Worcester, MA: S. A. Howland. Wraps. 4 1/2 x 7 1/4". (n.d. - ink inscription on title page dated 1855) 8 pp. Covers stained; pencil notes front and back. Spine handsewn. Corners sl. creased. Interior heavily foxed. Despite the title the 8 cuts are in black and white - perhaps.....
Ithaca, NY: A. H. Wright, 1943. Wraps. 4to. 50 pp. Top corners sl. bumped, faint internal crease. 7 x 10" Studies in History No. 3 and No. 4. Part I: Supervisor's Proceedings of Various Counties of New York, by A. H. Wright (Library holdings, missing copies). Part II: A Check.....
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1999. Leather. 317 pp., 8vo. Leather hardcover. Bound in genuine leather. Very light edgewear to boards. Some cocking & shaking to spine but binding sturdy. Light scuffing to gilt textblock edges. Pgs clean & crisp. Silk ribbon bookmark attached.
Hartford: 1919. Stapled Booklet. 8vo. 16 pp. In very good condition. Interior clean, light browning to margins of text. Approx 2cm from both corners and along spine of front cover missing (torn). Small tear along upper spine end as well, and very light chipping to fore-edge and lower spine end.....
Portland, Maine: Lyman H. Nelson Company. Wraps. 9 1/4 x 6". (n.d. ca 1900) Wraps edgeworn, corners sl. creased. Cover lettering darkened. Faint dampstain to top edge throughout, not affecting images. Title page soiled, nicked. Gloucester Harbor, resort hotels, Annisquam, Thacher's Island. B/w halftones.
New York: National Lampoon, Inc., 1978. Paperback. Various paginations. 4to. Paperback. Consists of 4 newspapers in paperback folder. Minor shelfwear to folder, sunning to front joint. Browning to newspaper edges.
Piccadilly: The Religious Tract Society. Cloth. 96 pp. , 16mo. Cloth hardcover. Charming collection of short stories with selected b&w engravings. One signature is loose but others are still tight, covers intact. Water stain, rubbing, & soiling to covers, light sunning to spine, slight edgewear and minor bumping to corner.....
New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1938. Limited edition. Cloth. 153 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. Limited edition. Chronological format. Slight edgewear & soiling to boards. Spine & corners sl. bumped, light soil to spine. Slight cocking but binding sturdy. Edges sl. soiled. Owner's gilt leather bookplate on fpd. Light soiling.....
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1943. Hard Cover. 16mo. 424 pp. "The Better Little Book" series #1462. Moderate bumping & edgewear to boards & spine, also chipping along spine. Binding very sturdy. Faint discoloration & foxing to textblock edges, light dampstain to textblock top edge. Browning and a few light spots.....
Philadelphia: Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1825. Quarter Leather. 12mo. 95 pp. Corners bumped, edgewear, spine cracked, tear to joint at head of spine, rubbing. Hinge split to ffep, heavy foxing to pages. Religious tract.
Lipsiae: Caroli Tauchnitii, 1829. Cloth. 24mo. 216 pp.Gilt spine bright, corners bumped. Owner's ink signature ffep. Light foxing. " Ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem Diligenter Recogniti cum Selecta Varietate Lectionis et Adnotationibus Criticis. Editio Stereotypa." Introduction in Latin, text in Greek, notes in Latin and Greek.
Boston: The Carol Press, 1911. Boards. 32mo. Spine sl. soiled, bumped head & tail. Light soil to cover, light occasional finger soil within. Spine pressed open at no. 64-65. 96 limericks, one to a page. (None are risque). The owner has neatly added another in pencil on the rear free.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1899. Decorative cloth. 219 pp., 12mo. Cloth hardcover. Observations on various subjects, travel, nature, etc. Slight rubbing, shelfwear, & soiling to boards & spine; dampstain flecks to rear board, slight dampstaining along joints. Light wrinkling to spine & ends chipped; larger chip to top edge &.....
Bangor, ME: Castle Rock, 1986. Newspaper. Volume 2, numbers 1-11, January-November 1986; missing December. Pages lightly yellowed. 11 issues of Castle Rock containing articles about the recording of books on tape, a review of "It" & the movies "Pet Semetary" and "Stand By Me," & news on Stephen King's other.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 756 pp., 12mo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Portable Viking Library 24. Stories, plays, parodies, essays, commentaries, newspaper columns. Contains 2 complete books: You Know Me Al & The Big Town. Spine and corners bumped. Binding sturdy. Printing errors to pgs.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880. Cloth. 8vo. 6 Volumes. All volumes have rubbing to corners, spine ends and edges; light soiling to covers, some foxing to end papers. Vol 1 has rear hinge slightly split, vols. 2-5 have stamps to fep. The classic saga of the collapse of the.....
Boston: The G.W. Armstrong D.R. &N. Co., 1909. Map. 12mo. Wraps bound folding map. Spine ends and corners are very lightly bumped and rubbed, light staining to cover edges. Very lightly rubbed along creases in folding map. Otherwise in great condition. A colorful birds eye view map of scenic Lake.....
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, presumed 1920s. Cloth. Oblong 32mo - 6 1/2 x 3 1/2". Hardcover. Twenty-four post cards, in color. Spine bumped head & tail, light discoloration & soil to cloth. Gilt cover lettering bright. Edges foxed. Cards attached to muslin bound to cloth. "Oilette" chromo-type color process.....
London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. Cloth. 164 pp. + ads., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. No. 459 of 750 copies. T.e.g. Slight edgewear, mild rubbing, & sunning discoloration to boards & spine; heavier sunning to spine. Chipping to spine ends; top edge chipped off. Binding very sturdy. Dampstaining to textblock top edge.....
New York: Life Publishing Company, 1899. Cloth. Various paginations. 4to. Cloth hardcover. 6 months of Life Magazine from Jan. 5, 1899 - June 29, 1899. Book bowed from water damage. Light odor. Heavy soiling w/ mild discoloration & edgewear to cloth. Scuffing to leather spine label, lt maroon stains to.....
New York: G.P. Putnam and Son, 1853. half leather. 690 pp., 8vo. Half-leather marbled hardcover. Vol. II only. Contains first appearance of story "Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street" by Herman Melville. Red-half-leather binding w/ marbled boards; slight board exposure to corners, bottom edge & rear board. 4.....
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. Cloth Hardcover. 156 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Light shelfwear & soiling to boards & spine. Light cocking but binding very sturdy. Few pg corners creased/dog-eared, otherwise textblock quite clean.
Baltimore: The Typothetae of Baltimore, 1922. First edition. Hard Cover. 275 pp., small 4to (10"x7.4"). Grey hardcover. First edition. Regional bibliography. 1 of 500 copies printed for the Typothetae of Baltimore by Norman T. A. Munder & Co in their shop at 109 Market Place, Baltimore. This is 1 of.....
New York: A. Langley Searles, 1947. Wraps. 4to. Stapled wraps. 2 vols/issues. Edgewear & soiling to covers. No. 3 last page detached/creased. Vol. II, No. 3, Summer 1947, pp. 77-109; articles by Sam Moskowitz, Henry Kuttner, Thyril Ladd; verse by A. Merritt; book reviews, more. Vol. II, No. 4, Fall.....
Moscow: Sovietsky Khudozhnik, 1968. Cloth. Unpaginated, 4to. Cloth hardcover in dj. Russian & English text. A history of Russian broadsides & "street literature," profusely illustrated w/ color reproductions of engravings & woodcuts spanning 3 centuries. Illustrated w/ b&w & color facsimile plates. Slight foxing & soiling to boards & spine.....
