London, England: J. Eedes, Newgate Street, Ca. 1827. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9 1/4" x 5 3/4". Recent marbled paper sides. NOTE: LACKS ORIGINAL TITLE PAGE, all publication info is but educated conjecture. Appears to be bound with incorrect title page ("The Sailor's Chronicle, or Interesting Narratives of Shipwrecks", by Anonymous..... More
London: Printed for William Sheeres, 1641. First Edition. Leather-bound. 12mo. 7" x 5 1/2'. 118 pp (lacking frontispiece portrait and the final blank leaf). Scarlet crushed morocco A lovely rebinding in scarlet crushed morocco by renowned London binders Sangorski and Sutcliffe (signed in gilt on front turn-in), single-ruled in gilt..... More
London, England: Peter Cole, Printer and Bookseller at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1662. Leather-bound. 8vo. Contemporary brown calf crudely reinforced on the spine with maroon diced leather. 1662 Date in black letters to front board. Manuscript label to spine. Several grayish-blue flecks to..... More
Cincinnati: U.P. James, [1847] 1854? Later printing. Softcover. 4to. (9 1/4" x 5 3/4"). Original illustrated reddish- wraps. India paper. Minor age-tanning and staining/tideline throughout, and marginal spotting. viii +144 pages. With price of twenty-five cents printed at the top of front wrap. 13 illustrations. Text in double columns. Howes..... More
London. for Capt. Wilson by G. Nicol, 1788. Stated Second Edition. Leather-bound. 4to. Rebacked in handsome half- leather over (extant) marbled paper sides. Gilt decorated spine with contrasting red spine label, & gilt lettering. Front hinge showing, but binding very solid. 16 full page plates or maps, incl frontis, folding..... More
Boston, Mass: State-Press / Adams and Larkin (Printers to the General Court), 1795. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio..13 3/4" x 8". Volume I only, of one ever published -- despite the "Vol I" in the title) Bound in original blue paper-covered cardboard boards, as issued. Original covers detached but present, rear nearly..... More
San Francisco, CA: The Wasp Publishing Co., 1886. Paperback. Magazine, stitched. ; 13.50" x 10". First page partially torn along fold. The Wasp (also known as The Illustrated Wasp), The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp, The Wasp News-Letter and the San Francisco News-Letter Wasp) was "an American satirical magazine" published from 1876..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Macrae Smith Company, 1932. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo (7" x 4.5").xi, half-title, 49pp., blank. Bright silver boards with red shaker and cocktail glass design and red lettering to front board. Very light bump along fore-edge, around 2.5" down. Several very small splash-stains to last three pages, and..... More
