Piero Ventura's book of cities
New York: Random House, 1975. First edition, folio, pp. 60, fine in a lightly toned dust jacket; a picture book, heavily illustrated. More
New York: Random House, 1975. First edition, folio, pp. 60, fine in a lightly toned dust jacket; a picture book, heavily illustrated. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951, 1920. Small 4to, pp. 493, [1] (ad); color illustrated title page, 9 plates, illustrated endpapers; original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine, color plate mounted to upper cover; spine quite faded, edges rubbed and worn, upper cover shows some soiling; discrete contemporary bookseller's ticket on rear..... More
Chicago: W. F. McLaughlin & Co., n.d., [ca. 1893]. Broadsheet circular, approx. 6" x 4", text printed in English and German on opposite sides, on orange paper; very good. The young (twenty-two) and by all accounts attractive Frances (Folsom) Cleveland took the media by storm when she married the president..... More
Philadelphia: Eldredge & Brother, 1879. 8vo, pp. vi, 7-127, [1] ads; text in double column; original leather-backed printed paper boards; covers rubbed; bookplate of C. R. Sine; else very good. Issued in the publisher's "Model Word Book" series. More
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1792. 12mo, pp. 3-131 (pp.1, 2, & 132 pastedowns); original sheep-backed blue paper-covered wooden boards; leather rubbed; covers soiled; rear board split vertically, internally reinforced in the margins with surgical tape (not obscuring any lettering); pages toned and lightly soiled. Contemporary inscription on front pastedown: "Reumah..... More
[Worcester]: American Antiquarian Society & Barre Publishers, 1972. First edition, large 8vo, pp. lxvi, 516; text in double column; generally fine in original green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. With a foreword by Marcus McCorison. Standard work. More
Cleveland: The Arthur Westbrook Company, 1908. 12mo, pp. 100; original color pictorial wrappers; text toned, but overall near fine. Publisher's ads on back cover. Issued as no. 13 in Beadle's Frontier Series. More
Cleveland: The Arthur Westbrook Company, 1908. 12mo, pp. 100; original color pictorial wrappers; spine partially perished, text toned, but overall very good. Publisher's ads on back cover. Issued as no. 4 in Beadle's Frontier Series. More
New York: Collins, Keese & Co., 1840. Oblong 4to, pp. vi, 159, [3]; lithograph frontispiece and 27 composite plates with 107 lithograph illustrations; original quarter calf over cloth, gilt title on upper cover; boards worn, stained, and fraying, cloth on lower board largely perished; textblock with mild dampstains and foxing;..... More
Glasgow: Blackie, 1977. 8vo, pp. 128; black and white illustrations throughout; original blue pictorial boards, fine. OCLC locates 3 copies in the United States, at the New York Public Library, Boise High School, and Oregon. More
Boston: Lee & Shepard; New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1892. First edition, oblong 8vo, unpaginated (24 leaves), illustrated throughout; very good or better in original pictorial two-tone brown cloth stamped in gilt, a.e.g. An old man's reminiscences of his first love told in pictures and verse. At the head of..... More
New York: Clark, Austin & Smith, 1854. Square 24mo (approx. 4½" tall), pp. 96; wood-engraved frontispiece and 5 full-p. wood-engraved illustrations within borders, several tail-pieces; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; some foxing, but generally very good. Short stories providing Christian doctrinal and moral lessons. The imprint on..... More
Cupertino: California History Center, [1979]. 4to, pp. vi, 156; text in typescript, a near fine copy in original orange printed wrappers. More
Chicago: K. M. Yates & Company, 1905. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 5-32; original faux leather boards; front cover stamped in gilt and green; spine extremities and corners scuffed; otherwise very good. Katherine M. Yates (1865-1951) was an American author who primarily wrote Christian Science children's literature. More
Tokyo: Otsuki Shoten, 1984. Oblong 8vo, pp. 86, [2]; illustrated throughout; original gray boards in pictorial dust jacket; dust jacket edge toned with light spotting on the verso; very good. Signed by Yoshigahara. A collection of 39 puzzles for children to build and solve. No. 9 in the Kodomo to..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. Instructor's Review Copy of the first edition; thick 4to, pp. xxxviii, 2471; 32 pages of color illustrative reproductions, black and white illustrations in text throughout; original purple pictorial wrappers, some edge wear and soiling, a very good copy. More