New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1906. Howard Christy. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9-1/2" x 7-1/2"). [8], 9-157. Green cloth covers with illustrated paste-down to upper. Gilt titles to spine. Light wear to head/tail of spine and corners. Light foxing to endpapers, rest of text block Near Fine. 16 full..... More about The American Girl
Salem: Thomas C. Cushing, 1800. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8vo (7-1/2 x 4-1/2"). 28pp. In recent soft cover binding for protection. Easily removable with no damage to original text block. 1/4" of head of title page removed, 1/4" x 1/4" chip to head of page 1, rest of text block unmarked..... More about A sermon, preached December 29, 1799, in the South Meeting House, Salem, the Lord's Day after the...
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8" x 5"). xii, 304pp., [9]-16pp. publisher's advertisements; viii, 299pp., [2], 24 pages publisher's advertisements. Brown cloth covers with gilt moose to upper cover and gilt titles to spine of both volumes, wear to corners and heads/tales of spines. Blue endpapers..... More about Sporting Adventures in the New World Two Volumes
Philadelphia: Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1810. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 12mo (7-1/4" x 4-1/4"). 364pp, [277-280 missing, but printers error since text/collation of book is complete]. Brown tree calf leather covers with gilt titles to dark brown label. Upper cover loose, corners bumped, head/tail of spine badly worn..... More about A Voyage Round The World, in the Years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804; in Which the Author...
Silverton, Colorado: Sundance Publishing, 1979. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 8vo (8-1/2" x 11"). 224pp. Blue cloth covers with paste-on illustrations to both covers with original Mylar. PO name (Charles A. Dunbar-long time Aspen resident) and Marble, Colorado on paste down endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Third edition with..... More about The Crystal River Pictorial
Boston: By Author, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (7-1/2" x 5"). x, [1] 311pp. Green cloth covers with gilt titles and illustrations (including a ("Boatswain's Colt") to rear of upper cover. Inscribed by author on a preliminary blank with and in a different hand " Died December 24, 1900 He..... More about Twenty Years Before The Mast
Chicago: J.H. Chambers & Company, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (7-1/4" x 5-1/2") xvi, [blank, illustration,17]-416pp. Recased with new new spine and lower cover, retaining original green leather upper cover with gilt titles. New front/rear free endpapers, second issue with frontis of Jesse James and copyright to verso of title..... More about The Life, Times and Treacherous Death of Jesse James
Leipzig/Wein/Zurich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 6"). 76, [4 ads]pp. Yellow cloth covers with small stains and 6" x 2" fade to head of lower cover. Wear to corners, head/tail of spine. In German. Text block tight and unmarked. OCLC 490977215. More about Kleine Beitrage zur Traumlehre
Chicago: The Book House For Children, 1920, 1928, 1933. Mariel Wilhoite. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 7"). 1500 + pp. Red cloth covers, t.e.g. ; All volumes with wear to heads/tails of spines,edges and corners. Paste-down illustration to upper covers. In the Nursery, Story Time, Up One Pair of Stairs, Over..... More about The Little Book House (Red Edition) Seven Volumes
Chicago: The Book House For Children, 1957. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo (9-1/2" x 7"). 2500 +/- pp. Black cloth covers with gilt titles to upper covers and spines, color paste-down illustrations to upper covers 1-8, gilt titles to upper cover & spine of Vol. 9. Vols. 1 & 2 -..... More about A Picturesque Tale Of Progress Nine Volumes (including index
Chicago: The Book House For Children, 1925, 1926, 1927. Petersham, Sturges. Original printings. Hardcover. 4to (11" x 8"). 191pp (all volumes). France; Wear to head/tail of faded spine, corners bumped. Title page, p.13 & p.199 loose but present with tears to fore-edges (title page 3 tears, p.13 multiple, p.199 3..... More about My Travelship series, 3 volumes: Little Pictures of Japan, Nursery Friends From France, Tales...
