Popular Chinese Tales
Peking: Ho Chi Press, 1930. First printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo, boards, fair copy with wear to spine and waterstaining to covers and edges of pages, 101 pp.
Peking: Ho Chi Press, 1930. First printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo, boards, fair copy with wear to spine and waterstaining to covers and edges of pages, 101 pp.
Northfield, MN: Loomis House Press, 2001. Second edition. Hardcover. This volume ONLY. 2001. Second edition thus. Hardcover, 8vo. in dust jacket. 631pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Internally unmarked.
State College, PA: Department of Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University, 1966-1969. Paperback. First seven issues! Paperbacks, 1966-69, octavos, 20-42 pages each, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Books fine with handsome wraps and tight stapled bindings tight, texts clean and unmarked. No DJs.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1926. Hardcover. 8vo. 411pp. Very Good in Fair dustjacket. Light general shelfwear, rubbing to edges, light age toning to contents. Heavy wear to dustjacket, chipping and tears with loss, age toned / darkened.
Hildburghausen und New York: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1834. Hardcover. Leather hardbound 16mo; clean, unmarked text; frontispiece; German language edition; four separate paginations in one volume. Very Good copy shows little wear and soil; light rubbing and bumping to corners, and spine head and foot, with minor loss; spine slightly.....
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., 1934. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1934, hardcover with pictorial black cloth boards, octavo, 144pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with some rubbing and mild wear to boards, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf and foreword page, binding tight, text clean and unmarked.....
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1864. Hardcover. Published 1864, 8vo, original green pebbled cloth, xix, 282 pp, 122 plates. Good copy, tightly bound, gilt lettering on spine almost completely effaced, some glue stains to front pastedown, small ink stain to bottom outer corner up to p. 13, other ink stains.....
Norwich: 1867. First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's light brown cloth, good with some wear to corners and spine ends, contents very good, lacks rear flyleaf, with original photographic frontispieces of Rev. D. N. Bentley and his wife, and a third photoplate of Pardon T. Kenney, the presiding elder. 270 pp.
Shepherdstown, WV: American Canal Society, 1975. Paperback. Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, octavo, 48pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has mild shelfwear to wraps and hint of sun to spine, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
Shepherdstown, WV: American Canal Society, 1975. Paperback. Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, octavo, 48pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has mild shelfwear to wraps and hint of sun to spine, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1887. Hardcover. Hardcover with blue cloth boards, 1887, octavo, 167pp., not illustrated. Book VG with rubbing and soil to boards and spine, gilt title band on spine rubbed but still legible, wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, previous owner's plate to front pastedown.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 1954, First Edition. Hardcover, 4to., cloth-backed boards. 200 pp., and 24 b&w plates. Very Good, no dust jacket. Wear and light fraying to the boards at the upper corners; former owner's signature on the fly leaf and half-title page; otherwise a sound.....
Ithaca, NY: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, 1981, hardcover with gray cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 190pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild cock to spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Fourth edition. Paperback. Fourth edition, 1985. Softcover, 740 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good+ copy, some rubbing or wear to the tips and edges of the covers and some creasing to the spine, light soil or discoloration to the page-edges. Linguist Paul Hopper's copy.....
New York: Benziger Brothers, Ca. 1885. Hardcover. Stated Second edition, no date, but preface dated 1883. Small 8vo, publisher's mauve cloth with gilt harp and black shamrock on front cover, very good, light wear and soil to cloth, pages tanning. 184 pp.
Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1994. Softcover. Printed paper wraps, octavo, not illustrated. Book has hint of wear to wraps, binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
no place: Thomas Coakley, 1917. Hardcover. RARE! Cloth backed boards, octavo, 59pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has mild wear to spine ends, gentle rubbing to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but gently toned throughout. No DJ.
no place: Thomas Coakley, 1917. Hardcover. RARE! Cloth backed boards, octavo, 59pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has mild wear to spine ends, gentle rubbing to boards including wear to title plate at front board, corners worn, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but gently toned throughout. No DJ...
New York: J. J. Augustin Publishers, 1946. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1946. Quarto, cloth hardcover, 132 pp., heavily illustrated, clean unmarked text, a Very Good copy, a few minor marks from local art musuem (bookplate, number on spine, etc.), light wear to the tips of the covers, no dust.....
New York: Routledge, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Printed paper covered boards, octavo, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has mild rubbing to boards, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked, feels unread. No DJ.
Chicago: Duluth Press Publishing Co., C. 1899. Hardcover. First or early edition. Publisher's red cloth gilt with embossed buffalo head on cover, 296 pp, illustrated (we count 16 plates including frontispiece). Handsome tight copy.
New York: Italica Pr. 1996. First English language edition. Paperback. 1996. First English language edition. Paperback, 169 pp. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Near fine.
Tempe: Arizona State University, 2000. First printing. Paperback. Quarto, softcover, illustrated, 391 pp., illustrated, Very Good copy, some soiling and discoloration to the outer pages and covers, rubbing and wear to the book's covers including light creasing or tearing at the tips. Uncommon book.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974. Hardcover. First edition (though number line ends in a "4", so likely a fourth printing), 1974. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 361 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket, owner's signature on the front flyleaf, some soiling.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. First edition, 1970. Hardcover in dust jacket, 158 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Good dust jacket, tape-ghosts to the underside of the dust jacket, soiling and discoloration to the dust jacket, dust jacket also.....