Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Cart Totals

Promo Code:	– $0.00
Subtotal:	$3,672.45
Shipping:	$143.99
	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$3,816.44
Change Currency:

Contact

Email Address

Re-type Email Address

Shipping

Expedited shipping $294.49 1 - 8 days

Standard Shipping $143.99 2 - 15 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note

Payment

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Please select your payment method from the following list:

PayPal
Credit or Debit Card
Express Wallet

Click the button to checkout with PayPal.

You will be charged $3,816.44 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal:	$3,672.45
Shipping:	$143.99
:	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$3,816.44
Change Currency:

You are about to purchase:

The Disappearing City by Frank Lloyd Wright

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $6.00

Details

$1,000.00

( US$)

Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA

Title: The Disappearing City
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1932. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good +. A very solid copy of the 1932 1st edition, in its uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Tight and VG (fading along the spine, light offsetting at the rear panel) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with several tiny chips and small closed tears along the panel edges. Still though, very presentable. Square octavo, signed on the front flap in light pencil by R. Hunter Middleton, a major figure in modern American typographic history. Middleton was the director of Typeface Design for the Ludlow Typography Company from 1933 until the 1970s and was also a printer, calligrapher and book designer.

CONTAINS CANNON'S FIRST USE OF "HOMEOSTASIS". A Charles Richet - ses amis, ses collegues, ses eleves. (n.p., Paris), May 1926. Bound with: Discours prononces a I'occasion du jubile Charles Richet. by Abelous, J.E., Arthus, M., Fredericq, L., Gley, E., Lusk, G., Hedon, E., Houssay, B.A., Lapique, L., Nolf, P., Lodge, O., Painleve, P., Pawlow, J., Pi-Suner, A., Portier, P., Richet, C.fils, Roger, G.H., Schafer, E., Sherrington, C.S.

3 to 10 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $10.00

Details

$750.00

( US$)

Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB

Title: CONTAINS CANNON'S FIRST USE OF "HOMEOSTASIS". A Charles Richet - ses amis, ses collegues, ses eleves. (n.p., Paris), May 1926. Bound with: Discours prononces a I'occasion du jubile Charles Richet.
Author: Abelous, J.E., Arthus, M., Fredericq, L., Gley, E., Lusk, G., Hedon, E., Houssay, B.A., Lapique, L., Nolf, P., Lodge, O., Painleve, P., Pawlow, J., Pi-Suner, A., Portier, P., Richet, C.fils, Roger, G.H., Schafer, E., Sherrington, C.S.
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: Paris: Editions Medicales, 1926. First edition. UNIQUE SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF FESTSCHRIFT HONORING NOBELIST CHARLES RICHET, COPY OF NOBELIST CHARLES SHERRINGTON, CONTAINING WALTER CANNON'S ESSAY FIRST USING THE TERM "HOMEOSTASIS".11 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, (n.p., Paris), July 1926. There is a small handstamp at the bottom of the front paste-down, "Bound by Maltby Oxford." Two volumes in one, original stiff printed wrappers to both volumes bound in, uncut, [4],101 pp, [4]; 37 pp, [1]. Limitation indication in the first volume: copy 269 of 500, signed hy the editor. Each volume with the ownership signature of the 1932 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, C. S. Sherrington. Faint handstamp of institutional library to title page of each of the two volumes, overlaid "withdrawn". PAPERS IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Honored in this festschrift, CHARLES ROBERT RICHET (1850 –1935) was a French physiologist at the Collège de France known for his pioneering work in immunology. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis". The Richet line of professorships of medical science would continue through his son Charles (whose contribution is included in the volume offered here) and his grandson Gabriel. SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON (1857-1952) was a British neurophysiologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1932 for his elucidation of the integrative action of the nervous system. On the verso of the front fly-leaf in Sherrington's hand is a listing of the two titles bound in this volume. Sherrington contributed a paper to the first volume (pp.88-90): Addition Latente and recruitinent in reflex contraction and inhibition. Faint library stamps of the Royal College of Surgeons. A very good copy. Besides containing Sherrington's paper, this celebratory volume includes the original contributions of IVAN PAVLOV (Nobel 1904), BERNARDO ALBERTO HOUSSAY (Nobel 1947), SIR EDWARD ALBERT SHARPEY-SCHAFER (British physiologist who discovered adrenaline) and SIR OLIVER LODGE (British physicist who developed radio technology). Notably, the volume also contains WALTER CANNON'S essay, Physiological regulation of normal states: Some tentative postulates concerning biological homeostasis (p. 91) that includes his first use of the term, "homeostasis," subsequently expanded in his book, The Wisdom of the Body (1932). As early as 1895, Sherrington had tried to gain employment at Oxford University, and by 1913 Oxford offered Sherrington the Waynflete Chair of Physiology. Several of his students were Rhodes scholars, three of whom – Sir John Eccles, Ragnar Granit, and Howard Florey – went on to be Nobel laureates. Sherrington remained at Oxford until his retirement in 1936. He clearly treasured his copy of the Richet festschrift—Maltby's Bookbinders (established in 1834) continues to be Oxford's premier bookbinder.

Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly by [Lead Belly]; Lomax, John A. and Alan Lomax

2 to 8 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $12.00

Details

$450.00

( US$)

Seller: Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare

Title: Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly
Author: [Lead Belly]; Lomax, John A. and Alan Lomax
Seller: Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Description: First Edition. 242 pp., letterpress on commercial stock in yellow cloth-covered boards with red printed title. Lacking dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece. 8vo. Very good. Minor soiling to covers. Interiors mostly clean and bright with one pencil annotation in margin, binding sturdy. [2182] One of the richest and most attractive books on the blues legend Lead Belly, by the legendary father-son ethnomusicologist duo in their second collaborative volume. With a biographical introduction including many quotations directly transcribed from Lead Belly's oration, and a richly annotated presentation of the songs with music and lyrics. Desirable even lacking the dust jacket.

Weeds by Baroja, Pio; Isaac Goldberg [Translator]

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: FREE

Details

$400.00

( US$)

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Title: Weeds
Author: Baroja, Pio; Isaac Goldberg [Translator]
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. First American edition. [vi], 344, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with yellow stamping. Fine, slight scuff along fore edge, in a Near Fine dust jacket, spine darkened, wear along head, tiny closed tears along bottom edge, price-clipped. An attractive copy of the Spanish novel, an installment in the Struggle for Life trilogy. Front panel design is from a painting by John Dos Passos.

A Bridge Melodrama; Every Player Your Partner. Pat. No. 1558838

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $4.50

Details

$275.00

( US$)

Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Title: A Bridge Melodrama; Every Player Your Partner. Pat. No. 1558838
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Chas. S. Clark Co, 1931. Boxed. Very Good. Theatre as camp, before, we believe, the phrase, "camp", even existed or was a thing. Also issued when bridge, a game in its current form not even a decade old at the time, was sweeping the country and was incontrovertibly a craze. And of course, as anyone who plays bridge can attest, the game is full of drama, much of which comes from the behavior, emotions, reactions, and ancillary interaction of the players immersed in the game. The set is for a sort of social bridge that is played with four tables, with elements of duplicate bridge therefore, but not duplicate, and adding some spice with its allusions to theater stages and theater actors. The lidded box it comes is 11 by 19 cm, and slightly more than 2 cm in height. The lid's top has an illustration, meant to be droll, of a murder victim in top hat, a woman fainting intothe arm's of a brawny man, and another woman, probably the "other woman", at the door. This illustration is on all four of the score cards within, all of which are folded sheets of a light card stock, but which are named after different theaters: the Grand Opera House, the Bowery Theatre, the Old Rialto Theatre, and the Bijou Theatre. Inside these cards are the scoring tables, and the back of each sets forth the basic rules of contract bridge. Then there are sixteen cards, each with the name of a fictive actor such as Fannie Lightfoot, Jakie Otto, Claire V. Armond, Huldah Delmarte, etc. etc. And the cards also refer to plays, with titles made up for the game, such as "More to Be Pitied than Scorned" and "The Curse of Drink". Atttached to these 16 smaller cards are strings. This is obviously a scarce item. There are no listings on OCLC First Search. The only copy we could locate otherwise was in Special Collections, Bowling Green State, which is in Ohio. The Charles S. Clark Co. appears to have been a prolific producer of bridge scoring cards or bridge paraphenalia. The box has some slight soil and wear, but it remains structurally sound. The contents are clean and unused.

1964 Yankee Yearbook, Revised by [New York Yankees]; [Greenberg, Hank]

4 to 6 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $11.00

Details

$250.00

( US$)

Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA

Title: 1964 Yankee Yearbook, Revised
Author: [New York Yankees]; [Greenberg, Hank]
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: New York Yankees, 1964 Signed by Hank Greenberg on p. 1. Publisher's pictorial wrappers, blue-tinted front wrapper with a photo of General Manager Ralph Houk and first year manager Yogi Berra, lettered in red and white. Very good, with some scuffing to front wrapper, small split to head of spine, and a short closed tear to top edge of rear wrapper. Overall, a clean copy, signed by Greenberg. This 1964 Yankee Yearbook features player and management profiles, a recap of the 1963 season, records, statistics, and historical information. Featured players include Yogi Berra in his first year as Yankee manager, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, and Tony Kubek. Hank Greenberg played the first twelve (1930, 1933-41, 1945-46) of his thirteen seasons in the MLB with the Detroit Tigers. During his time in the league, Greenberg was the AL home run leader four times and won the AL Most Valuable Player Award twice. Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, Greenberg voluntarily enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps and remained in the military until 1945, sacrificing a few prime years of his baseball career. He was also one of the first Jewish superstars of baseball, and famously chose not to play in an important game in 1934 because it coincided with Yom Kippur. Greenberg was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1956. Hank Greenberg's roots were in New York City: he was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. After high school, he was recruited by the Yankees, but since they already had a first baseman (Lou Gehrig), Greenberg declined and attended NYU on a sports scholarship instead. He then tried out for the New York Giants, but ultimately signed with the Detroit Tigers in 1930.. Signed. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good.

Country Life [Inscribed] by ACKROYD, Peter

4 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $6.50

Details

$150.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books

Title: Country Life [Inscribed]
Author: ACKROYD, Peter
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Ferry Press, 1978. First Edition. One of 350 limited copies (26 of which were signed and contained holograph poem), softcover. Octavo (25cm); staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 33pp. Inscribed and signed by author on title page "Peter Ackroyd / To Howard, from his friend the doctor 9.ix.78". Light shelf-soil and foxing, with light creases to edges and margins, and crease to p.15; Very Good. The author's third collection of verse. [84458].

Autograph Letter Signed. Berlin, Germany, June 15, 1879To his sister, Mrs. J.E. Leaycroft, New York City. by Crawford, Hanford

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $4.00

Details

$100.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC

Title: Autograph Letter Signed. Berlin, Germany, June 15, 1879To his sister, Mrs. J.E. Leaycroft, New York City.
Author: Crawford, Hanford
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: 1879 FUTURE ST. LOUIS MOGUL SEES KAISER WILHELM CELEBRATION IN BERLIN Octavo, 4 pp. with stamped mailing envelope., in very good clean and legible condition "…in honor of the emperor's golden wedding…there was a concert on a square near here, from a chorus of 1500 male voices and 400 instruments (among them 100 drums); the execution was very fine, the selections good, the silence among the thousands of spectators singularly impressive. Not only was the entire square covered…but the windows, balconies and roofs of the encircling houses were filled with people…the air was thick enough to cut, a man ought to be at least seven feet high to be really above the influence which a crowd of ordinary Germans has upon the atmosphere 'meme en plein air'. From here we went with all due speed to the neighborhood of the palaces to see the procession of carriages to the Schloss where the ceremony took place and where the receptions follow one another for several hours. No one was admitted except on special invitation, the whole effort was to make it quite a family affair; hence I stood on the street with the rest of the common herd and gazed at the embroidered coachmen and footmen and at the finely caparisoned…horses. After the ceremony was completed, 101 guns were fired and the ambassadors opened the line of visitors; later the emperor and some of the 'great ones' returned to the royal palace to dinner and the 150,000 strangers dispersed to pick up their more frugal meal at places to suit the tastes. In the afternoon, we had visits from four students from Leipzig, for two of whom we had to help hunt up lodgings. When the number of strangers is remembered, you will not wonder that we hunted quite a while before finding places for them. In the evening we went out to see the illumination and enjoy the various sensations produced by mingling with a great crowd on a popular holiday. The street Unter den Linden was very brilliantly illuminated with gas jets in the form of eagles, wreaths… stars, monograms and every small window was lighted with from 6-20 candles. The facades of several buildings were illuminated in outline, which produced a thrilling effect; at the same time there was a gala-opera in the royal opera house to which only invited guests were allowed admission…You have no reason to regret, I hope, that I have been in Europe these two years…" When he wrote this letter, Hanford Crawford (1854-1930) was a 25-year-old graduate of the City College of New York who, after working as a schoolteacher to raise money for travel, sailed for England and spent three years studying at the Universities of Leipzig, Berlin, Geneva and Paris, while travelling throughout the continent. Returning to New York in 1877 to begin a business career, he became Superintendent of a large New York City department store until moving to St. Louis to manage a Dry Goods Company which became one of the largest commercial corporations west of the Mississippi. Active in all phases of St. Louis business and civic affairs, he was the principal benefactor of the St. Louis Symphony and a director of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. His daughter would become a social worker and economist who played an important part in bringing immigrant American students to the University of Pittsburgh. His sister Caroline, to whom this letter was written, was the wife of J. Edgar Leaycroft, a wealthy New York City real estate man and later New York State Tax Commissioner. Some of Leaycroft's papers are held by Indiana University, but apparently nothing of this early a date.

