Chicago: Moody & Co, 1926. 1st edition. [2], 116, [8 (blank + advertisements)] pp. Intratextual illustrations and fold-out map. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-3/4". Original printed tan card covers with blue cloth spine. Custom-cut clear protective mylar wrapper. More
Columbus, Ohio: Rowfant Press and Bindery, 1913. 1st edition (Smith A-114). 163, [1] pp. Last page blank. 12mo. 7" x 5". Original publisher's green cloth stamped in black, depicting a factory worker on the front board. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. 1st edition (Cordasco 801658). xiii, [1 (blank)], 224 pp (including Index). Color frontis, "General Plan of the Circulation". 96 intratextual figures (No. 73 folding). 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". Original blue cloth binding with white red cross adhering cloth belly band. "The object of..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press, 1910. 1st edition, 2nd issue. For Mr. Smith's private distribution. xi, [1 (blank)], 90 pp. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-7/8". Half vellum binding, with brown paper wrapped board. Kolle was an early friend of Dickens, who assisted in Dickens in his wooing of..... More
Lugdun. Batavor: Ex Officina Elsevitiana, 1639. 1st edition thus. Not in Willems (who notes a 1640 edition, cf. 508). Berghman, in his supplement to Willims, discusses the 1639 publication in entry 673 (for the 1649 edition). 442, [154] pp. T.p. printer's device. Head-- tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 24mo: A...... More
Detroit: George S. Davis, 1884. 1st Edition (Cordasco 80-4773). [4], 136 pp. 7-1/2" x 5". Taupe colored fine-weave cloth binding with gilt stamping (professionally recased), with gilt stamped lettering to front cover. Grey eps. Oft republished, this first edition is uncommon in the trade. More
Lynn, Mass. The Nichols Press, 1896. 1st edition. vii, [1], 258 pp. Illustrated with 50 inserted plates [complete], 6 intratextual figures, numerous charts & tables. 4to. 12" x 9-3/8". Modern brown quarter-calf with marbled boards, executed in a period style. A second volume was issued in 1910. More
Paris: Chez Alexis Eymery, 1815. 1st edition. 203 pp. Frontis engraving. 8vo. 19th C. red qtr calf with marbled boards & eps. 4 gilt 'N' & crown devices on spine. Deckle edges. More
![Item #33045 FARNSWORTH - DOW. 1583 - 1934. [Wrapper title]. Jennie Henry, ow. b. 1865](https://tavbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33045.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722027495)
Helena, Montana: 1934. 1st edition. [8], 68, [4 (blank)] pp. 6-3/4" x 5-1/2". Printed green paper wrappers, stapled. "This is a history of the Farnsworth family, beginning with the emigrant, Matthisa, who settled in Groton, Massachusetts, about 1664, to the present generation." More
[Berkeley, CA]: Serendiptiy Books, 1790 Shattuck Avenue, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca mid 1970s. 33 pp [including inner rear cover]. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". White paper covers printed in red & black, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 266 entries, concluding with a multi-volume lot of B. Traven..... More
Berkeley: Published by Ian Jackson, 2001. Second printing. [2 (blank)], 89, [5] pp. Illustrated with b/w drawings by Ann Arnold. 8-1/2" x 7" Printed red paper wrappers. As one who "grew up" [as a bookseller] with much time spent in Serendipity and consequently, Peter B Howard's presence, I can attest..... More
Berkeley: Published by Ian Jackson, 2000. First printing. [2 (blank)], 89, [5] pp. Illustrated with b/w drawings by Ann Arnold. 8.5" x 7" Printed purple paper wrappers. Jackson's introduction to the work... "Interchange overheard at Serendipity Books Fourteen Years Ago. Puzzled Customer: Is there any rhyme of reason to this..... More
[Washingon, D.C.]: 1894. 23, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Disbound, with evidence of prior binding. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1889. 1st Edition. viii, 326 pp. 8vo. Original publisher's grey cloth binding stamped in black & gilt. Bevelled boards. More
Montgomery, Ala. The Brown Printing Co., 1893. 3rd Edition, 'Carefully Revised to Date'. 328 pp. Illustrated with cuts. No map, if called for. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4". Printed white paper wrappers, stapled. More
