Santa Barbara, CA Alexander Irvi, 1922-01-01. Unknown Binding. Dust jacket shows moderate wear and tear, chipping and soiling, fading. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author with extra notes in the prelims by the author giving more information about the book, including a picture affixed to the front pastedown...... More
Wien: Drescher & Comp. 1890. Hardcover. Decorative red cloth cover with black and gilt decoration and lettering, cover shows minor wear. Former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown, marbled endpapers, loose hinges. Pages are tanned and clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. German language blackletter... More
New York: J.C. Buttre, 1861. Hardcover. Illustrated with 14 steel engravings. Red cloth with extensive gilt decoration, boards are detached and show minor rubbing and wear. All edges gilt. Pages are foxed, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. More
Philadelphia: William Duane, 1809. Hardcover. Half-leather cover with marbled boards, shows moderate wear and ear, edgewear and rubbing, missing the backstrip. Marbled edges and endpapers. Pages are tanned with minor scattered foxing and tidemarks. More
Philadelphia: T.S. Manning, 1818. Hardcover. Half-leather cover with marbled boards, shows moderate wear and tear, rubbing and edgewear, missing the backstrip, cracked joints. Marbled edges and endpapers. Name of former owner in the prelims. Pages are tanned with minor scattered foxing. More
Philadelphia: William Duane, 1817. Hardcover. Half-leather bottom board with marbling is detached, replaced top board, missing the backstrip. Marbled edges and rear endpaper. Pages are tanned with minor scattered foxing. A good candidate for rebinding. More
London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1824. Hardcover. 3-volume set, complete. Half-leather with marbled boards and raised bands, covers show minor edgewear. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pages show minor scattered foxing. 2nd English-language edition. More
Providence: The Author, 1839. Hardcover. First edition. Contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper: "Presented by Mrs. Major Saunders, in consideration of the acquaintance which existed between the the Donee & her Father, Gen. William North, in the revolutionary war." Another inscription, dated 1846, is affixed to the back of..... More
Librairie Plon, 1971. Hardcover. 20-volume set, uniformly bound in brown paper which looks like leather, extensive gilt decoration. Pages show minor foxing, text is intact and unmarred. More
Charlotta A. Bass, 1960. Hardcover. RARE, no other copies available! The memoirs of Charlotta Bass, the first African American woman to own and operate a newspaper (The California Eagle) in the USA. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Slight reading wear, textblock seperate from boards but..... More
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1900. Hardcover. 7-volume set, complete. Uniformly bound in half leather with raised bands and gilt on the spines, covers show minor wear and rubbing, fading on the spine. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pages are clean. More
Ladvocat, 1826-01-01. Hardcover. 21 books, 18 volumes (double volumes 4, 5, and 18). Quarter leather covers with marbled boards, gilt decoration and lettering on the spines. Marbled edges and endpapers. Covers show moderate wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, chipping and loss on the spines. Pages are mostly clean with..... More
[The China Publishing Company], 1937-01-01. Hardcover. Seventh Impression of Edition Deluxe, Sept 1938. - Signed by Madame Chiang Kai-shek on a Presentation Page ( with her red 4 character seal mark beneath signature). - Bound in original red silk, gold lettering to front; floral print to spine; bound with purple..... More
Rosho Corp, 1959-01-01. Hardcover. Second Printing is Stated. *Signed and inscribed by Dick Clark (Not personalized) on the full-title page, " Best Wishes, / Dick Clark. - . Dust Jacket is unclipped with publisher's price ($2.95 ) on inside flap. Jacket has been placed into a removable, clear plastic protector..... More
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co., 1905. Paperback. Publisher's lithographic pictorial wrapper, cover shows minor wear and tear, chipping and rubbing, soiling and creasing. Illustrated. Pages tanned. 8vo. Presumed first. More
Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938-01-01. Hardcover. Dust Jacket is in a removable, clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows minor wear. Signed by Virginia and Dana Lamb, as well as the former owner on the front free endpaper. Stated first edition. Pages are tanned and clean, text and pictures are intact and..... More
New York: Virtue and Yorston, 1869. Hardcover. Decorative red leather cover with gilt lettering and blindstamped designs, raised bands, shows minor wear and soiling, moderate rubbing and loose joints. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Pages are tanned and clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. More
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Henri Jonquieres & Cie, 1924-01-01. Hardcover. 4-volume set. Volume 1 is missing the backstrip and the bottom board is detached. Other volumes show minor wear and rubbing. Pages are tanned and clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. More
Prentice-Hall, 1959-01-01. Hardcover. Blue cloth cover shows minor wear and soiling, no dust jacket. First edition. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. Note written on stationary from Hotel Pierre, New York, from Cecil B. DeMille to Barrett Kiesling, MGM Publicity Directory, dated June 21, 1931, laid-in..... More
Madrid: D. Joachin Ibarra, 1773. Hardcover. Bound in full contemporary vellum with handwritten title on the spine, cover shows minor wear and rubbing, soiling and holing. Bookplate on the front pastedown and writing on the first page. Steel-engraved plates. Minor foxing on the edges, some discoloration. Biopredation/holing throughout... More
Printed for A. Strahan, and T. C, 1796. Hardcover. First edition. Volume I only! Front board has detached, could be repaired by an expert. Otherwise in good condition! Bound in full tree calf with gilt border, 6 raised bands on spine, gilt-tooled floral motifs. Some bumping to corners, a few..... More
American Tract Society, 1850-01-01. Hardcover. Full leather cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages show minor foxing, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. More
E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1932. Hardcover. First ed, signed and inscibed under frontispiece by the author only 2 months before her death and inscribed to Barrett Kiesling, publicity director for MGM during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Personal letter and obituary in an envelope pasted on title page. Pink..... More
Junior Literary Guild and the Jo, 1937-01-01. Hardcover. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author to Barrett Kiesling, Publicity Directory for MGM Studios, and his wife. Dust jacket shows minor wear and tear, chipping and tanning. Illustrated endpapers. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and..... More
Cadell and Davies, 1813-01-01. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings, tape-reinforced spine, some erosion to the extremities. Loose hinges/gutters, reinforced with binder's tape. 139pp. Bound together with "Ode to Her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Great" published by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815, 27pp. & "Poetical Epistle to the Right Hon..... More