London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1871. 1st edition. viii, [2], 340 pp. Contents: A Wedding Story; A Stupid Story; A Scotch Story; A Man's Story. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5". Publisher's original terra cotta cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine; light brown eps. Barker [later Broome] was a.... More about SPRING COMEDIES
New York: Published by J. S. Redfield, (n. d.). Ca 1854. 24 pp. Illustrated with cuts. 6" x 3-7/8". Publisher's printed brown paper wrappers. Contents include: Disobedience to Parents--a True Story; Robert, and His Dog; I Mean to Be a Man; The Cruel Boy; The Brothers; The Arabs and the... More about The LITTLE CASKET; Filled with Pleasant Stories for the Instruction of the Young.; Redfield's Toy...
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Boston / New York: Joseph H. Allen / N. A. Calkins, 1864. 1st publication (Jones 038). [33] - 63, [9] pp. Adverts last 8 pages. Rear cover advert for the Bellevue Stereoscope. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's printed pictorial wrappers... More about TRIALS And TRIUMPHS; or Paul Clifford in Trouble [as published in] "Student and Schoolmate...
Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1842. First American [stated]. Not found in American Imprints. 52 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrated with cuts. 5-3/4" x 3-3/4". Publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. OCLC records just a single institutional holding. More about The SCHOOLMATES. Or, The Influence of Character and Connections Displayed
San Francisco: California Social Hygiene Society, (n. d.). 1st printing, San Francisco issue. Ca 1917. 11, [1] pp (including wrappers). 6" x 3-1/4". Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Somewhat uncommon, not found on OCLC [though an Oregon imprint was found]. Very Good. More about The FOUR SEX LIES. Circular No. 1 (For Young Men
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. 1st Edition (Cordasco 60-0955). INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy to John A. Lowell Esq 'from the author'. xii, 179, [3 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-5/8". Original brown publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering & boards stamped in blind. Jackson a prominent early 19th c. physician who... More about ANOTHER LETTER To A YOUNG PHYSICIAN: To Which is Appended Some Other Medical Papers
London: Henry Renshaw, 1850. 1st edition. viii, 479, [1] pp. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine, and boards blocked in blind. Pale yellow eps. Knox "was a Scottish anatomist, zoologist, ethologist and physician. He was a lecturer on anatomy in Edinburgh, where... More about The RACES Of MEN: A Fragment
New - York / New - London: Re-printed by S. Green, 1802. 1st printing by this New London printer (American Imprints 2546); first published in 1745 (cf. Sabin 41694). 80 pp. 8vo, in 4s. 7-5/8" x 4-1/2". Tan leather spine over period marbled paper boards. Pemberton was Mrs Lloyd's son. More about MEDITATIONS On DIVINE SUBJECTS. By Mrs. Mary Lloyd.; To Which is Prefixed, An Account of Her...
London: H. J. McClary, 32, Saint James Street, 1853. 1st Edition. 125, [3] pp. 2 page advert for this title follows text. 12mo. 7" x 4-3/8". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Pale yellow eps. "The mental eye beholds by comparison, without a microscope, the... More about The BODY, MIND, And SPIRIT; or, The Life of Nature, of Reason, and of Heaven, Separately Traced...
Glasgow: R. & J. M'Intyre, 1853. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy to one Allen Osborne. [8], 146, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's green cloth binding. Pale yellow eps. More about PROSE & RHYME
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. 1st edition, limited to 550 sets. This #205. 2 volumes. Frontis & t.p. vignette in each volume. 12mo. Blue paper-wrapped boards. TEG. Original box with paper spine label. More about CHARLES DICKENS The Man and His Work.; With an Introduction by Arlo Bates
Smithfield / London / Bath: Sold by J. Evans, Printer to the Cheap Repository... and J. Hatchard ... By S. Hazard, [n. d.]. 1st printing, issue with trade price schedule (ESTC N505684), ca 1798. Cf. AFRO-AMERICANA 1553 - 1906 entry 6794 for a later US edition from 1800. 16 pp... More about The BLACK PRINCE, A True Story; Being An Account of the Life and Death of Naimbanna, an African...
