New Bedford: (n. d.). Ca 1860. Single printed advertising card, of white stock, 4 lines. Verso blank. Typographical ornaments. 1-15/16 x 2-7/16". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. We find little record of this photographer, other than a bare-bones entry in Craig's Daguerreian Registry. An 1859 New Bedford Directory..... More
Shanghai: Chinese National Committee on Intellectual Co-operation, 1856 Avenue Joffre, 1936. 1st Edition. [4], 282, [2], xxiii, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-7/8". Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. No dust jacket. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. 1st Edition. SIGNED by the author. 80 pp. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Green dust jacket printed in white. Auslander was an American poet, anthologist, translator of poems, and novelist. Auslander was appointed the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to..... More
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (1988). 1st edition. vii, [1 (blank)] 54, [2] pp. 8vo. Pale blue cloth binding. Blue dust jacket. More
[New York?]: J. H. Fisher, (1883). 1st Printing. Unpaginated, though 32 pages. Profusely illustrated with 20 wood engravings [15 full page] showing divers aspects of the Bridge & its construction. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5-7/8". Printed buff paper wrappers, sewn. Front cover interior advert for a listing of Loeser's many store..... More
Boston: Flag of Our Union Office, 1847. 1st edition (Wright I, 1521). [5] - 100 [= 96] pp. Text in double column. T.p. cut. Full page wood-engraving, p. 13 [duplicated on front wrapper]. 8vo. 10-1/4" x 6-7/8". Printed buff paper wrappers with wood engraving of Neptune to front wrapper. Wrapper..... More
Neuilly: Riegel, (n. d.). 1st Printing. Broadside Color illustration by Sem [a.k.a. George Goursat (1863 - 1934)] to top left of menu. 16-1/8" x 11". White card stock, primarily printed in purple, with restaurant name in dark pink at top. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Sem used to..... More
Vancouver: Published by TISHBOOKS, [1962]. 1st printing (Miki A1; for Creeley, Novik 111, who states April 1963 as the date of publication, vice Miki's c. May 1961). Issued reputedly in a run of only 30 - 50 cc. 44 pp. P. 31 & 43 blank [as issued]. Drawings by Gordon..... More
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., (1910). 1st edition, 1st printing (Beinvenue, p. 47). INSCRIBED copy ["Yours Very Ozily"], SIGNED in full by Baum, dated 1912. 295, [1] pp. Half-tone image of "Ozcot" [magazine extract?] tipped in over Baum's inscription. 16 inserted color plates, with b/w illustrations throughout by John..... More
[Mission, B.C.]: Printed by Crispin & Jan Elsted at Barbarian Press, 1982. 1st separate printing (Miki E68). Limited to 100 cc. Unpaginated bifolium, so 4 pp. Printer's ornament to p. 1. 6-1/4" x 6-1/4". Printed in black & green. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Actually "a William Hoffer..... More
Aberdeen [Stuttgart?]: Printed for James Hay, and Sold by all Booksellers in Town and Country, 1788 [1872]. 1st printing thus. 23, [1] pp. "The Maid's Prayer", p. 24. Printer's ornament to t.p. 12mo. 7" x 4-5/8". Lacks wrappers [remnants along spine fold], now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Wilkes..... More
San Francisco, Cal: The James H. Barry Company, 1908 / 12 / 13 / 15 / 16. 1st editions [Cowen, p. 196; Howes E154; Norris 1024; Weber, p. 33; Zamorano 80, #34]. 5 volumes: 654 [including index]; 682; 663; 817 [errata slip present]; 186 pp. Vol V is the Index..... More
Paris: A. and W. Galignai and Co. / Baudrey's European Library, 1854. 1st Edition thus, i.e., jointly by these publishers. [4], 190 pp. Text double column. Printer's ornament to t.p. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Period brown quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards. Now with custom clear mylar wrapper. Hannay..... More
Honolulu, H.I. Press Publishing Company Steam Print, 1887. 1st printing of this year. Cf. Forbes 3103. [16], 99, [15] pp. "Counting House" calendar, p. 2. Advert [Union Feed Comp'y], printed on lilac paper, inserted in rear after 5 pages of regularly printed adverts. Occasional cut illustrates the adverts. 8vo. 9"..... More
Honolulu, H.I. Press Publishing Company Steam Print, 1888. 1st printing of this year. Cf. Forbes 3103. [12], 1 - 4, [2], 5 - 110, [14] pp. Unpaginated, separate advert/errata leaf, printed on purple paper, inserted after p. 4. A suite of adverts begin, and conclude, the volume. Occasional cut illustrates..... More
Honolulu, H.I. Press Publishing Company Steam Print, 1890. 1st printing of this year. Cf. Forbes 3103. 14, iv, [5] - 170, 15 - 28 pp. 14 pages of adverts begin & conclude the volume. Fold-out map of Honolulu, p. 6. Chromolithographed leaf of 10 company ship flags inserted after p...... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1870. 1st edition (Miller, p. 82). Not in Gimbel. 42 pp. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/2". Pink printed wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
South Hanover: Printed by James Morrow, 1837. 1st Printing. A variant? Cf American Imprints 44664 & Byrd-Peckham 690, which record a 16 page catalogue by this same name. 7, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/8". Lacks wrappers, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Founded by Crowe in 1827..... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1860s (?). Card verso with printed paper title label. No publisher imprint. 2 domed albumen photographs, 1/8" apart on a flat, brown mount, rounded corners. 3-1/4" x 6-7/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. An obscure card depicting a scene from The Old Curiosity..... More
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Chicago, Ill. J. Regan & Co Publishers. 415-21 Dearborn Street, (1910). 1st Printing, p. 92. 93, [3] pp. Illustrated with drawings. 7-1/2" x 5-5/16". Original publisher's white paper covers, lithographed in red, green & black. NB. Publisher imprint to front cover gives an address of 415-427 Dearborn [misprint?]. Per McCue..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. 1st printing. xxv, [3], 692 pp (including Index). Frontis, a map & playbill reproductions. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4". Red cloth binding. Red & pale yellow dust jacket. The most complete edition of Dickens' letters (772 herein, with 264 first published). More
New York: The Smith. By Arrangement with Horizon Press, 1974. 1st Edition thus. SIGNED by the Author, and marked as "42 of 200" 61, [3 (blank)] pp. Drawings by Jim Kay. 8vo. Blue cloth binding. Blue dust jacket. The author born in Tulsa OK, in the heart of "Indian Territory"..... More
San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co. No. 9 Montgomery St., opposite Lick House, (n. d.). Ca 1868 - 1869. Cf Palmquist, p. 95. Separate images, domed. 3-7/16" x 6-7/8". Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series name to left; scene caption under right view. Violet..... More
New York: Duffield & Company, 1907. 1st edition. 128, [4 (adverts)] pp. 12mo. 6-13/16" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. More
New York: George Munro, Publisher. (1866). 1st printing. [5] - 97, [3 (adverts)] pp. Frontis. 12mo. 6-1/4" x 4". Buff paper wrappers, printed in black, with front cover graphic duplicating frontis image. Front cover inner advert for the next title in the series. Author attribution from OCLC; Latham C. Carleton..... More
