Book Guild: Sussex, England 1977. 9.5 x 6.5", cloth, 243pp, illus, appendices, index, ink gift inscription to front free end paper else near fine in near fine dw. First edition. More about SILENTLY INTO THE MIDST OF THINGS: 177 Squadron Royal Air Force in Burma, 1943-1945, History and...
Detroit Public Library: Detroit. 1922. 9.5 x 7, cloth, 86 pp, index, lightly soiled bookplate, signed gift presentation by Gracie B. Krum, former director of the Burton Historical Collection, vg. FIRST ED. More about CORPORATION FOR THE TOWN OF DETROIT: Act of Incorporation and Journal of the Board of Trustees,...
Privately printed: Detroit. 1915. 9 x 6, cloth, 314 pp, index, blue cloth with gilt titled red morocco spine label, signed gift presentation by Gracie B. Krum, former director of the Burton Historical Collection, issued without jacket, FIRST ED. More about GOVERNOR AND JUDGES JOURNAL: Proceedings of the Land Board of Detroit
Forest Press: NY 1909. 10 x 7.5", cloth, 76pp, frontispiece, 19 tipped-in plates, laid papter, moderate wear, ink gift inscription. More about THE ART OF DWIGHT W. TRYON: An Appreciation
Schober & Co.: Detroit, 1876. 9.25 x 6", cloth, 606pp with index, covers worn and soiled, extremities bumped and fraying, spine sunned, hinges loose, inner hinges cracking, ink signature of former owner on front blank, pp toned and a bit used with some foredge soiling. Included is a short, one... More about Outlines of the Political History of Michigan
D. Appleton and Co.: NY, 1912. Hardcover. Illus. by Charles Dana Gibson, 7.5 x 5", gilt-lettered red cloth, 441pp, covers a bit rubbed and darkened, spine ends bumped, extremities lightly fraying, hinges loose, end papers unevenly toned, long gift inscription from former owner (Christmas presentation, 1914) on ffep, pp edge-toned... More about THE STREETS OF ASCALON
np (Paris), nd (c, 1845). 28 engraved views of Paris, oblong 10.5 x 13, gilt stamped embossed red boards, covers heavily rubbed and soiled, extremities bumped and frayed, hinges loose, bookplate of famed collector Otto Orren Fisher, ink gift presentation inscription dated Oct. 1857, eps foxed with small stain at... More about COLLECTION DE 26 [sic] VUES DE PARIS Prises au Daguerreotype, Prises en Taille Douce sur Acier
Seely, Jackson & Halliday: London, 1882. Illus., 7.25 x 5.25", full gilt-dec leather, 266pp, covers worn with extremity wear, spine sunned, hinges loose, pp toned and spotted at ends, PRIZE BINDING FROM THE WHITGIFT MIDDLE SCHOOL, with emblem on front cover, but with gift bookplate covered inside front cover. Handsome decorative binding. More about STORIES FROM VIRGIL
F. W. Robinson: Philadelphia 1879. Illus by author, 12 x 9.25", dec cloth, unpaged, aeg, stain on title & following page, inner front hinge badly broken, gift inscription from 1883, covers heavily worn, extremities frayed. More about THE RAG FAIR AND OTHER REVERIES
McLoughlin Brothers: NY, 1905. 12 x 10, hardcover, chromolitho plates, cloth backed pict boards, edges worn, scattered smudging or foxing to plates, ink gift inscription, hinges sound, good second or early printing. More about BROWNIE YEAR BOOK
Century: NY, 1904. 10 x 8, hardcover, 144 pp, well illustr papered pictorial boards, heavily worn, ink gift inscription, free endpapers roughly torn out, hinges tape repaired, case loose, poor, reading copy only. FIRST ED. More about THE BROWNIES IN THE PHILIPPINES
Doubleday: NY, 1933. 12 x 9, cloth backed boards, fully illustrated in polychrome and monotone, pictorial boards, a couple short closed tears to jacket, ink gift inscription to half title page, else a very nice attractive copy, vg in vg jacket. Early printing. More about OLA AND BLAKKEN AND LINE, SINE, TRINE
Metheun: London, 1936. 7.5 x 5, cloth, 93 pp, frontispiece, 35 diagrams, small stain and moderate soiling to price-clipped jacket, ink gift inscription to front free end paper, vg in good jacket. FIRST ED. More about IMPROVE YOUR SNOOKER
Paris, 1962. One page, 8.25 x 5.25, fold else nice. De Havilland writes to a regular correspondent (Don Miller) regarding his Christmas card to her, and her travels to Paris; also mentions five months in the US shooting "A Gift of Time" with Henry Fonda (". . . a magnificent... More about Typed Letter Signed by Olivia de Havilland, September 3, 1962
Mack, Andrus, and Woodruff: Ithaca, 1840. 9.5 x 5", full leather, red leather spine label, 41pp. Covers very well worn, rubbed, etc., front cover detached, gift inscription, contents foxed else good condition, text block tight. More about A TREATISE ON THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND TOWN OFFICERS IN THE STATE OF...
