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
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
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1878. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Likely firts edition in book form: copyright page dated 1878, title page states "reprinted from 'Peterson's Magazine''. Rebound late 19thc half red leather over gray cloth, moderately worn, soiled. Firm binding. More
NY: Triangle Books, 1939. 1st reprint edition. Hardcover. Dustjacket art by Bip Pares (1904-1977), British commercial artist. Her most visually striking work was done in a highly commercial British art-deco style, which is on clear display here. Third printing 1939 of the Triangle reprint edition after the first by Little..... More
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first in the Nurse Matilda series. A lovely little book, near fine all around, save some light abrasions to dustjacket spine. With red ribbon marker. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
NY: Bill, Witter & Co, 1854. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blind-stamped leather, gilt-pressed with red leather label to spine. With foldout colored lithograph of San Francisco in 1854 (with a short tear along one fold) plus color forntispiece. 706p, plus 1 page publisher list. Leather rubbed all over, binding firm. Episodic..... More
London: Frederick Warne, 1892. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. First appearance of Owl & The Pussycat, arguably Lear's mots famous nonsense poems combined with Duck & Kangaroo. The Owl and Pussycat, which he wrote which he wrote for the children of his patron Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, first appeared..... More
London: George Smeeton, 1820. Facsimile Edition and First Thus. Hardcover. Facsimile edition about 1820 printed by Smeeton of that published in 1533 by William Rastell 8vo, 16 unumbered pages in Gothic type, bound in quarter leather with gilt spine titles over orange boards. Title on spine reads "Mery Playe betwene..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1853. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Third edition, dated 1853 title page, 8vo, publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, xiii, 306, 24 (supplement), 9 (publisher's list). Coverds slightly soiled, corners moderately worn, firm binding, moderatley foxed/spotted throughout. A solid, unsophisticated copy. More
Buffalo: D. Ransom, Son & Co, 1890. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Wraps stained, leaves browned (cheap paper stock), publisher's stitched spine. More
NY: Stepping Stone/ Random House, 2008. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Galley pages for #40 in Osborne's Merlin Mission series, with her line edits in pencil and inscribed in ink by her on the title page. Also included is a prototype for the cover (tan ice?) that was discarded in favor..... More
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Warmly inscribed by the author on the title page and dated in September 2010. Book fine, apparently unused, in dustjacket that is sunfaded about an inch deep around the perimeter of the front panel. More
London: Mansell Publishing with Sotheby's, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth, slight wear at corners. Solid, clean copy. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, 8vo, publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, 171 p. Inscribed by author Prime underneath the statement printed on the verso of the ffe for the subscribers of The New York Observor with the compliments of the publishers and the..... More
NY: Thomas Longworth, 1821. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bound in old calf, pasted onto the front cover a leaf of a full page advertisement for J. Wilson "original introducer of the economical three dollar hats.... at 160 Broadway". Pasted on the read cover is a leaf full-page leaf of a cartoon..... More
NY: A. S Barnes & Co, 1867. Soft cover. 5 penmanship or drawing units, same size and formats, from diferent publishers executed in well-schooled juvenile hand.1) No.1 National Drawing Book Elementary Studies After Designs by Tomas Monk. AS Barnes NY copyright 1867 2) Spencerian System of Penmanship American Educational Series..... More