Libros raros de Iron Engine

New York: George Braziller, 1967. First Edition. hardcover. Good./Good.. 305 p. including an Index. Illustrated. With Errata slip. Signed/Inscribed on the front-free endpaper by the author "To Elizabeth Rickey from her brother -- George." Cloth book has a bump on the spine, and some sunning at some of the edges. Dust jacket has numerous small edge tears and chipping at the bottom of the spine, and on the bottom edge of the rear panel.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1970. Paperback. Good.. Softcover. Fourth printing. Some rubbing to covers, surface crack on spine. This copy Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Large, square, cloth hardcover book. 220 pages. Illustrated throughout with black & white and color photography. Several larger fold-out photographs. Tipped-in plate. Also includes a Biographical outline; a chronologies of Major Sculpture Commissions, One-Man Exhibitions and Major Catalogs, and Selected Group Exhibitions and Catalogs; Works In Pulic Collections;Selected Bibliography; Films and Taped Interviews; and an Index. This copy inscribed/signed by George Rickey to his sister Emily.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/near fine. This copy signed/inscribed by Simic on the front-free end paper. Hardcover book has slightly yellowing pages; lower fore-edge corners are lightly bumped.

Hong Kong: Plum Blossoms (International), Ltd., 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Cloth hardcover with dust jacket. 89 pages. Color plates. Text in English. This copy signed and dated by the artist Hong Zhu An on the title page. Published to accompany an exhibition of paintings by Hong Zhu An at Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong, from 12 December to 27 December 2003. Includes a Chronology. Includes the essays "[Hong Zhu An]: Poetic Compositions of Nature. The Rhythm and Pulse of Brush" by Tan Hwee Koon (5pgs.); "Hong Zhu An's Geneology of Line" by Iola Lenzi (3pgs.); and "The Colour of Memory: Hong Zhu An and New Chinese Brush Painting" (2pgs.) by W.Y. Choy. Dust jacket has some light wear, small tears at the top of the spine.

Portland, Oregon: Nazraeli Press, 2007. First printing. Half-Leather. Fine. # 64 of a signed, numbered Limited Edition of 250 copies. Fine in Fine cloth covered slipcase.

# 140 of 333 numbered copies signed by the author. First printing. Blue cloth with top edge gilt. Jacket has some foxing on the spine; chip at bottom edge of the front panel and tears at bottom of the spine. Slipcase has some sunning and a few scuffs.

All the maps, engravings and chromo-lithographs are present. A few have small edge tears, one map has creasing at a corner. prior owner bookplate on the front paste-down end paper; prior owner ink stamp on the front-free end paper, the rear end papers and on the back sides of several of the fold-out maps and illustrations. Wear at the corners and spine ends. Some foxing along the top edge of a half dozen pages or so and a touch spine faded.

Orignal 1927 softcover auction catalog bound in decorative hardcover binding with silk covered boards. Housed in custom made box. Fine condition binding with decorative end papers. The original catalog itself shows edge wear, has a prior owner name in pencil on the front end paper, and also in pencil the prior owner has noted the auction prices realized in the margins. Black & white photographic plates. Frank Lloyd Wright authored the five page introduction.

Half leather binding, marbled end papers. 996 pages including fold-out family tree, color United States map, Index, Index of Sires, Appendix of 10 Race Winners (trotters winning at least ten races).

University of Chicago Press; 1992. Translated by David Pellauer. First U.S. printing. Fine condition cloth hardcover book in a Fine condition dust jacket. 583 pages including an Index.