Chicago: December 12, 1941. Single sheet of letterhead. 16 lines of typed text, ~ 130 words. 11" x 8-1/2". Loose leaf, typed on Walter M. Hill letterhead, signed, by Hill's secretary, in black ink. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Mr Hill, a prominent Chicago antiquarian bookseller, responds to Miss...
Moscow: 1977. 1st printing thus. 11, [1] pp. Illustrated in color. Small folio. 11-3/4" x 9-1/4". Color printed paper covers, stapled.
San Francisco: Grabhorn - Hoyem, 1967. 1st Edition. Limited to 225 cc. 125 pp, printed in red & black. Jeffrey Thomas bookslip laid-in 4 color-printed illustrations. 4to. 11-1/4" x 9-3/8". Quarter vellum over blue linen covered boards. This edition the first to have color reproductions of the illustrations appearing in the original manuscript.
New York: Printed by Pudney & Russell, for Griffiths & Bates, 1855. 1st Printing. 80 pp. 4 page advertising insert, on yellow paper, tipped-in at rear. Fold out lithograph, by J. H. Bufford [Boston], of the Steam Demi Bark Antelope, from a painting by F. H. Lane. Other plates of...
Rochester, N.Y. Sen-Sen Co., 1903. 1st printing thus. Lithographed front board with title in gold, a blue ribbon & "5¢" in a gold medallion. 7-1/8" x 5-1/2". A book-shaped box, AEG, meant to house Sen-Sen Gum.
[Chicago]: Chicago Photo-Gravure Company [for images], (n. d.). Ca 1890. Volume of 21 full page b/w captioned images, depicting divers hospital scenes & staff. Leaves printed recto only. Complete list of images supplied on request. 11-1/8" x 9-14". Full leather binding with "Cook County Hospital" gilt stamped to front board...
(n.p.). c. 1960s. (?). 1st Printing. Illustrated bifolium. One Slip. Illustrated upper wrapper. Several small vignettes of football players throughout 17" x 11-1/4". White card stock self wrappers, gold and blue lettering. Slip is a black and white photograph of Elroy Hirsch on white paper laid in. All now housed...
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company at the Tomoyé Press, 1904. 1st edition (Mostardi 375). [6], 64, [4] pp. Binder's blanks at beginning & end of volume. Drawings by Florence Lundborg. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-3/8". Publisher's deluxe leather presentation binding by Root & Son, London: full brown morocco with 5...
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., (1953). Early printing, ca 1953. 180 pp. Illustrations by Beth & Joe Krush. 8vo. Light blue cloth binding with black stamping. Dust jacket.
Charlottesville, The University Press of Virginia, 2019. 1st printing. 310 pp. 8vo. Grey cloth binding.
[Fort Bragg, CA]: Noyo Women for Fisheries, 1991. 1st Printing. [6], 175, [3] pp. Illustrated from b/w photographs [primarily of divers fishing boats]. 8vo. Oblong format: 5-3/4" x 8-1/2". Spiral bound, with glossy photographic front cover. "Noyo Women for Fisheries is a non-profit organization that supports local fishermen and promotes...
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. xxvi, 172 pp. Frontis of the Raven. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 3-3/4". Period tan half-calf binding with green marbled paper boards & eps. TEG.
[Portland, Maine]: [Maine Tract Society], 1915. 1st printing (presumed). 31, [1] pp, including wrappers. Photographic image of the author to front wrapper. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 6". Printed wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Scarce pamphlet examining the juxtaposition of bible prophecy & the causes of the war...
[New Haven?]: 1882. 1st Printing. Blue card stock, printed in black ink, to recto only. 2-1/4" x 3-7/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.
[New Haven?]: 1884. 1st Printing. 2 off-white cards printed in brown ink, affixed to each other with a blue ribbon tie. Program with 3 committee members printed to verso. Program: 7-5/8" x 5". Menu: 6-1/2" x 4-3/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A lovely 7 course dinner, starting...
New York: Privately Printed. Press of the Woolly Whale, (1934). 1st edition thus. [8], 20, [2] pp. Drawing of the press by Warren Chappell. 8vo. Vellum spine over stamped grey paper boards. This the first book to be hand printed on [Morris'] Kelmscott 'Chaucer' Press by the Press of the...
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 1st Edition. Limited to 425 cc. xx, 139, [1] pp. Illustrated. 4to. Green cloth binding, with gilt stamped spine lettering. Dust jacket.
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1920s. 19 leaves of black construction paper used for mounting the photograph images. P. 1 with printed descriptive list of the first 12 images to be found within. 22 b/w photographs, the first two ~ 4" x 6", the remaining ~ 4-1/2" x 2-5/8", each...
Newark. Yogg & Co. Newark, N.J., [1964]. 1st Printing. 4 pp. unnumbed. Two slips. Housed in larger wrappers. Illustrated upper wrapper, small vignettes throughout. 15" x 10-1/2". White card stock wrappers, full color illustration to upper wrapper, pink leaves with red and black lettering, one slip is white card stock...
Portland, Ore. Sanders Operating Panama Canal. 1914. 1st Printing. 32 pp. unnumbered. Illustrated. 7" x 5". White paper wrappers, brown lettering to upper wrapper, black and white illustrations throughout, stapled. From the introduction: "This booklet is issued in conjunction with the exhibition of Sanders' Operating Panama Canal and can be...
Reproduced by 667th Engr. (Top) Co., (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca 1945. Unpaginated, though ~ 104 pp. Profusely illustrated, primarily with b/w photographic images. Landscape format: 9-1/8" x 11-3/4". Printed grey paper covers. The volume documents the activities & personnel of the 540th Engineer regiment from its landing at...
Batavia - Java. G. Kolff & Co. Photo, Engravers and Printers. [1923]. Reprint. (?). 335 pp. Including one fold out map. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. 6-2/8" x 4-3/4". Blue cloth, flexi-boards, stamped in gilt to upper and lower boards, black and white photos to nearly every page...
San Francisco. Published by the Cocker Company, 1939. Revised Edition. 116 pp. Profusely illustrated. Large fold-out color cartograph of Treasure Island. 8" x 5-1/2 Blue cloth backed color pictorial wrappers.
London & New York. Frederick Warne & Company LTD, (n. d.). Reprint. 40 pp. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Bedford, intratextual b/w illustrations. 7-1/4" x 8-3/8". Color pictorial boards. Green and yellow pictorial eps. Green cloth spine, black printed lettering. Pictorial dust jacket.
Brunswick: 1875 - 1877. 1st printing thus. Tickets: ~ 2-3/4" x 4". All now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Here offered an archive of medical school ephemera & letters documenting the professional education of John Lemuel Murray Willis, who earned his physician degree from the Medical School of Maine...
