The West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company was founded in Piedmont, West Virginia in 1889 and was known for its brilliant white paper. After WWII, the company turned to the production of packaging materials and a line of high-quality printing papers. Starting in 1958, to advertise the quality of its paper, Westvaco started producing a Christmas annual of […]
Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker, QUARK/[1-4]
An important and influential quarterly of Speculative Fiction edited by Samuel Delany and his then wife, the poet Marilyn Hacker in 1970 and 1971, complete in all 4 published volumes. “The editors have tried to display the finest work of both new and established authors, whatever it’s imaginative substance, structure or texture.” Delany, Samuel and Marilyn Hacker, QUARK/1, […]
A. J. Villiers, Falmouth For Orders
Villers, A[lan] J[ohn], Falmouth For Orders, The Story of the last Clipper Ship Race around Cape Horn. London, Geoffrey Bles, nd [c. 1930], [xxiv] 232p, 4to, 7 ½ “ x 10”. Blue cloth over boards, gold stamped spine and front cover title. Good, sun fading on spine and front cover, light foxing on fore edge, front hinge just […]
Erle Stanley Gardner, The Desert is Yours
Gardner, Erle Stanley, The Desert is Yours, William Morrow, New York, 1963, [1]-256 pages, 9 ½” x 6”, brown cloth covered boards, black stamped spine title and cactus on front cover. First Edition, very fine in very fine dust jacket. A spirited account of adventure in the present-day American desert by the famous mystery writer. $60
Robert Silverberg, Mound Builders of Ancient America
Silverberg, Robert, Mound Builders of Ancient America, Greenwich, New York Graphic Society, [1968]. [xii], [1]-369 pages, 10 ¼ “ x 7 “, red cloth-covered boards. First Edition, a good to very good copy in a dust jacket that has seen better days. Silverberg’s focus is not so much on the Mound builder but rather on the effect of […]
Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, Pearl Harbor
Wallin, Vice Admiral Homer W., USN (Retired), PearlHarbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage andFinal Appraisal, with a Foreward by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller, USN, Director of Naval History. Washington, Naval History Divison, 1968. [xv], [1]-377, 10” x 7”. Blue cloth over boards, gold stamped titles and Navy seal, no dj as issued. Fine, first edition. The official Navy […]
Clayton R. Koppes, JPL and the American Space Program
Koppes, Clayton R., JPL and the American Space Program, A History of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, New Haven, Yale University Press, [1982]. [xiii], 1-299. 9 ½” x 6”. First Edition, First Printing, yellow cloth covered boards. Fine but lacking dust jacket. 10 pages of black and white photographs and one in color. A history of JPL from its […]
Wolfgang Finkelnburg, Atomic Physics
Finkelnburg, Wolfgang, Atomic Physics. , New York, McGraw-Hill, 1950, [x] 1-498 pages. Green cloth covered boards in dust jacket. 9.25” x 6”. First American edition, fine is a very good but slightly faded dust jacket, 2 previous owner stamps on front end paper. Finkelnburg did post-doctoral research at Cal Tech in the 1930s before returning to Germany and […]
R.W. Symonds English Furniture from Charles II to George II
Symonds, R. W., English Furniture from Charles II toGeorge II, New York, International Studio, Inc., 1929. [xx],[1-2], 3-322 pages. Blue cloth-covered boards, gold stamp lettering on the front cover and spine. Large folio, 10 “x 14”. “American Edition limited to 500 copies of which this is No. 391.” “With more than 260 illustrations from examples in the Collection […]
Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American
Sack, Albert, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American. New York, Crown Publishers, 1950. [xvi], 303 pages. 10”x 7 ½ “. Cloth covered boards. Fine without a dust jacket. First edition, signed by the author and with a presentation signed by the author’s father who wrote the introduction to the book. Everything you ever wanted to know about early […]