Bronx, New York; Cedar Falls, Iowa. 1944. Ca 1944. 50 leaves. 32 greeting cards with ms sentiments, 25 news/magazine clippings, 109 original b/w photos, 15 postcards, 3 letters et al. Many loose (and tipped in) ephemeral items. 14-1/2" x 11 3/4". Embossed cream faux leather boards, tan thick paper leaves..... More
Boston: Estes & Lauriat, Publishers. (n. d.). 1st edition, ca late 1880s. 61 images [complete], printed on satin, mounted and matted, boxed. Printed publisher label on inner box lid. Complete list of images supplied on request. Matte: 11" x 8". Images: 5-3/4" x 4". Publisher's drop-side box, marron faux leather..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. 1st printing, 1st issue of the Reading edition (Eckel, p. 215; Gimbel A91; NCBEL III, 810). [4], 105, [3] pp. A one-page advert at rear. 12mo. 6-3/8" x 4-1/4". Original green printed wrappers with woodcut vignette to front cover. Advert rear wrapper, listing "Carol" &..... More
1069 Broadway, cor. 12th Street, Oakland: Wm. B. Ingersoll, (n. d.). Ca early-to-mid 1870s. Stereo image mounted to deep yellow stiff-stock paper. Lettering in brown ink. Verso blank. Landscape format card: 3-7/16" x 6-15/16". Rounded corners. Image size: 3-1/16" square. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "The 200-room Tubbs..... More
Dublin: (n. d.). "Sixth edition" [2], 7, [1 (blank)] pp. . Lithographic image to title leaf. 12-3/4" x 9-1/4". Half-bound brown leather spine with marbled paper-covered boards. Gilt lyres stamped five times between gilt rules to spine. Rubbing and wear to boards and edges, one gutter break towards rear neatly..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. 1st edition (Bleirer, p. 186; Clareson 724; Reginald 00940; Smith B-347). x, [2], 237, [1] pp. Frontis & 7 inserted plates on coated paper. 12mo. Pale green cloth, stamped in dark green, with pictoral onlay to front board. Printed buff paper dust jacket. An..... More
[San Francisco]: [1960]. 1st edition thus. Single sheet folded once. 4 pp. 18-11/16" x 13-1/8". Beige & white paper printed in black, brown, red & blue. Housed inside large brown publishers envelope. Contains a facsimilie of the decree side-by-side with an English translation by Lesley Byrd Simpson... More
Quebec: A Vendre par Thomas Cary & Cie, 1834. 1st edition. 24 pp. Illustated with cuts. 12mo. 7-1/16" x 4". Printed green paper wrappers, sewn. The work begins with 2 alphabets, followed by 'primer' material & concludes with 13 pages of animal descriptions, such as Le Zebre, Le Cheval &..... More
London: Horace Cox, 1902 - 1911. Mixed set, 1st - 3rd [4th] editions. The set not in Bitting, though see p. 31, for the 3rd title, PICKLES. Divers paginations of each volume, from ~ 140 pp to ~ 250 pp. Illustrated with cuts. Books: 12mo, 6-5/8" x 4-1/8". Creme-colored linen..... More
Los Angeles: (1936). 1st printing. [2], 75 ll typescript. Bibliography, ll 72 - 75. Illustrated, at rear, with 18 maps [2 folding], charts, tables, diagrams, etc. 11-3/16" x 8-5/8". Bound in printed blue paper covers. 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
Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Philadelphia, 1888. 1st edition. vii, 236 pp (including Index). Frontis portrait of D. Zeisberger. 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Bevelled boards. TEG. Zeisberger's previous works "A Grammar of the Language of the Lenni Lenape" (PhilTrans, 1827), and..... More
Chicago: The Jewelers' Journal Office, 57 Washington Street. 1885. 1st printing. 79, [1] pp. Index inside front wrappers. Illustrated. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 6". Printed pink paper wrappers, with cord 'hanger' to text upper left. A rare almanac focusing on the jewelers' trade. Not found on OCLC. More
