[La Crosse, Wisconsin]: Sutton Hoo Press, [2005]. Edition limited to "fewer than" 115 copies on Somerset, 21 copies on Nideggen, and 38 on India bond; signed by McClure and Van Someren on the colophon; 12mo, pp. [14], 5-47, [3]; 8 illustrations from drawings (mostly full-page); original black cloth-backed decorative paper-covered..... More
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1930. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, [2], 372; 24 photographic illustrations on 16 plates; near fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Mead's second book, dedicated to her husband, the New Zealander Reo Fortune. More
[Cologne]: Taschen, [2010]. First edition thus, small folio, pp. 192; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in original orange-backed pictorial laminate boards. A reprint of Metamorphosis Inserctorum Surinamensium (1705), with commentaries by Katharina Schmidt-Loske. Text in English, German, and French. More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1930. First edition, small 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 57, [1]; a fine, partially unopened copy in a very good jacket, spine panel slightly faded and with small chips out at ends. The introductory note by the author's husband, Wilfred Meynell, was reprinted from the EB. Dreyfus..... More
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1979. First paperback edition, 8vo, pp. 126, 6 full-page illustrations by Miller in the text; a very good copy in original pictorial wraps, inch-long scrape to spine, some scattered minor brown spotting to wraps. Miller reminisces affectionately about his long-time friend, Alf, and thirteen women who..... More
New York: Baker, Godwin & Co, 1858. 32mo, 4 x 2.75", pp. 32; original brown printed paper wrappers; upper corner of last 3 leaves and lower cover clipped, barely touching text but with no loss of understanding; otherwise very good. A little advertisement for J. B. Miller & Co, 134..... More
New York: printed by R. & G.S. Wood, for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Benevolent Fund, 1830. First edition, 16mo, pp. 72; contemporary and likely original full sheep, gilt-paneled spine; some rubbing, previous owner's bookplate; good and sound. Born in Newport, R.I., married in Providence, Mary Mitchell moved to Nantucket..... More
[Colorado Springs]: The Press at Colorado College. Edition limited to 100 copies (this, no. 22), 4to, 22 double leaves bound leporello style; 8 photo-engraved plates; original black cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper label on spine; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. Includes the letters to Block soliciting his..... More
Hartford: Potes & Poets Press, 1982. Edition limited to 300 copies, 8vo, pp. [32]; printed yellow wrappers, inscribed by the author on title page to Allan and Cindy Kornblum, with her manuscript note on verso crediting the cover art to Marco Moraff Alonso. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet..... More
Bristol: printed and sold by S. Farley [et al.], 1774. 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 54; removed from binding; last leaf browned with 4" tear (no loss) and with early paper repair; all else very good. Following the play proper are "A Prologue to Hamlet," pp. [45]-47; and, "A Prologue to..... More
Boston and London: Ginn and Company, 1913. 8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. ix-[xiv], 289-[290]; photo-gravure frontis. portrait and 6 photo-gravure portraits on plates; near fine in original brown cloth, gilt-titled spine and front cover, minor wear to extremities. This copy with mounted photograph of Wenckebach (reproduced as last..... More
Montreal: Majorie Dobie Munroe, 1943. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 92, [1]; pictorial endpapers, 9 plates, illustrations in the text; very good copy in original purple cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. More
[Tokyo]: Published for the Author, 1908. Fourth edition, revised, 12mo, pp. [2], vi, 172; 6 plates, including 2 street scenes of brothels; full burgundy cloth, gilt title on cover; hinges cracked, front free endpaper, frontispiece, and first two leaves of text loose, fair. An account of prostitution in Japan and..... More
[Tokyo]: Ryoko Do, [1896-1906]. Approx. 36.5 x 25 cm; 7 color woodblock prints; Japanese text on upper and side margins; all images have rectos and versos of the dolls and clothing designed to be cut out and made into three-dimensional dolls. Often used for hands-on educational purposes, Omocha-e prints were..... More
[New Haven]: Yale Center for Interantional and Area Studies, [1989]. 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 224; 16 pages of illustrations; blue printed paper wrappers; light creasing to wrappers, text clean and sound, very good. Lạc Việt series No. 11. More
London: William Pickering, 1836. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 588, 9; contemporary green cloth, brown morocco spine label lettered in gilt, partially unopened; a very good copy with minor shelf-wear, short tear to cloth at lower joint, hinges just starting. Presentation copy, inscribed to the author of The Ingoldsby Legends..... More
[New York]: Frontward Books, [1977]. First edition limited to 350 copies, 4to, 11" x 8½", 30 leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; cover art by Rochelle Kraut; small stain on front wrapper, else just about fine in original pictorial hand-colored wrappers, side-stapled. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet..... More
Canan, NH: Phoenix Publishing, [1981]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 146; approx. 70 illustrations from photographs throughout; fine copy in the dust jacket. Presentation copy from the Foundation of the Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing Friendship Committee. More
Guanabacoa [i.e. Havana]: n.d., [1901]. 16mo, pp. 4 (approx. 6" x 4½"), original drab printed wrappers (toned); dedication slip tipped in prior to the first leaf and stating "edicion II." Accompanied by a printed bifolium containing the poem "Otro Lamento" by Orozco y Etienne, dated 1903, and with 2 (likely..... More
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1847. 12mo, pp. 23, [1]; original printed brown wrappers; edges curled and one or two small chips, else very good. Peabody (1811-1893) was a Unitarian pastor, author, and a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy. He attended Harvard at the age of 12 and at the..... More
[Boston]: School of Nursing, Nurses Alumni Assn. 1975. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. xvi, 593; a number of illustrations throughout, primarily photographic portraits; very good, sound copy in original blue wrappers lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. More
New York: Dix & Edwards, 1855. First edition; 8vo, pp. [2], 264, 8 pages of advertisements, [2]; the advertisements include reviews for Putnam's Monthly Magazine and for the weekly literary journal, Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens; original blindstamped brown cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine; near..... More
Dublin: [publisher not identified] printed in the year, 1749. 8vo, pp. 30; stitched, as issued; title a little erose in the gutter, the whole trimmed close with partial loss to many letters but sense remains clear; good. Pigott, tricked into marriage, was obliged to pay 4,000 pounds to pay off..... More
Hartford: printed by Hudson and Goodwin, for Oliver D. and I. Cooke, 1799. First American edition, 12mo, pp. xxiv, 211, [1] ads; contemporary full calf, boards scuffed with morocco label on spine partially perished, light stain in gutter of last few leaves, else clean and sound. Mary Pilkington was primarily..... More
[Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co., 1915]. 12mo, pp. 22, [2]; pictorial self wrappers; a touch of soiling and abrasion on wrappers, else near fine. A promotional brochure for Kathleen Norris' The Story of Julia Page, in which the author of the brochure keeps encountering people from all walks of..... More
