New York, New York, U.S.A. Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1994. Hard Cover. Oversized in red cloth; 125 pps. with index. Illustrated with color photos and with diagrams. Instructions on making reproduction old-time Santas to hang on your tree, decorate your home, in chocolate, as cookies , etc. All the diagrams.....
Collector Books, 1995. Hardcover. As new, unused copy. Oversized in glossy illustrated hardcovers. 296 pp. Illustrated with hundreds of color photos. Comprehensive guide to antique tins with sections on tobacco tins, coffee tins, peanut butter and candy tins, powder tins, prophylactic tins, spice tins and miscellaneous tins.
New York: Walpole Society, 1917. Limited ed. Hardcover. First edition, one of 175 copies only on Stratford Deckle-Edge paper. Paper covered boards with paper title and spine labels. ix+ 164 pp. with Silver Collectors Glossary. Frontispiece plate of silversmith marking dies and drawings of most of the marks identified in.....
Washington DC: Judd & Detweiler, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Navy blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 384 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs (including microscopy) and charts. With one plate with 16 color paint sample strips affixed. Professional study of various researches in the field of paints.....
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1992. First American edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Antiques scamp Lovejoy is accused of gutting an old East Anglia house for its antique architectural trimmings. Mayhem ensues. Gash's hugely popular Lovejoy character is the basis for the PBS.....
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1982. First. Hard Cover. First American edition of the fifth Lovejoy mystery. In this entry, rogue antiques dealer Lovejoy is engaged to "re-acquire" a rare piece---from the Pope. Basis for the wonderful TV series featuring Ian McShane in the title role. A tight, fine copy.....
London: Rockliff, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Thick hardcover, xxiv+ 242 pp. with bibliography, index. With 150 black and white photographic plates comprising 300 images. Fine in dust jacket with a chip at the foot of the spine extending a bit onto the front panel. A definite study of.....
Schiffer Publishing, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, unused condition in very good dust jacket, small crimp on head edge of spine. Color and black and white pictures. 176 pages. Lavishly illustrated guide that pays tribute to cigars and the pictorial history of Victorian-era cigar box labels. A......
New York: Wise & Co, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. (NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING THROUGH AMAZON, ALIBRIS OR B&N. These orders will ONLY ship media mail). First edition. Oversized in incised brown faux leather stamped in silver. 309 pp. Illustrated with color and black and white photos and interior decor drawings. Late.....
Moscow: Beresta, 1994. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Oversized volume in grey cloth, white marker ribbon. 122 spectacular full color plates. Text in English and Russian. As new in dust jacket.
Moscow: Beresta, 1996. First. Hard Cover. Oversized volume in cloth, white marker ribbon, 196 pps. with bibliography. Section of spectacular full color plates. Text in English and Russian. As new in dust jacket.
Moorestown, NJ: House of Global Art, 1979. Staplebound. Softcover in stiff, glossy, illustrated covers. Unpaginated. Illustrated with color drawings. Full reproductions of 30 antique paper dolls. Fine, bright, crisp example.
Fireside, 1975. First edition. Unknown. First edition. Paperback. Fine condition. Black and white pictures and diagrams. 238 pages. Bibliography. comprehensive pictorial index of those handtools common in Western civilization from the 18th century to the late 20th.
Dover Publications, 1991. Reissue. Paperback. Fine. Softcovers. 112 pp. illustrated with 205 black and white photos. Reiisue of the two original catalogues (1912 and ca. 1915) issued by Gustave Stickley of his distinctive craftsman-style furnature. There are examples of all his designs---armchairs, rockers, stools, settles, desks, beds, musiccabinets, table, chests.....
Abbeville Press, 1987. Hardcover. Glossy color illustrated hardcovers. Issued without dust jacket. 96 pp. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. Lavishly illustrated and wonderfully evocative and entertaining look at collectible matchbook covers from the 1920s through the late 1950s. With sections on advertising, western, girlies, travel, hotels, eateries, patriotism, sports, movieland.....
NY: Theo. Audel & Co., 1916. Full Leather. !916 edition. Limp black leather covers with spine lettered in gilt; 476 pps. plus 48 pps. section "Starting and Lighting of Automobiles", plus publisher's ads at rear, Illustrated on every page with photos, drawings, diagrams. Spine lettering still bright but with the.....
New York: Theo. Audel, 1904. Hardcover. Hardcover in black cloth lettered in gilt. Title page printed in pale green and black. All edges gilt. 437 pp. with index, plus publisher's ads at rear. Sepia frontipiece portrait of George H. Corliss. Illustrated throughout with full and partial page engravings and diagrams.....
London: Gibbings and Company, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. (NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING THROUGH AMAZON, ALIBRIS, B&N. ADDITIONAL SHIPPING RQUIRED ON INTERNATIONAL ORDERS. PLEASE INQUIRE). A bright, tight example, light foxing to the endpapers. First edition. Massive quarto sized volume in green cloth lettered in gilt. xxiii+32 pp (Chippendale sections), 59 pp.....
New York: Dover Publications, 1985. First edition. Paperback. Softcover in bright, illustrated covers. Illustrated with full color photographs. Set of 24 ready-to-mail postcards depicting antique dolls. Fine, crisp, example.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1937. Hardcover. Hardcover. xix + 512 pp with index, appendix of technical tables. Profusely illustrated with photographs and diagrams. A tight , internally bright example, cover a touch dusty but also generally fine. Covers the drilling machine, shaper and planer, milling and grinfing machines, hydraulic power transmissions.....
Milwaukee: Bruce, 1930. Hardcover. Hardcover. 307 pp. with index. With 423 illustrations and diagrams. Gently ex-lib, removed pocket front pastedown and small stamp rear pastedown. A full instructional guide to woodworking including sections on hand tools, machine tools, planning and squaring, grooved joints, dowel joints, mortise and tenon joints, dovetail.....
Oakland: Holmes Book Co, 1967. Hardcover. Hardcover in red-orange cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Patterned endpapers. 257 pp. with index. Illustrated. A fine, bright exmaple in very good dust jacket.
Stratford, Ct: New England Publishing Co, 1975. Reissue. Hard Cover. Reissue of the original 1930 edition. Yellow cloth stamped in black, 178 pps. with general index and index of plates. Illustrated with photographic plates depicting 56 varieties of clocks. Fine, issued without dust jacket. Guide to 18th clockmaking in Connecticut.....
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. (NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING THROUGH AMAZON, ALIBRIS OR B&N) First edition. Large, thick royal 8vo in navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. xv+ 340 pp. errata slip tipped in at rear. Photographic plates that include 502 examples, plus drrawings and reproductions in the text.....
Hiroshima: Hoshibill, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Oversized hardcover in gray-tan cloth lettered in bright gilt script. 199 pp. Index in Japanese and English. Illustrated with over 180 full color photographic plates depicting Jumeau dolls. Text in both Japanese and english. Fine in fine, crisp, glossy, illustrated dust jacket.....
