New York and Buffalo: W.B. Perkins & Co., 1895. Boards. Unpaginated, 8 x 16" (very skinny). Hardcover. Die-cut. Front cover is shaped and illustrated like a boy with long blond hair and a large dog, dog's head and boy's upraised arm are on seperate pieces of cardboard and stick out.....
New York: Conde Nast, 1934. Paperback. 80 pp., folio. Paperback. Profusely illustrated w/ b&w & some color illustrations & photos, also filled w/ vintage advertisements. Moderate rubbing, soiling & edgewear to covers & spine; sm po pen initials to front cover (in title), chipping to spine cover. Binding holding sturdy.....
New Haven: Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 1904. Paperback. 164 pp., 8vo. Paperback. "Repeating Rifles, Carbines and Muskets, Repeating Shotguns, Single Shot Rifles, Metallic Cartridges, Paper and Brass Shot Shells, Gun Wads, Primers, Percussion Caps, Loaded Shot Shells, Etc." Slight creasing, soiling & edgewear to covers & spine; po pen inscriptions.....
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1875-1888. Cloth. 6 volume set, 4to. Approx. 1000 pp in each vol, 650 pp in Part I, Vol II. Second issue except for Part II, Vol II (first issue) and poss. Part III, Vol I (unstated, dated 1888). Fair to good condition. All vols recently.....
New York: Grove Press, 1954. First edition. Cloth. 61 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover in dj. First edition. The classic play about madness, boredom, human suffering, cruelty & hilarity. Light cocking to spine but binding tight. Some faint foxing to textblock fore edge. Sm po pen sgnature to ffep & light.....
New York: Vantage Press, 1997. Cloth Hard Cover. 12mo. 117 pp. Book is in excellent as new condition. Pages are crisp and clean, binding is tight. Signed by the author.
London: Thomas Northcott, 1691. Leather. 8vo. 264 pp. New backing. Corners bumped and worn, leather has light cracking, wear to leather. Light foxing to pages, former owner's name to title page, small bookplate to fpd. The collected writings of John Burnyeat.
New Haven: J. Babcock & Son (Sidney's Press), 1824. Quarter Leather. 32mo. Approximately 20 pp to each of 12 small chapbooks or toybooks. Chapbooks are bound together in leather over marbled boards. Decorated endpapers beautiful. Previous owner's (child) name pencilled to front end paper, dated 1830. Toybooks themselves lightly borwned.....
Amherst, MA: Jones Library, Inc., 1937. First edition. Cloth. 158 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. First edition. Signed by Frost below frontispiece-portrait in ink. Limited edition of 650. Boards very, very slightly bowed, some rubbing/scuffing to boards. Binding sturdy. Spine gilt faded. Slight foxing/soliling to pds & eps, otherwise interior very.....
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth / Henry W. Dutton & Son, Printers, 1852 and 1856. Cloth. 195 pp, 8vo. Embossed cloth, a.e.g. Two volumes in one; plate illustrations by Winslow Homer to 2nd volume. Soiling & discoloration to cloth; rubbing to covers & edges, esp to corners; spine ends chipped. Cloth.....
Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co., 1872. Cloth. Small 8vo. 300 pp. Green cloth covers with blind stamp decoration, gilt lettering (to front cover) and bevelled edges. Spine faded. Rubbing to corners, spine ends, lighter rubbing to edges and joints. Tear to back top fore corner. Open tear to spine.....
New York: WM. T. Comstock Co., 1914. Hardcover. 226 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. An early (as well as illuminating) text on the subject of window displays. Very light sunning, bowing & wear to boards. Slight sunning, cocking/shaking & wear to spine but binding tight. Light foxing to textblock edges. Light discoloration.....
