Woodcuts; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 50 pages; [1883] Thomas Nelson & Sons. Small format HC in pale blue paper covered boards with color pictorial panel mounted to cover. Small areas of paper loss at spine. Bottom front corner of the color panel on cover chipped away and lost with small area of damp evidence same corner. Contents soundly bound and generally clean. Each page a brief topical narrative vignette with accompanying woodcut on top half of page. [50] pp. Scarce with only a few copies found in institutional holding. G or a little better View More...
Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; No publisher or place given. Publisher's small #8 at base of spine. "Printed in Japan" at lower corner of rear board. Child's board book circa 1960's. Oblong 5" x 7". 10 illustrated internal pages. Charming color illustrations. Little Star Book #8. VG++ View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 12 pages; [1922] No place or publisher. No author attribution. Slim paperback in title lettered wraps and saddle stapled binding. Anonymously authored satirical treatment of Theosophy, its leading figures and beliefs. A sort of Roman-a-clef with pseudonyms and neologisms standing in for prominent figures and beliefs. It is given attention in Vol 11, page 42 of Theosophy Magazine of 1922 and also in the Dawn Magazine (Theosophist) #7 also of 1922. The whole piece is reprinted in that magazine. So rather than a send-up, taken as more of an inner-movement and well meaning criti... View More...
B&W Cartoon Drawings; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 48 pages; 1965 S. R. I Publishing. Small format paperback in pictorial card stock covers and saddle stapled binding. Adult, sex themed joke and comic booklet. Racy, racist, sexist & ribald. Light handling wear and mild shelf soil. VG- View More...
Engraved plats, some folding; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 576 pages; 1825 John Knight and Henry Lacey, London. 1st edition. Volumes I & II (of 3). 288; 288 pp Soundly and uniformly bound in 1/4 polished calf backed spines with marbled paper over boards. Engraved pictorial title pages for both volumes. Contents clean and neat with plates complete, several folding in each volume, of facsimile manuscript and portraits. Bookplate of John Henry Gurney to pastedown of Vol I. Just mild shelf rubbing to leather surfaces of spines. VG thus, lacking the 3rd Volume View More...
Engravings; color cover; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; [n.p.] pages; 1881 E. P. Dutton HC. Rare Victorian children's title. Original red cloth binding with chromolithographic illustrated paper over boards. Spine unlettered, as issued. Binding snug and contents clean. Illustrated with numerous charming black and white scenes; many signed in the plate with what appears to be "Daniel" others E F B. A very well preserved copy with just mild shelf rub to board corners and superficial shelf soiling to pictorial title cover. Prior owner name and Christmas wish very neatly penned to half ... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 168 pages; Grove Press HC/DJ 1st printing of this 1969 Grove Press edition. Tight, bright and very neat; no marks. Original green cloth boards with lettering in black to spine. Photo pictorial dust jacket is crisp and bright; flawed only by a tiny, clsed tear top edge of front panel. F/F- View More...
B&W Cartoon Drawings; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 24 pages; 1963 No place or publisher. Small format paperback in pictorial card stock covers and saddle stapled binding. Adult, sex themed joke and comic booklet. Light handling wear and mild shelf soil; small ink spill stain bottom of spine and prior owner name pennned top edge rear cover. VG- View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 219 pages; 1979 Grove Press. Mass market size paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Covers curl at front edge; moderate general toning to page stock. Light damp stain inside top corner of the cover. Sound reading copy. G+ View More...
Woodcuts; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 62 pages; Henry A. Young & Co, Boston. 24 Cornhill. Small format HC in original rust brown cloth with decorative oval border in blind to boards and gilt title desing to spine much dulled. Light damp mottling to cloth at board edges. Contents soundly bound and generally clean. Includes 5 cautionary pedagogical tales ...Wilful Walter -- The hard run -- The Dutchman's cap -- Kitty's picture -- The bunch of grapes. G+ View More...
Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 18 pages; Oversize paperback in color illustrated covers with saddle stapled binding. Printed on heavy textured paper. Covers rubbed and a little furred to spine edge with a pair of short closed tears at spine ends. Every other page is a full page illustration in vibrant color lithograph color; facing pages of text sometimes embellished with b&w pictorial desings by Peat. Sound and generally clean but a bit worn to covers. G++ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages; 1885 Lane S. Hart, Harrisburg. 1st edition. In original green cloth. Binding generally sound but with significant silverfish predation and crazing to the cloth covered boards. Titles at spine, which are usually found much dimmed, are here almost entirely effaced. A few signatures starting slightly but endpages and contents sound. Illustrated with several finely composed and executed woodcut plates signed Longacre. A treatment of the coal worker and laborer, soldier and common man pitted against the power of the baron and the government. Published without... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 282 pages; Bobbs Merrill HC/DJ 1st edition. A very attractive copy; tight bright and sharp in original ribbed purple cloth with gilt stamped borders and titles. Bright clean dust jacket with an art deco stylized illustration wrapping from front panel around spine. $2.50 issue price intact on unclipped front flap. Dust jacket just mildly storage rubbed at edges with a few tiny closed tears. Fanciful fantasy: an autobiography by a a squirrel named George. Attractive pictorial end pages, frontis and in-text illustrations by James C. Reid. Uncommon in condition. VG/G View More...
#4099; Color lithograph; Square Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 1951 Samuel Lowe Co, Book #4099. Die cut pictorial boards with 4 moving wheels for the pictorial jeep. Wheels attached with original rivets at front and rear boards. Edges sharp and covers bright. Contents neat and clean. Mild rub to wheel edges and light stress crease to two wheels. Only superficial shelf rubbing to board edges. Nice copy; uncommon in condition. VG to VG+ View More...
B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 447 pages; CAS No. 7681-49-4; NIH Publication 91-2848. Oversize paperback in matte title-lettered covers. Square, sound and neat. Brief penned notes to two pages. Mildly reader creased spine. Trace soiling to front cover; mild sunning to spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs. VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Good. No dust jacket as issued. ; 308 p. Includes several page catalog of publisher's titles at rear; 308 pages; HC Original terra cotta cloth boards with blind ruled borders to boards and gilt detailing to spine. No edition or printing history given, but apparently the 4th edition printed. Sound solid and complete. Several prior ownership indications to front endpages and a call slip from a private spiritist library to rear endpage. Cloth at spine just mildly dulled. First word of title on spine underscored in ink. Trace silverfishing evidence to boards at fore edge and base of spine. In gene... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 41 pages; HC. Memorial volume // eulogy for Charles Trescott Ripley. Sound in original pebbled blue cloth with title in gilt to cover. 41 pages. With tipped in b&w photo portrait frontis. Internal saddle staples pulling a little at the endpage gutters with mild soiling to front endpages. VG- View More...
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