Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1948. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. ix, [1 (blank)], 151, [1 (blank)] pp. Many b/w photographic images. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Green cloth binding with red title lettering printed to front board and spine. Blue dust jacket with red black and white illustration printed to..... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1913. 1st US Edition. [6], 399, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. Green cloth binding with white lettering. White dust jacket. Quite uncommon in dj. More
New York / Milwaukee: Miller & Curtis 321 Broadway. Ford & Fairbanks, 1857. 1st Edition. Association copy. xvi, 404, 12, [4] pp. Last 16 pages include 2 publisher catalogues, the last dated August 1st, 1857, which notes this title as a "new work". Frontis & 7 inserted plates (including one..... More
(n. p.): (Thompson & Thomas ?), (1905). Divers paginations. Blank subscription sheets at rear. Color frontis. Inserted color plates. Intratextual cuts. 8-7/8" x 7". Original publisher's brown cloth binding, with white & red embossing. Marbled edges. More
San Francisco: Published by J. W. Stacey Incorporated, 1939. 1st edition. xi, [1], 689, [1] pp. Index at rear of volume. Color frontis. Numerous b/w illustrations throughout text. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-3/8". Green cloth binding stamped with gilt. Pale green dust jacket lettered in black with image to front panel..... More
London: Jarrolds, 1933. 1st edition. 285 pp. Frontis. Crown 8vo. Linen cloth binding stamped in black. Color pictorial dust jacket [green "2/-" price sticker to spine panel, under printed price of "7/6 net"]. More
Kent, England: Dawson, (1979). 1st Edition. 4 volumes; 4000+ pages. Vol 1: Generalities, Philosophy & Religion. Vol 2: Social Sciences, Pure Sciences, Technology, the Arts. Vol 3: Language, Literature. Vol 4: Geography & History. Imperial 8vo. 12" x 8-3/8". Quarter bound with maroon cloth spines over grey linen boards. Gilt..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. 1st edition (Hubin I, p. 771; Smith S-899). [8], 434, [2 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece by Thomas Fogarty. Crown 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/2". Dark blue cloth binding, white stamped lettering to spine and cover. Color pictorial light blue DJ. Rare in jacket... More
London: Kegan Paul et al, 1893. 1st Edition. xii, 219, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). Illustrated with plates. 8vo. Brown linen cloth binding with gilt stamping. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, (1985). 5th printing. INSCRIBED by both the author & illustrator on the ffep. 48 pp. Illustrated by Robin Rector Krupp. Oblong 8vo. Hardback. Silver & black dust jacket. More
Malden / Boston / New York: The Perry Pictures Company, (1898). 2nd edition, ca 1900. 32 ll: title leaf, followed by 31 leaves of b/w images. Each image [~ 4" x 6"] to leaf recto, captioned. Versos blank. Printed on glossy paper. Booklet with horizontal format: 5-1/4" x 8". Original..... More
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., (1902). 'One Hundred and Fiftieth Thousand'. [6], 78 pp. Frontis on coated paper. 8vo. Decorative linen cloth. Buff printed dust jacket, which replicates binding design. The author a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and this work a 'Peter Parley-To-Penrod' title. A goodly portion of this..... More
Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1891. 1st edition; later issue. 64 pp, 8vo. Pictorial lt blue paper-wrapped boards with blue lettering/designs. A 'Peter Parley-To-Penrod' title, concerning a young lass raised by a lighthouse keeper (and which eventually ended up as a film starring Shirley Temple). More
Detroit, MI: Detroit Public Library, 1955. 1st printing (presumed). xii, [2], 128 pp. Illustrated, with facsimiles & plates. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/8". Printed buff paper wrappers. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944. 1st Edition. Limited to 400 cc. xiii, [1 (blank)], 121, [7] pp. Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Tall 8vo. Blue cloth binding. Light blue dust jacket. Useful reference for Beerbohm first editions, lists of contributed writings, uncollected & unpublished works, caricatures..... More
Oklahoma City: Harlow Publishing Company, 1931. 1st edition. xv, 221, [4 (blank)] pp. Frontis. 8-3/4" x 6". Red cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine and cover. More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. 2nd edition, revised. 205 pp (including Index). Frontis. 8vo. Maroon cloth binding. Dust jacket. More
Calabasas: David Brass Rare Books, 2012. 1st edition. xxxvi, 420 pp. Illustrated. 4to. 11" x 8-5/8". Green cloth binding. Dust jacket. Publisher's shrink-wrap. Absolutlely essential reference to the collector of Dickens US editions. More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931. 1st printing. vii, [1 (blank)], [map], 94, [2 (blank)] pp including index. A few b/w photographic images. 9" x 6". Green paper wrapper with black title lettering printed to front wrapper and spine. More
New York: American Tract Society, (n. d.). Circa 1904. 12 pp. 4-1/2" x 2-7/8". Stapled booklet. Offwhite paper printed in black. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Creek text. "This translation was the last work of Mrs. A. E. W. Robertson, completing fifty-five years of labor for the..... More
Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop, 1991. 1st edition. Liimited to 1500 cc. xxviii, 183, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated with 74 images of bindings, etc. 4to. 11" x 8-/4". Tomato-red cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Buff printed dust jacket. A significant bibliographical effort that corrects many errors found in other..... More
London / New York: MacMillan and Co., 1895. 1st editon (NCBEL III, 468). 2 volumes: xii, 402, [2 (adverts)]; [4], 379, [1 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. More
London: The Locomotive Publishing Co., Ltd., (n. p.). 1st edition, ca mid-to-late 1920s. [6], 143, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with schematics, and from photographs. One fold-out. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering; front board stamped in blind. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. 1st printing of each volume. 3 volumes. 8vo. Blue cloth binding lettered in gold. Grey dust jackets printed in dark blue & maroon. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. 1st edition. [3] - 385, [1] pp. Crown 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-5/8". Black cloth binding with ewsd stamping. Red topstain. Buff paper dust jacket printed in blue & black. Uncommon in jacket. Contents: Proem -- on why a teacher should write a book --..... More
