New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc., 1941. 1st edition. [14], 304, [2 (blank)] pp. T.p. vignette drawing. Text illustrated with drawings by the artist-dectective, Storm. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-5/8". Black cloth binding with red stamping. Red topstain. Yellow dust jacket with red &..... More
San Francisco / New York: "Gregory's United States & California Express," 280 Montgomery Street / Thompson & Hitchcock, 149 Pearl Street, 1851. Unpaginated blank pages. 4-3/4" x 2-7/8". Shiny dark blue paper covers, with gilt stamped lettering, stapled. Buff paper mailing envelope. Wrapper insides: front, instructions for use; rear, 2..... More
London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Almon, in Piccadilly. 1779. 1st Edition (Goldsmith 11795). [4], 108, [2] pp. Illustrated with 4 inserted fold-out copperplate engravings. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5-1/8". Later marbled card-stock covers. More
West - Smithfield / London / Bath: Sold by J. Evans [Printer to the Cheap Repository...]. By J. Hatchard ... By S. Hazard... [1798]. 1st printing (ESTC N505465). Not recorded by Spinney. 16 pp. Signed "Z" p. 15. Woodcut vignette on title page [signed "Lee"]. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/4" Printed..... More
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
(n. p.): (1914 - 1952). Two volumes, 57 black album leaves (unnumbered). Over 1,400 postage stamps/poster stamps, labels, stickers, ration stamps, cigarette cards, leaflets, advertisement cards &c. Oblong format, 7" x 11-1/4". Self wrappers. Included in this large and varied collection are several sets of California landmark stamps, numerous advertising..... More
Lucenec (Kingdom Of Hungary). 1916 - 1917. [18] pp. Original pencil drawing to the recto of each leaf. 7 1/2" x 6 1/2". Stapled self wrappers. The sketches are primarily of uniformed men and some female figures. The sketches appear to be signed "Keszult" More
A Londres: Aux depens d'une Societe de Libraires, 1757. 1st Edition. 2 parts in one volume: vi, [2], 158, [2 (blank)]; [4], 138 pp. Text in French. T.p. ornament. Head- tailpieces. 8vo: *^4 A - K^8; ^2 A - H^8 I^4. 6-3/8" x 4". Period full marbled calf binding, raised..... More
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New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated. 1929. 1st Printing. 433 - 477, [3] pp. Television article, pages 439 - 444. Journal illustrated throughout, primarily with b/w photographic images. 8vo. Original publisher's prined light orange paper wrappers, stapled. Television, as we know it, came about in the 1920s. "Scottish inventor John..... More
Washington DC: Review and Herald, (1950 - 1954). 1006; 863, [1]; 802; 1295, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Green buckram cloth bindings. Dust jackets (Vol I & II; partial V. III). More
New Haven: Storer and Stone, Printers. 1850. 1st Printing. 8 pp. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8". Printed self-wrappers. Biblical disquisition on the death threatened Adam... body only, death of soul & body, or a "moral, or spiritual death?." Rare work on the subject, not found in the NUC, nor on OCLC..... More
Lawrence, Massachusetts: Pacific Mills, (n. d.). 11-3/4" x 16" x 1-1/4". Dark wood cases with gold PACIFIC MILLS decal to front. Left side with 3 brass wood screws [for glass removal & adjusting of contents]. In 1853, Pacific Mills incorporated in Lawrence, Massachusetts with capital of $1 million. The original..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway. 1846. 1st edition thus, i.e., an inexpensive text-only edition, omitting the maps & plates. Cf. Howes F-370 for the other editions. 186, [6] pp. Adverts last 6 pages. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Original printed paper wrappers. "Price 25 Cents."... More
London: Printed for George Kearsley, 1785. 1st edition (NCBEL II, 801). 2 volumes: lvii, [1 (blank)], 224; [4], [225] - 540, [4] pp. 3 pages of adverts conclude Vol II. 16mo, in 8s. 6-3/8" x 3-7/8". Modern brown quarter calf with maroon & black title labels to spine; marbled paper..... More
[Worcester, Mass ?]: Published under the Auspices of the Worcester (Mass.) Branch of the Chinese National Welfare Society, [1919]. 1st printing thus, i.e., by this publisher. 1st published by Kuo Fong Hui, July 30, 1919. Unpaginated, though 8 pages. P. 7 begins "The Legal Aspects of the Shantung Issue." T.p...... More
[San Francisco]: Printed at the Mercantile Job Office, 130 Sansome Street. 1855. 1st printing (Greenwood 609, noting title from John Howell). Single Sheet, printed recto only. Typographical border to entire. 12-1/2" x 7-3/8" Broadside announces the 11 item agenda for this special service celebrating Pilgrim's Sunday School's second anniversary. A...... More
Bible House, New York: Published by the Christian Herald, (1895). 10 volumes. T.p. vignette. 12mo. 5-7/8" x 3-7/8". Red cloth bindings with gilt stamped spine lettering. Red cloth publisher's box [8-3/4" x 6-1/8" x 4-1/4"], with interior lined with red marbled paper. Gilt stamped title lettering to front flip down..... More
London: (n. d.). Ca mid-1800s. 2 volumes (158; [2], 163 - 303, [1 (blank)] pp. Engraved title page & printed title page, in red & blue, to each volume. Engraved vignette to each engraved title. 74 numbered plates, Vol I; 70 [of 72] numbered plates, Vol II. 4to. 11-3/8" x...... More
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
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers. (1910). Reprint. Ca late 1920s. Cf. Russo, p 227, for the series title genesis. 190 pp. With pictures by Will Vawter. 8vo. Tomato red cloth binding with gold lettering. Color pictorial dust jacket, "with individual designs on wrapper and cover." From a uniform set..... More
Avgvstae Vindelicorvm [Augsberg Germany]: Sumnptibus Fratrum Veith, Bibliofolarvm. 1788. 1st edition (Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 79). xvi, 207, [1] pp. Errata last page (which a prior owner has implemented via pen & Ink). Untrimmed. Head- & tailpieces. Illustrated at rear with 8 folding copperplate engraved tables of alphabets used..... More
Lvgdvni [Lyons]: Sumptib. Gabrielis Boissat, & Soc. 1636. 'Editio Postrema, Ab ipsomet Authore recognita, & emendata.' 2nd edition, the 1st edition being published the year prior in Salamanca. [32], 779, [5] pp. Printer's device to t.p. Head- & tailpieces. Decorative initial capitals. 8vo: a8 e8 A - 3C8. Last 2..... More
[Sacramento CA]: B. B. Redding, State Printer. [1855]. 1st edition. Not in Cowan, nor Greenwood. 54, [2] pp. "Register and Descriptive List of Convicts under Sentence": pp. 12 - 35 [beginning with 1851]; "Transcript of Received, Escaped, and Returned Prisoners since the Inspection of State Prison Books": pp, 38 -..... More
Muskogee, OK: Pheonix Job Printing, 1915. 220 pp. 4to. 10-1/4" x 6-3/4". Red library buckram with gilt lettering on front cover. After the Civil War the Creeks entered into a treaty with the U.S. and by the terms of this treaty all slaves of members of the Creek Nation were..... More
