New York: Sam'L Gabriel Sons & Co., Early 1900s. Hardcover. Unpaginated, oblong 8vo. Stapled flexible hardcover. Unused image transfer sheets inside (scarce)! Moderate scuffing w/ discoloration & edgewear to boards & spine; spine top & bottom edges split, front board bottom fore corner missing. Discoloration, some light soiling & creases.....
Robinson Genealogical Society, circa 1933. Hardcover. 197 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Vol. 2 only. Scarce - only 9 copies in library holdings worldwide. Light scuffing & shelfwear to boards & spine. Binding very sturdy. Light foxing to textblock edges. Some light foxing marks scattered through rear matter fore edges, otherwise textblock.....
New Haven, CT: Yale University Library, 1968. Limited edition. Quarter Leather. 27 pp., 8vo. Quarter-leather hardcover. Limited edition, No. 26 of 300 copies. Baskin's lecture delivered on the occasion of the opening of the Graphic Arts collection in the Yale University Library. Light shelfwear to boards & spine; front board.....
Burton Club, circa 1910. Cloth. 3738 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcovers. 10 vols. Limited Aden edition set, #497 of 1000; printed by the Burton Club for private subscribers only. "A plain & literal translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments...w/ introduction explanatory notes on the manners & customs of Moslem men &.....
Providence, RI: Nightshade Publications, 1984-1997. Paperback. Issues: #1, #7&8 spring '87, #9&10 fall '87, #11&12 winter '87, #13&14 spring/summer '88, vol 2 issue 1, vol 2 issue 2, vol 2 issue 3, vol 2 issue 4, vol 2 issue 5, #15 spring '89, #16 summer '89, #17 fall/winter '89, #18.....
London: J. L. Marks, 1850. Paperback. Unpaginatd. 12mo. Booklet. N.d., ca. 1850. Soiled, edgeworn. Chips to lower corners. Splits to top and bottom of joint. Ring of tied string inserted in hole at top of joints. Interior soiled. Full title: "Marks's Edition of the Adventure of Goody Two Shoes and.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 957 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. A personal behind-the-scenes (& under-the-desk) look at the 42nd President of the United States. Signed by Slick Willie himself. Filled w/ b&w photos. Slight cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy;.....
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth / Henry W. Dutton & Son, Printers, 1852 and 1856. Cloth. 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.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Limited edition. Cloth. 1222 pp., 4to. Burgundy cloth hardcovers. 3 vols; 2,3, & 4 vols only, vol 1 missing. Limited edition; No. 417 of 1150 copies. Illustrations by Daniel Vierge. Imperial Japan paper w/ deckled edges. Slight scuffing, soiling, flexing & edgewear to boards.....
New York: Random House, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated, 4to. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Meets all first edition points as described in "First editions of Dr. Seuss Books" by Younger, et. al. Front dj flap has "250/250" original price. Slight scuffing & edgewear to boards & spine. Slight cocking.....
New York: US Works Progress Administration, circa 1938. Hardcover. 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.....
London: Macmillan, 1907. Leather. 289 pp. 8vo. Full leather. Bound by Riviere & Son, with raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to inside edges of boards. A.e.g. Slightly bowed. Rubbing to joints and lightly to edges. Slight scuffing to boards, small scratch to front cover. Light soiling to top edge.....
New York: 1942. Paperback. 32 pp., 4to. Stapled paperback. "through the eyes of poets" English text. Illustrated w/ b&w plates. Includes contributions by Henry Miller, Andre Breton, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst himself, & others. Slight sunning discoloration, shelfwear, & soiling to covers & spine. Binding sturdy. Pgs very clean.
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1961. Paperback. 673 pp., 8vo. Paperback. French text. "Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason" Civilisations D'Hier et D'Aujourd' Hui. Slight discoloration, chipping/edgwear, & warping to covers & spine; clear tape to rear cover bottom edge, creasing & curling to spine. Binding.....
No Place: Frank Leslie, 1872. Paperback. Unpaginated. 4to. Paperback. Covers reinforced, spine replaced. Chipping to edges of covers. Soiled. Soiling to interior. Hinges a bit weak.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858. First edition. Half-Leather. 8vo. 412 pp. Half-leather, marbled boards & ep's, aeg, gilt tooled spine. 13 color plates (steel engravings). Moderate scuffing, soiling & wear to boards & spine. Binding holding. Foxing through textblock. Spine and boards shelfworn. Front hinge bare. Lords a-hunting. Owner's ink.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First edition. 1/4 Cloth. Folio. 246 pp. First edition. Spine ends and corners are bumped and rubbed, also light rubbing to fore edge, spine slightly sunned,some small scratches to illustration on front cover, binding loose. Light paste action and soiling to fpd/ffep.....
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. Hardcover. Folio. Burgundy hardcover w/ gilt decorations & lettering. A.e.g. 'Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament.' 112 (b&w & full-color) plates. Slight rubbing/scuffing, soiling & shelfwear to boards & spine; some dampstaining to rear board & spine. Binding sturdy. Dampstaining throughout interior edges, otherwise.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1980. Cloth. 278 pp., 4to. Cloth in dj. Inscribed w/ drawing. Few faint soil spots to boards & spine. Slight edgewear. Textblock edges lightly soiled. Some foxing to title pg; pgs otherwise clean & crisp. Binding tight. Clear dj w/ light soiling. Includes full-color.....
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1894. Leather. 534 pp, 8vo (lg). Leather. Rebound w/ original labels to spine and original boards, new eps. Boards edgeworn w/ scuffing and board exposure to corners, spine labels cracked and worn. Strip of staining to textblock foot, top edge browned. Light foxing throughout, minor.....
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 1944. Hardcover. 376 pp., 12mo. Hardcover in dj. Contains a ghost-written piece (Imprisoned With the Pharoahs, by 'Houdini'), revisions, essays, juvenilia, fragments, & appreciations. Illustrated w/ b&w plates. Light rubbing, soiling & shelfwear to boards & spine. Slight cocking but binding sturdy. Po.....
Boston: Samuel Walker, 1844. Leather. 2035 pp., 4to. Leather hardcovers. 3 vols. "or, a description of all the parts of the world, on a new plan, according to the great natural divisions of the globe; accompanied w/ analytical, synoptical, & elementary tables...embellished w/ a complete atlas, & a series of.....
New York: Walker & Co., 1961. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 344 pp. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Dj has light rubbing, light soiling, light wear to top edge, sunning to spine. Biography of Belzoni: circus man, barber, monk, engineer, explorer, archaeologist. Documents his archaeological discoveries of Rameses II.....
Paris: Librairie Africaine & Coloniale, 1910. Paperback. 420 pp., 12mo. Paperback in cloth slc. French text. "Drugs: Smokers and Opium Eaters" Slight discoloration & edgewear w/ some chipping, creasing, & wrinkling to covers & spine. Binding holding. Foxing & some light soiling throughout textblock; sm po pen numbers to ffep.....
Providence, RI: Akerman-Standard Press, 1948. Cloth. 234 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. Filled w/ photos & diagrams; newspaper article about Thomas Angell laid in. Slight scuffing & shelfwear to boards. Tear to spine head. Some sunning & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Some discoloration to preface pgs, otherwise textblock.....
