Medallic Art Company: np, 1919. Hardcover. Obverse shows a winged female holding a sword (Victory) with a radiant sun behind, with the words "Vixit Vixit Vixit" [he has lived, in the present and future]; reverse is a scroll (topped by an eagle) with "In Memory of One Who Died in..... More
London, 1776. Eight engraved plates, 11 x 9, full tree calf, 322 pp, covers a bit rubbed with a couple of spots, extremities bumped, tiny holes at top and bottom of spine, hinges loose, old bookplate (Essex Historical Society), prelims missing, top margin of title page missing, pp toned and..... More
Oxford University Press: NY, nd. 7.25 x 5, full limp leather, aeg, 1087 pp + Concordance + index + maps, covers heavily worn, extremities bumped and badly fraying, hinges cracked, contents (especially endpapers) badly waterstained, pp creased, a poor, loose copy of the Red Letter Edition of the King James..... More
Chez Henri Tardieu: Paris an X, 1802. 2 volumes in one. With 122 of 123 full page engraved plates, oblong 6 x 8.25, full leather, 149 pp, covers very worn, spine cover missing, covers detached, front cover split in two vertically with portion missing, extremities bumped and chipping, pp detached..... More
Typographia Balleoniana: Venetiis [Venice], 1741. Hardcover. Two full page illus., title vignette, 8 x 5", highly gilt decorated red leather; aeg, 453pp + index, covers rubbed and lightly scratched, extremities bumped and worn, spine quite worn and lightly chipped at ends, front outer hinge worn, endpapers toned, light marginal foxing..... More
(Johann Gutenberg: Mainz), (1455). One sheet of watermarked paper, 15.5 x 11", with two columns of 42 lines each, printed in black Gothic letter, in black with red and blue, one brown spot (about 1" in diameter) over one column (front and back), some worming in one margin, old glue..... More
Shawnee, OK, April, 1900. Five pp carbon copy, 13 x 8.5, metal clasps at top, with light blue paper backer, wrinkles at bottom of first page, folds, paper toned, some staining and edgewear to blue paper backer else a nice item. SIGNED (with mark) BY THOMAS ROCK (President of Committee)..... More
4.75x4.75x2", top and bottom cuts original, a couple of chunks out at corners else v.g. with darkened barss plaque with Presidential seal affixed to one face. Removed during the Truman renovation of the White House of 1950, probably base of column, or flooring, about 5 pounds of history! Would look..... More
P. Byrne, Grafton-Street: Dublin, 1794. Hardcover. A few have illus., 8.5 x 5.5", marbled boards, leather spine and corners, raised bands with gilt dec., leather spine label with gilt lettering, pagination varies. Covers worn, soiled, scuffed/scraped, replacement spine label, spine and corners missing small pieces, outer/inner hinges cracked and archivally..... More
Marquette, 1866. Paperback. 10 x 8", unlined paper, small embossing in one corner (a church building?). Fold creases, soiling, staining else good. "You request me to send you some Indian prayer-books; but your Indians are all Otawas and I have not one Otawa book left...Next year a new Otawa edition..... More
The Company of Stationers: London 1820. 5.25x3", full period reddish-brown straight-grain morocco, decoratively ruled gilt, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, ink name, bookplate, piece of preliminary page cut out, shows some wear but an attractive copy. WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING BEING A VIEW..... More
Paris (1956). B/w illus, 14.5 x 10.5", pict boards, spine defective, covers very worn (esp at edges), contents very loose, eps soiled, spotted & stained, ffep wrinkled, title page a touch soiled. MISSING ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS!!! (except for cover) BUT BOLDLY INSCRIBED & SIGNED TWICE BY MARC CHAGALL (ONCE IN..... More
