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New York: Scholatic Book Services, 1967. 1st printing. 96 pp (including index). illustrated. 12mo. 7-5/8 x 5-1/4". Printed wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
New York: Scholatic Book Services, 1967. 1st printing. 96 pp (including index). illustrated. 12mo. 7-5/8 x 5-1/4". Printed wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878. 1st Book Edition. [6], 272 pp. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5" Original publisher's terra cotta cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Frothingham "was an American clergyman and author, born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham (1793 – 1870), a...... More
Kobe, Japan: S. Ichida, [1909]. 1st printing. [4], 6 pages of text. 16 large b/w photographic images, one fold-out, depicting 2 factories [including the recently opened Hiogo Mills], and divers aspects of the worker's everyday life. Tissue guards. Oblong format: 11" x 14-1/4". Grey cloth boards, with gilt, light grey..... More
Baltimore: Heinz Moos Publishing Co., Inc, 1983. 1st edition. [1], 186, [3 (blank)] pp. Many b/w intratextual illustrations and photographic images. 11-1/2" x 9-1/2". Blue cloth binding with orange stamped lettering to front and spine. Orange illustrated DJ. More
London: Printed, and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1712. 1st Edition (ESTC T5338; Moore 243). 36 pp. 4to: A - D^4 E^2. 7-3/4" x 4-1/2". Period full calf, with later respining to style. Rare in the trade; RBH shows the last copy to auction was 1971... More
Glasgow: John Symington & Co., 1837. 1st edition. 72 pp. Illustrated with cuts. 12mo, in 6s. 5-1/2" x 3-5/8". Gunmetal blue flexible cloth binding, with gilt stamped title lettering to front cover. Though not quite a word-for-word recreation, this work the stated progeny of Trusler's famous 1788 publication, of the..... More
Firenze [Florence]: 1827. 42 leaves of mounting paper: grey, green, light purple in color. 39 [of 42 originally] portrait miniatures, with 23 of the portraits annotated with sitter's name. Most drawn on other, whitish paper, then affixed to album leaves [usually the recto]. Album: 4-3/4" x 6-1/8". Portraits: ~ 3-7/8"..... More
Paris: G. L. M., 1939. 1st edition. LIMITED to 580 copies, of which this is number 458. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to Joyce scholar, Richard Ellmann. Unpaginated. B/w illustrations throughout. 6-1/2" x 4-7/8". Stiff, buff printed paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve... More
London: Charles Knight, 1832. 1st edition. viii, 396 pp. Illustrated with 67 cuts. 12mo. 6-1/4" x 4". Period tan half-leather with brown marbled paper boards. Both boards with gilt stamped device: "The Society of Writers to the Signet" More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932. 1st thus. 259 pp (including index). Frontis + 7 inserted plates by Walter King Stone. 12mo. Tan cloth stamped in green & dark brown. Dust jacket, which replicates binding design. A reissue of an earlier work which provides brief, though inspirational, biographies of..... More
San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co., Printers. 1906. 1st printing. 15, [1] pp. Attached to the front wrapper is an ALs from Adam to the editor of Astronomical Notes, asking for 'careful consideration'. Illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival..... More
Portland: Stephen Berry, Printer. 1876. 1st edition. 24 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Printed buff paper wrappers, with wrapper title as: "Abridgement of the Nautical Almanac for 1877, Containing a Full Description of the Nautrigon; an Instrument for Solving Problems in Navigation." Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. OCLC locates..... More
North Tonawanda, New York: (n. d.). Ca 1911. 47, [1] pp. Printed on glossy stock. Customer testimonials last 10 pages. Price list laid-in. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Oblong format: 6" x 9". Deep red paper wrappers printed in green & black, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve..... More
East Greenwich, R. I. The Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation, (1919). 1st printing. Not in Brockett's Bibliography of Aeronautics [though 5 other Gallaudet entries are present]; no copies located on OCLC. Unpaginated, though 16 pages. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 4-1/8". Brown stiff-stock paper wrappers printed in dark olive green, string tie. Now housed..... More
1785. Unpaginated, though 40 pp. 1st & last leaf blank, with 2 quarters of an unidentified watermark visible. Vertical chain-lines. 6-1/8" x 4" [15.8 cm x 10 cm]. Period marbled paper wrappers, with hand-inked title label to front wrapper. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. A manuscript journal..... More
Homer, N.Y. [1899]. Not in Romaine. 77, [3 (blank)] pp. 75 drawn b/w illustrations of divers styles of carriages. Oblong format: 3-3/4" x 5-1/2". Pale blue printed wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Rare trade catalogue from the hay-day of polite horse-powered travel- not in Romaine, though..... More
Boston: John L. Shorey, 1868. Later printing. 72 pp. 12mo. Maroon cloth spine over printed paper boards. More
New York: Joseph Fels International Commission, (n. d.). 1st US edition (?). 38 pp. 7-5/8" x 5-1/4" [19 cm x 13 cm]. Printed wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. This a US publication of a July 1905 article by Tolstoy where he advocates that Russians actually own..... More
London: Modern Books, 1931. 1st edition. 45, [3] pp. Illustration to front wrapper. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/2". Printed stiff-stock brown paper wrappers, stitched. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
Pasadena: Published by the Author, 1932. Reprint (cf. Ahouse A38a). 64 pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-7/8". Gray-green printed wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. "Nineteen letters to a small cog in the American economy: Judd is the prototypical workingman who sees his labor disappear into the system..... More
London: Printed for Thomas Jones, 1691. 1st edition (Wing L-2686). [4], 33, [3] pp. Printed glosses. Last page a blank; 2 pp of adverts immediately prior. 4to: [A]4 B - E4 F2. 20.8 cm x 15.8 cm. Disbound, with binding remnants along spine portion. Now housed in a clear archival..... More
London: Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of London, and Westminster. 1691. 1st edition (Wing S-4525). [4], 32 pp. 4to: [A]4 B - D4 E2. 19.2 cm x 15 cm. Disbound, with binding remnants along spine portion. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
Boston: William V. Spencer, 94 Washington Street, (n. d.). Ca. mid to late 1800s. Inside front wrapper lists through Nos. 120. 17, [1 (blank)] pp. Elaborate wood engraving decorative border to front wrapper. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Buff printed paper wrappers. White string binding. This edition (as well as this title)..... More
New York: Ziff- Davis Publishing Company, 1952. 130 pp. A few b/w illustrations. 9-3/4" x 7". Color illustrated paper wrappers with red and white title lettering printed to front wrapper. More
London: Printed by C. Clement and published by J. M. Cobbett, 1821. Cf Pearl 52. 36 pp of double column text. 8vo. Later buff paper wrappers. Contains the conclusion to "Funeral of Her Majesty, The Beloved Queen Caroline." More