[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: REFERENCE, &c: NEW ARRIVALS

Norman Kane nkane at kanebooks.com
Tue Apr 13 20:41:27 EDT 2010


The following are all in very good or better condition unless otherwise described; trade discount available:

GUTHRIE, JAMES, editor.    THE BOOK CRAFTSMAN NUMBER 2.    Flansham, Bognor Regis, Spring, 1935.  Thin 4to, original heavy wrappers.  Illus. 
(Wood engraving from a printer's standpoint, Adventures in Canada, &c.)   $90.00

CATEL, JEAN.   WALT WHITMAN, NAISSANCE DU POETE.  Paris: Rieder, 1929.  First edition.  Original printed wrappers, just slight wear,  lightly toned, portrait.  482, [2] pages. Small note on last page.  Uncommon.  $75.00

SWEENEY, ROBERT L.   FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.  FOREWORD BY ADOLF K. PLACZEK. L. A.: Hennessey & 
Ingalls, 1978.  Original cloth, in dust wrapper. SIGNED inscription by Sweeney on title page. xliv, [2], 303 pages.  $60.00

SHEFFER, HENRY M.   THE GENERAL THEORY OF NOTATIONAL RELATIVITY.  Cambridge, Mass., 1921.  4to, 34 leaves plus diagrams  mimeod on 
rectos only, held together with large paperclip, some wear.(Distinguished and very influential Harvard logician.  It is clear that Sheffer labored over this work, making very many additions, &c, on the ms. before it was printed.)  $250.00

NOLLEKENS AND HIS TIMES AND MEMOIRS OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FROM THE TIME OF RUBILIAC, HOGARTH AND REYNOLDS TO THAT OF FUSELI, FLAXMAN AND BLAKE.  BY JOHN THOMAS SMITH  . . . EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY WILFRED WHITTEN WITH 85 ILLUSTRATIONS, IN 2 VOLUMES.  London & N. Y.: John Lane, 1920.  Large 8vos, original cloth, with "Review" blindstamp.  (Joseph Nollekens was a highly successful British sculptor of the late 18th Century, and a founder of the Royal Academy.)  $80.00

WELSH, CHAS.  A BOOKSELLER OF THE LAST CENTURY . . . THE LIFE OF JOHN NEWBERY, AND OF THE BOOKS HE PUBLISHED, WITH A NOTICE OF 
THE LATER NEWBERYS.  London: Griffith, &c; N. Y.: Dutton, 1885. First edition.  
Cloth-backed boards, light wear, label rubbed, local club label on end paper & stamp on p. vii.  xi, [1], 373 pages.  Illus.  Index.  $75.00

(Trade discount available)


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