Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1829. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 192pp. 26 leaves of plates. Contemporary red leather spine, gilt; printed paper boards. Boards darkened, rubbed and stained, some roughness to the edges and corners, ffep perished else a good copy. On front printed board: By the author of Anecdotes of..... More
Wasington, D. C. n.p., 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. xix, (1), 784pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine title, upper board blocked with a full cover decorative title in silver. Floral endpapers. Light wear, gilt darkened, else a very good copy. Born in Virginia in 1844 with roots to the Revolution..... More
London: Frederick Muller, 1956. Illustrated by Frederick T. Chapman. First English edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Illustrated by Frederick T. Chapman. Blue embossed paper over boards, gilt spine title. Pictorial endpapers. A fine, bright, as new copy. Colorful dustwrapper by Cuthbertson. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped. It has two small chips..... More
New York: Lange, Little & Co., Printers, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. (2),209pp. Publishers green cloth. No spine title. Cloth spotted, mainly on the front board, and some wear to edges and corners else this is a very good copy. Inscribed by Arnoux on the front preliminary blank to..... More
Tacámbaro, Michoacán: Taller Martín Pescador, 2014. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 88,(2)pp. Sewn on vellum tapes laced into stiff green paper boards, printed title label on the upper board and printed design label on the spine. Finely printed letterpress on handmade paper of just the right shade of green, and made..... More
Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1932. Limited edition. Limp Vellum. 4to. 182 pp.. Hand-illuminated initial letters in red, blue and green by Graily Hewitt and his assistants, Ida D. Henstock and Helen E. Hinkley. (4to), original orange vellum with orange ties, gilt spine title; printed in black and red; in marbled paper..... More
New York: Walker and Company, (1973). Illustrated by Daniel Nevins. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. 63pp. Illustrated in black and white. Red textured paper over boards. Spine printed in black. Upper board embossed in blind with a design by the illustrator. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by..... More
n.p. n.p., 1942. Original photograph, image size 7 by 9 inches with a 1/8 inch white border, showing Mary Pickford seated next to husband Buddy Rogers, each gazing at the other. Inscribed: "To Sgt A. M. DuBec with all good wishes from us both. Mary Pickford/Aug 1942" Pinholes in the..... More
New-York: George Forman for I. Riley, 1806. First US edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo. First US edition. xxxii, 424; 430pp. plus errata leaf. Original full calf binding, red lettering labels, gilt. Translated from the French. The upper hinge and spine tips of Vol. I have been nicely repaired new lettering..... More
Madrid: Pedidos, n.d., ca. 1869. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 303,(3)pp. Modern cloth, leather lettering label, gilt. Original printed wrappers bound in. A fine copy. The date is taken from the Prefácio of Luis Felipe de Orleans, Conde de Paris, 15 Marzo, 1869. Scarce. OCLC finds only one copy. In Spanish..... More
London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1746. Folio. An extract of pp. 467-478 of Vol. VI of the third edition of Churchill's Voyages. Bound to style in quarter leather, red leather lettering piece, gilt; marbled paper boards. A near fine copy. Translated from the High-Dutch original. Backhoff traveled from..... More
Detroit: The Free Press Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 299, (2) pp. The final page contains errata. Original textured cloth, gilt spine title. Light wear to the corners and spine tips, occasional light foxing, else a very good copy. The author was Colonel of..... More
Leipzig & Paris: Karl Baedeker; Paul Ollendorff, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Light red cloth spine, gilt; deeper red cloth sides. 17 maps, 32 town plans, 2 plates and a panorama. A fine copy, essentially as new, with the large folding map in the rear pocket. In the scarce dustwrapper, which..... More
n.p. n.p., n.d. Hardcover. Accordion style book bound in floral patterned silk, and with five double pages of original water color and calligraphy. Each is signed by the calligrapher as 白雲山人, and there arre additional artist seals, for a total of 10 seals. The double page images measure 12 by..... More
London: George Philip & Son, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 4to.xl,(1), 57pp, 72 plates, 17pp of index. Blue cloth, spine and upper board gilt, all edges gilt. The 72 plates tipped onto bound in guards. Decorated endpapers. With the stamp of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, and a small pocket on the..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1907). First US edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Cloth backed pictorial boards showing Jocko, the teasing monkey, hanging from a tree and pulling the tails of two lions. 142pp. Illustrated in color throughout and printed on one side of the page only. Gift inscription "from Aunt..... More
Santa Fé: Press of the Palace of the Governors, 1984. Illustrations by Andrew Burns. Limited edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. 77,(1)pp. Finely printed by hand on Rives paper by Pamela Smith. Introduction by David J. Weber. Bound by Priscilla Spitler in maroon Centennial book cloth, with spine title in silver and..... More
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1887. First US edition. Hardcover. First US edition. 12mo. Original binding of cloth spine, gilt title, marbled paper boards. The edges are worn and the boards rubbed else this is a very good copy of a scarce work. The first English edition was published in..... More
Vindobonae (Vienna): Josephi Nobilis de Kurzboeck, 1780. Hardcover. 8vo. 52,(iv)pp. Woodcut chapter heading and tailpiece. Folding hand-colored frontispiece entitled 'Prospectus Thermarum Gasteinensium.' Bound to style in quarter leather, gilt; vellum tips; marbled paper boards. A fine copy. Scarce early discussion on the healing powers of the Gastein waters, long before..... More
Akron and New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, (1929). Fern Bisel Peat. First edition. Hardcover. Thin folio. 64pp. Each page of text encased in a black and white frame illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat. In addition there are four full page illustrations in color. Publisher's black cloth spine, decorated paper..... More
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Young Readers, 2016. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Red paper over boards, gilt spine title, upper board embossed in blind. A fine, as new copy in a fine, as new, unclipped dustwrapper. Surprisingly scarce in the first printing. Signed by the author on the title... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. With Drawings by Arthur Rackham, A. R. W. S. First US edition. Hardcover. 4to. Superb binding of half green morocco, spine in six compartments, gilt, green cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. The binding is unsigned but is reminiscent of Bayntum-Riviere or Sangorski..... More
London: John Murray, 1835. Hardcover. New edition. 8vo. vii,(1),380pp. Large folding map. 9 woodcuts. Contemporary quarter leather, marbled paper boards; spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt. Later lettering label, gilt; light wear and rubbing to edges and sides, illustrations toned with age, else a very good copy. More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1880. First edition. Stiff card wraps. 12mo. 112pp. stiff leather-covered boards, gilt title on the upper board. Light wear to edges and hinges else a very good copy. A book of reference for the volunteer artilleryman. The author was an instructor for many years... More
Evanston: The Shori Private Press, 1960. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 49,(3)pp. Hand printed on Ticonderoga Laid Text paper using types after Garamont. Bound in full marbled sheep. spine gilt with a red leather lettering label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a slipcase covered in decorated paper. The binding is like..... More
