Boston: printed for the Massachusetts Temperance Society, by John Wilson and Son, 1851. First separate and first American edition, 16mo, pp. 16; self-wrappers; old library pressure stamp at the top of the title page (and released); very good. Harvard and AAS only in OCLC. More
Ottawa: Edmund Cloutier, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1945. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 1016; text in triple column; fine copy in original black morocco, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine, covers with double blind rule enclosing a presentation from the monarchy, in gilt letters: "To his..... More
[Newtown]: San Serriffe Pub. Co. [i.e. Bird & Bull Press], 2001. Edition limited to 200 copies (this, like all copies, no. 9), 8vo, pp. 30, [4], 50-58, [5], 64-89, [1]; large folding broadside bound in which may or may not be part of the loopy pagination; numerous tip-ins, facsimiles, illustrations..... More
New York: Macmillian Co., 1914. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [3], 200, [2], 5pp. advertisements; blue cloth, gilt letters, presentation copy by author "To Geo. H. Picard, with the cordial regard of a wanderer on the lower slopes of Parnassus, his friend John Kendrick Bangs ,April3:1914";l slightly worn else very..... More
Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1884. First edition, 8vo, pp. 156; frontispiece and 5 plates of which one is double-page, drawings in text throughout; contemporary calf over marble boards, blind-tooled spine, bottom of hinges cracked; edges and corners rubbed; minor worm holes to bottom corners of first few leaves; rubber stamp and..... More
Paris: L. Fournier, [1946]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3]-222, [1]; 6 folding maps; long gift inscription dated 1947 from the author to Madame and Monsieur Aitelli, in memory of a great time at Cap Tourane, and mentioning the Aitellis' lost son, and France's tragedy in Indochina; very good in ca..... More
Broadside (approx. 17" x 10"), signed by Blinn, "sponsored by the Friends of Special Collections and the Art Department," Univertsity of Vermont, Burlington. "Designed, illustrated, and printed by Carol in October, 1993." Hand-colored caricature of Blinn in green, orange, purple, and blue. More
London: J.J. Dubochet & Co., 1837. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. liv, [2], 434; 534; 538; extra engraved title pages, frontispieces, and hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations by Tony Johannot throughout, some full-page; original brown cloth, gilt lettered and decorated spines; slight vermin nibble at the top outer corners of the pages..... More
Hull: printed by Robert Peck, and sold in London by J. Mathews... n.d. [1800?]. Only edition, 4to, pp. [4], iii, [1], 391, [1]; contemporary quarter tan calf over marbled boards; rebacked, old spine and spine label neatly laid down; very good and sound. Put to verse, this is an unusual..... More
London: The Scholartis Press, 1928. First edition, limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by the author (as Corrie Denison), 8vo, pp. 256; original red cloth, gilt title direct on spine, t.e.g.; prelims lightly foxed; else fine. Short stories and a novella before, during, and after World War I. More
Coloniae: Ioh. Baptistae Ciotti, 1591. Folio, 2 volumes in 1; pp. [16], 359, [1]; 355, [1], [40] index; roman and italic types throughout; printer's device on the verso of the last leaf in each volume; both title pages within architectural woodcut borders, numerous woodcut geometric figures in the text, woodcut..... More
New York: Angel Hair, 1968. First edition, one of 300 copies (this one of 276 in the trade edition); 4to, [25] leaves printed from typescript on rectos only, original wrappers side-stapled; paper toned, else near fine. More
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2003. Edition limited to 45 copies signed by the author, the illustrator, and the printer in different hands, using her real name and her pseudonym, Frieda Fitzenmeyer; 12mo, pp. [20]; 11 hand-colored illustrations by Blinn; hand sewn into paper wrappers using vellum tapes, spine stamped in green..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886. Third edition, revised, square 4to, 53 double-p. genealogical trees of houses and families from England, Scotland, Germany, France, the Border Countries, Italy, the Spanish Peninsula, the kingdoms of central and northern Europe, Christian dynasties in the east, together with supplementary lists (popes, Turkish sultans, caliphs, etc.)..... More
London: published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926. First edition, 16mo, pp. 61, [3]; original green pictorial boards, edges and spine faded to tan, minute losses to spine ends, else very good and sound. Bookplate on front pastedown. Hogarth Essay, Second Series, no. 3. Cover design..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1980]. First edition, 8vo., fine in like jacket. Sequel to Greene's autobiography. More
Gottingen: Dieterichschen, 1865. First edition, 8vo, viii & 219pp., publisher's quarter black morocco over marbled boards, pages browning; else fine. Comprehensive index to all four volumes of Grimm's groundbreaking Deutsch Grammatik. From the library of George Stephens. More
London: William Pickering, 1945. 16mo, pp. lxxv, [1], 136; contemporary half blue morocco over blue cloth, spine gilt lined in six compartments and gilt lettered; head of spine a bit chipped, joints and corners lightly rubbed, bookplate to front pastedown, else a very good, attractive copy. More
Boston: James Munroe and Co., 1845. First edition, 8vo, pp. 40; original blue printed wrappers; minor foxing to wrappers, else fine. Hazard (1801-1888) was a native Rhode Islander who spent most of his life at the family business manufacturing woolens. He served three terms as a member of the R.I...... More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, n.d. 7.5" x 9" poetry broadside celebrating the Coffee House Press, printed on blue paper. More
Boston: printed and published by Joseph W. Ingraham, Franklin Avenue, to whom communications, postpaid, may be addresed, May, 1821 - December, 1822. 20 issues in all, 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers; fine. This periodical lasted until 1826 when it merged with the Churchman's Magazine, to form the Episcopal Watchman. The..... More
Boston: published by A. Williams & Co., 1865. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 30, [2] ads; frontispiece and 15 illustrations and plans, several full page; original limp green cloth, gilt-stamped front cover showing a lady in her finery wielding a mallet and about to roquêt a ball; light foxing, corners..... More
Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1844. 8vo, pp. xiv, 404; text illustrations; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ex-Baptist Mission Society House Library with usual markings, front hinge starting to crack, spine head a bit chipped, horizontal crack across top quarter of spine between spine title words "Yates's" and "Nalodaya"; interior mostly..... More
Boston: printed by Russell and Cutler, 1802. First edition, 12mo, pp. 152; printer's woodcut device on title page; contemporary full calf, black leather label on spine; joints starting, extremities rubbed; good and sound. Modern library bookplate sadly pasted over an early American bookplate. Dedicated to John Quincy Adams. "...Shahcoolen's lucubrations..... More
n.p. n.p. 7 x 4.5 inches, 20 leaves; 18 images, 12 in color; bound in the Japanese manner; original printed paper wrappers worn, 2 inch tear to one page, top layer of back cover stripped. Housed in a new red cloth clamshell box. A shunga hon, or erotic picture book..... More
