Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1859. Hardcover. 12mo. 36pp. Original red patterned cloth embossed in blind; gilt spine title. Pictorial frontispiece and title page. Charming woodcut illustration of Alice sleeping while her dog keeps watch. A fine, bright copy. More about Little Alice's Palace; Or, The Sunny Heart
London: Henry Colburn, 1828-1829. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo. xii,364; 306pp. Half polished calf by Morrell of London, blue cloth sides. Spines in six compartments with raised bands, gilt; brown leather lettering pieces, gilt. Top edges gilt. Spine compartments tooled in an eagle, bee and an 'N' surrounded by... More about Memoirs of the Empress Josephine with Anecdotes of the Courts of Navarre ad Mailaison
Paris: Pillet Aine, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 240pp. Contemporary full marbled sheep. Spine tooled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Neat ownership name on the half-title. The final three pages constitute the publisher's catalogue. Edges well worn as is the text block, but still a good copy. The guide takes the... More about Paseo por Europa, O Escenas Instructivas y Pintorescas Proprias para Dar Conocimiento a los Jovenes
London: Printed and sold by G. Nicholson, Poughnill, near Ludlow. Sold also, in London, by H. D. Symonds, Paternoster row; Champante & Whitrow, Aldgate; R. Bickerstaff; T. Conder, Bucklersbury; Lackington, Allen, & Co., Finsbury-Square; and all other, ca. 1795. Only edition. Wraps. Approx. 4 by 6 inches. 27, (i)pp. Binding... More about Romances. Sir Bertrand. Sir Gawen. Edwin
London: Effingham WIlson, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. vii,(1),100pp. Hand colored frontispiece, plus six lithographed plates. Modern quarter morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather lettering label, gilt; cloth boards; vellum corners; marbled endpapers. With the original wrappers bound in at the rear. Without the publisher' s.... More about The Whole Art of Dress! Or, The Road to Elegance and Fashion at the Enormous Saving of Thirty Per...
London: John W. Parker, 1845. Hardcover. The Second Edition. 8vo. viii, (9)-124pp. plus 4 page publisher's catalogue in rear. Illustrated Publisher's original; drab cloth blocked in blind on the upper board with a decorative frame around the tittle. Ownership name dated 1847 on front pastedown. Cloth faded, occasional soil, else... More about Instructions in Household Matters; Or, The Young Girl's Guide to Domestic Service. Written by a Lady
Philadelphia: Conrad Zentler, 1810. Hardcover. "Verbesserte Ausgabe" (Improved edition.) Thin 8vo. 3o pages Unpaginated. Illustrated with cuts. Leather spine; binders board. Loose in binding and with the pages worn and soiled. The first and last pages are used as pastedowns. The board papers have entirely perished from the upper board... More about Hoch-Deutsches Reformirtes ABC und Namen-Büchlein für Kinder
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 about Baby's ABC Books (Cloth book
(Newtown): Gregynog Press, 1940. Limited edition. Hardcover. No. 34 of 175 copies. 1/2 morocco gilt by the Gregynog Bindery. Printed in Romulus on Barcham Green handmade paper. Slight wear at spine heel and corners else a fine copy. The last book printed at the Press. TAKE32. More about Lyrics and Unfinished Poems
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xlvii,(1),108pp. Original blue cloth, gilt spine titles and blocked in gilt on the upper board with title and vignette of a mitre. The Epistolare is preceded by the Kalendarium Aberdonense (1527), printed in red and black. The Kalendar and Epistolary are... More about Epistolare in Usum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Aberdonensis
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1847. Early Edition. Hardcover. The sixth edition, in which are added, directions for carving. 12mo. xlviii,608pp, followed by a 32 page publishers catalogue dated January, 1847. Original brown T-grain cloth embossed in blind on the boards, and in gilt on the spine with title... More about Modern Cookery, In All Its Branches; Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private...
