Hardcover. 15.5 x 11.5 inches in flexible papercovered boards in a modernist pattern, with close to 100 photos, all neatly captioned, mainly 4.5 x 3.5" photos, some larger and commercially obtained tourist photos. Taken probably by a member of the Slack family, as there are multiple images showing an older.....
New York: The University Society, ND. Judging from some of the contents, we're guessing this was issued concurrently with the 1917 or the 1919 edition of the Young Folks Treasury set, edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie and others, usually 12 volumes, and we're making the assumption that these are the.....
NY: New York: James F. Drake, Inc., 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 350 printed by Rudge, typography by Bruce Rogers. 8vo, seagreen spine over patterned boards, good with some wear along the outer joints, bookplate of the Hervey Allen Collection of the University of Pittsburgh (no deaccession stamp, but.....
Hardcover. All housed in handsome folding blue cloth box. From the estate of Irwin's two first cousins, Olive Irwin and Edith Irwin Baum (both long-term employees at Gulf Oil). Irwin served as the Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15 (1971, 4th manned moon landing) and was the eighth person to.....
Mexico City: Union Distribuidora de Ediciones, 1944. First Edition. Wraps. 7 x 4.75 inches, softcover, near fine copy, pages beginning to tan, pages unopened and uncut at top edges. 64 pp. of text, mainly poetry, followed by six photos of the labor camp in Djelfa, Algeria. Aub was a Spanish-Mexican.....
Leipzig: Fues's Verlag (R. Reisland), 1876. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, softcover in tan printed wraps, very good, light edgewear to covers, minor spine restoration, and small old cloth patch on the verso of the wrapper-corner which bears the inscription. Inscribed to a professor (D. C. Lewis?) in 1876 and signed.....
Paris: Editions E. de Boccard, 1968. Hardcover. Three volume set. Reprint. Quartos, cloth, illustrated (including prints in vol. 3 portfolio) clean unmarked text, near fine copy, all 3 volumes with previous owner's small ink signature, no dust jackets. Uncommon set. Text in French.
Hollidaysburg, PA: 1851. 1851 handwritten legal document for a dispute involving the Cassidy family with the top part written by Jacob Cresswell, atty for the plaintiffs, and Peter Cassidy attesting that a book of field notes of sundry surveys in Bedford County are almost all in the handwriting of his.....
Philadelphia: A Year Magazine, 1933. Wraps. 9 x 6 inches, softcover, very good, light soil and discoloration to covers, contents very good. Edited by J. Louis Stoll, Ada Tier and G. F. Meeter. This contains Dee Brown's first published story, "Barbecue" (Brown went on to write "Bury My Heart at.....
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London: Printed for H. Brome and H. Marsh; printed by John Brudenell for Henry Brome; Printed by John Cadwel for Henry Broom and Henry Marsh, 1660. Hardcover. 1660 edition, 8vo (16.5 cm), original leather boards with gilt seal of the King (a CR surmounted by a crown), later morocco spine.....
Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1873. First printing. Large 8vo, brick cloth gilt, near fine sharp copy. 512 pp, illustrated with portraits. Rare in this condition.
Simla (India): Station Press, c. 1910. First edition. Paperback. No date, c, 1910. Scarce volume of verse, mostly rhyming, showing influences of biblical and mythological stories. Not in OCLC. Softcover, original wraps. 64 pp. Very Good. Sound binding; wraps chipped along the edges; original paper spine completely missing, but book.....
London: Publisher Not Identified, 1669. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1669. Small 8vo, bound in early 19th century half leather and marbled boards, pp. (16) 303, with full title page and title pages for each treatise. Early handwriting identifying author as John Collinges on the title page of The Excellent.....
Los Angeles: Great Events Editions, C. 1989. Hardcover. Large 4to (15 inches high, 38 cm), full red chevre de Madras by Courtalon binder in Limoges, with Bernard Buffet illustration embossed and colored on front cover, Buffet's signature in 22 carat gold on rear, sumptuous binding. H.C. no. 1 of 40.....
London: Darton, Ca. 1815. First Printing. Wraps. 12mo, 5.75 x 3.75 inches, bound in modern marbled wraps, contents toned but very good. With title page in English, text in French and at least one other title page in French for "Il n'est rien tel que le temps present" where the.....
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1880-3. Hardcover. Six volumes (does not appear to be complete, as OCLC lists 2 additional volumes of Nottes), published 1880-3. Vols. 1-4 in light brown leather-backed boards, vols. 5-6 in darker leather-backed boards with spine labels, all vols. with gilt titles on spines, raised bands.....
NY: New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First. Quarto, publisher's cloth in dust jacket, book very good, some offsetting/tanning to endpapers especially to gutters, previous owner's name in ink on pastedown (Leonard M. Cohen, NOT the Canadian poet-singer), light rubbing to edges of covers, jacket good and.....
Berkeley: Samuel J. Hume Inc., 1954. First printing. Hardcover. Limited first edition, 1954--ours is number 63 of 300 numbered copies. Folio, cloth-backed boards, illustrated (some in color), Very Good ex-library copy with typical treatments (pocket, stamps, label on front cover, bar-code sticker on rear cover, etc.), some straining to the.....
Hardcover. Handwritten transcription, bound in contemporary paneled calf, 224 numbered pages, plus transcription of title page, dedication, etc. In an early 18th century hand. Gardiner's book ran 494 pp, and with a catchword at the end of p. 224, we suspect that there was at least one other volume that.....
Chicago: Keen and Lee, 1857. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. in blue embossed cloth with pictorial gilt spine decoration. 451pp. engraved frontis and plates, complete with three color folding maps of Illinois. Very good, lacking front flyleaf, some foxing and soil to outermost pages. Binding very bright and handsome.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Hardcover. 8vo, pictorial red cloth gilt, good copy with some mottling the discoloration to front cover and spine. Some effort was made to touch up the mottling and there seems to be a light, thin varnish to spine and front cover, not unattractive.....
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.....
Washington, PA: J. A. Howden & A. Odbert, 1878. First printing. Hardcover. All the maps and plates engraved & lithographed by Otto Krebs. Folio, original cloth, old cloth reinforcement to spine and corners, supplied endpapers, 159 pp, complete, maps and plates in good to very good condition, some tanning and.....
Wien: Gerlach & Wiedling, [1910]. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1910. Folio. [2],19 pp. plus [1],68 plates. Original green three-quarter cloth and boards, cover lettered in black, portfolio containing loose plates. Ex-lib., with institutional labels on spine and front pastedown and occasional inkstamps in introductory materials. Binding somewhat worn, with.....
Paris: Gallimard, 1995. First edition. Paperback. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. 1995, First Edition. Softcover. French text. Near Fine with minor shelfwear to the wraps. Includes original wraparound band. Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.