London: Joseph Thomas, 1841. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Royal 8vo, full olive French levant morocco, wide gilt line border on sides, gilt panelled back, inner gilt borders, teg, sides uncut, bound by Popelin. Leather has faded to brownish-olive at spine. Internals fine. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of a number of... More about MANON LESCAUT (extra-illustrated edition
London: Printed for Andrew Bell, 1710. 5th Edition. Hardcover. Fifth edition, 8vo, xxx + 323 + (7). contemporary speckled panelled calf with rules and ornaments in blind. Missing prelims, frontispiece repaired, 6 engraved plates, 5 of them foldouts. Internals, including foildouts, better than very good. More about The Complete Gard'ner or Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and...
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. and F. Rivington, et al, 1769. 15th Edition. Hardcover. Fifteenth edition 8vo, lxvi + 382 + index + 1p adv. likely early 19thc calf with single rule in gilt, raised bands, red leather label spine. Covers heavily worn, with some loss... More about THE GARDENER'S KALENDAR; Directing what Works are necessary to be performed Every Month
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by C. Rivington, London, 1732. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon first edition. 8vo, xvi + 252 + 4p publishers' listings, frontispiece engraved by Pine, contemporary speckled panelled calf with rules and ornaments in blind, gilt dentelles and cover edges. Front cover hinge partially revealed... More about THE GARDENER'S KALENDAR
NY: John F. Scovill. A. D. Bloodgood (bookbinder). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Undated, c 1850, 14 hand-painted floral prints. Scattered foxing, toning throughout. Bound in quarter leather over green pebbled cloth, giult to spine, which is cracked, dried, covers still holding. Bookbinder ticket rear pastedown for A.D. Bloodgood Bookbinder and Printer... More about THE LADY'S ANNUAL AND PARLOR ANNUAL
Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1975. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. 140 copies. Fine. Discrete bookplate front pastedown. Publisher's prospectus for the title laid-in. More about QUARTET: Four Stories. [Roman Fever, The Other Two, The Last Asset, Afterward
NY: Knopf, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 2500 copies, folio. An apparently unread, unused set, fine in slipcase. No names, bookplates. Extra shipping charges will apply). More about The Sistine Chapel (2 volumes in slipcase
London: 'The Bazaar' Office, 1885. 1st Edition. Hardcover. undated, likely 1885 (from date in catalog in rear) and assumed perhaps second edition (first 1879/80?) that Dalziel later comprehensively expanded into a 3 volume work published in 1897. Publisher's mauve cloth, decorated in gilt, with silver title front, front cover and... More about British dogs, their varieties, history, characteristics, breeding, management, and exhibition...
London: Bradbury Evans. John Leech. Hardcover. undated, c1860, 2 volumes in one, rebound in half leather, broken binding, signatures in groups separated from binding... either suitable for rebinding or as a breaker for the 20 hand-colored plates. More about THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). Early Printing Thus. Hardcover. Early printing of the Peter Pan story in Scribner's "Little People" edition with Rackham's famous illustrations - 5 colored plates, 15 line drawing in text. Green cloth covers, titles stamped in darker green. Pictoial dustjacket, prce-clipped, soiled and... More about PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS Retold by May Byron for Little People with the Permission of the...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A superior copy, first edition, half leather, front cover paper label with woodcut vignette in original dustjacket stamped in black with same. Laid-in is two-sided advertisement for the book designed with woodcuts by Seaver too. SIGNED BY SEAVER on verso ffe. Some toning... More about The Diverting History of John Gilpin Shewing How He....with woodcust drawn and engraved by Robert...
NY: Oquaga Press, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy, unnumbered but personally signed by Radenkovitch on the limitation page with a lengthy contemplation about youth to a marreid couple of fellow artists and dated West Cornwall (CT) 1957. More about Moods and Moments
Chicaho: Pelligrini & Cudahy, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon FDR title, this noteworthy as it bears the book plate of The Amalgamated Book Club, the members library of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA), a labor union founded in 1914 famous for its socialist bent. It merged with the... More about F. D. R. Coumnist The Uncollected Columns of Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
NY: Laddin Press, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribe by author Kent on the ffe and dated 10/13/70. More about PLOTKIN'S PYRAMID
Tivoli: Western Art Museum Association and the Direzione Generale Italiani All'Estero (printed by Officine Grafiche ), 1934. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near fine copy. Italian art under Mussolini. Exhibition catalog. More about Exhibition of Contemporary Italian Painting Under the Auspices of the Western Art Museum...
London: Printed for T. and T. Longman, 1753. 3rd Edition, Corrected. Hardcover. Vol 1: xvi + 591p. Vol 2: 410p + index + Plates I - XVI on 8 foldout sheets, plate XVII single sheet, appedix of 8 plates on single sheets. Bound in old calf, some foxing. Good copies with all plates present. More about A new method of chemistry : including the history, theory, and practice of the art : translated...
Berlin: Vossische Buchhandlung, 1800. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quarter vellum over decorated paper-backed boards. 338p. 19thC ownership name,Heidleberg, in black ink on title page. 338pp. Covers soiled, internals better than very good, solidly bound. More about Die Bestimmung des Menschen. (The Determination of Man
Tuscon AZ: Nazarelli Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED AND ALSO WARMLY INSCRIBED in 2004 on the title page by photographer Uelsmann. Near fine cloth covers. More about APPROACHING THE SHADOW
Boston: Little, Brown, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine, internally with two neat dual ownership signatures in blue ink ffe. Unclipped dustjacket ($4.00 price) lightlly soiled, and teh slightest wear spine ends. Nice, solid, clean copy. More about FRANNY AND ZOOEY
NY: The Century Co., 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed second or early printing: dated 1907 ttile page, 1905 copyright page. 2 volumes, blue cloth, about very good. Inscribed by Cornell University co-founder White on the half title in Volume 1 "To Miss Nye/with sincere respect and best wishes of And... More about AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANDREW DICKSON WHITE WITH PORTRAITS (with) SIGNED WHITE NEW YEAR'S CARD LAID-IN
Philadelphia: National Mental Health Foundation, 1947. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Watershed treatise, with pictures, that made breakthrough public advocacy for reforms of treatment of and conditions of care for the mentally ill. Softcover, as issued, pictorial covers, 164 pages, with b& w photos. Scarce in first edition, this the even... More about OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND
NY: Macy - Masius, 1927. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. Set #26 of 100, both volumes signed by Adams and numbered, very good all over, lacking decorated slipcase in which issued. More about THE CONNING TOWER BOOK: Being a selection of the best verses published in The Conning Tower,...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1930. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. Limited edition printed on handmade paper from The Curwen Press, this #1465 of 1600 copies. Quarter buckram, yellow linen. Dustjacket split along folds with 1.5" strip missing lower spine. Internals better than very good. More about LOVE AMONG THE HAYSTACKS AND OTHER PIECES
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A book of Beerbohm's essays and radio broadcasts. Ownership copy of NBC (radio) executive, vice president for women's and children's programming Margaret Cuthbert (b1887 - d 1968) with her signature dated January 1947 on the ffe. More about MAINLY ON THE AIR
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Neat gift inscription lower edge of half title, else an apparently unused book. More about Tony Duquette