NY: Oxford University Press, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon first edition, near fine copy in price-clipped dustjacket that is gently toned about edges and spine, and a few short closed tears here and thee. No names or bookplates. DOGS. More
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1945. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, matching endpapers, gte, gilt to spine, (xii), 26. Errata statement printed at bottom of xii. Top edge slightly darkened/soiled, and marbled boards a wee dulled. Internals fine. No names or bookplates and desirable thus..... More
London: Macmiillan, 1933. Later Printings. Hardcover. Two uniformly bound full leather later printings of WONDERLAND (1937, 189,000th thousand) and LOOKING GLASS (1933, 127th thousand). 8vo, full, red polished calf, tripled ruled covers, 6 compartments with gilt to spine, aeg, marble endpapers, inner dentelles. Queen device in gilt front cover LOOOKING-GLASS;..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Hardcover. #340 of 750 editions. 10 volume manuscript edition in original green, small pebbled cloth, edges uncut, brown leather labels with titles in gilt. Spines have dulled to tan and leather labels are variously darkened and chipped with some loss to gilt. Internals are near fine..... More
NY: The Paris Review, 1962. No Binding. Poster, approx 24 x 36", printed by The Paris Review, of Christo's work that depicts an issue of the literary monthly wrapped in plastic, bundled with rough twine, against a backdrop of crinkled brown paper. Mounted on 1/2" board, shrink-wrapped. Two small punctures..... More
Richard Feigen Gallery, 1969. No Binding. Poster, approx 25 x 38", for the exhibit at the Richard Feigen Gallery, April 30 - May 31, 1969, of the work of artist Claus Oldenburg, featuring his work "Inverted fireplug, as skyscraper" Mounted on 3/8" board, shrink-wrapped. Poster toned, stained lower edge, most..... More
New Haven CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1975. No Binding. Poster, approx 23 x 32", for the exhibit at Yale Art Gallery April - June 1975 of the work of artist Franz Kline, featuring his 1955 Abstract Expressionist work, Wannamaker Block. Mounted on 3/8" board, shrink-wrapped. Poster toned, slightly "rippled'..... More
Chicago: R. R. Donnelly and Sons (The Lakeside Press), 1903. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 117 volumes of the Lakeside Classics - complete run of green, red, blue, brown and mint green series, 1903 - 2019. Books in the first series (1903 - 1927) bear the same bookplate on the pastedown in..... More
(Hartford CT): unknown. No Binding. 10 mounted images of Connecticut structures, each two-tone, approx 6.75 x 5" mounted on stiff boards approx 10 x 8" labeled on verso or identified as follows: Trumbell Electric Company (new factory built in 1905); the State capitol buidling; Hartford County Courthouse; 12 Garden St..... More
London: Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1694. 1st English-lanquage Edition. Hardcover. Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1694., London.12mo, half leather, gte, 8.25 x 14.5cm.(vi), clvi, (i, with errata), (xxiv), 230; viii, 9 - 208. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Rabelais with quote from Theodorus Beza dated 1552. First edition in English. Owbership name..... More
London: Winsor and Newton. Fourteenth Edition, Revised and Augmente. Hardcover. 12mo, yellow half calf (turned tanned), marbled edges. nd (circa 1890s). Water-colours painting is stated 14th edition, 50pp, 18 illustrations. Oil painting is 77pp, illustrated. The Winsor and Newton catalog for brishes, pencils, drawng papers, paints, etc. is 101pp, amply..... More
NY: Abbey & Imbrie, 1911. Soft cover. Two-tone pictorial covers, stapled spine, approx 5 x 8", 176 pages, mostly b&w, profusely illustrated, 2 pages of flies in color. Loss to front cover around edges, and paper over spine, still firmly bound, internals clean. More
South Bend IN: South Bend Bait Company, 1936. Soft cover. Fishing tackle catalog of the South Bend Bait Company for 1936, pictorial covers, stapled spine, approx 5 x6", 112 pages, copiously illustrated all manner of fishing equipment - rods, reels, tackle and flies (in color from pages 51 - 62)..... More
(Aspen): ( Roaring Fork Peace Coalition and Colorado Coalition Against Wat in Iraq), 2003. No Binding. Fascimile, approx 11x17" the Apres X-Games Peace Rally Feb 1, 2003 in Aspen, CO sponsored by the Roaring Fork Peace Coalition and Colorado Coalition Against Wat in Iraq. The repro poster has a repro..... More
(Dublin): (Guiness Museum), 1982. No Binding. Glossy fascimile, approx 16x20" for the exibition on the Guiness Museum Visitors' Centre Feb to Aug 1982 fully entitled A JAMES GAPE AT GUINESS AND DUBLIN - WINE OF THE COUNTRY. Poster designer initals lower right corner PJW. More
London: Printed for B. Barker, 1730. Third Edition. Hardcover. 4 volumes uniformly bound, 19thC full calf, leather over spines perished, covers separated or loosened, so the whole set needs rebinding. Geddes' three volumes of Miscellaneous Tracts are third edition, printed for B. Barker, London. Volume I: (6),474. Volume II; (1)480..... More
NY: Pocket Books, 1988. 1st Edition, Paperback. Soft cover. Special Advanced Reading Copy, stated on font cover and copyright page. Not only an as new copy but still packaged in its tightly fitting purple cardboard envelope, with purple yarn extending out of die-cut hole front side (to be pulled down..... More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1880. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Paper-covered boards with an illustrative design that is an exemplar of how Japanese design influenced book decoration. With it's sever diagonals in black and white interspersed with dream-like illustrations of snow-capped mountains and the moon, the design has, presciently, a Surrealistic..... More
London: Printed by Luke Hanford... for T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies... and E. Harding, 1800. Hardcover. 8vo, xxii, 262 , (1). Dewitt Clinton's copy with his signature in black-ink on the upper right corner of the title page. Bound by Sagorski & Sutcliff. Full tree calf, inner gilt dentelles..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Mustard cloth, pictorial stamped in brown, white and gilt. Moderate soling, firmly bound. 12 full page illustrations. Conntemporary ownership signature ffe and private lending librrary ticket of Stimis and Chapman , Syracuse, NY on pastedown. More
Valley Falls RI: Alex S. Arnold, 1878. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth, stamped in black front, gilt titles spine, yellow endpapers, 8vo, 195pp. Cancel insert of blurbs from press reviews before preface. More
NY: Cornish Lamport, 1852. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Elaborate blind stamped brown cloth, front and back, gilt spine titles. Double, 2-tone chromo forntispieces with tissue guard. 240 pages. Edges and covers moderately worn. Intermittent foxing. Solid binding. More
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. Chromolithographed color polished cloth, pictorials front and back, printed by Forbes Co, Boston. Undated, circa 1880. Neat pencilled inscription ffe to (presumably) a student "for punctuality 1881". Unpaginated, illustrated with steel engravings, some full page. Worldcat lists only 3..... More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1852. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Likely firts edition in book form: copyright page dated 1852. Rebound late 19thc half red leather over red cloth. Spine battered, front coverholding - just. rest firmly bound. 8vo, iv (pub list) + 261 + 22 (pub list, last..... More