Green cloth binding with title on front board and on spine in gold. Stiff card figural watch hand bookmark on ribbon sew in as published. Decorated endpps, Title page and text printed on coated stock. 144 pp. Gerd R. Lang talks about his obsession with his timepieces. Beautifully photographed. Nice tight binding and tight text. View More...
1st edition hardcover with braided ribbon marker bound in. No names, tears or soil. Orig unclipped dj in new mylar has a clean closed tear at foot of frt panel, displays well. HUGE oversized postage required. 352 pp of history, biography, background and numerous examples of his work. Contents include: A Life of Design: Minnesota Childhood/ Wartime/ Explorations in the West/ My Own Business/ Specimens from Nature/ Treasures of the World/ Design and Production/ Store Planning/ A Legacy for the Future. Aluminum examples: Cornucopia/ Rabbits/ Garden Party/ Farm and Field/ Sealife/ Endangered ... View More...
Exlib with brushed tips and bumped spine ends, tape rems and stains from tape on inside the covers and end papers. Library pocket and all pages present. 152 pp. This book covers many aspects of gems, from their source to the care of the finished jewels. It gives backgrounds and histories of famous stones, and traces the development of various styles and articles of jewelry. 32 photographs. View More...
Gift quality 1st edition paperback without names, tears, creases or soil. Illust throughout. Unpaginated, 36 pp. The author retells a story heard as a child, one of many invented to explain the landscape on willow pattern china, in which two young Chinese lovers are punished by one's cruel mandarin father. View More...
Limited, numbered 1st American edition paperback with very light surface soil from storage. Signed by author on fep. 27 silk-screened pages with hand-typed style text and line drawings. View More...
First edition paperback with light rubbing along stapled spine, one faint erasure mark on thigh on frt cover, 82 pp text fine. Includes exclusive Death of Superman pull out poster (intact). Includes Interviews with Siegel & Schuster Byrne & More. Superman on TV & Movies, Complete Price guide to Superman comics and collectibles. View More...
Tight bright exlib first edition reference copy without a pocket or evidence of ever having had one, all pps present. 171 pp. Illust with b/w photos. Includes many makers marks and descriptions of the various houses. View More...
Author has dedicated the book: To Marcia, Happy Collecting! Elyce Litts 10-87. Near fine 1st edition glossy hardcover with light surface wear from storage, bit of color loss at bumped spine ends, tips still sharp but also lightly brushed. 175 pp text crisp and unmarked. Laid in are two issues of the Geisha Girl Porcelain newsletter. These are 8 pp typed stapled pages illust with b/w photos. Included are the March-April 1987 & the Sept-Oct 1987 newsletters. Gift quality collectible book, so special with author signed dedication and extra materials laid in. View More...
Hardcover book with very light rubbing at tips. 198 pp. SIGNED by Llardro on half title page. Lengthy gift dedication from former owner on frt pastdn. Laid in are three pieces of Llardro ephemera, One a laminated news clipping announcing a show in St. Louis, one a card that was issued with an authentic piece of Llardro, the third, a two sided, color four fold brochure describing the museum in Spain. View More...
This gift quality, handy reference guide contains all discontinued Doulton jugs, most of them shown in color, as well as a section on prototypes. 156 pgs includes lists for further reading and some neat British antique store adverts and collector contacts of interest. No names, tears or soil, not exlib. Super nice, glossy paperback. View More...
2 First edition volumes in gift quality condition, sharp tips and spine ends. Bound in green leatherette with gilt titling on front and spine, illustrated with b/w photos and 14 color plates in volume 1, un-paginated, 830 lots. Vol II 1658 Lots. Spot of light soil at edge of page block hear head of fore edge, else as new. Prices realized slips laid-in each volume. View More...
Lovely glossy 1st edition paperback without creases or marks. Very light color loss at still sharp tips from storage. 170 pp text & bound-in price guide are crisp and unmarked. View More...
Stated First Edition paperback in orange card covers that are sunned along spine and lower edge, one scratch on rear cover has taken color off but has not torn the cover. Foxing on endpprs, glued in page block is sound and holding fine. Black and white photographs throughout the 98 pp text showing examples of the milk glass. View More...
As new red leatherette hardcover with sharp tips and spine ends. Only thing that keep this as new is a bonus clipping taped to the inside cover, it is a list of proof sets from 1936 to 1982. Gift quality volume. 258 pp. View More...
First edition 1916 in blindstamped dark green cloth covered boards with no gilt on blindstamps. Spine ends bumped & rubbed, tips still sharp. Book measures 4.5" x 6.5" and is a useful guide to antique glass from the British Isles. This is a 1916 edition and not a modern reproduction. In clean and sound condition with a previous owner's attractive pencil signature/date on fep. Else, crisp and unmarked. View More...
