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New York: George H. Doran, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. (10 1/2" x 7") 335pp Blue cloth with gilt design and lettering to cover and spine. Color pictorial endpapers. 24 full page color and black and whtie mounted illustrations by Theodore Nadejen. Front gutter cracked. Scattered foxing. Beautiful illustrations..... More
Harvard University Press, 1946. Hardcover. Four volume set. Octavo. (9 1/2" x 6") Vol. 1: 1817-1840, Vol. 2: 1841-1851, Vol. III: 1852-1856, and Vol. IV: 1857-1864. Illustrated. Some foxing to fore-edges with some light interior foxing. Some edge rubbing to jackets. In brodart protective wrappers... More
New York: I. Reed Books, 1979. First printing. Paperback. Softcover. 68pp. Toning to covers. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Two small stains on page 68, 69., Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She is the incumbent United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American..... More
London: Harrison and Co., 1785, 1787, 1786. Harrison's Edition. Full Leather. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 81pp, 124pp, 45pp, 109pp, 35pp, 80pp. Illustrated. Six works from the series "Harrison's Edition" bound together into one volume with seperate title pages and paginations. Bound in old brown leather, red spine label, Hinges..... More
Andre Deutsch, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 25.5 x 19 cm. Octavo. 66pp. 25 plates plus frontispiece. Blue cloth in chipped dust jacket. Some tape repair to jacket. Previous owner's bookpalte on front fixed endpaper. From the jacket: "The most famous of all Graeco--Roman treasures in the British Museum is the..... More
London and New York: Constable and Co. Ltd., Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. Limited. 1/2 cloth. Two volume set. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 249pp, 216pp. Red cloth spines, dark red board covers. Limited to 1025 copies. Gilt top foredges. Bindings tight. There is "bubbling" to the spine of volume one..... More
Philadelphia: James Crissy, 1821. 1/2 Leather. 22.5 x 14 cm. xi 432pp. 1/2 leather spine with boars with gilt and black design. Black spine label. Scuffing to spine. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Rear gutter starting between pp 430-431. The evangelist's work on describing Christian conversion in Northampton, Massachusetts, during..... More
Jerusalem: Jerusalem Bible Publishing Co. Ltd, No date circa 1960. Metal. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. 1981pp. Encased in eleborately decorated metal, covering the boards. Turquoes stones on the cover. With text in English and Hebrew. With 2000 pictures. Some chipping to the first and last few pages. More
Montreal, Quebec: Tormont, 1992. Spiral Bound. 96pp. Glossy boards. Polish Language text. Color illustrations throughout. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Both volumes are signed and inscribed to the Minneapolis American Indian Center by Mails who also did a large original sketch on the front free endpaper of each volume. 32 x 23 cm. Quarto. 522pp & 534pp. Brown..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, No date circa (~1850). Third Complete American Edition. Hardcover. Two volume set. 23 x 14 cm. Octavo. xxx xii 570pp & 699pp. Old leather boards, newer tan cloth spine. Frontispiece in both volumes. Glue stain to the front cover of vol 1. Inscription dated 1874..... More
Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, 1848. Second Edition, Revised and Corrected. Hardcover. Two volume set. 23.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 460, 42, viii, (2) & 448pp 32pp v. Frontispiece portrait of Washington in volume 1. Old brown leather boards, newer tan cloth spines. Marble foredges. Some scuffing to the leather. More
Santa Cruz, CA: Scream/Press, 1984. Limited First Scream/Press Printing. Hardcover. 23.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. Black boards in dust jacket and slipcase. Copy 180 of 250 boxed edition copies signed by author Karl Edward Wager, Jacket illustrator Val Lakey Lindahn, and interior illustrator Ron Lindahn. Small bump to bottom of..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930. Autograph Edition. Hardcover. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. 300pp. Bound in blue cloth, white and gilt design to cover. Illustrated throughout with facsimiles, 41 in half-tone and 12 in line. This is the autograph edition limited to 150 copies, this being copy 35. Each..... More
London: William Baynes and Son, 1824. New Edition. 1/2 Leather. 22.5 x 14 cm. Octavo.679pp. Engraved frontispiece. Bound in 1/2 dark red leather and tan marble boards. Gilt spine lettering. Page viii partially detached but present; gutter starting at same place. Toning and some rubbing to the spine. Bookplate removed..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. on Murray Hill, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. Black cloth spine, cream colored boards. Small stamp on front free endpaper. Front gutter is starting. Told in full page woodcuts by James Reid, no words in the style of Lynd Ward..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1911. First edition. Hardcover. 27 x 18 cm. 259pp. Green cloth, illustrated, gilt lettering. With full color illustrations by Maxfield Parrish (p63), Jules Guerin, Sigismond de Ivanowski, Anna Whelan Bettts, and others. Vertical tear down half of the front free endpaper. Some edgewear to head..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1912. Hardcover. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. 8vo. 50pp. Color plate mounted to front cover and 6 color plates in text with tissue guards by Elizabeth Shippen Green.There is a stain to the front cover, and some crease marks. Edgewear to head of spine. More
London: Daniel O'Connor, 1922. Hardcover. 25.5 x 19 cm. Bound in grey cloth. Some rubbing to the covers. Gift inscription on front free endpapers. 37 color illustrations by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. The frontispiece illustration is heavily foxed, the rest of the work and illustratiojns are clean. Binding tight. More
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Coimpany Inc., no date, circa [1930]. Hardcover. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 196pp. Bound in purple cloth, illustrated paste down to front cover. 8 illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Spine is fading to blue and show ssome edgewear adn spotting. More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. 22 x 17 cm. Octavo. 320pp. Bound in teal cloth, color illustration to front cover. With illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, 8 in color. Spine lettering is faded and scuffed. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper., More
Argus Books, 1930. Limited ed. Hardcover. 27.5 x 18.5 cm. Quarto. 391pp. Bound in black cloth, gilt lettering and design to spine and front cover. Limited to 2000 copies this being copy 1128 with illustrations by Frank C. Papeé. Translated and with a new introduction by H. M. Bird. Rubbing..... More
Hagerstown, MD: News Office, 1847. First American edition. Hardcover. 16mo. (16cm x 10cm) 96pp. Scattered foxing. Original boards. Gilt letteiing to cover. From the preface: This collection of remedies and receipts contains some of the best preparations which have been used in Germany by Celebrated physicians, and which have been..... More
Philadelphia: Archibald Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the Stone House, 1805. Full Leather. 22 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 419pp. Bound in full leather, red spine label. Illustrated with 12 folding copper plates. Large stain to the bottom of the first few pages. Gutters starting, but holding. Some scuffing to spine..... More
New York: American Bible Society, 1872, 1871. Hardcover. Dakota Bible. 18 x 11 cm. 18mo. 254, 57, 265pp. Two works bound as one. Bound in blind stamped black boards. Dakota language text translated from the Hebrew. Preivous owner's name on title page, endpaper. Page 129 of the second book is..... More