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
NEW YORK: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Seventh volume of Biff Brewster Mystery Adventures series. Here, Biff Brewster rejoins his companions Kamuka and Likake to Calcutta, where he is entrusted with a majestic ruby and must fend off thugs, tigers, and even yeti. 170 pp. with black and... More
Honolulu, Hawaii: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. History of the oldest sugar plantation in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75" x .75"). Green boards, with gilt lettering. Red mark to front board. Signature of former owner to front pastedown, himself a descendant of William Hooper... More
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co. 1898. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Bright green cloth-covered boards with handsome, ornate embossed graphic (black, gold and light green) to front board and spine, with gilt and black lettering. Light shelfwear to extremities with one bumped corner. Black endpapers. Bookplate of second owner to front... More
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Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. xiii+418 pages. Index. 102 photos. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Gray cloth with spine illustration. Light edgewear and corners a bit nudged, textblock square. llustrated endpapers. Some soiling to edges, text clean, binding tight. Factual account with emphasis on... More
Seattle: Shorey Book Store, 1967. Paperback. 26 pages. Facsimile reproduction of an extract from the 1906 Smithsonian Report. Map in rear pocket, 3 pages of photo reproductions. Illustrated stiff wraps, staplebound. More
New York and London, England: E.P. Dutton and J.M. Dent, 1900. Vellum. 216 pages, notes, appendix, index. Frontis, five plates. Translated from the Greek by Meric Casavbon and edited with an introduction and appendix by W.H.D. Rouse. Vellum over boards with gilt illustration on front, full gilt spine. Octavo. Corners... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 434 pages. Frontis, 24 illustrations. Foldout color map of West Indies at rear. Endpaper maps. Red cloth, octavo. Spine titles in gilt. Corners bumped, edgewear, spine dulled. Some foxing to front edge, foxing to glassine protector for frontis, toning to... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. Smith, E. Boyd. Hardcover. Previous owner's name to FFEP. Corners lightly bumped, slight rubbing to corners and spine caps. Tiny tears to worn and folded under spine caps. Mild shelfwear with a slight and gentle 4" line impression across rear board. A 0.5" closed tear to... 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
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. 367 pages, index. Frontis of author, 14 photos. Burgundy cloth with titles in gilt on cover and spine. Corners nudged , textbock square, cover bright. In nice bright color illustrated dust jacket with a touch of edgewear. Jacket is in a mylar protector. Endpaper... More
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1980. Tauss, Herb. Limited Edition. Leather_bound. FINE. Light rub to upper text edge. This Franklin Library Limited edition is bound in mulberry-red colored genuine leather with elegant 22-karat gold accents. Gilt lettering on classic hubbed spines of four raised bands dividing five panels. All edges... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1903. Hardcover. Fifth in the series of The Friendship Booklets. 23 pp. Measures 7.25" x 5". Lovely design to front board, of gilt, navy blue and a cerulean blue. A tiny bit of corner wear and some minor smudging -- looks like it sat on... 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
Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1940. Hardcover. 78 pages. Color illustrated throughout, illustrated endpapers. Color illustrated boards, large octavo. Spine titles in green. Corners bumped, soiling to spine and borders. Tear to front endpaper, smudge to half-title page, pages lightly toned but supple. Binding sound. Includes: Snow White's Friends, The... More
Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 2003. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards in photograpic dust jacket each in new looking condition apart from very minor scuffing at top front edge of dj. Tight, clean and attractive binding and text. No price clipping, underlining or other marking. Protected in clear mylar cover. A thorough... More
New York: Dutton, 1961. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover. First American edition. Translated from the German by Mervyn Savill. 370 pages. Index. 56 illustrations, text maps. Black cloth with spine title in red. Interior clean and bright with some light soiling to edges. Covers are tight and square with sharp corners... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923. Hardcover. PRIVATELY OWNED. NO DUSTJACKET. Vol. I, three corners bumped. Frontis by Emory Walker, Wedding Mask of Sir Henry Unton, with tissue overlay. Vol. II, all corners bumped. Frontis from the engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar in Dugdale's, St. Paul's 1658. Two additional illustrations. Five pp, uncut... More
England: Helion & Company, Ltd. 2010. Hardcover. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page, 194/1000. Crisp gilt lettering on spine of pine-green boards. Red and green lettering to glossy tan pictorial jacket. Illustrations, maps. 9.5 x .6.5". 410 pp with appendices, bibliography and index. Advertisements to rear of book... More
Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1994. STATED FIRST EDITION. Paperback. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR: "Be Well, Michael H. Cooper, 4/95" 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
Havana, Cuba: Cuban Official Tourist Commission, 1111. Staplebound. Original tourist promotion pamphlet . 8" x 7.75" Front cover shows shoreline, traffic, pedestrians, and buildings along the Malecon. Cars look like Twentieth-Century Teens/Twenties. Minor soiling, corner creasing and areas of old tidelining. Black and white photos. 24 pp. More
Lakemont, GA: CSA Press, 1976. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to preliminary endpaper. Dustjacket is semi-attached to book due to the red dye of boards to bleed onto white jacket. Black and white photographs. Brick-red, cloth-covered boards. 202 pp with glossary. Clean, tight, bright. "An exposition of the philosophy behind the... More
London, England: G. Morrish, 1849. ROSE CITY BOOK FAIR 2018. Date is approximately 1849, based on what could be pieced together from LIBRARY TAPE OVER BOARDS Denny studied much on the subject of prophecy and wrote much on the topic. Assisted by his friend John Jewell Penstone he prepared a number of... More
