Cincinnati: Wm. H. Cook, Publisher, 101 West Sixth Street, 1866. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, signed as "the Author". Not in Cardasco. 408 pp (including Index). Illustrated with cuts. 12mo. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Now protected by a custom-cut clear mylar wrapper. At..... More
New York: William Wood & Co., 27 Great Jones Street, 1872. 1st US Edition (Cordasco 70-1590). 49, [5] pp. Full page advert, at rear, for the "American Journal of Syphilography and Drematology", edited by Henry. 8vo. 9" x 6". Original publisher's terra-cotta cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front..... More
London: Loxley Brothers Limited, 1923. 1st edition. viii, 89 - 176 pp. Numerous full page advertisements interspersed. Includes an illustration by Katherine Mansfield. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Printed pale yellow paper wrappers. The journal started in 1923 as a monthly under the editorship of Murry, intended as a mouthpiece for D...... More
San Francisco: W. A. Woodward & Co., [1898]. 1st printing. 8 pp. 6-3/4" x 5". Printed self wrappers, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. An anonymous publication commenting, mostly unfavorably, on the two Democratic candidates for US Congress, James H. Barry and Superior Court Judge William T. Wallace in..... More
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1895. 1st edition. xli, [1 (blank)], 228 pp. Illustrated by Garrett. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4". Original publisher's white linen cloth binding with elaborate gilt stamping. TEG. Fore-edge & bottom edge untrimmed. More
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1913. 1st edition (Smith R-442). xii, 127, [9] pp. 7 pages of adverts at rear. Frontis & 3 inserted plates, on coated paper, by Charles Livingston Bull. 12mo. Grey cloth binding stamped in red & black. Buff printed dust jacket which duplicates binding design..... More
New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1894. 1st edition, printing A (BAL 1927; Wright III, 781). 229 pp. 2 pp advert at rear. Illustrated by C. Jay Taylor. Sm. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5". Orange cloth with red lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine; gilt candle on front board..... More
Boston: James H. Stark, 1910. 2nd edition (cf. Howes S-895). 509 pp (including index). 3 pp of adverts at rear. Illustrated. Fold-out map tipped-in at rear. 8vo. Original red publisher's cloth; spine & boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. First published in 1907 (though Howes notes this 1910 edition..... More
Akron, Ohio: The Akron Printing and Publishing Company, 1892. 1st printing. 83, [5] pp. Text double column. Adverts last 2 pages. Modern marbled paper wrappers, with printed paper title label to front wrapper. More
San Diego, Cal. Press of Frye, Garrett & Smith, (n. d.). 1st printing thus, ca 1904. Cf. Rocq 7558. 19, [13] pp (wrappers included in pagination). Profusely illustrated with 66 tinted photographic images. Oblong format: 5-13/16" x 8-3/4". Printed paper wrappers, stapled. More
El Monte, California: Latin American Village, (1948). 1st edition. Not located on OCLC. 24 page booklet with explanatory text. Bibliography, p. 24. Printed at La Puente Valley Journal. 11-7/8" x 8-3/4". Printed off-white paper wrappers, stapled. "'American Home Life' is the first of serveral series of color plates dealing with..... More
London: Edward Stanford, 1878. 1st edition (Bradford 3717; Graff 2914; Herd 1582; Smith 7102; SollidayII, 1194). 125, [1 (blank)] pp. Folding color map as frontis. 12mo. 6-5/8" x 4". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & front board. Pale yellow eps. More
Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1974. 1st edition thus. 29, [5] pp (including Checklist of Publications). Illustrated with 8 plates (some color). 8vo. Yellow printed paper wrappers. More
[Washington]: [Government Printing Office], [1831]. 1st edition (American Imprints 6483; Field 291; Sabin 12466). 8 pp. 8-3/4" x 5-5/8". Printed paper wrappers. More
London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1886. 1st edition. [6], 377, [1 (blank)], [32 pp catalogue, dated 8/85] pp. 8 plates. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Green cloth binding with gilt and white title lettering stamped to front board and spine. AEG. More
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Chicago: T. S. Denison, (1880). 1st edition thus. 110 pp. Twain's piece, pp 85-89, and from his 1873 collaborative work, The Gilded Age. 7-7/8" x 5-1/4". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to front board. Perimeter rule stamped in blind to boards. Salmon colored eps... More
London: Loxley Brothers Limited, 1923. 1st edition. viii, 1 - 88 pp. Numerous full page advertisements interspersed. Frontis tipped-in, a b/w portrait of Katherine Mansfield. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Printed pale yellow paper wrappers. First issue of series, includes frontis of Katherine Mansfield, wife of J. M. Murray, and numerous contributions..... More
New Haven: Babcock & Sizer, State Printers. 1862. 1st edition. 44, [4] pp. 8vo. Printed yellow wrappers. OCLC shows 10 institutional holdings. 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
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
San Francisco: California Historical Society, (n. d.). 1st edition thus. [6], 15, [3] pp. 12mo. Brown cloth binding with printed paper title label to front board. Dust jacket. More
New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1891. 1st edition, later printing (cf. BAL 1913; Wright III, 783). This printing with attributes of BAL's Printing F. 232 pp. Pp 7, 47 not paginated. Edges trimmed. No adverts. Illustrated by C. Jay Taylor, F. Opper & S. B. Griffin. Sm. 8vo. 7" x...... More
London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1878. 507 pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Red decorated cloth binding with black & gilt pictorial front. More
London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longman's, 1856. Presentation copy to the authors Aunt. vi, [1], 141 pp. 16mo. 17cm x 11cm. Green blindstamped cloth . Gilt-stamped spine and upper panel. More
Chicago: Alex T. Loyd & Co., 1889. Reprint of 1874 edition. 477 pp. + 6 pp. adverts. With 8 illustrations. 7 1/4' x 5 1/4'. Half leather with cloth boards, raised bands with gilt lettering & decoration on spine. William Henry Thomes was an author who spent much of his..... More
