NY: Lincoln History Society, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes, two parts, two volumes each. Red cloth, stamped in gilt., gte. Spines a wee dulled. Internals show little sign of use, if any. More
NY: The Century Co, 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 10 volumes, uniform, green cloth, gilt rules and titles to spine. 1920 gift inscription ffe between two friends Daniel Crouse Adams and L.M. Borden, descendant of inventor Gail Borden, with Adams calling card mounted on fly with handwritten note: "It is a...... More
NY: Garnett & Gow, 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt, 393 pages, loads of advertisements. Gilt on covers is mostly gone, internals near fine, solidly bound. More
Hartford: Andrus Starr & Co, 1814. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Early printing after its first publication in 1808 from publisher Starr in Hartford, printed by Hart & Lincoln. Original or old, full calf, red spine label, covers worn, still solidly bound, 8vo, 354pages. Free front endpaper and flyleaf ripped. More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union. Early Printing. Hardcover. Copyright 1837, no date, likely 1855. Stout 8vo, black half leather over marbelized boards, 648 pages, illustrated, plus 4 maps. More
NY: D. Appleton & Co, 1885. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete set, uniform in cobalt blue cloth, ruled in black and titles stamped in gilt. Minor wear to cloth at spine ends, which are a bit darkened. Covers a little spotted here and there. Straight spines, solid bindings, internals fine -..... More
NY: William Jackson, 1832. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bound volume in contemporary half calf over marbleized boards of Volume 1, No. 1, March 31, 1832 - No 47 December 29, 1832. Bound in front is a Preface dated Dec 18th, 1832 and a Preface to the American Edition on the verso..... More
NY: Charles L. Webster, 1885. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Solid set. Front hinge revealed in Volume 1, which is dated 1885. Volume II is dated 1886. Both perfectly uniform, endpapers, green cloth, etc. Covers slightly rubbed. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
NY: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1929. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Only 160 copies, privately printed. 4to, blue cloth over printed boards, 61 pages, illustrated with b&w frontispiece and 27 figures. Inscribed to artist Robert Osborn and his wife Eloide who started the traveling exhibition program at MOMA "To Eloide and Robert..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy, apparently unread. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. UNclipped dustjacket ($2.75), front panel slightly soiled/ toned, the spine more so with shallow loss spine head. The novel is based on the true story of "The Lone Woman of San Nicholas Island,"..... More
London: Andre Deutsch, 1956. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near fine copy in near fine dustjacket. Illustrated with b&w photos. More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. Limited edition, 850 copies, this No "6 USA". with six full pagge illustrations by Henry Moore. Dustjacket has a chip in the middle of the spine, which is faded. Internals of book near fine, gte, sides untrimmed. A handsome production... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1953. Early Printing. Soft cover. 1953 printing, the first being 1942. Cream-colored, printed paper covers, a tad soiled. leaves gently toned as expected, still solidly bound. With bookseller ticket forSchoenhof's Foreign Books, Cambridge, MA. More
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