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
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
London, England: Printed for J. Almon facing Burlington-street, Picadilly, 1774. Leather-bound. Sometimes attributed to Joseph Cawthorne. Samuel Adams was a member of the committee, appointed to prepare evidence in support of the petition; the article was originally published in the Journal of The House. NOTE: Roman numeral date in book..... More
New York: William Wood &Company, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark olive clothover boards with debossed design/lettering to front and rear boards, and gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing and bumping to extremities, but very solidly bound. Number 40 in Wood's Lilbrary of Standard Medical Authors. One chromo-lithograph plate and 88..... More
Boston, Mass: Beacon Press, 1876. Hardcover. Rose City Book Fair. More
New York: Wycil & Company, 1906. Hardcover. 71 pages. Frontis, four plates, text drawings. Illustrated tan cloth depicting a fly fisherman at work. Titles in black, nice illustration of a trout on rear board. 12mo. Corners sharp, textblock square. Spine darkened, cover bright. Interior clean, no marks. Binding tight. A..... More
New York: Editions Medicina Rara, 1971. Limited Edition. Leather_bound. One of 300 facsimile copies of the original 1697 London edition. 109 pages, numerous illustrations. Full brown pebbled leather (but unnumbered) with gilt rules, spine titles and decorations in gilt. Two minor scratches to front cover, otherwise fine copy. Limited Edition..... More
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Florence, Italy: Giulio Giannini & Son, 1926. Hardcover. 93 pages. Frontis, 24 full page illustrations which apply to the poems. Specially bound with three small leather bands with cover title decorated and illuminated by hand in an illuminated design in a Renaissance motif. Chip and small tear along top corner..... More
Los Angeles, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8 Poems by Charles Bukowski: Solid State Marty; Interviews; Face of a Political Candidate on a Street Billboard; Yankee Doodle; Blue Moon, Oh Bleweeww Moooon How I Adore You!; Nothing Is As Effective As Defeat; Success; Africa, Paris, Greece. Faint..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. FIRST EDITION. Staplebound Pamphlet. Printed February 1984 as a New Year's Greeting for the friends of the Black Sparow Press. Staple-bound in yellow paper-covered boards measuring 6" x x 4 ". Double title page. 6 unpaginated leaves, printed in black, pink and green across..... 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
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
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Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed "For Miss Rosemary Street with compliments from Charnwood." xx,232 pages, index. Frontis photo of Roosevelt. Red cloth with embossed cameo design, titles in gilt, octavo. Corners bumped, minor edgewear, textblock square and tight. Note: Rosemary Street was the daughter..... More
Portland, OR: Salmon Trout Steelheader, 1978. Jeff Dayne. Second Printing. Hardcover. 4to. 11" x 8.25". Bound in green boards with silver lettering to spine and front cover. Minor foxing to page edges, and light rubbing to dustjacket. DJ now protected in mylar. Contains numerous black and white photographs of fishermen..... 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
Camarillo, CA: Davenport's Art Reference, 1994. Hardcover. NINTH EDITION. 1977 / 78 Edition. A - J, Vol. I, K - Z, Vol. 2. Minor smudging, rubbing and soiling to extremities. Lower spine caps creased. Blue lettering on spines and front of white boards. 175,000 Artists. Each letter section page numbered..... More
Paris, France: Paul Ollendorff, 1896. FIRST EDITION. Leather_bound. Essentially, a Slang-French/French-Slang Dictionary. Preface by Jean Rechepin. Half-bound calf over lovely marbled boards, with non-pareil-style marbling to endpapers. Book measures approximately 9" x 5.75". Rubbing and crazing to leather, particularly to joings and spine with a .25" tear at top of..... More
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..... More
New York: D. A. P. / Distributed Art Publishers, 2005. Hardcover. FINE. Black lettering to spine of crimson, cloth-covered boards. Black and white lettering to red jacket. Black and white pictorial endpapers. Numerous black and white illustrations. Includes twelve essays. 308 pp with notes, contributors, index and photographic credits. Clean..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Doubleday, Page and Co. New York, 1911. 512 pages. Light tan cloth with four color crest embossed on front cover. Cover has some light smudging and mild rubbing to extremities. Very good copy. Originally published as a series of newspaper articles for..... More
New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. 9.5" x 5.75". Minor rubing to edges, with a few faint stains to endpapers, and minor creasing to front pastedown. Illustrated with diagrams, charts and photos. Dust jacket chipped at corners, closed tear at top front of dj, with shelf wear to..... More
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New York: Cassell & Company, Ltd, ND (Ca. 188). Hardcover. No date [circa 1888] Translated from the German by Clara Bell. With an introduction and notes by S. Birch. Two volumes: xxiv, 314+xxii, 388 pages. Frontis to each volume, illustrated throughout with engraved images in the text and some full..... More
Scranton, PA: International Textbook Company, 192O. Hardcover. Red text edges. Sunning to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Gilt lettering and/or design within six panels divided by five, double-gilt rules, similar to raised bands. Red cloth-covered spine and corners on green cloth covered boards. Green and gilt marbled endpapers. Numerous illustrations/figures. Pages..... More
