1935. Leather-bound. This is an actual white leather baby shoe, not a book. SIGNATURES Amelia Earhart Roscoe Turner; Frank Hawks (aka ?Meteor Man?); (Later-to-become Admiral) R.E. Byrd (VERY faint, above bottom seam, down and to the left of Earhart?s signature) Shoe is nested in a decorative, hinged, wooden box, with..... More
St. Louis, Missouri: The Drygoodsman, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (9.50" x 6.25"). Brick-Red cloth-covered boards with black, embossed border to front board, and black lettering as well. On cover, title reads: "The Drygoodsman's Handy Dictionary for the Dry Goods and Shoe Trade". Corners bumped. Discolorations/stains to boards and in..... More
Berkeley, Ca: University of California Press, 1944. Hardcover. Quarto, red boards, rubbing and some shelfwear but very solidly bound. Previous owner's address sticker to rear pastedown. Six glossy black and white plates, and nine figures in text. 355 pages. Articles include: 1) New Aspects of the Menon Painter by H.R.W...... More
Tokyo: Daito Art Printing, Co., Ltd., 1959. Hardcover. Light sunning to spine. Black lettering on spine and gilt and black graphics with number 16 on front of red cloth boards. Color and black and white photographs. Fold-out photograph page precedes p 277. 282 pp. Clean, bright, tight. Photgraphic cruise book..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Geo. B. Evans, 1860. Hardcover. ca. 1860. 8vo. Brown stamped cloth with stamped design of two assailants attacking a traveler on the road to front and rear boards, a be-hatted frontiersman holding a musket to the spine (in faded gilt, as to lettering as well) Including the color..... More
Chicago, IL: A.T. French / Souvenir Publishing . Company, 1898. Hardcover. Fo. 15.75" x 11.5". Bound in green cloth boards, with illustration of U.S. Navy ship to front board. Contains over 150 original illustrations in black and white, as well as numerous maps in color. Also contains Historical, Military, Naval..... More
New York: Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1988. Hardcover. Lightly cocked covers. A tiny bump to volume 1 front upper corner, and a tiny scuff mark to its front board. Crisp gilt lettering to spines and front boards, deep maroon cloth-covered boards. Many illustrations, photographs, charts, and graphs. Very clean, bright, tight. Sharp..... More
Leipzig, Germany: Otto Vigand, 1866. Paperback. In German /In der Deutschen. Unbound, or as yet-to-be bound. 521 pp. Wear to simple paper covers. Occasional neat bracketing appears on about 15 scattered pages throughout. Very scarce. Adolf Bastian was one of the giants of what we have come to call "Anthropology"..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1900. Hardcover. This is the rather scarce large paper edition of this offering in the famous Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes -- copy 233 out of only 250 printed. 462 pp., including index. Handsome recent hree-quarter bound blue-black leather over pumpkin boards, with handsome..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto, bright green boards, with the slightest rubbing extremities. One corner ever-so-gently "nudged". Prevous owner's name to front pastedown, as well as small bookplate. Narrow stain to dustjacket, and a 1.5" closed tear to rear panel. $3.50 price to unclipped jacket..... More
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St. Louis: Zeus, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. First editon. Inscribed, signed and dated by the author on the front endpaper. 240 pages, bibliography. Red cloth, octavo. The author fought at Sadzot and provides a first hand account. Well researched. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket in a...... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1893. First Edition. Leather_bound. 606 pp. and 664 pp., (451 pp. text, 77 p. consisting of 9 appendices, and 36 p. index.) Custom deluxe binding Three-quarter light-brown French levant morocco over beige, linen cloth boards. Matching linen endpapers. Top edge gilt. Gilt lettering to spine. Five raised..... More
