London: The Gnome & Le Rhone Engine Co. (n. p.). 1st Printing, ca 1916. 62 pp. Profusely illustrated, including 2 fold-out engine diagrams following text. 8" x 4-3/4". Grey paper wrapped boards printed in black & yellow. "Price 2/-" printed to rear board. "The Le Rhône 9J is a nine-cylinder... More
Atlanta. Turner Publishing, Inc. 1994. 1st Edition. 192 pp. Profusely illustrated throughout. 12-3/4" x 9-3/4" Original red cloth boards with black stamped lettering, original pictorial dust-jacket, white endpapers, More
[Washington, D.C.]: Grovernment Printing Office, 1945. 1st edition thus. Volume with 8 sections, each section separately paginated, ~ 160 pp. Illustrated with charts, tables, drawings, etc. 7-1/8" x 4-5/8". Original US Government faux black leather 6 ring binder, with gilt stamping to front cover. "The Air Navigator's Handbook is designed... More
Louisville: Courier - Journal Job Print, 1886. 1st edition thus (?), i.e., Louisville publisher. Not in Huth. 168 pp (including Index). Illustrated with cuts. 5" x 3-1/2". Cloth covered card stock boards, with gilt stamping to both boards. Uncommon work by this veterinary surgeon. Per OCLC, we see he first... More
Produced by Army Air Forces Training Aids Division, (n. d.). Ca early 1940s. A four-panel fold-out, white cloth hinges, with the 3 interior panels providing a photographic cockpit layout, with numbered yellow tags to identify the gauge [e.g., airspeed] and/or control handle [e.g., throttles]. The center fold-out with instructions on... More
Auckland: David Bateman, Ltd. (2006). 1st Edition. 160 pp (including Index). Filled with color images. Oblong format: 9-1/2" x 12-1/4". Original publisher's green cloth binding, gilt stamping, color photograph onlay to front board. Grey pictorial eps. Green cloth slipcase with gilt stamping & color photograph onlay to front board to one side. More
New York: Christie's East. 1995. [104 pp]. Profusely illustrated throughout. 10-1/2" x 8-1/4". Stiff pictorial paper wrappers, black background with gold lettering. More
New York: Christie's, 1997. 120 pp. Profusely illustrated throughout. 10-1/2" x 8-1/4". Stiff paper wrappers, black background with images on upper and lower wrappers, white lettering for title on upper wrapper. More
Berverly Hills. Christie's. 1997. 120, [1 ad] pp. Profusely illustrated throughout. 10-1/2" x 8-1/4". Pictorial stiff paper wrappers, black and white lettering on upper wrappers. More
Los Angeles: Christie's, 1996. 144 pp. Profusely illustrated throughout. 10-1/2" x 8-1/4". Stiff paper wrappers, black background with images on upper and lower wrappers, white lettering for title on upper wrapper. Includes a single sheet of "Christie's Auction Results Sunday 15 Decemeber 1996 Sale No: 7943" More
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1909. 1st Edition. [8], 52 pp. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6". Pale green buckram cloth spine over printed drab paper boards. No copies found on OCLC. Rare. More
(n. p.), (n. d.). C. late 19th century. Red velvet box, in the shape of a book, with upper and lower boards having an ornate border and lettering stamped in gilt, four-fold opening (with 16 sheets of blank paper AEG). Moire endpapers. A Victorian-era stationery box that appears to have... More
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
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
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
Girard, Kansas. Haldeman-Julius Publications. (n. d.). [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
New York. W. A. Taylor & Company. 1947. 1st Edition. 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 sited by OCLC. More
Reading, PA. Published by Culinary Arts Press. 1936. 1st Edition. 47, [1 ad] pp. Illustrated throughout with drawings and decorations by Warren G. Troutman. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-71/4". Hand painted wood board binding, bound with original orange wrapperd, leather ties. More
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
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916. 1st edition thus. Not in Bitting. Axford p. 285. [4], vi, [2], 552, [8] pp. Crown 8vo. Pale blue decorative cloth binding with white & dark blue stamping. Buff paper dust jacket printed in dark brown, replicating the binding design. Per Axford, a.... More
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
(n. p.): 1917. 1st printing thus. [2] pp. 14" x 7-1/2" Self-wrappers, light brown card-stock paper, printed in black with purple-stamped lettering to recto. Menu from a popular Italian eatery in Manhattan's financial district. Includes a extensive wine list. "Take home a lb. box of the best guava jelly or... More
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
[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
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
