Richmond [British Columbia]: Crestwood Press, [1970]. 1st Printing. SIGNED by the author on p. 1. 53, [1 (blank)] pp. Image of author to front cover. 10" x 7-1/2" White glossy stock paper covers printed in black. OCLC records only 5 institutional holdings of this work of poetry, none in the..... More
Shreverport, La. Published by United Home Building Plan Service, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca early 1940s. Unpaginated, though 24 pp, each page depicting a different house plan. Short paragraph of descriptive text for each. Each plan illustrated with a b/w halftone photograph, with accompanying architectual plan / footprint. 10-1/2"..... More
Boston: Published by Redding & Co., 1886. 1st Edition (Axford, p. 317). Not in Bitting, Cagle, nor Wheaton & Kelly. 128 pp. Numerous adverts for "Redding's Russia Salve". 6-3/8" x 4-1/2". Original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Author better know for her earlier..... More
Boston: Daniel Gunn & Co., Printers, 1891. 1st Printing. Not in Romaine, though see p. 96 for 4 later [beginning 1896] Master & Wells catalogues / lists. 81 pp [inside rear wrapper paginated as p. 81]. Inside front wrapper as frontispiece. 16mo. 5-9/16" x 3-1/2". Red paper wrappers, printed in..... More
Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, No. 9 Sansom Street, 1856. 1st Printing. 14 pp. Fold-out at rear, with 7 figures depicting divers aspects of the "Steam Hydrant". 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Later plain light brown paper covers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Rare scientific treatise on this device..... More
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press, 1952. 1st edition of this English translation. xii, 127, [1] pp. Bibliographical references, pp. 126 - 127. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-5/8". Blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Grey paper dust jacket printed in dark blue. "Avicenna was a Persian polymath who is..... More
[New York?]: J. H. Fisher, (1883). 1st Printing. Unpaginated, though 32 pages. Profusely illustrated with 20 wood engravings [15 full page] showing divers aspects of the Bridge & its construction. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5-7/8". Printed buff paper wrappers, sewn. Front cover interior advert for a listing of Loeser's many store..... More
Vancouver: Published by TISHBOOKS, [1962]. 1st printing (Miki A1; for Creeley, Novik 111, who states April 1963 as the date of publication, vice Miki's c. May 1961). Issued reputedly in a run of only 30 - 50 cc. 44 pp. P. 31 & 43 blank [as issued]. Drawings by Gordon..... More
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., (1910). 1st edition, 1st printing (Beinvenue, p. 47). INSCRIBED copy ["Yours Very Ozily"], SIGNED in full by Baum, dated 1912. 295, [1] pp. Half-tone image of "Ozcot" [magazine extract?] tipped in over Baum's inscription. 16 inserted color plates, with b/w illustrations throughout by John..... More
Aberdeen [Stuttgart?]: Printed for James Hay, and Sold by all Booksellers in Town and Country, 1788 [1872]. 1st printing thus. 23, [1] pp. "The Maid's Prayer", p. 24. Printer's ornament to t.p. 12mo. 7" x 4-5/8". Lacks wrappers [remnants along spine fold], now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Wilkes..... More
Paris: A. and W. Galignai and Co. / Baudrey's European Library, 1854. 1st Edition thus, i.e., jointly by these publishers. [4], 190 pp. Text double column. Printer's ornament to t.p. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Period brown quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards. Now with custom clear mylar wrapper. Hannay..... More
Honolulu, H.I. Press Publishing Company Steam Print, 1890. 1st printing of this year. Cf. Forbes 3103. 14, iv, [5] - 170, 15 - 28 pp. 14 pages of adverts begin & conclude the volume. Fold-out map of Honolulu, p. 6. Chromolithographed leaf of 10 company ship flags inserted after p...... More
