New York: Harroun & Bierstadt, 1878. 99 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. W/ built-in stereoscopic viewer & 24 plates. Slight soiling, rubbing, dampstaining & edgewear to boards. Edgewear & some tattering to spine ends. Some edgewear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Some soiling & edgewear to gilt textblock.....
Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877. 156 pp, folio. Cloth. Rebound w/ new eps. Bowed, light musty odor. Bumping to spine ends & corners; scattered rubbing esp. to edges; spine and top edge + joint-side edge of front board sunned. Foxing and light soiling to textblock eges and throughout.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. First edition. Cloth. 256 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover in dj. First edition. Signed by illustrator Tasha Tudor in blue ballpoint to title pg. Light edgewear to boards & spine; faint pencil erasure to read board. Binding holding sturdy. Very light soiling to textblock edges.....
New York: P.F. Collier, circa 1909. 396 pp., folio. Hardcover. 2 classic parts of Dante's Divine Comedy, illustrated w/ supernal illustrations by Gustave Dore. W/ critical & explanatory notes. Slight edgewear, rubbing/scuffing, & soiling to boards & spine. Elaborate gilt lettering & decorations to front board & spine; fading to.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. 447 pp, 4to (short). Dark brown half leather over marbled boards, with gilt decoration and five raised bands to spine, and marbled endpapers. In VG condition. Lightly edgeworn, corners rubbed/chipped and slightly bumped, small knick to front joint. Approx. 1" strip of marble overlay.....
Netherlands: DUP Satellite, 2003. 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 lectures.....
Trenton: Africa World Press, Inc., 2008. First printing. 222 pp., 8vo. Paperback. First printing. Slight scuffing, creasing & edgewear to covers & spine. Very light soiling to textblock edges. Some very sm creasing scattered to mostly clean & crisp textblock.
New Haven: J. Babcock & Son (Sidney's Press), 1824. 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 and foxed.....
New London, CT: Blu-Prints Unlimitd Inc., 1994. 107 pp., 4to. Paperback. 1994 (or 9th) edition. Inscribed by author (to front cover). Being an updated listing containing info as to the physical characteristics, lifetime & disposition, & weapons of the submarine force of the US Navy from 1862 to the present.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1842. First edition. half leather. 8vo. 438, 432, 476, 427, 445, 377, 401pp in 7 volumes. First Edition. Half green leather over green marbled boards. 4 raised bands. Slight scuffing & edgewear to boards & spines. Red leather title labels chipped: missing on vol 5, most of.....
New York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1847. 594 pp., 8vo. Cloth. Some rubbing/soiling/dampstaining to boards. Some edgewear. Spine sunned, creased; hinge beginning to split but binding stable. Pd & eps mildly soiled; po inscription to fep. Soiling to textblock but pgs readable. Includes several b&w sketches.
London: (printed by) W. Pearson, for J. Tonson. Half-Leather w/ Marbled-Boards. 12mo. 360 (vol1.), 348 (vol.2), 352 (vol.3), 352 (vol.4), 352 (vol.5), 372 (vol 6.) pp. Facsimile of 1720 ed. Presumed circa 1870's. Books are fine except for some very light rubbing to boards. On laid Paper. Marbled boards and.....
Providence, RI: B. T. Albro, 1838. Quarter Cloth. 24mo. 128 pp. Marbled boards rubbed, edgeworn. Cloth spine sl. worn, soiled, with paper spine label soiled, chipped at edges. Endpapers/interior moderately to heavily foxed. Fpd has a small label to bottom corner, soft pencil notes (a poem). Pp. 113-114 closed 2".....
New York: US Works Progress Administration, circa 1938. 68+ pp., 4to. Hardcovers. 2 vols. Bibliographies & Indices of Special Subjects Project No. 465-97-3-18. Sponsored by the Explorers Club of America. Light sunning & wear to boards; some sticker residue to front boards. Bindings tight. Marbled textblock edges & pds/eps. Library.....
London: J. Hinton, 1757. 8vo. 187 pp. Lacking covers, ffep and folding map detached but present, brown aging to last page of text, light foxing to first few pages of text. Containing All the Memorable Battles and Transactions of the Great Prince, To the latter end of November 1757. Together.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition. 642 pp., 8vo. Quarter-cloth hardcover in dj. First edition. Inscribed by author, Katharine Graham, in pen on ffep. Light shelfwear & soiling to boards & spine. Binding very sturdy. Light soiling to textblock edges. Po bookplate taped to ffep. Textblock very clean.....
London: J. White, 1809. Leather. 966 pp., 8vo. Leather hardcovers. 3 vols. Second edition, revised. English text, translated from the French. Light wear to corners, light creasing to joints, spines browned, sight shelf-wear. Po, George Fales Baker M.D., ookplates to fpds. Offsetting from portraits to facing pages. Light soiling &.....
Goshen, IN: David M. Westcott, 1795. First edition. 130 pp., 16mo. Hardcover. First edition. Musty odor. Boards bowed w/ some rubbing, light scuffing; mild edgewear w/ one sm. soil mark to textblock top edge. Spine lightly sunned, creased, w/ few sm. scuff marks. Po pencil price mark to fpd. Binding.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition, first state. 355 pp. 8vo. Cloth hardcover in dustjacket. First edition, first state. No disclaimer. Front dj flap has "Katharine Barclay" printed on front flap, but the character is called "Catharine Barkley" in the text. Dj worn and soiled, spine sunned, bumping.....
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1894. 8vo. 406 pp. Brown cloth over bevelled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Light bumping to spine ends. Very light rubbing to corners. Light soil to text block. Signed and inscribed by author. Satire of Britsh mannerisms, politics, etc.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1916. 8vo. 92 pp. Light wear to edges of cover. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 62, Number 4.
Chicago: The Regensteiner Corp. 1926. Unpaginated. 12mo. Stapled booklet. Brightly illustrated caricature poem of afrcan-american sharecropper children "happily" picking cotton. Rubbing to spine and edges. 1 1/2" split to bottom of spine, little tear to head. Lightly soiled. Several puncture marks to covers and several pages. 3/4" tear to fore.....
New York: Macmillan & Co., 1886. 12mo. 157 pp. Wear to corners and spine ends with light fraying, light soiling, corners bumped. Hinge lightly split to ffep, ffep has light edgewear. Pages clean and tight. First book illustrated by Louis Wain. With 7 illustrations in fine condition.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911. 142 pp + plates, 8vo. Cloth. Edgeworn w/ sl. splitting to cloth at sp. ends and corners, corners bumped, spine lt sunned, lt. soil/ damp-spotting to boards. Textblock age-tanned w/ minor soil to top edge, tanning and foxing to eps, p.o.'s name and address.....
409 pp., 12mo. Hardcover. Vol 2 only (not full set!). From H. P. Lovecraft's personal library, his pen signature to ffep. Rebacked, new eps; no date, no publisher. Moderate chipping, soiling & edgewear to boards & spine; dampstain to front board bottom corner. Light cocking to spine. Binding sturdy. Dampstain.....
