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
F&M Schaefer Brewing Co.: NY, 1955. Hardcover. Walnut double frame 11 x 21 x 3", glass, cardboard display 10 x 8", three rows of die-cut team members, each row spaced so as to create a three dimensional effect, brown easel stand on reverse which matches the frame. The wood frame..... 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
Alfred Mudge & Son: Boston, 1869. Paperback. Six tipped-in original photos, 9.25 x 6", gilt-lettered flexible cloth, 57pp, covers worn and puckering, spine abraded, staining to upper forecorner of text (and photos), pp toned and used, with former owner's ink name on front fly. SCARCE. More
Humphrey Phelps: NY, 1832. 16 x 20", folded into a 5 x 2" gilt-lettered leather folder, colored in outline, one tear at a fold repaired and now browned (at right margin and into the Atlantic Ocean, not at land) else a nicely preserved example; map shows the US to Arkansas..... 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
London, 1700. Hardcover. 7.5 x 4.5", full leather, 376pp, covers very worn and waterlogged with old paper adhesions to front cover, front outer hinge cracked, rear cover and last two leaves detached (but present), bottom inch of spine cover detached (but present), title page browned around the margins, textblock toned..... More
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
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
Badwin & Co.: London, 1828. Two folding maps (folding map of U.S. by John Melish; folding map of Niagara by Darby), 9.25 x 8.5", recently rebound in half morocco; marbled boards, covers lightly rubbed, spine a little sunned, maps a bit toned but still nice, pp toned but still nice..... 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
Beauvoir, MS, 1886. Four pages, 8 x 5, nicely penned by Mrs. Davis on lightly lined paper, browned, folds, some soiling and staining, else good, with transcription. SIGNED "JEFFERSON DAVIS" by Varina Davis. Letter to a Rev. Jones, marked "Private," regarding errors in the published papers of the Southern Historical..... More
J & H.G. Langley: NY, 1840. 9.25 x 5.75", blue cloth, 355pp, covers worn and stained, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, contents toned, foxed and waterstained near rear, but still a decent, usable copy. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE SECOND PART, with notice printed in front concerning "Nearly Ready..... More
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
Lucam Kupisz: Cracoviae (Cracow), 1655. 5 x 3, half leather, marbled boards, 1023 pp with index, covers quite worn, extremities bumped, chipped a little, old leather reinforcements at bottom of outside hinges, hinges loose, ex-lib inkstamp plus inscription from former owner on half title, pp toned but still a decent..... More
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
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
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
St. Louis, MO, 1923. Two printed photos and a printed explanation at top of one sheet, oblong 6 x 8.5", toned, folds, minor wear and soiling, but WRITTEN AND SIGNED BY HOUDINI. Houdini writes:"Dear Dr. Prince [?]. Hope alls well. I can"visualize" the test of the 24 year old boy..... More
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Troutbeck Press: Armenia, NY, 1931. Frontis illustr by Amy Spingarn, 8.5 x 6, cloth backed boards with design by Zell Ingram, unpag, covers quite worn and unevenly darkened, a few little abrasions, spine label abraded, corners rounded and chipped, hinges loose, pp edge-toned, a very scarce, legendary edition, with handmade..... More
np (Antwerp), 1585. 330 engraved plates, oblong 11 x 13", embossed and gilt-ruled/gilt-dec leather with later gilt-lettered spine label, covers heavily rubbed, outer hinges cracked, extremities bumped and chipped (esp. spine ends), hinges loose, pp toned and used with some spotting and finger soiling to margins, a few plates closely..... More
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Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, UK, 1921. Frontis portrait, 7.5 x 5, full gilt-ruled blue leather with heavily gilt-decorated spine, SIGNED BINDING BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE; aeg, 491 pp, covers a bit rubbed (esp extremities), spine a bit dull, hinges loose, still a nice looking copy, WITH FOREDGE PAINTING OF..... More
Doubleday, Doran & Co.: np, 1941. Frontis portrait in vol. one, 8.75 x 5.75", gilt-dec maroon buckram; teg, covers lightly edge-worn, hinges loose else nice copies in rubbed, soiled, toned and edge-worn and edge-torn dustjackets. Missing vols. 8-10, 17, 20-21, and 28. But LIMITED TO 1010 NUMBERED SETS, SIGNED BY..... 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