Woodstock: David Watson, 1828. Hardcover. Leather spine with marbled boards. Marbling is faded, showing resued printed paper underneath, some minor chipping and rubbing, edgewear. Pages are foxed with a few minor tears. More
Brookfield: E. Merriam & Co., 1798. Hardcover. 12mo. Scarce. First edition. Full contemporary calf shows wear and rubbing, loss on the corners. Names of former owners in the prelims, minor writing on the rear blanks. Pages are lightly tanned with minor soiling, foxing, and holing... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1922. Hardcover. Illustrated green cloth cover with decoration in green and orange, gilt title on the spine, cover shows minor wear. Bookseller label on the front pastedown. Foxing on the edges. Pages are lightly tanned with some minor scattered foxing. Some minor underlining throughout, handwritten..... More
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910-01-01. Hardcover. Original dust jacket shows moderate wear, tear, tanning, chipping, and foxing. Cover is near pristine. Light foxing on the edges, pages are clean. More
Western publishing house, 1891-01-01. Unknown Binding. Scarce. This is an illustrated volume containing multi-layered chromolithographs of human anatomical structures (manikins), each layer opening to reveal the layer beneath. Each layer is linen-backed for safe opening and closing.The multi-layered chromolithographs feature human anatomical structures including the abdominal and thorax, the arm..... More
Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., 1886. Hardcover. Color illustrated cover of a young girl in red dress and two lambs, cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Gift inscription in the prelims. Color frontispiece. Pages are lightly tanned. Profusely illustrated in black and white. SCARCE... More
1849-01-01. Hardcover. 1849 complete Godey's Lady's Book, all issues bound together without wraps. Includes 1st printing of Edgar Alle Poe's satirical dystopian sci-fi story "Mellonta Tauta" in the February issue (page 133 of the first half), 12 hand-colored plates (11 fashion plates and 1 botanical), many engravings and illustrations in..... More
London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1757. Hardcover. Scarce. 1757 first edition. Includes "Glory," addressed to the Duke of Cumberland, and "Paris, or the Force of Beauty," dedicated to David Garrick. Boyce was an English engraver and poet who worked in the South Sea Company House and who was friends with..... More
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Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900. Hardcover. First edition, second state (1900) as indicated by Geo. M. Hill publisher, no box around the ads on page 2, imperfect type on p. 100 and 186. Scarce. Tanning/dust wear to boards. A couple pencil marks on boards. Splitting at hinges, but binding is..... More
de Laurence Company, 1910-01-01. Hardcover. A copy in FINE condition with some minor stains on the rear board. More
J. B. Lippincott Company, 1872-01-01. Hardcover. First edition, scarce. Ex-library copy with usual markings in a library binding with remnants of original cloth back on the spine. Name of former owner in the prelims. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. More
London: T. Woodward, et al. 1744. Hardcover. 2-volume set, in folio. v.1: [12], xvi, [4], 984 pp., 27 plates. v.2: [10], 1056 pp., [22], 34 plates. Bound in full calf with 6 raised bands on the spines, red title lables and black volume labels, gilt decoration and ruling. Top boards..... More
Richmond: B.F. Johnson & Co., 1887. Hardcover. Bound in full leather which shows some wear and rubbing, soiling and loss at the corners. Marbled endpapers. Pages are mostly clean, profusely illustrated. More
London: Dow & Lester, ca. 1890. Hardcover. An unusual Victorian autograph book. Names are signed in ink pen vertically down the middle of the page and the page is folded over while the ink is wet to create a "ghost" pattern as it smudges and blots. This copy has ghost..... More
London: Rivington & Fletcher, 1759. Hardcover. 2-volume set, complete. 8vo., [20] 455pp. and [8] 387pp. First English-language edition. 4 engraved plates, each with 2 images, plus a folding copper-engraved map. Mid-20th century binding in full leather with gilt decorations, covers show very minor edgewear. Patterned endpapers. Pages lightly tanned with..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1905. Paperback. Bell's Indian & Colonial Library edition, 1905. Original red wraps with minor chipping, rubbing, and creasing on the spine. Small stain on the edges, pages are lightly tanned and clean. Scarce. A precursor and likely inspiration for Burrough's classic "A Princess of Mars,"..... More
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. Paperback. 8vo, 14 x 22.5 cm. Engraved title and plates after Luke Fildes. Publisher's blue-green pictorial wraps. Moderate soiling and chipping to the wrappers, rear wrap of part 1 detached, slight loss to the spines and some curling edges, light tanning. "Price Eighteenpence" on part..... More
Chemnitz: E. Schmeitzner, 1882. Hardcover. First edition, 1882. Hardcover with original front wrap bound-in. Cloth spine and corners in brown with gilt lettering on the spine, paper-covered boards speckled in brown and yellow, some rubbing to the extremities, tears at the crown of the spine. Evidence of removed bookplate on..... More
Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1943-01-01. Hardcover. Stated first edition, inscribed and SIGNED by Orville Wright on the title page: "To Mr. Huxtable / Orville Wright" Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector. Dust jacket with faded spine, minor nicks and chipping to the edges/corners, rubbing. Blue cloth..... More
New York: Holt, Boni, Seltzer, 1923-1932. Hardcover. 12-volume set, the FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS. Vols. 1&2: Swann's Way, Henry Holt & Co., 1923, 303 & 288 pp., label of former owner on rear pastedowns. Vols. 3&4: Within A Budding Grove, Tomas Seltzer, 1924, 396 & 356 pp., gift inscriptions in the..... More
London: Septimus Prowett, 1824. Hardcover. Volume 2 only. Luxury binding in full green morocco with lavish gilt decoration, red title lables on the spine, raised band, gilt dentelles. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing fading and soiling. All edges gilt, red endpapers. Pages with minor foxing... More
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1795. Hardcover. 4-volume set, complete. 55 plates, 2 torn but included, with some offsetting. Torn page 437/438. Uniformly bound in full calf with gilt decoration and labels in red and green on the spines, covers show minor wear and rubbing, edgewear and bumped corners. Name label of..... More
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1834. Hardcover. Scarce. Inscribed by the author without signature: "To Serjeant Frere / with Kind Regards / from the Author." William Frere was an English lawyer, law-serjeant, academic, and Master of Downing College, Cambridge. Edward Moor was a British soldier for the East India Company..... More
Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878-01-01. Hardcover. First American edition, translated by Edward Roth. Green cloth cover with black and gilt illustration/decoration, cover shows moderate wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, loss at the foot and crown of the spine. Missing the front free endpaper, stamped front pastedown. Name of former..... More
