The Douglas Room. Hardcover. Unpaginated, oblong 12mo. Hardcover. B&w photos of Stirling Castle, Wallace Monument, etc. Light discoloration & slight edgewear w/ chipping to boards & spine; cover ends of spine missing. Binding quite loose but holding. Light foxing to pds, otherwise interior quite clean.
Chicago: HMH Publishing Co., Inc., 1956. Paperback. 4to. Stapled paperbacks. 10 vols. Missing January & February issues. Light shelfwear & soiling to covers & textblocks. Bindings sturdy. Very clean; in many places, practically crisp.
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.....
London: A. J. Valpy, 1824. Hardcover. 2115 pp., 8vo. Half morocco hardcovers. 3 vols. Latin text. 6 comedies by 2nd century Roman playwright, Terence. Slight edgewear to marbled boards. Gilt lettering in leather compartments on spines w/ raised bands & gilt designs; bindings very sturdy. Marbled textblock edges & eps;.....
New Haven, CT: Yale University Library, 1968. Limited edition. Quarter Leather. 27 pp., 8vo. Quarter-leather hardcover. Limited edition, No. 26 of 300 copies. Baskin's lecture delivered on the occasion of the opening of the Graphic Arts collection in the Yale University Library. Light shelfwear to boards & spine; front board.....
Chicago and New York: George M. Hill Co., 1901. Cloth. 265 pp. 4to. Cloth. Wear and soiling to exterior. Bumping to spine ends w/ chips/tears, and to corners w/ board exposure. Spine sunned. Ep's soiled, other pp lightly soiled. Creasing and p.o.'s inscription to ffep. Binding splitting in several places.....
Wheaton: R. Blanchard & Company, 1881. Rebound - Quarter Cloth. 8vo. 768 pp. Original headband; leather label (from original spine). New marbled endpapers to compliment original marbled edges. Seven double-page colored maps, plus 11 views. Map between pp. 80-81 sl. dampstained at bottom corner. Dampstain to top edge beginning about.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. Second edition. Hardcover. 427 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Second edition. #304 of 1000 copies from the famed library of printer/publisher Oscar Aurelius Morguer. Shelfwear & heavy rubbing to boards & spine. Tear to rear joint top edge. Binding somewhat loose but holding. Light.....
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.....
New York: 1893. Cloth. 8vo. 171 pgs. Stain to both covers; wear to edges, esp. to spine ends & corners w/ splitting to cloth of joints at spine head. Front and back hinge repaired, pages sl. browned. Previous repairs to hinges and some pages done with scotch tape.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. 624 pp., 8vo. Half-leather marbled hardcover. First edition. Rebacked; original leather spine cover over rebacking. Full title: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail & for Exportation. Some first issue points: pg. 14, 10 lines up, "ain't" has no.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1852. First edition. half leather. 12mo. 344 pp, 319 pp, 324 pp. 3 vols. Half-leather marbled hardcovers. First edition. Light creasing to spines, light wear to edges and corners, light foxing to bottom and fore-edges, rubbing to boards. Light foxing scattered to very clean interiors.....
Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1820. Paperback. Unpaginated. 8vo. Paperback . Circa 1820. Consists of 7 folded maps. Heavy wear including soiling, heavy peeling to edges w/ chips to paper, dog earing to corners. Pieces missing from spine, chipping to spine ends. Brown spotting to interior. Previous owner's name to ffep.....
Cape Elizabeth, Maine: Ten Publications. Paperback. 8vo. 232 pp. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and worn. Rubbing to covers. Pages nice and clean, binding tight. Ten Publications' Baseball Issue. Type-written font, illustrations throughout. Intellectual introduction on Baseball with references to Levi-Strauss and Jack Kerouac. "A journal exploring myth, geography.....
New York: Assouline, 2011. First edition. Cloth. 284 pp., elephant folio. Cloth hardcover in slc. First edition. A luxurious oversize volume that takes a comprehensive view of one of the world's oldest & most beautiful markets. Profusely illustrated w/ historical art & original photos. Text by an Ottoman art expert/collector.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1913. Cloth. 246 pp. 8vo. Cloth. Missing illustration on p. 184. Soiling, scuffing. Wear to edges. Bumping to spine ends and corners, light board exposure to corners, small tears to ends, 1/2" tear to top and bottom of front joint. Rough cut textblock. Few pages soiled. Front.....
Goshen, IN: David M. Westcott, 1795. First edition. Hardcover. 130 pp., 16mo. Hardcover. First edition. Musty odor. Boards bowed w/ some rubbing, light scuffing; mild edgewear w/ one sm. soil mark to textblock top edge. Spine lightly sunned, creased, w/ few sm. scuff marks. Po pencil price mark to fpd.....
London: J. Stratford, 1805. Thirteenth edition. Leather. 447 pp, 8vo. Rebound in old leather w/ new eps. Corners rubbed. Dampstain to textblock top edge + partial fore-edge. Chipping to edges of frontispiece leaf, less to following 4 leaves. Significant foxing + possible soiling throughout, as typical for book of such.....
Edinburgh: Mundell & Son, 1798. First edition. Hardcover. 396 pp., 8vo. Half-leather marbled hardcovers. First edition. "More expressly the contagious fever of jails, ships, and hospitals; the concentrated endemic, vulgarly the yellow fever of the West Indies. To which is added, an explanation of the principles of military discipline &.....
Meriden, CT: Bayberry Hill Press, 1970. Hard Cover. 3 vol, 30, 26, 26 pp, respectively. Folio. Hardcovers. "Stowaway .." and "Singing.. " have cloth spines. Lightly shelfworn, minor soiling, bumping to some corners, cloth spines worn at foot. Damp wrinkling to upper board corner of "... M.B.E." All have ex-libris.....
Silverton, CO: Sundance Books, 1981-1982. Hardcover. 1149 pp., 4to. Hardcover in 6 vols. Consists of The Early Years, 1830-1886; The Busy Years, 1887-1910; Austerity and Prosperity, 1911-1927; Flood and Depression, 1927-1940; The War Years and Dieselization, 1941-1960; & A Modern Railroad, 1961-1981. Musty odor reminiscent of seawater. All edges lightly.....
Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2004. Cloth. 263 pp., lg 4to. Cloth. Few very faint scuff marks to back board. Slight edgewear; spine slightly cocked. Slight yellowing to textblock near top edge & fore-edge. Includes full-color photography throughout. Fabric samples laid-in; ETFE sample very slightly frayed to bottom edge.
Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1871. Wraps. Skinny 8vo. 32 pp. Foxing, rubbing and light soiling to covers. Brown spotty soiling to covers and spine. Spine ends split at corners, bumped. Spine ends and back bottom cover corner chipped. Rough cut text block. Inside covers and first and last page soiled.....
III Olympic Winter Games Committee, 1932. Cloth. 4to. 291 pp. Gilt titles, illustrated with b&w photographs. Cover somewhat discolored and very slightly worn on corners. Pages slightly discolored but in very good condition. Promotional flyer tucked into front cover. Catalogue of events at the 1932 winter olympics.
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1972. Second impression. Hardcover. 207 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Second impression. "A study of 114 women who underwent abortions - their reasons, their reactions, & the ways in which they found this "invisible" service." Very light bumping to board corners. Light cocking.....
