St. Louis: The Sporting News, (1965). 1st edition thus. 480 pp (including Index). Adverts throughout. Illustrated from b/w photographs. 6-5/8" x 4-7/8". White paper covers, printed in black, red & blue, with photographic 3 images to front cover. More
(n.p.): (n.d.). 1st Printing. Bifolium. Full color illustration to upper wrapper of a nude women playing a jesters drum. 12-3/4" x 10". White paper self wrappers, color illustration to half of upper wrapper, menu items printed in black. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
Paris. Imprimerie Alfred Desvignes. (n.d.). 1st Printing. Bifolium, 4 pp. Pictorial upper wrapper of two children in a garden. Full color. 12-1/4" x 9-1/2". White card stock, self wrappers, full color illustration to upper wrapper. Text printed in red and black. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
(n.p.): 1935. 1st Printing. Loose leaf. Full color vignette to the head of recto. Black and white illustration of cherubs holding bottles of wine. 14-3/4" x 10-3/4". Off-white, thin card stock leaf, printed to recto and verso. Recto is red and blue ink. Verso in black. Menu items written in..... More
New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 105 Nassau Street, 1936. 1st printing thus. [4], 321, [23], 64 pp. Adverts throughout. Last section "Official Base Ball Rules". Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images. Drawing of baseball diamond. 6-3/4" x 5". White paper covers printed in red & blue. More
St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1954. 1st edition thus. 576 pp (including index). Illustrated from b/w photographs. 6-5/8" x 4-7/8". White paper covers, printed in red & blue. Front wrapper has drawing of Casey Stengel and rear ad has a young Eddie Mathews plugging Chesterfield cigarettes!! More
London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Srand, 1844 / 1845. 1st Edition in English. 2 volumes: viii, 627, [1]; viii, 656 pp. Mostly unopened. Folding map as frontis to Vol. I. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Yellow eps... More
Paris. Atelier Georges Redon. 1921. 1st Printing. Loose leaf. Full page color illustration of a women in a pink dress with a child over her shoulder. 16" x 11-3/4". White paper leaf, printed to recto and verso. Recto with full color illustration and pink text. Verso printed in green and..... More
London: Printed by Order of the Said General Court, For A. Millar ... and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1732. The Second Edition, Corrected. 28 pp. Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 4to. 8-5/8" x 6-7/8". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
London: Printed for J. Peele, at Locke's Head in Pater-Noster-Row, 1730. 1st printing. 35, [1 (blank)] pp. Signed at end: "R. M." Headpiece & decorative initial capital letter, p. 3. Headpiece, p. 34. 8vo, signed in 4s. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Disbound, with binding remnants along spine. Now housed in an..... More
London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876. 1st edition (Driver 509.1; Wheaton & Kelly 2947; cf. Axford, p. 87 & Bitting, p. 233 for the 1879 2nd edition). xvi, 175, [1 (blank)], [3] - 48 pp. Publisher catalogue at rear, dated May 1876 [later issue]. Head- tailpieces. 8vo. 7-1/4" x...... More
St. Louis: Published by Charles C. Spink & Con, (1957). 1st Printing. 356, [4] pp. Front cover with a drawing of Pee Wee Reese. 12mo. Printed green & black paper wrappers. More
St. Louis: Published by Charles C. Spink & Con, (1962). 1st Printing. 366, [2] pp. Front cover with a drawing of Warren Spahn. 12mo. Printed red & blue paper wrappers. More
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1757. 1st printing (ESTC T44730). 28 pp. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 4-7/8". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. The defendents charged with dereliction of duty with respect to their part in the Siege of Minorca. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Fourth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street, 1873. 1st Edition (Atwater 3137). 72 pp. T.p. printer's ornament. Text illustrated with 2 cuts of thermometers, and a few graphs. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 5". Original publisher's terra cotta cloth binding with black stamping. Born in France, Seguin emigrated..... More
London: Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Paternoster Row, 1745. 1st Edition. 47, [1 (blank)] pp. P. 47 misnumbered 46. T.p. printer's device. Headpiece. Decorative initial capital letter. 8vo, signed in 4s. 7-7/8" x 5". Disbound, now housed in an archiaval mylar sleeve. More
London: Printed for J. Debrett, Opposite Brulington House, Piccadilly; and G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1798. 1st printing (Goldsmith 17340). [2], 48 pp. Lacks half-title leaf. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
London: Printed by A Moore, for the Ghost of Phil. Horneck, at the Sign of Dr. Hermodactyll's Head, 1730. 1st printing (ESTC T106069). 28 pp. Lacks half-title leaf. T.p. printer's device. Headpiece. Decorative initial capital letter. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A political satire..... More
New York: Sudhaus & Erlenkötter, 1893. 1st printing thus. [4], 297, [3] pp. Items presented in alphabetical order. Laid-in, after p. 14, an advertising leaflet for a "Capital Dry Cell Battery", with mss note in bottom margin: Dz. $42 00/100 Net." Profusely illustrated, with each instrument / item depicted. 10"..... More
London: Printed for Sam. Buckley; and Sold by Ferd. Burleigh, in Amen-Corner, 1714. 1st edition, second issue. [2], vii, [1 (blank)], 30 pp. T.p. printer's ornament. Headpieces. 4to: A - E4. A1 a cancel. 9-1/8" x 6-7/8". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Glasgow: Joseph Swan, Engraver, 1837. Later edition, first published in 1834. lii, 104 pp. 3 engraved t.p. & 23 inserted steel engravings, tissue guards. 8vo. 9-7/8" x 6-1/2". Original publisher's brown muslin cloth binding with gilt stamped title & ornamental frame to front board, within gilt stamped: "Swan's Lakes of..... More
London: Printed for A. Millar, at Buchanan's Head, over- against St. Clement's Church, in the Strand. 1732. 1st Printing. 16 pp. Tailpiece. 4to: A - B4. 8-5/8" x 6-7/8". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "The 'Charitable Corporation' was an institution intended to provide low cost loans for..... More
Pasadena: Published by the Author, 1925. 1st edition (Ahouse A36a). vi, 390, [2 (advert)] pp. Crown 8vo. Maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering & front board stamped with black lettering & pictorial. No dust jacket. More
London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1743. The Third Edition. 63, [1 (blank)] pp. Headpiece. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Walpole's answer to Stanhope's opposition to the Parliament proposal to hire Hanoverian troops as mercenaries, cf. "The Case of the Hanover forces..... More
New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 45 Rose Street, 1931. 1st printing thus. [4], 331, [25], 64, [2] pp. Last section "Official Base Ball Rules, Revised for 1931". Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images. Drawing of baseball diamond. 8vo. 6-3/4" x 5". Red, blue & yellow paper wrappers with white lettering..... More
