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).....
London: Kama Shastra, 1886. Half Cloth. 8vo. 236 pp. Corners and spine ends bumped and worn. Light foxing to end pages. Sunning to spine. Wear and rubbing to covers. Fep torn at hinge halfway up. Book is slightly rolled. Fine decorative boards, bright blue cloth. Gilt illustration to front cover.....
New York: New York Sporting Goods Co., 1916. Paperback. 336 pp., 12mo. Paperback. Some creasing, dampstaining & edgewear to covers & spine; front cover nearly detached. Slight soiling to textblock edges. Pgs clean & crisp.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. Hardcover. Unpaginated, 4to. Hardcover. The origin story of Peter Pan. Illustrated w/ gorgeous art by Arthur Rackham. Missing 7 plates (#s 2, 4, 21, 30, 42, 44, 50). Heavy foxing w/ edgewear & soiling to boards & spine; white dampstaining/discoloration to rear board. Slight.....
1/4 Cloth. 8vo. 10pp. Published in Philadelphia? circa 1914? Soiling to covers; shelf wear to spine ends & cover corners; light foxing to pages.
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.....
Providence, RI: Snow & Farnham, 1892. Cloth. 382 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. Profusely illustrated w/ line drawings (portraits & maps). Slight wear to boards. Sunning, wear, cocking & shaking to spine; binding loose but holding. Slight paste action to pds & hinge opening to fep; title pg detached but laid.....
Trenton: Africa World Press, Inc., 2008. First printing. Paperback. 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.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2004. Leather. 465 pp., 8vo. Dark burgundy leather hardcover w/ gilt decorations & lettering. A.e.g. Signed collector's edition, bound in genuine leather. Signed by author, Jimmy Carter, in pen on signature pg. W/ certificate of author laid in. Some very light shelfwear & soiling to boards.....
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 &.....
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.....
London: J. F. and C. Rivington; etc. 1790. Cloth. 396 pp + 48 pp supplement. 8vo. Cloth. Rebound, with new eps. Light staining to front board, exterior otherwise in excellent condition. Rough cut textblock, with sm. tears, etc to some pg edges. Foxing to some pages, damp stains to some.....
Paperback. 18 leaves, folio. Photostat manuscript pgs. Scarce. "Journal of a young man's voyage around the Horn to California aboard the clipper ship Arkansas, June-Dec., 1849. On her arrival in San Francisco, the Arkansas went aground on Alcatraz Island." No. 7 of 20 copies made (from original in Bancroft Library).....
Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1857. First edition. 1/4 Leather. 12mo. 2 volumes, 490 pp total. 1st edition, 1st issue. V. 1 dedicated to Senart, rather than "Senard" of later printings (as per Dumesnil and Demorest's Bibliographie de Gustave Flaubert). Attractively bound in quarter red morocco and marbled boards, with raised.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 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.....
Chicago: Henry S. Stebbins, 1884. Hardcover. 200 pp., folio. Hardcover. Rebacked; new eps. Soiling, scuffing & edgewear to boards. Some cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Scuffing/edgewear to textblock edges. Light soiling, po pencil inscriptions & some tears scattered to textblock; several tears to pgs 45-6.
Boston: The Cornhill Company, 1917. First edition. Quarter Cloth. 8vo. 92 pp. Quarter cloth over brown boards. Gilt title to front cover and spine. Light rubbing to covers and corners. First edition. Head of text block lightly soiled. with an introduction by Brander Matthews. "O brothers mine, to-day we stand/.....
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1972. Second impression. Hardcover. 207 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Second impression. "A study of 114 women who underwent abortions - their reasons, their reactions, & the ways in which they found this "invisible" service." Very light bumping to board corners. Light cocking.....
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1928. First edition. Cloth. 405 pp., 4to. Hardcover. First edition. A history of English painting w/ many color plates. Moderate rubbing, slight bumping, shelfwear, & soiling to boards & spine; slight discoloration to rear board top edge. Sunning to spine, binding sturdy. T.e.g......
Central, Hong Kong: Myriad Press, 2006. Cloth. 475 pp., folio. Cloth hardcovers in slc. 2 vols. A loving reflection of a son on the work & life of his brilliant yet largely unknown artist father. Boards fine. Pgs clean & crisp. Some faint shelfwear to djs. Light shelfwear to slc.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1856. Hardcover. 419 pp., 12mo. Hardcover. "A journey to the ancient capital of Peru & a visit to the capital & provinces of modern Peru." Language, literature, culture, etc. W/ illustrations & fold-out map; light foxing to map & nearly detached at a crease. Ex library.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 843 pp., 8vo. Quarter-cloth hardcover in dj. First edition. The epic novel of the american West. No Pulitzer Prize sticker. 'None' instead of 'done,' pg. 624, line 16. Light shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Po address stamps to eps.....
Chicago: P. F. Volland, 1919. Fifteenth edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated, 12mo. Hardcover in box. Fifteenth edition. "Sunny Book" Series. Illustrated by Arthur Henderson. Slight scuffing, foxing, flexing & edgewear to boards. Some edgewear, sm tears, cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Light foxing to textblock edges. Very light.....
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1883. Hardcover. Unpaginated, 12mo. Quarter-cloth hardcover. Illustrated (w/ b&w etchings) by William T. Smedley, Frederic B. Schell, Alfred Fredericks, & Henry R. Poore. Moderate discoloration, soiling (including pen markings) & edgewear to boards. Heavy wear w/ tears to spine & some pieces chipped off; binding.....
Cincinnati, OH: The John Church Co., 1892. Hardcover. 164 pp., 4to. Hardcover. A songbook; sheet music. Slight scuffing, soiling & edgewear to boards & spine. Binding very loose but holding. Opening to hinges; bindings exposed. Creasing, foxing, soiling & wear throughout textblock interior; chipping to eps, po pen & pencil.....