New York: Brentano's, 1922. Hardcover. 4to (10" x 7-1/2"). [6] 7-453 [3] pp. Yellow cloth covers with fading to spine and outer edges (1/8"-3/8"). 32 illustrations , most with tissue guards (frontispiece and 208 loose, but present). Rest of text block tight and unmarked. More about Myths And Legends Of China
Washington DC: Folger Library, 1991. First Edition. Soft cover. 4to (11" x 8"). 46pp. Grey Covers. Text block tight and unmarked. More about The First Folio of Shakespeare
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Second issue. Hardcover. 8vo (7-1/2" x 4-3/4"). [1-7], 8 - 413 [414], [advertisement for Walden 415]. Original blind stamped plumb cloth covers, front hinge starting, faded spine with chips to head/tail, gilt titles. "Warden North Bend. O." in pencil to yellow front free endpaper. Cancel..... More about A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
London: Oxford University Press, 1926. Hardcover. 8vo (7-1/2" x 5"). [i-v] vi-viii. 696pp. Bound by Riviere & Son in red/magenta leather with matching gilt decorations to covers, wear to joints. A.e.g. Marbled endpapers with gilt inner dentelles. Bookplate of Sally Lewis Dickinson on second free endpaper with foxing to other..... More about The Poems of Robert Browning
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Howard Pyle. Holiday Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8" x 5"). Vol. I: xvi, [1] - 219, [220]. Vol. II: [i-v], vi. [221] - 474. Half-bound by J. Macdonald (NY) in red leather with red/blue marbled papers, gilt titles and decorations to spines,1/8" tear to head..... More about The Autocrat Of the Breakfast-Table Two Volumes
Lynchburg, Texas: W. C. day, 1921. First Edition. Staplebound. 8vo (9" x 6"). [1-4] - 24pp. Tan paper wraps with wear, upper right corners folded in (1/8" - 1/16") but present. Light stain from covers to to title page and p. 24, with frontispiece and two maps, rest of text..... More about History Of The San Jacinto Campaign
London: William Heinemann, 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). xvii,1088pp. 841/1030. Signed with quotation "never met a man yet .... position" by author on limitation page. Tan vellum covers, t.e.g., boards and pages bowed/rippled with insert of Forsyte family tree and ribbon present. In faded leather and cloth..... More about A Modern Comedy
New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (10" x 6"). 256, [15, working notes]. 142/550. Tan faux vellum boards with black leather label to darkened spine. Rough cut edges with top edge dusty. Signed by author on limitation page, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Included is..... More about Mourning Becomes Electra; A Trilogy
Philadelphia: D. Rice & Co., 1872-1874. Hardcover. Royal Octavo (11" x 7-1/2"). [iv], 450pp; 541pp. with "Billy Bowlegs" frontispiece in Volume Two. Text volumes to the last folio edition of this important 19th work on the American Indian. Original red leather covers with new black cloth corners and spine. Gilt..... More about History of the Indian Tribes of North America Two Volumes; With Bibliographical Sketches And...
New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1953. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo (8" x 6"). 304pp. Magenta cloth covers, grey cloth spine with dark titles to spine. Wear to spine, head/tail of spine and corners. PO information to front free endpaper and partial DJ flaps taped to rear endpapers, rest of..... More about The Legendary Mizners
Narberth, PA: Livingston Publishing, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (10" x 7"). 28pp. text with [180 +/- catalogue]. Red cloth covers with gilt title to black spine. !/4" x 5" barely visible label (?) residue to head of upper cover. Light foxing to to head and fore edges, rest of..... More about Rembrandt's Etchings; States and Values
Minneapolis, MN: Crestline by MBI, 2008. Later printing. Hardcover. 4to (10-1/2" x 10-1/2"). 192pp. Pictorial covers and DJ with red Chevy SS 427 Malibu on upper cover/panel, SS Camaro convertible on lower cover/panel. Incorrect data (ISBN, type of automobiles on covers) to copyright page. Multiple color pictures of great "Muscle..... More about Motor City Muscle
London: Constable, 1936. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (10" x 6"). xxIx, 244pp.142/500 Brown cloth covers with wear to edges, corners with spine missing. PO book plate to paste-down endpaper with book seller's sticker (3/8 x 1") below. Text block tight and unmarked. Includes a fragment of a hand written unfavorable..... More about Three Sea Journals Of Stuart Times
Hialeah, FL: Curtiss-Bright Company, 1926. Original wraps. 8vo (7-1/2" x 11") 24pp., [31 halftone photographs with captions]. Original brown printed wrappers with red and green titles to upper cover, light foxing to upper cover. Pictorial brochure promoting the real estate development by a company co-owned by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss..... More about Brighton: Nature's Gift To Florida