Thomasville, GA: A. W. Moller. For Sale by J. E. Robinson, Broad Street. (n. d.). Ca 1890. Orange mount [recto], grey verso, rounded corners. Company stamp to verso. 5" x 8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. The Piney Woods Hotel opened in 1885, and was located between Broad... More about CABINET CARD ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH. Views of Thomasville and Vicinity. No. 74. Piney Woods Hotel
London: David Bogue, Fleet Street, 1854. 1st Edition (NCBEL III, 1387). INSCRIBED by the author [as "the author"] on the ffep. vi, [2], 276 pp. 24 page January 1854 publisher catalogue [6-7/8" x 4-1/4"] tipped-in at rear. Cut adorns top of p. 1 of the publisher catalogue. 8vo. 7-3/4" x.... More about SATIRE And SATIRISTS. Six Lectures
Curtis Publishing Co., 1958. 1st Printing. Broadside, color lithographed. Artwork by John Falter. 28" x 21-3/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Falter was a mainstay artist for the Post, with his first Saturday Evening Post cover appearing September 1, 1943. So began a 25-year relationship with the magazine... More about John Bartlow's Study on- DIVORCE; The Saturday Evening Post. November 1, 1958 - 15¢
Boston: 1878. 1st Edition. 93, [3 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece wood engraving, inserted plate, woodcut p. 17. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 6-3/8". Original publisher's brown cloth binding, with gilt stamped title lettering to front board (professionally recased). Bevelled boards. Dark brown coated paper eps. More about A NATURALIST In The MAGDALEN ISLANDS; Giving A Description of the Islands and List of the Birds...
New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1882. 1st edition (Baird & Greenwood 593; Cowan II, p. 154; Wright III, 1362). viii, 453, [3] pp. Last leaf a 2 page publisher advert, dated 1882. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's brown cloth binding, with gilt stamped spine lettering & publisher... More about BRAXTON BAR. A Tale of Pioneer Years in California
New Hampshire / Massachusetts: (n. d.). Ca. 1930s-1950s. 288 pp. journal with roughly 90 pp. of ms text ranging from one line to 24 lines, some pages have clippings of mimeographed lists pasted in; together with numerous scraps of ephemera varying in size, some typed letters, handwritten notes, pages torn... More about ARCHIVE From Mr. MALCOLM M. FERGUSON Of BROOKFIELD BOOKSHOP
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Rouen: Chez Robert Vallentin, 1623. "Derniere edition", 1st edition thus, i.e., by this printer. [32], 1 - 26, 33 - 432, 435 - 802, [16]; [10], 84 pp. P. 26 misnumbered 29; 472 as 495; 688 as 68-; 689 as 680. Separate title leaf for Traicté; divisional title leaf, "Discovrs... More about De La SAGESSE TROIS LIVRES [bound with] TRAICTE De SAGESS, Composé par Pierre Charron
London: John Murray, 1856. 1st Edition. xi, [2], 252, 32 pp. July 1856 publisher catalogue inserted at rear. 3 folding plans at rear. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & boards blocked in blind. More about A VOICE From WITHIN The WALLS Of SEBASTOPOL: A Narrative of the Campaign in the Crimea, and of...
Los Angeles: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club at the Plantin Press, 1959. 1st edition thus (Harmsen & Tabor 157; McVicker B115; Newman & Wiche 298). #325 / 1500 cc. SIGNED by the Illustrator. xiv, [2], 428, [2] pp. Illustrated with color drawings by Evert Gee Jackson... More about RAMONA. A Story by Helen Hunt Jackson.; With an Introduction by J. Frank Dobie
San Francisco: F. M. Husted, Publisher. (1894). 1st edition thus, restricted issue. Cf. Rocq 24 for the series. 2 60; [445] - 688, [3] pp. Eps included in pagination. 3 inserted trade-card style advertising inserts, including one for Oakland's Haussler Photography, which has a tipped-in alubmen photograph + 4 inserted... More about OAKLAND, ALAMEDA And BERKELEY DIRECTORY. Giving Name, Occupation and Residence of All Adult...
[Cambridge, Massachusetts]: Printed at the University Press by W. Hilliard. 1805. 1st edition (American Imprints 9690; Arents 1159; Austin 2005). 32 pp. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-1/8". Period marbled paper wrappers with printed paper title label to front wrapper. "Waterhouse was a highly complex and controversial individual. He was feisty yet... More about CAUTIONS To YOUNG PERSONS CONCERNING HEALTH in a Public Lecture Delivered at the Close of the...
