Hollywood: Walt Disney Enterprises, (1936). First edition. Thin folio (10 by 12½ inches). 10pp. printed on stiff card with a 'linen-like' finish, and in full color, staple-bound. Shows a Christmas party at Mickey's: a long-beaked Donald gets a horn; scarce character Horace Horsecollar gets a new collar; Goofy a cuckoo..... More
NY: Blue Ribbon, (1933). First edition. Hardcover. Pictorial paper boards. Four large, colorful pop-ups. Full color endpapers. Text illustrations in black and cream. Original colorfully printed boards. The four large pop-ups are in fine condition. There is some age-browning to the boards, and both corners are bumped, but this is..... More
NY: Blue Ribbon Books, (1933). First edition. Hardcover. Glazed pictorial boards printed in color. Pictorial endpapers in color. Four fabulous and detailed double-page pop-up scenes, plus full and partial page black & white illustrations throughout. Aside from two tiny stains at the edges of the upper board, and a bit..... More
NY: Blue Ribbon Books, (1933). First edition. Fine. Glazed pictorial boards printed in color. Pictorial endpapers in color. Four fabulous and detailed double-page pop-up scenes, plus full and partial page black & white illustrations throughout. The boards are ever so lightly soiled else this is a fine copy with fine..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Unpaginated. Blue cloth printed in dark blue. Spine sunned, light wear to corners and edges else a very good copy. No dustwrapper. Signed on the title page by the Disney animator/authors, both from the golden age of..... More
New York: Published by J. Disturnell, 1858. Hardcover. 12mo. 298,[26]pp. with fifteen plates, maps and full-page illustrations, including the large folding map. Publisher's embossed cloth, blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Yellow endpapers. Spine tips worn and light wear to the edges and corners but a very..... More
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1867. Hardcover. Fifth edition, Revised. Two volumes. Illustrated with cuts based on photographs. Full contemporary tan calf. Spines in six compartments with raised bands, gilt, and black lettering labels, gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers in a non-pareil pattern. Some of the tissues guards for the illustrations..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. lvi,448pp. 18 plates and a large folding map. Rust colored cloth in a sand-grain patters, gilt spine title, gilt vignette on the upper board. Brown coated endpapers. Inner henges cracked, the rear with an old tape reinforcement; the map..... More
London: T. Rickaby for S & E Harding, 1795. Hardcover. 12mo. 119,(1)pp. Contemporary full marbled calf, boards and spine tooled in gilt, black lettering label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with engraved vignettes by Harding. Hinges and corners neatly mended else a very good copy. The first part, "A Letter from..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964-1986. First edition. Eight volumes. Large 8vo. Turquoise colored cloth, gilt spine titles. Complete. Covers the period 1820-1840. Two indices. A fine set, and the only set to date that collects the writings of the son of President John Quincy Adams. More
Philadelphia: J. & T. Doughty, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Volume I. 4to. vii,[1],298,[2];pp., plus 24 hand-colored lithographic plates, and uncolored engraved portrait of Charles Willson Peale. Engraved title page. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked to style in matching leather, and with the original spine laid-in. Text is brown and..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940. With Illustrations by Howard Willard. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,(2),337pp. Beige colored buckram, spine printed in dark red. Map endpapers. Black and white illustrations in text. Light aging else a near fine copy. Signed by the author on a preliminary..... More
Philadelphia: Published byT.K. Greenbank, 1834. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. xii, 263pp. Illustrated. Publisher's original temporary binding of drab cloth, printed paper label. Label nearly perished, hinges neatly repaired, text block somewhat foxed as is typical for this period; a good copy in original binding. With the signature of G. C...... More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1981. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. xv,(1),(321,1)pp. Deep maroon color cloth, gilt spine title, gilt device on upper board. A fine copy. Dustwrapper has slight wear along the top else is fine as well. Bookseller label on rear fold. Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. A Descriptive Catalogue by..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, (1934). Illustrations by Montfort Amory. First edition. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 124pp. Red cloth printed in black on the spine and with a full color paste-on on the upper board. Totally unsophisticated with light wear to the cloth, especially corners and spine tips; a small stain on..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, (1934). Illustrations by Montfort Amory. First edition. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 124pp. Red cloth printed in black on the spine and with a full color paste-on on the upper board. Corners and spine tips worn, light scratch on rear board, small piece missing at bottom of p...... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1859. First US edition. Hardcover. 5 Volumes, large 8vos. Bindings of textured brown cloth embossed in b blind on the boards and spines. and with gilt titles on the spines,. Chocolate-colored coated endpapers. Publisher's catalogue dated March, 1859, bound in the front of volume 1..... More
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1691. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. (14),51,(1)pp. The half-title is present with its advertisement on the reverse. Also present are the Prologue and the Epilogue. The earliest copies lack these leaves, but an unsigned leaf was inserted after A4 headed "Prologue to the OPERA, Spoken by..... More
Paris: Apud Michaelem Le Petit & Stephanum Michallet, 1670. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (12),554 pp. plus 16pp. index, royal privilege and errata. Modern full calf; spine in six compartments tooled in blind; red leather lettering label; boards tooled in blind as well; marbled endpapers. A very good copy, with a...... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1898. First edition. Oblong folio. 95pp. Deep green cloth spine blocked in orange and gilt with the title and a representastion of excalibur; green paper bpards also blocked in orange and gilt. All edged gilt. Illustrated. Trace of sunning to the board papers else this..... More
London: Printed for Henry Twyford, 1676. First edition. Hardcover. Small folio. (8),(10)pp., including the license leaf. Contemporary plain untitled full leather binding; spine in 5 compartments with raised bands. Decorative woodcut initials and headpiece; index (Table) at rear. Leather somewhat scuffed and lightly worn at the edges else this is..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. FIrst state, with the author's name misspelled on the front board. Gray cloth blocked in black, silver and gold. Light wear to the hinges and rubbing to the gilt else a very good copy. The cover design is..... More
Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, (1941). Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Unpaginated. Natural linen cloth, the title printed in black on the upper board. Finely printed on Georgian paper by Harry Duncan, Katherine Frazier & Jane Ward, the staff of the Cummington Press. One of three hundred numbered copies; this is..... More
Edinurgh: W. H. Lizars, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 206pp. Contemporary full red leather, gilt spine title, boards embossed in blind, gilt inner dentelles, yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Billed as having 33 plates: there are 30 handcolored plates of butterflies (one double, making 31), an engraved title page..... More
New York: The Outing Publishing Company, 1907. Illustrated with photographs by the author. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth. Upper board blocked in gilt, spine title in black. 11 full page illustrations from photographs. Large folding map is present in the rear. Traces of soil, tiny hole at base of..... More
