US Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. 18” x 13”. Original Fire Prevention poster, original lithograph on paper. Light fold marks are lightly rubbed. Stamp and penciled number on verso.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1979. First edition thus. Hardcover. 11 1/4'' x 8 3/4''. 230pp. with index. Original green cloth has some light rubbing and a couple of bumps. A couple of tiny spots of foxing to fly-leaf.
San Francisco: University Club, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 9 3/4'' X 6 3/4''. 16pp. Edition limited to 100 copies. Corners bumped. Toning to endpapers. Paper over boards, vellum spine.
London: Constable & Co. LTD, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 9'' x 6''. 400pp. with index. General wear to original red cloth. Toning to pages. top edge gilt.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and co., 1853. First edition. Hardcover. 9 3/4'' x 6 3/4''. 367pp. with index. Three quarter black leather shows some wear and scuffing. With 12 plates, some folding. Some toning to pages. Previuos owners stamp on title-page.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4'' X 9''. 481pp. with index. First edition. Minor spot of soiling to foredge, otherwise a fine book in a fine dustjacket.
Los Angeles. Dawson's Book Shop, 1955. First edition. Hard cover. 10'' X 6 3/4''. 42pp. with index. Fine book with toned and chipped dustjacket that has a two inch closed tear.
Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1941. Portfolio. Portfolio. Soft cover book 106pp. text. 135 loose plates illustrating 972 pieces in black & white. Descriptive catalogue is toned on edges; plates are quite nice. Front panel of folding portfolio "hanging on by a thread". Covers darkened; ties present but worn. Plates fine; Book.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. Hardcover. Quarto. 498pp. Incl. Seal Inscriptions, Concordance and Bibliography. Profusely illustrated with over 1200 examples pictured. Red cloth stamped in gold. Lightly bumped spine corner.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Hardcover. Octavo. 348pp. Black cloth stamped in gilt, in dust jacket. This copy with gift inscription, "For Artie (ARTIE SHAW) with love from Rufus and Murray. September 27, 1952." Fly-leaf also has extensive pencil notes, plus small sheet of notes laid-in, consistent with Shaw's.....
London: William Rider & Son Ltd, 1909. Hardcover. 154pp. Red cloth stamped in gold. This copy from the library of American clarinetist and popular bandleader, ARTIE SHAW, with his ownership signature front paste-down. Spine is darkened, cracked and split at hinge and frayed at top. Toning to endpapers and edges.....
Los Angeles. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 13 1/2'' X 10''. 264pp. with 204 color illustrations. First edition. Minor wear to dustjacket.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Hardcover. Octavo. 611pp. Blue cloth, title stamped on spine in silver. This copy has pencil annotations, mostly to the title and contents pages, but some throughout the text as well. It was either used along with an audio tape, or used to create an audio tape.....
New York: Vanguard Press, 1932. Flexible boards. Octavo. 404pp. Incl index. Fourth Vanguard printing. This copy from the library of popular bandleader, ARTIE SHAW, with his ownership signature. Beige cloth over flexible boards, stamped in blue. Lightly and uniformly soiled. Spine a little faded, general wear. "A voracious.....
Berlin: Verlag Guido Hackebeil, 1929. Hardcover. Sm. quarto. 123pp. text, plus 127 photographic plates of nudes. With list of photographers at rear. Text in German. Tan cloth stamped in black and red. Decorated endpapers. One page has minor crease down middle ( see photos). Photographers include, Lotte Herrlich, Leni Junghans.....
London: V & A PUBLICATIONS, 2004. first edition. Hardcover. 11 1/2'' X 10 1/8''. 225pp. with 367 colour plates, 20 black and white. First edition. Minor wear to dustjacket.
New York: Rizzoli, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 12 1/4'' X 9 1/4''. 288pp. with index. First edition. Minor rubbing top top of cloth.
Berlin: Verlag Der Schönheit, n.d. (1905). Hardcover. Lg. thick octavo. 768pp. plus 192pp. Supplement. Illustrated. Monochromatic illustrations reproduced from photographs, paintings, fashion drawings etc. Bound version of this monthly magazine for the year, 1905. Text in German. Pictorial blue cloth; Art Nouveau style decorated endpapers. This copy has been re-spined.....
London: George Prior Publishers, 1982. Hardcover. Thick quarto. 873pp. Enlarged and Revised edition. Blue cloth shows light wear; bottom corners lightly bumped. Illustrated. "Since it is not a supplement, it repeats all the original entries as well as providing basic information in perhaps an additional fifteen hundred entries..." Nice solid.....
US Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. 11” x 21”. Original Fire Prevention poster, offset lithograph on card stock. Very light general wear. Stamp and a couple stains on verso.
US Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944. 20” x 14”. Original Fire Prevention poster, offset lithograph on paper. Four small edge tears, the largest about 1 1/4”. Pinholes and tears to corners. Light edgewear and mild fold line at center and mild corner crease. Tape repair and stamp.....
US Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961. 18” x 13”. Original Fire Prevention poster, offset lithograph on card stock. Light “9” impressed in margin, light surface wear.
US Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954. 18” x 12.5”. Original Fire Prevention poster, offset lithograph on card stock.
US Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955. 18” x 12.5”. Original Fire Prevention poster, offset lithograph on paper. Small marginal tear. Light wear. Some toning to verso.
US Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. 18” x 12.5”. Original Fire Prevention poster, offset lithograph on paper. Fold lines have rubbing, light spot of soiling right corner. Stamp on verso. This is the third Smokey the bear poster by Albert Staehle.