Hawaiian Cowboys [Limited Edition, Signed] by John Yau

2 to 8 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $4.50

Details

$75.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

Title: Hawaiian Cowboys [Limited Edition, Signed]
Author: John Yau
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780876859582
Condition: Very Good
Description: Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. Very Good/Near Fine. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. First Edition, Limited to 100 signed hardcover copies of which this is no. 93. Octavo; publisher's brown cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards in original clear acetate dust jacket; 169pp. Light shelf wear to board margins, else Very Good and sound. Signed by Yau on colophon in rear.

[TRAVEL] [MAP] ASIAE. NOVA DELINEATIO. (ATLAS PORTALIS) by Johann Cristoph Weigel

5 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $10.50

Details

$75.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc.

Title: [TRAVEL] [MAP] ASIAE. NOVA DELINEATIO. (ATLAS PORTALIS)
Creator: Johann Cristoph Weigel
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: [Nürnberg], 1720. A hand colored plate of Asia, from either the First or Second Edition of Johann Cristoph Weigel’s Atlas Portalis. Some separation along the crease. About 20 x 17 cm.

John Marin: The Late Oils by Agee, William C.

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $12.99

Details

$40.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB

Title: John Marin: The Late Oils
Author: Agee, William C.
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780981580111
Condition: VG+. As new. Exhibition announcement card laid in with additional ephemera including a hand written list of prices from a New Yo
Description: New York, NY: Adelson Galleries, 2008. Hardcover. VG+. As new. Exhibition announcement card laid in with additional ephemera including a hand written list of prices from a New York gallery.. Oblong quarto. Hardcover. Color illus. boards; 52 pp.; 14 color plates; 8 color and bw figures; Decorated endpapers. Issued in conjunction with a 2008 exhibition of artwork by American modernist John Marin (1870-1953). With an illustrated essay by William C. Agee. The illustrated catalogue features 14 examples of Marin's work, in full color. A nice introduction to this artist, if you need one.

YEAR BOOK OF THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION : GRAND CENTRAL PALACE ... APRIL EIGHTEENTH TO APRIL TWENTY-FIFTH, INCLUSIVE MCMXXXI

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.00

Details

$37.50

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA

Title: YEAR BOOK OF THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION : GRAND CENTRAL PALACE ... APRIL EIGHTEENTH TO APRIL TWENTY-FIFTH, INCLUSIVE MCMXXXI
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Architectural League of New York, 1931. Softcover. Quarto, 306 pages. In Good condition. Spine is grey without print. Boards quarter bound with grey cloth to spine and grey paper to boards; light edge wear, penciled note on rear panel. Illustrated: b&w photographs, one color plate. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Quarto and Folio Case. 1399095. FP New Rockville Stock.

Jerome Witkin Part II by Witkin, Jerome

5 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.50

Details

$35.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA

Title: Jerome Witkin Part II
Author: Witkin, Jerome
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: Jack Rutberg Fine Arts. Exhibition postcard. Broadside. Jerome Witkin. SIGNED. 6" x 8 1/2" lithographed postcard/ miniature poster. A full color exhibition postcard from a show in Los Angeles featuring the remarkable art of Jerome Witkin. Near fine. Signed by the artist on the back of the card.

HANDBOOK TO PARIS AND ITS ENVIRONS

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.50

Details

$22.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Second Life Books Inc

Title: HANDBOOK TO PARIS AND ITS ENVIRONS
Seller: Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description: London: Ward Lock, 1921. Eleventh edn. Small 8vo, pp. 224. VG; cover little worn and faded. Maps intact. Includes Versailles.

La Telegrafia sin Hilos en Cuba (1899-1916). Within: LLULL: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Tecnicas. Vol. 20, Nº 38, 1997. by ALTSHULER, Jose.

7 to 15 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $40.00

Details

$12.95

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books

Title: La Telegrafia sin Hilos en Cuba (1899-1916). Within: LLULL: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Tecnicas. Vol. 20, Nº 38, 1997.
Author: ALTSHULER, Jose.
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: [no place]:: Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Tecnicas, 1997., 1997. Article pages 443-463. Full issue: 443-853, viii pp. Illus. Original printed wrappers. Fine. ISBN 0210-8615 Paper on the making of telegraph communications between the US and Cuba circa 1899 and 1916. Other articles include: Babini on the first computers in Argentina in 1960; Cervera on European missionaries coming to the Far East in the 16th century; Bueno & Lancharro on Francisco Vera, the eminent Argentinian historian of science; Magallon on Spanish women of science in physics and chemistry from 1910-1930, and others.

Secure Checkout