Newport News, VA: The Mariners Museum. 33 x 25cm). Thirteen loose leaf illustrations (12 of figureheads-including Admiral Byrd's Bear- and I descriptive leaf) of ships figureheads from The Mariner's Museum in Newport News, Virginia. Very good + in very good blue paper folder with previous price (ink) to top right corner..... More about Figureheads at The Mariners Museum
London, Boston, New York: Various, 1885-1935. Soft cover. 8vo( 21 x 15cm) Varies paginations. Collection of catalogues from various American and British booksellers. More about Catalogues of Bernard Quaritch (1885-#363, 510, 664, 691, 696, 701, 709, 725):; C.F. Libbie...
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1976. Limited Edition. cloth. 8vo (28 x 21cm) Nine specimens. 118/200 Quarter bound tan paper covers with titles, brown cloth spine blank. Stains to upper cover. More about Specimens of Parchment
Acme Newspictures, 1935. (23 x 18cm.) B/W photo (fully clothed) of cast at dress rehearsal for "The Girl From Child's In 1950". Pictured during dress rehearsal in NYC are: Francis Swann, Fernanda Eliscu, Lee Barrington, Guy LaFon, Theodora Peck, Eristo Visser, Lee Malnor, Lily Delyse and David Clark; several of..... More about The Girl From Child's In 1950 (cast photo from "dress" rehearsal for nudist play NYC);...
New Bedford, MA: Spinner Publications Inc, 1994. Limited Edition. 8vo (26 x 24cm). 176pp. 1?/1000 UNOPENED. More about A Window Back (STILL IN SHRINK-WRAP); Photography in a Whaling Port
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. Arthur Rackham. Limited Edition. 4to (29 x 23cm). 549pp. Signed by Rackham on limitation page. #490 of the large paper edition. Original vellum, new ribbon ties. T.e.g. Twenty-four tipped-in color plates on dark green paper with descriptive tissue guards, 12 duotone plates and numerous..... More about The Ingoldsby Legends; Mirth & Marvels
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1926. First Edition. 4to (21 x 15cm). 574, 571. Stamped blue cloth covers with gilt tiles to spines. T.e.g. Text blocks tight and unmarked. Glassine dust jackets with 2cm missing from tails of spines, chips to edges, volume one 10 cm tear to spine at..... More about The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1845-1846 (two volumes with DJs
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. 3rd Printing. 8vo (21 x 14cm). 261, 243pp. Dark green cloth covers with gilt titles to uppers and spines. T.e.g. Dust jackets (in Mylar) with soiling and chips to heads/tails of spines and upper edges. Volume one 1cm chip to center of upper hinge..... More about Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton (two volumes with DJs
New York: H.W. Wilson & Company, 1950. First Edition. 4to (26 x 17cm). 888pp. Red cloth covers, spine fading, black titles to upper and spine. Inscribed by author to Blanck on the front free endpaper: "To Jacob Blanck / "FIRST IN BIBLIOGRAPHY" // Sincerely // Joseph Nathan Kane". Bookplate (3..... More about Famous First Facts (JACOB BLANCK'S COPY
London: A.W. Webster, 1835. First Edition. 4to (31 x 25 x 6cm). Two volumes. (8), xxxiii, (1), 740pp folded map, 30 plates and charts; 4to (31 x 25 x 3cm ).xii,120, cxliv, cii pp. 20 plates. Both volumes half bound in modern black morocco, marbled boards, gilt-ruled spines with 5..... More about Narrative Of A Second Voyage In Search Of A North-West Passage, And Of A Residence In The Arctic...
