[Princeton, NJ]: printed by D'Hart & Connolly, [1832]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 17, [1]; printed self-wrappers, removed from binding, spine weak, owners' signatures on cover, good. Lists students from 1812-1831. More
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N.p. N.d. [ca. 1875]. 12mo broadside; certificate of merit depicting two ships and a lighthouse printed with green ink and used as a reward to school children for good behavior and studiousness. Very good. More
Union Mills, N.Y. J. and R. P. Clark, 1834. First edition, 16mo, pp. 36; original drab paper wrappers, the upper wrapper neatly reattached; moderate foxing, else very good. Not in American Imprints or NUC. Emory, AAS and Hamilton in OCLC. More
Edinburgh: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1982. First edition, 4to, pp. xxxii, 297; illus.; near fine in original blue cloth, dust-jacket. About 2,500 items with detailed descriptions. More
Newport: Charles E. Hammett, Jr.; [Mason & Pratt, printers], 1851. 12mo, pp. 91, [1]; wood-engraved frontispiece, 2 wood engravings in the text (1 full-page); original printed tan wrappers; soiled, apparently removed from a binding; ink reference on front wrapper in biro; good or better. For years thought to be evidence..... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1875. Square 12mo, pp. 390, [2] (blank); engraved portrait frontispiece and wood-engraved plates throughout; full pebbled-grain brown morocco, rebacked with red leather label on spine, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; boards rubbed, some tick marks in table of contents, very good. Signed and dated by Bryant..... More
Ste Anne de Restigouche: [n.p.], 1917. 32mo, pp. [2] 348; text in Micmac; black buckram with red stained edges, near fine. Office Services in Micmac. Pacifique de Valigny, née Henri-Joseph-Louis Buisson, was a Capucin French missionary who wrote and published a number of religious materials for the benefit of the..... More
Cherry Valley, New York: June-July, 1981. 4to, pp. 76; printed from typescript; cover drawing by Jane Freilicher; original pictorial wrappers, side-stapled; slight dampstain at the top outer corners throughout; all else near fine. Contributions by Anne Waldman, Ed Dorn, Larry Fagin, Anselm Hollo, and many others. More
[Woodstock, Maryland]: Woodstock College, 1891. First edition, 16mo, pp. 102; original unprinted pale green front wrappers, back wrapper wanting; light soiling but generally fine. The work of Canestrelli, though uncredited, is "reported to be the most perfect Kalispel in print" (Schoenberg). Canestrelli (1839-1918) devoted his life to the Indians of..... More
[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1967]. Revised edition, 8vo, pp. 174; from The Language Library series, edited by Eric Partridge and Simeon Potter; a fine copy in original grey cloth with gilt-lettered spine, brown dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown. More
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[Washington, DC: U. S. Naval Institute, 1883]. First separate edition, "reprinted from No. 27 of the Proceedings U. S. Naval Institute," 8vo, pp. [714]-734, 5; 4 plates (2 folding), several figures in the text; original drab printed wrappers, the spine mostly perished, the wrappers a littled sunned and inkstained, with..... More
Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1968. Edition limited to 110 copies, 8vo, pp. [4], 19, [1]; unopened; original brown printed wrappers; fine. Printed on Shadwell, a paper handmade by Hamady. This copy out-of-series, but with a note on the wrapper flap: "This is a final proof copy. It is the..... More
Boston: Otis, Broaders, and Company, 1843. Tenth thousand, 12mo, pp. [2], 252; original green cloth with gilt title on upper cover, mild sunning and wear, very good. It attributes sexual gratification as the cause of disease, injury, depravity, general sinfulness and death. It was likely popular in its time, considering..... More
[Marshall, MN]: Plains Press, [1986]. 8vo, pp. [10], 102; photoreproductive text illustrations throughout; fine in pictorial paper covers. Inscribed by the author to the poet John Rezmerski and his wife. A recollection of a childhood spent in Sioux City, Iowa. More
London: Elkin Matthews & Marrot, 1929. First edition limited to 530 copies of which this is no. 282, slim 8vo, pp. 31, [1]; original boards in grey decoreative wrappers printed in purple; tape-repaired tears to jacket spine, minor shelf wear along top edge; some toning to front free endpaper, bookplate..... More
Paris: C. Reinwald, 1884. 8vo, pp. xii, 600, 20 (C. Reinwald & Cie. catalogue); lithograph frontispiece, 15 lithograph plates (several printed in blue, 3 double-page), folding stencil-colored world map, tables in the text; quite a delightful copy, uncut, unopened, in original burgundy cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Of the..... More
Paris: Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1921. 8vo, pp. [4], 279, [1], [4] ads; 4 plates from photographs; original printed brown wrappers with a photographic nude pastedown; some spotting and light wear; generally very good. OCLC locates 8 copies, 5 in the U.S.: Yale, UCLA, SUNY (Binghamton), Duke, and Nazarath College... More
[Saint Paul]: Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2001]. First edition, small 8vo, pp. xvii, [3], 187, [1]; fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a 2-color wood engraving ("The Boys") by Gaylord Schanilec - one of his most endearing images. Inscribed by Heynen on the half-title, "For John and Lorna..... More
West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1982. Edition limited to 375 copies signed by the poet and illsutrator; 8vo, pp. [12]; original black wrappers, printed paper label on the upper wrapper; fine. Designed and printed by Allan Kornblum. More
[New Haven]: printed for the General Committee of Republicans. From Sidney's Press, 1804. First edition, 8vo, pp. 23, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers perished; occasional light dampstain, very good. Judd's argument rested on a distinction between the government and the constitution, but as a Republican in Federalist Connecticut he suffered..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [6], 249, [2]; 22 plates by Kipling; full red niger morocco, t.e.g., gilt lettered direct on gilt paneled spine, original pictorial red cloth front cover bound in at the back. "Just So Stories has achieved nursery immortality because a genius..... More
Paris: Ladvocat, 1823. First edition, 8vo, pp. 4 (Prospectus for Les Oeuvres completes de Shakespeare). [5]-146; vignette title-p.; some foxing but a nice copy in recent black paper-covered boards, red morocco label and gilt fillets on spine. More
Nancy: Pierre Antoine, 1767. 4to, 8-page prospectus outlining 28 tables of the book (which was actually published with 28 pages and 24 engraved tables); with a list of a dozen booksellers who will be handling the sale of the book. Slight rust mark at the top of the front page..... More
San Francicso: Second Coming Press, 1980. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6] 1-88; pictorial paper wrappers, signed by the author on half title; very good with light wear to top edge of covers. A collection of short stories named after a story that included the word "fuck" and resulted in the..... More
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. First edition limited to 585 copies (this, no. 333) on hand-made paper, signed by the author; 8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. xvii, [1], 120; ornamented title-page printed in red and black, gravure frontispiece portrait of Johnson, 16 plates; orig. green cloth-backed patterned boards..... More
