The MYSTERY Of EDWIN DROOD And OTHER STORIES.
London. Chapman & Hall, Limited. (n. d.). Reprint. The 'Charles Dickens' Edition. 288 pp. Plates including frontis. 7-1/4" x 5". Red pebbled cloth, gilt and black lettering, brown eps. More
London. Chapman & Hall, Limited. (n. d.). Reprint. The 'Charles Dickens' Edition. 288 pp. Plates including frontis. 7-1/4" x 5". Red pebbled cloth, gilt and black lettering, brown eps. More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1853. 1st US Edition. xv, [16] - 424 pp. Preface specially written for the US edition. 12mo. Publisher's deluxe maroono half leather binding with matching marbled boards, edges & eps. Elaborate gilt decorated spine. More
London & Liverpool: George Philip & Son, 32, Fleet Street, (n. d.). Ca mid-1880s. Colored map: dissected and mounted on muslin, 20 panel, 26" x 221-1/2", displaying 56°N --> 50°N; 5°W --> 1°E. Scale: 1 degree = 69.15 English miles. Inset of Scily Islands. Case: 6-3/4" x 4-5/8". Purple cloth..... More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1976. Later printing. ix, [3], 172 pp (including Index). Illustrated from B&W photographs 8vo. Maroon cloth binding. Maroon dust jacket. A look at "the places in Dickens life and works" More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 809). x, 218 pp (including Index). Frontispiece. 5 internal plates [with 16 images]. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. One author's explanation of the mystery. More
Milford: 1881. 1st Edition. xiii, [3], 84, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to front board. Rare 19th C. catalogue from this small town free library, which was formed in 1868; OCLC records no holdings of this edition, noting..... More
Boston: Printed for Joseph Bumstead, 1801. 1st edition (American Imprints 16). viii, [9] - 321, [3] pp. 'Table of Contents' last 2 pp. 12mo, in 6s. 6-3/4" x 4-1/4". Modern full speckled calf, executed in a period style (by Byzantium). Modern eps. More
London: Grant Richards, 1920. 1st edition (Benkovitz A7). 112, [6] pp. Last 6 pp adverts for other Firbank titles. Color frontis & t.p. decoration by Michel Sevier. Tissue guard present. Crown 8vo. Black cloth binding lettered in gilt. No dust jacket. More
London: 1850 - 51. 1st volume edition. 2 volumes in 1 (vii, [1], 280; vii, [1], 280). 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Period green half-sheep binding with green cloth boards. A monthly news supplement to Household Words, here found in the annual with a Table of Contents for each year... More
Washington DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001. 1st pb edition. 157, [1] pp. Illustrated. 4to. 11" x 8-1/2". Glossy paper wrappers lettered in red & black. "This volume has been published in conjuction with the exhibition, The Reader Revealed, presented at The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, from September 4..... More
Cambridge: The University Press, 1914. 1st edition. xiii, [1], 159, [1] pp. Sm. 8vo. Green linen cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine. More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art. Printed by the Spiral Press. (1937). 1st Printing. 131, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). A MOMA order blank, for 1936-37 publications, laid-in at front. Illustrated with suite of plates, on glossy paper, at rear of book, portraying 95 b/w images. 8vo. 10-1/8" x...... More
London: W. H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, 1887. 1st edition (Cox 1124; NCBEL III, 808; Sadleir 707a). i-viii, 1-166 pp. Ads dated December 1887. Sm. Octavo. Slate grey diaper cloth w/ gilt spine & cover lettering. More
London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1903. 1st edition (Gimbel D151; NCBEL III, 815). xi, [2], 134, [2 (blank)] pp. Partially unopened. Frontispiece reproduces the 1842 Maclise drawing of Dickens, Catherine & her sister, Mary. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/2". Green cloth binding with red & gilt stamping. Pale green dust jacket..... More
London: The Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row, 65 St. Paul's Churchyard and 164 Piccadilly. (n. d.). Ca 1889. Date surmised from an advert at rear. 192, 16 pp. RTS adverts last 16 pages. Illustrated. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Red decorative cloth binding. Pictorial eps. Ruth Florence Verney was Florence Nightingale's..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1840 - 1841. 1st edition (Eckel, pp. 67- 70; Smith I, p. 47). 3 volumes (306; 306; 426 pp). Vol I with MHC (weekly numbers) publicaton prospectus tipped-in at front. Frontis in each volume & 195 intratextual woodcut illustrations [primarily] by Phiz and George Cattermole. Bound..... More
Oakland, CA: Oakland Chamber of Commerce and Alameda County Supervisors, (n. d.). Ca 1925. Unpaginated, but 4 pp. B/w photographic reproductions throughout, wrappers illustrated by Maurice Logan. 9-1/8" x 8-1/8". Color illustrated wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Includes sections such as: Oakland -- California's Third Largest..... More
[Oakland?]: (n. d.). Ca 1913 - 1916, i.e., pre-WWI. One sheet of printed card stock, folded thrice vertically, to make 8 panels. Color lithographed images, including 4-panel map of the San Francisco East Bay. Folded: 5-3/4" x 3-1/2". Off-white paper wrappers printed in light blue, stapled. Now housed in a...... More
Detroit: General Motors Corporation, Chevrolet Motor Division, 1959. 1st edition. 116 pp. Over 200 color illustrations, color plates (many large, folding double-page), intratextual illustrations & diagrams. 36 interior upholstery color samples and 36 car color combinations spiral bound in rear. Oblong format: 10" x 13-1/8". Housed in a blue 19-ring..... More
San Francisco: Published by Edw. H. Mitchell, (1906). 1st printing. Not found on OCLC, nor in Rocq (though see 922, for a related Oakland item by Mitchell). 11 captioned b/w photographic views on a 9-panel accordian fold-out, with a 7 panel "Panorama of Oakland, California". 7-1/8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's..... More
Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board, (n. d.). 1st edition thus. 28 pp. Intratextual photographic images and illustrations. 5-7/8" x 8-7/8". Brown printed paper wrappers with white lettering to cover. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
(n. p.): Oklahoma Travel Association. (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca 1940. 41 pp. Inserted color map of Oklahoma, b/w illustrations to each page. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Blue stiff color illustrated paper wrappers, with color photographic image of Miss Oklahoma [Martyne Woods] to center front wrapper. Now housed in a...... More
Washington, D. C. (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed). [13] - 38 pp. 9" x 6". Printed white paper wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
Washington, D. C. (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed). [13] - 34 pp. 9" x 6". Printed white paper wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
Baltimore: H. Niles, 1833. 16 pp. 8-1/2" x 6". Disbound. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More