Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1885. 621 pp., 4to. Hardcover w/ leather corners & spine. W/ many fold out maps. Moderate scuffing, edgewear & slight soiling to boards; severe dampstaining & some peeling to rear board. Some sunning, soiling & edgewear to spine but binding very sturdy. Slight foxing &.....
London: George C. Leighton, 1858. 644 pp., lg folio. Hardcover w/ blue leather spine. Contains hundreds of beautiful engravings, including: sectionals of the Leviathan steam-ship, portrait of Prince Fredeick William w/ the Princess Royal, depiction of royal wedding festivities in the Berlin Knights' Hall, 2-pg spreads of the city of.....
Chicago: HMH Publishing, 1958. 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, sunning & soiling. Some sm pen dates to several covers; very few pgs detached.....
Providence, RI: Sampson, Murdock & Co., 1886. 100+ pp., 12mo. Paperback. "Also, banks, insurance offices, & other public institutions" Vintage 19th century Providence reference guide. Covers missing, spine cover in fragments. Binding loose. Several pgs detached; heavy chipping, tears, & lg missing pieces to near ends, otherwise interior quite clean.....
New York: Automobile Quarterly Inc., 1962. Volumes 1 - 41 complete, 4 issues per volume (164 total). Published consecutively starting from Vol 1, No 1: Spring 1962. Oblong 8vos. Cloth, approx 100 pp per issue. Each volume of four issues in original black slipcase except Vols 40-41, which are missing.....
Boston, MA: Joseph Breck & Sons, 1903. 4to. 350 pp. Cloth sl. dampstained, edges chipped. Gilt lettering sl. rubbed. Boards sl. warped. Front hinge starting. Few pages are creased. Title page bears copyright notice to include illustrations. Illustrated by engravings.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. First edition. 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, cocking.....
London: John Murray, 1880. 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 to.....
Cordoba: 1964. 111 pp., 8vo. Half-leather hardcover. Spanish text. Scarce. #63 of 125 copies professionally rebound by po, James J. Nieto. "Catalog of the Taurine Library." Some faint soiling to boards. Binding tight. Ribbon bookmark attached. Marbled eps. Po bookplate sticker to fpd. Some faint pencil marginalia check marks &.....
Melbourne, Australia: Australian Dept. Ext Affairs, 1968. 8vo. 380 pp Maps on Endpapers. B/w photos.
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth / Henry W. Dutton & Son, Printers, 1852 and 1856. 195 pp, 8vo. Embossed cloth, a.e.g. Two volumes in one; plate illustrations by Winslow Homer to 2nd volume. Soiling & discoloration to cloth; rubbing to covers & edges, esp to corners; spine ends chipped. Cloth fraying/torn.....
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 437 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Inspired by a research program that was conducted at the Newton Institute in Cambridge, containing reviews by leading experts summarizing "our current understanding of the nature or turbulence from theoretical, experimental, observational & computational points of view." Very faint shelfwear.....
Paris: L. G. Michaud, 1820. 213 pp., 8vo. Leather hardcover. Oeuvres de Jacques Delille Tome IX. Thin, blue, silk ribbon bookmark attached. Moderate scuffing, slight soiling, bowing & edgewear to boards. Tears to joints top & bottom edges. Some sunning, edgewear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy.....
Burlington, Ontario: Apogee Books, 2007. Second edition. 297 pp, 8vo (lg). Paperback. Shelfworn w/ creasing to covers; light soiling & dampstain to textblock edges. Rippling from water contact to front matter through end of preface. Small dogear creases to 2 pgs; interior otherwise clean, crisp, bright. Binding tight. Includes many.....
New York: George H. Doran, 1927. First edition. 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 ink.....
New York: Random House, 1939. 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 to.....
New York: Red Hook Editions, 2009. Unpaginated, 12mo. Hardcover. Signed in pen on title pg. B&w photography exploring life in Soviet Russia before & after the fall of the USSR. Some light shelfwear to boards & spine. Binding sturdy. Some faint soiling to ffep, otherwise textblock very clean. Signed.
Walpole, NH: David Carlisle, 1801. 871 pp., 8vo. Tan leather hardcovers. 2 vols. The 2nd American, from the 3rd London edition, corrected; w/ serious additions from printed & manuscript cases. Moderate soiling, discoloration & wear to boards; po name/initial stamps to front boards & jagged missing chunk of leather at.....
Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co., 1906. 364 pp., 8vo. Cloth. Some rubbing/scuffing, mild soiling to boards; mild edgewear w/ some sunning, one sm. soil mark to spine. Book shaken but binding stable. Sm. po sticker to fpd; pd/eps foxed/soiled. Poss. removal of advertisement pgs from last signature.
New York: Vanguard Press, 1939. First edition. 769 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. The story of the Mormons & their strange beginnings. Slight flexing, scuffing & edgewear to boards. Bumping to spine ends. Some shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding sturdy. Light soiling to textblock edges.....
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910. First edition. 422 pp., 12mo. Hardcover. First edition. The Knickerbocker Press. Slight to moderate wear, rubbing & discoloration to boards & spine. Textblock was detached from spine (but has been re-glued) & holding at exposed hinges. Slight soiling to textblock edges.....
1687. 120 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. 1/2 vellum & marbled paper, leather title label. Rebound & custom slc. Slight scuffing, flexing & edgewear to boards. Creasing to joints. Some edgewear to spine. Slight soiling to pds & eps; po pencil inscriptions to ffep & some peeling & sm sticker.....
New York: Huntington & Savage, 1846. 4to. 108 pp. Later edition. 1/4 bound leather over pictorial boards. Heavy edgewear to boards; stained, peeled away (about 40% missing on back cover, 5% front bottom edge). Leather chipped. Pen/pencil marginalia & doodles throughout (especially pds & eps), also foxing, browning & soiling.....
New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First edition. 282 pp, 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Ex lending library, w/ lg bookplates/partially removed plates and pasted in clipping (dj flap?) to eps; no additional markings. Edgeworn and lt. foxed/soiled, spine sunned, fraying/splitting to cloth of bottom edges and spine ends.....
Silverton, CO: Sundance Books, 1981-1982. 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 bumped.....
