London: All The Year Round, 1868 - 1869. 1st appearance. 1st published in book form in 1869. Not in Sadleir, nor Wolff. Divers paginations. Masthead engraving to each issue. 8vo. Bespoke blue quarter leather binding over blue pebbled cloth boards. Maroon leather title label to spine. Pale yellow eps. Yates'..... More
London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. 1859. First Edition [Bishop & Goldie 100 (iii); Garrison - Morrison 1611]. [8], 108, 8 pp. 8 page publisher catalogue at rear. Charts, including one fold-out, 8 intra-textual figures & 4 fold-out plates at rear. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's brown..... More
London / Bath: Sold by J. Marshall (Printer to the Cheap Repository...) ... and R. White, Picadilly, London ... By. S. Hazard ... [1796]. 1st printing (Spinney 62). 16 pp. Untrimmed. Signed "S" at conclusion of text [cf. Spinney, p. 310]. Woodcut vignette [2-1/2" x 2-7/8"] on title page. 8vo..... More
Boston: Alexander Moore, 1872. 3rd edition, first printing (Cowan II, p. 333; Currey & Kruska 225; Farquhar 10c; Kurutz CA PHOTO BOOKS, 84). xii, [13] - 97, [1 (Index)] pp. Each page of text with a red-rule perimeter border. Illustrated with 10 albumen photographs taken by John P. Soule. Image..... More
Philadelphia: Perkinpine & Higgins, 1865. 1st Edition. [4], 3 - 128 pp. Small 8vo. 4-1/4" x 2-7/8" Publisher's quarter cloth and printed paper wrappers. A "convenient pocket manual for soldiers in the army and navy." Contents include a Soldier's Calendar, a Pay Table and details, objects, principles and plans of..... More
San Francisco: Hill Tolerton Print Rooms, Inc., [1918]. 12 unnumbered pages. 6 pp of text, 6 pp of plates. 6 b/w plates of art reproductions. 8-1/4" x 6". Sewn grey-green laid paper wrappers printed in black. Catalogue of an exhibition that featured works by Gottardo Piazzoni, Armin Hansen, Phillips Lewis..... More
Paris: Societe Paritys / Lebotys, 1959. 108 pp. 16 color fashion drawings; ~800 pasted and tipped-in fabric samples. 16-1/4" x 12". Post binder with 3 brass posts. Publisher's pictorial glazed boards, white cloth joints. A mid-century salesman's sample catalogue from the summer collection of Parisian firm Société Paritys, a haberdashery..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1880. 1st edition thus. Not in Gimbel. 16 volumes, complete. Frontispiece. 16mo. 6" x 4". Original publisher's green cloth binding with black & gilt stamping to spine, front board blocked in black & rear board in blind. Original publisher's green cloth box with gilt stamping to..... More
Chicago, IL: Chicago Patent Shirt Co., (n. d.). Ca. 1920s. Unpaginated. Many color illustrations to accordion, stiff stock paper. Silk and cloth examples throughout. Oblong format. Brown faux-leather embossed wallet-type portfolio, with accordion pages within. Snap button closure, gilt embossed lettering and design to front of folder. More
Cincinnati, Ohio: Wrightson & Company, Printers, 1868 / 1867. 4th Edition, Thirty-Fifth Thousand (Wheaton & Kelly 2996). Not found in Axford. Cf. Monaghan 734, for the 1865 1st printing of Biographies. 96; [2], 46 pp. 2nd title illustrated with 19 bust portrait wood engravings. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's..... More
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Hansman & Pralow, The Printers. [1908]. 1st printing. Not in Alliot, nor Cowan. 99, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with many half-tone photographic illustrations. 8vo. 7-3/8" x 5-1/4". Original grey paper wrappers, printed in green. Cole, and a schoolmate, Adina Gidley, take a two month trip, February - April..... More
(v. p.): 1862 - 1893. 350; 310 [283 with mss text] pp. Volume 1 with 262 poems; Volume 2 with 62 poems/works. Mss glosses throughout. Tipped-in note & newspaper clipping following p. 229 in v. 1. Laid-in are 2 newspaper clippings, 2 envelopes, one mss poem, one mss receipt &..... More
(n. p.): United Airlines, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca late-1970s / 1980s. Broadside. Color Boeing 747 [8" x 37"] mounted on red, orange, and yellow sky background. Overall size: 39" x 18-3/8" 747 plane with United Airlines orange, red & blue stripes is mounted approximately an inch off the..... More
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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
East Greenwich, R. I. The Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation, (1919). 1st printing. Not in Brockett's Bibliography of Aeronautics [though 5 other Gallaudet entries are present]; no copies located on OCLC. Unpaginated, though 16 pages. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 4-1/8". Brown stiff-stock paper wrappers printed in dark olive green, string tie. A rare..... More
London: Printed for John Nutt, 1706. 1st edition of this English translation (Foxon C493). [8], 311, [1] pp. Advert last page. Mispaginations in D gathering. 8vo: A^4 B - U^8 X^4. Modern brown speckled full calf binding, executed in a period style. The character of Reynard the Fox a folklore..... More
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1880; 1882. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 826). 3 volumes (ix, [3], 463; [4], 464; [4], 308 pp). Errata slip in each volume precedes p. 1. Index in Vols II & III. 8vo. Early 20th C. 3/4 green morocco binding with marbled paper boards & eps. TEG..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., (1948). 1st trade edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy from Sandburg to close friend, and long-time associate, Tom Ferril. [10], 1067 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding. Blue topstain. Dust jacket. Inscribed on ffep by Sandburg, in blue fountain pen, to fellow poet, Thomas Ferril: "Dear Tom..... More
Paris: Libraire Hachette et Cie, [1891]. 1st French edition (Schuster 11 - 9a; Thompson 42; cf. Gumachin 2805, for the entire run). Unpaginated, though 24 pp. Color illustrations by Greenaway, printed by Edmund Evans. 24mo. 4" x 3". White glazed paper-wrapped color-pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine. Edges stained yellow..... More
London: Geo. Routledge & Co., 1854. 1st Edition in English (Howes G-142; Sabin 27191). xi, [1], 396 pp. Frontis + 7 tinted inserted plates. 8vo. 7-1/8" x 4-3/8". Brown half calf with yellow marbled paper boards. Speckled edges. A chronicling of the author's experiences while visiting the "wilds of America"..... More
Boston: William White & H. P. Lewis, 1842. 1st edition (American Imprints 42-2784; Gimbel H-277; VanderPoel B486; Wright I, 1571). Not in Kitton's DICKENSIANA or Wilkins. 68 pp. 12mo. 7-3/4" x 4-1/4". Original printed pale-yellow wrappers. A scarce parody published, no doubt, to take advantage of the Boz mania that..... More
Washington: Beverley Tucker, Printer. 1856. 1st edition thus. Quarto Edition (Hasse p. 62; Meisel III, pp. 208-210; Wagner-Camp 264). vii, [1], 193, [1], 288 pp. Folding, hand-colored 'Botanical Profile of Forest Trees'. 59 inserted plates (Cactaceae 24; Botany 25; Mosses & Liverworts 10). 4to. 11-1/2" x Original brown cloth (professionally..... More
London: John Murray, 1816. 1st edition, 2nd issue (Wise Vol I, pg 56). 79 pp + Poem List + 4 pp advert dated November 1816. 8vo. Original drab paper wrappers. More
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1983. 1st edition. 712 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. The Soho Bibliographies XXIII. More
