Ludwigshafen A. Rhein: Badische Anilin & Soda-Fabrik. Hardcover. Small Quarto. (9 1/2 in. x 6 3/4 in.). Navy blue boards with yellow lettering. A water spill has put a wave into most of the pages. 28 glossy normal pages, followed by 35 full pages on thick cardstock, 20 of which..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. Elizabeth Orton Jones. First Edition. Hardcover. Beige cloth-covered boards with turquoise lettering and graphic of angel-child to front board. No lettering to spine of book. No Caldecott medal to dustjacket and $1.50 price present. Deep, teal endpapers with rubbing from one small erasure of..... More
Hartford, Connecticut: Park Publishing Co. (Geo. M. Rewell & Co., Cleveland, O.; J.S. Goodman & Co., Chicago, Ill; Phillips & Hunt, San Francisco, Cal.), 1882. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Frontis engraving of Frederick Douglass by Augustus Robin. Original reddish-brown stamped cloth. Neatly rebacked with sympathetic cloth, with a (cut-out) title..... More
Venice, Italy: Apud Nicolaum Pezzana (Nicolo Pezzana), 1720. Leather-bound. LATIN NEW TESTAMENT. 12mo. 13 CM. 5 in. x 3 in. Worn vellum, with spine mostly gone. First few pages detached but present. 616 pp. This is a beat-up but cool, 300-year old Catholic bible. Currently only one copy of this..... More
London, England: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, brown cloth, double-ruled in blind, with stamped design-in-blind to top and bottom of both boards, and a gilt vignette to front. A little shelfwear and rubbing, slight spine lean, but clean and tight. Dark-green clay-based endpapers. Small bookseller's ticket..... More
London, England: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. First Edition. Leather-bound. Octavo. Half leather over yellow and black tartan-designed boards, ruled in gilt chain. Four raised bands to spine with elaborate filigree to each. Rubbing to extremities. Slight separation to front hinge and two inches of rear, but not..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, Navy blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine. . Text clean and bright. Beautifully illustrated in color. 157 pp. plus advertising at rear. Tolkien's illustrated letters from Father Christmas sent to his children. This revised edition contains much new material..... More
New York: Hyperion, 1995. STATED FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Octavo. Black over dark-grey boards. Dustjacket depicts Nimoy as Nimoy on front panel, and as Spock on back panel. Boldly Signed and inscribed by Leonard Nimoy on front free endpaper. Numerous black and white photos of Nimoy, including some of Leonard Nimoy..... More
Paris: Chez Daniel Horthemels, [1687] 1688. Cornelis Vermeulin. Second Edition. Leather-bound. In French: NOTE: LACKS TITLE PAGE (probably because it was a banned book (Index Librorum Prohibitorum), and like other such books throughout history, it was dangerous to be found with the "wrong" book, bible, etc. Published in Leyden in..... More
London, England: Printed for G. Robinson, 1807 - 1809. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 3/4 in. x 5 1/2 in.). Black leather over red textured cloth over boards, half-bound with dark green leather. Rubbing to extremities. Front board gilt along boards, and elagorate gilt vignettes within (unhubbed) spine compartments. Pumpkin orange..... More
Chicago, Illinois: Playboy Press, 1965. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Black cloth over boards, with silver "LB" to front board, and silver titling to spine. Thin line of sunning to very top and bottom of book's spine. Several corners nudged. Bright and tight. Moderate shelfwear to dustjacket (now protected in..... More
New York: Avon Book Company, 1947. Softcover. A magazine format publication (7 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in.),card covers, quite worn, with a shallow 1/2 in. edge tear extending throughout the first 89 pages, shelfwear, yellowed but still supple pages. Previous owner's stamp (from Hawaii, which might explain it's rougher..... More
New York, New York: Western and Company, 1870. Volume II (Numbers 1 - 12). Bound periodical in hard covers. Black, loose-leaf covers (13 in. x 9 3/4 in.), blind-stamped binder., Binding loose, with some detached (but present) pages, and center-of-the-page closed tears to few pages towards the rear. The 12..... More
Tokyo, Boston, Singapore: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1998. Stated First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. Fine condition, unread. 280 pp. including Notes and Bibliography. A wee bit of shelfwear and very minor smudging to edges, but overall, tight and bright. Quite scarce. First book in English on a woman Haiku poet. "Chiyo-ni..... More
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Gutenberg Publishing Company, 1936. Spiral_bound. NOTE: MISSING ONE (WEEK'S) PAGE: Printed self-wrapper, (28 x 19 cm.), with attached, undeployed, die-cut, cardboard display stand. Black plastic comb binding. MISSING one leaf, April 18 to 24th, an illustration by Walter DuBois Richards. Spiral-bound calendar with a print for..... More
San Francisco, CA: Sandra Kirshenbaum, 1975-1990. Numerous. Magazine. Near Complete Run of this signature publication on the book arts. 63 (out of 64 published) issues, unbound, all in very good or better condition. MISSING only one issue, Volume 5, No.1). Most near fine to fine. Includes scarce "final issue" --..... More
London, England: J.M. Dent & Co., 1909. Hardcover. Quarto. Light green, cloth-covered boards with elaborate gilt designs to front board and spine. Decorated endpapers, with previous owner's (New Zealand) name and address, in pencil, to top right of front free endpaper. Rubbing to extremities, and general shelfwear, with several closed..... More
Boston: T. & J.Fleet, 1777. Pamphlet. 12mo. Later marbled paper wraps. 38 pp. Clean,near fine copy. 38, [2] p. Handwritten on the half title (itself entitled "Mr. French's Sermon Against Extortion" is Mr. French's inscription: "The Gift of the Revd Author to J Winth" (with the rest of the name..... More
San Francisco, CA: Survey of Federal Archives Works Projects Administration, 1941. Softcover. Quarto. Card covers. Title (dates, esp.) on card covers differ from those on title page. Card cover title reads: "Ship Registers Port of Eureka California 1864 to 1940. Card front cover creased. Maps, Charts, Glossary, Entries, Index. 167..... More
Brooklyn, New York: Traditional Press, Inc., 1985. Hardcover. Octavo. Blue pebbled cloth over boards, with bright gilt lettering to spine. A bit of scuffing to dustjacket only. Chapters include (but are not limited to) Rabbi Twerski's views on The Value of Memories; Raised in My Father's Home; On Spirituality; Self-Perspective;..... More
