New York: Dodd, Mead, 1884. Hardcover. Folio (17" x 13"). [Title page, contents page, 20 etchings with several pages of text 68?]. Covers loose, green cloth with gilt decorations and titles to upper, corners bumped and showing boards. Spine present but badly faded with wear to head/tail. t.e.g. Text block..... More about French Etchers; Examples of the Etched Work Of
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
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (10" x 7"). 709pp, 199pp. Two volumes. 679/1050. Signed by author on limitation page of Volume 1. Maroon cloth, gilt titles to spines, top edges gilt, spines sunned. Text blocks tight and unmarked. Housed in (good-1 head edge separated)..... More about Northwest Passage, Two Volume Set
London: 1692. 4to (10-1/2" x 6-3/4"). 24pp. Removed from larger volume. Complete act. Decorative cover leaf and black letter typeset, 1" wormhole to upper right head of first nine leaves, 3/8" x 4" water stain to upper right head of all pages. Prohibiting all trade and commerce with France and..... More about English Act of Parliament from the reign of William and Mary; An Act for Continuing the Acts for...
Chicago: 1909. Pamphlet. 8vo (7-3/4" x 4"). Tan covers with color pictorial cover and gilt titles, 1" x 1-1/4" water (?) stain to tail of lower cover. Multiple black/white illustrations, [23 text], [12 tourist information and English-Spanish vocabulary], [7 advertisements), [3 folding map of the City of Havana with a...... More about Hotel Trotcha; "The Hotel of Many Attractions" in Vedado, Havana's most aristocratic...
New York: Charles L. Webster And Company, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8-1/2" x 6-1/2"). 366pp. Publisher's blue cloth covers. Rebacked with original covers (please see pictures) and new endpapers yet retaining the original free endpapers (with PO name and address in pencil to the first). The rest of the..... More about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9-1/2" x 6-1/2"). 336pp. Blue cloth covers, red paper labels with gilt titles to upper cover and spine. Text block tight and unmarked. More about Studies In Bibliography Volume 59
New York: Doubleday, 1996. First Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (8-1/4" x 5-5/8"). 284, [4] pp. Uncorrected proof. Tan illustrated covers with green titles and "bound galley not for sale" printed to upper cover and tentative publishing information (with sticker residue) to lower. Upper right corner (1" x 1") of rear..... More about Original Color
Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9-1/2" x 6-1/2"). 282pp. Grey cloth covers, black paper labels with gilt titles to upper cover and spine. Text block tight and unmarked. More about Studies In Bibliography Volume 33
Speedway, Indiana: Carl Hungness & Associates, 1975. Second Edition. Hardcover. 4to (12" x 9"). 327pp. Brown leatherette covers with gold design to upper, wear to head/tail of spine, corners bumped. PO sticker to paste-down endpaper, rest of text block unmarked. More about The Illustrated History of The Indianapolis 500
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970. Hardcover. 4to (11" x 9"). 176pp. Blue cloth covers with silver titles to spine. Signed by author on free endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. DJ wear to edges, price clipped. More about Orr On Ice
Lawrence: Heinemann, 1925. Second Edition. Hardcover. 4to (12" x 10"). xxiv, 206pp. Brown cloth covers with gilt titles to faded spine. Multiple fold outs and photographs. PO gift inscription to free endpaper (1933), rest of text block tight and unmarked. More about Stalking Big Game With A Camera
Toronto: Hockey Hall of Fame, 1970. Revised Edition. Spiral bound. 8vo (8" x 11"). 80pp. Color hockey image to upper cover with image of Hall of Fame to lower cover. Six autographs to recto of lower cover including Milt Schmidt and Tom Johnson (see picture), top hole of spiral fraying..... More about Hockey's Heritage
New York: United States Olympic Association, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to (12" 8"). 480pp. Gold cloth covers with USA Olympic logo to upper cover and spine. Slight fading to silver on upper cover, wear to head/tail of spine, corners bumped. Text block tight and unmarked. More about United States 1956 Olympic Book
London: Rowland Ward, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9-1/2 x 7-1/2"). xix, 484pp. Red cloth covers with gilt titles to upper cover and spine. Covers and spine loose, but attached, corners bumped, wear to edges, spine mottled (see pictures). Zebra endpapers, text block unmarked. More about The Game Animals Of Africa
London: Rowland Ward, 1907. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9-1/2 x 7-1/2"). 526pp. Red cloth covers with gilt tiles to upper cover and spine. Wear to edges, spine mottled (see pictures). Zebra endpapers, text block tight and unmarked. More about Records Of Big Game
London: Rowland Ward, 1935. Tenth Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9-1/2 x 7-1/2"). 408pp. Brown cloth covers with gilt titles to upper cover and spine. Light wear to edges. Text block light foxing throughout , tight and unmarked. The last volume to list African and Asian trophies in the same volume. RW..... More about Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game; African and Asiatic Sections
London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 6"). xvi. 340pp. Original cloth covers with elephant on upper cover and gilt titles to upper cover and spine. Corners bumped, wear to edges, tail of spine worn, head 1" of spine missing (to top half of "On Safari") and..... More about On Safari
London: Horace Cox, 1906. D.D. Lyell. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to (11" x 9"). xii, 315pp. 87 plates with 2 folding (hippo and elephant-with 1-1/2" unrestored tear near tail of gutter), errata slips tipped-in at pages 1 and 67. Publisher's presentation copy with inscription to free end paper, previous book seller's..... More about Central African Game And Its Spoor
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9-3/4" x 7"). 1st ed. 2 vols. [ xvi] 480; [vi] 482pp. #121 of 260 numbered sets. Signed by the author on limitation page of volume 1, spare paper labels on verso of final page of each volume. Blue cloth..... More about Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years (1926,1939