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1851. 1st US edition thus, i.e., by this publisher. Also issued by Appleton in 1851; priority not established. 232, 7, [1] pp. 8 pages of publisher adverts follow text. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine, boards stamped in blind. More about The HEIR Of WAST-WAYLAND. A Tale
Cleveland, Ohio: Published by Manual Publishing Co., (1902). 1st edition. [2], 177, [5] pp. Last 4 pages inserted adverts, printed on pink paper. Illustrated with 104 figures. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 5-1/8". Black cloth binding with silver stamped title lettering to front board. Green floral patterned paper eps. Red edgestain. More about MANUAL Of RURAL TELEPHONY
Richmond, VA: C. F. Johnston, 918 Main Street. 1880. 1st edition (BAL 572). 23, [1 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 5-3/4" x 4-1/4". Printed self-wrappers, sewn. A political tract, anti-Grant & anti-Mahone, issued during the latter's 1880 run for U. S. Senator from Virginia; Bagby predicts a civil war worse than that... More about 1860 - 1880. JOHN BROWN And WM. MAHONE. An Historical Parallel, Foreshadowing Civil Trouble
London: Robert Tyas, 1842. 1st edition, BFTP (Gimbel H1153). 8 pp of text. T.p. with wood engraved vignette. 72 steel engravings, with many of the tissue guards still present. Royal 8vo. 10-1/8" x 6-3/8". Period brown half sheep with marbled paper boards, eps & edges. Elaborate gilt decorated spine. Joints... More about ILLUSTRATIONS Of MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK In Seventy Plates, Designed and Etched on Steel. By...
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Basileae: Apud Io. Heruagium, 1535. 1st edition thus, i.e., this publisher. Cf. Adams H-748. [8], 410, [2], 284, [4] pp. Numerous mispaginations, including p. 410 misnumbered 394. Text in Greek, with commentary. "Odyssey" has individual, dated t.p. Printer's device to each t.p. Decorative initial capital letters. Folio, primarily in 6s... More about ILIAS Et VLYSSEA, cum Interpretatione. Variae lectionis in utroq[ue] opere, annotatio
London: Printed for Jonas Browne, 1715. 1st edition. [8], xxxii, 390, [2] pp. Adverts last 2 pages. Head- tailpieces. 8vo: A^8 a^8 b^4 B - 2B^8 2C^4. 7-5/8" x 4-3/4". Period brown full speckled calf. Maroon leather title label to spine Gilt spine decorations. More about MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Viz. I. Of Company and Conversation. I I. Of Solitariness and Retirement. ...
Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1924. 1st edition. Ltd to 440cc. 241 pp. Untrimmed fore- bottom edges. Illustrated with plates (of items not often seen elsewhere). 8vo. Modern brown cloth spine, with gilt lettered leather title label, over original light brown boards. TEG. Eps renewed. Excellent reference, which chronicles instances where Dickens... More about DICKENS In CARTOON And CARICATURE.; Introduction by B. W. Matz
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard. Successors to Carey & Co., 1839. 1st US book edition (VanderPoel B125(2); cf. Edgar & Vail, p. 18; Gimbel A43, 'fourth copy'). i-ii, 3-5, vi - viii, 13 - 403, [1 (blank)], [4] pp, double column of text. Adverts last 4 pages. Printed by T.K. &... More about The LIFE And ADVENTURES Of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. By Charles Dickens (Boz
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Amsterdam & Paris: Chez P. F. Gueffier, 1765. 1st edition. [6], xxi, [1], 215, [1] pp. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 4-1/4". 19th (?) C. green patterned-paper boards, with black leather title label to spine. Early pink wrappers bound-in). More about EXAMEN D'Un LIVRE Qui a pour Titre [by A. Louis], Parallele des Differentes Methodes de Traiter...
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848. 1st edition thus, and the 3rd US edition (Edgar & Vail, pp. 24 - 25; cf Gimbel A109, for an edition with 36 plates). Not in the McGuire collection. viii, [9] - 320 pp. Novel text in double column. Illustrated with a frontis, title page... More about DOMBEY And SON
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1921). 1st edition in French (Barton, p. 118). NB. Barton calls for a "$1.00" price on the dust jacket; this is incorrect. Per the 4th edition of The United States Catalog, this book was first issued with a "75¢" price. vi, 56, [2] pp... More about HISTOIRE Du PETIT NEGRE SAMBO (The Story of Little Black Sambo). Traduit de L'Anglais par...
London: Longmans Green & Co., 1908 - 1917. 1st editons (Vols II - IV); Vol I - 2nd printing (1908). 2 volumes in 4. Illustrated with maps & facsimiles. 8vo. Maroon cloth bindings with gilt spine lettering. More about HISTORY Of The SOCIETY Of JESUS In NORTH AMERICA. Colonial and Federal
London: Chapman & Hall, 1850. 1st Cheap edition (in volume form). xiv, [2], 303, [1 (blank)] pp. Text double column. Frontispiece. 8vo. Original green blindstamped cloth with elaborate gilt-decorated spine. The "Cheap" edition the first systematic reissuance of Dickens' works and begun in 1847, with Pickwick Papers, in weekly, monthly... More about SKETCHES BY BOZ
