Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1898. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Bright green cloth-covered boards with handsome, ornate embossed graphic (black, gold and light green) to front board and spine, with gilt and black lettering. Light shelfwear to extremities with one bumped corner. Black endpapers. Bookplate of second owner to front..... More
France: Temps Actuels, 1981. Hardcover. In French. Tome 1: De l'Algerie des origines a l'insurrection; LE TORRENT SOUTERRAIN par Henri Alleg; LES OCCASIONS PERDUES par Henri-J. Douzon. 602 pages; Tome 2: Des promesses de paix a la guerre ouverte; L'INCENDIE par Pierre Haudiquet; A LA RECHERCHE DU DERNIER QUART D'HEURE..... More
Richard D. Bentley and Son, 1895. Hardcover. Recollections of life in the mail-coaching world. Handsomely rebound at some point in three-quarter vellum, ruled in gilt, over original sage-green boards. Contrasting olive spine label with gilt lettering. More
Bend, Oregon: Maverick Publications, 1992. HARDCOVER. First Edition. Chapters on The establishment of the Wallowa County Schools, Academies, Wallowa County School Superintendents, Teachers' Institutes, Wallowa County High School, Schools of Wallowa County, followed by an extensive bibliography, a key to illustrations, maps and an index. Tons of photos. Three corners..... More
Leipzig, Germany: Otto Vigand, 1866. Paperback. In German /In der Deutschen. Unbound, or as yet-to-be bound. 521 pp. Wear to simple paper covers. Occasional neat bracketing appears on about 15 scattered pages throughout. Very scarce. Adolf Bastian was one of the giants of what we have come to call "Anthropology"..... More
LONDON: Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Hans Holbein. Hardcover. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITIONSmall Quartos, measuring 10 1/4" x 6 1/2" (26.035 cm x 16.51 cm). First volume Number 241 out of 750 copies. Many pages uncut. Front board pattern darkened and rubbing and wear to corners. Second volume lacks limitation number, and is..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Very mild edgewear to boards with the exception of a .625" dent to front board near fore-edge. Spinecaps very gently folded under. A faint 1.5" curved mark to lower fore-edge. White and red lettering to spine and front of pewter colored boards. A 6..... More
Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1866. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Leatherbound . Rubbing and leather abrasion to edges and corners. Cracking and peeling to spine. Front hinge partially detached, and rear loose. Can be professionally repaired. Ask us for quote. "Splendidly Illustrated with over 100 Fine Portraits and Beautiful Engravings", of which..... More
Santa Monica, California: Lagoon Video (Distributor), 1987. Cassette. Edited by French filmmaker Barbet Schroeder and Paul Challacombe. Two VHS videotapes, 2-hours each, with a total of 52 short interviews, Edited from 64 hours of footage, over the three-year period during which Charles Bukowski was writing the screenplay for the autobiographical..... More
Holborn, England: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1868. Paperback. Pages uncut and untrimmed. Original blue paper covers,Fading and wear to spine. Front paper cover VERY chipped and DETACHED. Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode of London. Paperback Original. At time of publication, the Indexes to Patents were..... 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
London: Hurst Blackett Publishers, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Each of the three volumes in rich, full calf, ruled in gilt, decorated spines, with contrasting brown and red volume and title labels. Midnight blue endpapers, top edges bright gilt, and pastedowns bordered with gilt inside dentelles. Some rubbing, minor chipping and..... More
Paris, France: Bachelin - Deflorenne, [1864] 1872. Henri Leon Curmier. Second Edition. Leather_bound. IN FRENCH. Three magnificent quartos, measuring 11 3/8" x 8 3/4". contemporary brown tooled morocco, sectioned and ruled in blind, five raised hubs (six compartments), gilt edge, royal blue watered silk doublures. Elaborate gilt dentelles to insides..... 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: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1899. Hardcover. Gilt lettering to spine and front of cranberry-red, cloth-covered boards. Front hinges started. Moderate wear to extremities. Worn corners nudged and/or bumped. Mild scuffing. There is a 1" scratch to front cover and a very thin crease the full width of rear..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1900. Hardcover. This is the rather scarce large paper edition of this offering in the famous Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes -- copy 233 out of only 250 printed. 462 pp., including index. Handsome recent hree-quarter bound blue-black leather over pumpkin boards, with handsome..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1937. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Oversized hardback (4to) in orange cloth, with gilt-stamped lettering. 233 pages; numerous B&W/sepia-toned photos. Clean, solid, unmarked; corners lightly bumped; pages browning slightly. DJ in mylar; slightly edgeworn, browning; 1-inch chip missing at tope edge. More
NEW YORK: H.C. Kinsey & Company, 1938. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover. The real mystery, of course, being just WHO was Dorothy Feilding, who wrote as A. (or as in the case of Murder in Suffolk, A.E.) Fielding. Spine-lean, color fading to spine, closed tear to cloth at top of spine..... More
Honolulu, HI: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992. Hardcover. FINE. Dustjacket Fine. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of dark blue cloth-covered boards. Serene painting of the Islands on glossy dustjacket. 285 pp with notes, glossary of Hawaiian terms and index. Clean, bright, tight. Beautiful book! A beautiful collection of paintings, prints..... More
Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, 1929. Hardcover. IN FRENCH. Moderate rubbing to spine and board edges. Spine caps with 3, .25" or smaller open tears to top and bottom. Bottom spine cap, 3/8" x .25" open tear. Corners bumped. Front hinge professionally reinforced. Faded gilt top edge. Foxing to front and..... More
Pristina, KOSOVO: Zeri, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. A bit of creasing and curlng to corner of rear cover, and previous eight pages. Translated from the Albanian by Engjellushe Morina. 191 pp. Photographs. Signed Only (no inscription) "Ramush Haradinaj" on front free endpaper. Corners bumped and creased. Softcover original. A book-length..... More
New York: Bonanza Books (Crown Publishers), 1940. Later printing. HARDCOVER. THIS BOOK IS T-H-E BIBLE OF THE COLT --with history, lore, photographs (nearly 500!) and diagrams. 711 pp., Nearly six pounds without slipcase! Everything you wanted to know about Samuel Colt's innovation and its successors, period. Very light rubbing to..... More
Philadelphia, PA: The Penn Publishing Company, 1939. Hunt, Lynn Bodue. Hardcover. Third printing. Extensively-illustrated volume chronicles the author's duck-hunting expeditions to the wheat fields of Alberta, the Baltic Sea, the Mississippi, the Rio Grande, Romania, the plains of Hungary, the land of Montezuma, more. The author is himself a conservationist..... More
CHICAGO, ILL: Laird & Lee, 1904. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. "A Text-book for Students Apprentices Artisans Engineers", sections on static and current electricity, batteries, measuring instruments, direct and alternating current machinery, transformers, converters, power stations, electric railways, telegraph, electric light, telephone, wireless telegraphy, electroplating, X-rays, radium, etc. Includes 150 black and..... More
NEW YORK: D. Appleton and Company, 1859. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. Important collection of annals and letters relating to the (Independent) Republic of Texas by its late President, who committed suicide after he was twice not chosen to represent Texas in the Senate, at Washington, D.C. First edition with photo frontis..... More
