New York: The Century Co., 1884. Wraps. Small 4to. 32 parts, complete. Gold embellished paper wraps. Copyright 1884-1887. Some browning, closed tears to edges. Spines rolled on some volumes. Illustrated analysis of the Civil War.
London: George C. Leighton, 1859. Hardcover. 630 pp., lg folio. Hardcover w/ dark blue leather spine. Contains hundreds of beautiful engravings, including: the great Handel festival in The Crystal Palace, the town and harbour of Holyhead sketched from the Breakwater, 2-pg spread of Christmas masque at the court of Charles.....
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.....
Boston: John Putnam, 1842. Hardcover. 128 pp., squarish 16mo. Quarter-cloth hardcover. Christian music w/ some compositions. Heavy discoloration w/ edgewear, foxing, & soiling to boards; also some wrinkling. Some fraying to spine ends. Binding very loose (attached at by front hinge top half) but holding. Po sticker w/ writing to.....
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968. Paperback. 40 pp., oblong 8vo. Paperback. Some soiling to covers; mild bumping to edges. Spine scuffed. Dampstaining throughout textblock at top edge. Soiling to front matter at top corner.
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.....
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.....
Montagnola: Officina Bodoni, 1925. Limited edition. Hardcover. 54 pp. 4to (small). Vellum. Limited edition, 1 of 225 copies printed on Fabriano hand-made paper. Bowed. Foxed. Rough cut textblock, t.e.g. Foxing to interior, heaviest to ep's. P.o.'s gift inscription to ffep.
Netherlands: DUP Satellite, 2003. Paperback. 108 pp., 8vo. Paperback. Printed email from Prof. Leon Trilling laid in. This book explores "how the concerns of philosophers are relevant to engineering thought & practice - in negotiating tradeoffs, in diagnosing failure, in constructing adequate models & simulations, & in teaching." Based on.....
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.
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.....
New York: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1899. Limited ed. Cloth. 192 pp. Square 4to. "Comprising 'The Baby's Opera,' 'The Baby's Banquet,' and 'The Baby's Own Aesop.'" No. 153 of only 750 copies. Recently rebacked in tan quarter-cloth, with new endpapers. In very good condition. Very light rubbing to edges.....
Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, 1881. Hard Cover. 321 pp. 8vo (squarish). Recently rebacked in green half-cloth and the original pictorial boards, with gilt lettering to the spine and new endpapers. Original boards are edgeworn and lightly soiled, with closed tears and small chips of color overlay missing at the.....
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.
Geneve (Suisse): Aubanel, 2006. Hardcover. 237 pp., lg. oblong 4to. Hardcover in dj. Text in French. Boards lightly rubbed/scuffed; edges lightly bumped. Creasing to joints. Book shaken w/ most signatures opening but binding sturdy w/ all pgs clean & crisp. Full-color photography throughout. Slight shelfwear to dj; mild rubbing/scuffing to.....
circa 1984. Hardcover. Unpaginated, folio. Hardcover. Fold-out slc containing 12 folders, each containing a print. Line drawing portraits of Lao-Tsu, Michelangelo, Erasmus, Rembrandt, Goya, Beethoven, Daumier, Lincoln, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gandhi & Dorothy Day. Boards fine, Folders & pgs fine. Each print is signed and numbered in pencil. Set #15/350.
London: John Haviland, 1628. Paperback. 331 pp. + 12 pp. 8vo (7.25 x 5.5 in.) Rebound in marbled wraps with new endpapers. Binding split at pg. 49-50 but holding. Hewbrew Marginalia in black ink scattered to few pages, light toning throughout, soiling to original rep. This book is offered for.....
NY: Harper & Bros. 1928. First edition. Hard Cover. 4to. 277 pp. Light wear to edges of spine, with light foxing to foreedge. Covers are very clean and bright with bright lettering on cover and spine. Very minor tearing to front hinge. Foxing to front endpapers, frontispiece, and title page.....
New York: R. H. Russell, 1900. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 4to (square). Quarter cloth. Rebacked, w/ new ep's. Boards heavily edgeworn w/ board exposure, bumping to corners, soiled and scuffed. White stains to front board. Pages soiled, several sm. tears to edges. Drink ring stains to half title page. Pictures by Frank.....
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1903. First edition. Cloth. 312 pp, 8vo. Cloth, t.e.g. First edition. Shelfworn & sl. soiled, spine lt sunned, top edge dull and sl. scuffed. Light dampstain to head of front board + upper board corners. Textblock, eps, some pgs foxed; lt soil to few scattered.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1927. First edition. Boards. 8vo. 179 pgs. Scarce first edition of author/ illustrator Lenski's first book. Full-color frontispiece and several illustrations, some black and white. Spine cloth heavily worn, tanned, with chipping to head and foot, front joint split and binding exposed at spine.....
Leipzig: J. F. Gleditschen, 1765. Leather. 2369 pp., 4to. Leather hardcover. German-English dictionary. Heavy wear w/ scuffing, rubbing & soiling to boards. Chipping/peeling to spine cover; some pieces missing & bottom half & top edge holding by rear joint. End bands loose. Heavy soiling & discoloration to textblock edges; some.....
New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2008. Leather. 4to green leather hardcover, bound by Easton Press with decorative gilt front board and spine, 3 raised bands, all text block edges gilt, moire endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark. Colorful photo inlay to front board, 8x11 color print of cover image laid in, illustrated with.....
London: Longman, Hust, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. Hardcover. 168 pp. 8vo. Quarter cloth. Rebacked with new ep's. Wear to boards, bumping to spine ends, knicks and bumping to edges, soiled. Rough cut textblock. Brown spotting to pages. Previous owner's penciled initials to fep.
London: Methuen, 1927. First UK edition. Hardcover. 103 pp., 12mo. Hardcover. First UK edition. Tipped in signature. Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Slight soiling, rubbing & edgewear to boards. Bumping to spine ends. Some edgewear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding holding. Slight foxing to textblock edges; gilt top.....
