New Castle: Delaware Bibliophiles, Oak Knoll Books, 1991. Edition limited to 200 copies, this the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy and out of series; 8vo, pp. 81, [3]; 4 mounted wood engravings, other illustrations in the text; original blue cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; fine. Forty-Four B40. More
New York: The Grolier Club, 2007. First edition limited to 1500 copies designed and printed under the direction of Luke Ives Pontifell at the Thornwillow Press; 8vo, pp. [4], 11-93, [3]; 11 tipped-in illustrations (a number in color); fine copy in original red wrappers with printed paper label on upper..... More
[United States: ca. late 1930s.]. 10-page mimeograph typescript, folio (14" x 8½"); previous fold, bottom margins dog-eared; all else very good. Beginning: "It is probable that the ememy may employ tanks against our line, and that the tanks employed by him may be stronger and capable of quick movement than..... More
[Mexico City]: 1882. Broadsheet, approx. 10" x 8", with a woodcut of the comet at the top, and on the verso a "Noticia Tristey Lamentable y Tierna Suplica que Hace un Picador" and an "Oracion Para Pedir al Senor nos Libre de la Peste." Dampstained, with tears and minor loss..... More
London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 15 Paternoster Row, n.d., [1860 or before]. 16mo, pp. [4], 137, [2]; text in double column; publisher's full limp brown morocco, triple blind-ruled borders on covers, a.e.g.; top of spine chipped, stain at the top corner of the front board, ex-St. Mary's Hall Library, with..... More
London: Nonesuch Press; New York: Lincoln MacVeagh, the Dial Press, 1924. Edition limited to 1325 copies, this no. 625 of 1250 copies on japon vellum; folio, pp. [4], 237, [5]; engraved title page, head- and tail-piece, printer's ornaments; near fine in original full gilt-stamped parchment. Printed by Frederick Hall, printed..... More
N.p., n.d. [Ohio: Sons of Veterans? ca. 1896]. Broadside, approx. 11¾" x 8½", appealing to the sons of Civil War veterans to rally behind "the brave soldier and noble American, Major Wm. McKinley, and suggesting that the sons unite into an association "to be known as the Union Veterans and..... More
London: Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press, 1900. Edition ltd. to 350 copies (100 reserved for the Rowfant Club), 8vo, (22) & 181pp., photogravure frontis, with first printings of poems by Dobson, Lang, Crewe, and Blunt; orig. quarter brown morocco rubbed and scuffed; good and sound. More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1867. 8vo, pp. 122, 6 (ads); ads also on inside and out of back wrapper; original printed wrappers; minor chips and wear; very good. Includes "Libros Espanoles," numerous dictionaries and grammars in French, Italian, Greek, German, and Hebrew; works in Latin, books on history..... More
V.p., v.d. [ca. late 1870s - 2000s]. Ranging in size from 3" x 4" to 11" x 14" with representative examples by N. L. Stebbins (28 in number), John T. Hopf (22); P. L. Sperr (11); Charles Magnus (5); Morris Rosenfeld (5); Frank H. Child (3); Hollis Burgess (3); James..... More
[West Chester, Pennsylvania]: Aralia Press, 2000. Edition limited to 1100 copies designed by Jerry Kelly; 12mo, pp. [2], 5-29, [3]; title page printed in red and black; 6 facsimiles; fine copy in original printed gray wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. More
Chicago: American Medical Association, 1925. 8vo, pp. [4], [423]-548, [6]; black and white photographs, illustrations, tables, and charts; original drab printed wrappers, spine ends chipped, edges a bit toned, general light shelf wear, interior mostly fine. Advertisements bound in front and back. Contents include "Tumors of the Pineal Body," by..... More
Chicago: American Medical Association, 1927. Large 8vo, pp. [4], [151]-284, [10]; black and white portrait plate of Emil Kraepelin, text illustrations, photographs, graphs, and diagrams; original drab printed wrappers (a bit soiled), spine ends chipped, else very good. Contents include a short obituary of the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926)..... More
Chicago: American Medical Association, 1924. Large 8vo, pp. [4], [113]-256, [6]; black and white photographs, illustrations, tables, and graphs; original drab printed wrappers, small loss to spine 1 1/2" from foot, ends chipped, edges toned, general light shelf wear; interior fine. Advertisements, mostly for sanitariums, bound in front and back..... More
Washington: Dept. of Defense, 1953-60. Thick 8vo, 9 volumes; a near fine set in orig. blue cloth. Standard reference, extensively annotated, and indispensable to anyone concerned with voyages and travels in the region. Over 50,000 entries. More
Philadelphia: Ellwood Walter, 1827. 4to, pp. 153, [1]; stab-bound with wooden slats, 3 engraved plates, including frontispiece of Merryweather Lewis reprinted from Analectic Magazine; pages toned and foxed; damp-stained throughout; edges torned and scuffed; lateral tears with minimal loss. A collection of poems, short fiction, reviews, humor, news, opinion pieces..... More
New York: The American Historical Society, Inc., n.d., [ca. 1920s]. Copy no. 1 of the Edition de Luxe limited to 10 copies, folio, pp. [10], 268; 164 plates, including 64 color armorial plates; hand-colored title page, initials and tailpieces, text printed on Japan vellum; full brown morocco with the arms..... More
Boston: printed by Chester Stebbins, 1814. First edition, 12mo, pp. vi, 112, [2]; uncut in original plain blue wrappers, spine perished, front wrap loosening. Not in OCLC or American Imprints, both of which locate a Philadelphia edition of the same year. With the1813 ownership signature on the rear flyleaf of..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Houghton Library, 1981. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 33; full page black & white illustrations; dampstain at the lower corner pervading text, else fine in original decorated wrappers. Descriptions of 63 examples of Werner's work along with illustrations of several. More
Cambridge, Mass. Printed by The Abbey Press, for the Garden Committee of the Concord Antiquarian Society, 1940. First edition, 16mo, pp. 23, [1]; includes a botanical dictionary. Fine in original printed self wrappers, with garden vignette and sewn spine. More
London: published for the proprietors, by George Virtue, [1851]. 4to, pp. xxvi, 328, xvi, viii, viii, viii, xxii; engraved frontispiece and title page; thousands of text wood engravings on the decorative arts; half tan sheep over marbled paper boards, gilt-ruled spine in six panels, title gilt direct in one, marbled..... More
New York: Hurst & Co., publishers, [1874]. Small 8vo (6¾" x 5"), pp. [3], 8-65, [3] ads; a number of small wood engravings in the text; original orange pictorial wrappers; piece torn from the upper wrapper affectintg 1 letter and part of the printed border, spine partially perished; all else..... More
[Columbus]: presented by the Friends of the Logan Elm Press and the Upper Arlington Arts Commission, 1994. Edition limited to 500 copies, oblong 8vo, pp. [40]; 30 illustrations of the 30 featured artists' books; original handmade pictorial paper wrappers; custom crimson cloth cklamshell box lettered in gilt on spine; fine..... More
Milano: Cesare Pezzini & C., ca. 1930s]. 9.5 x 15.5 cm, 10 sepia photographic postcards showing Russian art work and architecture; original embossed gray wrappers printed in gilt; mild dampstain on the fore-edge of the front cover and the first postcard; all else fine, and complete. More
Chicago: The W. H. Parish Publishing Co., 1896. 9 volumes, folio, 13 leaves of text printed on rectos only; 57 photogravure plates (some composite); original printed pictorial brown wrappers; wrappers on first and last parts slightly chipped, but in all this is a near fine, complete set. Photomechanical reproductions of..... More
