New York: F. M. Lupton, 1890. Cloth. 12mo. 544 pp. Reddish brown publisher's cloth with embossed illustration and title text. Bumping and chipping to spine cloth, heavy soiling and discoloration to front board, few small stains and rubbing to rear board. Binding shaken but holding, large dampstain to front endpapers.....
Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1882. Leather. 200+ pp., elephant folio. Description of the work, w/ plates. Filled w/ fold-outs & some maps (w/ some tears). Slight edgewear & soiling to boards & spine. More sunning & wear to spine w/ some sm tears. Binding sturdy. Po pen or stamp signature.....
Padova: Appresso Giuseppe Comino. Con Licenza de’ Superiori, 1765. Leather. The Letters of Commendatore Annibal Caro, written in the name of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, divided into three volumes, and now published for the first time 3 volumes. 435 pp., 349 pp., and 383 pp. Speckled calf octavos (7 x 4.5.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1978. First edition thus. Leather. 12 mo. 5 volume set in pale blue slipcase. 3115 pp. (vols 1-4) + 303 pp. (index). Dark blue leather backed cloth with gilt titling to spines. Some shelfwear and light soiling to slipcase. Very light foxing to edges.....
New Orleans: Grelle-Egerton Co., circa 1918. Second edition. Paperback. 32 pp., 8vo. Stapled paperback. Second edition. "Pelican's Club's Baseball Budget & Score Card" Heavy chipping/edgewear, dampstaining, wrinkling, & also some soiling to covers & spine. Lg jagged missing pieces to bottom fore corners (covers & textblock). Smaller missing pieces to.....
Providence, RI: RI Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society, 1899. Hardcover. 8vo. Marbled hardcover w/ red leather spine & corners. Moderate scuffing & some edgewear to boards; front board detached & rear board mostly detached. Moderate, sunning, cocking & edgewear to spine; top edge leather missing & torn sticker near bottom.....
Chicago: HMH Publishing, 1957. Paperback. Unpaginated, 4to. Stapled paperbacks. 12 issues. "Entertainment For Men" These issues are in near perfect condition, given their age; they have been kept in bags for years, so there is minimal shelfwear & barely any soiling. Featuring playmates June Blair, Sally Todd, Sandra Edwards, Gloria.....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and John Hatchard, 1815. Hard Cover. 348 pp. 4to. Contemporary rebind in black half-leather and marbled boards, with gilt lettering to spine and new endpapers. Text block uniformly toned, with some foxing scattered throughout. Slight rippling to text, large horizontal tear to pg.....
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1909. Cloth. 8vo. Grey cloth over boards with gilt text along spine. 12 Volume Set. Volume 2 married in is same publisher and year bound in quarter cloth with paper covered boards, some pages uncut. Sunning and light soil to spines and board edges.....
New York: The Viking Press, 2005. First edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. 280 pp. Yellow paperbound hardcover with brown spine, in near fine illustrated dust jacket. Book is in pristine condition. First edition, signed by the author in black ballpoint to title page. Signed.
London: A. Fullarton and Co., 1850. Leather. 4 volume set. 8vo. Brown leather with blind and gilt-ruled boards, raised bands and decorative gilt to spines, black leather spine labels with gilt text. Decorative gilt-rolled board edges and blindstamped dentelles. Marbled endpapers and text block edges. Rubbing and scuffing to joints.....
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. First edition. Cloth. 410 pp., 8vo. Teal cloth hardcover. First edition. 32 pgs of publisher's catalog dated 7-06. Some slight scuffing, soiling, flexing & edgewear to boards; 2 sm holes to front board & slight bumping to corners. Some sunning, soiling, edgewear.....
London: W. Johnston, 1760. Half Leather Over Boards. 16mo. 270 pp. Rebound in brown half leather over orange/blue marbled boards. Light rubbing and bumping to spine ends and corners. Text block yellowed, edges and corners chipped, some small tears. Text block soiled. Interior foxed, offset, and soiled.
London: John Murray, 1880. Hardcover. 364 pp., sm 8vo. Half-leather marbled hardcover. Ex library, w/ usual stamps, numbers, cards, stickers, etc. Some scuffing, edgewear, & light discoloration to boards. Slight shaking & wear to spine; lib number sto bottom edge, binding very sturdy. Lib stamp to textblock bottom edge. Bookplate.....
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.....
Philadelphia: William Hall, 1794. Half leather. 8vo. 513 pp. Half blue leather with green marbled boards and faded gilt decoration to spine. T.E.G. Both boards detached but present. Spine ends bumped, with some chipping to spine leather. Previous owner's name to ffep. Few pages have some light soiling, p. 151.....
London:: A. Miller, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, and A. Shuckburgh, 1766. Third edition. Leather. Volumes I-IV of five. 8vo (7 x 4.25 in.). Mottled brown calf with 5 raised bands. 156 pp., 312 pp., 322 pp., 317 pp. + appx. 40 pp. index at rear of each volume.....
Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Company, 1909. Cloth. 178 pp. 4to. Quarter cloth. Wear and soiling to boards, small knick to paper of rear board, bumping to corners w/ board exposure, nicks to edges. Bumping to spine ends, sunning and damp staining to spine. Soiling to textblock and some pages. Brown.....
New York: The Press of the American Institute of Architects, 1925. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Elephant folio. Hardcover. 44 plates and 24 watercolor prints inserted loosely in quarter cloth boards w/ tie closures to top, fore and bottom edges. Collated. Damp staining to top of spine/joints. Scuffed lightly. Sunning to boards. Minor.....
NY: Harper & Bros. 1928. First edition. Hard Cover. 4to. 277 pp. Dark green cloth with gilt text in pictorial dust jacket. Dj rubbed, worn, and chipped along edges with few closed tears. Dj spine sun faded. Boards clean. Red topstain to text block, very faint foxing to text block.....
New York: E. P. Dutton, N.d. Cloth. 279 pp., 8vo. Cloth. N.d.; translation from second German edition. Edges worn w/ sunning & one sm. tear to spine. Scuffing to boards w/ few scratches. Library discard notice to fpd w/ paste action to ffep; discard notices stamped to rep w/ sticker.....
Rochester, MI: Doyle Hyk, 1990. Second Printing. Hardcover. 616 pp., oblong 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Second printing. More Than 125 Years of American Production of World Renowned Products. Filled w/ b&w & some full-color photos & drawings. Boards fine. Binding very sturdy. Textblock clean & crisp. Dj fine.
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.....
Hartford, CT: Hartford Publishing Company, 1898. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 558 pp. Dark maroon cloth with decorative blindstamping to front board and gilt titling to spine. Ex-library with usual markings: paper spine label, clear coating to spine, and Peirce Memorial Library bookplate to rear board and front pastedown. Few dates.....
Lowville, NY: Romeyn B. Hough, 1888. Folder in Slipcase. 8vo. Stiff green cloth folder containing 79 pp. string-bound pamphlet and 27 9"x6" cards, each card with 3 wooden cross-section samples, showing 25 species. Cards are numbered 1-25, with 17a and 17b making 27 cards and 81 samples in total. Folder.....
