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...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 504 pages; Bound in full period calf with dulled morocco title label to spine. One of two original straps present and working. Soundly bound and complete. Leather at board edges and surfaces rubbed and lightly scarred. Leather at spine more heavily worn with some chipping and loss of the polished surface layer of the leather - affecting the lower 1/3 of the spine. Spine label legible and complete. Prior owner's ink name stamp several times to front flyleaf. A few pencil doodles to the rear endpage/s. Contents bright and clean with much lighter toning than usually ... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 504 pages; 4th printing, thus. Bound in full period calf with both original straps and clasps present and functional. Soundly bound and complete. Leather at spine creased and rubbed; shallow chipping to leather at spine ends. Front board tender in the joint. Usual and expected general light toning and spotting to page stock. Thin damp line along the top edge of the endpages. G++ to VG- View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 1st edition of this important and enduring Lancaster Mennonite songbook. Bound in full period polished calf which is chipped at spine ends and rubbed at edges; both clasps are lacking. Text block is intact and the paper is supple, though with expected light uniform toning. Rear board is detatched, front board holding. Paged [6], 79, [1], 415, [1], 17, [1]pp ; 18 cm. Some pages with bars of music. Printed in two columns. Bound, as always, with Ein Neues Unpartheyisches Gesangbuch, with separate title page and pagination. Also imprinted Johann Albrecht, 1804 (Shaw an... 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...
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...
1906; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 116 pages; Circa 1975. No printer identified. An offset facsimile reproduction of the original book published in 1906. In title lettered, card stock covers with spiral comb binding. Printg reproduction is very good; contents clean. Light shelf and handling wear to covers and contents. G+ ... View More...
B&W Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 94 pages; Sound, clean copy. No marks. Light general toning to covers and pagestock. Front cover lightly curled at front edge. Corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Illustrated with B&W drawings. VG- View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 142 pages; 1841 Charles Bell. HC Soundly bound in quarter leather backed spine and yellow paper covered boards lettered and bordered in black. Examples and facsimiles of letters and forms throughout. Paper covered boards shelf and storage soiled. Boards rubbed and worn at corners. Prior ownership at front; expected and usual scattered light toning and spotting. G++ View More...
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...
B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 458 pages; HC In original green cloth boards with decoratively gilt stamped spine cloth laid down on a recent rebacking. Original pale yellow endpages intact. Binding snug; contents complete and very neat. Cloth corners lightly bumped; a short, very shallow divot (about 1/2 in length) out of the front edge of the rear board. Rebacked spine has been done professionally but using a rather heavy buckram underneath the original cloth spine panel. Two lengths of cloth tape carefully applied in the gutters of the front and rear endpages. Contents VG+ in ... View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 320 pages; 1928 Philadelphia Chapter A. I. A. And the T Square Club, Philadelphia. Oversize HC in original gray quarter cloth backed spine with title lettered paper covered boards. Binding shaken but sound; rubbing, flaking and chipping to paper over boards at edges and tips. Moderate silverfish scaling to quarter cloth spine. Contents clean and neat. Consists largely of b&w photos and drawings from highpoints of Phialdelphia area architect's work. Includes 72 pp of trade ads at rear. G+ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shippi... View More...
B&W Photos and Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 307 pages; Soundly bound in original blue cloth with titles in gilt to spine. A little bit of damp bubbling to cloth adjacent to the joints and light soling to rear board. Mild dhself rubbing to cloth at spine ends; some of the b&w plate leaves show a mild damp ripple but no discoloration orstaining to pages of the book. G++ View More...
B&W Photographs & Drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 32 pages; Vol. XXVIII. No. 2, March-April, 1945. Single issue WWII aviation bi-monthly magazine published by the Curtiss-Wright aircraft co. 32 pages magazine format with pictorial covers and saddle stapled binding. Numerous articles on the exploits of aviators flying Curtiss planes. Light shelf rubbing to cover edges and surfaces; thin area of fading to the color of the cover along the spine and top edges. Mild rust to binding staples. Illustrated with photos and drawings. G++ to VG- View More...
24mo 5" - 6" tall; 117 pages; Small paperback in title lettered covers. Tight bright and fresh. Just a whisper of shelf/handling evidence to covers at edges. Some underlining and marginal notation pencilled to first 25 pages and prior owner's name penned to front end page. Solid copy. G++ to VG- View More...
Ut with ex-library indications including a catalog label at spine and light attachments to endpages. Mild sunning at spine. Snug with clean text; condition graded down to reflect prior institutional ownership indications but generally about VG. G+ thus; Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 227 pages; HC in original port red cloth with titles in gilt. Snugly bound with clean contents, but with ex-library indications including residue of a catalog label at spine and light attachments to endpages. Snug with clean text; condition graded... View More...
Woodcut figures; folding map; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 92 pages; 1845 Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington. 1st edition. 92 pp with folding color map at rear. This copy presumably published in paper covers, lacking in this copy. Bound with a 3 hole stab and single thread. Light spotting to page stock, heavier at front and back. Top corners ofthe last 15 or so leaves dog eared. Hand colored map of Vermont by Zadock Thomspon is wrinkled and lightly soiled with ruffled edges and an arrowhead sized chip from the "western" edge, with a very small area of loss to the map itself. Uncommon in the original edition.... View More...
Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages; 1863 Galen James & Co. / Joseph H. Allen, Boston. Vol XII, Nos 7-12 of the digest sized magazine edited by "Oilver Optic" pseudonym of William T. Adams. These six issues include the complete serialized second novel in the Paul Clifford series, "Onward & Upward, Or, Paul Clifford in Search of a Situation." All of the Clifford series 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. The magazine swit... View More...
B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 409 pages; [SIGNED] 1949 Doubleday. HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in two tone cloth; signed by both authors on the front endpage. Ex-library copy with shelf rubbing and wear to extremities. Small catalog number painted base of spine; card pocket and labels to rear endpages. Illustrated throughout with b&w photos showing over a thousand button varieties. Contents clean and unmarked. Decent reference copy signed by authors. G+; Signed by All Authors View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 276 pages; 1884 Roberts Brothers. HC 1st edition. Variant olive green cloth binding with decorative pictorial title design in gilt and black to cover and spine. Shallow fray to cloth at spine ends and corner tips. Prior owner has mounted a type written descriptive catalog label to the floral paterned front endpage; above this label is a rectangular abrasion from a label or bookplate removed. Light remanant of a different plate removed on rear pastedown. Blank front endpage torn out likely to remove ownership inscription. A few signatures starting at front edge. Illustrated... View More...