London: Edward Arnold, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. x,443 pages plus 16 page publisher catalogue. Color frontis, three color plates, 34 plates, 18 maps. Red cloth with titles in gilt on cover and spine. Thick octavo. Corners bumped, titles bright, textblock square. Wear to top and bottom of spine. Top edge..... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Foxing throughout but does not obstruct text or images. Sunning to spines. Some rubbing to edges and corners. Some corners worn through to cardboard. Hinges barely starting, Vol I & II. Top edges gilt. 72 color plates with tissue guards. Vols..... More
New York: Conde Nast Publications, 1977. Paperback. First Appearance of Orson Scott Card's seminal sci-fi classic, then in novelette form -- 34 pp. Later expanded into novel which garnered prestigious awards (Hugo and Nebula) spawned sequels, and occupies a solid and honored place in the classics of the genre. Minor..... More
London: Macmillan, 1891. John Tenniel. Hardcover. Stated People's Edition, twenty-fourth thousand. With 42 illustrations by John Tenniel including full page frontis. 174 pages of text, followed by "An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves "Alice.", the poem "Christmas Greetings [From a Fairy to a Child]", three pages of publisher..... More
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1988. STATED FIRST EDITION. Leather-bound. "Limited first edition, privately printed and personally signed by Raymond Carver, exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society". Maroon leather-covered boards with carnelian trim, ruled in blind, bordering a magnificent gilt sun motif filling the entire surface area..... More
The Manufacturers, 1930. HARDCOVER. Many Photographs. Very good cloth cover, near fine catalogues within. Contains 2 catalogues: American Pressed Steel Products (Pulleys, Hand Trucks,etc.);Whitman-Barnes Detroit Corporation This 7.5" x 5.5" hardbound book contains several gorgeous catalogues in near mint condition. Beautiful lithographs of pulleys, handtrucks, drill bits, saw blades, etc...... More
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New York: William Morrow, 1959. Second Edition. Hardcover. Volume I: ix,597 pages. Frontis of Jackson, 13 text maps. Volume II: viii,536 pages. Appendices, references, index. Frontis of Jackson, 21 text maps. Red cloth with spine titles in gilt. Octavos. Interiors and covers bright, no marks or blemishes. Housed in publisher's..... More
Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First American edition in first state binding. Orange boards with blue graphic to front board, blue . lettering to spine. Slight rubbing to extremities. One small corner nudge to bottom rear corner. Bright and bold Dustjacket design by Boris..... More
Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1911. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Orange7.25" X 4 5/16". Orange cloth with green and black graphic to front board. Wear to extremities and some soiling to boards. Hinge just started opposite title page, but very solidly bound. 99 pp. including index. "...The writer has..... More
Livingston, Montana USA: Clark City Press, [1976]1990. First Thus. Hardcover. Quarto. Reissue of original 1976 Doubleday publication, but re-edited and expanded to include more than seventy photographs of the great fishermen and rivers of the West Coast, from San Francisco, north to British Columbia. Off-white cloth-covered boards with one or..... More
Cambridge, U.S.A. Privately Printed At The University Press, 1912. Hardcover. Lovely early, assumed first edition of this title, in deep burgundy-red boards with gilt titles to front and spine. Privately printed. Boards and textblock bright, clean and tight with the slightest hint of wear at board corners, but no bumping..... More
St. Paul, Minnesota: Pioneer Press Company, 1890. Leather_bound. Complete two volume set. Volume 1 published 1890 and volume 2 published 1893. xii,844 + 652 pages. Index to each volume. Half-leather over marbled boards, gilt spine titles, thick quartos. Both volumes have chafed corners, edgewear and scuffed boards. Spine to volume..... More
![SUGAR TRAINS PICTORIAL [SIGNED COPY]. Jesse C. Conde](/pictures/thumb/74735.jpg?v=1516055305)
Felton, California: Glenwood, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1,000 copies with this being number 796. Signed by the author. 191 pages. Color frontis, eleven maps, 416 photographs. Black cloth wih titles in gilt. Corners square, titles bright. Quarto.Textblock square, binding tight. In color illustrated dust jacket with some light..... More
