NY: Random House, 1954. 1/2 Cloth. 8vo. 403pp. The story of Japanese prints. Very good first edition in a price-clipped dust jacket. Bumping and fading to spine ends & corners. Slight board exposure to edges. Dj is worn along joints, corners, edges, with chipping and small tears. Dj is soiled.....
No Place: J. M. Bowles, 1895. Limited edition. Paperback. 216 pp. 8vo. Paperback. Wear and soiling to spine/covers. Bumping to spine ends, edges, and corners with chips and tears. Spine sunned. Large pieces of color overlay missing from covers and edges, 1 1/2" x 3/4" piece of front cover missing.....
Holyoke, MA: American Writing Paper Company, 1923. Hard Cover. 8vo. 412 pp. Top 1 3/4" of spine missing, hinge creased and cracked, edgwear. Fep, frontisepiece, title page dogeared at lower right corner. Otherwise, pagees clean, tight.
Providence, RI: Snow & Farnham Co., 1925. Hardcover. 318 pp., 8vo. Dark blue hardcover in dj. Inscribed by author in pen on ffep. A Rhode Island suffragette recounts her experiences in the fight for womens' right to vote. Light shelfwear & soiling to boards & spine. Binding very sturdy. Illustrated.....
Bentveld, The Netherlands: Harry N. Abrams, N. V., (1967). Cloth. 244 pp + 16 loose extra plates. Folio. Pictorial cloth in clear plastic cover. Minor shelfwear. Spine and top edges sunned, lt tanning to textblock. Lt soil to feps. Interior otherwise clean, binding strong. Plastic cover lt scuffed, lt yellowed.....
Providence, R.I. Snow and Farnham Company, 1925. Cloth. 8vo. 319 pp. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped and worn. Book is slightly cocked. Slight foxing to fore-edge. Pages very nice and clean, binding very tight. Signed 'yours faithfully, Sara M. Algeo. Barrington, RI May 1, 1941.' 1 of 1000 copies.....
Providence, RI: J. M. Beers, 1889. Cloth. 519 pp + appx. 100 pp. advertisers' appendix; 8vo. Burgundy cloth with decorative black cover text and stamping to boards. Some edgewear, bumping to corners, head and foot of spine. Scuffing and light soiling to boards and spine. Spine sunned with fading to.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First edition. Cloth. Two volumes in slipcase, 583 pp total. Black cloth. First edition. Lt. sunning/fading to spines. Bindings tight, text blocks clean and crisp. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. Slipcase has some shelfwear, heavier at head and foot of spine panel, with seams.....
Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975. Paperback. 244 pp., 8vo. Paperback. Slight rubbing & shelfwear to covers & spine. Binding secure. Pencil underlining throughout perfectly readable interior.
Portland, Maine: W. A. Greenough and Co., 1890. Hard Cover. 8vo. 519 pp. Number 13. Spine edges, corners are frayed and worn. Stain to title page. Slight waterstaining to top edge of ffep. Pages are very clean. Containing a general directory of the citizens, a classified business directory, city officers.....
Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, Inc., 1937. Cloth. 480 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. Illustrated w/ b&w drawings & photos. Mild sunning discoloration & light shelfwear to boards & spine, more sunning to spine. Binding holding. Openings to both hinges. Sm po pen numbers to ffep top fore corner, some very.....
New York: Bramhall House, 1951. Second edition. Cloth. 526 pp. 4to. Cloth. Bowed. Lightly scuffed, lightly scratched. Heavy chipping (1 inch) to spine head. Edgewear, bumping to spine ends. Moderate foxing to textblock, heavier foxing to ep's and lightly to half title page. Light sunning to spine.
Boston: George W. Briggs, 1847. Cloth. 16mo. 117 pp. Corners bumped and heavily rubbed with board exposure, light rubbing to covers, heavy chipping to spine, lower half of backstrip missing. An illustrated collection of children's stories and poems.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Hardcover. 125 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Boards & spine fine. Binding tight. Textblock clean & crisp. Dj fine. "Starting w/ St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted w/ homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in.....
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1976. Hardcover. 207 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. The Yiddish diaries of an early 20th century Polish-born immigrant to the United States as retold by Shimon and Anita Wincelberg. Inscribed by authors. Light sunning to boards. Light cocking to spine but binding very sturdy.....
Cambridge (UK) and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Paperback. 520 pp., 8vo. Paperback. Demonstrating how the bloodiest conflict on American soil arose from the vast differences between between capitalism & slave modes of production. Textblock clean & crisp.
Boston: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010. Paperback. 505 pp., lg. squarish 8vo. Paperback. Covers rubbed, scuffed, curled, peeling from versos. Edges worn w/ slight soiling to textblock edges. Po pen marks to title pg; highlighting scattered to textblock; light soiling to rverso/reps. Few pgs creased to top corner. All pgs legible;.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Hardcover. 168 pp, 4to (short). Quarter cloth. Shelfworn and sunned, lt. soil to boards, crease/closed tear and wear to spine label. Center hinge split. Lt soil and foxing to eps, title pg, and a few scattered margins. Interior otherwise clean. B&w illustrations throughout.....
Providence: Carter & WIlkinson, 1798. Leather. 12mo. 184 pp. Stated first American edition. Remains of the Rev. John Mason, A.M. Late rector of Water-Stratford in the County of Bucks, containing a variety of devout and useful sayings, on diverse subjects, digested under proper heads; religious observations; serious advice to youth.....
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.....
Madison: The Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1958. Cloth. 8vo (large). 315 pp. Very good+ copy. Very light rubbing to boards, light browning to textblock and endpapers, light soiling to textblock and scattered text margins. Interior otherwise clean, binding tight. Sunning/soiling to dj, very small pieces missing from front panel and.....
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1926. Cloth. 8vo. 277 pp. Faint soil to covers, spine sunned. Light browning to page edges, small ink previous owner signature to ffep, belonging to Lewis Feuer; noted sociologist, Marxist philosopher. Interior tight and clean. Studies in sociology with special applications to teaching. Translated.....
Lowell, MA: Dept. of Public Safety, Commonwealth of MA, circa 1985. Cloth. 372 pp., 4to. Cloth hardcover. A pictorial history. Inscribed by author. W/ "Public Safety Officers' Benefits Act of 1976" brochure laid in. Some faint soiling & wear to boards. Light sunning, shaking & shelfwear to spine but binding.....
Paris: Editions Grund, 1999. Cloth. 14 vol; approx 1000 pp each. 8vo's (large). Cloth. Text in French. Ex- university library with usual markings such as spine labels, textblock stamps, bookplates, interior stamps, etc. Light wear to lower corners and lower edges w/ slight board exposoure. Vol. I has peeled spot.....
New York and Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 2012. Paperback. 438 pp., 12mo. Paperback in box. Advance reading copy, signed in pen on title pg. Fantasy-adventure story about two children who fall into a fairy tale world. Written by the actor who portrayed Kurt Hummel on Glee. Some very light.....
