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Philadephia: Carey & Hart, 1844. 1st US clothbound edition. Cf. Edgar & Vail, p. 21; Gimbel A80; McGuire Collection, 31; Wilkins, p. 38). [8], 158, [2 (blank)] pp. T.p. printed in red & blue. Half-title printed in blue ink. Illustrated with 8 plates after the originals by Leech; 4 hand-colored... More about A CHRISTMAS CAROL. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
London: Partridge and Co., 1860. 1st Edition. viii, 152 pp. Errata slip tipped-in prior to Contents page. 8vo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4". Original blue publisher's cloth, with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Custom blue quarter-leather clamshell case. From the publisher's preliminary note, "The writer begs to acknowledge the courtesy... More about WANDERING CRIES
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 York: Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co, (n. d.). Ca early 1860s. Verso with printed title label affixed. View: 2-7/8" x 5-1/4". Card: 3-1/4" x 6-3/4". Flat mount, lemon yellow, square corners. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. From Yosemite expert John Carpenter: "Charles Weed's... More about CALIFORNIA VIEWS. No. 13.; Big Tree in Mariposa Grove, 94 feet in circumference
San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc., 1932. 1st ed. Limited to 400 cc (Heller & Magee166). [8], 156, [1] Frontispiece portrait, with 6 plates. 8vo. Cloth backed boards with printed paper label on cover and spine. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. Included, TLs to Iolo Williams [author of ELEMENTS Of BOOK... More about A COLLECTOR'S COMMENT On HIS FIRST EDITIONS Of The WORKS Of SIR WALTER SCOTT
New York: Coolidge & Wiley, Publishers, 12 Water Street, 1848. 1st US Edition thus, i.e., by this publisher (Smith, pp 76 - 79). 112 pp. Text double column. 8vo. Modern deep burgundy quarter calf binding with complementary marbled paper boards. Black leather spine labels. New eps [with period bookseller ticket... More about WUTHERING HEIGHTS: A Novel. By the Author of "Jane Eyre."
(n. p.): 1821. 1st Separate Printing (American Imprints 5281). Broadside, black wide-rule mourning border, text in 4 columns divided by black vertical single rules. Cut of coffin under title. 17-15/16" x 10-1/2" Clark convicted of intentially setting fire to a stable owned by Mrs Phebe Cross, which in turn consumed... More about EXECUTION Of STEPHEN MERRILL CLARK, Which Took Place on Winter Island, Salem, on Thursday, May...
Monachii: Typis Francisci Josephi Thuille, 1756. 1st edition thus, i.e., by this printer. [10], 373, [1 (Index)] pp. T.p. printed in red & black. Copperplate frontis & 12 inserted copperplate engravings of the divers Saints who dedicated their life to Mary. Head- tailpieces. Printer's device. 8vo: A - 2A^8. 6-5/8"... More about CORONA MARIANA Complectens Duodecim Viridarii Parthenii LILIA, Seu Totidem Castorum Juvenum Vitas...
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...
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1880. Fifth and Cheap Edition. With author's "Compliments" slip pasted-in to front paste-down. 1st published in 1879. Not found in Johnson's Bibliography of 19th C Photography. 196, 4 pp. Last 4 pages a publisher catalogue. Mounted oval albumen photograph of the author as frontis... More about With The ARMIES Of The BALKANS And at Gallipoli in 1877 - 1878.; With Specially-Prepared Maps and...
1785. Unpaginated, though 40 pp. 1st & last leaf blank, with 2 quarters of an unidentified watermark visible. Vertical chain-lines. 6-1/8" x 4" [15.8 cm x 10 cm]. Period marbled paper wrappers, with hand-inked title label to front wrapper. A manuscript journal written by John Hall, a mechanical engineer from... More about JOURNAL ACROSS The ATLANTICK. No 1. From June 3rd to July the 30th 1785. A Recopied Journal....
London: Printed and Sold by T. Sowle, 1696. 1st Edition (Smith II, p. 315 & 557; Wing P-1301A). [2], 236 pp. Lacks final advert leaf, reported in some copies. 8vo: [A]1 B - P^8 Q^6. 6-1/2" x 4". Modern full brown calf binding, executed in a period style. 8 sermons... More about The HARMONY Of DIVINE And HEAVENLY DOCTRINES: Demonstrated in Sundry Declarations on Variety of...
