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
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979. Hardcover. Top and fore-edges lightly foxed. A few lines of small neat penned notes to RPDEP. Dustjacket very good plus. Mild wear to jacket edges and flap folds and soft crease to upper rear panet. Scuffing to inside back flaps borders. One tiny puncture... More
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1978. Plotkin, Barnett. First Edition. Leather_bound. FINE. This limited First Edition Society volume is bound in rich brown full leather with gilt decorations on both front and rear boards. The classic hubbed spines of three raised bands have gilt text and decorations stamped in the... 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
Bend, Oregon: Maverick Publications, 1992. HARDCOVER. First Edition. Chapters on The establishment of the Wallowa County Schools, Academies, Wallowa County School Superintendents, Teachers' Institutes, Wallowa County High School, Schools of Wallowa County, followed by an extensive bibliography, a key to illustrations, maps and an index. Tons of photos. Three corners... More
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., 1944. John R. Neill. Later Printing. Hardcover. Black and white illustrations in this1935-or-later publication. Ownership page bears penciled name of previous owner, dated November 1944. Light blue pastedown to front board. Just a bit of wear to the corners, and chipping to front-board pastedown. Nice... More
Chicago, IL: Reilly & Lee Co., [1920] 1964. John R. Neill. Reprint. Hardcover. One of the "White Edition" reprints, with black and white illustrations only. Large crease at top of spine. Slight fanning to pages, some mildly dog-eared. More
CHICAGO: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1923. John R. Neill. Hardcover. Later printing of L. Frank Baum's delightful adventure of the stuffed patchwork girl who comes to life. Blue cloth boards; verso of half-title page lists titles through The Cowardly Lion of Oz. Vignette on spine of Woozy holding a fountain... More
San Francisco, CA: Boothby's World Drinks, Co., 1934. Fourth Edition. Paperback. Yellow paperback depicts a mail and female hands holding driniks, against a backdrop of a glove. Book contains a massive amount of information about mixing drinks within., as its author was one of the prime "Mixologists" of his or... More
Manchester, Connecticut: Precision Shooting, Inc., 1997. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Bookplate from previous owner (a noted gunsmith) neatly affixed to front free endpaper. Just a bit of shelfwear to dustjacket. 668 pp. Collectively written by the columnists and contributing writers of Precision Shooting Magazine. A few (but not all of the)... 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 mylar protector. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, in brick-red, cloth-covered boards, with contrasting (black) square, lettered in red, to front board and spine. Bright copy with just a bit of light rubbing to extremities at spine caps and corner, two of which are bumped, but not... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap. Hardcover. Reprint, circa 1950's. Illustrated grey cloth depicting Tarzan riding an elephant in the jungle. Octavo. Illustrated endpapers, nice clean copy in bright color illustrated dust jacket with the Zane Grey listings on the back. Jacket has a 1/8 inch chip at top of spine... More
New York: Delacorte, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. No markings. Gentle spine lean. Slight raised ridge down length of spine. A slight ripple to gutter of approximately last 20 pages. Dustjacket very good. Light sunning to spine, light scuffing to jacket. Dime-sized taped repair to bottom spine. A couple... More
Detroit: F.B. Dickerson Company, 1901. Hardcover. 865 pages. Frontis of Chase, 6 illustrations in red. Brown pebbled illustrated cloth, thick octavo. Corners bumped, spine titles and illustration bright. Cover a little faded. Binding sound. Interior clean, some light spotting to front edge. Alvin Wood Chase [1817-1885] was born in New... More
Yosemite Valley, California: Self Published, 1904. Chris. Jorgensen. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (7" x 5"). Light brown cloth-covered boards, with dark brown design, and letting to front board, and title/author to spine. Photo frontis by Taber of author. Presentation copy ("Presented to ______by the Author, Jan. 27, 1905") to front... More
San Diego, CA: Green Tiger Press, 1988. Sabuda, Robert. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Light spotting, (foxing?) to half-title page. Gilt lettering to spine of steel-blue, cloth covered boards. Color illustrated paste-on title label to front. Bronze-color endpapers. Gilt rules border each page. Linoleum-cut block illustrations. Unpaginated (30 pp). Clean, tight, bright... More
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1893. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Lacks fourth (map) volume. Green cloth with spine tites in gilt. Covers bright, Usual slight bumps to bottom of spines from shelving and also slight bumping to corners as usual. Previous owner's name to front pastedown of two volumes and front... More
London, England: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. Hardcover. 64mo (2.5" x 2.25") Violet boards (front board faded), bound with original violet cord. Paste-on to front board showing a little green-clad Brownie seated atop a toadstool. Color frontis depicting the Brownie named Nimble-te-Hop (who had been asked to the Brownie's Ball, due... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. Vedder, Simon Harmon. Hardcover. Mild shelfwear. Small bump to rear top corner, 3 corners nudged. Age-tanning. Untrimmed fore-edge. Front hinges just starting. Brown, cloth-covered boards, the color and feel of fine leather. Gilt lettering to spine and front. Pictorial illustration and columns on red... More
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1981. Paperback. First paperback edition. "These records consolidate the work which Crowley initiated in Cefalu and explore more deeply the various techniques of cabbalistic and sexual magic as well as his contact with the Arab magic of North Africa". 251 pp. Light rubbing to extremities. More
Chicago, IL: Libby, McNeill & Libby, 1935. Map. 19 3/4" x 15" poster, folded. In original mailing envelope, postmarked Chicago with a .01 stamp, but with no return address from Libby, McNeill. Issued by the powdered milk concern Libby, McNeill & Libby in exchange for saved-up labels. Six lead figurines... More
New York: Herman W. Lefkowitz, Inc., 1933. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. A racially-based post-earth-holocaust fantasy novel. Very tight, clean copy with some discoloration to rear board. No markings. Very tight binding. More
New York: Morrisania, 1863. First Edition. Leather. viii, 156 pages, index. Large foldout color tinted map of Stony Point. Numerous full page engravings, three facsimile letters from 1779. Dark green leather with spine titles in gilt, gilt ruled borders to covers. Corners chafted, chafing along outer cover fold, textblock square... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1984. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. Light scuffs to rear board. Frontispiece reproduction British Library MS. Cotton Vitellius C III, f. 74. Gilt lettering to spine and front of chestnut-brown, cloth-covered boards. Society's device to front board. Thin in-blind rules border front and rear board. 403 pp with... More
