Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Flexible Leather. NO PUBLICATION INFORMATION PRESENT (just text and illustrations), but appears to be a rebinding of the Houghton, Mifflin, and Company sheets from the 1880's. 4to (12" x 9"). Flexible brown leather with gilt Longfellow to all upper covers, all edges gilt, each volume..... More about The Poetical Works Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Four volumes
Washington, New York, Paris: Brentanos. Hardcover. Folio. (14 x 11). [5], 6-58, [index] pp. Rebound in green/red marbled paper covers, green cloth spine with gilt title, 2" x 1-1/2" water stain to tail of upper cover. Original wrappers bound in, multiple illustrations, later binding front endpapers loose but origanal text..... More about William Hogarth
New York: Harcourt Brace And Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (7-1/2" x 5") [viii], 432pp. Blue/orange cloth covers, spine ( C/G) faded. PO signature/date (1927) to free endpaper, upper hinge starting, rest of text block tight and unmarked. More about Elmer Gantry
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Five Volumes. Dark green cloth covers with gilt titles to spines. Shelf wear to covers and heads/tails of spines, text blocks tight and unmarked. More about A History Of Science (Five Volumes
Mathew Carey, 1804,1807. Hardcover. 4to (11" x 9") 1080pp. Plain brown leather covers with shelf wear and bumped corners. PO (also in Family Record) name to front paste-down, also similar PO to rear free endpaper. General title page with crease down center (Philadelphia Mathew Carey 1807), The Old Testament (Philadelphia..... More about The Holy Bible: Containing The Old and New Testaments: Together With The Apocrypha:; Translated...
Palm Beach, Florida: Alexandra Fatio, 1992. First Edition. Soft cover. 4to (11" x 9-1/2"). 277pp. 1/1500 Light brown paper covers with dark titles to upper cover, light shelf wear. Inscribed by author/daughter on title-page, rest of text block tight and unmarked. More about Maurice Fatio; Architect
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (7-1/2" x 5"). 223pp. Dark cloth covers with gilt titles (Longmans faded) to spine. Text block with library marks "return books within two weeks to renew" to tail of of pages 37, 73, 111; rest of text block unmarked..... More about Lizzie Bordan; A Study in Conjecture
Madrid: Signo, 1934. Original wraps. 4to (10" x 7"). [9],10-38, [index, 3]. Tan thick paper wraps (with partial flaps) and black titles to upper cover, printer's (S. Aquirre) imprint to lower. Most leaves unopened. 1/8" missing from tail of (paper) spine, but not affecting text block. 1/4" tear to head..... More about Donde Habite El Olvido
Garden City, NJ: Doubleday & Company, 1976. Later printing. Hardcover. 4to (9-1/2" x 6-1/2". 587pp. Signed (not inscribed) by author on free endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. $12.50 price on DJ front flap and "autographed copy" sticker to upper cover. More about Roots
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (7-1/2" x 5"). 251pp. Half-bound in red leather with marbled covers and gilt titles to spine. Wear to joints and joints, corners bumped. Text block tight and unmarked. OCLC 15567082. More about Poker Stories: as told by statesmen, soldiers, lawyers, commercial travelers, bankers, actors,...
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9-1/2" x 6"). 16, [2], folding map, 557pp. 32pp. publishers advertisements to rear. Later brown cloth binding with gilt image of Oseola to upper cover and gilt titles to spine. PO signature (light pencil) to free endpaper, rest of..... More about The Origin, Progress and Conclusion of the Florida War
Venice: Cesare Capello, Circa 1910. Wraps. 8vo (9" x 12") 36pp. Original brown cardboard cover with sting fastening, paste-on picture of gondola, gold-stamped titles to upper cover. Varying water damage to pages 20-36 (see photos). More about Venezia
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