New York: printed for the Grand National Club, 1877. 12mo, pp. 108; 3 plates (1 folding); original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; near fine throughout. This is the eighth year of the Annuals, containing rules of the game, accounts of the year's matches and championships, national..... More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1997. 11" x 15" broadside accompanied by relief print printed in honor of Jim Sitter's contributions to the literary field during his tenure at CLMP. More
New York: Bartlett and Welford. London: John Russell Smith, 1849. First London issue, (the book appeared under the New York imprint only in 1848); lg. 8vo, [xxviii] & 412pp., bookplate on front pastedown, front hinge separated at joints, cracked at joints, chipped at extremities, paper label on spine rubbed and..... More
Boston: Twayne, [1989]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 211; fine in original green cloth, dust-jacket. Fifteen major French women novelists are discussed, beginning with Colette and Simone de Beauvoir. More
Lugduni [i.e. Lyon]: FFr. Anissoniorum et Joannis Posuel, 1681. Folio, 2 volumes in 1, pp. [8], 1004; 862; both title pages printed in red and black, and both with printer's woodcut device, woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full paneled parchment, central lozenge stamped in blind on both covers, manuscript titling..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1859. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [12]-122; original brown cloth, spine faded, text foxed, else good and sound. Mencken, in his The American Language, writes: "[It] was chiefly devoted to showing that most of the 465 terms it listed were English provincialisms or archaisms, but..... More
Berkeley, Calif. Curtis Faville, 1972. Tall 8vo, pp. 28; original printed gray wrappers; near fine. From the library of Kim Merker. Curtis Faville's L Magazine ran to five issues in three installments, one annually from 1972 to 1974. The format for each installment was unique, from oblong to square trim..... More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1863. 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 43, [1]; quarter black morocco over marbled boards, patterned endpapers; joints and corners rubbed, title page a bit soiled; very good. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with label on upper cover and pastedown, and release stamp on flyleaf. Volume VII of the Smithsonian..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1889. First edition with these illustrations; 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], ii, [4], [7]-266; [8], [267]-527; portrait frontispiece of the author, 50 photogravures depicting scenery and monuments in Italy; contemporary full vellum with gilt designs by Sarah Whitman: 3..... More
New York: The Roycrofters, [1923]. 8vo, pp. 228, xii, index; frontispiece portrait; original blue cloth lettered in white, pictorial endpapers showing Hubbard's print shop, white spine decoration, covers warped and a bit rubbed, else very good. Hubbard's scrap book of "the fruits of other men's genius." More
Dublin: printed by Isaac Jackson, in Meath-street, 1754. 12mo, pp. 164, [4] ads; 19th century morocco-backed marbled boards; flyleaves perished, joints cracked; textblock sound. First published in Philadelphia in 1747. Born in Charleston, Hume was married to a landowner, lawyer and public official, and led a life of aristocratic leisure..... More
New York: Christie Manson & Woods, 1992. First edition, folio, pp. 321, [1]; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket and a fine publisher's slipcase. Walter Ames Compton (1911-1990) was an American medical doctor, pharmacy researcher, and avid Japanese sword collector. He was the president..... More
Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1991. 8vo, pp. [6], 140, [9]; text in German, yellow printed paper wrappers; small chip to lower corner, else fine. More
Paris: Demonville et Soeurs, an XI - 1803. First edition, 8vo, pp. 10, [errata leaf], 480; engraved frontispiece portrait and 2 engraved plates showing genital tumors associated with elephantiasis; contemporary and probably original quarter brown morocco and red pastepaper covered boards, rebacked, retaining original pastedowns and flyleaves and with black..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 335; very good in slightly scuffed original blue cloth, spine gilt. Catalogue of Latin Americana in the Yale University Library. 5668 entries with an index. More
Franklin Center, Pa. The Franklin Library, 1980. Edition limited to an unspecified number; 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 679, [1]; original full brown gilt-stamped morocco, silk moiré endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark, a.e.g.; fine, bright copy. Includes: Notes from the editors, 8vo, pp. [3], 4-22, [2], printed self-wrappers, staple-bound. More
[Los Angeles: Bookhaven Press, 1939]. First edition limited to an unspecified number of copies of which this is no. 705, 4to, pp. [10], 286, [10]; photographic illustrations, many in color; pictorial endpapers; original tan pictorial cloth (soiled) stamped in black and gilt; shelf wear, else mostly very good. Presentation copy..... More
[New York]: Stock, [1974]. First edition, 4to, pp. [2], 37-[38], plus 8-page "Cadenza"; 4 full-page b&w illus. after photographs of Henry and Hoki and 12 color plates reproducing watercolors by Miller; a fine copy in slightly scuffed and nicked dust jacket with 1/2" tear at upper edge, adhesive remnants on..... More
n.l. Harcourt Brace, 1944. First edition, limited to 3,500 copies, 8vo, pp. x, 118; fine copy in jacket, library stamp on verso of title, owner's inscription on front paste-down. Lyle, p. 54-55. More
London, New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., [1945]. First edition, 12mo, pp. 63, [1]; frontispiece portrait, 3 plates showing 10 illustrations on rectos and versos; original blue cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus..... More
Providence: printed by Bennett Wheeler, n.d., [1788]. 8vo, pp. 16; corners cut on the curve; original drab wrappers; a few short tears in the fore-margins (no loss), otherwise very good. With the ownership signature on the first page of text of Carlos Daggett, possibly Carlos Daggett (1793-1870) the farmer and..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 211 Tremont Street, 1890. Large, thick 4to, pp. 222; over 50 steel-engraved portraits; publisher's heavy black blindstamped morocco, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; some rubbing and scuffing, but on the whole very good and sound. More
Boston: J. B. Yerrinton & Son, printers, 1855. 8vo, pp.43, [1]; self-wrappers; very good. "Printed from the phonographic report of J.M.W. Yerrinton, revised and enlarged by Mr. Phillips." The removal of Loring was sought because of his decision returning Anthony Burns to slavery. Loring was a commissioner under the Fugitive..... More
[Washington, D.C.? United States Government Printing Office?], March 1, 1937. 8vo, broadsheet (233 x 149 mm.); light offsetting, small chip to top left-hand corner, else very good. At head of title: "House of Representatives, 75th Congress, 1st Session, Document No. 156". Central Oklahoma only in OCLC. More
New York: New American Library, [1954.]. First Signet paperback edition, 12mo, pp. 144., pages browning, else very good. More
