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
Harper and Brothers, 1863. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover. Handsome, dark brown octavos, original tooled cloth with embossed figure of Japanese Dragon on each volume's front board. Striking gilt, almost copper-like lettering to tooled spine. A bit of shelf-rubbing to several corners and to spine caps, more on Vol. II. All..... More
New York: A.L. Burt, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. 313 pages plus eight pages of publisher ads. Frontis, two plates. Illustrated green cloth with cover titles in red and red and gilt decorations on cover and spine. Corners bumped with edgewear and some wear along spine fold. Some wear to top... More
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very minor rubbing to extremities, residue from price tag on back board. Tightly bound. An account of bookmobiles from someone who worked in one. 380 pp. In-depth look at all-aspects of bookmobile use by libraries. Even though written in 1990, much relevant information still applies. More
The Book Club of California, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. The Book Club of California. 1955. Limited edition of 350 copies. 79 pages, frontis map. Printed at the Allen Press, Kentfield, handset on Bulmer type and printed in two colors on Rives paper from France. White spine over gray boards with... 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
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Very mild edgewear to boards with the exception of a .625" dent to front board near fore-edge. Spinecaps very gently folded under. A faint 1.5" curved mark to lower fore-edge. White and red lettering to spine and front of pewter colored boards. A 6... More
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Honolulu, Hawaii: DeGroat Publishing, 1923. 5th. Signed in ink "Aloha, Don Blanding". 1923. Stated Fifth Edition. Bound in tan grass weave binding. Paperback copy with the front wrap attached to the grass weave with two cutouts for the Title and also Don Blanding's name to show through. Thus, the front... More
New York: Cochrane Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 128 pages. Red cloth with titles in gilt on cover and spine. octavo. Some fading to cover and spine, titles bright. Gift inscription in a neat hand dated Dec. 25, 1911 on front endpaper along with a christmas stamp affixed to... More
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St. Louis: Zeus, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed and dated by the author on the front endpaper to a fellow combatant. There are also ten other signatures [four who have identified themselves as being in A Company, which fought at Sadzot] on front inside board and front endpapers. 240... More
Santa Monica, California: Lagoon Video (Distributor), 1987. Cassette. Edited by French filmmaker Barbet Schroeder and Paul Challacombe. Two VHS videotapes, 2-hours each, with a total of 52 short intereviews, Edited from 64 hours of footage, over the three-year period during which Charles Bukowski was writing the screenplay for the autobiographical... 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: 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
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Unpaginated. 126 photos, some double page. Folio with covers designed by Henri Matisse with his distinctive cut-outs in black, green and blue. Lower corners bumped, wear at head and tail of spine and ding at top inside corner... More
Barcelona, Spain: Centre De Recherche Pour Le Developpment Culturel, 1989. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Catalogue of a 1989 traveling exposition featuring 16 American-Hispanic artists which were exhibited in Paris, Nantes, Stockholm and Barcelona. Editorial commentary in four languages: Spanish, Catalan, English and French. Most of the artists come from the North... 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
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... More
Cleveland: Lakeside Press, 1920. Hardcover. LIMITED EDITION 35/100. Extensive inscription to front free endpaper (Corlett's friend Henry J. Bohn, called "the king of the hotel press") BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper -- TOP EDGE GILT. Front hinges starting. Moderately scuffed and stained boards. Edges and corners worn and spine... More
London: Aldus Books, 1972. Hardcover. VERY HEAVY!! FINE set of volumes. Dustjackets near fine. Very slight wear along edges, a few very tiny creases to DJ spine edges. DJ flaps taped to endpapers, sometimes sticking to free endpaper as well. A light smudge about three inches long to bottom edge... More
Athens: Ohio University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 344 pages, notes, index. Frontis photo of Stuck, Brown cloth, octavo. Address stamp on front endaper, nice bright copy, dust jacket has some light wear. Comprehensive biography of the missionary adventurer and champion of the indigenous people of Alaska. More
