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.....
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...
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. Hardcover. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Light foxing to top edge. Slight bump to front lower spine. Silver metallic lettering to spine of black cloth-covered boards. Glossy white jacket with illustration of James. 242 pp with notes and index. Clean...
New York: Lea Pocket Scores, 1959. Paperback. Trio in E Flat Major, Op. 3; Trio in G Major, Op. 9, No. 1; Trio in D Major, Op. 9, No. 2; Trio in C Minor, Op. 9, No. 3; Trio (Serenade) in D Major, Op. 8. L.P.S. (Lea Pocket Scores) No. 99...
Washington DC: Beverly Tucker/ Government Printing Office, 1856. Hardcover. Over 400 pages of text, large foldout chart, 54 full page plates [24 of cacti]. Rebound in green library buckram, thick quarto. Spine titles fading binding clean, spine title light. Binding tight. Lacks title page, Text clean, some foxing and browning...
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...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. Half-Leather. Second Reprint (Seventeenth Thousand), issued in December 1876. Original publisher's boards with triple-ruled gilt borders, gilt roundels to front and back covers, with vignettes within -- The Bellman on front and, slightly smaller, The Beaver on back board,, though partly obliterated due to stain...
Amherst, MA: SELF-PUBLISHED, 1982. Softcover. Minor wear to edges, with minor staining to back cover. 127 pp.
Arcadia Publishing, 2006. Softcover. Book excellent shape, two mildly dogeared pages near front. Illustrated throughout with numerous images depicting the history of Paradise California, which in 2018 was devastated by wildfires. "The images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs...
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...
Biloxi, MS: Taylor Publishing Company, 1989. Hardcover. AS NEW. Still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. "Colt collectors Ken Condry and Larry Jones have collaborated on a very informative text on Colt commemorative guns produced to date. The book contains over 200 hardbound pages with a 9x7 inch photo of each commemorative...
Gelcour Books, 2012. First Printing. Hardcover. FIRST PRINTING. "A definitive study of the written and spoken legacy of the Old West icon, William H. Bonney, aka Billy The Kid, and includes pertinent period documents. 470 pp. of text, PLUS another 100 pp. of Resources, Appendices including photos of Bonney's correspondence...
Eugene, OR: John Henry Nash of the University of Oregon, 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by John Henry Nash on front endpaper. Only 350 copies of this edition have been printed. Pages untrimmed. Tidelines to front and rear boards. Slight fire damage to bottom edge. Duplicate spine label...
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket corners clipped, but original price still present on both front and rear flaps. Some minor rubbing to extremities, now protected in mylar. Book itself beautifully bound in red cloth boards, with gilt lettering to spine. Signed and...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Hardcover. 30 volume complete set of the works of Charles Dickens, bound in blue boards. Top edges gilt. Foredges and bottom edges untrimmed. Some pages uncut. Each volume measures ~ 8.5" by 5.5". Minor wear to extremities. Some minor dings to edges, and some...
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Pailthorpe, F.W. Leather-bound. LEATHERBOUND COLLECTOR'S EDITION . A portrayal of a character developing from boyhood to manhood. "The young man, the hero of the tale, is Philip Pirrip, an orphan, nicknamed Pip. The unhappiness of his childhood, under the domination of an older...
Poynette, WI: Bieler Press, N. P., 1976. Ruggie, Cathy. Paperback. LIMITED EDITION, 130/150. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on colophon. Stiff grey paper wrappers (handmade Bieler paper). Six illustrations. Unpaginated (20 pp). Nice solid copy. The salting of roads in winter as a metaphor for the evils of corporate America.
N.Y. Green Tiger Press, 1979. Cooper Edens. Sixth Printing. Trade Paperback. Beautiful pictures! Minor thumbing and edgewear.
New York: John W. Lovell Company, 1884. Hardcover. First published in 1855. Numerous text figures in black and white. Blue cloth, octavo, with spine titles in gilt and all edges gilt. Corners bumped frays to head and tail of spine. Name and date on front inside board and address sticker...
New York: Random House, 1940. STATED FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover. 8vo. 8" x 5.5". Bound in black boards with slightly faded gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Very minimal shelf wear to edges. Previous owners name to front free andpaper. Red topstain, as called for. 421 pp. Tight and affordable copy.
NEW YORK: H.C. Kinsey & Company, 1938. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover. The real mystery, of course, being just WHO was Dorothy Feilding, who wrote as A. (or as in the case of Murder in Suffolk, A.E.) Fielding. Spine-lean, color fading to spine, closed tear to cloth at top of spine.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Valenti Angelo. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited editon. Number 1112 of 1500 copies. Signed by Valenti Angelo on the colophon page. Color frontis, 8 full page illustrations. Illustrated endpapers, all pages have color illustrated text borders and margins. Full blind stamped ochre colored leather with...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Blue cloth-covered boards, ever-so-slightly cocked. Some curling and edgewear to dustjacket only. 16 pp. illustrations. Articles about all aspects of public schools, which "had a hold on Britain for close to two centuries...[and] have trained most of the men and...
New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Negligible wear to extremities. Light blue lettering on cover of black and white photo strips. Plates, pages 81 thru 213. 224 pp with acknowledgments, sources, and photobooth Sales and Rentals. Clean, bright, solidly bound. Foreword by David Haberstitch. "For anyone who...
Racine, WI: Whitman, 1934. Hardcover. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Cardboard pictorial covers are heavily worn. Now Mylar protected. Material on spine is partially unglued, creased and torn. Age-tanned. Hinges started. With over 150 pictures to color. Illustrated by author. All pages uncolored. 317 pp. Clean. Pages still...
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