London: Published by G. Berger, [1848]. 1st edition (Clark III, 19; Graff 490; Howes B992; Sabin 97133). [3] - 62 [= 60] pp. 12mo. 7" x 4-3/8". Original printed paper wrappers, stitched. Early life in Pike County, Illinois, as told by the mother of an English family who emigrated to..... More
Fort Ord: Sports Car Club of America,Inc, 1957. 1st printing. 39, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated with terrific photographic images of exotic sports cars from the era. 11" x 8-1/2". Photographic image in color wrappers, stapled, with black and yellow title lettering to front wrapper. The Pebble Beach National Championship Sports..... More
In Venetia: Per Giacomo Bortoli, 1654. 1st edition thus, i.e., by this publisher, with the first Italian translation, research suggests, appearing in 1630. [12], 348 pp. Untrimmed. Printer's device (presumed) to t.p. Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 12mo: a^6 A - O^12 P^6. P3 mis-signed a3. 6-1/4" x 3-3/4"..... More
London: W. Glendinning, 1799 / 1801. Volume I - 2nd edition. Volume II - 1st edition. INSCRIBED DEDICATION copy. 2 volumes (420; 466 pp). 24 fold-out copper plate engravings, 12 in each volume. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/4". Contemporary full tree calf with gilt stamped lettering. Leybourn a mathematician who edited..... More
[London]: Catnach, Printer, 2, & 3, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials. (n. d.). Ca 1820s. Single sheet, printed recto only. Illustrated with 2 woodcuts under the mast-head title, each 2-1/4" x 3-1/8". Illustrative border of playing cards [45 cards total, plus an emblem in each of the lower corners]. 14-7/8" x 9-9/16"..... More
Paris: Librairie de Guillaumin et Cte, 1853. 1st Edition in French (Howes S-1013; Kurutz 606b). [4], 269, [1] pp. Inserted errata leaf at rear. Untrimmed. Fold out chart precedes p. 11. 12mo, in 6s. 7-1/4" x 4-5/8". Original yellow printed wrappers. Advert to back wrapper... More
![An ACT For LIMITING And SETLING [sic] The PRICES For WINES. At the parliament begun at...](/pictures/thumb/26937.jpg?v=1542148713)
London: Printed by Henry Hills, and John Field, Printers to His Highness. 1657. 1st edition (Wing E-1046). Not in Gabler, nor Goldsmith. [2], 2 pp. Commonwealth seal to t.p. Folio: *2. 10-5/8" x 6-3/4". Printed self-wrappers. Gabler, though not listing this item, does briefly discuss (& list) divers tracts &..... More
Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Company, 1916. Early printing. xi, [1], 808; vii, [2], 800; vii, [1], 864; vii, [1], 810; ix, 672 pp [including appendix]. Illustrated. 8vo. 24cm x 15.5cm. Red cloth binding. Dust jacket. TEG. The supplementary volume is green cloth with dust jacket. Includes a 1st edition Supplementary volume..... More
London: 1879. 1st edition (Eckel, p. 162; Gimbel B80). #172 / 250cc. Issue without plate. 45 pp of text. Binder's blanks at rear of volume. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Geen half-morocco binding by Woolstengroft, with marbled boards & eps, and original grey printed front wrapper bound-in. A play written by..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1837 [1871]. 1st printing of the Facsimile edition (See Eckel, p 154). 46, [2 (blank)] pp. Unopened. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5". Printed self-wrappers. One of the scarcest Dickens' titles in the original printing. More
London: John Murray, 1814. 1st edition (Wise. BYRON I, p. 101). 8vo. Contemporary1/2 leather w/ marbled boards. Published anonymously; "Lara" was written by Byron, and "Jacqueline" by Samuel Rogers (cf. DNB). More