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Limited Edition. 4to (24 x 17cm). 532, 533-1067pp. 296/975. Blue buckram covers with printed labels to spines, upper edges blue. Signed by author on limitations page in volume I, rest of test block tight and unmarked. Poor slipcase intact but faded. More about Remembrance Rock (two volumes
Los Angeles: Skelton Publishing Company, 1926. First Edition. 8vo (20 x 15cm). 215pp. Brown cloth covers with gilt embossed titles to upper and spine. Professional repairs to tail of spine, water marks (1cm) to edges of endpapers. Inscribed (1926) by author on free endpaper to J.F. Crampton ("in 1866 the..... More about Apache Kid; A Bear Fight And Other True Stories Of The Old West
New York: Primely printed, 1893. 12mo (18 x 12 x 2cm). 76pp. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles and illustration to upper. Wear to head/tail of spine, corners bumped. T.e.g. PO (H.O. Havemeyer, Jr.) book plate to paste-down endpaper, previous book seller inventory stub ($.70) to free endpaper. Text block..... More about Another Summer The Yellowstone Park and Alaska
New York: Knopf, Gollancz, Deutsch, 1962-2009. First Edition. 8vo (various sizes, various pp. VG-NF) The Coup (2, signed); Trust me (3, signed); Beauty of the Lillies (2); Marry Me (2); Rabbit at Rest (4); Telephone Poles and Other Poems (2 Knopf, 1 Deutsch); The Afterlife (2); Hoping foe a Hoopoe..... More about Set of 39 (or 41) first edition in DJ John Updike novels. (5 or 7 signed
Mystic Ct: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1988. First Edition. 4to (26 x 21cm). 315pp. Dark blue cloth covers with gilt titles to upper and spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ with shelf wear to edges, in Mylar. More about A Life in Boats : The Concordia Years
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Christie's, 1966-70, 2007. First Edition. 8vo ( 26 x 18cm). 3300+pp. Seven volumes plus index volume (with prices). In (several torn) glassine DJs. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles to upper and spine. 8vo (27 x 22cm). Two volumes. Green cloth covers with white titles to..... More about THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF AMERICANA FORMED BY THE LATE THOMAS W. STREETER with THE FRANK S....
London: Richard Bentley, 1840, 1842, 1847. Leech and Cruikshank. First Editions. Leather bound. 8v (20 x 14cm). Three volumes bound by Zaehnsdorf. 338], 288, 364pp. A.e.g. Silk endpapers. Vol. I page 236 blank with pasted in typed note, appendix follows page 338. Vol. II page 81 en bon point. Vol..... More about The Ingoldsby Legends (three volumes); or mirth and marvels
Palm Beach, Florida: 1910-1920? (14 x 9cm). Set of eight "real photo" postcards from Palm Beach Florida. Four with inscriptions to versos: 1) "Aren't these funny looking things for grown up people to ride around in? They are used all the time in Palm Beach." 2) " This is the..... More about Afromobile pictures
1955, 1965,1967. Correspondence from and to a fan of Erle Stanley Gardner (best known for the Perry Mason series) : 1) A.L.s. to Mr. Harry Sallee thanking him for a gift of Crimefile magazine (1955) 2) Two A.L.s. (one by Gardner and one by Thelma Lyon-secretary) to Mr. Harry Sallee..... More about Erle Stanley Gardner archive; Three A.L.s by Gardner, several by his staff. All on Gardner's...
First National, 1927. (20 x 26cm). Possibly the only still (gelatin silver) to exist from the lost silent film THE LOVE MART. The film starred Boris Karloff as a heinious Captain who was trying to enslave Billie Dove in 19th Century New Orleans. Chips and tears (1cm or less) to..... More about The Love Mart; Boris Karloff and Billie Dove
California: 1940s. 42 x 35cm. Strobel, Oscar. "Lake Arrowhead". (1891-1967) California artist known primarily for his desert landscapes and murals. This risqué 1940s watercolor illustration is believed to be of an athletic couple hitting the slopes at Snow Valley Mountain Resort-one of California's older ski areas. Signed by artist at..... More about Lake Arrowhead
Universal Pictures, 1947. (20 x 26cm). Original sepia tinted lobby publicity still photo of W.C. Fields as Larsen E. Whipsnade in the film You Can't Cheat An Honest Man. Creasing to corners. More about You Can't Cheat An Honest Man; W.C. Fields and Constance Moore
Boston: Perry Mason Company, 1926. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Folio (35 x 27cm). [1-cover], 210-228pp. Upper cover, corners and edges wear. 5cm tear through all pages at right side of fold. In plastic protective sleeve. More about Youth's Companion; March 18 , 1926
New York: Crown Publishers, 1947. First Edition. 4to (29 x 21cm). 128pp. Red cloth covers with black titles to upper and spine. PO gift inscription to free endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ with chips to head/tail of spine and chips/tears to edges. More about Best Cartoons; Of The Year 1947
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 4to (24 x 18cm). 249pp. Light green cloth with green titles to upper cover and spine, stamped green design to upper. Spine missing .5cm from head (horizontal line intact), 7cm tear to head of joint/spine, corners bumped, wear..... More about Just So Stories