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
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
The Evening News Association: Detroit, MI, 1900. Paperback. Colored photos, oblong 8 x 11.5", limp brown cloth, covers quite worn and soiled, extremities bumped and fraying, some finger soiling, but colored photos still bright with tissue guards (mostly good); with large section on The Detroit News. Photos of the waterfront..... 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
Philadelphia, 1891-1894. Paperback. Lecture tickets range in size from 2.5 x 4" to 4 x 5", colors are 2 red, 2 blue and remainder cream, all but two are signed by the instructor or the dean ie. James Tyson. (Dr. Tyson was the first professor of pathology at U of..... 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
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
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
Rex Brasher and Associates: Chickadee Valley, Kent, Connecticut, 1929-1932. Hardcover. Twelve volumes. 867 colored plates, oblong 13 x 8", brown boards, leather spine and corners, book title in gilt on boards, list of contents in gilt on leather, woodpecker in color on boards of each volume. Condition: Volume 7; cover..... More
Riccardi Press/Philip Lee Warner/The Medici Society: London, 1914. Hardcover. Illus. by John Tenniel, 9 x 6", gilt-ruled crushed brown morocco with five raised spine bands; teg, SIGNED BINDING BY ZAEHNSFORF, 131pp, extremities a little rubbed, hinges a bit rough and tender, old stain on rear cover (hardly noticeable), textblock edges..... 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
Gazetecilik ve Matbaacilik: Istanbul, 1949. 8 x 5.5", gilt-lettered embossed (portrait of Churchill) red pebbled cloth, 392pp, covers worn and darkened, foredges of both front and rear covers badly waterstained, hinges loose, minor finger soiling to endpapers and a few other pages else a decent copy of one volume from..... 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
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
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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
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
(Paramount 1946). Nice 14.5x23" sketch accomplished in watercolor and gouache showing Stanwyck wearing a periwinkle gown with parasol. 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..... 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
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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
B. Franklin and D. Hall: Philadelphia, 1757. 6.75 x 4.25", full leather, 23pp, covers very worn, extremities bumped and chipped, rear outer hinge torn, 23pp, covers very worn, extremities bumped and chipped, rear outer hinge torn 2/3 of the way down, old bookplate of former owner (James M. Hosier) inside..... More
Washington, DC, 1955. Paperback. Two cent postcard, oblong 3.25 x 5.5", front cover with pre-printed stamp, postmark, address written by Ezra Pound; reverse with written message from Pound, INITIALED "Ez P." BY EZRA POUND. Pound writes to a Corporal in the US Army at Fort Benning, GA, answering two questions..... More
np (Washington, DC), 1957. Paperback. Plain paper, 11 x 8.5", some yellowing, spotting, folds, in the original mailing envelope: roughly opened, yellowed, spotted, worn. "Dear N___ I haven't seen the N. Repug. Artl/merely heard that it doesn't stink. Too much fun in Brasil, Tokyo, Melbourne...Illiteracy of the senate being punctured..... More