London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1926. Hardcover. 24 pp., 12mo. Hardcover. Privately printed for Ernest R. Gee. Slight foxing, soiling, flexing & shelfwear to boards. Some shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Slight foxing to textblock edges. Some foxing scattered to mostly clean textblock.
New York: Conde Nast, 1934. Paperback. 128 pp., folio. Paperback. Profusely illustrated w/ b&w & some color illustrations & photos, also filled w/ vintage advertisements. Slight rubbing, edgewear, & some light creasing to covers & spine; some light foxing to front cover, spine cover ends chipping off. Binding holding sturdy.....
New York: Conde Nast, 1934. Paperback. 128 pp., folio. Paperback. Profusely illustrated w/ b&w & some color illustrations & photos, also filled w/ vintage advertisements. Slight rubbing, soiling, edgewear & some sm tears to covers & spine; some foxing & tears to spine, very top of spine cover missing. Binding.....
New York: Conde Nast, 1925. Paperback. 212 pp., folio. Paperback. "A forecast of Autumn fashions & millinery." Profusely illustrated w/ b&w & some color illustrations & photos, also filled w/ vintage advertisements. Heavy rubbing w/ moddrate discoloration, slight edgewear, soiling, & some creasing to covers & spine; faint pencil writing.....
Salem, MA: Salem Press Co., 1919. Hardcover. 124 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. A comprehensive list of names from Newport clubs, Newport, Jamestown, Narragansett Pier, & Watch Hill; illustrated w/ b&w photos of buildings. Sunning & edgewear to boards; soiling/discoloration to rear & front board title stickers. More than half of spine.....
New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. Wraps. 8vo. Unpaginated, approx. 25 pgs. A rare signed copy of Ashbery's first chapbook, in very good condition overall. Spine professionally rebacked, light chipping along cover edges and spine, very light browning to cover edges. Minor rippling to front cover from rebacking. Text.....
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.....
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.....
Dusseldorf: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Richter Verlag, 2001. Hardcover. 4to hardcover. 207 pp. Pictorial paper over boards. Scuffing to rear board, otherwise fine. Interior clean and bright, with stunning, full color artistic reproductions throughout. Catalogue to accompany exhibition at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, November 3, 2001 - January 20, 2002.....
London/New York: B.T. Batsford/C. Scribner's, 1904. Cloth. 735 pp, 8vo. Cloth hardcover. Second edition. T.e.g. Illustrated. Slight edgewear & soiling to boards & spine. Binding somewhat loose but holding. Light wear, textblock lightly tanned with age. Gilt to cover and spine bright. Ink signature verso ffep, sm po pencil writing.....
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.....
London and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., circa 1926. Limited edition. Hardcover. 383 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Signed limited edition. This book is number 182 of 200 copies on lg paper. Light soiling, flexing & shelfwear to boards. Slight soiling, sunning, shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding.....
London: Nisbet & Co., 1922. Cloth Hard Cover. 279 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. Spine ends & corners are lightly rubbed and bumped. Very light bowing, rubbing, & shelfwear to boards. Slightr foxing to textblock edges; 2 black spots to top edge. Very light foxing scattered to very clean interior. Plate.....
Marblehead, MA: Graphic Enterprises of Marblehead, 1996. Paperback. 198 pp., 4to. Paperback. Inscribed by author. Filled w/ submarine illustrations & important data. Faint shelfwear to covers & spine. Sm po pen signature & date to title pg otherwise textblock clean & crisp. Po postcard laid in. Inscribed by author.
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.....
Washington, D.C. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2001. Paperback. 104 pp., 4to. Paperback. Some very light shelfwear to covers & spine; light sunning along front cover spine edge & top edge, & sm dampstain to rear cover top edge. Some pen marginalia/underlining through pgs 11-14, otherwise textblock practically clean &.....
London: George W. Jones, 1931. Limited edition. Hardcover. 129 pp., 4to. Cloth hardcover in slipcase. Limited edition of 1500 copies, this is number 1183. Signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham. Black and gold illustration to front board, gilt text to spine. Light soiling & shelfwear to boards, spine cloth darkened. Heavier.....
Nairobi, Kenya: Paulines Publications Africa, 2001. Paperback. 431 pp., 8vo. Paperback. "This compendium of the plenary letters of the Catholic Bishops of Sudan since 1982 represents the spirit & goals of the suffering Sudan Church & its people." - Bishop Caesar Mazzolari. Some creasing, light soiling & edgewear to covers.....
Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1860. Cloth. 143 pp., lg. squarish 8vo. Cloth. Rebound w/ new eps & spine. Includes 2 portraits & folding map. Rubbing to boards w/ mild edgewear. Few faint scuff marks to spine. Front matter lightly soiled w/ library discard stamps to title.....
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.
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.....
Chicago: C.H. Jones & Co., 1880. Cloth. 162 pp., 8vo. Dark green cloth with gilt text and pyramid to front board. Some rubbing/scuffing to boards, slight wrinkling to cloth of front board. Corners and spine ends bumped. Light soiling to ffep & po pencil inscription to flyleaf. Very light soiling.....
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.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. 331 pp. Illustrated wraps. Uncorrected proof for limited distribution. Signed by the author in black ink to title page, in both English and Farsi. Interior clean, binding tight. Book is in like new condition. A pristine collectible copy, signed. signed...
Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc., 1941. Cloth. 8vo. 28 volumes, approx. 400 pp. each. The Burwash Edition, signed by Kipling under limitation notice in first volume. Burgundy cloth, TEG, gilt lettering and ornamental motif on spines, oval gilt ornament on covers bright. Spines of v. I-II, X-XVI are sunned; cloth.....
