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London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1937. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. xvi,350pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt spine titles. Essentially a fine copy with only the trace of wear along the edges and the gilt bright. In dustwrapper, unclipped and with the original price of 12s. 6d. The dustwrapper has only..... More
n.p. The Turkey Press, (1984). Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. Unpaginated. Thin 8vo. Perinted blue self-wrappers over card. One of 175 copies, from a total edition of 215 copies. Set in 12 pt. Goudy and printed by Sandra Liddell Reese. A fine copy. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1965. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xi,263,(1)pp. Red cloth, spine in gilt and black. Frontispiece portrait. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has a trace of darkening else is fine and is not price-clipped. The third, and last volume, of the Memoirs of the Owen Family..... More
Friday Harbor, WA: Coppervale Press, 1998. Illustrated by the author. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. One volume with a portfolio and slipcase. Illustrated throughout. Introduction by Neil Gaiman. Faux blue-green leather with end papers of a matching hue. Ribbon marker. Gilt vignettes on the book and case, gilt title on the..... More
New York, et al: Th A. N. Palmer Co., n.d. Stiff card. A complete set of fifteen cards, 8 by 17 inches, printed in black with letters and numbers in white showing the capital and lower case alphabet, numbers and symbols in the Palmer handwriting method. These cards were..... More
n.p. (China): n.p., n.d. (1940's?). Red paper approximately 6 x 10 inches intricately cut in the shape of a fan, with two cats on stones under bamboo on one side, and flowering plants with a butterfly on the other. A fine example of this art, with no defects noted, in..... More
Guadalajara: La Aurora, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 219,(5)pp. Publisher's purple cloth, spine with gilt title and rules, boards blocked in blind. Decorated endpapers. Cloth sunned to tan at edges and on spine else a very good copy. Inscribed by the author on the copyright page to Sr & Sra..... More
New York: Philosophical Library, (1979). Hardcover. 8vo. xi,(3),393pp. Green cloth, gilt spine titles. Frontispiece portrait; map endpapers and frontispiece map of Shanghai 1861-1863. Ownership blindstamp on title page, a stray ink mark on the margin of page vi, else this is a very good copy. The dustwrapper is now price-clipped;..... More
Madrid: Manuel Minuesa de los Rios, 1878. First edition. Very good. 8vo. (viii),244pp. Large folding map in rear: Mapa Interior del Maestrazgo y Provincias Limitrofes. Original printed wraps, cloth spine. Closed marginal tear to map (not affecting image) has been artfully repaired; wraps lightly soiled, occasional light foxing, and worn..... More
London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, (1745). Hardcover. Folio. An extract of pp. 743-755 of Vol. IV of the third edition of Churchill's Voyages. Also included are pp. 756-776: 'A Journey of John Baptist Merin To the Mines of Hungary' and 'An Account of the Cape of Good Hope' by..... More
Yellow Springs, Ohio: Kahoe & Company, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. One of 25 numbered copies. Thin 12mo. (5 by 8 inches.) Cream-colored cloth spine, printed lettering label, brown paper with flecks of dark and gold over boards. Title page in red and black. Unpaginated (32pp.) A fine copy with only..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, n.d. Hardcover. Red cloth blocked in white on the spine and upper board. 224pp. Frontispiece photograph of a collection of Christmas seals from 1907 to 1927. The author was the originator of the Red Cross Christmas Seal in 1907, and pp. 217-224 reprint an article..... More
n.p. Xerox, 1963. Leaf. Single sheet of tan paper, 8-1/2m by 11 inches, bearing a xerox image of the Picasso Eagle he drew in 1954 for the Xerox Corporation. It was used at Xerox in 1963 in order to advertise their model 914 - which was the worlds first plain..... More
n.p. (Seattle): n.p., c. 1979. Broadside. Broadside, approximately 18 by 23 inches. Serigraph in seven colors (light green, dark green, dark blue, black, gray, dark yellow and light yellow) featuring vegetables framed on the left and right with salmon. Issued to commemorate the eighth annual Pike Place Market Street Fair..... More
Valencia: F. Sempere y Compañía, n.d. (1905). First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Preface by Anselmo Lorenzo. (228)pp plus publisher's catalog. Contemporary sprinkled sheep, leather lettering label, gilt. Decorative endpapers. In Spanish. Paper browned and stained with age, label chipped, else a very good copy. Early socialist treatise by the famed..... More
np: (not published), 1960. Stiff card wraps. Unpublished (so far as we can tell) typescript. 8½ by 11 inches, punched into a card binder. 289 pages many of which contain corrections in the author's hand. Laid-in is a letter from the author to Ernest Grant discussing his corrections and enclosing..... More
Guadalajara: Ing. Francisco Garibi Velasco, 1975. First edition, first printing. Wraps. Bi-monthly periodical, this one dated February 12, 1975, Año 4, No.. 19, Segunda Epoca. Printed wraps. Nearly the entire issue is a facsimile of the 1756 Mexican imprint: "Maravilla Americana y Coniunto de Raras Maravillas, Observadas Con la diceccion..... More
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869. Hardcover. 8vo. 107pp. purple textured cloth with the title and a vignette on the upper board in gilt. Fourteen plates. Spine sunned, plate edges have some foxing, else this is a very good, bright copy. More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. xvi,(2),755pp. plus fold out reference pages. Folding map frontispiece. Recent binding of quarter leather, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather lettering label, gilt; buckram sides. Library stamp on title page, one of the folding charts with marginal worming (no..... More
North Hills, PA. Bird & Bull Press, 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. 13 pages plus catalogue facsimile in pocket at rear board. Cloth spine with marbled paper boards. Typical slight discoloration in gutters which continues into text, but fades as it gets away from boards, appears to..... More
New York: John Wiley & Son, 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. 45pp followed by publisher's catalog. Brown cloth embossed in blind on the boards and in gilt on the spine and upper board. Neat ownership name dated 1872 on the front free endpaper, else a near fine copy. More
Portland, Maine: The Mosher Press, 1931. First edition. Very good. Thin 9vo. Gray paper over boards printed in black on the spine and upper board. vi, (2,102)pp. Light wear and aging to the edges and corners else very good copy. The dustwrapper is present. I is a little rough along..... More
Granada: Imp. a cargo de J. G. Garrido, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 302 (ii)pp. Original quarter leather, gilt spine title and simple bands, green textured paper boards. Marbled end papers. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Old library stamp on the reverse of the title, circular stain on spine..... More
London: Putnam, 1934. Illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,(2),213,(1)pp. followed by a glossary of slang used by showmen. Red clothe, gilt spine title. Color frontispiece and black and white illustrations, mostly full page, throughout the text. Ownership name and address stamp on the front free..... More