Rosenbaum & Hart: Berlin 1911. 7.5 x 5.5", cloth, 234pp, decorated yellow cloth, moderately soiled, internally clean & tight, ink gift inscription from Dr. Oskar Emden to Baron von Reitzenstein, noted German cultural historian & sexual ethnologist, a few library markings form the Reichsinstitut fur Geschichte des neuen Deutschland Bibliothek... More about WIR SUCHEN MENSCHEN! [We Seek Men
Edizioni Mela Verde: Turin, Italy. 1975. 9 x 6, softcover, 40 pp, b&w illustr, French text, index, vg in vg jacket, lengthy signed personal gift inscription by artist. FIRST ED, LIMITED 1000 cc. More about JEAN LAMOUROUX
np, nd. 8.5 x 5.5", gilt-lettered pebbled black cloth, unpaginated, covers a bit rubbed, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, end paper unevenly toned (from old newspaper clipping included). Inside the front cover is a long list of gift inscriptions (in ink and pencil) from friends or relatives; essentially, a.... More about Everything You Need to Know About Dominoes
Saalfield: Akron, OH, 1916. 7.5 x 5, 246 pp, frontispiece by F. Schwankovsky, Jr. Black, red and blue decorated gray boards, jacket heavily chipped, ink gift inscription, hinges sound vg in fair jacket. Early printing. More about SHELLED BY AN UNSEEN FOE, World's War Series, volume 8
Harry N. Abrams: NY, 1956. 11 x 9, hardcover, well illustr, white printed black cloth with gilt titled mylar jacket, top edge foxed, ink gift inscription to front end paper otherwise a clean, square copy. FIRST ED. More about PICASSO FOR VOLLARD
(Detroit) (1924). Small vignette drawings; tipped-in frontis, 8 x 5.5", boards, unpaged, covers soiled & slightly stained. Christmas gift book SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Poem about lotus beds in the River Raisin and Lake Erie. More about THE LEGEND OF THE LOTUS
C.H.A.B. Publications: Brussels. 1996. 9.5 zx 7, softcover, 100 pp, well illustr, appendices, bib, cloth backed wrappers with dust jacket, lengthy gift inscription by author, vg. Second ed., SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. More about PRINCE CAMILLE DE POLIGNAC, Major General, CSA: "The Lafayette of the South."
National Historical Association: Dayton, OH, 1924. 10 x 7, cloth, 1064 pp, 623 pp, illustr, end notes, index, orig blue buckram, ink gift inscription volume 2, vg FIRST ED. More about HISTORIC MICHIGAN, Also Local History of Detroit and Wayne County, 3 volumes
The Century Co: NY, 1896. 7.75 x 5", gilt-dec and gilt-lettered blue cloth, 212pp, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, pp toned with some light staining to bottom edges of some pp, else a decent copy of this fairly controversial book: "At Saint Judas's" may well be the... More about The Puppet-Booth: Twelve Plays
Salvatore Sciascia: Rome 1985. 11 x 9.5", cloth, 109pp, 100 color & b/w plates, bib, Italian text, gift inscription in ink, withdrawn stamp to rear end paper otherwise vg in vg dw. First edition. More about REMO BRINDISI: Opere 1958/1984