spite of the exuberance of the mosaic technique, nothing is overdone. A deliberate taming of architectural powers. How much we (painters, architects) can learn from that mastery of pictorial balance."

Inside the Endless House: Art, People and Architecture, a Journal

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. First Edition. Hefty Quarto (26x21x4.5cm); 576pp. Nearly sixty pages, dispersed throughout the volume, reproduce sketches from Kiesler's journals; a final photographic doublespread by Irving Penn shows Kiesler with a model of his "Endless House." Photographic dustjacket; volume in black cloth with silver..... More

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Selection From the Works of Frederick Locker [Author's Copy]. Frederick Locker, Richard Doyle,...

Selection From the Works of Frederick Locker [Author's Copy]

London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1868. Presumed author's copy with Locker's bookplate, designed by Kate Greenaway, to front pastedown. Small octavo. 180 pp. Black and white illustrations by Doyle. Red boards stamped in gilt. Boards edgeworn with rubbing to spine, corners bumped, spine ends nudged. Binding is sound..... More

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The Iliad of Homer [with Baskin drawings]. Homer, Richmond Lattimore, Leonard Baskin, trans
"There is a dead man who lies by the ships, unwept, unburied: Patroklos: and I will not forget him, never so long as I remain among the living and my knees have their spring beneath me. And though the dead forget the dead in the house of Hades, even there I shall still remember my beloved companion." —Book XXII

The Iliad of Homer [with Baskin drawings]

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Stated First Impression of First Edition of this Chicago/Baskin production. Octavo (28.5x20x5cm); 526pp, including glossary. Forty-nine full-page drawings by Leonard Baskin. Baskin-illustrated image on off-white jacket. Volume bound (handsomely) in claret-plum linen; Baskin drawing pasted on front panel; gilt spine stamping. Text on heavy..... More

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Tales of the Fish Patrol. Jack London

Tales of the Fish Patrol

London: William Heinemann, 1906. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (19x13.5x3cm); 243pp. Seven full-page illustrations by George Varian, reproduced in B&W, plus one San Francisco area map showing principal locales. Navy blue polished half leather with blue linen boards. Five raised bands on spine with gilt lettering and botanical compartment emblems..... More

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Plays of Gods and Men. Lord Dunsany

Plays of Gods and Men

Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1917. Later printing. Octavo.191 pages. Black and white frontis portrait. Brown and beige boards stamped in white at front and gilt at spine. Green topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Bookplate of a Dorothea Mackellar, presumably the Australian poet, to front pastedown. Includes "The Laughter of..... More

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If You Could See Me Now [Signed Bookplate]. Peter Straub

If You Could See Me Now [Signed Bookplate]

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Straub mounted to front free endpaper. Octavo. 287 pages. Photographic dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Green topstain. Previous owner's handmade bookplate to front free endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Boards show a touch of..... More

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