New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. 1st edition thus (Newman & Wiche 63). #1205 / 1500 cc. SIGNED by the Illustrator. xvi, 224 pp. Color illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. 4to. Linen spine stamped in scarlet, over green lithograhed boards, from a design by Mr Wilson. Slipcase... More
New York: Harpers & Bros. 1901. 1st edition (BAL 9741). 2 volumes: 238, [2]; v, [3], 273, [3] pp. Publisher advert last page of v2. 2 chapters on heroines from Dickens' works. Illustrations by H. C. Christy (& others). 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-1/2". Blue-grey vertically ribbed cloth with gilt lettering..... More
New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903. 1st edition (Smith C-263). [12], 388 pp. Frontis + 7 inserted plates. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8". Maroon cloth binding, white & sage printed lettering and design to spine and cover. Onionskin wrapper. More
London: Published, for Mr Reynolds, by John Dicks, No. 7, Wellington Street North, Strand. 1855. 1st Edition. [4], ii, [2 (blank)], 333, [1] pp. Text double column. Illustrated with 41 wood engravings, a few full-page. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Period brown half-calf leather binding with marbled paper boards. Black leather..... More
![Item #36699 MASTER TIMOTHY'S BOOK-CASE: or, the Magic-Lanthorn [sic] of the World. Charles. 1812...](https://tavbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/36699.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1555110608)
London: Paget & Co., Publishers. 1843. 3rd edition. 1st published in 1842 (cf. NCBEL III, 960). [6], 593, [1] pp. 8vo. Period olive green half-leather binding with marbled paper boards. A pastiche on Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock. More
London: Printed for Sherwood, and Co. Paternoster Row, Constable, Edinburgh; and Griffin, Glasgow, 1850. 1st edition thus. Not in Wolff. 3 volumes: [6], iv, 336; 322; 322 pp. Crown 8vo. Period dark brown half leather bindings with marbled paper boards. Each volume now protected by a custom cut clear mylar..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1915. 1st UK Edition (Stott A21b; Rothchild 85). [8], 648, 16 pp. 16 page publisher catalogue follows text. T.p. publisher device. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Blue grey linen cloth binding with gilt stamping. More
![Item #44898 NOREMBEGA HALL PLAYBILL [for] The OLD CURIOSITY SHOP or, Little Nell, the...](https://tavbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44898.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1726693448)
Boston: Boston Job Print, Alden Street, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca 1880. Not found in Bolton. Single sheet broadside, 10-1/4" x 4-3/8", 17 lines of text. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. A playbill advertising LeMoyne & "His Celebrated Company", with "the entire Company in both Pieces."..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862. 1st edition. 458 pp. 8 pp publisher catalogue at rear. Frontis. Inserted plates. 12mo. Bound in 6s. 7-1/2" x 5". Original publisher's green vertical wave-pattern cloth with gilt spine lettering. More
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, (n. d.). Ca 1901. 319, [1 (adverts)] pp. Illustrated by Leonard Linsdell. Head- tailpieces. Crown 8vo. Decorative blue cloth with gilt stamped title lettering. Pale green floral patterned-paper eps. A scarce title from the period / genre, with OCLC showing only 5 institutional holdings..... More
New-York: D. Appleton, Clinton-Hall. 1831. 1st Edition (American Imprints 8179; Rosenbach 761; Welch 4665). "Stereotype" issue. 192 pp. 24mo. 2-3/4" x 2-1/8". Original publisher's rust-colored cloth binding with [remnants of a] printed paper title label to spine. The first book published by Appleton. More
[Edmonton, England?]: William Muir, 1884. 1st Edition. [1], 6 ll. 6 leaves of plates, plus title leaf. Each leaf is a lithograph of a watercolor illustration which surrounds text, rendered in the style of William Blake. 9-3/8" x 7-1/4". Bound in late 19th C maroon half-leather binding, with marbled paper..... More
London: "The Dickensian Office. I. Whitcome House, Whitcomb Street, W.C., 1905. 1st Printing (Miller, p. 42). Not in Gimbel. 11, [1] pp. Frontispiece. Landscape format: 4-1/8" x 5-9/16". Original publisher's printed red paper covers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. At the time of publication, the author..... More
New York / London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903. 1st Edition (BAL 9752; Bleirer, Revised, p. 104; Reginald 07501). [6], 219, [7 (advertisements)] pp. 4 inserted plates. 7-1/2" x 5". Red cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to front board and spine. Gilt signature facsimile to front board... More
Greensboro, N. C. Published by The Apostolic Messenger Office, (n. d.). 1st printing presumed, ca early 1900s. 31, [1 (blank)] pp. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's printed grey paper covers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Godbey "was one of the most significant evangelists in the early stages..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873. 1st Edition in English. 12 pp of text. Frontispiece. 4 folding lithographed plates at rear, by J. F. Gedney. 8vo. 9" x 5-7/8". Printed pale purple wrappers, sewn. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. "The French 25 barrel "Canon à Balles", better known..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883. 1st Edition (Cordasco 80-6231). v, [1 (blank)], 57, [1 (blank)] pp. 16mo. 6" x 4-5/8". Original publisher's terra-cotta cloth binding with black stamping (professionally recased). Advert eps. A useful work documenting the US nursing profession at the time of publication. Uncommon in the..... More
London: W. Simkin & R. Marshall, 1832. 1st edition. 108 pp. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8". Drab paper boards (probably 'later', quite competently executed in a period style). Printed spine label. Lewis "was an English chess player and author, best known for the Lewis Countergambit. He may have been the first..... More
London: Stefens and Norton, 26, Bell Yard, 1849. Second Edition. 56, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/8". Lacks original wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Any fan of Dickens’ works will immediately recognize the Court of Chancery as a key player in his impactful novel from..... More
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1874. 1st edition. Not held by Sadleir, nor Wolff. 3 volumes: [4], 309, [1 (blank)]; [4], 320; [4], 307, [1 (blank)], 16 pp. Publisher catalogue concludes Vol III. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5" Original publisher's deep plum-colored cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. From an..... More
London: Thomas Tegg, 1839. 1st edition. 628 pp, 41 steel engravings by Alfred Crowquill and John Phillips + 33 wood cuts by Bonner, 8vo. Half leather binding with cloth boards. More
San Francisco / New York: Paul Elder & Co., 1907. 1st separate edition (Bleiler, p. 166; Locke I, p. 182; Mostardi 53; Reginald 12193). Limited to 1000 cc. [4], vi, [2], 54, [2] pp. Typography by John Henry Nash. Photogravure frontispiece from an oil painting by Galen J. Parrett. 12mo..... More
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Pryor, Okla: Bryon Smith, (1953). 1st edition (Six-Guns 2166). [6], 172 pp. Illustrated with maps, plates & from photographs. 8vo. Maroon cloth binding with gold lettering to front board. A somewhat uncommon ["Scarce", says Adams] 19th C. reminiscence of a Native American & his family in Oklahoma, which includes a...... More
London: Willougby, (n. d.). Ca 1845. Originally first published in 1839. 628 pp. 8vo. Orig red cloth with elaborate gilt stamped design to spine. Custom cut clear protective mylar wrapper. More
Cambridge, MA: Cambridge School of Nursing, 1905 / 1907. 1st printings (presumed). 2 items, one a single sheet folded once, and the other a booklet of 8 unpaginated pages. Circular: 10-1/2" x 8". Address: 7-5/8" x 4-1/2". White printed paper. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Includes: The..... More
