New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. 1st Edition. [8], 296 pp. Frontispiece. 8vo. Red cloth binding with gold stamping. No dust jacket. de Forest "was an American inventor, self-described 'Father of Radio', and a pioneer in the development of sound-on-film recording used for motion pictures. ... His most famous invention, in..... More
Paris: Societe Parisienne D'Edition, 1928. 1st Edition. 329, [1] pp. Illustated with drawings & schematics. 8vo. Black cloth spine [later?] over green diamond cloth boards. More
New York: Atheneum, 1984. 1st edition. [14], 65, [3] pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with silver stamping. Yellow topstain. Black dust jacket lettered in blue. Winner of the 1984 Walt Whitman Award, with Academy of American Poets "Complments" card laid-in. More
Boston: James R Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. 1st separate book edition, and 1st illustrated edition, printing B (BAL 7248g / 7425). 21, [1 (blank)] pp. P. 21 an advert. Illustrations by S[olomon] Eytinge Jr [1833 - 1905]. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/2"..... More
Boston: Daniel Gunn & Co., Printers, 1891. 1st Printing. Not in Romaine, though see p. 96 for 4 later [beginning 1896] Master & Wells catalogues / lists. 81 pp [inside rear wrapper paginated as p. 81]. Inside front wrapper as frontispiece. 16mo. 5-9/16" x 3-1/2". Red paper wrappers, printed in..... More
Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, No. 9 Sansom Street, 1856. 1st Printing. 14 pp. Fold-out at rear, with 7 figures depicting divers aspects of the "Steam Hydrant". 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Later plain light brown paper covers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Rare scientific treatise on this device..... More
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Pilot Press Books, (1973). 1st Edition. Advance Review Copy, with slip laid-in. Unpaginated. Printed on orange & yellow paper. With drawings by Carrie McCarthy. Photo of the author by Jim Keating. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Yellow cloth binding with black stamped spine lettering. Red eps. Pink dust..... More
London: Faber & Faber Limited 24 Russell Square, 1950. 1st Edition. 97, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9" x 5-7/8". Blue cloth binding. Dust jacket. More
Berkeley: The University Press, 1907. 1st edition thus. 208, [4] pp. 7-3/4" x 5". Printed buff paper wrappers. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. 1st US edition [of Moly]. [10], 91, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-3/4". Green cloth binding with gilt spine stamping. Orange topstain. White dust jacket. "Thomson William 'Thom' Gunn was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England..... More
Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea, Chesnut Street, 1825. 1st US Edition (American Imprints 21506). viii, [9] - 400, 369* - 400*, 401 - 602 pp. P. 28 correctly paginated. Text block untrimmed. Custom clear mylar wrapper. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 5-3/4". Publisher's brown cloth binding, with printed paper title..... More
Edinburgh: For the University Press, [1971]. 1st Edition. ix, [1 (blank)], 105, [1] pp. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-3/4". White spine lettered in black; grey cloth boards with white lettering, black graphic with white hightlights. More
Marysville, California: J. J. Reilly, (n. d.). Ca late 1870s / early - to - mid 1880s. 2 separate photographs, with with 'arch' top. 3-7/16 x 6-7/8". Stiff-stock card mount, printed orange recto with blank lavender verso. Slightly rounded corners. Reilly lived in Marysville from 1878 - 1886, cf. Hickman..... More
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New York: Frank Tousey, 29 West 26th Street, 1898. 1st Printing. 16 pp. Text quadruple column. Adverts. Large wood engraved image to front wrapper. Internal wood engravings. 14-1/8" x 10-5/8" Printed paper, newspaper format. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "USS Maine was a United States Navy ship that..... More
Wylam: Allenholme Press, 1965. 1st Printing. 12 pp. Fold-out illustration. 7-1/2" x 5". Grey paper covers printed in black & orange, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
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
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
[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
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
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
