Planes Without Pilots: Advances in Unmanned Flight
Aero Publishers, 1991. First edition. Paperback. First edition. Paperback. Fine condition. 81 pgs. With diagrams and color and black and white photos.
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In Quest Of the Perfect Book: Reminiscences & Reflections Of A Bookman
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1926. First edition. Hardcover. First trade edition. Hardcover in chocolate brown cloth ornately stamped and lettered in gilt. Profusely illustrated with full page plates including a color frontis "Queen Mary Psalter" with captioned tissue guard. Fine. A handsome volume, a collection of pieces on books.....
William Day's Reminiscences Of The Turf (first edition in fine binding)
London: Richard Bentley And Son, 1886. First edition. Leather_bound. First edition. Royal 8vo in polished three quarter emerald green leather over marbled paper covered boards, hubbed spine lettered in gilt and with turf-realted decorations in the compartments. 466 pp. A tight, generally fine example, spine with some moderate toning to.....
William Dixon , Inc Catalogue for 1926
Newark, NJ: William Dixon Inc., 1926. Hardcover. Hardcover. 480 pp. with index. Illustrated with engravings of virtaully all the company's products. 1926 catalogue of the William Dixon company of Newark, New Jersey, makers of tools and supplies for jewelers, silversmiths, engravers, arts and crafts makers and metal workers. Very good.....
A Conference Between A Mystic, an Hutchinsonian, A Calvinist, A Methodist, a Member of the Church of Engand, and Others. Wherein The Tenets of each are freely examined, and discussed.
London: L. Davis and C Reymers, 1761. First edition. Pamphlet. Octavo, 103 pp. with verso of the final leaf being printer's adverts; apparently disbound from a larger volume. Title and siad final leaf verso stained but the remainder of the interior is mostly bright, very light tidemarking along the bottom.....
A hand book For Infantry: containing First Principles of Military Discipline, founded on rational method: intended To Explain In a Familiar and Practical manner. for the Use of the Military Force of the United States, The Modern Improvments in the Discipline And Movement Of Armies
Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1814. Hardcover. Original light blue paper covered boards over cream color paper spine. Fore and bottom edges uncut. An uncommonly nice copy of the Eighth Edition, with boards and spine relatively clean, tight in its binding, vii+ 112 pp. plus 7 numbered plates at rear.....
Lincoln's Vandalia: A Pioneer Portrait
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Firts printing. Hardcover. Map endpapers. 141 pp. with index. Illustrations. Deaccessioned from the War Library of a national military organization with thier bookplate on the front pastedown and stamp on the title page. Otherwise fine in very good dust jacket. The story.....
By Any Means Necessary: America's Secret Air War in the Cold War
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. map endpapers. 398 pp. with bibliography and index. Illustrated. During the Cold War, a relentless and dangerous battle of wits took place as top secret reconaissance missions were flown continuously.....
Birth Of The Birdie: The First 100 Years of Golf at Atlantic City Country Club
West Berlin, NJ: Innovative Publishing, (1997). Hardcover. Oversized hardcover in deep green faux leather covered boards stamped in gilt. Photographic endpapers. 160 pp. Illustrated throughout with vintage and contemporary photograps. A fine, fresh, unread copy. Issued without dust jacket. History of golfing at the Atlantic City Country Club. In 1897.....
The Doctrine of Fluxions: Not only Explaining The Elements mthereof, But also its Application and Use In the several Parts of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (The Sevcond Edition, corrected and greatly enlarged)
London: J. Richardson, 1757. Second edition. Leather_bound. Octavo in oriignal plain calf, hubbed spines lined in gilt but apparently never lettered. (1) xvi+ 4 (Contents)+ 1 (Errata and with publisher's advert on the recto)+ 432 (1). 12 folding plates (No. X bound in follwoing No. 11). Illustrated throughout with mathematical.....
USS Los Angeles: The Navy's Venerable Airship and Aviation Technology
Potomac Books Inc., 2005. Paperback. AS NEW (rem. stripe bottom edge). Illustrated glossy softcovers. 287 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated throughot with vintage photographs.
