np (Samarkand?), nd (c 1800s). 8.5 x 5, later floral-print boards, 129 leaves of thick, waxy paper with two columns of 15 lines each, manuscript poetry in Persian in black and gilt, with gilt, green and blue borders, 11 bright color miniatures depicting people (many with halos of flame) and... More about 19th Century Illuminated Manuscript Book with 11 Miniatures
American Samoa, 1920. 3.5 x 5.5". One photo removed from an album. Pencil notes (relating to the image) on the back of a few photos/postcards, a handful of the postcards have postmarks (one of which has soiling on the reverse), slight curling else very good condition. A couple of duplicates... More about Group of ninety five original photographs and real photo postcards of American Samoa
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 about THE HOLY BIBLE, RED LETTER EDITION, Signed by Henry Ford, Presented (Allegedly) to George...
np (London?), nd (c. 1330). Hardcover. 5.5 x 3.25", later limp vellum, 98 vellum leaves plus two blanks plus later front endpaper, pages numbered at bottom at a later date starting at "1" (though there is some concern that the first leaf is missing), some fading to ink but largely... More about MAGNA CARTA IN MANUSCRIPT
Harry N. Abrams: NY, (1977). Hardcover. Illus., 12 x 9", black cloth, 258pp with index, spine ends a little bumped else a nice, clean copy in a yellowed and rubbed dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING OF A SNAKE, INSCRIBED "Pour Anne & Peter, cordialement..." AND SIGNED "Alechinsky" BY... More about PIERRE ALECHINSKY By the Artist
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 about A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID, FITTED TO THE TUNES USED IN CHURCHES
Macmillan and Co.: London, 1922. Hardcover. Illus. by John Tenniel, 7 x 5", full leather; aeg, 183pp + pp, covers lightly rubbed, pp a little toned, a few pp with lightly bent bottom forecorners, spine lightly sunned else a nice copy. SIGNED BINDING BY RIVIERE & SON, DECORATIVE DYED PICTORIAL... More about ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
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 about VERVE, Revue Artistique et Litteraire. Directeur Teriade. Volume VIII Nos 3-4 (Chagall's...
Charles Scribner's Sons: NY, 1931. Hardcover. Maps, 9.5 x 6.75", blue cloth, 866pp with index, covers quite worn, spine toned, hinges loose, pp toned. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, INSCRIBED "Inscribed by...for Veronica Hutchinson Feb 1932" AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. More about THE WORLD CRISIS
Little, Brown and Co.: Boston, 1945. 8 x 5.5", red cloth, 417pp, covers heavily rubbed, extremities stained, bumped and fraying, hinges loose, pp (esp. endpapers) toned, some brown spotting to foredge of textblock; a rather worn and loose copy in a rubbed, torn, wrinkled, tape-repaired and darkened dustjacket. FIRST AMERICAN... More about THE DAWN OF LIBERATION, War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill
Dodd, Mead: NY (1975). 9 x 6", boards, 314pp, school library handstamp on fep, top edge lightly spotted else ok in slightly stained & torn & frayed dw. FIRST EDITION. Scarce. More about ICEBERG
Bradbury & Evans: London 1846. Illus by George Cruikshank, 8.5 x 5.25", 3/4 red leather; marbled boards, 311pp, pronounced chip out of spine title, top of spine torn, covers well rubbed, hinges loose, plates spotted with offset to text. "A New Edition, Revised and Corrected". FIRST SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. More about THE ADVENTURES OF OLIVER TWIST
Harrison Smith and Robert Haas: NY 1934. 7.5 x 5", cloth, 371pp, couple minor pencil notes, ink name, spine darkened, in edge-chipped dw with chip at top of back panel with cello-tape repair, minor edge tears, spine darkened, some wrinkling. FIRST EDITION. More about DOCTOR MARTINO
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Coward-McCann: NY, 1928. Hardcover. Illus., oblong 10 x 7", pict boards, unpaginated, minor extremity wear else a nice, clean copy in an extremity-worn slipcase. LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES (this one #105) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Missing the called-for original wood-engraving signed by the author, though. More about MILLIONS OF CATS [limited, signed edition
Harper & Row: NY (1968). 8.5 x 5.75", cloth backed boards, 170pp, minor extremity wear else vg in dw with minor wear to edges. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (w/"5.95 & Jerry Bauer photo). More about NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL and Other Stories
Printed for the Author at the Artists Press: London 1906. 94 plates; 102 text illu, 13.25 x 10.5", elaborate blind-tooled oasis morocco, ribbed spine with wooden boards and engraved clasps, teg, subscribers' list, a bit worn with scribbled-out name on fep. LIMITED TO 270 NUMBERED COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER. More about MONUMENTA PULVERIS PYRII, Reproductions of Ancient Pictures Concerning the History of Gunpowder,...
