Ca early 1900s. Divers sizes. All now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A small group of materials, including three blueprints, an original black and white photograph, several loose leaves of original pencil sketches, various additional ephemera, etc.... evidence strongly suggests all from the files of Lyman Gilmore, Jr., a...... More
Winchester, Massachusetts: The Lucky Dog Press, (1945). 1st Edition. Limited to 225 cc. [4], 38, [6] pp. Illustrated with 7 tipped-in marbled paper samples. 7-3/4" x 5-1/4". Blue cloth spine over blue marbled paper boards. Marbled paper eps (different designs used for front & rear). "This book has been written..... More
Johnstown, New York: Karg Brothers, (n. d.). Ca 1920s. 8 photographs captioned, with white writing, in the image. 9 images operational in nature (e.g., "Clipping Room"), with the remaining 3 depicting office space & personnel (one of a great old walk-in safe). Image: 5-1/2" x 7-3/4". Mount: ~8-1/2" x 10-3/4"..... More
Garden City / New York. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1927. 1st Edition. Limited to 1001 copies of which this is 791. SIGNED. cf. Lee, 61. Divers. Frontis photogravure to each volume. 6-13/4" x 4-3/4". Red cloth, stamped in gilt to back strips. TEG. According to Alfred Lee's bibliography this set..... More
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[New Haven, CT]: The Yale Society, [1955]. 1st printing (presumed). Date of publication from OCLC. [1], 10, [1] pp. 7-3/4" x 5-1/2". Printed self-wrappers (lacking outer wrappers?), stapled. A satirical look back on Yale for the benefit of freshman... "During the past few weeks you have been flooded with official..... More
Gottingen: Johann Christian Dieterich, [1795]. 1st edition thus (Crane sale, lot 484). [10], 1 - 254, [Q8 lacking], 257 - 296 pp. Untrimmed. Illustrated with 17 b/w plates + frontis. 12mo, in 6s. 6-3/8" x 3-7/8". Period marbled paper boards. More
Cincinnati: U. P. James, (1860). Later edition (Wagner-Camp-Becker 145:5; cf. BAL 1053 & Wright I, 306a for the 1st edition of 1848). 154, [2] pp. Text double column. Advert last 2 pages. Untrimmed & unopened. Illustrated. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-3/4". Original pink wrappers, with wood engraved hunting scene to front..... More
Ann Arbor: Roger Jackson, Publisher. 1995. 1st Edition. SIGNED / LIMITED. Copy "W" of 26 total. [plus] A copy of the trade edition, limited at 250 cc. Trade: 18 printed individual sheets, printed recto only in six different colors, collected in a printed flap envelope. Limited: the 18 sheets found..... 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
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
London: MacMillan, 1866. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 497). viii, 216 pp. 2 designs by D. G. Rossetti. 7" x 4-1/4". Green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine and gilt design stamped to front & back boards. More
London: Fulcrum Press, 1966. 1st edition (McNeil A2c). INSCRIBED by the author on the t.p. 163, [1] pp. Eratta to last page. 8vo. Brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Brown dust jacket, printed in black. More
Reading [PA]: Johann Ritter, 1811. 1st printing (American Imprints 22488; Arndt & Eck 1865). OCLC records 6 holding institutions. 104, [2] pp. 12mo. 5-3/4" x 3-1/2". Period quarter-leather binding, with paste-paper wrapped boards. More
San Francisco: Published for Maguires' Opera House, T. Maguire, Proprietor [Commercial Steam Presses, 129 Sansome street]. [1859]. 1st printing thus. 24 pp. 12mo. 6-15/16" x 4-3/16". Original publisher's printed green paper wrappers, sewn. Music-themed adverts to rear wrapper & inner front wrapper. "Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four..... More
London: Printed for R. Griffiths at the Dunciad, and T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, at Tully's Head, in the Strand. 1761. 1st Edition in English (Black. EPISTOLARY FICTION, p. 155). Not listed in Grimm's TRANSLATIONS Of FOREIGN NOVELS. [4], xiv, xli, [1 (blank)], 291, [1 (blank)]; [4], 285..... 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
Santa Monica: Adelie Books, 2010. 1st edition. #22 / 290 cc [of a total limitation of 300 cc]. INSCRIBED by the author. xxvii, [1], 121 pp. 160+ images, some color, including 9 maps & 2 fold-outs. 8vo. Blue leather spine over blue cloth boards. Silver stamped title lettering to spine..... More
Keokuk: R. B. Ogden & Son, Print. 1887. 1st edition (Nevins I, p. 57). 644, [2 (blank)] pp. Errata slip tipped-in after p. 6. Frontis. Facsimile broadside. xx inserted plates, primarily portraits. Map. 8vo. Publisher's original blue decorated cloth, with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Bevelled edges. A..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1850. 1st 'Cheap' edition in book form (NCBEL III, 792). xii, 291, [1] pp. Text double column. Frontis by George Cruikshank; engraved by T. Bolton. 8vo. 6-3/4" x 4-3/4". Period tan half-calf with marbled paper boards & dark maroon leather title label to spine. The "Cheap"..... More
London: Printed for the Use of the Honourable The East-India Company's Servants, By J. L. Cox and Son, and Sold By Parbury Allen & Co., 1833. 1st edition. [4] p., 4 cols., v-xxxiv, [2] p., 2764 cols., [2], [2769] -2851, [1] p. ; 4. 4to: a2 b - e4 B...... More
[London]: Diggers, Printer, St. Ann's - Lane. 1802. 4 single sheet broadsides, printed recto only. ~ 36.5 cm x 26 cm. Light extremity wear. Faint horizontal fold line. Short ink annotation on verso, dated 1809. The broadside reports the maritime commerce of the day in 5 primary categories: "London Imported..... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1870. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 828). viii, [9] - 147 pp (double column). 2 pp publisher advert prior to text, and 4 pp publisher advert at rear (dated July 1870). Wood engraving frontispiece of Dickens. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 5-7/8". Original green publisher's cloth with gilt..... More
Londini: Typis Gul Strahan (& 12 others), 1758. 2nd edition. 234 pp + Index + Vocabulorum. Title page printed in red & black. 8vo: a8, [*]1, A-V8, X7. Full calf binding, with modern respining to style. Maroon spine label lettered in gilt. More
