BARNABY RUDGE.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1875. Household edition. 263 pp + 8 pp of adverts, 44 illustrations by F. Barnard, 4to. Green decorative cloth with gilt stamped lettering / graphics. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1875. Household edition. 263 pp + 8 pp of adverts, 44 illustrations by F. Barnard, 4to. Green decorative cloth with gilt stamped lettering / graphics. More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1875. 1st edition thus. Household edition (cf. Gimbel D68). 347 pp (double column). 4 pp adverts at rear. 58 illustrations by Jay Mahoney. 4to. Highly decorative green cloth with gilt stamped lettering & graphics. More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1873. 1st edition thus. Household edition (cf. Gimbel D68). 355, [1], 4 pp. Adverts last 4 pp. Text double column. 52 illustrations by W. L. Sheppard. 4to. Highly decorative green cloth with gilt stamped lettering & graphics. More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1872. 1st edition thus. Household edition (see Gimbel D68). 351 pp (double column). 59 illustrations by Frederick Barnard. 4to. 10" x 7". Highly decorative green cloth with gilt stamped lettering & graphics. More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1872. 1st edition thus. Household edition (see Gimbel D68). 351 pp (double column). 59 illustrations by Frederick Barnard. 4to. Highly decorative green cloth w/ gilt lettering & designs. More
San Francisco: Girls' High School, 1886. 1st Printing. One rectangular sheet, printed, in purple ink, on both sides, folded once vertically, to form a 4 page program. P. 1 with the program title, p. 2 the "Argument", p. 3 the Cast [Miss Minnie Bullis in the lead] & p. 4..... More
[San Francisco ?]: 1885. Single sheet. Extracted leaf [p. 8] from a magazine or jounal [Hutchings?]. 9-1/8" x 5-9/16". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Surrounding the image of the bank are 3 captions, one in each margin. From left to right: "The Oldest Chartered Commercial Bank on the..... More
Boston: Printed at the Daily Mail Office, [1850]. 1st printing (McDade 1059). 64 pp. Text double column. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Cut of courtroom to p. 1; cut of Mass. Medical College to p. 64. 8vo. 10" x 6-1/8". Printed self-wrappers, 4 untrimmed quires, stitched. Now housed..... More
Continent Stereoscopic Company Publishers, (n. d.). Ca 1880s. One photograph with the two views, square edges. Verso blank. 4-1/8" x 6-7/8". Stiff-stock card mount, light brown printed with dark brown. Rounded corners. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 306 Chestnut Street, (1866). 1st edition (McDade 775). 120, [8 (adverts)] pp. 8vo. 9-3/4" x 6". Original publisher's printed buff paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
Paterson N.J. The Paterson Ribbon Co., (n. d.). Ca 1898. Woven silk ribbon, with eagle & flag over the battleship Maine, with the nationalistic slogan underneath, with 3 red & blue stars at bottom. 8-1/8" x 3". Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, [1867]. 1st Separate Edition. [2], 18, [4] pp. Text double column. 4 page advert of Howe sewing machines, printed on blue paper, inserted at rear. Wood engraving of the first Howe sewing machine to front wrapper. Advert with images of the Howe manufacturing plant. 9-1/4" x...... More
(n. p.): [Seal of the Canal Zone Isthmus of Panama], (1935). 7, [1] pp. B/w photographic reproductions within, map illustrations to rear wrapper. 8" x 4". White printed paper wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Includes sections on Construction, History, Commercial and Financial Statistics, Facilities for..... More
[Pasadena]: Issued by Pasadena Board of Trade, (n. d.). Ca. 1912 or a little thereafter. Unpaginated. Black and white photographic reproductions throughout. 7-3/4" x 5-3/8". Light peach paper wrappers, printed in yellow and brown lettering, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. "Pasadena, California, is probably the best..... More
Washington, D. C. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnography, 1887. 1st Edition. [iii]-v, 87, [1 (blank)] pp. 9-1/4" x 6". Printed tan papers wrappers, sewn. Appears disbound from larger volume. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Second in a series of author's catalogues relating to the Languages of North..... More
Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1858. 1st printing. 15, [1 (blank)] pp. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Disbound. Currently housed in a mylar sleeve. More
London: Henry Renshaw, 1835. 1st volume edition (Goldsmith 37604 & 29369 [for the 2nd Edition]). iv, 408 pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Original publisher's green patterned paper boards, with printed paper title label to spine. The DNB suggests that it is his 'admirable papers on health and gastronomy' that 'form..... More
New York: H. De Marsan, Publisher. 38 & 60 Chatam Street. (1860). Ca 1860. Not in Wolf, nor recorded on OCLC. Single sheet, printed recto only. 3 verses, each of 8 lines. No music. Hand-colored wood-engraved "The Fountain" decorative border. Just inside lower right border signed "Sparks". 10" x 6-1/8"..... More
Racine WI: Whitman Publishing Co., (1937). 212 pp. Profusely illustrated with cuts, as well as 6 inserted full-page color plates. Royal 8vo. Light brown cloth spine with four-color pictorial paper-wrapped boards. B&W pictorial eps. Dust jacket, with design duplicating that of the binding. More
London: Printed for R. S. Kirby, 1814. 1st edition. x, [4], 212 pp (including index). Untrimmed edges. Frontis [some foxing & browning]. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 5-3/4". Original paper-wrapped boards (professionally rebacked, with new paper spine label to style). More
Greensburg, KS: Signal Publishing Co, 1940. 1st edition (Dykes BILLY THE KID, #288; Six-Guns 1765). 17 pp. Portrait of author on title page. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 6". Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. A scarce, though fanciful account of this outlaw, whom Price states was..... More
New York: MacMillan, 1977. 1st US edition. 252 pp (including index), profusely illustrated in b/w & color, 4to. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
Cambridge: The Bibliophile Society, 1910. 1st edition, 1st issue. Limited to 483 cc. 90 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Half-bound with parchment & brown paper-wrapped boards; gilt spine lettering. Slipcase. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. 1st edition. [8], 279, [1 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. Linen cloth binding with black stamping. Dust jacket. A title from Dodd Mead's uncommon "Career Book" series... in this case, the main character is Carol Rogers, formerly the "Chief Hostess of Benton Airways", who..... More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers; 306 Chestnut Street. (n. d.). Later edition, ca late 1860s. Cf Smith, AMERICAN 6, p. 218. 929, [3 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 12mo. 7-1/8" x 4-7/8". Modern deep green quarter calf binding, with marbled paper boards, executed in a period style. Deep maroon & black..... More