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
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
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
Harper's: NY, 1860-1865. 6 Vols. Illus.; ads, each 16 x 11.25", half red leather; marbled boards, vp, covers rubbed and darkened, extremities lightly worn, hinges loose, some tears to pp, some spotting, last issue (Dec 30, 1865) is missing everything but first cover and verso, else a very nice set..... More
Froben: Basilae, 1538. 12.5 x 8.25", full paneled leather with gilt symbol on front cover and gilt-lettered red leather spine label, 562pp, covers rubbed and with some cracking and chipping of leather, extremities bumped, hinges loose, inner hinges cracking, pp a little toned, erased ink names on title page, some..... 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
1883. Hardcover. Frontis portrait of Queen Victoria; illus. (including the Queen's dogs), 8.5 x 5.5", gilt-dec and gilt lettered beveled green cloth, 404pp, covers rubbed and worn in spots, spine ends bumped, inner hinges tearing, bookplate of former owner inside front cover, "Bound by Burn & Co" label inside rear..... 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
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
J.M. Dent & Sons: London, 1924. Frontis plus 60 tipped-in illus., 10.75 x 8.25", gilt-dec brown cloth, 122pp, covers a little rubbed, some bubbling of cloth (old water damage?), extremities bumped, hinges loose, ink inscription from former owner on front blank, last page unevenly toned (from old newspaper clipping?) else..... 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
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
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
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
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
Edition Die Galerie: Wien Worcester Kobenhavn Torino Meppel, nd (1934?). 24 numbered photogravures with tissue guards, 12.5 x 12, cream boards with gray lettering and spine, unpag. Covers soiled, rubbed, small glue (?) remnant on front cover, light extremity wear, boards slightly warped, one tissue guard slightly chipped, another has..... 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
