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...
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...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 173 pages; 7th edition. Period calf leather. Rear board detached; upper board tenuously attached by cords. Boards chipped at corner and spine ends; some shallow chipping from leather along the rear joint. Decorative monogram in manuscript to front pastedown. Half-title and frontis present but front blanks lacking. Damp staining to top margins of the page stock. Binding or restoration copy. Fair only thus View More...
B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 159 pages; 1971 McGraw-Hill. Oversize paperback in glossy pictorial covers. 1st paperback edition. Complete and sound but much worn. Heavy curl to the cover at the front edge; a pair of closed edge tears archivally mended. Edges rubbed; a short score to cover stock mid-spine. Illustrated throughout by b&w photographs by Abramson. Uncommon in the original edition, this copy has general wear and is Fair to Good only View More...
Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 102 pages; 7th edition. Oblong format. The general title page, the title page of the second part, and the music are engraved. 2nd title page is in letterpress. This example lacking covers. The first extant page is the engraved title page and the last is page 102. The index calls for a hymn on page 103 but with no other pages indicated following 103. Bibliographic information calls for 110 pages. Engraved title page for the 2nd (pp [77-78] part is tipped in on page 79. Text block soundly bound. Engraved fronmt title page a little rubbed and nicked at edges wit... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages; 5624 [1864] No publisher indicated. Philadelphia. 3rd edition. Rough copy with sound, intact text block. Front board detached amd missing. Spine missing the top 1/3 and perishing. Rebinding copy. Fair only with faults. View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 512 pages; 1677 Antonio Goncalez de Reyes, Madrid. [16], 512, [24] p. Full vellum binding. Vellum covers nearly detached from text block. Vellum soiled and wrinkled. Half title page tatterd and torn . Worming here and there throughout, occasionally somewhat heavy - as in the first 15 or so leaves, but usually minor with some interference in the text. Contents appear complete. Some paper restoration needed and attention also to the binding. Margins trimmed and a little tight. With all faults. Fair only View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 58 pages; No date given [circa 1928-29]. Square format paperback designed for display and use from the wall. Formatted much like a wall calendar, with a braided pink silk rope binding looped to serve as a wall hang. Pages formatted horizontally with leaves printed signle side only. Salad recipes grouped sequentially by month. 58 pages, lacking the final page (#59, the index page of salads from L - Z). Front cover doubles as the title page, illustrated with a striking jazz age, flapper themed color design signed "Dudley". Rear part of cover detached and missin... View More...
B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 34 pages; HC in original pale blue paper covered boards. Soundly bound and complete. Covers soiled with damp staining, rust colored spots, to the edges of the rear board. Some soiling and discoloration to the front and rear endpages. Contents clean. With faults. Fair to Good View More...
Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 364 pages; 1856 Robert Carter & Brothers. HC 1st edition. No author or translator given. Framed as stories told by a father to his children with Christain asides and explanations for the pagan ways. Illustrated with some woodcuts. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt. Cloth at sun toned and titles a little dulled. Old 19th century library ownership indications. Binding cords broken mid-book with a clean and complete split mid-book. With faults. Fair only 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; 1372 pages; 1733 Moller. Very stout octavo bound in sturdy (pigskin? ) leather over wooden boards with remanants of brass catches and clasps anchored with brass brads. Leather sides with decorative designs in blind. Later reinforcements with heavy leather straps across the top and bottom of the spine anchored with short iron and brass brads and collars. Binding is sound but there is a pronounced concavity to the page block with the middle portion of the book starting significantly at the front edge and the leather spine indented over the gapping back of the spine. Front and ... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1045 pages; 1846 D. Appleton & Company. HC Three volumes in two, complete. 536; 509 pp. Ex-library with original cloth boards and heavy black tape rebacking with titles painted in white. Reinforced hinges. Library ownership attachments and indications; cloth rubbed and chipped at boards edges. Contents complete with occasional reader marks and light marginalia. A few signatures starting each volume. Sound reading/reference copy. Fair to Good only ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages; Volume 1 of 2, only - "Les Soldats" ... This copy from the de Peyster collection of Napoleonic and 19th century European military history. Ex-library copy from de Peyster's collection donated to establish Franklin & Marshall college library in the late 19th C. Trimmed original wraps mounted to leaves and bound inside Heavy blue cloth covered boards. Library binder's attempts to mount the first several leaves to stubs have not succeeded and the first few leaves are cracked in the margins and are laid in at front. The text block is soundly bound and... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 93 pages; Publisher's unusual binding; floral matter impregnated paper over boards with paper title labels to cover and spine. Boards soundly attached and binding snug, but the top 1.5 inches of the paper over the spine is lost inclusing most of the spine title label. A much smaller chip at base of spine. Contents clean, neat and complete. Good only View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 130 pages; HC in original light green cloth with titles in gilt. Sound decent reading copy with ex-library indications including catalog label to spine and attachments to endpages. Binding sound but shaken; cloth rubbed and a bit frayed at corners and spine ends. Slim length of archival mylar tape placed by library over spine as reinforcement. Scattered pencil marginalia here and there throughout. Reading copy. Fair to good. View More...
Hand colored engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 144 pages; 1865 Davis, Porter & Co. HC 1st American edition of the work which originally appeared in London, 1860. Illustrated with 4 hand colored woodcuts of polar adventures. Bound in original textured brown cloth with originaql endpages intact and complete. Cloth binding is shabby and worn with damp mottling to rear board; if there were gilt designs at spine they have been completely effaced. Top front corners heavily rubbed with boards rounded; cloth chipped away at spine ends. Several prior owner names penciled to front. Binding generally soun... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages; 1812 Edward Parker, Philadelphia. Volume I only (of two). Full leather binding; both boards detached but present. Chipping and loss to top inch or two of leather at spine. Title label chipped and dulled. Geavy damp stains to endpages and last 10 or so leaves. A spill on the worktable perhaps has left a dmap line in the top spine corner of the first 40 or so leaves. General toning to page stock. Text block sound and complete. Fair only View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages; 1867 Anson D. F. Randolph & Co. HC 1st edition. In original green cloth boards with beveled edges; gilt title lettering to cover and spine. Prior library ownership with small white call number painted to spine, call slip pasted to rear endpage and several mild ownership stamps to endpages. Binding shaken; rear most signature nearly loose from cords. Front several leaves loosening. Library's archival tape reinforcement to the junctures between the flyleaf, title and preface pages. Usable but worn; pagestock feels somewhat brittle. Fair to good only View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 192 pages; Ex-library copy. In original cloth. Top 1 inch of cloth chipped from head of spine. Soundly bound reference copy with ex-library label and stamps. Acceptable reference copy. Fair to good only View More...