The Unmaking Of A Mayor
New York: Viking Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. 341 pp. with index. Illustrations. Near fine (bookplate front pastedown) in tattered dust jacket. Remarkably scarce book by conservative author and commentator William F. Buckley, Jr. about the 1965 New York City mayoral race. Buckley himself entered the race.....
The Railroad Caboose: Its 100 Year History, Legend and Lore
San Marino, CA: Golden West Books, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 237 pp. with index. Profusely illustrated with more than 165 photographs. Fine in crisp but lightly edgeworn dust jacket. An illustrated history of the railroad caboose car, which got its name from the nautical world.....
Four Sided Triangle (Galaxy Science Fiction No.9)
New York: Galaxy, 1951. Softcover. Color illustrated softcovers. 159 pp. Pulp novel billed as "An Uproarious Tale of a Machine that Solved a Difficult Love Affair...and Created More Problems that it Solved". Two men are in love with the same girl (presumably the beautiful blue-eyed blonde featured on the cover).....
Faulkner Reads from His Works (LP album)
New York: Caedmon Records, (1954). (1954) 33 1/3 LP recording in original sleeve and interior paper holder. Faulkner reads from his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech as well as exerpts from "As I Lay Dying", "A Fable", and "The Old Man". Sleeve is near fine with just a bit of wear.....
Go Down Moses (first edition, first issue binding in first issue dust jacket)
New York: Random House, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, stated "First Printing" on copyright page. First issue binding of black cloth lettered in gilt and lined in red, top stain red. In first issue dust jacket with eight titles on rear panel with "Storm" first; price clipped. A tight.....
Sanctuary (in original dust jacket)
New York: Modern Library, 1932. Hardcover. Hardcover in green linen cloth stamped in red and gilt. vii+380 pp. plus listing of Modern Library and Modern Library Giant titles at rear. Faulkner's "New Introduction By The Author" dated 1932. A tight, fine copy, small ownership signature top edge of front pastedown.....
The Town: A Novel of the Snopes Family
New York: Random House, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. In fine condition with a fine dustjacket. 371 pages.
A Frolic of His Own (signed first edition)
Poseidon Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. In fine condition with a fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate on the second blank front page. 558 pages.
JERSEY BLUE: Civil War Politics in New Jersey 1854 - 1865
Rutgers University Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. 389 pp. Fine, fresh, unread copy in fine dust jacket. Important and highly informative political history of New Jersey during the Civil War and the years immediately before and after; the work invites the reader to rethink the role of.....
Rites of Passage
London: Faber & Faber, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. 278 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with UK price intact.
A Brief History of The Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond
New York: Oxford, 2004. First edition. Softcover. First printing. Softcovers. 219 pp. with index, recommended reading list. Fine.
The Belle Of Australia, or Who Am I?
Boston: DeWolfe. Fiske & Co., 1883. F. Childe Hassam. First edition. Hardcover. First edition in book form "corrected and revised from Ballou's Monthly Magazine". Hardcover, recased in red cloth with gilt lettered spine label. 325 pp. Illustrated with drawings by Childe Hassam, some of his earliest as a free-lance illustrator.....
Taylor's Souvenir Of The Capitol 1897-98...of the State Of Connecticut
Putman, Conn. William Harrison Taylor, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in dark maroon cloth lettered and decorated with image of the capitol building in gilt. 293 pp. plus fold out plan of Representatives Hall. illustrated on each facing page with a photographic portraits of Governor Lorrin A. Cooke, State officals.....
Exercitatio Anatomica De Motu Cordis st Sanguinis In Animalibus (Anatomical Studies on The Motion of the Heart and Blood)
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1931. Second edition. Softcover. Printed stiff wrappers. xii+ 150 pp. with chronology of the life of Harvey, index. With frontispiece portrait from a 17th century print of Harvey and seven additional plates in the text, facsimile reproduction of the original engraved 1628 title page. The.....