Dean & Son: London, nd (1873?). Paperback. 5 color plates including double page, 11.5 x 9.5", wraps, (6)pp, covers creased, worn, and slightly chipped, some soil, spine desilked. SCARCE and delightful. "Dean's Intantile Oil Colour Toy Books" More
Ward, Lock, Bowden: London, nd (1890s). Paperback. 3 full page chromolithograph plates, 12 x 10", color pict wraps, pencil names, cover worn and heavily soiled. Victorian religious book for the young. SCARCE. Stories include "The Good Samaritan" More
Advertiser and Free Press: Detroit, 1851. Hardcover. 8.5 x 5.25", polished calf with red leather spine label, 283pp + 399pp + 8pp index, covers rubbed and spotted, extremities lightly chipping, outer hinges a bit rough, inner hinges cracked, missing prelims, eps darkened from glue underneath, title page browned around the..... More
np, 1653. Hardcover. Map (defective), extra engraved title; portraits, 5 x 2.5", old leather, 520pp + index, a beat up copy. "Editio Novissima". Rough translation "The Low War In The First Decade Since The Departure Of Charles V. Emp...With The Addition Of Famous People To History...This edition is more accurate..."..... More
Reeve: London, 1853. Hardcover. With 20 full page color plates, 6 x 5", 1/2 leather gilt decorated panelled spine, marbled boards, edges, and endpapers, 359pp with index, minor foxing, covers rubbed, front hinge cracked and archivally repaired,top of spine torn, binding tight. Bright, colorful plates of spices, nuts, trees and..... 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
Masonic Publishing and Manufacturing Co.: NY, 1870. Hardcover. Text illus., 7.5 x 5", full leather, red spine label with gilt lettering, 632pp. Covers well worn and rubbed (especially spine), spine label peeling, outer/inner hinges cracked else good. Textblock tight. Some of the contents: cattle laws, fence-viewers, marriage and divorce, naturalization..... More
T. Cadell: London, 1789. Hardcover. 12 mostly folding plates, 11 x 8", rebacked old polished calf, unpaginated, endpapers stained, cover extremities chipped else very good condition. "Illustrated With Variety Of Original Designs Of Shipping, In Different Situations; Together With Separate Views Of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, And Rigging. To Which..... More
Nicholson Press: Richmond, Ind. 1910. Hardcover. Illus. (including tipped-in examples), 9.5 x 6", cloth, unpaginated, EX-LIBRARY, covers heavily soiled, some staining, lacks free endpapers, etc. SWAF. Frontis is a tipped-in bookplate of Meredith Nicholson, designed by Franklin Booth. More
M.M. Schmidt: Chicago, 1933. Hardcover. Portraits, 9 x 6", cloth, 583pp with index, very good condition in rather chipped and spotted dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY SCHMIDT. This was put together as sort of a guide book and history for the costumed female figures at the Century of Progress International..... More
John Murray: London, 1843. Hardcover. Illus. by 120+ engravings, fold-out frontispieces, maps (including a fold-out), 8.5 x 5.5", 3/4 polished calf, marbled boards, gilt dec spine with raised bands, leather spine labels with gilt lettering, 459; 478pp, moderately foxed, covers rubbed, edgeworn, minor spine label chip but still an attractive..... More
Danieleon Elzevirium: Amstelodani, 1665. Hardcover. English title, 5.5 x 3", old vellum, 482pp + indexes, bookplate, front inner hinge broken and tape repaired, covers darkened. Latin writer of 2nd century AD. This volume contains notes and miscellaenous information on ancient language and literature, customs, laws, philosophy and natural science. "Attic..... More
E.P. Dutton & Co.: NY, 1928. Hardcover. Illus. by John Vassos, 9.5 x 7", cloth backed pict boards, 124pp, covers well worn, extremities bumped and chipped, ink inscriptions from former owners at top of front fly, pp toned, scattered spotting; a well-used copy. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED "very sincerely" AND SIGNED..... More
Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, (1967). Hardcover. Photos, 9.25 x 6", two-tone cloth, 458pp with index, spine ends bumped, extremities lightly worn, ink name of former owner on title page else a good copy in a rubbed, price-clipped, extremity-worn dustjacket. FIRST EDITION (NAP), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, "Eddie Rickenbacker" ON FRONT..... More
McGraw-Hill: NY, (1968). Hardcover. Numerous illus., 11 x 10", cloth, 256pp with index, very good condition in dustjacket which has minor tears. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY REDSTONE. More
np (By Author?), 1978. Hardcover. Photos, 9.25 x 6", two-tone cloth, 235pp, extremities with minor wear else a nice, clean copy. Biography of Toledo, Ohio lawyer and politician. More
Belford Brothers: Toronto, 1876. 35. 7 x 4.5", cloth, 157pp + ads (last ad "Common Sense..."). DISBOUND, lacks front fly, very worn. Mark Twain's non-fiction reminiscences which he wrote in 1874-1875, the work first appearing in the Atlantic Monthly in 1875. FIRST CANADIAN EDITION (Reprint D). SWAF. More
Louis Carrier: NY, (1930). Hardcover. Cartoons by Maurice Van Moppes, 7.5 x 5", cloth, 127pp, slightly soiled else good in heavily worn and chipped dustjacket which is missing pieces. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO ORCHESTRA LEADER VINCENT LOPEZ "TO MR. VINCENT LOPEZ THE CELEBRATED ORCHESTRA LEADER..... More
NY, 1824. Hardcover. Plates by D.C. Johnston, 7 x 4", new plain cloth, 276pp, foxed, minor text stains. FIRST EDITION. More
Blue Ribbon: NY, (1935). Hardcover. Photos, 8.5 x 5.5". Cloth, 341pp, ink name and date, cut-out parts of original dustjacket affixed to endpapers else a nice copy. Second printing. More
Century Co.: NY, (1930). Hardcover. Illus. by Arthur William Brown, 7.5 x 4", cloth, 212pp, ink name else a nice copy in a slightly worn and torn dustjacket. "Tells of love and gambling on the colorful Riviera which Donn Byrne knew so well." Published in book form after Byrne's death..... More
Wayne State University Press: Detroit, 1969. Hardcover. Photos, 9 x 6", brown cloth, 160pp with index, minor shelf wear, ink inscription from former owner on front fly, fairly faint musty aroma throughout; in a lightly rubbed and lightly edge-worn, price-clipped dustjacket with some damp staining on rear panel. FIRST EDITION..... More
Privately Printed for William K. Bixby: St. Louis, MO, 1911. Hardcover. 5 x 6.5", vellum backed boards, 179pp, covers quite worn, vellum darkened, abrasions on bottom of cover near spine from old tape, paper circle on spine at bottom, extremities toned, but still a decent copy of VOLUME THREE (III)..... More
(Taipei, Taiwan), (1969-1979). Hardcover. 3 vols. Photos, 8.25 x 7.5", cloth, 400pp, 386pp; 388pp, some cover wear, some toning and soiling to contents, in spine-sunned, edge-worn dustajckets. SCARCE in a set of three. More