Providence, RI: J. A. & R. A. Reid, 1886. Hardcover. 470 pp., elephant folio. Hardcover. A.E.G. Mild discoloration, edgewear, & soiling to boards & spine; scuffing & dampstain to rear board. Cocking/shaking to spine but binding holding sturdy. Some light dampstains to textblock edges. Hinges cracked. Slight soiling scatttered through.....
New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. Wraps. 8vo. 331 pp. Signed by the author in English and Farsi. Like new - excellent condition. Very slight wear to front fore-edge, otherwise no visible wear at all. Interior clean, binding tight. Uncorrected proof for limited distribution.
Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2007. Hardcover. 1354 pp., 4to. Hardcovers. 3 vols. A comprehensive A-Z reference. Boards fine. Bindings tight. Textblocks clean & crisp.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866. First edition. Half-Leather. 8vo. 363/335 pp. Spines sl. stained, edges rubbed. Marbled boards sl. rubbbed. Endpapers clean. Slight underlining title page Vol. I. Minimal foxing within.
Boston: The Cornhill Company, 1917. First edition. Quarter Cloth. 8vo. 92 pp. Quarter cloth over brown boards. Gilt title to front cover and spine. Light rubbing to covers and corners. First edition. Head of text block lightly soiled. with an introduction by Brander Matthews. "O brothers mine, to-day we stand/.....
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing, Co., 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 96 pp., oblong 12mo. Hardcover. First edition. A construction instruction book for building vehicles for children. Illustrated w/ schematics. Moderate discoloration, edgewear & soiling to boards & spine. Binding loose but holding. Sm po pen signature to fpd top corner, slight.....
New York: Viking, 1965. First edition. Cloth. 78 pp. 8vo (oblong). Cloth in dustjacket. First edition. Wear to jacket, bumping to spine ends and corners, lt chipping to spine head, creasing along edges. Light scuffing, slight scuffing to book, lt fading to upper and lower board edges. Bumping to spine.....
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 1944. Hardcover. 376 pp., 12mo. Hardcover in dj. Contains a ghost-written piece (Imprisoned With the Pharoahs, by 'Houdini'), revisions, essays, juvenilia, fragments, & appreciations. Illustrated w/ b&w plates. Light rubbing, soiling & shelfwear to boards & spine. Slight cocking but binding sturdy. Po.....
Boston and New York: Little, Brown & Co, 1995. Hardcover. 1067 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Inscribed by editor (in pen on ffep) w/ note laid in to Gord S. Wood - Brown Prof. & Pulitzer Prize-winner. Discussing: legislatures & statutes, the exercise of the lawmaking power, the legitimizing characteristics of American.....
Paris: Metz/Mulhausen, 1838. First edition. Quarter Leather. 8vo. 387 pp. Mottled boards dampstained,edgeworn, sl. warped. Leather backstrip partially detached at head & tail. Attractive marbled endpapers, small bookseller's label rpd. Top edge dampstained for first 2/3 of text. In French. "Contenant les Principales Regles et Formules Pratiques Relatives au Jaugeage.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. Hardcover. 68 pp., elephant folio. Quarter-cloth. Missing plates: L. Marchetti - color plate - A Modern Song; F. Flameng - color plate - The Black Hussar; F.H. Kaemmerer - color plate - The Riverside Inn; Tofani - color plate - Playing Bars. Soiling/dampstaining to.....
Framingham & Boston: Old America Co., 1917. First edition. Cloth. 192 pp., 12mo. Cloth hardcover in dj. First edition. Nutting's first book. Comprising illustrations & descriptions of Winsor furniture of all periods including side chairs, arm chairs, comb-backs, writing-arm windsors, babies' high backs, babies' low chairs, childs' chairs, also settees.....
Washington: Ordnance Department U.S.A., 1918. Stapled. 16mo. 59 pp.; pamphlet for the U.S. military with 8 b&w plates and fold-out illustration; Form No. 1932, "The Official Number of this Copy is 9263"; light rubbing to covers at corners and spine ends; foxing to edges of page block; discoloration at top.....
