San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co., (n. d.). Ca 1870s. Cf. Palmquist, p. 124. Domed, separate images. 3-7/16" x 6-7/8". Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series title [Yo-Semite, Cal.] to left end; scene caption under right view. Pale pink verso with publisher imprint, noting..... More
San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co., (n. d.). Ca 1870s. Cf. Palmquist, p. 124. Square, separate images. 3-7/16" x 6-7/8". Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series title [Yo-semite Valley] to left end; scene caption under right view. Pale pink verso with publisher imprint, noting..... More
San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co., (n. d.). Ca 1870s. Cf. Palmquist, p. 124. Square, separate images. 3-7/16" x 6-7/8". Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series title to left end; scene caption under right view. Pale pink verso with publisher imprint, noting the award..... More
San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co., (n. d.). Ca 1870s. Cf. Palmquist, p. 124. Square, separate images. 3-7/16" x 6-7/8". Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series title to left end; scene caption under right view. Pale pink verso with publisher imprint, noting the award..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1876. 1st edition. Not in Bolton. 118, 8 pp. Frontis, t.p. vignette & illustrated text, by Nast. 8vo. 9-3/16" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Wells a prominent man in the US' latter 19th C...... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1850. 1st US book edition, 1st printing (Tarr A21.2.b). Divers paginations. Stab holes present. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's vertically ribbed brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & boards blocked in blind. Contents: 1. The Present Time (46 pp). 2. Model..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1848. 1st Series: 4th Edition; Second Series: 3rd Edition; Third Series: 2nd Edition. 3 volumes: xii, 338, [2]; vii, [1 (blank)], 288; vi, [2], 364 pp. Illustrated with plates, including engraved title leaf in each volume. Frontis portrait of Barham in Vol III. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4"..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 628 & 630 Chestnut Street, 1863. 1st US Edition. 335, [3 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece. Plates before each of the 5 parts. Cuts & diagrams. 12mo, signed in 6s. 7-5/8" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's blue-green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & boards stamped in..... More
Chicago: Religio - Philosophical Journal, (n. d.). 1st separate printing [presumed], ca 1883. Not in Gimbel. [3] - 10 pp. Text double column. 9-1/8" x 6-1/16". Printed wrappers, stapled [probably later]. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. "Of all the remarkable stories of the alleged appearance of ghosts..... More
Cambridge: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1958. 1st edition thus (Newman & Wiche 287). #325 / 1500 cc. SIGNED by the Illustrator. xx, [2], 400, [4] pp. Illustrated with engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-3/8". Bound in quarter natural..... More
Chicago: Published and Sold by Barrett Incorporate First National Bank Building, (1922). 1st Printing. 107, [3] pp. Talking pictures and cover by Griff Jay. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 5". Greyish brown covers printed in purple. More
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. 1870. 1st Edition (NCBEL III, 378). xiii, [1 (blank)], [3] - 162, [2] pp. The occasional woodcut. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's pebbled blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Turnbull presumed to be the author of "Chessmen in Action" More
Kansas City, Mo. Franklin Hudson Publishing Company, 1907. Fifth Edition [stated]. Not found in the Blockson Catalogue. 280, [4 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with drawings by H. Wood. 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth binding with white stamped lettering. Green eps. White paper dust jacket printed in bronze, replicating the binding design..... More
Great Britian: The Golden Cockrel Press. Printed for the Member of the Limited Editions Club. 1933. 1st edition thus (Newman/Wiche 51). # 807 / 1500 cc. x, 71, [3] pp. Handset in Golden Cockerel type designed by Eric Gill. 7 [posthumous] color illustrations by Hugh Thompson. Folio. 12-5/8" x 8-3/4"..... More
San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co. No. 9 Montgomery St., under Lick House, (n. d.). Ca 1872. Cf Palmquist, p. 36. Separate images, domed. 3-5/16" x 6-3/4". Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series name ["San Francisco"] to left; scene caption under right view. Violet..... More
San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co., 317 & 319 Montgomery Street, (1868). Title caption & view number printed under right image. Square, separate images. 3-7/16" x 6-7/8". Yellow colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher copyright statement to right end; "San Francisco" to left. Yellow verso, with Houseworth's Paris Exhibition imprint..... More
San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co., 317 & 319 Montgomery Street, (1866). Ca 1874. Title caption & view number printed under right image. Square, separate images. 3-1/4" x 6-3/4". Yellow colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher copyright notice to right end; "Hydraulic Mining" to left. Yellow verso, with Houseworth's "Photographic..... More
[London ?]: Printed for Private Circulation, (n. d.). 1st Edition thus, ca 1900?. Limited to 60 cc. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by the Author on the t.p. top margin. [1], 118, [4] pp. TEG. Fore-edge & bottom edge untrimmed. Photographic frontispiece [b/w] of the Apollo statue. 2 inserted b/w photographic..... More
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1956. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 828). Limited to 400cc. [4 (blank)], 16, [4 (blank)] pp. Fold-out facsimile of the letter. Tall 8vo. 11-1/8" x 7-3/4". Printed buff paper wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. The first publication of this 12 August..... More
Munchen: Sammlung Goetz, (2005). 1st Edition. 183, [1] pp. Text in German & English. Illustrated, primarily in color. 9-5/8" x 6-13/16". White composition binding with graphics in black, lettering in reddish-brown. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. 1st edition thus (Tarr A32.3.a). 352 pp (including index). 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5". Maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering; boards stamped in blind. More
Columbia, MO: E. W. Stephens, 1913. 1st edition. xxii, [2], 347 pp. 8vo. 7-3/4" x Publisher's dark brown leather binding with gilt stamping. Rheam a respected, long-time Tulsa attorney. More
Asheville, NC: The Stephens Press, 1947. 1st edition thus, Facsimile reprint of 1851 edition. 1 / 500 cc. 18 pp. 12mo. 21 x 12.5 cm. Yellowish-orange printed wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 1/500cc. More
New York: The Grolier Club - The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1988. 1st Edition. [i-vi] vii-xxxiii [1 blank] [1-2] 3-432 pp. B/w frontisportrait 8vo., 9-1/2" x 6-1/2" Full red cloth stamped in gilt to backstrip, and original buff dust jacket. With original prospectus laid-in. More
London. Longman, Brown, Green, Longman's & Roberts, and Williams And Norgate. 1859. 1st Edition. iv, 214; [2], 171, [1 (blank)]; lxxii, [2 (blank)] pp. Couple illustrations, at least one lithograph by W[alter]. [Hood] Fitch (1817-1892). 8-3/4" x 5-1/4". Period binding, black ink stain to all edges. Walter Fitch was a...... More
