Providence: A. C. Green, printer, 1852. Small 8vo, pp. 47, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; near fine. After a listing of the students and faculty, the latter half of the publication contains information on the organization of the university, curricula required for the 11 degrees offered, libraries, costs, scholarships..... More
[New York: New Directions, c1957. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 264; original bright red cloth, title on spine in white, some wear to extremities and browning to acidic pages, else very good in torn, tattered, and creased dust jacket. Contains Henry Miller's "Obscenity in Literature" and an excerpt from Jack..... More
London: W. Clowes & Sons; Numadz: reprinted by W. N. & Co., 1870. 2 volumes, fukurotoji, pp. 344 (continuous); printed title in Japanese on front pastedown, as issued; original buff wrappers, printed paper labels on both upper covers; wrappers soiled, ink stamps on title page; a good copy. Contains 85..... More
New York: Alred A. Knopf, 1921. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 80; near fine copy in original patterened boards, orange wrap-around label. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1864. 12mo, pp. x, 480; near fine copy in original green cloth. Presentation copy from Bartlett, inscribed on the front pastedown, to Joseph A. Willard "from his friend and brother, the author or editor. Aug. 27, 1864." A year prior to the publication of this..... More
[Newtown]: Bird & Bull Press, 2000. Edition limited to 150 copies, 13 leaves plus enrgraved title sheet; fine, encased in a plain paper folder. Morris had originally intended for Gaylord Schenilac to provide the engravings for his book The foresters, but he ended up so pleased with Bates' work that..... More
Paris: de l'imprimerie des frères Mame, 1808. 6 volumes in 4, 24mo (page height 5¼"), vignette title-p.,contemporary quarter polished tan calf over marbled boards, red morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; very good. "This Treatise on World-History is the last noteworthy exercise in that type of universal history which, beginning with..... More
Cleveland: The Bird Research Foundation, 1951. Small, thick 4to, pp. xvi, 723, [2]; color frontispiece, profusely illustrated throughout;original green pebbled cloth, spine and upper cover pictorially gilt, photographic endpapers; spine ends a bit rubbed, old name in ink on front free endpaper, very few ink notations in the margins, still..... More
London: Tinsley Bros. 1863. First edition, 2 volumes, small 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 303; [6], 295; folding map, frontispiece in volume II; very slight rubbing, but still a fine, bright copy, largely unopened, in original purple-brown cloth, author's name and title gilt-lettered direct on spine. This is the second state..... More
Patavii: Typis Seminarii...Apud Joannem Manfrè, 1758. Edition octava retractatior, 2 volumes in one, folio, pp. [8], 464, [2], 481, [1], 24, 86; Vol. I: [†]4 A-2P6 2Q4; Vol. II: [*]2 A-2R6 a-h6 i8; woodcut printer's marks and initials, Vol. I title page printed in red and black, text primarily in..... More
Madrid: Por don Antonio de Sancha, 1786. First edition, small 4to, pp. [12], 400; contemporary full vellum, manuscript title (faded) on spine; very good and sound. Three copies in OCLC as of 1/19, only one (Dominican House of Studies) in the US. Palau 41034. More
Bruxelles: 1885. 4to, pp. [18]; folding plate of Sweden's telephone grid, with Stockholm telephone lines radiating out 80-odd kilometers into the countryside, with neat contemporary annotations in red ink; original gray printed wrappers, lower corners creased. Essentially a prospectus for the uniformity of the telephone line in Belgium, with the..... More
Chicago: Overland Publishing Co., 1878. First edition, 8vo, irregular pagination: [8], [25]-255, [2], [300]-322, [1] ads; ads on endpapers, 18 double-p. wood-engraved views inserted, many other wood-engravings and maps in the text (a few full-p.); one signature sprung, bookplate removed causing loss to ads on front pastedown; the whole a...... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1941]. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 379; text vignettes; original cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket by Adler and Lubalin; jacket edges a bit chipped with a few shallow tears, else a very good, sound copy. The second of de Camp's attempts at..... More
West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1982. Limited edition in 1,050 copies, 8 x 6.25 in., pp. [6], 9-45, [1]; fine copy, perfect-bound in original red Strathmore Americana printed wrappers; handset by David Duer, designed and printed by Allan Kornblum. More
Philadelphia: printed for Robert Campbell, 1795. 12mo, pp. [4], xii, 13-283, [13] index; contemporary full mottled calf, gilt-paneled spine laid out in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; early ownership signatures of Levi Bartlett (likely the eldest son of Josiah Bartlett, the signer of the Declaration of Independence from..... More
N.p. [Glasgow: Graham, printer], October, 1839. 16mo, pp. 18, [2]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else very good. Contains rules of the society, rules for teachers, rules for visitors, subscriptions and donations, financial report, and a table showing the state of the various schools in the Society. Not in..... More
London: William Pickering, 1831. Small 8vo, pp. [iii]-clxxxii, 156; frontispiece portrait (a little spotted); bound without the half-title in full contemporary vellum, covers with quadruple gilt-ruled border, floral ornaments in the corners, gilt-decorated spine (slightly dull), brown morocco label, a.e.g.; prize inscription on flyleaf; very good copy. More
New York: Baker & Godwin, 1856. Originally published in the New York Herald Feb 13, 1856, and republished as a separate pamphlet "in a form suitable for binding with the work reviewed"; 8vo, pp. 32, removed from binding, wrappers wanting; light foxing, very good. Griswold was a champion of American..... More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2008. 7.5" x 11" poetry broadside with relief print, artist unknown. Printed on the occasion of CHP's move from the Historic Warehouse District to the former Grain Belt Beer Bottle House in Northeast Minneapolis. More
New York & Boston: George H. Holden, n.d., 1895. Large 8vo, pp. [2], 309, [1], v, [1]; 14 chromolithograph plates (appearing for the first time in this edition), numerous other illustrations in the text (some full-page), including many of bird cages; original pictorial army green cloth stamped in gilt and..... More
London: Charles Knight, 1834. Folio, pp. iv, 316, lxxii; old marbled boards, edged and effectively rebacked in brown electrical tape (this sounds horrid, but in fact whoever did it did it neatly); needless to say the binding is very sound and the text is fairly clean through and through. Volume..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1846. First edition, 2 vols., large 12mo, pp. xviii, 417, [1] + 16pp. publisher's catalogue dated December, 1845; [6], 515, [1]; very good, bright set in orig. blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. All points conforming to Brewer's first issue. Brewer, p. 217-19: "The contents of the first..... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1835. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. xi, [1], [13]-276; xi, [1], [9]-294; original brown cloth, paper labels on spine; volume I with cloth cracked and chipped along joints and a small piece missing at the top of the spine; volume II with front free..... More
Dublin: printed by W.G. Jones for Thomas Ewing, 1768. 8vo, pp. [72] plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; full contemporary calf, upper joint cracked (cords holding), vertical crack in spine, citron morocco label partially chipped away, 2 early ownership signatures on flyleaf (1770 and 1787); a good copy of a...... More
