Providence: Frazier & Whiting, 1884. Folio, pp. 40; text in triple column; illustrated with wood engravings and a large double page folding map of Narragansett Bay; also illustrated advertisements; contemporary black cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt lettered spine; the double-page map with neat, professional repair at the central fold, and the..... More
[Oxford]: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, [2010]. 8vo, pp. xxvii, 195, [1]; facsimile of B.E.'s 'A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew', 1699 edition, with and introduction by John Simpson. A fine copy in black cloth with gilt-lettered spine, pictorial dust jacket. More
n.p. 1994. An octavo hand-made portfolio (likely by DePol) with a title on the front in pencil (as above) by DePol, containing a set of 8 proofs (of 10 which appeared in Heyen's book With Me Far Away: A Memoir, each one signed, numbered, and dated by DePol. More
Boston: 1825 to 1843. Folio, pp. 150, p. 1-2 excised, 5-8 damaged, 11-14 excised, 27-32 excised; contemporary quarter calf binding with marbled boards; large blank label pasted onto rear cover; spine rubbed; board edges scuffed; otherwise very good. Penciled on flyleaf: "Charles E. Cook" and "Eddie Cook" who appear to..... More
New York: Harper & Bros., n.d. 12mo, pp. xxv, [1], 457, [1], 21 (appendix); some foxing to the endpapers, but generally a fine copy in original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Army regs at the start of the Civil War. More
Salem: W. & S. B. Ives, 1830. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 74; 3 full-page illustrations including a plan of the town; manuscript correction on p. 36; ownership inscription at the top of the title page of Stephen B. Ives, Salem; bound with, apparently as issued: Appendix to the Report..... More
New York: published by Enshel, Adler & Sons, 94 Fulton Street, [ca. 1860s]. Hand-colored lithograph approx. 24½" x 20" (by sight, not examined out of frame); fine example with strong coloring; attractively matted and in a classic white frame. The steamboats Diana and Baltic are running side by side on..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1882. 12mo, pp. [4], [2], 374, [2], [6] ads; original orange printed wrappers, faded, bottom third of spine perished, the whole slightly stained, but the binding is sound; good. Ownership signature at the top ofthe front wrapper of Harold M. Sewall. This is likely..... More
Washington: Sudwarth Co., 1911. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 559, folding color map, frontis and 40 plates; original decorative brown cloth gilt, t.e.g., other edges uncut and opened; extremities rubbed and worn, cloth beginning to crack at rear joint; enhanced by an 8-line inscription by the author on the..... More
London: James Phillips and Son, 1797. 8vo, pp. [3], iv-xii, 170, [2] errata; contemporary full calf; marbled endpapers; spine quite rubbed and gilt worn away; diamond-pattern staining on covers; front board starting, rear joint cracked; headcaps missing; lightly foxed; otherwise good and sound. Bookplate of Samuel Elam of Rhode Island..... More
London: The Paper Conservator, 1989. First edition, small folio, pp. 108; illustrations, graphs, tables, and 4 tipped-in paper samples; errata leaf laid in; original brown printed wrappers; near fine. This copy inscribed by Barrett to the bookbinder Greg Campbell in August of1990. Issued as volume 13 in the Journal of..... More
London: privately printed for the Navarre Society, 1922. Limited edition, limitation unstated, 8vo, pp. xviii, [6], 280; 22 plates; minimal foxing, free endpapers darkened, dust-jacket with faint spots on the spine and very light edge wear. The first editions of The Pleasures and The Confessions (1682 & 1683) give A...... More
London: published by the proprietor, J. P. Neale, 1818-1823. 2 volumes, large folio; frontispieces, additional engraved title page, 59 plates; recent three-quarter calf over marbled boards, red and black gilt spine labels; fine. More
London: Seeley and Co.; New York: Macmillan, 1894. First edition, 8vo, pp. 88; 4 plates, 25 illustrations in the text, 15 extra illustrations tipped in; bound with: Cust, Lionel, The Paintings and Drawings of Albrecht Dürer, London & New York, 1897, pp. 104; 4 plates, 34 illustrations in the text..... More
Burlington: printed at the Gazette office, 1854. First edition, 8vo, pp. 20; original tan printed wrappers; old fold, blind emboss of New Jersey Historical Society on title page, very good and clean. George Washington Doane "had almost inexhaustible energy. He was a remarkably prolific writer, took an active role in..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1907. First separate edition, wrapper issue; 16mo, pp. xiii, [1], 15-30, [2]; original cloth-backed printed gray wrappers; ink smudges on back wrapper, else very good. A posthumously published essay that first appeared the previous year in Harpers Magazine. More
London: Faber and Faber, [1971]. First edition limited to 1200 copies of which this is no. 629 of 200 copies signed by the author; large, slim 8vo, pp. 48; title page printed in red and black; original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, acetate dust jacket with publisher's information sheet, black cloth..... More
London: printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spoittiswood, printers to the Queens most Excellent Majesty, 1837. Folio, pp. 17-19, [1]; royal vignette at the top of the first leaf; removed from binding else very good. Not in Afro-Americana. More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, the Riverside Press, 1894. First edition, first printing of vol. I (collating as in BAL), binding B (no sequence), 2 volumes, 8vo, 4 full-p. illustrations; fine set in original decorative black cloth stamped in silver, t.e.g. More
Indianapolis: Edward Kahle Post No. 42, 1922. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 237, [1]; frontispiece portrait of J. K. Lilly, 46 photographic plates, folding map; original blue cloth, gilt title on spine (a little faded); bumped, title page toned, very good overall. A record of a base hospital staffed by..... More
Dover, N.H. Charles Peirce, bookseller, Portsmouth, and Samuel Bragg, Jr., Dover ... Nov. 1806. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 431, [1], 4 (ads); recent calf-backed cloth, spine in 6 compartmjents, red morocco label in 1; overall appearancve is fine. American Imprints 10569; Cohen 8395; not in Sabin. More
Chicago & New York: Rand, McNally, 1900. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 279, [1], [8] ads; 16 plates including frontispiece, large folding map; a near fine copy on orig. pictorial green cloth and preserving the original printed dust-jacket which has a split up the spine, and masking tape reinforcement at..... More
Peoria, Ill. The Manual Arts Press, 1931. First edition, 8vo, pp. 80; 44 figures in text; original yellow cloth with black title on upper cover; unobtrusive stamps on copyright page and p. 33, and slight label residue at bottom of spine, very good. More
N.p. 1881. Approx. 10" x 8", previous folds, with a tear at the center fold (no loss); good. A traditional folk song variously know as "The Old Granite State" or, "The Mountaineer's Farewell," attributed to Jesse Hutchinson, Jr. (1813-1853). There are several other similar versions, indeed one biographer wrote: "Hutchinson..... More
Cantabrigiae. Prostant venales Londini, apud Gul. Sandby ... Cantabrigiae: apud G. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, 1763. Small 8vo, pp. [12], 207; title page printed in red and black, 2 engraved portraits and 13 engraved plates all signed "P. S. L. sc"; printer's imprint on p. 229: "Cantabrigiae: typis academicis excudebat..... More