Ticknor, Reid and Fields: Boston 1850. 7 x 4.5", later 3/4 red leather by Brentano's, top edge gilt; marbled end papers, 322pp, small ding in spine, erasure on fep, title worn & soiled with spotting that continues next few pp, pp321-322 in facsimile, minor text spotting, lacks publisher's list, new... More about THE SCARLET LETTER, A Romance
(Embassy 1966). 17 x 14", goache & ink on Head's illustration paper, light soiling/smudging, light creasing near corners, paper removed from a sketchbook. Sketches show Elke as "Kay Bergdahl" wearin different syles of evening attire, each bears Heads' costume notations in heavy grease pencil: "Kay #4 Cocoanut Grove scene 111"... More about TWO ORIGINAL COSTUME SKETCHES OF ELKE SOMMER FOR "THE OSCAR"
J.B. Lippincott: Philadelphia, (1920). 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 about TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Methuen & Co.: London, (1926). Hardcover. Illus. by Ernest H. Shepard, 7.25 x 5", gilt-ruled and gilt-pict limp green leather; aeg, 158pp, spine a little sunned, extremities lightly worn, small spot in margin of foredge for last few pages, a few other light spots but still a remarkably well preserved... More about WINNIE-THE-POOH
Macmillan and Co.: London, 1888. Hardcover. 7.5 x 5", grey cloth, 255pp + ads, covers heavily rubbed and darkened at edges, extremities badly bumped and fraying, small black spot on back cover, spine cocked, inner hinges cracked, blindstamp of former owner on front fly, pp toned with some finger soiling... More about FOUR GHOST STORIES
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Hodder & Stoughton: London, (c. 1921). Illus. by Arthur Rackham including three in color. 8.5 x 7", pict grey cloth, 77pp, covers well rubbed and darkened (esp. spine). Extremities bumped and frayed, hinges loose, pp finger soiled and used. WITH ORIGINAL SKETCH ON FRONT BLANK OF AN OLD WOMAN LOOKING... More about A Dish Of Apples [with original signed drawing by Arthur Rackham
np (London), 1902. Hardcover. Frontis + 15 color plates by author, 5.25 x 4", pink pictorial boards, unpaginated, covers a bit rubbed, front cover a bit sunned, spine and top edge of front cover a bit soiled, end papers foxed else a nice copy, in a custom-made, lightly worn, splitting... More about THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER
The Macmillan Co.: NY, 1938. Hardcover. 7.5 x 5", cloth, 85pp, covers a bit rubbed, extremities fraying, some scratches to front cover, spine label a bit browned, endpapers toned. SIGNED BY THE ABBEY PLAYERS (on the unevenly toned front fly): MAUREEN DELANY, MAY CRAIG, AIDEEN O'CONNOR, EILEEN CROWE, ARTHUR SHIELDS... More about THE FAR-OFF HILLS, A Comedy in Three Acts
E. R. Grandin: Palmyra, 1830. 7.5 x 4.5", full old leather, 588pp + "The Testimony of Three Witnesses" + "And Also the Testimonyof Eight Witnesses", covers quite worn and scratched, hinges loose, ink name ("Joseph") on front fly, contents toned and worn, inner hinges cracked, minor staining at gutter to... More about THE BOOK OF MORMON, An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken from the Plates...