The REVISED PRICE GUIDE To PATTERN GLASS.
New York: M. Barrows & Company, Inc., 1963. Third Edition. 331 pp. Illustrated with drawings throughout. 8vo., 8-1/4" x 5-5/8" Purple buckram lettered in white on backstrip, in the original dust jacket. More
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IMPRESSIONS Of SPAIN.; Compliled by Joseph B. Gilder.
London and New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1900. Reprint. [1], ix, 107, [1] pp. Frontis plate of the author. 8vo, 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Publisher's green cloth, spine and upper board stamped in gilt, printed on handmade paper, deckled at fore-edge and lower edge, TEG. Text surrounded by single-line rectangular borders. More
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.; No. 241 Vol. 41.
New York. Harper & Brothers. June 1870. 1st Edition. 160, [8 ads] pp. Numberous engravings, charts and maps throughout, including 3 full page plates. 10" x 6-1/2". B/w illustrated beige wrappers. Contains chapters 11-12 of George Alfred Lawrence's "Anteros" More
100 COCKTAILS.; How to Make Them and What to Eat with Them (A Laboratory Manual of Cocktail Making with Appetizers to Offset Them).
Girard, Kansas. Haldeman-Julius Publications. (n. d.). 1st Edition [presumed], ca 1931. 32 pp. 3-1/4" x 5". Illustrated yellow wrappers, stapled. Little Blue Book No. 1688 (one of the less common Little Blue Books). This is a prohibition era cocktail book, all recipes are made with "non-alcoholic ingredients" More
CHAMPAGNE At The WEDDING.
New York. W. A. Taylor & Company. 1947. 1st Printing. 16 pp. Illustrated text of "how-tos". 8vo, 8" x 5". Beige wrappers, stapled. A text about the use of champagne at weddings. Distributed by Renault Champagne. Only one institutional holding cited on OCLC. More
The VERITABLE HISTORY Of MR. BACHELOR BUTTERFLY.; Showing How it was Diversitied by Many Changes, For After Being Married in the Belly of a Whale He Narrowly Escaped Bigamy, and Became the Step-Father of Eight Hopeful Children.
London: D. Bogue, 1845. 1st Edition thus. 66 pp. Fully Illustrated in b/w. Oblong format, 5-1/2" x 10-1/2" Publisher's olive green diaper cloth, stamped in gilt on upper board, lemon yellow endpapers. First published in part in L'Illustration, 1843. Rodolphe Topffer is referred to as the father of modern comic... More
SCIENTIFIC BLOWS And GUARDS.; What Blows to Use What Blows to Expect and How to Guard Against Them Book Two.
New York: The Stillman Association, (1922). 1st printing (presumed). 64 pp. Illustrated with 35 b/w photographic images. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5". Printed paper wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
The NAPOLEON GALLERY; or, Illustrations of the Life and Times of the Emperor of France.
London: Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet - Street, 1837. 1st Edition. viii, [87] ll, [4 pp, adverts]. 88 plates, with one folding. 12mo. Original publisher's green vertically-ribbed cloth with gilt stamping. Pale yellow eps. More
PROTESTANT EXILES From FRANCE in the Reign of Louis XIV; or, The Huguenot Refugees and Their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland.
[Edinburgh?]: Printed for Private Circulation, 1866. 1st Edition. Limited to 100 cc. viii, 403, [1 (blank)] pp. Chromolithographed frontis. 4 albumen portrait images. Facsimile signature plate. Lithograph image of Earl Ligonier arms. Fold out lithograph of The French Hospital precedes p. 389. 4to. 10-1/2" x 8". Original publisher's brown cloth binding. Bevelled boards. Dark brown clay-paper eps. More
QUEEN ANNE.
Paris, Edinburgh, New York, London: Goupil & Co., 1906. Limited First Edition. [x], 202 pp., title-page in black and red. Numerous plates (both full-page and in-text) with captioned tissue guards, frontis in color with gilt frame. Folio: 13" x 10" Original blue wrappers. 800 copies of this work were printed... More
THE ETCHINGS OF SIR FRANCIS SEYMOUR HADEN, P.R.E.
London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1923. Limited First Edition. vii, 35 pp. (96 plates bound terminally). 97 b/w plates, of which 16 are handprinted photo engravings with captioned tissue guards. Folio: 15-1/4" x 11-1/2" Quarter calf, beige cloth covered boards, upper board and backstrip stamped in gilt. Number 155... More
![UTRON 7 PACIFIC LOG; Photographic Record of VJ-7 [i.e., VU-7] Squadron Activities. World War II Unit Book, Luke K. - Ship's Master / Commanding Officer Miller.](/pictures/thumb/45041.jpg?v=1542150160)
UTRON 7 PACIFIC LOG; Photographic Record of VJ-7 [i.e., VU-7] Squadron Activities.
