Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1881. 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 or Avant-Garde..... More
(Princeton): (Princeton University), 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Typed manuscript, bound in tan linen with gilt-stamped titles, written in fulfillment of requirements of the English Department for an A.B. degree from Princeton University. Manuscript dated March 26, 1964. 74 double-spaced pages, plus 2 page bibliography, with minor pencilled corrections. Signed by..... More
Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske and Company, 1885. Early Reprint. Hardcover. A solid, uniform set of the DeWolfe, Fiske reprint (c1885-1890) of juvenile novels written by Abbott and originally published as follows: On the Atlantic 1853, In Paris 1854, , In Switzerland 1854, In London 1855, On the Rhine 1855, In Scotland..... More
Soft cover. TAXIDERMY EPHEMERA. about 75 pieces, from early 1950s- early 1970s, includes approx. 28 catalogs from hunting and taxidermy firms large and small: Penn Taxidermy Studios (Hazelton PA); MJ Hoffman (Brooklyn NY); Orvis; Maurice Corporation (Portland OR); Whitepanel Co (Bonta LA); Brady's Panels (Pittsburg TX); JW Elwood Supply Co..... More
Worcester MA: Chas. K. Reed, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New Edition - Enlarged and Re-written. Fifteehth Thousand as stated on title page. 303pp, illustrated plus ads rear. Stamped cloth cover with pictorial pastedown of bald eagle. Old owner name ffe. Solid copy. More
Chicago: Newsstand Library, 1962. 1st Edition. Soft cover. An apparently unread copy, about as nice as one could expect to see. Top edge a little soiled. Pages toned as is expected because of cheap, acid-heavy paper. And that's why they call it pulp fiction. More
1st Edition. Hardcover. Russian-born Igor Sikorsky (1889 - 1972), who designed and flew the first viable America helicopter, Elizabeth lived in Connecticut, with houses in Bridgeport as well as Litchfield to the north. They enjoyed a social relationship with Sherman and Anne Hight, he industrialist and horseman and she, author..... More
Venice: (Aldus), 1655. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo, contemporary full vellum, blue-stained edges, original spine labels, 399p + blank. Free front endpaper with some loss from indelicate erasure on the verso of some of the notations in Latin. Very nice copy indeed. More
London: The Bodley Head, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. John Everard, British First World War veteran and former tea planter, became well-known for his nude photography, that spanned a career from late 1920s until the early 1960s, churning out over a dozen books on the female (and sometimes male) form. Before..... More
NY: AMACOM, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. One of the first textbooks on word processing. Better than very good in moderately soiled dustjacket. More
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice Hall, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, de-accessed from university library, a few stamps here and there. Solid copy in publisher's dustjacket. More
1st Edition. Soft cover. Featured in this lot is the typed Shane's manuscript, "The Swift Manuscripts in the Morgan Library" , undated (c1951) 8 pages, with minor edits and corrections, editors notes bottom of title page. Shane begins his essay by acknowledging Belle Greene, director of the Morgan Library, who..... More
NY: The Hispanic Society of America, 1917. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce limited edition of the early work of Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881 - 1958), who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Scarcer, still, as it is inscribed by Jimenez. Octavo, tan linen with gilt titles front and..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Well-preserved, and apparently unused, copy of a provocative treatise on the cold and flu by Professor James Eustace Radclyffe McDonagh FRCS ( 1881 - 1965), British surgeon and medical writer, best known for this work and another on syphilis. Blue cloth, gilt titles..... More
NY: The Derrydale Press, 1929. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Limited editon, 850 copies. Red clothe covers in slipcase with pastedown title label. Book appears unused. Slipcase is worn and stained with no effect to the book. More
NY: Hyperion Books, 1941. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. 1750 copies, tis #1037. Covers a little soiled, internals fine, including all the erotic tipped-in plates. In publisher's cardbord slipcase, which is soiled and stained a bit. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy - apparently unread - lacking dustjacket. No names, inscriptions, bookplates. Perfect for rebinding, if that's your thing. More
Boston: State Street Bank, 1915. Soft cover. 64 page illustrated brochure about the whaling industry, largely focused in New Bedford and Nantucket, published not too long after the whaling industry had seen its demise with the advent of oil. An early, popular history of the whaling commerce. Some loss to..... More
Paris: Loudmer, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fabulous catalogue for the auction sale in Paris in 1993 of the Surrealism collection - first editions, illustrated books, manuscripts, correspondence, etc - 857 items in all. Handsomely produced, covers decorated with corrugated cardboard, acetate cover with printed titles in black and red. An..... More
NY: Crown, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, fifteenth printing. SIGNED BY THEN ILLINOIS SENATOR BARACK OBAMA on title page. Tidy owner name upper right corner free front endpaper. Appparenly unread in unclipped dustjacket. More
Boston: Little, Brown, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, near fine copy in sharp dustjacket with a few short closed tears and the slightest loss head of spine. Neat gift inscription on the blank fly, Chriistmas 1946. More
NY: Tudor, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully preserved copy, as new in cloth-covered slipcase. Part of an apparently short-lived series on artists by Tudor Publishing, a much higer grade pf production than normally seen in this period from that publishing house. 224 pages, luscious b&w photography, with extensive list of..... More
London: Lownes, Lathum & Young, 1628. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Thick folio, original calf. Engraved title by Walter Burre dated 1614 and printed title dated 1628 containing an engraved portrait of Raleigh by Simon Pass. 8 engraved folding plates. 32p + 555, (folding maps at 56, 108, 152, 218, 350) +..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1854. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. First edition, second issue (1854 on title page, copyright 1853) in original brown grained cloth, blind-ruled with gilt nautical design, and gilt titles to spine. 8vo, xi + 552p, illustrated with all plates and folding map extant. Minor loss to cloth..... More
Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, with receipt leaf with Bewick's thumbmark, facsimiles of signatures, and seaweed stamped on engraved nighttime scene. This receipt page is inscribed at the top to "The Rev. H. D. Griffith". A very nice copy..... More