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New York: Simon and Schuster, (1973). Third printing, this copy inscribed & signed in ink by Arnold Palmer at the second blank page. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), 252 pages, illustrated. Publisher's white cloth lettered in black on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Previous owner's small name & address label at the front pastedown, unobtrusive brief stain at the front edge of the text block, otherwise near fine in dust jacket light edge wear, a small stain at the top of the front fold, & creasing at the flaps, still about very good.
Arnold Palmer (1929 - 2016) was the winner of 29 PGA Tour events including 7 major championships. As noted by Jack Nicklaus, "Arnold transcended the game of golf. He was more than a golfer or even great golfer. He was an icon. He was a legend. Arnold was someone who was a pioneer in his sport. He took the game from one level to a higher level, virtually by himself."

Four octavo volumes varying in size, pagination & date of publication, all first editions, illustrated throughout, the first three ex-library in library bindings, one in dust jacket.
Incudes:Vol I: 1741-1850. New York: Appleton, 1930;
Vol II: 1850-1865; Cambridge: Harvard, 1938;
Vol III: 1865-1885. Cambridge: Harvard, 1938;
Vol IV: 1885-1905. Cambridge: Harvard, 1957.
Volumes I, II & III display typical library markings including card pockets in two volumes. Volume four is in the original binding & price-clipped dust jacket which is faded at the spine, exhibits modest edge wear, & has a gift inscription at the front pastedown, withal, a useful set of an important treatise.
The author was professor of English & director of the school of journalism at the University of Iowa & thereafter Dean of the University of Missouri. Volumes II & IIi of this important set won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History. A fifth volume was published posthumously in 1968 & is not included in this group.
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New York: Bell Publisihing Company, (1967) "Revised Edition." Quarto (10.25" x 7.5"), 128 pages, including 175 illustrations from photographs. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in black on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Very slight edge wear, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket.
As described by the New York Times, Peter Gowland (1916 - 2010), was "America's No. 1 Pin-up Photographer."
"In this edition, the author describes his latest techniques, refinements of his older techniques, and the use of newly developed equipment. Most important, of course, are the hundreds of Gowland photographs, most of them appearing in this new edition for the first time - portraits, action shots, pinups, nudes - every kind and type of female photography …" 
~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

New York: Harmony Books, (1984). First edition. Tall quarto, (12.25" x 9.5"), ix & 181 pages, profusely illustrated (often in color). Publisher's pink cloth lettered in plum on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
"The Illustrated History of Girlie Magazines presents three hundred of the most sizzling and provocative, full color and black and white pictures of girls, girls, girls, ever published. Culled from the archives of Penthouse, Hustler, Oui and scores of other magazines, here are the sensual bodies of Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Jayne Mansfield, Betty Page, and hundreds of anonymous nymphs." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

New York: GP Putnam's Sons, 1920. First edition. 8vo, 240 pp. including 82 illustrations from photographs. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth with a mounted half tone illustration depicting a golfer who has just completed his swing on the upper cover. Donovan & Murdoch/ Game of Golf & the Printed Word, 15530.
Binding lightly rubbed & soiled, upper cover a bit splayed, faint stain briefly affecting the upper margin (diminishing through p. 45), occasional minor foxing, previous owner's name in pencil at ffep, good or better.
As co-author Elon Jessup, then associate editor of Outing magazine, writes in the Foreword: "There may be golfers who can make a better score on the links than John Duncan Dunn, but I am thoroughly convinced that there is not a living man who knows more about golf and how to teach it."

Paris: Payot, 1927 First edition 8vo, 234 pp & xxxii plates. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps Text in French. Wraps toned & soiled, edge wear including small losses & tears, modest foxing, one leaf roughly opened causing loss in the margin (not affecting text), otherwise good or better.The author was on the staff of Cabinet des Medailles of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France & led the department from 1937 to 1961.

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., (1907). Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, (1907) "Revised and enlarged edition" Duodecimo (725" x 525"), xviii & 300 pages plus 5 leaves of plates providing 135 mounted color paint chips, with numerous illustrations in text Publisher's white cloth, elaborately lettered & decorated in blueCovers lightly soiled, slight wear at spine extremities & corners, text a bit toned, easily Very Good or betterAs noted in the preface, Mrs Monachesi bases her instructional treatise on "many years of observation and experience" & further describes the book as "especially designed for those who have had but little, if any, previous knowledge of the subject, but who desire practical information and reliable instruction; and in pointing out the common errors of the past, I have but made an effort to indicate how they may be avoided in the future"

Baltimore, Maryland: Southern Methodist Book Depository, 1888. First edition. 8vo, [4], [1] - 101, [7] pp. Original printed paper wraps, sewn, LACKING lower wrap. Not found in OCLC as of 7/5/2022. Worn: Lower wrap lacking, soiled, edge wear, spine partially perished, occasional annotations, still a useful copy. Includes memoirs of various departed reverends & interesting illustrated advertisements following text.

Leipzig: Weidmann, 1820. 8vo (8.5" x 5.25"), XXII & 594 pages, with engraved frontis portrait by W. Bauer. Later 19th century half maroon pebbled morocco & marbled paper over boards, the spine lettered & decorated in gilt. All edges marbled, text in Latin & partially Greek. Binding moderately rubbed & scuffed, previous owner's name in ink at the first blank page, light foxing & toning, otherwise Very Good. Please note, we are offering the first two parts (of five) only.

