16mo 6" - 7" tall; 84 pages; No date, presumably 1850's to 1860's. Amerikanischen Tractat-Gesellschaft 84 pgs with (3) pgs publisher's ads. From the English edition (translated). Square and sound with some discoloration and mild rubbing to brown cloth boards. Mild fray spine ends and some light internal foxing. Uncommon. G++ to VG- View More...
B&W Photographs/ Ads; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages; Tan 1/4 cloth, illustrated paper over boards. Bright and attractive example of this Dauphin county directory, one of the harder to find of the Farm Journal PA county directories. Lacking the road map but other wise snug and neat with just mild rub at board tips. Aside from missing map, a VG++ example. Includes numerous local ads and an exhaustive directory of farms and businesses for Dauphin View More...
B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 253 pages; In red cloth with titles gilt stamped to cover and spine. Author/compiler unnamed "A Redemptorist Father" Illustrated. Externally clean and bright with just faint shelf rub at extremities. Contents complete and clean, but binding slightly shaken and a split in the binding mid book with one signature starting slightly. No loose or missing pages. Clean complete copy with a weak binding that could be easily repaired and tightened. Uncommon. G+ to VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 410 pages; Original yellow cloth with titles in blue to cover and spine. Square, snug and clean; no marks. Trace spill evidence to cover board and hint of a dampline to the margins of the last few pages. Supple clean pages. Text in German. VG View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 184 pages; Original brown cloth with ornate patterns and rules stamped to covers and spine. Gilt titling to spine is bright. Just very mild chipping to cloth at spine ends and light bumping to corners. Contents clean and neat; just very mildly foxed endpages. A paper label mounted inside front cover with period school/provincial library ownership in manuscript. Solid neat copy; quite scarce. An early title by the man who went on to become the first president of the American Vegetarian Society. He also wrote numerous volumes on diet and health w/ focus on the health ... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages; Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Viking HC/DJ 1st printing. Unread copy in immaculate dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. F/F As new; Signed by Author 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...
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...
BW Illustrations; Color Map; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 155 pages; 1886, First edition. Bright solid copy in original ribbed brown cloth; borders in ornate black stamped designs and titling brightly stamped in gilt. Square, snug and neat; no marks. BW plates and ills scattered throughout text. Just a touch of mild rub at extremities. A very attractive example of this quite uncommon work. VG+ View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 170 pages; Pictorial red cloth. Square bright and clean. No marks. Short closed edge tear (less than one inch) to hinge of half-title page. Chip missing in the margin of a page mid-book. All else VG View More...
422 pages; 1891 Houghton-Mifflin HC. No dustjacket. Square, tight and sound in light shelf-soiled tan cloth boards w/ charming stamped illustration of a pilgrim wilderness scene, sword, and spinning wheel. Gilt band stamped across cover and at spine, charming sun and moon decorative stamping also at spine. Front endpg removed. Text is clean, bright and unmarked w/ very mild age-toning to text block. An attractive, clean copy, VG- View More...
BW & Color Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 248 pages; Original glossy illstd boards. Square sound and clean; no marks. Small 1/4" chip of laminated board missing base of spine. Bit of mild rub crown of spine. Contents bright and fresh. VG- View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 510 pages; Fine in very good dust jacket. Tight bright and very neat. Prior owner name stamp on front flyleaf. Else unmarked and very fresh. Bright clean dust jacket. NF/NF View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages; Original yellow cloth w/ cover profile illustration of skyline in blue and titles in relief along lower edge. Spine boldly titled in matching blue. Spine a bit cocked but soundly bound. Cloth lightly shelf-soiled and cloth a bit rubbed at tips and spine ends. Tiny closed ege tear to cloth tail of spine. Solid somewhat worn copy of this uncommon Baldwin tale, the basis for the MGM film, Skyscraper Souls. VG- View More...
Square sound copy in original pictorial dust jacket. Text unmarked. Library of Congress "Surplus" ink stamp on front endpage. Small book store label on front pastedown. Binding square and sound; text unmarked. No attachments. Just light edge handling to DJ and faint fox spotting to DJ. VG/VG; Photographs; 229 pages; Square sound copy in original pictorial dust jacket. Text unmarked. Library of Congress "Surplus" ink stamp on front endpage. Small book store label on front pastedown. Binding square and sound; text unmarked. No attachments. Just light edge handling to DJ and faint... View More...
Maps,B&W Photos; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 358 pages; Hispanic Society of America, NY HC 1st edition. Original maroon cloth boards with titles in gilt to spine. Older library indications including a bookplate to pastedown, card pocket at rear and a faint black lettered call number base of spine. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and edges with some fray over the spine edges at crown and tail. Boards peeking through rubbed cloth at corners. Binding sound, though tender in the joints and a little shaken. Full complement of two fold-out maps and 83 tissue guarded plates. Sound complete copy of the or... View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 251 pages; 1829 R Lockwood, NY. HC in printed paper covered boards and gilt ruled cloth backstrip. 2nd edition after and 1820 printing. An early American school book with intermediate level narrative pieces relating to American history, Scripture as well as charachter formation. Paper covered boards have bordered title printing at front and printer's advertisements on rear surface. Simple gitl ruling acros spine; unlettered, as issued. Sound clean copy has a prior ownership inscription to the front endpage. Cloth rubbed and just a little tender at spine edges. Moder... View More...
