Washington: GPO, 1894. Hardcover. 4to. xlvii, 553pp. 50 plates (many in colors), 200 figures. Contemporary half leather, gilt spine titles, cloth sides, marbled endpapers and edges. Leather rubbed and lightly worn in places, bookplate removed from front pastedown, else a very nice copy. Contains Stevenson, 'The Sia'; Turner,' Ethnology of... More
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, (1943). First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. (10½ by 8 inches). (24)pp. Printed paper boards, spiral binding. Four full color full page animated plates by Julian Wehr, operated by a tab: chickens, a bucking horse, roping a cow and sheep. There is a trace... More
Chicago: Saalfield Pub. COmpany, 1904. 4to. 18pp. printed in full color on muslin, stitched at the left edge to create a cloth book. All the letters of the alphabet are here: A is for Anvil. B is for Bat. Each letter is illustrated with a scene from the period showing... More
(NY): Platt & Munk, (1963). Four picture puzzles in their own frames depicting Cinderella, Mr. Bun, Thumbelina and Rumpelstiltskin and housed in the publisher's pictorial box. The puzzles are copyright 1961, but the box bears a date of 1963, and this is the date we have used for imprint information... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishiung Company, 1923. Illustrated by Hattie Longstreet. First US edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 82pp. Green paper over boards with a full color paste-on to the upper board. Illustrated endpaprs. Illustrated throughout in bloth nlack & white and color. Light wear t the edges an dspinr tips else this... More
Madrid: Del Prado, 2004. Hardcover. 2 volumes, approximately 2½ by 2 inches each. Bindings resemble full sheep blocked in black and yellow on volume 1 and in blue and yellow on volume 2. Contains the full text of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. In fine condition. More
London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. 72pp. Early, but we think not original, marbled paper wraps, printed title on the upper wrap. Second state, with the imprint on the reverse of p. 71. Occasional light foxing else in very good condition. 'Mazeppa' is followed by the 'Fragment', also... More
New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1996. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thick 4to. Black cloth printed in white on the upper bard and with a color paste-on of the Count. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy. Accompanied by lithograph by the illustrator. It is housed in... More
New York: Modern Library, ca. 1960's. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth, gilt spine titles. Decorative endpapers. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and shows the price of $1.95. It has a faint trace of roughness along the top edge else is in fine condition. The arresting artwork on... More
Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1890. First edition. Stiff card wraps. The Letter-Writing pamphlet is 4 by 3" 39pp. State first edition. Publisher's ads appear on pages 36-39, and the last page is blank. This state is not described by Williams, else it bears the earliest possible date of 1890, with... More
London: T. Wood for Benjamin Cowse, 1719. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vi, 184pp. Contemporary paneled calf. Spine in six compartments, red leather lettering label, gilt; board tooled and stained in a 'Cambridge' design. Illustrated with 5 numbered plates, three of them folding, illustrating the solar system, a globe, eclipses... More
London: Elliot Stock, 1894. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. xvi, 277,(1)pp. followed by 2pp publisher's catalogue. Illustrated. Blue cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board, and in blind on the lower board. Top edge gilt. Patterned end papers. One of fifty numbered copies of which this is No... More
London: John Camden Hotten, 1861. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (6), 332pp. followed by 8pp publisher's catalogue. Contemporary purple T-grain (or a variant of it) cloth blocked in gilt on the upper board and spine. The frontispiece was designed by Cruikshank especially for this book. Additional... More
London: Sylvan Press, 1930. With Wood Engravings by Norman Janes. Limited edition. Folio. Unpaginated. Finely printed on Barcham Green hand-made paper. Bound in coarsely woven red cloth blocked in gilt with a design by the illustrator on both the upper an lower boards. Top edge gilt. Contains twelve of William's... More
London: William Heinemann, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 151,(1)pp. Green buckram, spine title gilt. Publisher's Presentation Copy, so embossed on the half-title and a few following pages. Binding lightly darkened with age at spine and along top; light wear to edges; some offset on the front endpapers from a laid-in... More
New York: B F Jay, (1942). First edition. Hardcover. First in Sarg's series of the Treasure Books. This volume, in the original box, contains shortened versions of Alice In Wonderland, Treasure Island & Rip Van Winkle with movables. So far as we can determine, this copy has all of its... More
Chicago: Blue Sky Press, 1904. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth spine; printed paper boards. Unpaginated: 60pp. printed on one side only and deliberately left uncut by the publisher. Printed end papers. One of 500 copies from a total edition of 525. Nicely printed in black with red sunning titles throughout... More
n.p. Frank Ernest Nicholson, (1932) but 1937. Stapled wraps. 8vo. 32pp. Pictoroal stapled wraps. Some pages printed with a colored border. Cpoyright date is 1932, but there is a financial summary in the rear dated 1927. Light wear to the covers, and with one corner taped, else a very... More
Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2013. Limited edition. Hardcover. Clamshell case, 7½ by 13½ inches housing the 8vo work by the authors plus three miniature facsimiles of the eighteenth century originals: The 'Pretty Book' exists in only one copy; only two exist of 'Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book'. The case... More
NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1981). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. There is a but of browning along the edges and age-wear to the spine else this is a very good copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped, but has a closed tear at the fold and... More
NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1975). First edition, first printing. A fine, bright copy. Dustwrapper is not price-clipped; but is rubbed at the folds, with a few closed marginal tears, else near fine. The first Amelia Peabody mystery and, while not as scarce as the second, is becoming increasingly hard... More
Nottingham: Printed for the Editor, Waterloo Cescent, 1886. Hardcover. 12mo. viii,48,(2) pp. followed by 8pp. of ads and several blank pages for memoranda. White paper over boards printed in black on the boards. Brown enbdpapers. Red page edges. Errata slip present. Binding somewhat soiled but still a very good copy... More
London & New York: Ernest Nister, (1895). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 16pp. Red cloth spine, pictorial upper board, plain lower board. Numbered 632. Text in verse; introductory verse signed by Clifton Bingham. Six chromolithographed dissolving views with slats. All dissolving views are complete and working properly, though the push/pull tabs... More
London: G. Routledge & Co. 1858. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. (6), 629pp. Engraved frontispiece of the author, Illustrated with maps and plans, including six folding maps in the text and four separate maps in a separate portfolio. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with a red lettering label, marbled paper... More
Chicago, et al: N. K. Fairbank Company, 1896). Illustrated by Leon Moran. First edition. Stiff card wraps. 12mo. Sewn stiff wraps. Unpaginated (24pp.) Every other page is a full color chromolithograph depicting a charming little girl doing something with Fairy Soap. The printed wrappers are in green and red with... More
