![$100 Reward! Ought to be paid to any person who will read these two pages through the first time without laughing ... A Bad Boy's Diary [by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor]](/pictures/thumb/51023_1.jpg?v=1519339871)
New York: J. S. Ogilvie & Co., n.d., [ca.1880]. Large 4to broadsheet, text in double column under a running head; a couple of short tears, but no loss. Unlocated bibliographically. "Price, handsomely bound in cloth, with ink and gold side and back stamp, $1. In paper cover, 50 cents." More
New York: The Typophiles, 1940-1985. Includes Typophile Chap Book Commentaries series nos. 1-33 (lacking nos.7, 8 & 11); the original prospectus for the Chap Book series; 44 of the Typophile Monographs (mostly little chapbooks and pamphlets on various aspects of the book production world); plus a few other keepsakes and... More
US Army [probably printed on Saipan: dropped and/or distributed on the Philippines, 1945]. Broadsheet, 11.5" x 8.5", printed in blue and red with manuscript in Japanese on verso; folds in 8 parts, worn and soiled, with a three-square-inch loss to one corner, with loss of text. A surrender leaflet that... More
[Saigon?]: Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group, Agency for International Development, [1963]. 8vo, pp. vi, 65; maps, charts; original blue pictorial wrappers (a bit soiled), general light shelf wear, else a very good copy. Published under Contract ICA c1126. More
London: for T. Cox, 1736. Folio, 4 preliminary leaves plus unpaginated lexicon in double column, illus. in the text (largely heraldic); title-p. printed in red and black and neatly mounted, but with the loss of three letters; recent half calf over marbled boards, old black morocco label on gilt-paneled spine;... More
London: Macmillan, 1931. First edition limited to 670 copies signed by the author, tall 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 151, [2]; orig. white cloth-backed marbled boards, t.e.g.; complete with acetate dust-jacket and publisher's box with the embossed initials SB on the upper cover; box worn, with splits at edges; book and... More
Woodstock, NY: published by the author, 1970. One of 500 copies, 4to, staple bound in yellow paper wrappers, text on rectos only, photoreproduction of Georgia O'Keefe on upper cover, light wear, overall very good. Featuring poetry by Fielding Dawson, George Bowering, Ray Johnson, James Mechem, and Jackson Mac Low, among... More
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [1972]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 70; very good copy in jacket. Berryman's posthumous collection of poetry. Stefanik, A 22.I.a. More
London: printed by James Bettenham for Paul Vaillant, 1751. First edition, 2 vols., 4to, pp. [4], lxxxvii, [1], 440, [16]; [4], 509, [1], [30] index, [1] explanation of the copperplates; engraved vignette title-pp. by J. Vander Gucht, engraved initials, tail- and head-pieces designed by S. Wale and engraved by J.... More
![A grammar of the Cakchiquel language of Guatemala. Translated from a MS. in the library of the American Philosophical Society, with an introduction and additions... [drop title]. Daniel G. Brinton.](/pictures/thumb/52785_1.jpg?v=1537899631)
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1884. First separate edition, being an offprint from The Proceedings, volume XXI, no. 115, 8vo, pp. 345-412 (i.e.68 pages); original printed wrappers preserved and stapled into blue cloth-backed library boards, gilt lettering on spine; upper wrap detached; an Ayer Linguistic duplicate with an Ayer bookplate and... More
Patavii: Typis Seminarii...Apud Joannem Manfrè, 1741. Editio quinta emendatior, & auctior, 2 volumes, folio; Vol. I: a6 A-2X6 2Y2; Vol. II: A-2I6 2K12 2L-3H6 3I8; full contemporary calf, elaborately gilt-tooled spine in 7 compartments, 2 tan gilt spine labels, all edges red; boards rubbed with minor loss of leather to..... More
Madrid: Antonio Fernandez, 1780. 2 volumes, folio, text in double column; full contemporary vellum; occasional worming, dampstain entering from the lower cover of the second volume and rendering the rear flyleaves and terminals defective with holes; oil stain on the upper cover of the first volume; all else very good and sound. More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1931. First edition, 8vo, pp. 384; original yellow cloth stamped in blue on spine and front cover, and retaining the original unclipped printed dust-jacket, lightly soiled and 2 or 3 minute cracks and/or chips out; otherwise fine. More
Basileae: [Frobenium et Episcopium], 1561. First edition, 3 volumes, folio; text in double column; full contemporary blind-tooled pigskin (darkening along edges and spine) dated 1564, later armorial supralibros stamped in gilt on upper and lower covers, manuscript spine titles, remnants of clasps and hasps; textblocks fine. A very good, sound... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xiv, [2], 306; [2], 307-609; a set likely bound from the original parts (stab holes evident), but generally a mixed issue as described below; 43 etched plates by Robert Seymour, H. K. Browne ("Phiz"), and Robert William Buss, including... More
New York: Random House, [1959]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 436; jacket ever-so-slightly rubbed; generally fine and bright. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First edition, second state (printing?), 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 281, [1], [6] ads; original brown cloth lightly shelf worn, light staining, printed paper spine label rubbed with small chips, else very good. One of Hearn's scarcer works. BAL 7919. More
[London]: Privately printed, 1969. First edition limited to 536 copies of which this is no. 280, large, slim 8vo, pp. [8], 40; original card wrappers in yellow dust jacket printed in red and black; fine. Signed by the author and printed at the Stellar Press. Higginson & Williams A127. More
London: John Murray (for private circulation), 1852. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 173, 24 (Murray ads); errata slip tipped in after the plate list; mounted lithograph frontispiece portrait, 1 other mounted lithograph plate, 3 wood-engraved plates, and a tinted lithograph plate (not called for in the plate list); orig. blue... More
London: John Murray, 1847. 3 volumes, 8vo, later full polished tan calf, gilt-decorated spines, 2 black morocco labels on each; slightest rubbing of the spines, but generally a fine, bright set. More
New York: Knopf, 1925. First edition, 1 of 1,050 signed copies, 4to, pp. 211; illustrations from photographs by Philip B. Wallace; original beige cloth, printed paper cover and spine labels; spine a bit darkened, else fine in grey slipcase with printed paper spine label with some edge wear and small chips to spine. More
Madrid: en la imprenta de la administracion del Real Arbitrio de Beneficencia se hallará en la librería de Ranz calle de la Cruz, 1800-01. First edition, 2 volumes (of 6) in 1; small 4to, pp. xvi, 396; 480; 4 folding tables (2 in each volume); later three-quarter brown moroco over... 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: Derby & Jackson, 1856. First edition, 8vo, pp. 498; 6 lithograph plates; original brown cloth, gilt pictorial spine; rebacked with old spine laid down, and with consequent cracking of the upper joint; front hinge cracked; good and sound. A classic of frontier life. Mrs. Kinzie came to Chicago... More
