With embossed gilt borders very similar to Thomas Nelson penny cards of the 1850s-60s, the 8 smaller cards measure 3.75 x 2 inches, the three larger cards measure 6 x 4 inches. All are good with some abrasions to versos from having been in an album. On glossy paper, or.....
The pheasant hunting photo is dated October 28, 1935, Mitchell SD, visible part of the photo measures 18.5 x 11.5 inches; frame measures approx. 23 x 16 inches, original mat, not examined outside the frame. The duck hunting photo is not place or time-identified, but same gentleman, seems like a......
Group of material from a teacher who taught a Basic Skills Workshop in the summer of 1965 to black high school seniors at Tuskegee's high school planning on attending Tuskegee Institute as collegians. Includes 30 pp. of handwritten or typed student essays and creative writing (much on the black experience.....
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1954. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1954. Cloth hardcover with dust jacket, 227 pp. + ads., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Good dust jacket, light soiling or discoloration to the page-edges, minor bumping to the tips of the covers, soiling and discoloration to.....
Cincinnati: The Torch of Reason Publishers, 1912. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1912. Gilt pictorial red cloth, 477 pp., 2 pp ads, several pictorial plates in b/w. About very good, some fading to spine, minor fading and soil to covers, light occasional soil to contents. Extremely rare work of proletarian.....
Zurich: Max Niehans Verlag, 1942. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, book very good, minor fading to edges of binding, light tanning to contents, jacket good and mainly complete but with some soil and chipping. 726 pp. The pioneering work of existential phenomenological psychology, drawing on the.....
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, very good, light wear to jacket at corners and tips. Inscribed: "To Richard Dillon, with memories of Boulder in the old days. William S. Burroughs, March 13, 1984. Lawrence Kansas." Dillon, a poet and astrologer, lived.....
Augsburg: no publisher stated, ca. 1780. Unbound. Vue d'optique hand-colored copper plate engraving "Prospect von London" by Ios. Carmine text at bottom that reads "A View of the South East Prospect of London from the Tower to London Bridge/Ansicht von London von der Sud-West Seite des Thurms (Citadelle) bis zur.....
Berlin: Weltkreis-Verlag, 1928. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1928. Cloth-backed boards, 290 pp., Good copy, pencil-notes to one page of the text and to the rear pastedown, bookplate on the front pastedown, a little bit of creasing to the tips of some pages, soiling and age-toning to the pages and.....
London: Cassell and Company, 1929. First printing. Hardcover. Signed by Charteris on the titlepage. First edition, 1929. Cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine, gilt top edge, map endpapers, clean unmarked text, 399 pp., illustrated, Near Fine copy, light discoloration and wear to the book's covers, no dust jacket.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, finely bound in quarter green niger, gilt titled, over marbled boards, by the Athene Bindery, Wootton, Woodstock, Oxon. Fine copy. Either bound specially by the publisher for the editor or commissioned by Robinson himself, purchased in a lot of.....
Tajecti ad Rhenum (Utrecht): Broedelet, 1717. Hardcover. Published 1717, 12mo (5.5 inches, 14 cm) vellum, (12) 355 (79) pp, engraved title page, 2 folding zodiacal plates, folding world map, double page maps of Europe, ancient Spain, France, Germany and Switzerland, contemporary Germany, British Isles, Northern Germany, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands and.....
Measures 12 x 9 inches, on good heavy stock, front cover with painted rose a little worn and yellowed, otherwise very good. Each is neatly signed and dated, the majority are pencil studies and sketches. Ida Cook was probably living in Western Pennsylvania, since we acquired this in a local.....
A generous letter written to someone who clearly was starting out as a poet and had some basic questions for Creeley, who took the time and care to answer at length, first defining what poetry is ('poetry is language charged with meaning to the highest degree'), the place of rhyme.....
Liverpool, UK: Cunard-White Star, 1936. Paperback. Fine lot of 26 items from a 1936 cruise aboard the Cunard White-Star M.V. Georgic to the West Indies, including menus, passenger list, notices of shore excursions, and a cruise periodical. Varying paginations, in pictorial wraps. Lot overall very good, with light edgewear or.....
Paris: Prault, Cailleau, Bordelet, 1728. Hardcover. 1728 edition (previous editions in Paris & Amsterdam appeared in 1721 and 1724). 2 volumes. Quarto, contemporary full smooth light brown calf with heavily gilt embellished spines, pp. (6), xxxviii, 626; xx (2), 770 (2) with 70 copperplates. Good plus set, wear and cracking.....
Amstelredam (Amsterdam): Jean de Ravesteyn, 1670. Second edition. Hardcover. 1670, Second French edition. Translated from the Flemish by Jean de la Haye. Approx. 720 pp., with index. Engraved title page and numerous engraved portraits throughout. Hardcover, folio. Rebacked with new leather spine; original leather boards present; new floral endpapers. Boards.....
London: Early English Text Society, N. Trubner, 1868. First printing. Hardcover. 9 x 6 inches, contemporary half deep red morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine, very good, light wear and rubbing, slight corner loss to title page, which also has a high school library stamp on it (no other marks.....
New York: George H. Doran, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 1927. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in blue cloth, dust jacket. 284pp. illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Very good in good dust jacket. 1 by 2 inch loss to front panel, title of dust jacket, shallow chipping to extremities. Dj soiled, clipped, otherwise.....
Toronto: Studio / Gallery Press, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. No. 90 of 400 signed, additionally inscribed to Martins Ferry OH photographer Jay Stock, oblong folio (15.25 x 11.25), half cloth and velvet boards, 12 platinum prints on rag paper with deckle edges, mounted, fine copy in original slipcase that is.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1782. Quarto, original tree calf, gilt spine, red spine label, (7) 4-298 (1-errata) pp. Very good, light rubbing and wear, minor library marks (bookplate on pastedown, blindstamp on title page) otherwise a clean bright copy.
Hardcover. Undated, but probably ca. 1897-1902; we found record of a Helen V. Connors, 1888-1973, born in Boston, lived in Bedford, Newton and Needham, and that seems to fit the time period and fashion style. 10.25 inches tall, cloth backed marbled boards with Connors' name on cover and first page.....
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1861. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, original pebbled brown cloth, very good, bookplate of William Libbey and smaller bookplate of the Libbey Library of Physical Geography at Clark University (and their release stamp), plus ink stamp of William Libbey Jr. on title page. William Libbey III.....
London: Macmillan, 1970. First UK edition. Hardcover. Signed on title page. Boards in dust jacket, book very good plus, just a touch of wear, jacket very good plus to near fine, lightest wear, one tiny tear to upper left of front panel, slight toning to rear panel, tiny snag to.....
London: George C. Harrap, 1936. Number 106 of 460 copies signed by the illustrator, Arthur Rackham. 4to., rebound by Jas. Macdonald of NY in half raspberry red morocco with raised bands, gilt spine design, teg, and matching endpapers. A fine copy in a beautiful binding. All of the Rackham color.....