New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, [Franklin Square], 1854. Fifth Edition [stated]. 226, [4 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with geometric diagrams & figures. 12mo. 7-7/8" x 5". Publisher's original brown full-sheep edition binding, with black leather title label to 2nd compartment. Marbled edges. Loomis "was an..... More
London: Publishers Houlston and Sons, 1902. 48 pp. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Disbound. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, [1957]. 1st Printing. One sheet, printed recto only, folded thrice, to fit the printed envelope. Sheet: 11" x 8-1/4". Folded: 5-3/8" x 3-1/8". Envelope: 3-1/3" x 6" A scarce order blank of new publications issued by this iconic mid-20th C San Francisco bookseller & printer..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1937. 1st revised and extended edition. One of 600 copies printed in July 1937. [13], 299, [2 (blank)] pp. Intratextual illustrations. 9-3/4" 6-1/2". Salmon cloth binding with title label pasted to spine. Gilt printed lettering to title label. Signed by "J. R. Knowland" -- Joseph Russell..... More
New York: C. Gerhardt, 1916. 1st Printing. 24 pp (including wrappers) 6-1/2" x 4-3/8" Printed buff paper covers, stapled. About Gerhardt himself, Guido Bruno, in his Adventures in American Bookshops [pp 54 - 55], describes Gerhardt as a specialist in "out of the way books by out of the way..... More
Avgvstae Vindelicorvm [Augsberg Germany]: Sumnptibus Fratrum Veith, Bibliofolarvm. 1788. 1st edition (Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 79). xvi, 207, [1] pp. Errata last page (which a prior owner has implemented via pen & Ink). Untrimmed. Head- & tailpieces. Illustrated at rear with 8 folding copperplate engraved tables of alphabets used..... More
New York: Knopf, 1944. 1st edition. 591 pp + xvi pp index. Illustrated. 8vo. Black cloth; red topstain. Dust jacket. More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, (2009). 1st Edition. xvi, [2], 618, [2 (blank)] pp including Notes and index. Several b/w illustrations. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Black cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. Dust jacket. More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, (2007). 1st Edition. xix, [1 (blank)], 539, [1 (blank)] pp including notes and index. Several b/w illustrations. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Black cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. Dust jacket. More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, (2010). 1st Edition thus. xxiv, [2],638 pp including appedix, notes and index. Several b/w images. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Black cloth binding with silver title lettering stamped to spine. Dust jacket. More
London: Henry Frowde, 1902. 146, iii, [1], 38 pp. 8-1/4" x 5". Disbound. More
London: Philip Green, 1902. 16 pp. 8-1/4" x 5". Disbound. More
