New York: Frank Tousey, Publisher, 21 Union Square, (1898). Later printing, ca 1900. 59, [5] pp. Publisher adverts last 5 pages. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4-3/17" Printed paper wrappers, with full color image of a cadet squadron to the front cover. Rear advert for the series, which lists through #79. Now..... More
Mexico: Impresa por Leandro J. Valdes, 1844. 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged. N.B. Sabin lists only the 4th and subsequent editions, cf Sabin 26466. [2], IV, [3] - 184 pp. Head- tailpieces. 2 plates. Numerous intratextual figures. Tables. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Period full contemporary green & brown mottled Mexican..... More
Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, (1963). 1st edition. #91 / 220 cc. 62, [6] pp. "Printed by hand from Romanée types on Golden Hind paper." 8vo. 9-3/4" x 5-5/8". Original brown paper wrapped boards with printed title label to spine. Author's first book. More
London: Printed by Edward Owen, in Warwick-Lane, 1753. 1st Edition, State 2, with "ship of a". Precedence not established. 46 pp. Two fold-out tables: "List of all Prussian Ships Taken" & "List of all the Neutral Ships, taken by British ships in the last war". 4to. 10" x 7-5/8". Disbound..... More
(San Francisco): C. 1932 - 1939. 1st Printing. Printed bifolium, black lettering, two slips with purple ink typed on light yellow paper. Spray painted upper wrapper in red, green, orange and black paint, small newspaper clipping advertising Milligan's is glued to the tail of the upper wrapper. Folio, 13-3/4" x...... More
Worcester: 1953. 1st Edition. 14 single sheets, with type-written double-space text to recto of each, staple upper left. Text contains 4 different "pitches": "A Wind That Kindled A Spirit" [3 pp], Untitled [2 pp], "Our Lady Of The Tornado [noted at top: 'For a Catholic Audience', 4 pp], "A Revisit..... More
![Item #45013 "NAZARETH" [as published in] SOUVENIR GOLDEN JUBILEE SANTA CLARA COLLEGE. 1851. 1901....](/pictures/thumb/45013.jpg?v=1542150127)
Santa Clara, Ca. Chas. A. Nace, Printer, (1901). 1st Edition. [i-ii], 1-64, [i-ii] [1-4], 5-59, [60] pp. 25 b/w plates on glossy paper. Oblong format: 6-1/2" x 9-5/8" Beige wrappers with lettering embossed in gilt. Not in Rocq. The "Souvenir" glorifies the history of the college and publishes Clay M...... More
![Item #18564 The DOOM Of DEVORGOIL, A Melo-Drama. [bound with] AUCHINDRANE; or, The Ayrshire...](/pictures/thumb/18564.jpg?v=1542148598)
Edinburgh: Cadell & Co., 1830. 1st edition, 2nd issue (NCBEL III, 674; Todd & Bowden 239A). iii, [4] - 337 pp. 8vo. 5 3/4" x 9". Original blue boards with modern brown paper spine & spine label, both executed in a period style. This the first separate publication of the..... More
Flint, MI / Greenwich, CT: General Motors Corp., Buick Motor Company / William Melish Harris Association Merchandising Displays, (1959). Presumed to be complete but we are unable to verify. 33 clear plastic transparencies, three upholstery sample catalogues: 3 leaves (graduated thumb tabs) w/ 19 samples; 4 leaves (graduated thumb tabs)..... More
New York: Random House, (1936). 1st edition (Kherdian 3). INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy from Saroyan to Joan St. Oegger, SIGNED in the year of publication. 438 pp. 8vo. Silver cloth binding. Blue topstain. Dust jacket. 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
(n. p.): (1862). 1st printing presumed. Single sheet lithograph, printed recto only. Image size: 10-1/2" x 17-5/8". Entire: 14" x 19-5/8" The lithograph shows the Monitor and the Merrimack firing at each other during their historically important battle of 9 March 1862, with other named ships [Cumberland -- Newport News..... More
Detroit: General Motors Corporation, Chevrolet Motor Division, (1966). 1st printing. 144 pp of printed glossy stiff card stock. 22 sheets with fabric & vinyl samples. 15 paint chip samples, with a separate sheet for the Corvette, which was offered in 8 colors. Oblong format: 12-1/2" x 14-1/2". Brown faux-wood vinyl..... More
[San Francisco]: 1956. 1st printing. ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Kever on the ffep to one "Clay", thanking him for the assistance on the series. Misc. paginations: preliminaries - 4 pp; each of the 12 program scripts - 8 to 14 pp. ~ 25 binder's blank leaves at rear. Illustrated with..... More
(San Francisco): A. L. Bancroft & Co., Printers, 721 Market St, 1877. 1st printing. Single piece of silk, printed both sides. Illustration of the Baldwin Hotel to advert side. 8-9/16" x 5-1/4". Program and rear advert printed in black ink to white silk cloth. An early San Francisco theater program..... More
[San Francisco]: Alta California Printing House. [1867]. 1st edition (Cowan II, pp. 375-376; Rocq 9192). 64 pp. Numerous mss corrections to text. Intratextual lot plans, ~ 55, describing, by city blocks, the property of Jacob C. Beideman. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Original printed pale green paper wrappers. Auction of over..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. 1st edition. [6], 258 pp. Frontis & intratextual line drawings by Kurt Weise. 8vo. Brunt orange cloth binding with green stamped title lettering to spine & graphic to front board. Light brown pictorial eps. Green topstain. Green & red pictorial dust jacket... More
Boston / New York: E. P. Peabody / Wiley & Putnam, 1841. 1st Edition (BAL7590; Clark A6.1). vii, [1 (blank)], 140 pp. 16mo. 5" x 3-3/8". Original publisher's brown basket-weave cloth binding with black title label to front board. More
Clinton, Conn. Stannard & Chapman, Proprietors. (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed). Ca 1900? 14 pp. 2 page map at booklet center, depicting the lots on Clinton Beach [drawn by Richmond & Seabury, Architects]. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Printed green paper wrappers, stapled. Rear wrapper with map of Clinton Beach vis-a-vis Duck..... More
Philadelphia: Crolius & Gladding, 1842. 1st edition thus. This imprint not in American Imprints, nor Cordasco. SIGNED by the publisher Gladding, as the depository copy. viii, 350, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo, signed in 6s. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Original publisher's brown vertically-ribbed cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine..... More
New York: 1898. Not in Romaine, though see p. 267 for 2 catalogues by this firm [1878 & 1894]. [8], 73, [1 (blank)] pp. P. 73 an index. Illustrated. 12-1/2" x 9-3/8". Linen cloth 3-hole binder, with printed title lettering to front cover. Fairly uncommon trade catalogue in this specialty-..... More
(n. p.): [1907]. 1st edition. 634, [2] pp. 3 page errata affixed to front eps. 8vo. Brown cloth binding. More
Muskogee Indian Ter. Phoenix Printing, 1890. 1st edition (Hargrett 179). 250 pp. 8vo. 8-5/8" Period tan full leather binding. Spine label mostly rubbed away. Perryman was Principal Chief at the time of this printing. Chapters include 'Crimes & Misdemeanors', 'Civil Laws', Acts of the National Council', and 'United States Statutes'..... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1844. 1st editon. 2 volumes. Plates + fold-out map of Paris fortifications. 8vo. Original brown, blindstamped cloth (Vol I rebacked). More
