8vo 8" - 9" tall; 231 pages; 1894 Christian Science Publishing Company. HC early printing. Burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to cover; spine unlettered. Shaken and worn with endpages split in the hinges; cloth stressed and very fragile over spine. Fraying to cloth at corner boards. Much worn but serviceable copy of this early printing. Illustrated with musical notation. Fair only View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 440 pages; Bound in publisher's ribbed brown cloth with ornate borders deeply blindstamped to covers. Decorative title lettering to spine in gilt. Cloth over spine weak and partially split in the external joints; mild, shallow chipping to cloth at spine ends. Boards rubbed at corners. Mild damp line to the upper edge of the first and last few leaves. Light toning to the page stock. A crude painted fraktur type prior ownership embellishment to the front endpage appears to be the work of a 7 to 10 year old hand. Done in several colors. Complete, clean and still sound.... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 746 pages; Passau, Mangoldischen Hofbuchdruckerei; 1791. 2 volumes bound as 1. Paged continuously [4] 1 - 746; with seperate title pages for the volumes. Squat, stout volume in period patterned paper over boards. Binding sound and snug with boards sound in joints. Paper over boards rubbed over spine edges with flaking and light chipping; boards visible at spine edges but remaining well bound. Scattered toning and foxing to text is generally mild. Spine panel unlettered but a rectangular paper label is mounted near crown with a hand lettered 3 digit numeral. Sound and... View More...
B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 680 pages; Circa 1995. Oversize HC facsimile reprinting of the 1925 original. Published without attribution of printing or place but with an appearance conforming closely to reproductions produced by the Higginson Book Company and with their note about a delay in shipping the volume and an invoice dated 1995 laid in at front. Tightly bound in heavy blue buckram cloth with titles brightly in gilt. Facsimile reprinting of the text is decent, always legible and resonably clear but clearly a copy of the original. Illustration reproduction quality is relative... View More...
Photographs; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 111 pages; Oblong format HC in maroon cloth backstrip and olive cloth covered boards. Soundly bound copy with no marks. Illustrated with numerous photographs, including portraits. Cloth backstrip unlettered, as issued. Gilt title design brightly in gilt to cover board. Some light silverfish predation patches to the cloth boards; rear endpage and pastedown with some heavier silverfish predation, pitting and perforation, but no effect to any of the printed content pages. G++ to VG- View More...
Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 175 pages; Tight bright and neat in uniformly bright crisp-edged dust jacket. Just light shelf/handling wear to jacket at edges. Superficial toning to jacket flaps at edges. Sticker residue to front jacket. Superficial toning to white pages at edges. Profusely illustrated with drawings and diagrams in exaggerated cartoon style along with more technical illustrations. Fifth grade level science textbook in Japanese. Solid unmarked copy. VG+/VG+ View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 104 pages; Bound in title lettered, maroon paper covered boards. Spine repaired with a strip of blue cloth tape. Boards rubbed and surface scarred. Contents complete, including a wide range of historical photos. Front and rear endpages weak at gutter/joint. Juvenile's pencil doodles and ownership marks fill the front and rear endpages. Text unmarked. The original edition, but one that may have spent some time used in a school class setting. Good only. Uncommon in the original edition. View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Large 8vo in a compound "sample" binding of decorative pictorial cloth front and title lettered leather rear boards, with folding flaps of respective binding types showcasing the prospective spine designs. A salesman's "dummy" or canvassing copy, with which a travelling salesman would visit homes pursuing subscribers to purchase the book when published. Perhaps 85 - 100 pages of the over 600 page book are included in this sample, including a chromolithograph frontis featuring portraits of Bryant, Lowell, Longfellow, Emerson, Irving, et. al. Som... View More...
B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Oversize Folio HC in olive green cloth with titles and ornate pictorial design stamped to front cover in black and gilt. All edges gilt; spine unlettered, as issued. A snug bright copy. Reproductions of salon works printed in photogravure on heavy stock sheets, attached to binding stubs. Le Roux, Muller, Bonnat and others represented. A scallop shaped damp line along the top front corner of the pages and plate sheets is in the upper margin and does not intrude into text or image. A thin red offset line from damped adjacent book is visible on the ... View More...