Photographic Laboratory of Utility Squadron Seven, [1945]. 1st Printing. Unpaginated, though 120 pp. 3 pages of muster rolls. Profusely illustrated, primarily with b/w photographic images accompanied by some drawings. Oblong format: 12-1/2" x 17-1/4". Basket-weave patterned paper-wrapped boards, brass screw post binding. Photographic onlay to front board, with large Navy... More
THE RISE OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE.; In the Old and In the New. Volume I The Middle Ages. Volume II The Catholic Kings.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918. 1st Edition. Two vols., xxviii, 529; xv, 387 [5 ads] pp. Two-page color maps at frontis. 8vo., 9" x 6" Full blue cloth stamped in gilt to backstrip. More
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH.; A History of Nazi Germany.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Third Printing. xii, 1245 pp. 8vo., 9-1/2" x 6-1/4" Publisher's gray cloth, upper board with title stamped in gilt on rectangular black ground, similarly titled to backstrip with additional lettering in black. More
GIRL'S SCHOOL ROOM AT MT. LEBANON SHAKER VILLAGE.
[Troy, NY]: [James Irving], (n. d.). C. 1868-70. One stereograph on a green mount with rounded corners. B/w photographs. Oblong format: 3-3/8" x 7" James Irving is known for the stereographs from the Mt. Lebanon and Watervliet communities. Notable are the clothing and clear profiles of the young girls in... More
MUSIC LESSON AT ENFIELD, NH SHAKER VILLAGE.
Concord, NH: W.G.C. Kimball, (n. d.). C. 1880s. One stereograph on a yellow mount with rounded corners, lettered at the margins in black. B/w copy photographs. Oblong format: 3-3/8" x 7" Kimball is known for his series of images from the Canterbury community, and the images are scarce. This view... More
The PARKMAN MURDER. TRIAL Of PROF. JOHN W. WEBSTER For The MURDER Of DR. GEORGE PARKMAN, November 23, 1849.; Before the Supreme Judicial Court, in the City of Boston. With Numerous Accurate Illustrations.
Boston: Printed at the Daily Mail Office, [1850]. 1st printing (McDade 1059). 64 pp. Text double column. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Cut of courtroom to p. 1; cut of Mass. Medical College to p. 64. 8vo. 10" x 6-1/8". Printed self-wrappers, 4 untrimmed quires, stitched. Per McDade... More
An AUTHENTICATED REPORT Of The TRIAL Of MYERS And OTHERS, for the Murder of Dudley Marvin Hoyt.; With the Speeches of Counsel, and the Letters in Full, with Explanatory Notes, Which Furnish a Clear and Complete History of the Case. Drawn Up by the Editor of The Richmond Southern Standard.
New York: Published by Richards and Company, 30 Ann Street, (1846). 1st printing (McDade 710). 48 pp. Text double column. Letters from Mrs Myers to Mr Hoyt, pp. 34 - 48. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers, sewn. Per McDade, Hoyt & Mrs Myers were lovers... More
THE LIFE and RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE of HIRAM MUNGER.; Including Singular Circumstances Connected With Camp-Meetings And Revivals.
Boston: The Advent Christian Publication Society, 1881. Third Edition. [1-9] 10-186 pp. 8vo., 6-3/4" x 4-1/2" Publisher's purple cloth stamped in gilt to upper board. First published in 1861. More
[Program for] SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION Of The PACIFIC COAST ASSOCIATION Of MAGICIANS Inc, San Jose, California July 11 - 14, 1951.
[San Jose]: Pacific Coast Association of Magicians, 1951. Unpaginated. 8vo. Green & gold pictorial wrappers. More
THE OLD-WORLD HOUSE; Its Furniture & Decoration. Vol. I-II.
London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1924. 1st Edition. Two vols., xi, 307; iii, 371 pp. Two photogravure frontispieces and numerous b/w illustrations throughout both volumes. 4to., 10" x 7-3/4" Quarter red morocco and red pebbled cloth covered boards, backstrip stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. A survey... More
OUTLINES OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY.; With a Memoir, a Supplement, and Questions By James M'Cosh, LL.D.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873. New Edition. [xii], 164 pp. 8vo., 7-5/8" x 5-1/8" Publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth, lettered in gilt to backstrip. The first edition with James M'Cosh's contribution was published in 1865 (Dulles, p. 1877). More
MACHINE GUNNER"S HANDBOOK.
Washington DC: The Infantry Journal Inc., 1938. 1st Edition. xvi, 152 pp. B/w illustrations in text 8vo., 6-1/2" x 4-1/2" Stiff black leather-grain paper wrappers, lettered in silver to upper wrapper. More
LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.; Vol. 1-4.
New York: The Century Co., 1909. Four vols., xv, 283; xi, 283; xi, 270; xi, 313 pp. 96 full-page b/w plates. 4to., 11" x 8" Publisher's burgundy gilt-armorial stamped cloth, gilt lettering and sword motif to backstrip, top-edge gilt. First published in 1896. More
OLIVER CROMWELL. A Character Study.
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1927). 1st US edition. x, [11] - 252 pp (including index). Frontis. Crown 8vo. Maroon cloth binding. Maroon topstain. No dust jacket. More