Boston: Little Brown & Co., (1900). 1st separate edition (BAL 230). [2], 54, [2] pp. Publisher adverts last 2 pages. Frontis & 2 inserted plates. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5". Green cloth binding with dark green stamped spine lettering & gilt, red & dark green stamping to front board. Dust jacket duplicating front board design/lettering. More about POPPIES And WHEAT
Hartford, Conn. Columbian Book Company, 1872. 1st edition (Cowan II, p. 498; Howes P537; Sabin 64804; Zamorano 80, #61). xvi, [17] - 327, [3] pp. One page publisher advert at rear. 29 listed illustrations, divided between intratextual cuts & full-page wood engravings by True W. Williams. A 30th cut, unlisted... More about AFOOT And ALONE; A Walk from Sea to Sea by the Southern Route. Adventures and Observations in...
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(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca early 18th C. [4], 123 - 158, [1], 84 - 216, 27 - 42, [2 (blank)] pp. 5-7/8" x 3-3/8". Black somber [mourning] binding, boards decorated in blind, raised bands to the spine. AEG. Dentelle edges, marbled-paper endpapers. "Barbara Talbot was the second and younger... More about SUNDAYS MEDITATIONS In The MORNING; Upon the Most Holy Sacrament. [Bound With]: A LITANY BEFORE...
Cleveland, Ohio: T. H. Smead, Publisher. 1842. 1st printing of this issue. 4 pp. Folio. 15" x 10-3/4". One printed sheet, folded once vertically. A political voice for the views of the Liberty Ticket. Somewhat uncommon. More about The DECLARATION Of INDEPENDENCE. Published Monthly, in Cleveland, Ohio. October, 1842. Vol I....
Stockholm, Tryckt hos Johan Chr. Holmberg, 1802. 1st edition thus. [4], 182, [2] pp. Fold-out hand-colored map at rear, dated 1798. 8vo: ^2 A - L^8 M^3. 7" x 4-1/4". Period tan half-calf with speckled paper boards. Djurberg was a respected cartographer at Uppsala University. Map is of the West... More about BESKRIFNING Om OARNE CEYLON, CUBA, JAMAICA och DOMINGO. BIHANG Til UTFORLIGA DEOGRAFIEN
Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, (1849). Ca 1849. Cf. Cagle 685 (listing a later issue, per adverts). 2 volumes in 1 (196; 154, [6] pp). Sectional t.p. for CONFECTIONER. Adverts last 6 pages. Frontis depicting 2 women at work in a mid-19th C kitchen. COOK illustrated by intra-textual cuts. 12mo. 7-1/2"... More about COOK And CONFECTIONER. The Complete Cook. Plain and Practical Directions for Cooking and...
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 1st edition, 1st issue (Eckel, p. 140). 2 volumes. Frontis & 12 plates by Cruikshank. 8vo. Original publisher's later-issue brown cloth with elaborate gilt stamping to spine (professionally recased). More about MEMOIRS Of JOSEPH GRIMALDI
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers. (1905). Reprint. Ca late 1920s. Cf. Russo, p 227, for the series title genesis. 190, [2] pp. Life pictures by William B. Dyer. 8vo. Tomato red cloth binding with gold lettering. Color pictorial dust jacket, "with individual designs on wrapper and cover." From a.... More about RILEY LOVE-LYRICS. Riley Poems #2
New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, 1892. 1st edition. 144 pp. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. An early, scarce, work by Charles Dickens' grand-daughter who followed her more famous ancestor's lead by writing/publishing over 10 novels, 1890 - 1920. No copies listed on OCLC, nor in the British Library Catalogue of Printed Books. More about NOBODY'S FAULT. Specially Written for "Once a Week Library". Also 'A Social Success',...
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1877. 1st edition thus. Household edition (cf. Gimbel D68). INSCRBIED by the illustrator, Nast, at the top of the frontispiece. 383, [3 (blank)] pp. Text double column. Illustrated by Thomas Nast & Arthur B. Frost. 10" x 7". Highly decorative green cloth binding wight... More about PICTURES FROM ITALY, SKETCHES BY BOZ And AMERICAN NOTES
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Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1868. 1st appearance (Edgar & Vail, p. 30). iv, 762 pp [for entire volume]. Illustrated. 8vo. Period black half-sheep with marbled boards. Gilt spine lettering & decorations. Dickens' story appears in the January, March, April & May issues. More about HOLIDAY ROMANCE. In Four Parts. [As Published in] OUR YOUNG FOLKS. An Illustrated Magazine for...
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 about REPORT Of EXPLORATIONS And SURVEYS, To Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a...
