NY: Dodd Mead, 1899. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. 268 copies on hand-made paper. An apparently unused copy in rare cloth dustjacket that matches cloth binding of book. The cloth dustjacket is soiled but the covers, gilt-ruled with pictorial pastedown, are impressively preserved. Thick 4to, sides untrimmed, xxvi + 329p. Numerous..... More
Newark NJ: The Carteret Book Club, 1933. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Only 200 copies. An apparenetly unread copy, near fine, spine a wee sunned, in broken cardboard slipcase. More
NY: Doubleday Doran, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition for "general circulation". An apparently unused copy - no names, inscriptions or bookplates - in clipped diustjacket with slightly darkened spine, slightly soiled rear panel. Thoroughly presentable copy. More
Middletown CT: Thomas Spencer, Jr., 1818. Early US Printing. Hardcover. On title page stated First Middletown, from the Fifth Hartford Edition. Original full calf, 383 pages 4 illustrated plates. Covers worn and scuffed, solid binding. A nice, unsophisticated early 19thC copy, often reprinted by New England, New York and Philadelphia..... More
London: Gay and Bird, 1894. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First English edition of the American classic with new illustrations by A. B. Frost. Publisher's decorated cloth stamped with black devices and gilt titlles, gte. Solid binding. Collectible condition. More
St. Louis: Fred P. Kaiser, 1902. Hardcover. Complete 10 volume sets, "University Edition" , green cloth, gilt-stamped titles spine, gilt top edge, sides untrimmed. Apparently unread. (Can you blame them?) The kind of set, typically sold by subscription turn of the century before last, that rich people would have bound..... More
NY: The Grolier Society, 1895. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Two sets, uniform in format and binding, of 10 sets each, "editions de luxe" (just 1000 sets!), green cloth, paper spine labels, gilt top edge, sides untrimmed. Apparently unread. (Can you blame them?) The kind of set, typically sold by subscription..... More
Philadelphia: M. Carey and Son, 1817. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The volume with plates or "atlas" volume of the first US edition that accompanies two volumes of text. All 10 plates extant, including the foldout map of Albania on tissue paper, which has two short tears closed with archival tape. Heavily..... More
Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1831. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Orignal binding, brown linen spine with leather label over pasteboard, 8vo, x+ 169, sides untriimed. Covers stained along bottom 2 inches whihc traverses to internals, which are foxed here and there. Binding firm. An aged, unsophisticated copy. BAL 1309. DOMESTIC SKILLS HOUSEHOLD..... More
NY: The New York News Co, 1869. First or Early Edition. Soft cover. Subtitled on title page: affectionately dedicated to this lovely fairy of Dobb's Ferry, by the only surviving relative of "Hendrick and Katrina." Glossy, light blue ppaer covers, stitched binding, (14), 160, (16). Advertisements in front, in rear..... More
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Impressively preserved copy of the 1860 NY State legialstive manual, stout 8vo, polished red cloth, blind-stamped front and rear with gilt to spine, with ownership name of O. L Holley, gilt-pressed front cover. Speckled edges, xxvi + 560p, two engraved foldouts..... More
NY: Wm. Radde, 1846. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Solid, unsophisticated copy of the first edition. 8vo, 184pp, brown cloth, blind-stamped front and rear, git spine titles. Covers modestly soiled, some foxing, missing half title, solid binding. MEDICAL SCIENCE MEDICINE. More
London: Printed by T Martin, 1787. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Narrow 12mo, 165 pages, original or old full calf, scuffed covers detached. Textblock intact. Sold as is. More
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1933. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near fine copy. Shows little if any signs of use. 322 pages, lots of illustrations. More
Boston: John B. Russell, 1825. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Volume III and IV, bound in quarter leather with marbleized boards, from No 27, dated Friday January 28, 1825, paginated from page (209) to No. 52, dated July 22, 1825, ending at page 416. Missing No. 1 of Volume IV, then starting..... More
New Haven: (Yale University), 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to, purplish cloth, gilt-pressed titles. 94 pages + 14p advertisements. College humor, lots of b&w illustrations, most in the style of Charles Dana Gibson. Some soiling top edge, internals bright. Much nicer than usually seen. More
NY: Outdoor Cleanliness Association of N.Y., Inc, 1947. Soft cover. Program for The Winter Ball, a grand evening of dinner and dance, sponsored by the Outdoor Cleanliness Association of NY, on Feb 4, 1947. Stiff covers, 9" x 12", with pictorial of "The Plaza in 1900" by Edward Cassel, stapled..... More
NY: METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY, 1916. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Souvenir program of Diaghileff's first US tour, 12 full page color plates of Bakst's designs for costumes and sets, duotone photographss, each page displayed in Art-Nouveau decorative surround. Laid in is 4 page program for The Century for the performance of..... More
Portland (Maine): Shirley & Hyde Printers, 1827. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Temperance sermon by Asa Mead, pastor of the Congregational Church in Brunswick (Maine). 20 pages, string-tied binding, lacking front and rear cover and a narrow diagonal strip bottom of page with attendant loss to a few words at the..... More
(Princeton): original holograph. No Binding. Holographed version of the two-stanza, 14-line poem "Browning's Lineage" in Van Dyke's hand and signed by him. On notepaper measuring 5" x 8" in black in, signed by Van Dyke (1852 - 1933) at the bottom of the sheet, with the sheet labeled "Dr. Henry..... More
Philadelphia: Swain, Abell & Simmons, 1836. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First issue of the Philly penny daily ("price one cent") that ran through 1942. Folded once, heavily toned. More
NY: A-D Publishing Company, 1941. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Featured insert is a "typographic keepsake", Ballet of the ABCs, layout by Hebert Matter and illustrated by Emory Condor. Also includes an insert on the work of Philip Reisman and a portfolio of the drawings of Hubert Davis. 54p + Strathmore..... More
NY: A-D Publishing Company, 1941. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Covers by Swiss graphic designer George Giusti. Main feature of this issue is a 10 page insert on Giusti's work published by Kenilworth Press. Other inserts feature Fred Cooper, the Index of American Design and Associated American Artists. 64p + Strathmore..... More
NY: PM Publishing Company, 1938. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Covers designed by Paul Rand. Main feature of this issue is a 16 page insert on Rand's work published by Kenilworth Press. Also featured is an insert on the Merrymount Press and the American Artists Group on Christmas cards. 83p +..... More
Milano: Golrlich Editore, 1975. Soft cover. Fabulous 1975 catalog edited by Renzo Tresoldi and published for the trade by Gorlich, measures 10" x 12.5', 29 pages in full color, contemporary furnishings by about two dozen Italian manufacturers/ designers of general furniture, sofas, lamps, office furniture and kitchen furniture, such as..... More