Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1884. Hardcover. 8vo, bound in full black leather stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, the copy of J. D. Cameron, US Senator from Pennsylvania (and Sec. of War under Grant), who was the Chairman of the Committee of Naval Affairs in the Senate.....
Washington DC: Howard University, 1919-1932. 11 volumes, with some gaps, but including Vol. 1 no. 1 of the Howard University Bulletin, June 1921. 8vo, wraps in various shades of blue, generally very good with light wear. The 1919-1920 Catalogue has some light restoration to the fore-edge of the front cover.....
Rome: Apud I. Iacobum de Rubeis, 1739. Beautiful reprint of the 1685 edition. Folio (14 inches, 36 cm tall) vellum, with frontispiece plate, letterpress title, 3 engraved title pages for each of the three parts, 92 numbered portrait plates of philosophers, and one unnumbered portrait plate of Aesculapius facing colophon.....
Pittsburgh: Laboratory Press, 1929. Paperback. 1929, Softcover, original wraps. Specimen 84 from the Laboratory Press at Carnegie Tech University overseen by Porter Garnett. Near Fine. Light sunning and edgewear to the wraps; bright, clean contents. Bookplate of west coast printer H. Wilder Bentley affixed to the front blank.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. First printing. 6 volume set, turquois cloth boards, no DJ, 545, 635, 668, 712, 699,700 pp.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861. Hardcover. 3 volumes. Very good- copies in red, straight grained morocco, gilt decorated. No dust jackets. Lacking most spine labels, but imprints are readable. Some rubbing of spines, minimal shelfwear, minor soil. Light fading/ discoloration of page outsides, due to age, Contents fine; text and.....
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1865. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth, good copy with new spine cloth and label, minor exlibrary marks from Library of Congress. 276 pp. Much on the early petroleum and oil industry in WV.
Philadelphia: Fisher & Brothers, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. 1857, First Edition. Hardcover, 12mo., original cloth over boards, gilt title. 108 pp., with 6 hand-colored plates. Good. Spine slanted; loss to cloth at the spine ends; discoloration and light soil to the cloth. Contents complete and securely bound; dampstains and mild.....
Bellevue, PA: Self Published, Ca. 1935-1945. Hardcover. 2 homemade albums, one in cloth and one crudely made out of cardboard, with hundreds of small caricatures in pencil, a few in color, of famous people of the time. Albums measure approximately 13 x 10 inches. Ca. 1935-1945, by A. William Ebner.....
Boulder: Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Complete in ten volumes. 1997. First edition. Paperback, 8vo. in blue wraps with silver titles, housed in slipcase. Paginations vary. Very good. Light wear and scuffing to slip case, light edge wear to wraps. Contents uniformly bright and.....
Paris: Michael Toulouse for Denis Roce, 1499. Hardcover. 8vo (8 inches tall) bound in quarter niger over marbled boards. Leaf size 186 x 127 mm. a-g6, h5; 38-40 lines per page. Incomplete, 47 of 76 leaves; leaves VIII, IX, X, and XI bound out of order between leaves V and.....
Paris: Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1747. Hardcover. Published 1747. 8vo, contemporary speckled calf gilt, (7) vi-Lii, (2) 496, with engraved frontispiece of fireworks, 13 folding copperplates at rear. Very good, light wear to binding, contents Very Good, armorial bookplate of Victor de Pontigny (possibly the same as the foremost authority in.....
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1926. First edition. Hardcover. RARE IN DUST JACKETS! Two volume set, first edition, 1926, hardcovers with red cloth boards in dust jackets, octavos, 294pp. and 286pp., illustrated in b&w. Books VG+ with faint toning to spine ends, mild rubbing to boards, bindings tight, texts clean.....
Manchester: Psychological Education, Ltd., Ca. 1927. Hardcover. Rare: no copies located in commerce or through OCLC; no copies in libraries. 2 volumes, undated but ca. 1927, 8vo, printed grayish boards in original old glassine dust jackets, very good, some wear and soil, and one corner of the first volume somewhat.....
Probably 1970s; purchased from the collection of Sam Hamill, who translated many of the Japanese and Chinese poets. 29.5 x 20 inches, on rice paper; we are relying on multiple variant translations offered up by google-translate, which gave us "emotional bile pot," "pot farm, " and Yongqu vs. Yongfu. Some.....
Paris: Edwin Tross, 1856. Hardcover. Published 1856, contemporary half red morocco gilt and marbled boards, 9 x 6 inches; 22 x 15 cm, ca. 100 pp, illustrated borders, text in Latin with French translations and texts. Very good, light rubbing to leather.
London: Wallis / Scholey, 1803, 1810-11. later editions. Hardcover. Complete in 16 volumes. 10 volumes by Hume, published 1803, plus Smollett's 6 volume continuation, published 1810-11. Later editions. Hardcover 8vos., uniformly bound by Blackwell in 3/4 cherry morocco with marbled boards, raised bands, gilt titles and design, teg. All volumes.....
London: W.B. Clive, 1924. Second edition, fourth impression. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. 1924. Second edition, fourth impression. Hardcover, 8vo. in brown cloth, with gilt spine titles. 372, 508pp. illustrated, plus index and ads. Very good. wear to spine ends and corners, edges and endpapers foxed. Ownership signature on front.....
Washington DC: Ice Cream Merchandising Institute, C. 1940. First printing. Paperback. 11 x 8.5 inches, plastic comb binding, stiff color wraps, very good, light wear and soil, 95 pp, illustrated, some in color, some tinted. Advice and tips for soda jerks and those who own ice cream parlors or sode.....
San Francisco: 2003-2011. Paperback. Magazine. The first 79 issues of The Believer, the literary journal offshoot of Dave Egger's McSweeney's. Softcover. 4to. All issues Near Fine / Fine. Only the mildest shelfwear. All issues complete with CDs or DVDs.
Paris: Saugrain Pere & Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1734. Hardcover. First 12mo edition, 1734 (originally published in a quarto edition in 1733), 4 volumes, contemporary speckled calf, gilt spines and red labels, very good or better, with frontispiece folding view of Lisbon in first volume and large world map, and 14 other.....
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1891. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, original dark sea-green cloth gilt, good to very good, some bubbling and light discoloration to rear board (see pic); contents very good, 115 pp, 10 double-page plates.
Paris: Nicolas de Larmessin, Ca. 1695. Original copperplate etching on laid paper. Sheet measures 14 x 10 inches; plate measures 10.5 x 7.5 inches. Condition is very good, minor toning, very gentle rippling, lightest wear to upper corners. From a series of satirical prints first started by Nicolas I de.....
New York: Ashlee Publishing Company, 1993. Second revised. Hardcover. RARE! Silver stamped blue cloth boards, quarto, 367pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
London: Richard Bentley / Charles Tilt, 1840-1844. Hardcover. 3 volumes, all first printings, the Grammars printed in 1840, the Arithmetic in 1844, 8vo, bound in full straight grained moprocco gilt, gilt spines, minimal rubbing - about fine, all edges gilded, gilt dentelles, illustrated throughout, occasional plates. All housed in cloth.....