St. Louis: Sunday Morning, October 8, 1876. Approx. 22½" x 18", pp.8; 7 columns per page, removed from binding, small tear repaired on last page. Baseball season, the sale of the railroads, political outlook, foreign gossip, wanted-an art gallery, illogical damnation, city news, ballot-stuffing, river transportation upper Mississippi, numerous ads..... More
Dover, New Hampshire: Tuesday Morning, December 1, 1829. 19½" x 14½", pp. [4]; 6 columns per page, removed from binding. Reward for stolen horse, miscellany, letter to the editor on consequences of drinking too much rum, poem ' The Funeral at Sea; by H.J. Finn, a proclamation by the govenor..... More
La Crosse: 1962. Edition limited to 200 copies, small 8vo, pp. [23]; printed in red and black; fine in orig. blue printed wrappers. Press Preterite, no. 95. "The marks of punctuation are by printers called points. Interestingly, both words come from the Latin root punct..." (Opening line). More
Boston: The Society of Printers, 1965. Edition limited to 500 copies issued as a Keepsake on the sixtieth anniversary of the Society of Printers, 12mo, pp. 26-[30]; 3 plates; a fine copy in orig. navy blue cloth gilt, marbled endpapers, wrapper (lightly chipped). An ""attempt to throw some light"" on..... More
St. Petersburg: Kaiserlichen akademie der wissenschaften, zu beziehen durch Eggers & comp. 1879-89. 4to, 13 original fascicles bound in 2 vols., 4to; pp. vi, 299; 160; iv, 161-301; 120; iv, 121-265; 160; [2], iv, 161-302; 160; [2], ii, 161-264; 160; [4], 161-306; 160; [2], ii, 161-390; original pale blue printed..... More
Providence: H. H. Brown, 1836. 12mo, pp. vi, [1], 8-144; original heavy printed paper wrappers, loosening, and dampstained and with a scorch mark on the front; some browning, corners curled; good and sound. AAS only in OCLC. American Imprints 39797; Bartlett, p. 216; Spear p. 306 (adds Providence Public, LC..... More
London & Cairo: Thos. Cook & Sons, 1910. Eleventh edition, 8vo, pp. xx, [4], 976; double-p. map, folding map and numerous illustrations throughout text, a number full page; occasional underlining in red ink, but otherwise a very good copy in orig. limp terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover..... More
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1874. 3 volumes in 1, pp. [iii]-xx, 274; [iii]-vi, 294; [4], 270; frontispiece map; bound without the half-titles in contemporary half polished black calf over marbled boards, maroon morocco label on spine; very good. Penzer, pp. 52-3: "The appendices of the first and second editions are omitted..... More
Springfield, Mass. Lewis J. Powers & Brother, 1867. First edition, 12mo, pp. viii, [3], 12-120; 4 diagrams in the text; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; fine. Not common. In OCLC I find 3 tangible copies, all in the UK. "If we were to compare Mr..... More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1991. Edition limited to 80 copies, 7.5" x 11" poetry broadside, signed, burnt-orange/pink paper. More
Paris: Fortin, Masson, 1845. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 339; double-page folding map; moderate foxing throughout, map with some short tears and splits at folds; all else very good and sound in contemporary black morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered direct on spine. The results of a scientific expedition to Algeria 1840-42..... More
Front Royal, VA: Privateer Press, [1961]. 12mo bifolium, vignette woodcut by John De Pol on cover. Fine. More
Trenton [NJ]: William Robinson and John C. Moore, 1813. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 450; portrait frontispiece of Milton; includes a 4p. list of subscribers, mostly from New Jersey and Pennsylvania; full contemporary calf; boards and spine worn, text foxed, frontispiece torn and repaired; binding is sound. Felcone, New Jersey..... More
n.p. n.d. [ca. late 1983]. Written on a bifolium with a signed Eichenberg wood engraving on the integral leaf. "Always glad to hear from you and I shall try to answer your questions: working on an autobiography which won't be out before next year. An engraving on Dorothy Day is..... More
[Stockholm, Wisconsin: printed at Midnight Paper Sales for the Fine Press Book Association, 2013.]. Tall bifolium (approx. 14" x 5¾") dinner menu for the annual event. The chore of printing the menu falls to a different printer each year. This copy with a small dimple on the front, but otherwise..... More
Glasgow: printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis, printers to the university, 1769. 12mo, pp. 27, [1], 179, [1]; contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine in 5 compartments, red leather label in 1, boards lightly rubbed and toned, hinges just starting, very good. Leonidas was first published in 1736. Its position on..... More
Easton, Pa. printed by T. M. D. Forsman, 1841. 8vo, pp. 18; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else very good. American Imprints 41-2248. More
Lexington: Anvil Press, 1991. Edition ltd. to 80 copies printed in Hammer's American and Samson uncial type on hand-made Magnani Mills paper; slim 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 34, [3]; printed in red and black; 1 full-page illus.; errata slip laid in at p. 16, as issued; also laid in is..... More
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Worcester: Leonard Worcester, 1799. First edition, 12mo, pp. 380; full contemporary sheep; spine ends chipped, the binding rubbed and worn; a good copy. Early American bookplate of Enoch Sawyer. Sarah Osborn was an early American Protestant and Evangelical writer who experienced her own type of "religious awakening" during the birth..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1878. 8vo, pp. 103, [9] (ads.); portrait frontispiece, 11 full page engravings; gray printed wrappers; corners creased, light soiling to covers, very good;. More
Detroit: George S. Davis, [1887]. First edition; square 8vo; pp. [iii]-xv, [1], 301; patterned endpapers; good or better in original brown cloth, stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Author discusses various maladies affecting youth and offers remedies, stressing the importance of breast milk among other things. More
Amstelodami: apud Ludovicum et Danielem Elzevirios, 1669. 8vo, pp. [24], 547, [76]; engraved title page; contemporary full calf, single gilt rule on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1, sprinkled edges; some calf on the front cover has peeled away and the board underneath has been blended..... More
Amsterdam: Theatrvm Orbis Terrtarvm Ltd., 1967-71. First edition, 5 volumes, 4to, very good, sound set in original blue cloth. Additions and correction lists laid in, as issued. Without the supplemental sixth volume. More
Boston: printed by C. Stebbins, 1813. 8vo, pp. 78; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else good or better. Lowell vehemently opposes entering into hostilities with Great Britain. The Introductory Remarks are addressed to the people of New England, New York, New-Jersey and Delaware. First published the previous year. American..... More
Boston: Little Brown, and Company, 1897. First collected edition, 8vo, pp. x, 314; original blue cloth; vignette of a battleship stamped in gilt on the upper cover; gilt lettering on spine; 2 folding maps; spine extremities slightly scuffed; otherwise very good. A collection of articles published from 1890-1897 regarding American..... More