London: Sands & Co, 1901. 24mo, 104 pp, occasional illustrations. Publishers green cloth lettered & decorated in gilt & red. Binding worn: rubbed, scuffed, & spotted, brief fraying at spine extremities & corners, front hinge & page 81 cracked, sporadic foxing, otherwise good or so. A title in the Burleigh Pocket Series by the author of over 50 books on card games, dice, chess, & dominoes.

Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, (1996). Second printing. 4to (11.5" x 8.75"), xx & 948 pages, illustrated in color & black & white. Publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Couple of minute bruises at the top edge of the rear cover, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket with just a hint of edge wear.
An exhaustive, well-illustrated account. Contents include: Early Relief and Intaglio Techniques: Northern Printmakers before Durer; Durer and Other Sixteenth-Century Northern Artists; Italian Renaissance Prints; Etching in the Seventeenth Century; Reproductive Printmaking and Related Developments from the Later Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Century; Original Etching and Engraving in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; The Print and Socio-Political Reform: Hogarth and His Heirs and Goya; -- Lithography in the Nineteenth Century; The Nineteenth Century: The Etching Revival and New Technical Approaches; The German Expressionists and Related Artists;… Leer más

Kyoto, Japan: Uchida Art Co., Kyoto Handicraft Center, no date (ca. 1970). Single sheet measuring 55 inches by 6.75 inches accordion-folded into decorated paper over boards measuring 7 inches by 5.25 inches, with a printed paper label on the upper cover. Provides 2 pages of text in Japanese & English & 18 woodblock prints in various states tipped to decorated light card stock.
Margins slight sunned, hint of creasing at a couple of illustrations, otherwise near fine.
Presents a series of nine steps demonstating the process of woodblock printing with each step accompanied by 2 plates.
"The Japanese Woodblock print is the representative traditional handicraft work which was nursed in beautiful natural features and is gentely (sic) expressed in delicated (sic) and graceful Japanese constitution ..." ~Excerpted from the text.

New York: Prof. Rohrer's Institute of Beauty Culture, (1924). First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), 80 pages, illustrated throughout (some in color). Publisher's gray cloth-patterned paper over boards backed in maroon paper, lettered & decorated in gilt.
Binding moderately rubbed & soiled, stain in the margin from the front pastedown diminishing through page 7 (not affecting text), otherwise good or better.
A splendid treatise presenting the history & techniques of hairdressing. Includes 5 pages of advertisements & 2 unused pages for "Memoranda."
A portrait of Rohrer following the table of contents presents his credentials, apparently supplied by himself:
"World Famed Beauty Culture Teacher and Authority, Licensed Podiatrist, Registered by the State of New York. Member of the New York Ladies' Hairdressers Association, Member of the National Hairdressers Association."

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Rulon-Miller Books, 2011 First trade edition, one of 400 unnumbered copies from a total print run of 450 (which includes 50 "special" copies), this copy inscribed, signed & dated by Rulon-Miller & signed by Schanilec & Kelly. 8vo, [7], 134, & [1] pp, illustrated. Publisher's midnight blue cloth with printed paper label on the spine. Laid in, although not called for, is an octavo wood engraving in color depicting New York's White Horse Tavern, number 184 of 200 signed by Schanilec (Rulon-Miller/ Quarter to Midnight C-41 K)
A fine & apparently unread copy

New York: Amphoto, (1971). First edition. Oblong octavo (7.25" x 8.75"), 151 & [5] pages, profusely illustrated. Publisher's red cloth lettered in white on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Binding slightly spotted, small stain & minor foxing affecting front pastedown, ffep, & half title page, otherwise very good in corner clipped dust jacket (price intact), soiled, toned, rubbed, with edge wear including nicks & small losses, still good or better.
William "Bill" Jay, himself a photographer, presents a history of the nude as a subject for the camera from the earliest days of the genre through 1970. Profusely & delightfully illustrated, the models, with few exceptions, are beautiful young women in a variety of circumstances. Photographers represented include Sam Haskins, Wojciech Plewinski, Mario Giacomelli, Weegee, Wynn Bullock, Lucien Clergue, & numerous others.

Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library, 1975. Complete in two volumes. First editions. Small folios, [10], 598, 57; [8], 630 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, the upper covers decorated with the Seal of Virginia.
Brief wear at spine extremities (including a couple of nicks), lightly rubbed & spotted, otherwise very good.
Volume one provides holdings by author & title, volume two by subject.

New York: Wm. A. Pond, (1864). First edition. Small oblong quarto (6.75" x 10"), 79 & [1] pages. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps.
Small losses at the spine, wraps soiled, modest edge wear, previous owner's signature in ink at the left side of the front cover (possibly A.H. Douglas who sold musical instruments in New Jersey), occasional foxing, last leaf with 1.25 inch tear at the top edge affecting text but without loss, a Good or better copy.
Septimus Winner (1827 – 1905) was an American composer, teacher, performer, & music publisher. He wrote over 200 songs including "Listen to the Mocking Bird" & "Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone." Winner also wrote some 200 instruction method books for over twenty-three instruments.
The front cover features a stunning graphic depicting musical instruments. Quite uncommon, OCLC finds 9 copies only as of 10/8/2023 (accession number 14059335).