London: Chapman and Hall, 1854. 1st Edition. [2], 319, [1 (blank)]; [2], 308; [2], 326 pp. Post 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board stamped in blind. Yellow publisher advert eps. Binder's ticket, "Bone & Son", to rear v. 1... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, (n. d.). Ca 1866. iv, [5] - 215, [7] pp. 4 pages of Beadle adverts follows text. Wood engraved frontispiece, "Story Telling in Maum Guinea's Cabin." 3 inserted wood engravings. Tissue-guards. 12mo. 6-9/16" x 4-1/8". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine... More
New York / Cincinnati: Robert H. Johnston & Co. / Robert Clarke & Co. 1868. 1st Edition. IV, [5] - 30, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Original publishers green pebbled cloth card stock boards with gilt stamped lettering to front cover. Later black cloth spine duplicating the original. A parody of... More
Newburyport. Thomas & Whipple. 1811. 3rd Edition, (Wright 988). 242 [8 ads] pp. 8vo. 5-3/4" x 3-1/2". Full modeled calf with a red leather label stamped in gilt on the back strip. First published in 1797. More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 306 Chestnut Street, (1871). 1st edition thus (BAL 11718). 4, [209] - 291, [1 (blank)] pp. Cut of Breitmann to front cover. 8vo. Original publisher's paper covers, printed in red & black. More
London: The Almagated Press, Limited, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca 1921. 64 pp. Text double column. 7" x 5-1/2". Color pictorial paper wrappers. None recorded on OCLC. More
London: The Almagated Press, Limited, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca 1921. 64 pp. Text double column. 7" x 5-1/2". Color pictorial paper wrappers. None recorded on OCLC. More
London: The Almagated Press, Limited, [1921]. 1st Printing. 64 pp. Text double column. 7" x 5-1/2". Color pictorial paper covers, with artwork by Arthur Jones. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Author & date of publication from OCLC, which records two holdings for this title, both in Australia. More
New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers. 1970. 1st Edition. vi, 90 pp. 8vo, 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". In original decorative dust jacket with original green and blue cloth boards (publisher's stamp on upper board), spine with gilt stamping. Green endpapers. More
Tavistock Square, London. Published by Leonard & Virgina Woolf at The Hogarth Press. 1936. 1st Edition. 59 pp. 8vo, 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Original yellow cloth in original dust jacket with gilt stamping to spine. More
New York and London. Funk & Wagnalls Company. 1905. Reprint. 58 [4 ads] pp. Frontispiece with original tissue guard. 8vo, 6-1/2" x 4-1/2" Publisher's light yellow vertically ribbed cloth, stamped with green and pink floral design (as noted in Gullians & Espey No. 140), original pictorial dust jacket. It is... More
Boulder, Colorado: The Aspen Press, 1975. 1st edition thus. 1/250 hardbound cc [750 cc total limitation]. 62, [2] pp. With the original illustrations from Punch. 12mo. Brown cloth binding. Yellow paper dust jacket, printed in black & red. More
London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paernoster-Row. 1811. The Second Edition. (Stated). Two vol., [xii] 261; [4] 215 pp. 8vo, 6-1/2" x 4-1/4". Half red morocco, marbled paper covered boards, back strip stamped in gilt, all edges speckled red, marbled end papers. More
Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone, 1900. First Edition. [viii] 218 [4 ads] pp. Title printed in red and black within decorative border, numerous b/w plates. 8vo., 6-1/4" x 4-1/2" Publisher's yellow buckram with rules and lettering in dark blue, floral decoration on light blue ground to upper board... More
[San Francisco]: Calhoun, Printer. 1860. 1st Printing. Broadside leaflet. 7-3/8" x 4" Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. The headline production presumed to be inspired by Mrs Hofland's 1842 novel, "The CZARINA: An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia." A scarce early San Francisco playbill for the Lyceum Theatre... More
[San Francisco]: Calhoun, Printer. (n. d.). C. 1858. Broadside on beige paper. 8" x 4-1/4" Along with "Newman Noggs!", "Mr. and Mrs. Peter White" and "Ivanhoe" are listed on this playbill. Mr. Joseph Jefferson (1829 - 1905) has a lead role in each play. In "Newman's Nogg!" Mr. Jefferson is... More
London: E. Rimmel, [1874]. 1st printing (presumed). Bolton, BL no. 25. Single leaf folded vertically to form (4) pp. Elaborate pictorial title-page. Folded: 9-3/8" x 7-5/8" Printed self wrappers. The Gaiety Theatre, The Strand, London, was where Dickens saw his last play in 1869. This production of The Battle of... More
(n. p.): 1879. 1st printing (presumed). Broadside on thin peach colored paper. 11-1/4" x 5" Printed self wrappers. A "programme" for a reception of dramatic scenes from "Old Curiosity Shop", "David Copperfield" and Mr. Pickwick. Very scarce indeed, no library holdings found. More
Boston: Loring, Publisher, (n. d.). Reprint (1870), BAL 1, 158. 148 pp. 4 plates including frontis. 8vo, 6-3/4" x 4-1/2". Publisher's green peppled cloth, stamped in gilt to upper board and back strip, brown endpapers. More
London, New York: William Heinemann, Doubleday, Page & Co. 1908. First Trade Edition. [i-vi] 1-134 pp. 40 color plates mounted on tan paper with captioned tissue-guards, and numerous drawings in b/w. 4to. 10" x 7-1/2" Original tan cloth with gilt-pictorial and lettering to upper board, gilt lettering to backstrip. One... More
[San Francisco]: Published by James Delkin. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. 1941. 1st Edition (Kherdian 26; Magee 364). 500 cc. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by Saroyan: "To P. K. From Bill Saroyan" [P. J. Tomajan, fellow Armenian-American author]. [20] pp. 6 pages of prefatory text by Saroyan. 30 Color illustrations... More
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1966). First Edition, Second Printing (so stated). xvi, 351 pp. 12 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. 8vo., 8-1/2" x 5-3/4" Quarter blue cloth and light blue paper boards with Philip IV Coat of Arms stamped in blind to upper board, lettering in... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge, (1898). Reprint. xxii, 355 pp. One fold-out map. 8vo., 8-1/4" x -3/4" Contemporaneous half polished dark-purple calf and marbled paper covered boards, backstrip stamped in gilt, top-edge gilt, marbled endpapers. More
New York; London: The Viking Press; William Heinemann, Ltd. 1936. 1st edition thus. xviii, 435 pp. One fold-out map and five facsimiles. 4to., 10-1/4" x 7-1/4" Quarter red cloth and red paper covered boards, printed paper label to backstrip, leaves mostly unopened, in matching slipcase. More
New York: George Lane, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office. 1840. Revised, Enlarged, and an Index Added. 326 pp. Engraved frontisportrait, with tissue guard. 8vo., 7-3/8" x 4-5/8" Contemporaneous mottled calf, backstrip with gilt rules and a red title label, lettered in gilt. More
