Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Brick red textured cloth. Slight depression to spine. Structurally very sound. Previous owner's printed name to front free endpaper. 298 pp. After an introduction to the nature and habits of the Grizzly, stories include (but are not limited to): "The Grizzly..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. xii,387 pages. Bibliography, index. Blue cloth with spine titles in gilt. Corners sharp, textblock square. Very light stain at bottom front 6-inch vertical slice to dust jacket .Some edgewear Jacket is in a mylar protector. Interior clean and bright. Previous owner's..... More
Dublin, Ireland: Boulter Grierson, 1766. Leather-bound. 8vo. Full leather, worn at extremities, with a small area of peeling to corner of front board. Six raised bands/seven compartments. Paper browned around edges. frontispiece etching, and one other at conclusion of 45 pp. preface. Overall, clean copy.. Dublin edition. 436pp. Publius Terentius..... More
Salem, Massachusetts: Vol. I Printed by Thomas C. Cushing; Vol. II Printed by Manning and Loring: [Both] for Thomas and Andrews, No. 45, Newbury-Street, Boston. 1795. Third Edition. Leather-bound. Matching half calf over catspaw marbled boards, ruled in blind. Boards detached. Six compartments to spine, ruled in gilt. Second compartments read..... More
Antwerp: Henry Loe, 1578. First English. Pamphlet. INCOMPLETE: First English edition, published in Antwerp in 1578. Removed. FOURTH PART ONLY. This first [English] edition of the translation was printed in folio at Antwerp, in order to secure the woodcuts of the original and thus was printed from the original woodcuts..... More
Washington DC: Office of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters, 1993. Paperbacks. Privately-owned. A tiny bit of rubbing to spines and front panel, a hint of thumbing to front panels, and a very small stain to bottom edge of Volume III. Dates printed on front covers, respectively, are August 4th..... More
New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1856. Hardcover. 8vo. Custom painted upon what appears to be a black, lacquered hard board. Black leather spine. All edges gilt. A gift book -- most likely a reissue of "The Masonic Offering, a Gift for All Seasons" (1854) intended for members of the Masons..... More
Tampico, Tamps., Mexico: Atascador Land Company (Printed by Maverick-Clarke Litho Co., San. Antonio, Texas), 1910. Pamphlet. Folio, paper, staplebound, 9" x 7". 32 unnumbered pages. Several pages detached but present. A promotional booklet for "Atascador: The American Farmer's Opportunity", offering large lots of arable land (cleared jungle), in 50-acre minimum..... More
Chicago, IL: Christy's Trades School, 1949. Sturdily bound in black clamp binder with gilt desgn and lettering. , measuring 11' X 6 3/4" X 3 1/2". Loaded with hundreds of photographs, diagrams, schematics. The correspondence school frequently took out advertising in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines. Includes: Practical Basic Electricity;..... More
Chicago, IL: Saul Brothers, 1917. Hardcover. Staplebound cardstock, oblong [10.4x7.3 inches] with titles in black with red design. Some wear to spine and light edgewear. Binding sound. Previous owner's name in pencil on front endpaper, otherwise clean and bright. 45 pages. Nice frontis color tinted photograph of "Slovak Couple in..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. Grey boards with green, gilt and beige vignette of Confederate stripes surrounded by wreath with gilt background, to front board. Beige rule to borders broken in part, and some spotting to boards, as well as rubbing to extremities..... More
New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1930. Softcover. Small folios, measuring 8 3/4" x 7 1/2". Flexible, black pebbled covers, most volumes separating felt-lined covers from text block due to gluing that has outlived its ability to hold the cheaply constructed books together. Each roughly about 100 unnumbered pages..... More
Weimar: Industrie-Comptoir, 1805. Jacob Xaver Schmuzer. Print. Hand colored copper-plate engraving from vo. 5, no. 43 of Bilderbuch für Kinde (Children's Picture Book). Single leaf, 9 1/2" x 7 1/2." Moderate toning and foxing on lightly tanned paper. Binders glue residue on edge. Excellent impression and bright coloring. The stark..... More
London. Blackwood. 1864. Leather-bound. Rare first edition. Ex libris (markings to binding only) 454pp. Front board detached but present. Missing the map. Full contemporary mottled calf with gilt chain borders some wear, rebacked with spine laid down, marbled edges and endpapers. New Zealand General Assembly Library gilt stamped on front..... More
London, England: Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1719, 1719. Second Edition. Pamphlet. Removed from a book of pamphlets. Leather remnants on spine. Edges neatly trimmed. Octavo, 7 1/2" x 4 3/4" pp. [2], 38. Small ink inscription "x" on top left corner. Pages lightly tanned..... More
Virginia: 64th U.S. ARMY ENGINEERING BATTALION, Circa 1944. Poster. Three informational (propaganda) posters in a series, comprising 4009-1; 4009-2; and 4009-7, each measuring approximately 17 1/2" x 11 1/2". Each of the three shows a central fold crease, and one shows considerable smudging or perhaps dry mold; each is now..... More
Mysore: The Mysore University, 1931. Hardcover. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6"). Brown cloth, ruled in blind, with gilt lettering to front and spine. Rubbing and bumping to extremities, but solidly bound. 43 illustrations (mostly photographs). VOLUME IV covers The Kotte Okkalu through the Vodda. 677 pp. Among other prestigious positions, the..... More
Mysore: The Mysore University, 1930. Hardcover. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6"). Burgundy cloth, ruled in blind, with bright gilt lettering to front and spine. Front hinge just started, echoed by 3-inch tear along gutter to two leaves -- front free endpaper and frontis, but still solidly bound, except for a...... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1878. Second Edition. Pamphlet. Removed from a book of pamphlets. Edges neatly trimmed. Octavo, 8 3/4" x 5 3/4." pp. 69, [2]. Pages very clean and supple. Exceedingly rare in this edition. WorldCat can locate only one copy, American historian and cofounder of Cornell..... More
Cleveland, Ohio; Sheldon and Company: John P. Jewett and Company, 1859. Wrappers. Original paper wrappers to front and spine only, heavily browned, chipped at spine. Octavo, 9" x 5 3/4." pp. viii, 278. Corners bumped. Illustrated title-page to front wrapper and first leaf. Missing last leaf. Modern paper ex libris..... More
