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New York: St. Martin's, (1984), First Edition. octavo, black boards in pictorial dust jacket. St. Martin's, Inscribed and signed by Barnes on the title page and dated 2/2/86. A very fine copy, jacket not price clipped. More
New York: St. Martin's, (1984), First Edition. octavo, black boards in pictorial dust jacket. St. Martin's, Inscribed and signed by Barnes on the title page and dated 2/2/86. A very fine copy, jacket not price clipped. More
(Pittsburgh, PA: Keness, 2019), First Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (140)pp. Keness, A graphic memoir of the author's quest to learn about T. E. Lawrence, illustrated throughout by Beth Barnett. You will enjoy this "Lawrencian" journey as much as the author must have. As new copy, signed by the..... More
Washington, D.C. The Folger Shakespeare Library, (2001), First Edition. small quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers. 158pp. The Folger Shakespeare Library, This volume was published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Reader Revealed" at The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. in 2001. Essays on the many ways books of the..... More
New York: Norton, (2008), First American Edition. octavo, boards in pictorial dust jacket. (xviii), 382pp. Norton, Touches on Lawrence's use of aviation during his campaign in the desert. Illustrated with photographs. Very fine copy. More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, (1994), First American Edition. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. (viii), (160)pp. Naval Institute Press, Edited by his son, Nick Bartlett. Illustrated with photographs. Bartlett flew Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutters and D.H. 4s with No. 5 RNAS, (205 RAF) Squadron from September 1916 to April..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 192pp. Yale University Press, What decisions lie behind the way a book is designed? How are readers of books helped or hindered by the choices that a designer, publisher, or printer has made in presenting an author's..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1990, First Edition. quarto, wrappers. 64pp. Harvard College Library, Illustrated with plates and photographs. With an introduction by Eleanor Garvey. A beautifully produced catalogue in which Harvard's work as a calligrapher, type designer, stonecutter, author and illustrator is chronicled. With "Paragraphs on Life and Letters"..... More
New York: Chapman & Hall, (1997), First Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. xxii, 378pp. Chapman & Hall, Illustrated. A very fine, clean copy. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1997), First American Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. (152)pp. Henry Holt and Company, Photographs by Alen MacWeeney. Charleston, home to Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, reflects the talents of its inhabitants and visitors: Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, David Garnett..... More
Washington DC: National Geographic, (2001), First Edition. quarto, boards & cloth in dust jacket. 256pp. National Geographic, Covering a range from the first photograph printed in National Geographic in 1890 through the mid-1950's, this book is a tribute to the 55-year career of Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor. More than 250 photographs..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Library, 1976, First Edition. quarto, blue cloth. xiii, 218pp. Harvard University Library, A biography of Archibald Cary Coolidge (1866-1928) and his work as director of the Harvard University Library. Illustrated. Printed at The Stinehour Press. Very fine. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xx, 391 pp. Oxford University Press, This is the first systematic account of social epidemiology, and it will be especially useful to graduate students of epidemiology, public health, and medical sociology. The authors emphasize methodological approaches in..... More
(Elstree): Greenhill, (1986), Reprint of first edition. octavo, printed heavy paper wrappers. (viii), (288)pp. Greenhill, Vintage Aviation Library 12. An account of night bombing activities in which the heavy bomber was utilized. Bewsher served at an RNAS station in England from 1915 to 1918 and with No. X Wing (Handley-Page)..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1988), First Edition. large octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. (xvi), (280)pp. Hodder & Stoughton, Illustrated with photographs. A detailed and highly readable text. A very fine copy. More
Bad Goisern (Austria): Neugebauer Press, 1975, First Edition. 28 x 13 cm, printed heavy paper folded three times. 8 leaves with tissue guards. Neugebauer Press, Nine poems (including cover poem) presented on the tenth anniversary of the poet's death. Each poem in a different calligraphic hand. Very fine. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1997), First American Edition. quarto, wrappers. 208 pp. University of California Press, "This exhibition commemorates the three-hundredth anniversary of William Hogarth's birth in 1697, and it is built upon the remarkable collections of prints and drawings by Hogarth, and his contemporaries and successors, in the..... More
New York: Watson-Guptill, (1989), First Edition. oblong quarto, boards & cloth in dust jacket. 192pp. Watson-Guptill, Aimed at Graphic designers, this book is designed to train the eye in the qualities of type: the specific characteristics of a face, its relationship to other faces and to space. Chapters include Working..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, (1927), Later printing. octavo, blue cloth stamped in black on front cover and spine. Doubleday, Doran, Illustrated by C. Heurlin. Light shelf wear, dusty with a few tiny stains to text block. More
Folkestone: Bailey Brothers and Swinfen, 1975, First Printing of this Edition. octavo, black boards in pictorial dust jacket. (284)pp. Bailey Brothers and Swinfen, Edited by Stanley M. Ulanoff. Bishop enlisted in the Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1914 but transferred to the RFC in 1915. He served with Nos. 21 and..... More
New York: Arco, (1981), First Arco Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (284)pp. Arco, Edited by Stanley M. Ulanoff. Bishop enlisted in the Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1914 but transferred to the RFC in 1915. He served with Nos. 21 and 60 Squadrons before becoming Commanding Officer of No. 85..... More
New York: Ace Books, (1967), First Printing of this Edition. small octavo, pictorial paper wrappers. (256)pp. Ace Books, Edited by Stanley M. Ulanoff. Bishop enlisted in the Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1914 but transferred to the RFC in 1915. He served with Nos. 21 and 60 Squadrons before becoming Commanding..... More
New York: David McKay, (1966), First American Edition. octavo, red cloth in dust jacket. (12), (212)pp. David McKay, A detailed tribute to Billy Bishop, the Canadian air ace, by his son. Many exploits of Bishop's service in both World Wars I and II detailed. He achieved a record of 72..... More
New York: Orion Books, (1991), First American Edition. octavo, boards and cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 232pp. Orion Books, Illustrated with photographs. Fine biography of aviation pioneer Harry Hawker who played a key role with the Sopwith Company and the devlopment of the Pup and Camel. Near fine copy, jacket..... More
Brussel: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 1975, First Edition. large octavo, printed wrappers. (86) pp. Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Text in Dutch. Exhibition catalogue of 69 fine bindings described in detail and many illustrated in black and white. A fine copy. More