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1986. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiv, 168pp. Index. Brown cloth, gilt spine, A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper. Essays on Arthurian Prose Romances in Memory of Cedric E. Pickford. Arthurian Studies XVI., More about The Changing Face of Arthurian Romance
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., (1973). First US edition. Fine. 8vo. ix,(3),429,(1) pp. A small dent on the foredge, top edge and cloth spine foxed, else a very food copy. The dustrapper is not price-clipped. There are a couple of small spots else it ins in near fine condition... More about Watership Down
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1985. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 254pp. Black cloth spine, gilt; red paper boards. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is fine as well. The Bob and Dolores Hope copy with an inscription on the front free endpaper signed by... More about The Walter Lantz Story with Woody Woodpecker and Friends (Signed
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo. (xii),50;(viii),256pp. Brown ribbed cloth embossed in blind on the boards and spine and with gilt titles on the spine. Coated endpapers. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Neat ownership names on the front free endpapers. A fine set..... More about The Life of Joseph Addison
New-York: Re-Printed by Hopkins and Seymour for J. Orborn, 1806. Hardcover. 8vo. xii,297(1)pp. Publishers rose-colored paper boards, later sheep spine, black leather lettering label, gilt. Uncut. Top corner of title removed (likely an ownership signature), no loss, light soil and scuffing else a very good copy. First published in London... More about Letters to a Young Lady on a Course of English Poetry
London: Henry Colburn, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 3 volumes. Etched frontispiece in each volume by George Cruikshank. Contemporary half-leather; spines in 6 compartments, gilt; top edges gilt; marbled paper boards and endpapers. Half-title present in Volume III, as called for. Frontispieces foxed, trivial rubbing to the leather else... More about Windsor Castle: An Historical Romance
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio (17 x 18.5') Twenty-six maps, most of them double page; 25 are sectional, one is a full page index map. Some of the maps have notes on them signed by members of the commission in facsimile. New leather spine... More about Alaskan Boundary Tribunal: Atlas of Award
Merida, Yucatan: Lbreris Burrel, 1941. First edition. Stapled wraps. Thin 4to. Printed, stapled wraps. (38)pp. Some illustrations, including a chart of the Spanish version of what we know as the Palmer method of handwriting. Top of the half title removed, probably bearing a name of a former owner, else this... More about Escuela Activa: Tecnica del Metodo Natural, Global e Ideo Visual para la Enseñanza de la Lecture...
Boston: James Redpath, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 102pp. followed by 2pp. publisher's catalog. Original purple patterned cloth. Pale yellow endpapers. Gilt spine title. Spine tips worn and small hole in hinge, spine evenly sunned to tan. While serving as a nurse in the Civil War, Alcott wrote several letters... More about Hospital Sketches
London: Andrew Dakers Limited, 1950. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 12mo. Publisher's orange cloth, gilt spine titles. Bookplate of former owner else a fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price clipped; it is chipped at head and tall if spine, lightly soiled, else very good. More about Humanity Comes of Age: A Study of Individual and World Fulfilment
London and New York: Eyer & Spottiswoode Limited; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Original brown cloth; gilt titles on spine and upper board and with a color paste-on to the upper board. The New York edition, with 'Scribners' at the base of the spine. Top edge... More about Dogs of Character
New York: Hodder & Stoughton, ca. 1911. First US edition. Hardcover. Large thin 4to. Original cloth spine, paper over boards with illustrated paste-on of Merry and Bright, the two dogs who are the subject of this book. Twenty-four full page, color illustrations on stiff paper of the doings of Merry... More about Merry and Bright
Venice: In Aedibvs Alsi et Andreae Asvlani Soceri, 1522. Hardcover. 12mo. 204 leaves. Contemporary vellum, ink name on spine. Anchor and dolphin device on title page and last leaf. Contemporary ownership name at base of title page. Engraved bookplate of Alfred Petit on the front pastedown. A very good copy... More about Trogi Pompei Externae Historiae in Compendium ab Justino Redactae; Externorum Imperatorum Vitae