[Boston]: Boston Public Library, 1968. First Edition. x, [2], 227, [1] pp. Magazine article [Feb '65] extract [on Chamberlain] laid-in at rear. Illustrated throughout. Small folio. 12-1/4" x 9-1/4". Original publisher's blue green cloth binding with gilt stamping. Photographic eps. Dust jacket. More about ETCHED In SUNLIGHT. Fifty Years in the Graphic Arts
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. 1st printing of this "Cheap and Uniform Edition" (Eckel, p. 215; Gimbel A97; NCBEL III, 811). [4], 108 pp. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 4-1/4". Original green printed wrappers with vignette of a snarling dog to front cover, and rear cover with advert for 2 titles in... More about The CRICKET On The HEARTH. A Fairy Tale of Home
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. 1st printing of this "Cheap and Uniform Edition" (Eckel, p. 215; Gimbel B171; NCBEL III, 798). [4], 119, [3] pp. A one-page advert at rear. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 4-1/4". Original green printed wrappers with oval vignette of Little Paul to front cover, and rear cover... More about The STORY Of LITTLE DOMBEY
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858 [1861]. Later issue [ca 1861], with C&H wrappers. Not in Gimbel (though cf D31, Sixth copy, for a C&H imprint, with Charles Dickens & Evans printer slug). 114, [2] pp. Advert penultimate page, listing GE as available. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4-1/8". Publisher's original green printed... More about The POOR TRAVELLER: BOOTS At The HOLLY-TREE INN: And MRS. GAMP
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 about The CHIMES: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In
London: Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street. 1858. 1st printing of the "Cheap and Uniform" Edition (Gimbel A84). 100 pp. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 4-1/4". Publisher's original printed green paper covers, which are first issue. The first "Reading" edition, and one of the 5 titles so issued by Bradbury & Evans. More about A CHRISTMAS CAROL. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
San Angelo, Texas: 1944. 1st Edition. Unpaginated, though 60 pp. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographic images, as well as drawings. 8vo. 10-3/4" x 8". Original gold-embossed blue vinyl covers, with eagle & bomb motif. Photographic eps of the B-25. The primary mission of San Angelo Army Air Field was to... More about SHACK. Class 44-12 DR. San Angelo Army Air Field Bombardier School. September 1944
[Oakland?]: Grand Entrances Press, (1988). 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy. 23, [3] pp. 8-1/2" x 7". Black & white glossy covers, stapled. "My experiences in Oakland bars provide the inspiration for the poems that follow." The author is "a Black gay poet who lives in Oakland, California. A native of Chicago... More about At The CLUB. Poems
Irvington: A. Peixoto & Son, 1959. 1st Printing. 35, [1] pp, including wrappers. Index p. 35. Illustrated throughout with drawings. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". White paper covers printed in maroon, pink & green, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More about MEAT RECIPE RALLY.; Compliments of Irvington Meat Market
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1987). 1st Edition. xxxv, [1 (blank)], 393, [3] pp. Illustrated with facsimiles. Lg. 4to. Red cloth binding. Dust jacket. More about DICKENS' WORKING NOTES For His NOVELS.; Edited with an Introduction
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Berkeley: Twowindows Press, (1974). 1st edition. Ltd to 520cc. Unpaginated. 5" x 8". Lt brown wrappers printed in violet. More about LETTER [1973
Switzerland: 1965. Reissue of the 1893 4th edition. [2], 75, [3] pp. Text in 4 languages: English, German, French & Italian. Illustrated. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 5". Printed self-wrappers, stapled. More about The FIRST ASCENT Of The MATTERHORN
London: Bertram Rota, 1987. 1st Edition. 283, [ (blank)] pp. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. Black papered boards with gold design stamped to front and rear boards. Black cloth spine with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. An expose of the Frederic Prokosch pamphlet forgeries, a la Carter & Pollard from... More about The BUTTERFLY BOOKS. An Enquiry onto the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets
