London: George C. Leighton, 1859. Hardcover. 622 pp., lg folio. Hardcover w/ blue leather spine. Contains hundreds of beautiful engravings, including: Christmas celebration at The Crystal Palace, 2-pg spread of a massive 'winter garden', architecture of Wall-Street & Broadway, various churches & a magical allegorical rendering of May (or Spring).....
New York: George Munro, 1881. Quarter Leather. Folio. 12 issues, Nos. 26-33, 35-38. Approx. 64 pages each. Front cover detached. The condition of the plates are as follows: Vol. III, No. 26 Dec. 1881- no plate., No. 27 Jan.1882 - bad, No. 28 Feb. - good, No. 29 Mar. -no.....
Providence, RI: RI Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society, 1885. Hardcover. Unpaginated, 12mo. Marbled hardcover w/ red leather spine & corners. Slight scuffing, sunning & edgewear to boards; front board (w/ ffeps) detached but included. Lg tear to rear joint bottom edge. Some sunning, tears, shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine.....
Boston: L. J. Gagnon. Hardcover. 288 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Vol #s are mixed, bound in hardcover. French text. "Alcohol-Free Revue" Prohibition-era periodical, bound issues, published in MA - for French Canadian audience. Slight shelfwear & soiling to boards & spine. Sticker label on spine chipped & faded. Binding somewhat loose.....
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., 1958. Hardcover. 554 pp., folio. Hardcover in dj. Contains the original 87 illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones w/ an intro by John T. Winterich & a glossary for the modern reader. Some light scuffing, flexing & shelfwear to boards; light soiling to bottom edge.....
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.....
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914. First edition. Cloth. 12mo. 590 pgs. Ex-library copy. Someone has tried to remove library markings, resulting in discoloration of spine, chips to the FPD, and RFEP. Library number on spine still visible as is a section of the book plate. Rear joint torn, small tear at.....
Boston: Lord & Nagle Company, 1912. Second edition. Cloth. 822 pp., lg. 8vo. Cloth in 2 vols. Second edition. Includes folding plates, illus. machinery, 96 samples. Boards lightly rubbed/soiled; mild edgewear w/ slight sunning to spines; vol 2 spine lightly cocked. Both vols shaken w/ hinge split but binding stable;.....
Breslau: Ferdinand Hirt, 1939. Wraps in Slipcase. 4to. Booklet: 152 pp. + 121 b/w plates. Text in German. 152 Seiten - 121 Tafeln mit uber 300 Abbildungen. Plates fine. Images of Homeric subjects in antiquity. Faint soil to cover of booklet. Folding cloth case frayed at bottom flap, bottom of.....
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.....
New York: The Viking Press, 2005. First edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. 280 pp. Book is in pristine condition. Binding tight, dj clean, pages are crisp and fresh. First edition , signed by the author. Signed.
London, Melbourne, Toronto: Heinemann, 1962. First edition, second issue. Hard Cover. 196 pp. 8vo. Hardcover in dustjacket. First edition, second issue, with mauve boards, dustjacket is marked 18 shilling; the 1st issue had black boards and the dj was marked 16 shilling. Shelfwear to jacket, a few small tears to.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. Hard Cover. 12mo. 155pp. Collector's Edition. Signed by Jimmy Carter. Illustrated by Amy Carter. Clean interior, binding tight. All edges gilt.
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.....
Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2002. Limited edition. Hardcover. 372 pp., lg 8vo. Hardcover in dj & slc. Signed limited edition; 1 of 104 copies. Very slight edgewear. Slight bowing to boards. Binding tight. Pgs clean & crisp. Slc panels slightly rubbed. Signed.
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. 247 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in slc. Signed. This edition is limited to one thousand copies each signed by the author and numbered; this is no. 419. Very light scuffing, flexing & edgewear to boards. Light soiling & edgewear w/ some cocking.....
Philadelphia: William Hall, 1794. First edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. 513 pp. Half leather over marbled boards. Rebacked. Shelfwear to boards and original leather. Original spine leather chipped at ends. Approx 2" piece missing from title page top edge, 3 1/2" strip missing from top edge of p. 2. Foxing and.....
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2002. First edition. Cloth. 152 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover in dj. First edition. Illustrated & signed by Charles Vess. Light cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Some faint soiling to textblock edges. Pgs clean & crisp. Dj in fine condition. Signed by illustrator.....
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.....
New York: George H. Doran, 1927. First edition. Cloth. 320 pp., 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Light rubbing, slight scuffing to boards w/ one sm. soil mark to back board. Some bumping to spine ends; overall light edgewear. Some sunning to spine; spine slightly cocked. Slight soiling to textblock edges. Po.....
New York: Random House, 1939. Hardcover. Unpaginated folio. Hardcover in dj. Early edition; 200/200 on dj front flap flap; "Horton Hatches the Egg" advertised on rear flap - red title on yellow boards. Mild edgewear w/ light chipping to spine ends; boards lightly bowed w/ few sm. soil marks; creasing.....
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, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated, 12mo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. A picture book (illustrated in "pickaninny-style") about a young boy & his adventures w/ his newborn baby brother. Slight wear & some very light soiling to boards. Binding tight. Sm pencil writing to ffep.....
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.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 246 pp. 4to. Quarter cloth. First edition. Rebacked, with new ep's. "K-V" on copyright page indicating an october 1921 printing. Boards scuffed, edgeworn, bumping to corners w/ board exposure, soil to rear board. Original cloth faded and edgeworn. Many.....