B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 179 pages; Oversize HC in glossy pictorial boards. Bright tight and fresh. No marks. Just superficial shelf evidence to board externals. NF ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Photographs & maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 318 pages; HC in original red cloth with decorative pictorial title desing to cover in black and gold. Though soundly bound the boards are dulled and a bit shelf soiled with some mild fraying to cloth at edges. Front few leaves soiled; 2nd front endpage has the lower corner torn away. Profuely illustrated with period photographs and views including several maps. Scattered finger soiling in the text. Uncommon period record of the Chicago World's Fair. Good only View More...
[1954] Harcourt Brace. HC/DJ 1st US edition. Follows the 1948 Hoarth 1st printing. Unusually bound by Harcourt without a copyright page, nor a date on the title page. Almost certainly never put out as a book club edition, this books appears to be a deviation from standard Harcourt publishing standards. Lovely copy; tight bright and very neat. Bright, crisp dust jacket just a little toned to the whites of the spine and rear panels. F/VG++; 231 pages View More...
Square 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 20 pages; Slim square format hardcover in color pictorial glazed paper boards. Floral themed gift book with handsome color lithograph printed floral designs framed by verses from well known poets. Sound but a little weak in the inner front hings. Small short closed tear in the paper covering in the front hinge. Uncommon gift book. VG- View More...
1898 Houghton Mifflin HC 1st edition. Brown cloth gilt blocked titles to spine and black ruled and titled cover board. Square and sound; no marks. Touch of very minimal rub to boards at extremities. VG to VG+ View More...
Maps and historical photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 304 pages; Large format HC in brown cloth with title lettering brightly in silver to spine. Issued without dustjacket. Solid clean copy. Just a little shaken in the spine. Detailed letter regarding research into genealogical matters is laid in at front. Illustrated with maps and historical photographs; endpages reproduce pictorial maps from one of the late 19th century atlases. VG+ Uncommon title. ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
[1931] Grosset & Dunlap HC red cloth with titles in black. Front free endpage neatly removed, likely to excise gift inscription. Rubbing spine ends and corners. Binding shaken, but sound. Spine a bit dulled but titles bright. Sound reading copy; uncommon. View More...
B&W & Color Photos; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1989 Sotheby's HC/DJ (with prices realized flyer laid in) Square snug and neat. No marks. Profusely illustrated, a great many in color. Dust jacket bright and clean. A bit of trace shelf evidence to dj surfaces; in new mylar cover. Prices realized list laid in. VG+/VG+ View More...
Map, folding; engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 179 pages; Snug attractive copy in original ribbed green cloth with architectonic Cathedral design stamped in blind to both boards. Title lettering brightly in gilt to cover; spine unlettered, as issued. Folding plan at front is very neat with only a short closed tear at the margin edge. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts in text, some number of steel plate engravings. Cloth a trifle faded at spine; superficial rub and bumping to corners. Handsome copy; VG++ View More...
Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; [no date given] Circa 1906. Hardcover in an oblong octavo format. No publisher or place given in this rushed to press photograph accounting of one of America's worst disasters. Illustrated paper covered boards with blue cloth backstrip, unlettered. Text block is side stapled, as issued. Profuse photo illustrated documentary of the conflagration, its effects and some views of buildings and vistas before the fire. Boards are rubbed at edges and moderately surface scarred. Cloth spine is worn but sound, pulled at crown with a short tear. Binding sound but shaken... View More...
Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; [no date given] Circa 1906. Hardcover in an oblong octavo format. No publisher or place given in this rushed to press photograph accounting of one of America's worst disasters. Illustrated paper covered boards with blue cloth backstrip, unlettered. Text block is side stapled, as issued. Profuse photo illustrated documentary of the conflagration, its effects and some views of buildings and vistas before the fire. Boards are well rubbed at edges and a little surface scarred. Cloth spine is worn but sound, frayed a little at spine ends. Text block separated from... View More...
