FROM DEATH To MORNING.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. 1st edition (FPAA I, p. 417; Johnston A4.I.a1). [12], 304 pp. Crown 8vo. Brown cloth binding stamped with gilt. Orange & black dust jacket. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. 1st edition (FPAA I, p. 417; Johnston A4.I.a1). [12], 304 pp. Crown 8vo. Brown cloth binding stamped with gilt. Orange & black dust jacket. More
Lansing: Robert Smith Printing Company, 1896. 1st Edition. xxviii, [2], 659, [3] pp including index. Charts. 8-1/2" x 6". Tan full sheep binding with maroon morocco title label to spine with gilt stamped title lettering. More
Philadelphia: J. Crissy, No. 4, Minor Street. 1839. 1st edition thus (NCBEL III, 264). xxvi, [27] - 419, [1] pp. Steel engraved frontispiece of Moore. 8vo. 9" x 5-1/2". Period full brown sheep with marbled edges & eps. Gilt lettered black leather title label to spine. Gilt edge dentelles... More
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860. 1st Edition. Not in Wolff. viii, 424 pp. With illustrations by Percival Skelton. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's orange cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Yellow eps. Humorous novel about hunting & fishing. More
London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. Printed by Jas. Wade, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. 1874. A New Edition. vi, [7] - 36 pp. Illustrated with 32 etched plates, at rear. Royal 8vo. 11" x 7-1/2". Later brown half-calf binding with green cloth boards. Gilt stamped title lettering to spine. From the..... More
London: Printed by J. Nichols for the Author, 1783. 1st Edition thus, i.e., issue with 76 pages. Cf ESTC T2812. viii, 76 pp. Untrimmed. T.p. vignette. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-3/4". In a later tan half-calf binding with marbled boards. Addison "was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. His name..... More
London: Thomas Hailes Lacy, Theatrical Publisher, Wellington Street, Strand. (n. d.). Ca 1870 (cf. Bolton 4; Gimbel C72 [lacking wrappers], giving a publication date of 1872). 54 pp. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's printed green paper covers. NB. On the front cover Lacy's address is given as 89, Strand..... More
Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz, 1975. 1st edition. 24 pp. Frontis + one plate. 8vo. Green wrappers, stapled. Fabian Tract No. 116. More
New York: American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 1929. 1st thus. 44 pp (including chronology of telephone history through 1929). Fully illustrated (primarily from photographs). 12mo [5" x 7 1/2"]. Stapled, printed buff wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Watson, of course, on the other end of Bell's..... More
Dublin: The Talbot Press Limited, 1922. 1st edition. 174 pp. 12mo. Blue cloth binding with gold title lettering. Printed drab grey dust jacket. More
Boston: Benjamin H. Greene, 1844. 3rd edition (American Imprints 44-1239; NCBEL III, 822; Sabin 11217). PRESENTATION Copy, INSCRIBED by Cary in the 3rd person, "With the Author's regards" iv, [5] - 60 pp. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Original printed blue wrappers. Front wrapper title: 'LETTER To A LADY In FRANCE..... More
London: Charles Knight & Co., 22 Ludgate Street, [1837]. 1st edition. 96 pp. Intratextual tables. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Original grey printed paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
London: For Private Circulation Only. 1851. 1st thus. Limited to 75 cc. 8, 236 pp. T.p. printed in Red & black. Facsimile t.p. for 2 editions of "Riddles". 4to. 11-1/2" x 8-7/8". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Pale yellow eps. Professionally rebacked, with 60% of the..... More
Columbia, MO: E. W. Stephens, 1913. 1st edition. xxii, [2], 347 pp. 8vo. Modern blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. More
Portland: Stephen Berry, Printer. 1876. 1st edition. 24 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Printed buff paper wrappers, with wrapper title as: "Abridgement of the Nautical Almanac for 1877, Containing a Full Description of the Nautrigon; an Instrument for Solving Problems in Navigation." Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. OCLC locates..... More
1785. Unpaginated, though 40 pp. 1st & last leaf blank, with 2 quarters of an unidentified watermark visible. Vertical chain-lines. 6-1/8" x 4" [15.8 cm x 10 cm]. Period marbled paper wrappers, with hand-inked title label to front wrapper. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. A manuscript journal..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1865. 1st US edition. Not in Wolff. 158, [2] pp. Text double column. Last 2 pages publisher adverts. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Publisher's original printed buff paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Thomas wrote by necessity, doing so to support..... More
Lake Sherwood, California: Casa della Madonna. Done into type and privately printed by Dorothy and Frank Shields, San Francisco, 1951. 1st Printing. [10], 8, [2 (blank)] pp. Deckle edges. "Come let us build a little kirk," a poem by Thomas Lennon: p. [iv - v]. 9-1/4" x 6-3/8". Green paper..... More
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby and T. Bewick, 1800. 4th Edition, Imprint Variant A (Roscoe 4b). x, 525, [1] pp. Last page the Errata. Fully illustrated with Bewick's 334 incomparable figures, head-pieces, vignettes, etc. Royal 8vo. 9-3/8" x 5-5/8". Period dark blue straight grain..... More
London: MacMillan & Co., 1869. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 1301). 3 vols: xxiii, [1 (blank)], ii, errata slip, 509, [1 (blank)]; iv, 529, [1 (advert)]; v, [1 (blank)], 598 pp. Index concluded v. III. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8". Blue half-leather with blue cloth boards; spine lettered in gilt. TEG. Blue..... More
Boston: Rudd & Carleton, 1859. 1st edition (BAL 253). [2], vi, [2], [9] - 117, [5 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4". Brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & boards stamped in blind. More
London: Printed for R. Phillips, Sold by T. Hurst. [1801]. 1st edition (BMC CE Vol 4, 895; Watt I, 176t). xxxiii, [1], [294]. 1 pp advert at rear. Printed on wove paper. Inserted, fold-out sheet of musical score (which is included in pagination). Other, intratextual, musical scores. 8vo: [a]-b8 B-T8..... More
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. H. on Ludgate Hill. [1741]. 1st printing, State 2 (ESTC T37936). [4], 60 pp. Head- tailpieces. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 4-7/8". Later plain blue paper wrappers. More
Philadelphia: Published by Order of the Contributers. T. K. and P. G. Collins, Printers. 1854. 1st thus. 40 pp. 2 folding frontispieces. Fold-out plans of the 'House of Refuge.' 8vo. 9" x 5-1/2". Disbound. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. The "House" began operations in 1829, and continued..... More
London: John Van Voorst, 1837. xviii, 526, [8] pp. Adverts at rear, including prospectus for 'British Birds'. Illustrated with numerous cuts. 8vo. Modern period-style dark brown, speckled half-calf binding with marbled boards. Gilt spine lettering. Renewed eps. More