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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Webster Manufacturing 1906 equipment catalog


Webster Manufacturing 1906 equipment catalog
Elevating Conveying and Power Transmitting Machinery
Clothbound hardcover illustrated throughout in black and white 574 pages, light soiling to page edges
$295

Friday, March 5, 2010

Signed Maurice Sendak A Kiss For Little Bear


Maurice Sendak two different signed copies of A Kiss for Little Bear
The one with a secondary inscription is $325, the one with just the signature to the title page is $350.
We also have other signed Sendak material
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The Money Illusion by Irving Fisher 1928 Adelphi


The Money Illusion by Irving Fisher

1928 Adelphi first edition in lightly chipped jacket. Shows light age toning.  Tight and unmarked.  In economics, money illusion refers to the tendency of people to think of currency in nominal, rather than real, terms.  The term was coined by John Maynard Keynes in the early twentieth century, and the Irving Fisher 1928 book, The Money Illusion, is one of the most important works on the subject.
$1000

A Way of Seeing Signed by Helen Levitt


Signed 1981 limited edition in slipcase #197 of 250 signed by the photographer clean tight and unmarked 68 photographs introduction by James Agee
$2,450
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The Lady Is Cold inscribed by EB White


Author inscribed and signed 1929 Harpers first edition C-D printing.  Inscribed as follows "" For B.A. and Mrs. Adams with love.   EBW  (slip of paper taped to flyleaf which states ""Bristol Adams taught journalizm in the Agriculture School at Cornell University").    No jacket minute corner bump, light age tone, tight binding. small tape residue front pastedown ( from info slip re Adams on flyleaf )
$2,450
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Dante's Inferno Longfellow 1867 Ticknor & Fields


1867 Ticknor & Fields Longfellow translations of Dante Aligheiri's Inferno composed of three volumes Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. In very good condition with chamfered edges.

$2,700
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Dwight D. Eisenhower signed limited edition of Waging Peace


Waging Peace, 1956-1961; The White House Years
Author signed limited edition # 948 of 1434 signed copies.  As issued in original mylar jacket and slipcase.  Fine all the way around, as nice a copy as we have ever seen.
$1,995
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