Second Printing. "The first well-grounded, thoroughly researched, conscientiously documented study of the Bowie knife"—dust jacket. 512 pages. 9-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches. Extensively illustrated in color. Second printing. A fine hardcover copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200
Later printing. "The authorized history of Bo Randall and his blades"—dust jacket. 292 pages. Illustrated from black-and-white photographs. Now out of print. Seventh printing. A fine hardcover copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $250
First Edition. Covers SOG, Randall, Gerber, John Ek, and other knives. 139 pages. Full color. First edition (first printing stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $150
First Edition. Covers knives from 1937 to 2006. Illustrated in full color. 252 pages. First edition (first printing stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. With the errata sheet.
Price: $300
First Edition. Illustrated in full color, with more than 1000 illustrations. 649 pages. 10-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches. This is one of 399 copies, signed by the author and issued in a printed box. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. In a near fine box, bumped.....
Price: $200
First Edition. 285 pages. 9-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $40
First Edition. 398 pages. 7-1/4 by 10-1/2 inches. A monograph of tsuba, the guards on Japanese swords. The book includes 20 full-page color plate, each protected with a tissue guard, and 298 black-and-white photographs, most two to a page. The captions are in Japanese only. The remainder of the book, about.....
Price: $150
92 pages. Folding plate. 4-1/2 by 6-1/4 inches. Small format facsimile of a book published in 1694. Very good, slight spine slant. Bookplate of horology expert Charles Aked and bookstore label inside. Clean hardcover copy; no jacket probably as issued.
Price: $40
189 pages. 8 by 11-1/4 inches. Furtwanger Beiträge zur Uhrengeschichte, neue Folge, Band 3. Exhibition catalog of rare German clock books. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs of title pages and representative plates. With bibliographic information and one or two paragraphs of description. Text in German. Uncommon. First edition (first printing). Near.....
Price: $50
First Edition. xvi, 640 pages. With more than 250 illustrations and diagrams in the text. A watch repair and servicing handbook. Text in German. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a contemporary cloth and marbled paper binding. Spine somewhat faded.
Price: $125
First Edition. xxxii, 252, [4] pages. with 3,000 definitions and 1,100 illustrations by E. A. Ayres. A useful reference, with more than thirty pages of ads for 1950s watch and clock makers and dealers. First edition (first printing). Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $30
582 pages. A very technical book on watchmaking, in French. Part of the Encyclopèdie de Mecanique Appliquée. Andrade published several related books in the early 20th century; this appears to be a combination of several earlier titles into one text. Pages tanned; very good in a later green pebbled cloth.....
Price: $50
First Edition. 9 by 11-1/2 inches. "With over fifty plates taken from photographs of the finest specimens." Privately printed in an edition of 300 copies on handmade paper, with most of the illustrations printed separately and tipped in. A classic English clockbook, printed by Hilary Pepler at Ditchling, an intentional.....
Price: $300
87 pages. 8-1/4 by 12 inches. Illustrated with 50 black-and-white and two color photographs. A detailed monograph on a single clock on a very decorative base. Limited to 300 copies. A fine copy in red cloth, no dust jacket. While the limitation is stated as 300 copies, this example has.....
Price: $40
First Edition. Text in French and German. Several dozen watches are illustrated with color photographs. Ditisheim was the best maker of chronometers in the early 20th century and made important advances to account for atmospheric pressure and magnetic fields on timekeeping. 134 pages. 9-7/8 by 12-1/4 inches. Fine in illustrated boards.....
Price: $125
A facsimile of a much sought-after clock book, illustrated with 50 black-and-white plates. Limited to 100 copies. 89 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. Fine binding, in blue leatherette. Preliminaries foxed. This is copy 3 of 100. It is inscribed, "To my very good friend Paul who introduced me to A.H.S......
Price: $150