New York: George Munro, Publisher. (1866). 1st printing. [5] - 97, [3 (adverts)] pp. Frontis. 12mo. 6-1/4" x 4". Buff paper wrappers, printed in black, with front cover graphic duplicating frontis image. Front cover inner advert for the next title in the series. Author attribution from OCLC; Latham C. Carleton..... More
New York: Frank Tousey, Publisher, 34 & 36 North Moore Street, (1895). Early, if not the first, printing of this edition. Advert to rear cover lists through the next title of this "10 Cent Hand Book" series. 62, [2 (advert)] pp. Illustrated with cuts. 12mo. 6-1/4" x 4" Printed paper..... More
"Punch Bowl", Korea: 1952 - 1953. 36 leaves of mounting paper, 30 of which have entries, affixed photographs, artifacts, momentos. Diary entries are in blue ink and quite legible. 100+ original b/w photos from "in country", many captioned underneath or on the back. 12" x 11" Tan commercial leather scrapbook..... More
[Madison, WI]: [1975]. 1st Printing. Broadside, printed in black on purple paper. With a center illustration, satirical in nature, of US soldiers with screws through the center of each, and FUCK THE ARMY in large letters across the top. Jane Fonda’s and Donald Sutherland’s names bracket the center graphic. 17"..... More
New York: Geo. E. Woodward. Engraved and Printed by Korff Bro's. (1870). 1st, and only, edition (Hitchcock 430). 14 pages of printed text at front. Divers pages of text explaining each design & specification. 67 plates, complete. 4to. 11-3/4" x 8-7/8". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping to..... More
Liverpool: Printed by George Smith, 1837. 1st Edition (NCBEL III, 1212 [Landor]). v, [1], [3] - 232 pp. Lithographic portrait frontis. 8vo. 8" x 5". Original publisher's brown embossed cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine. TEG. Pale pink eps. Somewhat uncommon literary compilation, termed a "garland of..... More
(n. p.): 1938. 55 leaves of mounting paper, of which 24 have a total of 262 circular, printed paper / foil milk bottle tops, mounted 9 - 15 per page [all mounted on leaf recto]. Album: 14" x 10-5/8". Tops: various sizes & colors, 2-7/8" - 4-1/8". Album two-toned, green..... More
Seattle: Kinsey Photo. Ca 1930s. 11" x 14". Image size: 10-1/4" x 12-7/8". Most oblong format. Each photograph housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Group of nine large-format photographs depicting lumbering activities of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumbering Company, Pacific National Lumber Company, and the Simpson Lumber Company. All..... More
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Luce Furniture Company, (n. d.). Ca late teens, early 1920s. 122, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece of the factory. Oblong folio: 12-1/8" x 15-7/8". Black cloth spine over patterned-paper wrapped boards. Printed red title label to front cover. "The Luce Furniture Company began its business career under the..... More
[Los Angeles ?]: (n. d.). Ca 1910. Single b/w albumen photograph, with dark brown mount. Verso blank. Landscape orientation: 10-1/4" x 13-3/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. NB. We were able to locate an early 20th C. advert ["Land of Sunshine", v. 12] for this firm, which, at..... More
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. 1791. 1st edition, 1st issue (Grolier 100 ENGLISH, #65; Pottle 79). 2 volumes: xii, [16], 516, [2 (blank)]; [4], 586, [2], 42 pp. Vol II, p 585 misnumbered 587; 586 as 588. Other mispaginations [see Pottle]. Vol I, p...... More
San Francisco: 1952. 1st Printing. Divers paginations. Illustrated from photographs. Divers sizes. Original paper covers. "The magazine was founded in 1952 by a consortium of photographers and proponents of photography: Ansel Adams, Melton Ferris, Dorothea Lange, Ernest Louie, Barbara Morgan, Beaumont Newhall, Nancy Newhall, Dody Warren, and Minor White. It..... More
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(n. p.), (n. d.). Ca late 19th century. 5-3/8" x 8-3/8" x 7/8" 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..... More
