Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 763 pages; 1797 Joh. Andr. Endter, Nurnberg. Period full pigskin over wooden boards. Front matter missing up to the title page. Title page printed in red and black. Title page and first several leaves with heavy toning and stains bottom third of the page and with shallow chipping and loss along those edges. Text block a little convex and starting from the boards with page block surface rubbed at front. Prior ownership at rear dated 1826. Straps and clasps lacking. Illustrated with woodcuts. Binding sound; text block complete. Good 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...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 90 pages; By the American Sunday School Union, 146 Chestbut St. , Philadelphia. 1/4 leather over paper boards. This copy printed prior to the Sunday School Union's move to 148 Chestnut in 1853. Leather spine title lettered "Harriet & Scholars." Paper boards have their marbled paper covering largely missing. Frontis engraving missing, either not bound in or possible removed. Ront endpage neatly removed as well as a corner area of the front pastedown - very likely the product of an owner's wish to remove ownership marks. Binding remains sound but with some we... 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...
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...
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...
Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages; 1863 Galen James & Co. Boston. Vol XII, Nos 1-6 of the digest sized magazine edited by "Oilver Optic" pseudonym of William T. Adams. These six issues include the complete serialized first novel in the Paul Clifford series, all of which were published in the magazine and never issued in contemporary book form. Six single issue magazines in original woodcut pictorial wraps. Each is bound with 3 hole string tie with pictorial covers laid over. Several issues with rear cover detached. Spine edges rubbed and furred. Some soiling and toning to covers generally... View More...
Lithographic plate; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 28 pages; Disbound from Vol II of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Original monograph lacks title wraps and is sewn together with a single looped thread. Lower front corner has about 10 leaves creased/dogeared. Light soiling to title page and back of final leaf. Includes the large lithographic plate called for. A candidate for recasing in wraps or boards. Contents neat. G+ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; Five volumes, complete. Xl, 1-407; 1-432; 1-432; 1-522; 1-568 pp. Ten page Longman Hurst....publisher's catalog bound in at front. In original drap paper covered boards with paper backed spines with paper title labels. Contents complete and clean. Boards generally detached with a few hanging on by cords; paper backed spines chipped and rubbed with flaking and chipping to title labels. Bookplates to front pastedowns of each volume of a east coast liberal arts college Belles Lettres society. Expected scattered mild spotting to page stock. Uncommon in the enlarged revis... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; Almanac Calendar for German speaking Americans. Thread sewn binding in pictorial wraps with woodcut pictorial design. Stressing and dogearing at front corners. Furring and chipping to paper strip covereing spine edge. Dark damp stain top 1/2 of pages with intensity diminishing from back to front. Good only thus View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 24 pages; 1945 Geoffrey Cumberlege. Trade sized paperback in original title lettered wraps. Ex-library copy with expected institutional indications. Covers have edge rubbing, a few short closed tears and furring over the spine edge. Contents clean. Reading copy. Good only View More...
Toned plates & drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 141 pages; HC in original brown cloth with pictorial paper title label to cover board; gilt title lettering design to spine rubbed and effaced with titles remaining only in blind. Soundly bound but shaken with endpage joints intact but tender. Scattered thumbing and light soiling from use to the pages. Boards a bit shelf bumped at corners; cloth rubbed and slightly frayed at spine ends. Pictorial title label to cover board is rubbed and a little faded. Illustrated with 4 colored plates on glossy stock from designs by Liley Young along with co... View More...
Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; No. 7 of the Phyllis Johnson published avant-garde art and culture magazine. This issue is the British issue designed by John Kosh and edited by Mario Amaya. It lacks two of the 14 sections; #8, the Lennon Diary and #10, the flexible phonograph recording of John Tavener / Christopher Logue . All other sections, including the Lennon Yoko phonograph disc, the Hockney piece and others are present in about VG or better condition. The hinged die-cut box designed by Richard Smith is crushed with stress creasing and short tears at the top edge and has shelf soiling top ed... View More...
B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 64 pages; Cincinnati 1951 Convention Issue of the ATA Annual. Oversize paperback in glossy color illustrated covers. Covers split along the spine edge and loose. Saddle stapled contents clean. Illustrated with b&w photographs and trade ads for buses and street traction transport. Uncommon. G to G+ View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 435 pages; 1933/1934. The first 7 issues of the "Yale Studies in Religion" bound together in 1 volume with original title lettered card stock covers bound in. Being principally papers based on dissertations submitted for Doctorate degrees at Yale (Dept of Religion). This ex-library copy collects the first 7 issues in one volume, bound in heavy library buckram cloth. By appearances the 7 individual works were at one time shelved independently and later bound together. Bound in cover for #1 is stressed in the gutter with some paper repairs to the first s... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 299 pages; Original decorative cloth with scrolling and bordering in black to cover and spine. Titles struck in gilt to spine and cover; board edges bevelled . Binding sound; contents clean. Endpages complete and sound. Cloth rubbed and bumped at corners with light fray. Cloth frayed a bit at spine ends. Prior owner name penciled front endpage. Illustrated frontis. Sound and complete; uncommon in original edition. Good View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 372 pages; HC in original drab paper covered boards with title lettered paper label to spine. 1st edition. Contents soundly bound and clean. Paper over boards chipped at spine ends with creasing and partial splits along the spine edge. Title label with chips, creases and soiling but legible with complete lettering. Prior ownership in manuscript and with a small circular ink stamp to the front endpage. Sound decent copy which would benefit with some minimal restoration/rebacking. Uncommon. G+ View More...
Woodcuts; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 64 pages; HC early printing. Bound in color lithrograph illustrated paper covered boards. Paper chipped with loss along the spine edge and spine ends. Light damp spill evidence along the edges of the boards and the page margins. Light spotting and soiling to page surfaces. Endearing gift inscription and notations to both front and rear endpages dated Christmas 1873 - to Henry Heinamen from Hettie Copenheffer - Columbia, PA. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Good only at best View More...
Mcloughlin # 2782; Chromo-lithograph cover and frontis; woodcuts; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 285 pages; Oversize HC 4to in publisher's glazed color lithograph illustrated paper covered boards, with green 1/4 cloth backed spine. McLoughlin catalog #2782 lettered in the cover design. Illustrated with a handsome chromolithograph frontis plate and over 180 woodcuts. 285pp. Gilt title design to cloth spine is faded but dimly legible. Paper rubbed with abrasion and rub through to boards at edges. Binding shaken and with a split to the front joint in the endpage gutter. Otherwise sound and complete... View More...
Drawings, cartoons, satire ads; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 48 pages; January 1932 Dell Publishing. Vol I, No. 6. Magazine in color pictorial covers with saddle stapled binding. A highpoint of pictorial humor magazines that flourished in the depression era. This copy is bright and generally neat. Page 5/6 is missing, neatly torn out. Otherwise complete and well preserved. Graded down for the missing page. Good only thus View More...
