Out in the World, a novel
New York: Carleton, 1865. Hardcover. Early printing. Cloth 8vo, good with light wear to spine ends. 312 pp.
New York: Carleton, 1865. Hardcover. Early printing. Cloth 8vo, good with light wear to spine ends. 312 pp.
Boston: William J. Reynolds & Co., 1852. Hardcover. 141 pp. A very good copy in brown cloth backing soiled tan boards. Bumping to edges, corners. Light soil to endpapers, foxing to fore-edge. Textblock bright and unmarked, aside from foxing spots in margins of a few pages. Second edition with illustrations.....
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1847. Hardcover. Later printing. 12mo, 5.25 x 3.5 inches, publisher's cloth, good copy with some wear to binding, rubbing, soil and light stains, contents very good, clean. 288 pp, with additional undated chromolithograph title page. Very uncommon in the trade.
Philadelphia: Theodore Bliss, C. 1869. Hardcover. Later edition. 8vo, purple cloth gilt, good with some wear and fading to spine, contents very good, 300 pp, occasional plate.
Philadelphia: J. M. Stoddart & Co., 1872. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1872. Rust cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine and black designs to the front cover and spine, 364 pp. + ads., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, soiling or age-toning to the pages and page-edges.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Paperback. Printed paper wraps, octavo, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has rubbing and mild edgewear to wraps, binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
Cincinnati: Swormstedt & Poe, 1854. First American Printing. Hardcover. 12mo, cloth good copy, light wear and rubbing to binding, lacking rear flyleaf, text somewhat foxed, old owner's inscription on pastedown. Rising from humble origins, Budgett built up a wholesale grocery business called H.H. & S. Budgett, based in Kingswood Bristol.....
Boston: Heathen Woman's Friend, ca. 1875. Paperback. ca. late 1875 Softcover 12mo, 65pp. Generally very good with light general soil to wrappers and a persistent stain to the upper right corner after p. 23. Small spot on rear wrapper. A rare volume, with only 2 copies on OCLC. Relating to.....
Hamilton, Ontario: S. G. Stone, 1882. Hardcover. First Canadian edition. 8.75 x 6.25 inches, publisher's dark brown embossed pebbled cloth stamped in gilt on spine, good to very good, light wear to spine ends, inner hinges neatly reinforced (some time ago) with black cloth strips, contents very good and clean.....
New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1892. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, octavo, not illustrated. Book has rubbing and mild soil to boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but toned thorughout.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1952. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1952. Cloth hardcover with dust jacket, 402 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket, minor off-setting or age-toning to some pages, creasing or wear to the tips of the dust jacket, dust jacket also with.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. First printing. Hardcover. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ has hint of shelfwear.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket.
New York: Solomon King, 1824. First American Printing. Hardcover. 12mo, 5.5 x 3 inches, old half leather and marbled boards, good copy with wear and rubbing to leather, front joint cracked but still solidly bound, preliminary pages tanned and soiled, foxing to most of text, nice old readable edition. 310.....
Washington DC / Cambridge: The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation / The Fogg Art Museum / Harvard University Press, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1981. Folio, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 298 pp., illustrated (much in color), clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, a bit of.....
Madison, NJ: Golden Hind, 1940. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1940. Limited edition on 250. Hardcover, 8vo. in original glassine dust jacket. 12pp. illustrated with plates. Very good in good dj. Chipping, loss to glassine dust jacket. Light toning to board extremities. Internally bright and unmarked.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1929). Hardcover. C. 1916, but list of Sleepy-Time Tales ends with The Tale of Nimble Deer (1922) and on the rear flap Cuffy Bear's Holidays (published 1929 we believe), so we're thinking 1929 for this especially with 1929 gift inscription on pastedown. Square 8vo, pictorial.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1929). Hardcover. C. 1915, but list of Sleepy-Time Tales ends with The Tale of Nimble Deer (1922) and on the rear flap Cuffy Bear's Holidays (published 1929 we believe), so we're thinking 1929 for this. Square 8vo, pictorial cloth in green color pictorial dust jacket.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1918. Later printing. Hardcover. No clear publication history. Early edition, but probably not a first as the rear dust jacket flap lists "Cuffy Bear's Holiday" last. Blue cloth hardcover with green designs in dust jacket, 128 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked copy, Very Good copy in.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1920. Hardcover. 266 pp. A good+ copy in red cloth. Binding slighty tender with age. Boards show scuffing and wear at extremities. Fore-edge slightly dirty. Yellowing/aging to flyleaf. Contents very clean with bright, unmarked text.
New York: The Archaeological Institute of America, 1979. Paperback. Paperback, 1979, small quarto, 72pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book VG+ with toning, faint cup ring to front panel, stapled binding tight, one pen mark in text near contributor's name, otherwise clean and unmarked but gently toned throughout. No DJ.....
Washington DC: Carnegie Insitution, 1921. First Printing. Pamphlet. Large 8vo, wraps, god with light wear and soil, some abrasions to title page and last page. 170 pp.
St. Louis, MO: The Arthur J. Barnes Publishing Co., 1910. Hardcover. Silver stamped black cloth boards, small quarto with book oriented "portrait style" (I don't know how else to put this--see photos), 206pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has rubbing and soil, edgewear that includes tears to spine ends and.....
LondonMacmillan. Very Good. Cloth hardbound, 297 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, very good+ copy, stamp to front pastedown, slight rubbing/soil to covers, slight wear to edges of book. Binding is Cloth.
1979. Original Wraps. Original Wraps. c.1979. 156pp. Bound dissertation by Donald Arthur Bell. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, some wear to wraps including creasing and some soiling. Contents unmarked.