[London]: Dean & Co., Threadneedle St., n.d., [1853 or before]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [16]; self-wrappers and wrappers included in the pagination; 9 hand-colored wood engravings; original pictorial wrappers; spine skillfully renewed. Wrappers and text somewhat dust-soiled with a few tiny marginal chips; all else very good and sound. Inscription..... More
New York: Mahlon Day, 1827. 8vo, pp. 62, [2]; removed from binding, loose frontispiece plate of a house of refuge for female juvenile delinquents; light foxing, good and sound. A general argument for separating juveniles from adult offenders, case studies, an address by society president Cadwallader Colden, and rules and..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1983. First edition, 8vo., small price sticker on front jacket flap, near fine. Featuring series character Elijah Baley. More
Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1902. Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. xxvii, [1], 548; 59 maps (18 folding, 14 double-page), tinted and/or with routes in color, 1 folding panorama of the French Alps, map on rear endpapers; very good or better in original red cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover, with..... More
Harper Woods: Adagio Press, [1972]. Edition limited to "approximately" 300 copies signed by Bahr (this, no. 46); 8vo, pp. [24]; printed in ochre and black; original ochre printed wrappers, publisher's printed mailing envelope with this title on the address panel; fine. Original prospectus laid in. A printer's thoughts on various..... More
London: Sylvan Press, 1945. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 162-[163]; frontispiece and illustrations throughout; slight foxing to front endpapers, vertical crease near gutter through most of text block, else very good in green dust jacket printed in brown with some soiling and tattering at edges. Contributions from 16 writers including..... More
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2011. Open edition originally limited to 50 copies signed by Blinn (but she assures me that no others have been printed), 8vo, pp. [20]; color pictorial title page and head-piece, 2 tipped-in illustrations and a tipped-in dyed specimen sheet of paper; original pictorial wrappers; fine, in the..... More
Alger: Federation des Syndicats d'Initiative d'Algerie, [1931]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 93, [2]; 78 half-tone illustrations; original tan wrappers printed in green and black; very good copy. Includes sections on climate, mountaineering, national parks, winter sports, sulpher springs, hunting, fishing, etc. More
Minneapolis: Michael Tarachow and Jonathan Stevenson at the Pentagram Press, 8 March 1989. Letterpress folio broadside limited to 193 copies, approx. 15" x 7¼", printed in blue and black; fine. "An impromptu broadside to mark Jonathan's second visit: six of Goudy's types handset & printed on [blue] Magnani paper..." More
London: Grant Richards, 1924. First edition, 8vo, pp. 285; small chip out of the lower margin of the front panel of the jacket, else fine. More
Lincoln, Massachusetts: [1980]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 44; wood engraving on title page; fine in original blue cloth, dust jacket. More
Manhattan, KS: Crandall Press, 1949. Edition limited to 100 copies, 16mo (approx. 6¾" x 4¼"), pp. [3]-37, [5]; frontispiece portrait of Fisher, title page printed in green and black; original pictorial green printed wrappers a bit toned, but very good. The author-printer-farmer made attempts for 9 years to get his..... More
Philadelphia: Maurice, Stationer, corner of Third and Walnut Sts. 1848. Pro-forma bifoliate invoice approx. 9½" x 7½", to Charles Dull for the shipment of "one case of paper" on board the steamboat Dupont, for $1, signed on behalf of the company by Lewis P. Thompson. On the recto of the..... More
Hardwick, Vermont: July 1, 1879. 8vo, on 2 ruled sheets 8" x 10" folded; written in pencil, the first page quite faint. Lydia is not pleased with her husband, and in this closely written letter of eight pages, she catalogues his misdeeds and faults including the time he was caught..... More
London: printed for John Watts at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1735. 8vo, pp. [8], 8, 76; printed music throughout; removed from binding; first and last leaf a little soiled, wanting the two leaves of ads at the back; else very good. ESTC notes that signature B-H are..... More
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1937. First edition with American title page tipped in, 8vo, pp. [8], 40, [4], 34; cream cloth in green dust jacket. Corners slightly bumped, jacket with a couple of closed tears at top and at flap crease repaired with tape. More
Iowa City: Clio Press, 1935. First edition, 8vo, pp. 203; illustrations; original grey pictorial wrappers, yapp edges a bit shelf worn, else fine. Whirling World Series no. 2. Printed "music for the play," pp. 201-203. More
New York: Macmillan, 1925. First American edition, 8vo, pp. x, [2], 279; dust-jacket with small crack at top of front hinge and a few minor creases, else a near fine copy. More
Lincoln, NE: Windflower Press, 1980. Staple-bound booklet, 7" x 4", pp, 144; text illustrations throughout, yellow printed paper wrappers; small stain on upper cover, near fine. The Windflower Press was the one-man operation of Ted Kooser, who was one of the first US Poet Laureates to come from the Great..... More
New York: McBride & Co., 1925. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 91; frontispiece; back endpaper with neat pencil notations and some underlining and marginalia in pencil in text; top and bottom of price-clipped dust-jacket chipped (no loss of letterpress); all else very good. More
Cambridge: published by John Owenj, 1844. First edition, large 8vo, (page height 9 5/16"), pp. [iii]-xii, 279, [1]; contemporary full black morocco, tooled panels on both covers, elaborate tooling on spine, lettered direct, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, the binder's ticket of Macdonald of Cambridge; once gilt-tooled, the gilt is tarnished, oxidized..... More
Middletown (Conn.): May 7, 1820. 4to, 15 lines, approx. 80 words; address panel on verso of integral leaf; previous folds, slightly toned, else very good. Macdonough (1783-1925) responds to a query about chambered guns. Macdonough, the hero of the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812, returned to..... More
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., [1953]. First edition, folio, pp. 283, [1]; photographic frontispiece in color, 7 plates in color (included in pagination), and 116 b&w figures in the text, several reproducing drawings from Wedgwood catalogues dated 1774 and 1817; a very good copy in the dust jacket with a...... More
Glasguae: Andreas Foulis, 1777. Small 8vo, pp. viii, 315, [1]; 19th-century brown morocco with blind-stamped decorated borders, neatly rebacked to style, gilt title direct on spine, marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins; bookplate of William Parker on pastedown and an 1863 gift inscription to A. B. Parker on the flyleaf, boards rubbed..... More
[West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press, 1981. 5" x 8" quotation broadside printed for Bookslinger at A.B.A., May 1981. More
