London, England: J. Debrett, 18-2. Fourth edition. Leather-bound. Square Quarto, in contemporary spotted calf, with some evidence of past reinforcement. Lighter spine with simple paper label, and compartments ruled in (now faded) gilt. Bookplate of Bayard Tuckerman Jr., to front pastedown, and inscription to front free endpaper reading: "Richard Morrtimer..... More
New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1962. Paperback. Softcover, black printing on blue green paper. Some sunning and rubbng to extremities. Corners nudged. Bump and small closed tear at top of spine. 421 pp. and 28 b+w plates. Volume 49: Part 2 of the Anthropological Papers of the..... More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1947. Paperback. Soft covers, dark blue text on blue-green paper. 10 1/2" x 7 3/4". Corners bumped, irregularly shaped 1" chip to lower spine, some sunning. Stamps on cover from Wyoming Hist-Geol Society Wilkes Barre PA. 420 pp. Reading copies only. Volume 40..... More
New York: Beginner Books (Random House), 1960. Dr. Seuss. Early Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Very clean bright illustrated boards. Some minor rubbing to extremities, top corner nudged. Some very light toning to pastedowns and endpapers. NOT A FIRST EDITION, does not have an actual "50 word vocabulary" STICKER on jacket. This..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1906. Mar, Alice and Edwin Willard Deming. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 8' x 10", Sand colored cloth with embossed design and titles in orange and sky-blue. Cover also features pictorial paste-down depicting a Native-American child doing beadwork. 48 pp. "...with four full-page color-plates after..... More
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1980-1986. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavos. Five volume set, brown paper-covered boards and white cloth spines. All volumes are solidly bound with square corners and clean edges. No writing or damage inside. All five volumes have clean, bright dust jackets. A few small flaws..... More
Milwaukee, WI: Harley-Davidson Motor Co., 1973. Paperback. Large paperback, 8 1/2" x 11". Orange and white paper covers. Some marks and dings to cover, edges thumbed, some tiny dog-ears, front hinge just starting. Part no. 99484-74. Old price inked to upper right corner of cover ($13.95). 201 pp. The maintenance..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Brown cloth-covered boards with faded gilt titles to cover and spine. Edges rubbed and lightly foxed. Front hinge just starting. Rear hinge just starting, mull showing through. 189 pp. A history (c.1916) of business and financial panics in the United..... More
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Paperback. Octavo, Binding solid, corners nudged, some rubbing to extremities. 352 pp. Only occasional underlining, but not at all obtrusive. "...the first in-depth critical appraisal in English of the political, legal and cultural writings of Carl Schmitt, perhaps this century's most brilliant critic of..... More
unknown: unknown, unknown. Hardcover. LACKS TITLE AND COPYRIGHT PAGES. Octavo. Half-bound leather over pebbled cloth, ruled in gilt. Four raised bands and gilt titles on spine. Previous owner's name inside. Rubbing to extremities. One inch closed tear to pp. 77-78. Scattered, light foxing throughout. 502pp, with drawings/ maps. Although missing..... More
Iowa Falls, Iowa: World Bible Publishers, 1998. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. Bright, clean boards illustrated with a stylized design of African cloth and lettering in burgundy, red, tan, green and black. Binding is solid and all edges clean and unmarked. Burgundy silk ribbon marker sewn in. Names of two previous owners..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover. Octavo. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Binding is clean, square and tight. Beautiful dust jacket features white and gold lettering and is illustrated with Tolkien's drawing of a dragon on front and his black line drawing of..... More
Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. All edges clean and unmarked. Binding square and solid with no bumps or dings. Dust jacket illustrated with sepia-tone photo of Tyree Bell. Dust jacket bright and clean. 346 pp. A..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1959. Paperback. Small trade paperback, 6 5/8" x 4 3/4". Very slight rubbing to extremities, small 1/4" closed tears to spine top and bottom. Cover features bright full color illustration of Mosconi set up to sink the number 2 ball. 144pp. An instructional book by..... More
Chicago, IL: The Lakeside Press (R.R. Donnelley), 1930. Edw. A. Wilson. First Thus. Hardcover. Quarto. One of one thousand copies printed. Blue cloth over beige spine, with gilt designs to front board and spine. Light rubbing to extremities, and some sunning to spine. With illustrations by Edward A. Wilson.This particular..... More
Hartford, Connecticut: Silas Andrus, 1829. Revised Edition. Leather-bound. Full contemporary leather, lacking spine. (8 1/2" x 5 5/8"). Boards detached, and the text block nearly so as well. The entire narrative present. 9opperplate engravings,including frontis. 261 pp. plus 10 pp. Appendix which offers "Observations on the winds, currents, &c." Formally..... More
London, England: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with bright silver lettering to spine. Corners nudged and bottom of spine bumped, but solid. Toning and previous owner's inked inscription to front free endpaper. Edgewear and cracking to dust jacket extremities. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1979. Shel Silverstein. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. Brilliant and pioneering collection "Uncle Shelby Silverstein's cartoon-takes on human relationships. Most noteworthy are his cartoons depicting male-female dynamics, and one which demonstrates how racism and even hatred is passed down from generation to generation. Jacket..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 2015. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Blue and brown cloth-covered boards. Very small shelf bump to bottom edge, and a tiny spot to bottom of front board. Author's signature to title page. "...Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these..... More
Blantyre, Nyasaland: Central Africa District Committee of the London Missionary Society, 1954. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with black lettering to front. 6 5/8" x 4 3/8". Back pocket or vest pocket size. The very well-known Zambian hymnal consisting of "western hymns translated into Zambian ciBemba language". A collection..... More
