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New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1875. Early printing. 311, [7 (blanks and adverts)] pp. 7-5/8" x 5-1/4". Blue cloth binding, gilt stamped lettering to spine. Yellow endpapers. More
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1875. Early printing. 311, [7 (blanks and adverts)] pp. 7-5/8" x 5-1/4". Blue cloth binding, gilt stamped lettering to spine. Yellow endpapers. More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, (1986). 1st Edition, Members' Issue. Limited to 300 cc. [8], 280 pp (including Index). Color frontis of Elizabeth I. Other plates therein. Royal 8vo. Original publisher's burnt orange cloth with gilt stamping. Issued without jacket. More
Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, (2000). 1st Edition. 415, [1 (blank)] pp including index. Profusely illustrated with color drawings. 12" x 9-1/2". Pictoral stiff stock wrappers with white title lettering to front wrapper and spine. Heavy Book. More
London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1919. 1st edition. vii, [1 (blank)], 356, 4 [adverts] pp. Index at rear. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Gilt regimental badge to front board. No dust jacket. More
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1938. 1st Edition (Spadoni A86a). viii, 316 pp. As Spadoni notes, apparently two sources of paper were used in printing, as the latter half of the textblock shows age-toning. Crown 8vo. Red cloth binding. Red dust jacket printed in white & black... More
[New Orleans?]: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1979. 1st Printing. 68 pp. Last page, bibliographical references. Illustrated with b/w images. 11" x 8-1/2". Printed white glossy paper covers. Catalog of an exhibition held at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Dec. 1, 1979 - Feb. 3, 1980, and the Helen..... More
[Boston ?]. 1882. 1st printing. 8 page invitation / menu booklet, printed on stiff stock. Printed & printed script invitation laid-in. Photo of Gifford, p. 2 of the invitation. 9-1/8" x 6-1/4". All now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Gifford "was an American politician who served as a...... More
New York. DRG Records. 1982. 1st Pressing, presumed. Illustrated sleeve. 12-1/2" x 12-1/2". One record in sleeve. Shrink-wrapped. More
New York: Random House, Inc. [printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco], [1931]. 1st edition thus. LIMITED to 980 copies, of which this is copy #131. 142, [2] pp. Illustrations by Valenti Angelo. Folio. 13-1/8" x 8-7/8". Quarter-bound navy cloth spine (gilt stamped leather title label to spine), over blue..... More
(n. p.): [1856]. Broadside, printed in two columns, of ~ 12 stanzas per column, 4 lines per stanza. 12-5/8" x 8-3/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Stephen Crapo said to be the nephew of Captain Thomas Crapo, author of "CAPTAIN & MRS. CRAPO'S FEAT Of CROSSING The ATLANTIC"..... More
San Francisco: Whitton Towne & Co., Printers, Excesior Steam Press. 1856. 2nd Edition, with an Appendix (Cowan, p. 647; Rocq 15661). A considerably expanded edition over that of the 1853 1st edition, which was comprised of but 29 pages of material. 130, [2] pp. Last leaf blank. Frontis portrait. 2..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1942). 1st edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy from the author to Benet. xii, 48, [4] pp. Foreword by Benet. Illustrated. 4to. 11" x 7-7/8". Original publisher's light blue cloth binding with dark blue stamping. Dust jacket. Laid in a TNs, on American Committee for Emigré..... More
[East Aurura, N.Y.]: [Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Printing Shop], 1895. 1st printing (BAL 4072; Williams & Starrett, pp. 153 - 154). Not recorded by McKenna. Unpaginated, though 8 pp. Dinner menu p. 7. Untitled 11-line poem by Crane, "I have heard the sunset song of the birches" [first line], p...... More
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1932. 1st US Edition. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. vi, 221, [1 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. Orange cloth with black lettering. Dust jacket. More
Garden City: Doubleday Doran and Company, Inc., 1936. Later printing. xii, [2], 322 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Hardback. No dust jacket. More
London: Horizon, 1944. 1st edition. 221 - 289, [1] pp. 4 b/w reproduction plates, 'Nature Morte,' 'Femme au Corsage Bleu,' 'Femme Assie,' and 'Nature Morte a la Guitare' by Picasso. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Yellow paper wrappers with black lettering to covers and spine. Includes "Letters from France" by Wyatt; "Raffles..... More
London: Printed for J. Hatchard and J. Butterworth, 1807. 5th edition (Howes S-937; Sabin 91246). [2], xxiv, 1 - 124, 129 - 224, 221 - 252 pp. Untrimmed. 8vo: 1 [A]^4 a - b^4 B - Q^4 R^2 S - 2K^4. 9" x 5-5/8". Period blue paper wrappers, with modern..... More
Philadelphia: John D. Morris, (n. d.). 29; 54; 46 pp. Sm 8vo. Buff printed wrappers. More
Hartford, Conn. Columbian Book Company, 1872. 1st edition (Cowan II, p. 498; Howes P537; Sabin 64804; Zamorano 80, #61). xvi, [17] - 327, [3] pp. One page publisher advert at rear. 29 listed illustrations, divided between intratextual cuts & full-page wood engravings by True W. Williams. A 30th cut, unlisted..... More
East Aurora, N. Y. The Roycroft Printing Shop, 1896. 1st edition (BAL 4074; cf. McKenna, p. 57, for a history of this early Roycroft publication, which ceased after only 3 issues). 48 pp. 8vo. Printed brown paper wrappers, yapp edges. Housed in a custom maroon quarter morocco clamshell case, with..... More
(n. p.): 1821. 1st Separate Printing (American Imprints 5281). Broadside, black wide-rule mourning border, text in 4 columns divided by black vertical single rules. Cut of coffin under title. 17-15/16" x 10-1/2". Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Clark convicted of intentially setting fire to a stable owned..... More
Benicia: Sherwood Forest Press, (1969). Unpaginated. 8vo. Rose-colored wrappers lettered in gold, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
(n. p.): Macmillan, 1945. 1st printing (presumed). 16 pp. Black and white photographic images within. 6-7/8" x 4-3/4". Turquoise and brown printed paper wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "There is a particular satisfaction in taking fish on flies of your own make, and certainly the technique..... More
New York: Gilberton Company, 1968. Unpaginated. Profusley illustrated with comic illustrations. 10" x 7". Color illustrated paper wrappers, stapled, with black title lettering to front wrapper. Now housed in a clear archival mylar wrapper. More