The Nonesuch Press: UK, 1928. Hardcover. Illus. by Sandro Botticelli, 12.25 x 8.25", gilt-dec orange vellum; teg, 325pp in double columns, extremities worn, covers a little soiled, eps toned else a nice, clean copy with some mild warping to the covers. LIMITED TO 1475 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #1296)..... More
Frederick A. Stokes Co: NY, 1937. Illustr by Dr. Seuss, 7.5 x 5, pict orange cloth, 96 pp, covers a bit worn, extremities bumped, hinges loose, contents toned, last page spotted, else a decent copy in a badly edge torn and edge chipped, worn and soiled, and darkened (but scarce)..... More
Washington, D.C., 1882. Paperback. Lined paper, 12.5 x 8", stapled at top, three leaves (six pages) written on front and back, notary blindstamp of Charles S. Drury. Folded in four parts, the bottom part (all leaves) has become detached along the fold line but barely affects the handwriting and does..... More
Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith: NY, (1930). 7.5 x 5", FINELY BOUND IN TWO-TONE LEATHER WITH LEATHER INSET VULTURE ON FRONT COVER; raised bands, original front cover, spine and portion of rear cover bound-in, 254pp, covers a bit rubbed, extremities bumped, hinges loose, textblock a bit used with some stray finger..... More
Christian Scientist Publ.: Boston, 1875. Hardcover. 8 x 5", newly rebacked leather spine with cloth covers, 456pp + 2pp errata, minor pencil marks on text, pp beginning to brown, some corners chipped. Still a good copy of the FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Textblock tight. "Few manuscripts have had a more..... More
Denonvilliers: Paris. 1837. 17.5 x 12, half leather, 50 pp, 109 plates, green morocco over green cloth boards, moderately worn, front hinge cracked, 2 inch crack to head of front joint, ink owner's name, very sound, early printing. More
Chez-Buisson: Paris, 1792. Hardcover. 2 vols. 8 x 5", early leather backed marbled boards, 366pp; 509pp with "Table Des Chapitres", covers quite worn, corners chpping, leather spines crackling, outer hinges starting, bottom of spines chipped, some light staining/soiling to covers, old auction description tipped-in to front of volume one, inner..... More
Harper & Brothers: NY, (1956). Hardcover. 8.5 x 6", two-tone cloth, 266pp with index, spine ends bumped, extremities worn, textblock edges toned, but still a pretty nice copy in a rubbed, edge-torn, soiled dustjacket with some minor chipping to spine ends. FIRST EDITION (stated, "M-E"), FIRST PRINTING, INSCRIBED "To Governor..... More
J.B. Lippincott: Philadelphia, (1960). Hardcover. 8.25 x 5.5", green cloth backed boards, 296pp, spine ends lightly bumped else a nice, clean copy in a rubbed and extremity-worn dustjacket with a hint of moisture at bottom of rear panel. Ninth Impression in an Eighth Printing Dustjacket, but INSCRIBED "To Marian Osmond..... More
Libri Tres: Holmiae, 1651. Hardcover. Fancy extra engraved title, 5 x 2.5", old vellum, 288pp, ffep torn, ink name on title, ink inscrption, ink underlining in the preface else good. "A Treatise Of Maritime Affairs And Commerce". FIRST EDITION. More
Grove Press: NY, (1965). Hardcover. 9 x 6", gilt-lettered cloth, 455pp, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and fraying, EX-LIBRARY with pocket rudely torn out front from fly leaving a large chunk of the page missing and large abrasion; old brown glue/tape stains to top and bottom of front and rear pastedowns/free..... More
Doubleday, Page & Co: Garden City, NY, 1912. 12 volumes. 10 x 7, custom highly gilt-decorated (in floral motif) red morocco, with green gilt decorated leather inserts inside front covers, with silk endpapers, teg, vp, covers a bit rubbed, spines lightly sunned, one volume with tiny chip from top of..... More
Victor Gollancz: London, 1935. Hardcover. 7.25 x 5", black cloth, 318pp, covers well worn, extremities bumped and fraying, spine a little cocked, pp toned with some textblock spotting/soiling, half-title page quite spotted with dark staining to top margin; still a decent copy of the FIRST EDITION (NAP). More