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Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$15.00

Naylor, Gillian
THE BAUHAUS
NY: Studio Visa/Dutton, 1968

Reprint. 168 pp; b/w & color illustrations; index. Paperback. VG, edges of spine rubbed, else a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #011204



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$45.00

Sackville-West, V.
PEPITA
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1937

First U.S. edition. Octavo. vii, 309 pp; b/w portrait of Pepita on frontispiece. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG The unconventional memoirs of the extraordinary Sackville-West family.
Inventory number #011185



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$20.00

Mercer, Judy [Signed]
FAST FORWARD
NY: Pocket Books, 1995

First edition. Octavo. 336 pp. Black cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, spine slightly cocked; unclipped jacket has minor edgewear. Signed by author and dated (7-20-95) by author on title page.
Inventory number #011169



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine


Price:
$125.00

Burke, Doreen Bolger
IN PURSUIT OF BEAUTY: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement
NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Rizzoli, 1986

Quarto. 511 pp; 426 illustrations, 94 in color; dictionary of architects, artisans, artists & manufacturers; extensive footnotes; selected bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Major exhibition on the American Aesthetic Movement, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Inventory number #011160



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Jacket: Fine


Price:
$125.00

Newbern, Thomas R.J. & James R. Melchor
Classical Norfolk Furniture: 1810 - 1840
Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing, 2004

Quarto. 128 pp; full of color & b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Glossy pictorial boards with matching dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new, unmarked copy. Featuring over 420 color photos, this book is a groundbreaking study of a major Southern furniture group not previously studied in depth. The most prominent Norfolk cabinetmaker during the first half of the 19th century was James Woodward. Other cabinetmakers during this period include John D. Ghiselin & Lewis Salusbury, Chester Sully, William M. Evans, Samuel Smith, Charles Beale, William C. Beale, Joseph Winslow, Theodorick Bland, William P. Saunders, William H. Barnes, Thomas F. Hatton, and others. The authors drew on the work of Ron Hurst through his extensive research for his MA thesis on Norfolk cabinetmakers.
Inventory number #011151



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None


Price:
$350.00


L'ARCHITECTE. Recueil mensuel de l'art architectural publie avec le concours de la Societe des Architectes Diplomes par le Gouvernement. Nouvelle serie. Septieme annee 1930
Paris: Editions Albert Levy, 1930

First edition. Quarto. 104 pp plus 72 plates of b/w photos & drawings, also b/w photos & plans in the text. Text in French, 1/4 leather binding with marbled boards, gilt spine lettering with rules. VG condition. Leather shows light wear & soiling. A clean, unmarked copy. Monthly Architectural art review published with the support of government licensed architects. New series for 1930. Large plates of everything from domestic to civic to recreational, interiors & exteriors. Handsome examples of art deco architecture.
Inventory number #011144



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$10.00


NEPTUNE August 1941
London: Continental Publishers, 1941

Tall octavo. 23 pp; b/w photos and illustrations. Paperback. VG- front and back covers with single library stamp. World War II written on top margin of cover in pen. else clean and bright.
Inventory number #011141



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$15.00


HEIDELBERG Ein Album mit den Schonsten Ansichten
Wiesbaden: V. Pallmann, n.d.

. ca. 1920s. Twelvemo. 10 accordion-fold photographic postcards in paper wraps. VG.
Inventory number #011140



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$15.00

Lovekin, Luther D.
Modern Expanding and Flanging Machinery and Tools
Philadelphia: Franklin Institute, 1904

Octavo. 31 pp; b/w plates and illustrations. Stapled paperback. VG- covers a little worn, small tear on back half of book that only affects the margins.
Inventory number #011134



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$15.00

MacAlpine, J.H.
ON CRANK SHAFTS
Washington, D.C.: Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, n.d.

n.d. (ca 1898). Octavo. pages 318-359 reprinted from the Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers Vol IX, No. 2. May, 1897; b/w charts, graphs and tables, 3 fold out tables. Paperback VG, light wear to spine ends, former owner name on top margin of front cover.
Inventory number #011133



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$15.00

Kent, Wm & J.E. Denton
CENTRIFUGAL PUMP TESTS
NY: Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, n.d.

(ca 1905) unpaginated (pps 547 through 563); b/w tables, 2 b/w plates. Paperback. VG, back cover corner folded, original owner name on top margin of cover. reprinted from the Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers Vol. XVI, No. 2., 1904.
Inventory number #011131



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$15.00

Dyson, Lieutenant Charles W.
SCREW PROPELLERS of US Naval Vessels
NY: Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, n.d.

(ca 1904) unpaginated (pps 281 through 349); b/w tables, charts, and graphs. Paperback. VG, back cover corner folded, original owner name on top margin of cover. reprinted from the Journal of the american Society of Naval Engineers Vol. XV, No. 2. May, 1903.
Inventory number #011130



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$15.00

Bryan, B.C.
PRACTICAL APPLICATION of Formulae for Finding the Turning Effort on the Crank Shaft of an Engine
NY: Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, n.d.

(ca 1895) unpaginated (pps 334 through 344); b/w tables and charts 3 fold-out tables. Paperback. VG, light wear and toning to covers, light chipping and closed tear to spine. reprinted from the Journal of the american Society of Naval Engineers Vol. VI, No. 2. 1894.
Inventory number #011129



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$50.00

Mitman, Carl W.
CATALOGUE of the Watercraft Collection in the United States National Museum
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1923

Octavo. 298 pp; illustrated with b/w photographs. Paperback, deckle edges and many uncut pages. VG small closed tear in middle of spine, covers separating from perfect bound spine a little.
Inventory number #011126



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$15.00

MacAlpine, J.H.
ON CRANK SHAFTS
Washington, D.C.: Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, n.d.

n.d. (ca 1898). Octavo. pages 482-524 reprinted from the Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers Vol IX, No. 3; b/w charts, graphs and tables, many folding. front cover missing top corner, some smudges to cover.
Inventory number #011124



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$25.00


WAR ALBUM OF VICTORY BATTLES
: General Mills Inc., 1945

Oblong octavo. 12 pp; illustrated with color stamps and b/w drawings. Stapled illustrated covers. VG. Foreword by Eddie Rickenbacker, WWI fighter ace and President of Eastern Airlines. Stamps in very nice condition
Inventory number #011121



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$25.00

Swann, W.F.G
THE NATURE OF COSMIC RAYS
Cambridge: Sky Publishing Corporation, 1945

Octavo. 30 pp; b/w illustrations. Stapled illustrated covers. VG to near fine. A very nice copy of this report from the director of the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute.
Inventory number #011118



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$25.00

Netherlands Information Bureau
HOLLAND CARRIES ON
NY: Netherlands Information Bureau, n.d.

n.d. (ca.1940) Quarto. 20 pp; b/w photographs and illustrations. Stapled orange paperback. Near fine. Illustrations by Louis Raemaekers. Wartime bulletin published by the Netherlands Information Bureau.
Inventory number #011112



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$35.00

Rykwert, Joseph & Anne
ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM: The Men and the Style
NY: Electa/Rizzoli, 1985

First American edition. Octavo. 223 pp; well illustrated with b/w & color illustrations; list of executed works; bibliography; index. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, light toning to edges of white covers.
Inventory number #011105



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine


Price:
$15.00

Castleden, Rodney
ATLANTIS DESTROYED
NY: Routledge, 2001

Octavo. 225 pp; maps and b/w photographs. Cloth with unclipped dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Inventory number #011103